Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1943 — Page 2

Progedure.” Wording Similar The union report not only pre-

_did—put into its confidential order, seiif to some 800 investigators throughout the country, but the strikingly similar-and, in some instances, virtually identical. Moreover, the commission, according to the union, invited the union to report violations of the new pro- - cedure by any of its civil service investigators. The Scripps - Howard newspapers yesterday revealed the existence of the order which; in the ‘opinion: of} other investigatory bodies, will ham- - string investigators of loyalty .cases involving government employées or applicants for federal jobs. As a result of the article, Rep. Busbey (R. Hl) urged the house civil service committee to investigate the commission's order. The committee, Mr. Busbey said, should Jearn who was responsible for the action and “where the pressure came from.” “Reign of Terror”

The union committee,.according to the report, met with the full com= mission, including Harry B. Mitchell,

. Mrs. Lucille Foster Mc. drs Luctle Poser Me:

liam H. McMillen, chief vestigation division, and "Alfred Klein, chief counsel. Heading the union delegation was ~+Hleanor Nelson, UFWA secretarytreasurer and leader of communist. front activities in Washington, who "was praised, in an article ‘in the Daily Worker of Aug. 9, 1942, that

, .On July 21, 1041, Miss Nelson charged “a virtual reign of terror in . which gestapo methods are being used” by the FBI, civil service and other investigating agencies in loyalty cases. ~~ The union report praised the commission's “clarification of policy, coupled with the quick and clear action by the commissioners in dealing with the investigators who had violated the policy.”

: ‘Clarifies Policy’

Tt continued: “The civil service commission further clarified their policy in regard to investigations. Under no circumstances, they maintained, -are their investigators allowed to ask questions concerning union activity, racial tolerance, sympathy for the

in these organizations.”

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inform its. members of the official| position of the civil service. commission as described above, so that they are fully prepared in case they are investigated by the commission.

Makes Promise “Also, any instance in which the above policies are violated in any way by representative of the civil service commission should be res ported at once to the national office.”

The UFWA also urged that the commission “stop all questions concerning membership in so-called “front” (Communist) organizations and that such membership be neither a cause for investigation or a subject of questioning.” Although the commission did not agree with this position, according to the union, it “promised to send? us a clarifying statemerit on their policy in dealing with membership

Commission Issues Statement

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—The civil service commission, taking cogrizance of “a “~“Sertpps-Howard|

gations” aimed at showing possible subversive beliefs of federal’ employees had been today issued the ment: “The commission's attention has been called to a story being distributed by the Scripps-Howard newspaper alliance relative to certain instructions-issued by the commission to its investigators. “With two or three minor exceptions. these instructions consti-

following state-

which the commission has followed

Cite Turnover

“Within the past few weeks, the commission's attention: has - been called to the fact that some of its investigators have allegedly, in carrying on investigations, deviated somewhat from the commission's policies. Recognizing that during the past year there has been a very ‘high rate of turnover within the commissions’s investigating staff as a result of persons. entering the armed forces, the commission felt that it would be wise once again to call its policies to the attention of all investigators. - : “The commission believes = that adequate evidence relative to the qualifications of persons seeking employment in the government can be obtained without, in any way, violating the civil liberties of American citizens. The results of the commission's investigatory activities bear out this belief.

Party Numbers

“From July, 1940, up until Aug. 28, 1943, the cases of 166,915 persons whd had been investigated were decided by the commission. Out of

~ Bpanish loyalists, membership in the

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tute a “reaffirmation of the policy|:

~ laps Remain Alive on Co an

~The conquered Gilbert islands “are being developed according-to plan,” Adm. Chester W, Nomits’ Pacific fleet headquarters disclosed today, indicating they will have a part to play in a future offensive. - Nimitz’ spokesman said less than 100 Japanese remained alive in the islands, stormed and won by marines and army forces in a bloody struggle last week. A press release also reported new raids by land-based army Liberators on the Marshalls, north of the Gilberts, and Nauru, phosphate mining island 500 miles to the west, ~-Airstrips-on the Mili atoll, in the Marshalls, were hit Saturday. One Zero tried futilely to interfere. Nauru was attacked Sunday and fires visible 30 miles were set. One Liberator was damaged by ground fire but none was lost.

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Arrested by Police in The Past...

erty today after escaping from the detention ward at City hospital. Thise Wide jhoir Bevel. Sad only th

Fugitives Have Been 11011 vwooD, N

= v. 30.—In our ‘movie makers just back from a

two months location trip

‘Marshall and Careline Islands; -

until Dec. 9, had been arrested times since late in 1941, He was charged. with larceny, shooting in the city limits and vehicle taking.

and returned to the hospital for treatment, Arrested Six Times . One 16-year-old in the trio had been arrested six times, -the first in 1940. He was accused of larceny, vehicle taking and shooting in the

gained through 23 years as a missionary there, enabled Mrs. Irving Channon, 18, of Rochester, N, Y,, to aid U. 8. military leaders in planning our new central Pacific offensive, -

Maj. Gen. Holland Smith, amphibious force commander in the Gilberts invasion, reported that marines came out of the battle on Tarawa atoll asking, “Where do we

city limits. He was at the hospital for observation, The other boy who eseaped today had been arrested six times, accused of burglary and-vehicle taking. He

Short Shorts

go from here?” The losses in the sight did not dent their desire to keep after the

they faced and went gladly. He admitted some mistakes in the invasion but added: ‘There's no way to make war safe and easy—-we certainly haven't found} one yet. This was the first atoll assault. We just had to learn the hard way.” He said the Japanese, who spent 15 months developing Tarawa,

STRICKLAND URGES

~ WAR ON" SPEEDERS

disclosure that its “loyalty ‘Thyesti=|=

Local ration boards today were tor of the Indianapolis OPA district,

sharply limited, |¢q clamp down on violators of the

wartime speed regulations, . Mr. Strickland requested the boards to make their revocation orders fit the speed involved and secure as widespread publicity as possible, In cases involving speeds of 70 miles an hour or more, the director suggested that the boards revoke rations for at least 90 days or more.

gible because the commission found,

that they were not suitable for government employment. Of the total of 27,842 who were rated ineligible, 774 persons were rated ineligible solely on-loyalty grounds. Of the 774 rated ineligible solely on loyalty grounds, 461 were found to be members of the Communist party or active in support of those basic principles of the Communist party which gave .evidence of adherence to.the Communist “party line,” and 313 were found to he. pro< Fascist, pro-Nazi or pro-Japanese.” The commission released a copy of the recent instructions to investigators, npt. made public until its contents were disclosed by Scripps-Howagd yesterday, The commission also released! a lengthy memorandum defining| Communist party line shifts in recent years, used as a guide to commission investigations.

REPULSE CONVOY RAIDERS CAIRO, Nov. 30 (U, P.).~German bombers tried to attack a convoy, in the eastern Mediterranean yesterday but British fighters broke up the formation and two Junkers

this total, 27,842 were rated ineli-

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—Lt. Gen, Alexander A. Vandegrift, Japanese, he said. They knew what who led the marine invasions of Guadalcanal and Bougainville, -today was named commandant of the marine corps. He succeeds Lt. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, commandant since December, reached the statutory retirement age of 64 last August. will assume his new post on Jan. 1.

thought the island was impregnable, Thomas, concert and radio baritone, is seriously ill with acute food poisoning at a hotel here. Thomas

has been in the Boys’ school and was returned to the hospital because of Th boy who escaped yesterday when he arrived at the hospital with a Boys’ school guard had been arrested eight time, once accused of a sex crime, the other times of burglary and larceny,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (U. P).

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Vandegrift THEATER MANAGER DIES

. KOKOMO, Ind. Nov. 30 (U. P), —Charles Milmar, 58, manager of the Sipe and Isis theaters at Kokomo for the last 15 years and former» ly a vaudeville star with his wife in an acrobatic act, died today of pneu-

BOSTON, Nov, 30.—John Charles

next to Lexington, Ky. Where the | He had been sent to the Boys’ school| om, gion, By. where

» Indiana movie some place else?

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was stricken en route here from New York yesterday.

monia, .

The company finally got back to The movie makers proceeded | Hollywood this week, with nobody shot. and : filed—yet. The tri-state feud it started will get going good when the. picture is released and. the citizens of Indiana, Ohjo and Kentucky see in it things guaranteed to make any patriot beil. Hathaway did his best to placate the Midwesterners. He said he had to go to Ohio to make his Indiana movie beeause he needed some country fairs for backgrounds. Harumph, he said, when asked if there weren't any fairs in Indiana. = °

Then, he continued, he had to

complaints were the same, only more so. Kentucky said it didn't want to be Indiana and furthermore it didn’t want the beatities of Kentucky patched into anything so dismal as Ohio, By now Indiana was howling. What was the idea of making an

Didn't Hollywood know that. Indiana was a more beautiful state than any other? = = 9 . HATHAWAY, BRENNAN AND CO., had no time to answer. The hard working press agents in Hollywoad tried to placate by mail all the disgruntled chambers of commerce, while the production company -in Kentucky coped with | its own troubles. cof The picture was supposed to be in the good old summer time, with green leaves, blue grass and whatever other. flora is available in Kentucky or Indiana, The boys started shooting one morning, knocked off in the evening, went to sleep under blankets, and woke up next morning to find

part of his pieture. (No horses in Indiana, Mr. H? Or maybe you'd better not say anything Hore, or you'll really be in trou- .) : " :

® 8 0» STARS BRENNAN and Greenwood weren't talking about Indian either. They tried. to change the subject by telling what

McCallister. So we'll go along with ‘em, and talk .about him, ~~ MeCalliser is 20 years old. He’

“LANSING, Nov. 30.—~Michigan's annual deer season -closes tonight “and conservation. department officials predicted the 1943 - kill would equal last year when 62,000 bucks were bagged. . :

WASHINGTON, Nov, 30.—Chairmen of the house and senaté small business committees demanded that the aniay and navy use small contractors instead of enlisted personnel for repair and maintenance of government-owned buildings,

Es CHUNGKING, Nov.‘30.—The bat» tle for Changteh, now in its 11th day, is raging with undiminshed 0OD0SS...ON.. the. West shore of Tupk Tink laké, ahd a climax is expected this week. ‘

_ WASHINGTON, Nov.,30.—The trucking commission of the war "labor board ordered a 2-cent

fication involved, to 90 cents.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30-Rep. Clair ‘Engle (D, Cal), told a Dies subcommittee that Japanese-Amer- | ican workers on the farm of the Tule lake, Cal; segregation center stopped | work and “then wanted unemploy- | ment compensation.” |

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Brewster Aeronautical Corp. will lay off | 1365 of the 4500 employees at its Johnsville, Pa., plant by Jan. 1 un-| der a streamlining program which | will boost monthly output of navy corsair fighters to 150 by May, | Henry J. Kaiser, . president Brewster told a house investigating | committee, il

LONDON, Nov, 30.—Pvt. John H. | Waters, 38, Chicago Heights, Hi, | was sentenced to hang today for the murder of a British girl at | Henley-on-Thames July 14.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 0—Thel United States has built 2483 merchant ships with an aggregate deadweight of 24,766,112 tons since war began in Europe on Sept. 1, 1939, the maritime commission. announced. .

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—An upward revision of the corn ceiling price will be announced “in a few days,” War Food Administrator Marvin Jones told farm state senators at a meeting, called to seek a solution to the virtual “freeze” of | corn, Farmers are not holding it to feed to hogs because of the present ceiling of $1.07 a bushe] at-Chicago.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.~Gen.'

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hi : R. K O H through the Midwest, where they managed to make every- | gateman ef ‘ body unhappy, even in Indiana, where they didn’t go at all. | Fan sid ied have no neoptism. Pe That was one of the troubles. They didn’t go to In- inside. Srandson diana. They didn’t even pass through it. Yet they manu- | Last spring Lon was attending factured a technicolor epic of harness racing, titled “Home | S0l¢8% learning how to be a mis- . - pan sionary, when Sol Lesser put out in Indiana. . — = | a call for acters to make tests They shot some of it in | Magnificent red, or yelow or | as soldiers in “Stage Door Cane as orange. Woe was Hathaway's. teen.” Lon did so well that Lesser Freeport, O., where the ¢iti- Ta : : . : ® = @ ' cast ‘him as the buck private zens said why not call it (ONLY SOLUTION was to cal.| ¥POWD as “California.” He was “Home in Ohio?” Director Henry “F the hit of the picture. Fans have Hathaway, Walter Brennan, Char- | in the boys with the Spray BURS | heen. writing letters to Mr. Calie lotte Greenwood, Lon McCallister | to tint the autumnal leaves a | fornia ever since. EE a Maras, | Timuery frost, TREMORS | wa . where the natives ca ey P too ha| t ‘either, ; ‘wat anybody to think’ their | Nawure faknny they caltea tt | NOW HES got the biggest role scenery was Hoosier scenery. ot

Dec. 20. He hopes 20th Century. = Fox ‘and the war department can make a deal. can) This, in any even’,

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He expects to -enjoy the army life. He only hopes that in his platoon are 1.0 soldiers from any of thiee states which need not be

mentioned here,

JAPS WARNED THEY. MUST FIGHT ALONE

By UNITED PRESS The Tokyo radio, in a broadcast

by the head of the “first section”. of the Japanese information board and reported today to the OWI, said “we must fight the war by ourselves,” The Japanese official, Chief Muto, described Gerniany's fighting strength as “very great, said the Germans were firmly holding the enemy's counter - offensive,” but

added:

“We feel that we must win this war by our own efforts. Naturally

we should not be dependent upon others in -the prosecution of this .

war,”

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