Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1943 — Page 17

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Walkouts Increasing as Time for Contract = Signing Nears.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, . Oct. 28.~The labor situation which has produced more ‘showdowns" than the Ruse sians have recaptured ges faces another one next week-end. Bunday will mark the set in June by John L. Lewis, press ident of the United Mine ors, as the end of the period in which the half-million union. members ~- would work without a contract cars

Amphibious Advance Made In Solomons, They

the heart of the tropical jungle. it got cold at night. But I believe it, for this is practically at sea level is sticky and terrific. But.cold

was the incident of the fried } ! Robinson said. over gur lunch of rice ind tortillas that we should have fried chicken for 1ppe: he couldn't stand it the way ‘M is the native girl who

[nside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

. AN ARMY PRIVATE stopped to buy a newspaper fom the newsle at Market and Illinois (Illinois suilding) and was just receiving his change when noticed a commissioned officer approaching, Inly, the private saluted smartly. In doing so x he dropped his change. Grinning, the sportsmanlike officer stooped and helped the private gather up the coins. . . . Clarence Lindsay, the newsdealer at Illinois and Wash. (northeast corner) reports on the youthful bootblack who had a sign advertising “Shoe shine, 10 cents” and then, in voy smaller letters: “Shoe shine, 15 ; cen » .,. The wife of an Sil. W Indianapolis businessman breath8 lessly told him Tuesday that the 0 Wallman drug store, 3357 W. 16th, ad a sign on its window advertising frozen meat, thout ration points. The husband was a doubting hom So they got in their car and drove out to Wallman's. Sure enough there was the sign on a ghdow. But on the next window was a continua- ! the advertisement: “For your cats and dogs.” + If you're driving past the circle late some night a soldier standing in the glare of the big earchlight focused on the war fund chest, there's 1 The troops guarding the money in the find it gets pretty chilly in the early hours, - the heat from the searchlight helps to thaw it their frozen bones.

Just Half Dizzy |. BJ HOME AGAIN after his first visit to war- , hington, County Attorney Victor Jose Jr. Ms that conditions there were bad enough, but nearly as ‘dizzy as he had anticipated. He had OU getting taxicabs, and ne trouble getting the big shot officials—after Rep. Louis Lud-

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But it came out perfectly. Along toward the I said to Robinson, “What do you want to eat with it?” He said, “Nothing. Just chicken.” And he got chicken. Robinson gnawed and tore, and he said almost pathetically: “This is the best meal I've had in two months.” Mercedes, not to be outdone, began frying tortillas like mad, and all through the meal she was running to us with them, one at a time, in her hand, until she had a stack six inches high on the table. But we never touched them. We were ear-deep in “pollo frito,” done to a jungle turn by probably the greatest chicken-frier this world has ever known.

low had paved the way. Being a Republican, he first sought the aid of Senator Willis, but couldn't find him and had to fall back on Rep. Ludlow, a Democrat. . .-. If you haven't paid your property taxes yet, you'd better get busy as Monday is the deadline. There are big crowds already, and they're getting worse each day. The county treasurer's office will remain open until 4 p. m. Saturday. , . . The rumor department over at the courthouse has it that County Clerk Jack Tilson has received an invitation from the regular G. O. P. county organization to divorce himself from the city hall faction and return to the regular organization fold, and that he's highly receptive tothe idea, . .. Now that Navy day is out of the way, the big push is for Marine corps day— Nov. 10. There will be a big dinner at the Claypool,

‘with parents of marines as special guests of the

Junior C. of C.

Just a Misunderstanding

SOME GROCERS are experiencing a heavy demand for coffee this week. The buying spree is attributed to a misunderstanding. It started when housewives discovered coffee coupons in their new No. 4 ration books. One woman, fearing coffee was to be rationed again, bought six pounds at Hollander’s market, 2405 College. The explanation of the coffee coupons is that printing of the ration books was started before the rationing of coffee was abandoned several months ago. , . . The suddenness with which the 48-hour week was ordered left the local war mappower office in an embarrassing position. The office had only one sample form for employers to ask exemption. And there were hundreds of requests for the forms. The C. of C. and the Associated Employers of Indianapolis came to the rescue by mimeographing forms and sending them to their own members, and gave the WMC some extra copies. The WMC didn’t even have any copies of the 48-hour order, and the telephone company had some copies printed and sent them over‘to the WMC,

By Raymond Clapper

Information is released from the 8th air force fighter command in Britain that American fighter plane strength there will be alm: doubled in the two months. Many of the planes will be the range twin-tailed Lightnings, a favorite with the e had just Been taken

are remarkable fighters but not good for the range necessary to accompany effectively the heavy bomber missions into Europe. This, as air force officers put it, will bring the whole Ruhr valley “within the American fighters’ ball park.”

Will Cut Bomber Losses

ALL OF which will tend to reduce bomber losses

severe defeats from the Russians in the east, it is

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group, early Wednesday morning. Japanese naval aircraft attacked the allied convoy, sinking one warship and damaging another, it said. ;

No Confirmation

There was no immediate confimation from allied sources, but today's communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters revealed that allied airmen dropped 500 tons of explosives on Bougainville and the Treasury islands in a four-day attack that may have been intended to soften the énemy's defenses for an amphibious assault. MacArthur's forces on New Guinea have been closing the western arm of the allied pincers around Rabaul with-a drive up the northeast coast on the island of Finschhafen — 70 nrles from the western tip of New Britain, The allied bombing offensive on the Buin-Faisi sector began last Friday. By Monday, the big Kahili, Kara. and Ballale airdromes on southern Bougatnville apparently had been knocked out and the allied fliers roamed unchallenged over the area, bombing, burning and machine-gunning the enemy positions, Bombers Raid Rabaul Simultaneously, another aerial offensive was directed at Rabaul MacArthur's bombing fleets blasted that base Monday for the third time in four days. They heaped 151 tons of explosives on the target and addéd 58 more Japanese

The Treasury islands are a natstepping stone to Bougainville Buka islands, northernmost of the Solomons, which form the last enemy barriers oti the eastern road to Rabaul. Fliers who participated in Moni-

Nimitz Optimistic On Pacific War

HONOLULU, Oct. 28 (U. P.).—Ad+ miral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the U, 8. Pacific fleet, sald In a navy day speech that American amphibious forces will drive westward through the Pacific

REV, BROOKS WILL PRESIDE AT DINNER

The Rev. A. C. Brooks, newly installed minister of the Third Christian church, will preside for the first time at the annual dinner G1 he shursh schpl this evening a} C. A: Weesner, director of 1 1 of Uni

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Mt. Vesuvius smokes in the background, as the first allied convey steams inte Naples harbor, now cleared of the debris caused by the battle of Naples

‘PROMOTION’ OF RAY AN ENIGMA

No One Knows How Name Got on Plan Committeé Stationery. -

Harry Ray's “promotion” to the secretaryship of the Indianapolis post-war planning committee today had lapsed into anothér one of those city hall enigmas, - It seems -that the name of Mr, Ray, former administration patronage dispenser, somehow became mysteriously imprinted on the postwar committee stationery at a time when nobody, not even Chairman C. A. Huff, was aware that he had been named to the body. Mr, Huff said he didn't have anything to do with the composition or purchase of stationery bearing Mr, Ray's name as “secretary. So did Mr. Ray. City post-war planners, most of them businessmen who specifically requested that the committee be free of any political implications, were even more baffled. : A committee spokesman sald planners would take steps to unseat Mr. Ray from his newly won post on grounds that, his participation would prove ta be “publicity dyna~ mite.” ‘Mr. Ray, in addition to his political efforts In behalf of the administration, has also served as A property surveyor and a chuckhole counter, while being d $216 a month as a city sewer department employee,

ATLANTANS HEAR BLANDY ATLANTA, Ga., Oct, 38 (U, P.).~

night that only our ability to wage 8 war promptly and triumphantly would guarantee the nation a dura ble and just peace in the post-war period.

‘Greatest Naval Battle'—Willis

Times Special PERU, Oct. 28.-~The coming naval battle between the U. 8, and Japanese fleets in the Pacific will dwarf any naval engagement 4n history, U.. 8. Senator Raymond E. Willis sald in a Navy Day address here last night. “The enemy is cruel and ruth-

léss almost beyond flief,” he sald. “Hidden behind well-fortified islands, secretly armed during Jong years of pretended peace, the Japanese navy waits and grows stronger, " “The task awaiting our navy in the Pacific is to meet that Jap fleet and destroy it.” Senator Willis sald that the road ahead “might be long and difficult” before unconditional sur render is “won, : “Don't forget for a moment,” he sald, “that Germany still holds the territory she conquered since 1939."

STATE PRINTING COST DROPS $238,000

State printing during the 1942-43 fiscal year, the first full year during which th new system of taking bids was used, cost $380,376, exclusive of legislative printing, Cooper C. Clifton, state printing director, reported today. This is approximately $238,000 less than was spent during the "41.42

fiscal year when the system was just being put into effect and $90,000 less than during the 1940-41 period

,| when the lowest prices of any pre-

vious year prevailed. The new system of taking bids places the buying of printing on a strictly commercial basis rather than on the old first and second hundred method.

War Fund Gets Good Start

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give Is more marked than a year 280,” he said. “No one says ‘It can't

FOOD DEALERS. MAY | MOVE! RATION BOOKS

| WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U, P.) — {The office of price administration

PARADE HONORS GREATEST NAVY

Sentiment, Comedy Seen In Long March Past Admiral King.

‘Lining downtown streets five and 10 deep, old and young alike turned out here last night to watch the two- and one-half hour Navy day parade in a salute to the greatest navy in the world. ho From the reviewing stand at the federal building, ‘Adm. Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the U..8. fleets, saw hundreds of Stout fleld, Ft. Harriscon and Camp Atterbury soldiers and WACs, sailors and marines, bands and bugle corps parade in the most lavish celebration of the year, Bands and R. O. T. ©. units from every high school in the city, thousands of civilian defense workers and representatives of Indianapolis’ industrial organizations also marched in review,

Scouts Display Jaloples Featured in the parade was a display of jaloples by Boy Scout troops. Prizes of $500 in war bonds were contributed for the best jaloples by the Indianapolis Waste Material Dealers association.

First prize for the most cars

easier ‘for retailers, primary distributors

1ying a $2-a-day raise, The union's policy committee of 200 members, representing -all the bituminous coal-producing regions, was summoned to meet here Mone day, presumably for discussion of the war labor board's offer to approve 8 much modified version of the contract proposed by the U. M, W. leadership and the Illinois ope

erators, Charges Confusion

K. 0. Adams, editor of the Mine Workers Journal, said the WLB contract prescription was “highly confusing.” ., Criticism was directed particularly at what was said to be WLB's fail. ure to apply its proposal -to the “tonnage workers,” who outnumber the dally wage workers in some fields, : The statement was made in ope erator and union circles that under the industry's competitive conditions it will be impracticable to apply * the suggested portal-to-portal pay settlement unless the same figure is used nationally—rather than dife ferent figures in the various ree gions, as advised by WLB Chairs man William H. Davis, ; Cite Differences

It was pointed out that under the board's plan the miners would get less income In regions of more deme onstrated “travel time” than in Illle nols, and one likely result would be

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tion for Alabama's steel mills, The strike situation at a glances INDIANA—More than 4000 mine ers were out in 15 deep pits and 18 open pits. ! ILLINOIS—United Mine Workers headquarters estimated that 6000 miners were on strike in southern fields. » i WEST VIRGINIA--Nine mines . were closed with an estimated 5400 miners idle, PENNSYLVANIA — The night shift of 500 at the Bird Coal Co.

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