Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1943 — Page 17

ng what's left of

truction program, stablishments for ye been $515,000;= the projects were $828,000,000. In required for extra , billion, or nearly

ng of war plants, uman committee, ved into only the efficiency to point nore of this!” It possibility to add it program, ie committee re--loading ‘plant at facility came out

jects, such as the west. Territory of 8 modest $25,000,» 14,000,000, A» entagon building on, which started installations fer nese bigger items ively minor 1 } that at Vdd pst only $8,000, n in shipbuilding, s for ‘shipbuilding ad costs cut again worst performers man investigators tland (Me) Shiperty ships took a i cost $1,600,000 500,000 man-hours

ion revealed that ladelphia stood to 0,000,000 worth of initial investment by the company, by new con of the concrete tunately cut back h of those 10 will original estimate

d chapters, worst ght Engine plant Wright Helldiver 15, 8s a result of ried, “many sted.” Li just to throw cold gram, where new ade month aftér e been corrected, d and other mis And as experience mistake, we doi’

_ Rites for Lumber Official

eity plan commission in favor of & “more “up to date” version, City Plan Manager Noble P. Hol- * lister, now engaged in blueprinting - & 50-year “master plan” of slated post-war projects said it’ was cratic program would be used

“except for referénce purposes.” He

added that he had not yet seen and "knows nothing about the huge public improvement blueprint designed by former Democratic City engineer, M. G. Johnson. The old plan had previously been widely publicized by the present administration as a possible postwar framework, Mr. Hollister asserted that he feared the 5-year-old improvement recommendations now might be “a bit antedated.”

Some $20,000,000

Yesterday the city plan manager | told the city plan commission that 14.—With chilling winds sweeping a preliminary sketch of his new the fields at Camp Atterbury yester- |

“master plan” called for post-war! expenditure of funds roughly esti-| mated at $20,000,000. Improvements |

virtually been scrapped by the!

Lane, secretary; Junior deacon; Rev. Norman Schultz, chaplain; Amos Brown, senior steward; Ray Miller, junior steward; John Hoover, tyler, and Aubrey White, trustee.

RIGORS OF ARMY

Shivering Plant Workers Run Obstacle Course at Camp Atterbury.

Times Special CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. Dec.

day, 250 Hoosier war plant workers became soldiers for a day and went

under the program would include along with the doughboys of the belt highways, grade separations, a 30th infantry division in a typical city-county building, street widen- | gays training.

ing and renovation of the sewer system. A zoning board vote of 4 to 2 yesterday again stalled proposals to convert a residence at 2359 E. 34th st. into a church for use by the Park Heights Church of God. Five aflirmative votes are needed to ap- | prove a variance by the nine-| member board. First attempt, under the

war housing program, to

More than 300 persons, repre'senting 85 Indiana defense plants, 31 of them from Indianapolis, and

senior deacon; Ralph Howery, |

CIVILIANS BRAVE!

0. S. and Britain Maneuver-

ing to Obtain Signature From Russia.

signal for a new Anglo-Amer-effort to bring together Russia of the united na-

tL ered diplomatic LS relations last k April, t The question of f Soviet - Polish rek lations came. up = at “the, Tehran meeting of Marshal Stalin, Prime Minister Church- . ’ ill and President Simms Roosevelt, accordmr. ing to reports, and this week British Foreign Sec{retary Anthony Eden will see the Polish. Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. : : | In announcing the treaty, Mos|cow sald other victims of Naz |aggression might also be brought in, The pact pledges mutual aid in case of attack, no separate peace with Germany or her allies, no agreeemnt between either and a power hostile to the other, and no interference in each other's in-

ternal affairs.

Opening the pact to others is {regarded as an invitation to Poland. | And there is reason to believe that | Poland would like to sign—provided {she could do s6 on a basis of {equality with other signatories.

Treaty Signed In fact, her relations with Soviet

tions which sev- .

with a : to put into { = complete plans for the invasion of western Europe, according to diplomatic sources. ; Thirty feet of the shell's capacity, it was said, is needed for

because of the explosive force generated by its charge of compressed nitric acid.

although in tests thus far it has been confined to 35 and 40-mile distances. These sources said the Nazis have begun the assembly of rock-: et catapuits on the French channel coast despite the fact that tests of the projectile are not yet complete, -

ATKINS HEADS JUNIOR GROUP

Organization Aids Youth to Learn How to

Manufacture.

William A. Atkins, vice president lof EB. C. Atkins & Co., was elected | president of Junior Achievement Inc, at an organization meeting yesterday at the Indianapolis Athletic club, Junior Achievement, Inc, was started in Massachusetts 20 years ago to promote organization of youths of high school age into practical business units of self-support-

mayors and other civic officials pg. cia at the outbreak of the war ing productivity. It has spread to

shared in the compact “K” type were already based upon a series 50 cities throughout the country|

field rations outdoors at noon. Paying his first visit to Attérbury since assuming command of the 5th service command at Ft. Hayes, O.,

convert a was Maj. Gen. James L. Collins.

home into a multiple unit apart- Gen. Collins inspected the post and

ment, also failed. The home is at 3556 Washington blvd. Speaking in behalf of the negative voters, Zoning Board President John W. Ath-

erton said, “granting permission to| The establish an apartment in one of started their day's training before |

the most beautiful residential sections might place this board in the position of being obligated to approve more like it.”

PALLBEARERS

To Be Conducted by Rev. F. H. Daries.

ling.

observed a portion of the workers’ | program. Get Early Start “soldiers

of production”

dawn when the bugler sounded first

{of understandings not unlike the | Czech-Soviet pact. In July, 1932, | the countries signed a treaty of | non-aggression renouncing war be{tween themselves and further cer{tifying their frontiers. In May, 1934, the treaty was renewed until {the end of 1945 and, as late as Nov, 26, 1938, Moscow and Warsaw issued a joint note stating that their “relations . . , are and will continue to be based to the fullest extent on’ all the existing agreements.” | In 1939, of course, came the Ger-

{call at 5:45 a. m. Freezing tempera- man-Soviet attack on Poland and Basea Manufacturing Co., [tures caught many a worker, and her partition by the two powers. elected secretary of the local unit | soldiers loaned their guests every-| But soon after Germany attacked and Russell A. Bowers, former

and is being set up here for the first time, | Under the sponsorship of business, small companies composed of youths between 15 and 21 years of age meet as members of boards of | directors, vote stock, decide on wage {scales and carry on all the other functions of regular corporations. | These junior companies engage in {the manufacture of some small product. | Directors Listed

| G. L. Canfield, president of the was

thing from blankets to overshoes. Russia in 1941, Moscow formally teacher and school administrator, At 8 a. m. the war workers started renounced her 1939 agreeemnt with was named executive director.

N AME GEISEL i » actively participate in soldiering. Berlin divinding Poland and velun- :

The obstacle course was first.) tarily returned their relations to ganization are Robert M. Bowes,

Next the group witnessed demonstrations on the bayonet assauit course and rough and tumble fight-

| bayonet course. None willing to tangle with the GI-judo experts in hand-to-hand combat.

{the pre-war status quo. Poland now. stands on those {agreements. Her spokesmen say

A few braver souls ran the she is eager to do business with Johnson, appeared Russia on the basis of Russia's re- Bowers,

peated pledges. On such a basis |she would gladly enter into a tri-

Directors of the Indianapolis or-

|Lyman G. Hunter, Harry Reid, !Joseph E. Cain, Nicholas Noyes, E. |A.- Rice, Ralph Norwood, Sylvester Kurt Pantzer and Mr.

| Named as chairman of area com|mittees were Mr. Canfield, Bright-

| ‘Then came a series of demonstra- partite arrangement with Russia Wood area; Mr, Bowes, Tech high

{tions on marksmanship and gun-|and Czechoslovakia or a multipar- school area, and Mr. Hunter, North

eld, The engineers constructed a

Active and honorary pallbearers | toggle-rope bridge across a stream

were announced today for Walter land then swung across carrying] The difficulty, however, comes future, Henry Geisel, sales manager of the rifles while dynamite burst below. irom the other direction. As far Balke-Krauss Lumber Co., who died |About 25 workers then crossed the as Is now known, Russia insists on | swinging structure, with some ex- annexing the half of Poland which |

“Sunday of a heart attack. * J

Inery, climaxed by a problem in the tite pact including still others. = y !

Territorial Claims

Active pallbearers will be William | riencing the same wet bath the the seized as Germany's partner, pe

E. Bosson Jr. William D. Burk, Theodore V. Corbin, Hugh J. Baker, | “Tracy W. Whitaker and Felix Von- | negut. » + W. Henry Roberts, Fara H. Stewart, Carl A. Ploch, Fred I. Willis, . Bugene D. Wilcox, R. Norman Baxfer, Cswald A. Tislow, F. Elmer Raschig,’ Murray H. Morris, Rush R. Harris, James C. Gipe, Hal E. ‘Howe, Prank L. Moore, Clifford R. ‘Lounsbury, Albert H. Off, Lawrence P. Parsons, Frank R. StePp Pred M. Clark, Ira D. Cummins, Pred Alton, Major M.|

Poole, Everett H. Miller, Earl M. Modisette, Atterbury post

Robbins, Denver E. Barb, Frank C. Balke, Raymond F. Holtman, Fred Burbeck, John Kinnamon, Findley ‘Phillips, John Sullivan, William Amos and Roy A. Hice will be honorary pallbearers. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Frederick R. Daries, pastor of the Zion Evangelical church, and members of the Oriental lodge, 500, PF. & A M, at 2 p. m. tomorrow. in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill

: Colonel Ellsworth Sterrett -

. + Puneral services for Colonel Ells-

‘worth Sterrett, former Indianapolis resident and retired contractor, will be conducted at 3 p. m. tomorrow in the Harry W. Moore peace chapel ‘by the Rev. R. M. Dodrill of the “Broadway Baptist church, with . burial in Washington Park ceme-

+ Mr, Sterrett died Sunday while ‘on his way toa physician here from “his home in Nineveh. He was 55. Mr. Sterrett lived in Indianapolis 25 years and went to live in Nineveh ‘two years ago when he retired as a «general paint contractor. He was a of Covington

services for Capt. Wil-

Yi and a sisMEMORIAL RITES SET, tian FOR CAPT. W.F. LUCAS

soldiers received. Dodge Bullets

Highlight of the afternoon was the visit to the infiltration course

bullets whining just 30 inches above

wire enclosures, went ovet the course. hs Maj. Gen. L. S. Hobbs, commanding general of the 30th infantry division, and Col. Welton M. commander, explained the program was designed to show the “soldiers of production” how their fighting men train and why they need more and better equipment, The day ended with a retreat re‘view of the division field artillery,

Lewis, workers. Attending the program were J. H. Frohlich, district manager of thé war production board in Indianapolis, Col. Henry 8. Tisdale, post commander of Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and: Lt. Louis P, Ade, of the industrial service division, bureau of public relations, Washington, D.C.

which saluted the war

where soldiers. crawled through “no- | man's land” despite smoke screens,|Came over an atrocity story put out

{but which she relinquished in 1941. | The Polish-Soviet break {spring was due partly to Russia’s | territotial claims and partly to her | desire for a “pro-Soviet” governent in Warsaw, Ostensibly it

{by Berlin. The real cause was that

ground, dynamite charges, barbed Moscow's political and territorial | tical international collaboration and and mud-filled | demands were hampered as long as operation” designed to insure posttrenches. Some of the workers Poland remaiped an ally and a war peace.

{break was necessary if Russia were {to have a free hand. A rapprochement now between {Russia and Poland would be wel{comed here, The chances, however, {seem far from good. Even while the [big three were meeting in Tehran, [the Soviet organ, War and the

{Working Classes, was denouncing’;

the Polish government-in-exile as

|“pro-Fascist,” and accusing Premier |.

{Mikolajeczyk and War Minister

commanded by Brig. Gen. J. E. i Sosnkowski as “murderers of Polish of America, will hold a reception in

| partisans.” | beginning, : | PREPARE PARIS EVACUATION MADRID, Dec. 14 (U. P) —German authorities have ordered the Vichy government to’ draft immedi{ate plans for the evacuation of | Paris beginning early in January, | reports from Vichy said today.

Hardly . a propitious

last |

| side, Committee chairmen for other areas will be appointed in the near

HAILS RELIEF SETUP ‘AS PEACE INSURANCE

| BOSTON, Dec. 14 (U..P)—| | Prancis B. Sayre, special assistant] to the secretary of state, today {hailed the newly organized united nations relief and rehabilitation administration as “one of the most {promising new adventures in prac-

succeeded by Cmdr, who until recently gunnery officer aboard a cruiser

fll remain here

New York, Cmdr, graduated from the naval

spent at sea, His wife and two children have

moved here and will live in the officers’ quarters on the ordnance plant Capt. Kraker's wife and two chil-| dren will live in Washington while he is on sea duty. =

PLAN CHRISTMAS PARTY Olive Branch, 2, Knights of Pythfas, and the Irvington temple, 411, Pythian Sisters, will have a Christmas party at'8 p. m. tomorrow at

[Chinese Turn Tide of Battle With New American Weapons|

WITH CHINESE TROOPS, Hukawng Valley, Burma, Nov, 30 (Delayed) —American Weapons have turned the Chinese soldier from an unbeaten but nearly helpless trooper cowering before Japan's modern

_ tools of war into a first class fAght-

ing man, ees To the Chinese soldier driviiig the enemy from the path of a new Burma road, his new American rifle is the most precious thing he has. And when American planes come humming down in formation from the blue Burma skies and send death loads into the Japanese in the jungle around the Turong river, the Chinese troopers shout in smil-

(very good, give them a little more). More than a month ago the Japanese commander was reported to have told the Burmese natives that when the Chinese came across this swampy plain, “we will brush them off like flies.” He hasn't had time off from burying his dead to carry out that job.

5420's BE. Washington st.

| Speaking before the Boston insti-|

| tute, Sayre said that the issue|

before all nations is whether they can co-operate “constructively and wholeheartedly for human progress and welfare.”

LODGE MEETS TODAY

Brightwood council, 2, Daughters

‘honor of Mrs. Fern Lineback, inside sentinel of the state organization, at 8 p. m. today in Red Men's hall, 137 W. North st. - State and national officers will attend. Mrs. Maude Siddons is general chairman, 4 x

Guy.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14 (U. P.).~The American escort aircraft carrier. Liscome Bay went down in flames with a great hissing sound off Makin island while members of the crew struggled through burning oil in the waters around her, survivors said today. A split second after a lookout shouted “Here comes a torpedo,” the carrier's lights blinked ou

Carrier Liscome Bay Went Down in Flames

With Great Hissing Sound Off Makin Island|

charge was dead. Lt. Rowe administered to other wounded despite a leg injury. : . »

J Wounded Man Aided

§q3 Bakes

: EF 2

The bridge was {do hot for the men to put their hands of the

rail. Lt. Cmdr. Bodler, Wellsboro, Pa., ord all men over the side.

“Once in the water I tried to swim away but the current carried the ship toward me,” Lt. ‘Smith related. “Rounds of em-

TO HONOR OFFICER.

Music will be provided by Mickey| Mays, Elenora Kerkhoff and Audrey

'byed, the Japanese surrounded a

ing pleasure, “Ding how nye dies”!

the Chinese won't quit. At Ning-

numerically inferior Chinese force blocking vital transport down the Turong river, They plastered Chi-| nese positions with mortar fire three days. Then they attacked a dense grove of banana trees. “Each of my men tossed one grenade, then we let them have it with machine gun bullets right through the foliage” said the w

Chinese first lieutenant, holding and Republican Leader Joseph W. We urged

statement to the house by Oh man Andrew J. May (D. Ky), the military affairs tte run into some “vexing and might not finish its work by

aloft a Japanese flag that sym- both bolized the trap they sprung. Martin Sex Mam “on a bill and The Chinese refuse to die. Even og

surrounded by Japanese dead and Speaker Sam Rayburn répeated

wounded on the jungle battlefields, get 5 they sneak out. One 24-year-old soldier from Hunan province took four enemy bayonet thrusts in the |

{that he hoped to be able to house action next week.

SEAMAN RECOVERS $1163

ichest, The carriers handling bam-| NEW YORK, Dee. 14 (U. P.).—= {boo streichers failed to find him. Ralph D. Puett, A merchant seaman.

He crawled four miles to camp. from Orange, Tex. had “charged “I'll bet he dies before morning,” |up to profit and loss” the $1163.64 he a member of the hospital unit told left in a tavern Sept, 1. When his me. Four days later the Chinese ship docked again, he was directed still was alive and the hospital at-|to police, who gave him the $1163.64 tache sald, “They have the type of the tavern proprietor and bartender

Trusting in their new weapons,

guts I've never seen before.” had turned in to them.

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