Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1943 — Page 5
of men and women against the gates of the 8 of parliament, shouting and banngrs proclaiming
Sergeant who rode into the angr 2y Ob Was almost pulled from |
a, considerations of national jecurity must come first,” Morrison “I am not prepared, subject to over-riding consideration, to anyone die in detention unnec-
“If it became necessary on the of public security again to tain Mosley, medical considerabns would not be an obstacle to ihe course dictated by national inrecta "
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Under the terms of Mosley's re= #, Morrison said, he is prohibited from traveling from the ified house in - the country ¢ hé and Lady Mosley must | from communication with any jormer member of the - Fascists’ and from communication th any person “for promoting or isting in the promotion of poactivities.” During a brief but stormy quesnh period, Morrison told the house if it were dissatisfied with
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g-action, it could. jalways. Bet Fid oe
df. “minister. ». Mosley and Lady Mosley were arested and Imprisoned in 1940 under provisions of the war-time seity act. The demonstration had reached patening proportions when Wiln Gallacher, only Communist in nt, left commons, and was to the shoulders of some emonstrators. He appealed to them p disperse and go quietly to nearCaxton hall fr a protest Mmeet-
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STREET MOULS TAKE CITY REINS:
Become Patronage Kingpins as Tyndall Presents
New Power Front. By SHERLEY UHL
WOMAN INJURED BY ‘HIT-RUN’ PEDESTRIAN
PITTSBURGH, Nov, 23 (U, P)— Police added a new traffic hazard to their books today as result of the accident which sent T7l-year-old Mrs, Sarah C. Saber to a hospital
with a broken leg. Police said the elderly woman was knocked to the sidewalk when a man bumped against her as he hurried along the street.’ The “hit-run pedestrian”
City hall political developments took a new twist today with disclosure that another crew had taken over the administration's much bandied-about factional controls. This time it's the city street department in the person of -Street Commissioner Luther Tex and his assistant, William Hamilton. - ME Tex-and-Mr--Hamilten, whese! . combined experience in neighbor-
failed to stop.
GOURT RULES ON PLANT LOCATION,
hood politics span more than half a cenfury, are reported the sdmini-
job-seekers, make sure they're Republicans.”
. Report ‘Priming’
battle with - the regular G.O.P. organization. Another street department em-
is treasurer of the Republican Victory organization, Tyndall admini. stration fund-raising grouy. "When Mayor Tyndall mak of his-rare-appearances- bef
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Victory organization today, members of that political fund raising sym-
posium hope he will:
- Hint Is Expected
as the newest administration mem-
, |bers to take their place among city
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{intends to run for governor in 1944:
One Vietory committeeman said the mayor was expected to “pour oil on troubled waters,” waters supposedly made unrestful by a feeling among several key administration leaders that unless campaign enthusiasm is soon whipped into the now-lagging “hall” political situation, that faction may “find itself out on a limb next spring.”
Rebels May Give Up
Regular G. O..P. organization chieftains here are giving:currency
hall politicos are ready to “go over to the organiaztion” and thus write finis to the bold plans of the Tyn-
ns | dall administration to “buck the
any ability of treatment further formation as to the Jroperties and ef ‘ects of the Marmola
Fa tei i need Marmols, why not lose those Fo pounds the Marmols:
aching in the primary and general elections. This may or may not be true, but it is a fact that several members of the mayor's Victory organe ation, once peppered with ‘face tional zeal, are despondent over
2S is an WI 0 MET THE WEEE:
stration’s newest organizational and patronage kingpins. Mr. Hamilton said he was carefully checking the political affiliations of newcoming “simply. in order to
ployee, Chief Clerk Carl Schwenzer,
-one his
Perry Township. Given: ‘the Tax Rights in Line Disagreement. Perry township today won what may be the final round in its long
fight with Decatur township over the Harding st. power plant of the
ci “| Ihdiahapolis Power & Light Co. Both street department officials are reported to be “priming” various wards and precincts in an attempt to give new life to the administration's forthcoming spring primary
The State Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Justice Curtis Shake, ruled vold a section of the 1943 law which restored the plant to Decatur township. The court held that the provision was special legislation. “It seems clear,” the opinion tated, “that it was beyond the perew of the legislature, whatever its purpose, to limit the scope of a general law by a proviso that is inherently local and special in nature.” “Reverse County Court
The court in reversing the Marion county Superior Court ruling, or-
the-art or al al, /
i Hanlton and Mr. Tex have riot
dered that a declaratory Joscmieh he [onterpd: AB eppnastonen;
Spe BO i ty valuahie to both townships for taxation purposes and the fight over possession has been a long one. The plant for many years was located in Decatur township, but in 1933 the county commissioners changed the bounary lines to place the property in Perry. The validty of the commissioners’ order was upheld by the state appellate court::-A bill was then passed by the 1943 legislature, voiding the action of the commissioners, thus returning the plant to Decatur township, A declaratory judgment suit was brought by the power and light company to determine the validity of the act to-get the matter settled so it ‘would know where to pay its
to the rumor that a number of city | taxes.
BOUGAINVILLE JAP POSITION ‘HOPELESS’
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, 3 (U.P
pant a Sepanied tha Sinking of Japanese ‘merchant
attack and a half
€10008D DRAINS MAY PROVIDE BREEDING GROUNDS FOR" | ~ DANGEROUS GERMS, AND CAUSE OBNOXIOUS ODORS...
: oor Reveals Strategy
As Marines, Army Invade Third Island. (Continued From Page One)
of miles American supply lines to the Southwest Pacific. * “This operation is the beginning of a hew campaign from the Central Pacific on a much more direct route toward Japan,” he said. (Berlin radio, quoting Tokyo, add.
ijed to the Japanese claims two
large aircraft carriers damaged, one of which was presumed sunk, a medium-sized carrier damaged and presumably sunk; a battleship a heavy cruiser and a transport damaged or set anre Tokyo Hints Action (At ‘the same time reports carried from Tokyo by Berlin gave the! (first hint the Japanese may be planning to give up the Glliberts. Berlin said that it was ‘stated in Tokyo that the Invasion of the Gilberts was viewed without alarm since the Gilberts are of no ime portance for Japan as far as her defense is concerned.”) Up to the present time no eiements of the Japanese surface fleet have appeared to oppose the Gilbert landings, he said, and added: “The threat has not as yet pulled the Japanese out of their shelter.”
Navy at Truk
Knox believed that the nearest place’ to the Gilberts where the Japanese fleet is gathered in any ~1etrengtli-is- Truk ~the powerful -en-+ emy naval stronghold in the South west Pacific. Knox's statement indicated clearly that the next step apparently will
‘| be to drive into the nearby Marshall
islands and into the Carolines, site of Truk. “The fact that we are undertaking this campaign is a very clear demonstration of our overwhelming |* strength Th sea "and alr power,” Knox said. He had no Information to offer on how the campaign was going in the Gilberts. where American troops have landed on Tarawa, Makin and Abemama, «. Adm, Nimitz - reported briefly that. American. troops on Tarawa and Makin—the- latter invaded by New Yorkers of the 37th army division—“improved their positions” against “considerable” ground ree sistance. --While-the-island -battle raged-on, U. 8. army ~ Liberators bombed Nauru island, 500 miles west of the Gilberts, and other targets in the Marshall wp to prevent the
ARATE Sereiog, he be "Tokyo Makes Claims.
(Tokyo Radio today began making extravagant claims of success off the Gilberts. A broadcast recorded by U. 8. monitors quoted a communique as claiming a médium- | sized aircraft carrier and a destroyer were sunk and 125 planes shot down around the Gilberts since last Friday. Loss of 15 planes was admitted. : “Severe” fighting on the islands is continuing, especially on Tarawa, the Japanese said.) Scene of the new landing Wy marines who learned to whip the Japanese at Guadalcanal was a coral islet 12 miles by 5 which had a pre-war population of 841. Wording of the communique indicated resistance was less on the other two islands, which were the most powerfully developed in the chain astride the equator, Other unjts of the second marines handled Tarawa while infantrymen of the 27th division—New Yorkers ~invaded Makin, it was announced. Lt. Col. James Roosevelt, son of the president, who accompanied Col. Evan F, Carlson's marine raiders in a sweep of Makin in August, 1942, aided the army forces by landing with them. The mafines were under Maj. Gen, Holland: Smith, and Maj. Gen. Julian C, Smith while a third Smith, Maj. Geni. Ralph Smith of Tucson, Ariz, was in charge of the 2th division,
Announce Leaders : Other commanders of the opera-
[based upon knowledge of law viola-
To against the police depart-
.| wards, broadcasting from Honolulu
3! move to co-ordinate all operations,
, {commen battle of the Gilberts would not last
Police or Entrapment
resorts to this kind of thing is a law violator himself.” Henry B. Krug, an assistant city attorney, defending the police department in the injunction suit brought by Kilmer against Chief Beeker and the safety board, denied that the tactics used by officer Bear were {llegal. “This was merely routine detective work on the part of Officer Bear and it has been recognised as a legal way to -obtain evidence” he sald, “The courts have held that search warrants for raids must be
tions and we do not agree that OM. cer Bear's methods constitute en- | trapment.”
Borrows Taxicab Patrolman Bear testified on cross-
United States by Drew Pearson,
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Apologizes, but 1ut. Eisenhower “Takes Hig Hide Off’ in
Reprimand. (Continued From Page One)
the soldier and to men of the divisions under his command. Merrill Mueller, ©, B. 8. correspondent, and Demaree Bess, of the Saturday Evening Post, made a thorough Investigation. Later Eisenhower was understood to have asked correspondents not to transmit reports of the incident. Yesterday a formal headquarters statement in reply to questions about the ifcident, reported in the
newspaper and radio commentator, sald Patton had never been. reprimanded and no soldier had ever re= fused to obey an order from him, Patton directed operations in both Tunisia and Sicily, once during the latter campaign disembarking on a beachhead to command a
examination by Edwin McClure, at-
in the uniform of a “cabbie” and drove: to the pool room in a cab! borrowed from the Red Cab Co.
a lottery pool ticket and that hel went up to the counter and bought
of the pool room. He said the evidence was used to |
torney for Kilmer, that he dressed|COUnter-attack. {packing pearl - handled
| known to Hterally He sald he saw a customer buying| Weeks.
drive against a serious German He goes into battle frontier | | model revolvers. The story of the incident has been | thousands for
Here's What Happened
a pool ticket, too, from an employee is what happened:
Patton, on a visit to an evacua-
tion hospital in Sicily early in Aug-/| obtain a search warrant in a subse- | ust, found a soldier in bed wearing | quent raid on the place Oct. 20 the lining to a steel helmet and when Kilmer and an. employee. orying.. -Patton asked him what waa
Melvin Atherton, were arrested on wrong.
a gaming charge. Officer Bear said he worked at! regular police duties during the day and that at night he was instructed by Chief Beeker to drive a taxi around the city to obtain evidence for vice raids. He said other officers had - begn assigned to do the same thing.
Denies “Arresting V Women
The patrolman denied that he drove a taxicab around at nights to arrest women suspected of law vio-
lations
officers to obtain evidence.
obtaining evidence by other methods through refusal of the prosecutor's office to approve our search warrants,” the chief said. “So, we were determined -to-try other methods to stop law violations by having officers make ‘buys’ to ‘get first hand evidence. We believe this is proper and legal”
senior Ra Judge Cox did not issue an in-
ment in the case since eviience disclosed that the safety board recently
lice tactics Samprise illegal “entrapment.”
OPA HOPES TO FORCE FUEL. COUPON RETURN,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (U, P,) ~~
today announced a plan intended to guarantee that unused gasoline coupons shall be’ returned to local ration boards when vehicles are sold. It estimated that 200,000 vehicles change hands each month, Under the plan, effective Dec. 1, a car owner must return. to his ration board any unused coupons issued for his vehicle, and obtain a receipt in duplicate, before selling his car. The original copy of the receipt, OPA said, will be sent to the state motor vehicle registration department along with the new owner's applias tion for registration.
any enemy effort—even to fighting & major sea battle, : (CBS Correspondent. Webley Ed-
last night, said the forces may “plow on through” toward Truk) - It now can be revealed that the 'afmy, navy and marine forces, in a
set up a joint board for the Pacific with representatives of the services planning together the procedure for training and attack, While military experts refused to t, observers believed the
Chief Beeker admitted that the |the floor. taxicab methods had been used by him but the doctor ordered her
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_| staff members as well against | patients.
The office of price administration |
“My nerves, 1 guess,” the soldier | said, “I can’t stand those going over.’ “You are yellow bellied,” Patton replied angrily. “Get out of this hospital and back up to your unit at the front.”
The soldier continued crying while Patton, who is 57 and who has
“fgained a reputation for picturesque
Curses. grew. more angry, -raging at the soldier.
He finally struck the soldier with
the back of his hand, knecking -off |.
{his headgear, which rolled across The nurse tried to stop
away. Patton then went around to
“Police have been stopped from others in the tent, telling them all
“yellow bellies” should be sent back to the front.
Patton Returns
Patton returned a second time to the soldier's some more, and again struck him with the back of his hand. The nurse fled crying. The commanding
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soldier then escorted Patton to a car and the general drove off, without investigating how the soldier had been admitted. The incident was seen by at least three hospital
Mueller and Dema Bess made a full inquiry, obtaining statements
.{ from all witnesses, after they heard
of the incident, : They found out the soldier was a 24-year-old regular army man who twice refused to leave front lines and finally was sent back by his commander to the hospital where he was admitted as a “nerve” case. | After a week in the hospital, he was back on the line, The newsmen interviewed Eisenhower and found that he personally has secured a full report on the incident, having statements from three senior officers, all of brigadier general rahk or above, Patton made immediate apologies to the hospital commander, the nurse and doctor. That development was witnessed by C. R. Cunningham, United Press staff cor-
to the soldier in the company of the original witnesses.
General Apologizes - Later he went around to-all divisions under his command, calling as many men together as possible, explained he had conducted himself in a way unbecoming to. an American officer and apologized. Cunningham said that he sat in Patton's office during the general's talk with the three. The doctor, he. said, was a psychiatrist. Patton talked at length on the appearances of shell-shock, praised medical work in the Sicilian campagin and then said it often was difficult to tell whether a soldier actually was suffering from such shock or merely trying to escape the front. In modern war; he said, there should be complete medical authorities who could determine quickly
longer than a week.
whether a man actually has such a
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Senators Discard Neckpiece Tags WASHINGTON, Nov, 38 (U.P).
—Senators no longer will have to wear “saucers” around thelr necks
when they make business trips to |
government office buildins.
Several weeks ago Sen. Kenneth |
McKellar (D. Tenn.) registered a violent protest in behalf of himself and his colleagués against the round, numbered pins that they had to display on their persons every time they wanted to gain entry into a federal building. McKellar introduced a resolution for some more genteel type
of pass. Today the 96 elder states- |
men received shining new. black wallets, lettered in gold, and containing their identification cards
that Cox had bet on baseball games in violation of a major league fants against gambling. At that time, Landis sald, Cox : told him such rumors hed no basis except in that an associate in his lumber business had placed bets on his own account.. Cox claimed that when he first heard about this last May; he requested his associate to
and pictures. break in nerve, ing the meeting, Cunningham said,
Several times dur- |
| discontinue the gambling, Landis said, Epliowing an investigation Landis ordered Cox to appear at a hearing
‘a member of Patton's staff opened to be held at New York Dec. 4 at
the door to report a similar case!
a old to present evis
which he w
had been found and each time Pat- dence on the charges.
ton promised to look into it at once. | ‘What Did 1 De?
Landis also ordered Cox-to cease | participation in any baseball meet{Ing or transaction pending a de-
Finally he thanked ‘them all for! ciston on the hearing.
coming and inviteg the nurse to ride back to the hospital In his small
private plane,
After the scene in the Siciltan it was revealed, the soldier who had been struck turned [to the nurses and asked:
hospital tent,
| “What did I do to make the gen-.
eral mad? I must have done some-
thing awful to make him so mad.”
The present whereabouts of the and the As related by the staff officer, here! ‘names of the commanding doctor
ang nurse involved were not imme-
soldier was not known,
diately Teveajed.
AXIS REPORT ON SON “SURPRISES “MRS. R.
NEWARK, N, J, Nov, 23 (U. P.). Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said last, {night that she had received no information that would tend to conan axis propaganda report that one of her sons was taken prisoner after being shot down in
firm
Europe,
son, Li, Col Eiliott Roosevelt;
Bhe sald she had heard from her
few days: ago - and he seemed all right: —— Ni rr Vio re +
# Already Had Resigned
Cox answered the commissioner by saying that he already had submitted his resignation as president and digector of the Philadelphia club because his duties had not permitted him to devote enough time to his essential war business, “In view of my resignation,” Cox said, “and the full statements which I have made to you, I do not see that any useful purpose would be served by my attending any further hearing before you.” In answering Cox's letter, Landis sald that he was not in accord with - "not serve a useful purpose. He told {Cox that he would be permanently ineligible to hold any other position.
WLB TO GIVE RADIO REPORT NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (U, P).—-A special war labor board panel today began preparing a report on 10 weeks of testimony taken at hear-; .
al radio nefworks and the American
bedside, cursed him -
ithe view thit the héaring would ~~
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