Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1943 — Page 1
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syndicate of High. School
Youths Is Bared in
Juvenile Court.
An amazing story of the ‘wide-{
spread “bootlegging” of illicit gaso line ration coupons among jalopy driving high school youths was un
folded in juvenile court at the hear- :
ing of a 17-year-old boy charged with burglarizing 50 motor cars. ' The youth, a student at Technical high school, was picked up when police “broke-up” a teen-age bootleg gasoline syndicate” involving three Shortridge high school students accused of stealing 2510} gallons worth of gasoline coupons, ~and 60 gallons of kerosene coupons, _-..from a -filling station at 49th oy and College ave. “> In all, the police juvenile aid di~~wyision records show, seven Tech"nical and Shortridge pupils have been arrested for stealing and ‘sell-1" ing illicit ration coupons, with eviare engaging in this’ war-born “racket.” Thriving School Business ' “Prom testimony — gathered” “in these coupon felony - trials, I received the impression. that the.sale and trade of iliegal coupons is al __commonly-practiced enterprise among high school youths in_this| city . . tically any car-driving youngster knows .just where he can go to purchase these coupons,” . Judge Mark W. Rhoads remarked at the, hearing yesterday. + “That's correct,” declared the defemdant, a clean-cut, well-dressed member of a respectable north side family. With him was his mothet,| - who testified that this was his first] offense. The youth's father is in the! war ofl. program co-ordinator’s alice in
harge for - these Fa the judge... ; Truck Coupons Highest “Oh, anything we can get,” re plied the defendant. “The pr Tange from 25 cents to two or three oupon. Truck coupons est prices, of course.” When asked how most of the fllicit ration tickets are obtained, the youth freely admitted that pangs of high school boys have long made systematic raids of glove com- .- partments of unlocked automobiles, while others, he added, “steal them from filling stations.” - Some, he asserted, wheedle them trom parents who have received an _. overabundance of coupons : from. ~hoards as a result of false ration applications,
Raid Glove Compartments
Only about one of every 10 open glove compartments yield gasoline coupons, the youth testified. At this Judge Rhoads launched into # scathing criticism of persons who - leave their automobiles unlocked with gasoline ration coupons -inside. - almost as guilty in this offense as this boy himself,” he exclaimed. Upon questioning; the defendant revealed that many coupons are exchanged among sydents -some of «them furnishing. - automobiles and gasoline while He supply the “ration tickets,
“To Drive Girls Around”
“That's so they can drive their girl friends around, I suppose,” the Judge said, . “The girls are sometimes guilty, too,” the boy blurted. “They know
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_SFORZA CHARGES KING ‘STALLING FOR TIME’
NAPLES, Nov. 17 (U. P.).—Count - Carlo’ Sforza today accused King Victor Emmanue] of stalling for|time to avoid abdication by permit- | Pietro
falls. : “When the peace is signed, he will want to stay through the re- ” Sforza said. “He - asserted the monarch “does
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“Resolution Asks. By HELEN BUEGAMER
: Warren H. Atherton (left), national American Legion commander, and Rear Adm. Claude D. Ramsey . , , they believe future security must be guarded.
Adm. Ramsey: af Laln, Meet “Reveals Rabaul 'Field Day"
“HEE had afield’ day ‘at Rabaul,” said Rear Adm. Claude D. Ramsey, | | former Southwest Pacific aircraft carrier commander, in an intervie |
dence indicating that many more |8t American Legion headquarters today.
‘Adm. Ramsey, who has been in ‘Washington- three months -as- vice] chief of the navy department bureau of aeronautics, spoke at the closing meeting of the state commanders and Adjutants conference. Telling of the . recent offensive | ve -
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miral said, “Our strategy in the {Pacific is to get nearer and nearer! to the enemy, to take the bases one
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planes in the Coral sea.
- "Japs Well Dug In
“The Japs are very well dug in,| but our superior personnel and! | equipment will win out,” he said. “The problem is to find places from | {which we can apply our power.” “The European war came first, the [the “Aleutian campaign second and the Pacific war third on the prior{ity list,” he said. “However; af the| right time, there will be co-ordinat-red wttacks from all parts: on thet
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“About Even on Sea” He said the Japanese ‘planes were inferior to “ours, but that-we- were! about on an even power on the sea. “The Japs have sacrificed the safety of their men by building light crafts that go up in flames almost immediately,” he said. “They also are rushing their pilots through training and they have few leaders left. “We are losing only one man to]
“BOY-A CHANCE
He Had a Criminal Record At Home, but Now He Fights for U. S.
By SHERLEY UHL “Dear sir: ~“Please excuse-me for not writ= “before this. JT want to RORY or. what- you did +far Sis for me to prove myself worthy of probation, I think that you will find me more honest than you, or most ‘believe, I'm in & ‘swell outfit and it sure is rugged.”
That's. an. excerpt. from 8 letter |
sent to Criminal Court Judge W.D. Bain by a youth now in an airborne division in Sicily. sents more forcibly than statistics can hope to convey, the other side
It pre-
“IF was ‘Thdeed” a" Tusky break |
Indiana's farm leaders today as‘sailed farm subsidies as needless contributions to the public debt and tending to create inflation when
(they met for the annual Indiana {farm bureau conference at the Mu- |
{rat theater, A speech by Hassil E. Schenck, toon bureau president, and a resolution to be.adopted at the conven- | tion called for increased farm prices | in lieu of the proposed federal sub- | sidization of agriculture, The resolution set forth the fol-| |lowing reasons for opposition to | farm stibsidies: ‘1. “The public has sufficient -pur-| {chasing power to provide for a, tneeds.
Adds to Indebledness
2 Subsidies will add indebledness| to the future generations and re] [turning fighting men. 3. Farmers will help pay for-their’ own subsidies which would lead to Ee controlled agriculture. s..do. not. desire the. finTeer Tox pissy pointed at them as re- | ceiving handouts from the federal | treaSury. The resolution concluded, “Give | us manpower ard “machinery, fair prices in the market place, and |there will be no excuse for sub- | sidies.” In his address Mr. Schenck stated that subsidies are advocated as {an anti-inflationary measure, and | continued, *“I challenge anybody . . . to find greater inflation , , . “than in federally owned, operated for controlled war industries where | wages have been made so fantasti[cally and fabulously lucrative as to {attract millions from thé farmsand| legitimate necessary. businesses.”
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoftice Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday
y Warn oo FR LEADERS | Food Problems Discussed |
ui : { Heated discussion of the farm subsidy problem held sway at the | Indiana farm bureau convention today. Left to right are B. E. Cooper, | chairman of the Posey county farm bureau; Francis H. Lueken, president of the. Spencer county bureau and a member of the stale bureau's resolutions commitiee, and Verl Boys, delegate from Miami county.
Garrison Gives Up in F Odds; British Hol
"ace of Overwhelming d One Stepping-
Stone to Balkans.
CAIRO, Nov. Lero,
17 (U.P
British and Italian troops on next-to-the-last allied-held island on the Aegean in-
vasion route to the Balkans, surrendered last night in the
(face of an overwhelming Gern
sjEommniqie announced today.
“nese istand had latd down® its =
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\an air and ground assault, a
The communique was issued by ‘British Middle Eastern
tieadquarters a few hours after ‘the official German news —
lagency reported that the gar ris
arms.
The surrender of Lero, sec-
on of 8000 on the tiny Dodeca-
meme tm
the outpost almost from “the start, The British and Italians fought “with bayonets and hand grenades
jond of three British-controlled at close quarters before finally giv-
of IANS, came four days aller
“Three delegates look over {he schedule for the two-day farm con-
|. ference at the Murat theater, Left fo right are Ernest F. Wuertz, presi- | ident of the Owen county farm bureau; Mrs. H. W. Scott, social and
“education director for the Boone county bureau; and: Fred Fite; presi; " dent-elect of. the Pua" wialy Shrine} :
roid Por-Boat. Goatatic Food « “¥§ paintEd out’ that In world war | I the consumers #pent 38 per cent! ‘of. their national income for food. In world war 11-16 per cent goes for food, with consumers having more money ‘than in all" history to pay for 3 costs
‘would eontinue to respond to every demand for increased production, and urged the delegates to accept the load so that American agriculture “shall be. competently and
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directly, k He promised that: the - farmers “oR
of the probation problem, now the| forcefully represented at the postsubject of considerable controversy |war conference.” among local law enforcement
agencies.
Not many months ago the youth
their four or five in the air.” had been a beneficiary of the same
Paying respect to the “sound fundamental thinking” of Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, Mr. Schenck pronounced Secretary
"He Reached 100, Town Turned Out A
LINCOLN. Me, Nov, 170. Pp).
INFLATION “THREAT DENIED BY SENA
mms
'TAsserts Price Index Only, Slightly Above Normal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U, P). Senator Elmer Thomas (D. {Okla), asserting that prices generally are only 29 points above the
normal index, denied administration. contentions today that the
for Warren F. Butler's party in the Methodist church last night. Butler hasn't any claim to international fame. He isn’t a movie star. He didn't knock out 18 zeros ‘with one shot, He can't croon, But.he did accomplish one feat that ‘he’s mighty proud of, so he
{ Aegean islands to yield to the GerNazi sea - borne forces first swarmed ashore early last Friday and established: four beachheads at heavy | cost. - | Despite stubborn allied resistance, |
ing up the fight in the face of hopeless odds, | German reinforcements decided the | 18sUe : Unofficial observers expected the Germans. would follpw-up.the cape [ture of Lero with a full-scale ats
The. arrival of fresh... ...
{bolstered in its Nnal stages by allied tack on Samos,
Greek {sland 35 warships that dared aerial attack miles to the north and the last of to bombard the beachheads, relent- (the three Aegean islands seized by less around - the -clock German the British in a lightning - thrust bombing and strafing attacks and [soon after Italy's surrender in Seppersistent German landings doomed | tember
Russ Besiege Rail Junction, ~ One of Gateways to Poland
SL MOBCOW, Wav: 14 fF Pi Russian aifaies thoppiig thi ugh "Ger transport hetwork in the western Ukraine clamped a te {arc against Korosten today, and front reports said the key railroad ! junction, a gateway to. Poland, was about to. fall. The right wing of Gen. Nikolai P. Vatutin's forces, which had carved i» deep andshroad salient out of the Geiman positions west, of Kiev, was | pressing against Korosten from the south, southeast, east and north- | farining southward trom the Gomels. east. Reale front. . oe way between them was To the northeast 150 miles the..." or A union of the two Soviet assault on Gomel was in full gq mies would establish. a solid. Sosway, and the White Russian base | viet bridgehead from re of Kiev became steadily less tenable as alto north of Gomel, and possibly cut Soviet column which had by-passed off the Germans holding out in the it and sped on 50 miles to the west, | Dnieper valley above Kiev,
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pressed heavily against “the Nazt|* flank.
Soviet army slege guns were hame
i mering boll Korosten and Gomel,
invited the entire town to his
country-faces a threat of runaway
“These persons actually are.
‘The admiral also spoke of postwar problems of “getting back to the relatively prosperous days.” -However, there is something to be valued higher than prosperity,” he said, ‘That is security, and that security will cost money. We must
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NANCY SEEKS U. S. HOME FOR MARIGNY
NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 17 (U. P.).—~Nancy Oakes de Marigny hoped today to obtdlh airplane passage to the United States - in: an effort to find a new honie for herself and her husband, Count Alfred
probation system now criticized by police and safety department officials as “ineffective and excessively lenient.” The possessor of a formidable crime record, he had asked for, and received, “one more chance,” on the provision that he would join the armed services.
Criticized by Police
High police authorities here have challenged this practice of probating law violators to the army on grounds that many of them never actually enter the services. Confidential police files reveal that some 16 boys,
Wickard’s failure as national food administrator due to “veto powers over his head on price, transportation, farm equipment and manpower.” ) Dean Reed to Speak This afternoon speakers were to be Dean Harry J. Reed, Purdue uniDean Harry J, Reed, Purdue university school of agriculture; Mrs. Paul Halliday, state W. C. T. U.| president, and J. E. Stanford, exec-
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party.
He was 100 yesterday. inflation.
Thomas declared at a senate agriculture committee hearing on food subsidies that “the country is not in a dangerous condition, despite the gloomy warnings of columnists and commentators.” Price Administrator Chester
: {Bowles had warned that a ban on | subsidies to hold down food prices
‘U.S. Moves to Assure Re- would boost’ consumer’ goods costs
and rents by at least $3.000,000,000 turn Equal to $13.75.
in 1944 alone. In a nation-wide radio address WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U. P.) — The war food administration plans
last night, Bowles declared that “we are going to be in trouble as
A gap of only about 50 miles sep- and air force bombers joined in the arated the outriders of Vatutin’s| assault aimed at reducing the Gernorthernmost units and those of /man-held strongholds as rapidly as
Gen. Markian M. Popov's forces|possibie,
Forts Spearhead Raids
From France to Greece
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Nov. 17 (U. P.).—Hundreds of allied planes, spearheaded by Flying Fortresses that wrecked a German’ airfield near Marseille, spread destruction along a 1000-mile front from France to Greece yesterday in the mounting Mediterranean air offensive, it was revealed today.
found guilty of felonies but released
to join the army or navy, are now. at large-on city streets.
But that's only one side ‘of the
de Marigny, who ‘was acquitted last picture. Many parolees of our
week of the murder of her wealthy
father, Bir Harry Oakes. The 19-year-old Nancy plans to go to Washington, where she will seek permission for her husband. who has been ordered deported from the Bahamas, to live in the United
“indac 1 F
By EARL RICHERT The story of how the INDAC II, one of the two Douglas C-47 trans-
on the fighting fronts. Juvenile Court Judge Mark W. Rhoads reports that. more than 100 teen age law-breakers have readjusted themselves in the armed. services. And records prove, the judge points out,
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juvenile and criminal courts now are
WAVE IS NAMED ‘WELFARE SPECIALIST’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U. P). —Virginia T. Moore, of Appleton, Wis, is now the first member of the WAVES to be named a “specialist (welfare),” the rating which designates chaplain’s assistants. The navy said her job will be to help with music for divine services and fo be “right hand man” in the chaplain’s office. at the naval barracks here.
ies Far Into Arctic Circle to Rescue Foodless Trio
port planes purchaséd with war bonds by the Indianapolis Athleti¢ club)
in September, rescued three persons at Ft. Ross, 400 miles within the arctic circle, was told today by its crew members at Stout field. Ft. Ross, a Hudson Bay Co. trading post, is approximately 4000 miles north of Indianapolis (as far as Berlin) and members of the INDAC 1I's crew believe that the landing her
made was the farthest north ‘al plane had ever landed—certainly a plane of that size. The Byrd expedition took a plane in and assembled it there, - Members of the crew shivered as they told their story. It seemed a lot colder to them here than it did in the Arctic where it was 45 degrees below zero. The reason, of course, was that they were dre for the Arctic. : 8 The rescue mission was assigned
» an aretic specialist, was dropped landing.
Frozen waves were about two feet
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a bit.
kien 14 Solely xs Ev'thing 13/Sports .:... Deaths.
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~F.’ Stanwell-Fletcher, Keewatin, | by parachute fo test the ice for 8]
Two days later, on Nov. 7, the}
The landing was not difficult, but} very rough, said Capt. William H. Corwin, Long Beach, Cal, the pilot.| - high and the ship bounced quite}
Capt. Fletctier had the post mans}
to announce late today or tomorrow a program ‘desigried ‘to support: the price of hogs at all major markets at lévels $1 per. 100 pounds below
far as the cost of living is concernéd™ If congress bans use of subsidies after Jan, 1 as proposed. Subsidy opponents, chiefly the
It was the. first Ume Ahat the term “considerable force” has. been. ————————— used in a communique from allied
Hoosie r Her 0es— headquarters in North Africa,
a...
Twenty-five to 30 German Mes-
$14.75.
price collapse.
congressional farm bloc with the outside backing of livestock and farm organizations, wrote the ban into a bill to extend the life of the Commodity Credit corporation for another 18 months. Although house debate is limited to two days, the final vote is not expected until laje Monday or Tueg“day.
OPA ceilings, it was learned today. The government will endeavor to assure farmers of a price equal to $13.75 a hundred pounds at Chicago for good and choice hogs of 200 to 270 pounds. The Chicago ceiling is
The action was deemed ‘necessary in order to prevent a threatened
| force, has been decorated with
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|CLOUDY TODAY AND - WARMER TOMORROW
se way. up the Adriatic const of Jugo-
ANTHONY L. MERVAR GETS FLYING CROSS
Decorated by ( by Gen. Kenney “In Southwest Pacific.
Honored T. SGT. ANTHONY L. MERVAR, member of the fifth air
the distinguished flying cross hy Lt, Gen, George C. Kenney, commander of the allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific. The young sergeant is the brother of the Misses Antoinette, Angela and Mary Mervar, 1236 ‘N. Holmes ave, He has been in the army nearly two years and has been overs seas the last few months. An employee of the Bell Telephone Co. before enlisting, he attended Washingon high school. » » . « T. SGT. GEORGE B. ENGLEMAN, Georgetown, _reecntly’ won
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| serschmitt 109's attacked the -unescorted Fortresses as they ‘roared rover Istres le Tube shortly after noon. The four-engined bombers a4 down 12 Messerschmitts in a e fight, the “heaviest casualties {Jaime 11 on the enemy since the attack on Wiener Neustadt, AusNov. 2,
Salon Also Plastered Fifteen minutes later, Marauder medium bombers with an escort of
{long-range Lightnings hit Salon
airfield, also near Marseille, and literally covered the airfield with bombs. One of 15 intercepting fighters was shot down. {British-based R.A.F. Mosquito bombers raided western Germany without loss last night a few hours after 8th U. 8. air Jorce Flying Fortresses and Liberitors blasted the Rjukanos power station, 77 miles west of Oslo, and Molybdenum mines at Knaben, 40 miles east of Stavenger, in their second raid of the war on Norway.) A “considerable force” of medi, bombers, meanfime, gave Elcusis airfield, 12° miles northwest of Athens, its second pounding in 24 hours and left 10 fires burning in the dispersal area and in front of hangars. : : Strike Sibenik Harbor A third force of medium bombers struck at the harbor at Sibenik, half
slavia. Pighter-bombers bombed and strafed a 300-foot vessel at Ancona.