Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1943 — Page 11

Baruch 's Adjustment Task! ‘Brings Promise of — Orderly Changes. | (EdMorial, Page 12). | WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 0 5 =| War Mobilization

outfit. 12. Growers may not make an additional charge Di 3 will remain for boxes or other containers. turned to Jumey oved by hospital 31. Regional and district OPA offices are given Byrnes was over e N= general hospital autherity to establish community prices, but Amend- {tion's No. 1 troubleshooter, 73-year-or the United ment 9 is not to be used as a basis for making price |olq Bernard M. Baruch, the tough differentials for grades and varieties. In other words, |and highly controversial job of adhis new surgery grading is cut. justing the government's entire wounded soldier processed Agricul 38. If decay exists in any package of apples, they |myjti-billion-dollar procurement pro- | e died in an ame Article III, Section 15, Appendix G—Maxi- must still be sold on the basis of their per pound |gram to the constantly changing. . mum Prices for Apples. (Excluding - Lady Apples ceiling price, without regard to the quality or con-{grategical requirements of the war new emergency and Crabapples.) dition of the fruit. effort. more men than Query—Who'd have guessed that crabapples are And so forth. . All these goings on seem funny, but | Byrnes made the industrial vet- | ause it gets the ‘male? they are presented here not in ridicule, but. to show |aran of world war I chief of a war , its courageous | * “The fact that it is Amendment 9 indicates that the difficulties of trying to price such. perishable, obilization unit authorized “to deal| : t satisfaction of | the order had been amended eight times previously, coffimodities as fresh fruits and vegetables. OPA'S|with war and post-war adjustment reds of lives are and men in the fresh fruit and vegetable business zeal to bring down the cost of living by holding down iiroblems and to develop unified pro- | | h its work. trying to dope these things out say they don't all the prices of these items is commendable, but it runs grams and policies to be pursued by | - Agree. This Separiment wouldn't know. into Somplicatiana suth as those mentioned above. [the various agencies of government.” ER_ENGAGED In his new capacity, Baruch will pl, associate pros lic Conret au and ahr of war oo. pre contrac Hig and alter hostilire Inside Indianapo S By Lowell Nussbaumiz~ oi sblems and the Z neck, while her shipmates from the y Indianapolis L A READER phoned to report indignantly that the mittee received a very formal letter from the post-| QUICK War Contract biome desman ting today, - courthouse clock is running an hour or so fast. He office chiding them for the omission, and pointing out NE.

Action to Be Asked

said he’s accustomed to looking out his office window that it is very important to have the correct delivery ; i By E. A. EVANS

and looking at the clock, and so he phoned the county unit number on all mail. The postoffice’s letter to the J Sommissioners’ office and complained to a young oy » Wis Sadgeion: + oS aiapis A eh, Times Special Writer ~ woman (Mrs, Fern Norris).. “And Se r je sym Ss ery . guess _— i “She asked ~4—not 2... Postal chess, a game in which the play- i ASHINGTON, Nov S:=Bormard]: . “why-1 didn't. ges-a-clock in: my 6S compete by mail, seems quite popular here... Each oan port I~ ssifnment ge) office.” Just for fun, we decided Player competes with seven others, marking moves on hel it apes. 30 oo ,to call the commissioners’ office Postal card chess boards. Among the local players o ve y Hn Ey Fetost m and complain ourselves, This time, . are Mr. and Mrs. Easley Blackwood, and little Easley, pr ue on es pi ere) Miss Sarah Capehart answered. 10. By chance, one of the opponents assigned to Mrs. pb , enoug after Very politely she listened to- our Blackwood is Lt. Leonard Solomon, of the Victor Fur-| ae : ai Bere io that . “complaint,” then she volunteered Riture store, now an inspector in the tank corps at Pr ner op Oe the correct time. We persisted, Ft. Knox. Little Easley has been doing pretty well, | ‘Tesicen Roosevelt an -

3 lizer Byrnes have.chosen the best and she finally ‘said: “After all, losing only to Jane Watell, who happens to be cap- avaliable An to : tackle the tre.

BIG AIR FLEETS |

Huge Daylight Raid Follows Mosquito Attack and Fort Assaults.

) . t. 5 that clock’s probably 65 years old, tain and owner of a Mississippi river steamboa mendously . tough lems of LONDON. Sore ot Erin : , 8nd when you're that old--." Just transition and reconversion, In- : ’ «+P. ’ then Mrs. Norris cut in on the 3 the ling, We Get ‘Balled Out dustry, labor, administration and bombers struck again at axis Europe + : She explained that the courthouse tower has : in ‘daylight today in the wake of a

LT. ARTHUR. ZINKIN, Indianapolis, | congress all recognize the urgency

expected to And then. Don't expect much talk from him, but look for a gis report before

British-Mosquito-- raid —on western German and the third major American assault on the Reich in five days. The drone of planes, spearheaded

; commissioners found to be unsafe and ed before | caves in. but was 10 have been married over the week-

‘appropriation from the the near east, to Lt. Yvonne Lightstone, an army{® do any Mhurse, according to word received here by friends. because They planned to fly to Tel Aviv for their honeymoon. the No:~2 truck assembly plant for Joe and Timo. | Prompt settlem: tof war. contracts, bY 8 big “the Oh Wear was heard almost continuously over .shenko,”. and. has. been. living. with. three Russign|8imed at prevent fe 5 Ahe Other day & : iar o ig the English southeast coast for an . “Our Tittle trent ly ote the -road for earliest and largest {hour today as formations shuttled $16,000 In a wriamctile Seales posted 1 _output of needed civilian [back and forth from. France. The ernor Schricker would be the principal speaker, ‘the to DAVE or me nn auto de a goods, and releasing working capitai{ medium bombers apparently = at- ! ites that Of contractors and subcontractors. |tacked targets not far inland, for Fr ining. said amend they returned in about a half hour. ? ‘there's the fellow who lost that money, and oa 8 Many Contrace. Specific objectives of _the twinrie my customers accuse me throughout the day How| Because of changing military engined Mosquitoes last night were do you think our bankers feel about — needs, the army and navy have not disclosed. Other bombers laid 1 already terminated contracts in-|/mines in énemy waters and fighter volving about $8,000,000,000—cen-icommand aircraft attacked transsiderably more than the total of all{port targets ip France, Belgium, contracts cancelled after ithe last|Holland and bombed an enemy airwar—and final terminations thisifield at Abbeville .One bomber and time may be nearly $75,000,000,000. {one fighter were lost in the night Later reports probably - will deal|{raids. . with disposal of surplus military Stouks and government-owned war

‘After losing that Gov

Appropriately - Aboot SOME WAG sends us & clipping from the Star dealers’ wives called friends of ours to ask if we

referred to their husbands. Shuck: Maybe we shouldn't

showing chairmen of the various divisions of the Inhave mentioned it in the first place. . . . The Decem-

Under-

picture, reading: “C. D. Alexander, chairman of the entitled: “Commodore, Show Us Some Rats.” _ absenteeism committee, is not in the picture.” Absent based on Rays: days on a navy subchaser ‘in the himself, eh! And then there's the postoffice. . The other war. . . . The WAVES recruiters, headed by ‘women’s copies of the Indiana State Symphony = Specialist 1-c Russ Fletcher, have found a new haven, 3000 pieces of mail at the postofice at last. It's in the old shoe salesroom under Hook's the other day. They didn’t bear the addressees’ de- store at Washington and Pennsylvania, Now the re---Jivery unit number because the symphony's addresso- cruiters are looking for someone to contribute a graph plates haven't been changed yet. The com- couple of 9x12 rugs.

Washington

of the worst things

Big Bombers ldle

British four-engined bombers were idle last night for, the fourth straight night, presumably because of clouds and fog over the continent. American Flying’ Fortresses hit

oy ‘Baruch’s advice. has so often proved sound, past failures to follow it have had such unforunate conbie baton grat ve -welght western Germany in daylight yesterday, concentrating their main

“Tweight of bombs on the industrial city of Duren, west of Cologne. Returning airmen said that clouds hampered observation of results, but one ball turret gunner reported . | hits in about two-thirds of the tar"get area. Some of the Fortresses bombed through clouds: The ofher objectives in western Germany were not disclosed, but participating pilots said they had a “good run on the target and the bomb pattern was perfect.” Thunderbolt fighiters escorted” the Fortresses all the: way to western Germany and virtually no fighter opposition was encountered. _Anti= aireraft fire was only light and the principal difficulty encountered by the filers was the extreme cold, with temperatures ranging down to 40 be-

advocate of government plan- : Judge Vinson, Who when i congress was chsiFaR ning of the national economy, he has seized the country of the ways and means subcommittee on taxation,|can now do much to end the unWe pretending it says the treasury’s 10 billion dollar additional tax goal [certainties which hamper

t it. There's minim -fif! f the national admi is the um. He says four-fifths ol 1 fr ;

VANDALS STIL ROVE

pressures Congress doesn’t want to lay on power be siphoned off from that group, - force savings, Even He cites department Siore aseinans. oi. wont 4 " a ‘evi- . spending 100 per cent more for furs than a year are politic siore-théy Compared with the average typical prewar years, ho STREETS. UNCHECKED! “are sound-money men. They ure 1936-39; Judge Vinson says expenditures in eating and) running away from the facts on drinking places have increased 143 cent and the pretense that nothing needs . jewelry stores 218 per-eent. ThAUS & Hie pucture Vandals roamed Indianapolis : Spangler, ie a De nL ts a Tice Distire X0 strests this - week-end, ‘na= out of their army pay. Who can say in the face of|Dricks and bottles, wrecking fences that those figures, Judge Vinson asks, that the American (and chicken _ coops, and slashing to get’ people cannot pay more taxes? 15, of 418

Even -such a supposed con- Corporations Making Money sos bv severely us on the | Ww Zero. One radio operator froze sits blandly by while this in- THE WALL Street Journal's of the ear in which he Bis hi. All Fortresses returned Tia orgy beats up. He applauds the crude ‘eamings after taxes printed a few days ago shows|was riding and struck him. The au- ey. : yunout of the house ways and means committee in that large-numbers of corporations are making even|tomobile, driven by Robert Clayton, : _ voting against sales taxes and general income tax more than they did last year. The cry R. 19, Box 279, was being Nei hbors Help . dncreases. The other day George made the astounding tions can't stand any more taxes has : Michigan st. near g : statement that the house committee had rendered a A letter comes in from the Maumee Valley prt HE E il Aft r'Fire service to the country in cutting the treasury tax day school, in Maumee, O., where Richey, 2241 W. Howard t,| Family er Fi : bill down from 10 billion dollars to about two billion. fr 24 wi organization called Bands, hat someone hurled : o- neighbors of IO ay Uuly DecessINles 101 the ar Sh-his _ front: window a a family Which Called ‘Political ‘Trucklers’ Fo a ne sens, %] after driving back and forth In front | 1g Syear-od Ronald Lee and ; THERE WAS not a ripple until Fred Vinson, promise to do my best to buy only necessities for OO Shoat overall umes. dun. all Noli sds In Jost Soonamic director, went to the meeting duration, fo buy as few as possible of scarce anid|age when they tore down the back-| \ eter wot in ale ond but + of the Investment Bankers of America and made a overpriced goods, and to make what I have last 85|yard fence at the ho of 1 WS mpsihy no ul - hard-bitten . talk about “political trucklers.” Those long as possible. Furthermore, 1 will put the Ramsey, 1413 Reisner st. The Grays have rib $1000 . - who say the country cannot stand any more taxes I save in this way into insurance, or bonds or in At the poi market at 936°8.| he C I one furhifie ‘and. : i are, as he put it, leaving it to the American soldiers ing off debts. I sign this: pledge with no gli: 12 sh Soins ro : oa : y ae taken pet ynbusi Sho a Those ts know economics b strewn | gianapolis residents,’ 5 Seht and win Ihe :! vs 8 Sither ; aap ao ‘wished’ dir 8 10 politician, an old-timer who knows all of than our members of congress or they are | ayes fal the Link-Belt Ch, Where where Mr. Cray : is employed, collected “$804, and |. unknown knife- workers at the Electric Steel Cust- ’

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There are-no-fancy frills for anyone inthis man's: (or woman's) army; and when it comes tv making - I" a “wet landing,” U, 8, atmy nurses Are as good, soldiers as the best. of ‘em, Here: during a landing at Naples, | Naly, an army nurse splashes ashore with the legs of her coveralls rolled up and her shoes tied around her , (landing craft infantry) have formed a human chain and are

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Glory of 75 Marines” on Bougainville to Live Forever.

~ By GEORGE JONES United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1043, By United Press)

WITH UNITED STATES MARINES, Bougainville Island, Nov. 3. — Sandy palm studded Cape Torokina became for four. critical hours-the-bloodiest beachhead of the entire Solomons campaign ~.

Invading marines were locked in swift, deadly combat the morning

hold on Bougainville was secure only when he battle ehided. Miniature in numbers, area and time, this battle will live as the nearly © ultimate distillation of brutal, decisive fighting. Not more than 75 marines aftacked an estimated 220 enemy troops entrenched in pillboxes and radiating trenches within an area of not more than. 200 by 250 yards, | In hand to hand combat they wiped out 16 pillboxes on the cape and broke the backbone of enemy resistance, Ln 8

Mistakes Precede Battle

MISTAKES AND adversities preceded the battle, Two ‘companies w supposed to storm this beachhead, their path eased by hours of naval and aerial bombardment, Actually only half of a headquarters company-many of whom were specialists instead of assault troops—and one combat platoon reached the foeal point of our three-mile landing beach. The bombardment destroyed only three of 25 pillboxes along the entire cape area and left untouched a Japanese 77 millimeter gun just behind the beachhead. This gun shattered three marine landing boats—one of which was

. Just ahead of my boat—and drove Then

several to other beaches. Japanese divebombers forced the transports to sea, holding up reinforcements for nearly two hours. The reconnaissance completed, Warner's party returned through machine gun and rifle fire to Battalion Commander Maj. Leonard (Spike) Mason, Portsmouth, N. H.

. » 8 » ‘Get in There, Fight’ INSTEAD OP waiting for naval gunfire or réhiforcements, Mason told Warner, “Get the -hell in there and fight.” 5 Small parties of marines began to advance through the tall dry

. grass and shattered cocoanut

palms. Behind them a thin line of.machine guns and rifles poured a continuous stream of fire into “the pillboxes, "The marines jumped into the slit trenthes, killing Japanese out«

afner’s patrols alone accounted “eight _pillboxes and Warner ‘leaped atop the structures to plant the’ American flag under fire. h hours after the landing

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“Ttlie “Cairo meeting should be esti« |

{tar to the Middle East which. is one

LOCAL SOLDIER DIES

| REPORTS TURKEY JUST ‘INQUIRING

Comvispondert Says They Sought Eden for Facts

On Moscow Pact.

By RICHARD MOWRER Copyright, 1043, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. ISTANBUL, Nov. 8=Although the ‘Turkish press is making a point of playing up prominently foreign press suggestions that the Nov. 5-6 meeting in Cairo between Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Turk. ish Foreign Minister Numen Mene{mencioglu signifies” that Turkey 15] pe about to enter the war, there are no signs here that this isthe case. In my opinion, the significance of

mated in light of the following | facts: ‘1. That the Apglo-Turkish meeting was the result of a Turkish re quest; not a British summons, in other words, a case of the Turks wishing to be informed on the results of the Moscow conference,

Italy Comes First

2, That Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower's campaign “has absolute priority on men and materials in the Mediterranean theater from Gibral-

reason why the British Aegeari expedition is unable to amount to anything. Ei 3. That war is hell, as Turkey's president, Gen. Ismet Inonu suggested in his speech to the national assembly last Monday in which he referred to’ “cities destroyed in the bat of an eyelash.” 4. That the Cairo meeting, whether it means Turkey's imminent entry into the war, or not, at least is contributing to the war of nerves against germany.

British Way Armour Coup With Turkey

LONDON, Nov. 8 (U, P).—Britain may announce this week a maJor political coup resulting from Anglo-Turkish talks in Cairo and axis sources already were speculating that it would be the granting of Turkish air bases to the allies. - (The London radio, heard by CBS, said that Turkish political circles realize that the “time has come

provided treaty.” While there was no confirmation here of reports that such bases have been granted, it was regarded as certain that Forelgn Secretary Anthony Eden would bring back from Cairo good news regarding his conversations with Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu.

in the Anglo « Turkish

AS JEEP OVERTURNS

(40. carry. on. ts. campaign,

To and From All

War Fronts,

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer :

WASHINGTON, Nov, 8.--A frees “swinging row promises to develop in ~feongress-

how to vote the 8,000,000 to 10,000, 000 men in the armed forces, many

of them half around the world, mn next year's presidential election. Interest in pending soldier vote legislation 1s great because last week's election returns apparently portend a close presidential election in 1944; and it is that the soldier vote would Qetermine the outcome. The question also involves Mates’

{ rights, the poll tax and other issues

dear to congressmen’s hearts, and

{while all profess favor for letting (soldiers vote, methods are disputed.

The legislation is sponsored hy

Democrats—in the senate by Sena~

tors Green (DR. 1) aid Lucas (D. in a disposition among Nr aan i TiL),. strong New Dealers—and there who favor the proposal in principle, to he especially vigilant ‘about the kind of military voting machinery {that is to be set up. :

Poll’ Tax Bogey

Both Chairman Walker of the Democratic national committee and Chairman Spangler of the Repubilcan national committee have testifled for the bill, but some southern Democrats in the house are opening fire on it because it would waive registration and payment of. poll tax. They say this invades the rights of the states, and they would go no further than to provide army and navy. co-operation in helping men to be voted under separate state laws. The measures jiifroduced in both _ houses- set up = war: ballot commis= sion composed of two Democrats and two Republicans, to be appointed by the president subject to senate confirmation, with an gxecutive directdr to: be named by the commision. The ofmissian would. be empowered to plan and carry on

Write in Cholee Ballots would allow a straight party. vote or vote for. individual candidates for the presidency and

the senate and house, with names of candidates {o- be written In by

carry candidates’ names, and this is a point to which some tangressmen ure objecting. Under present plans, information on the cn dates would be furnished separately by the army and navy in all battle areas.

provided and coercion banned, Cc ng officers would designate balloting days, post lists of candidates, and provide voling

airplane to and from the war zones. Vote would be for federal offices

that soldiers may apply for state ballots. +A $5000 penalty is provided for anyone depriving a soldier of the right to vote as he may choose or for interfering with the vote. ~The legislation does not attempt to settle the controversial q peli Bi or_how.

radio time is to be provided, this issue is likely to come up of

the floor : in consideration pending measures.

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the election throughout the armed

the military voter, They would not :

Secrecy of the vole woyld be

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