Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1943 — Page 4

to the soldiers not .ater . Aug. L The governor said that the Indiana special session probably would have to waive registration | requirements, permit the Ri be of ballots three or four months be- ‘ fore the election and end the ban! - on the mailing of absent voters’ | ballots more than 15 days before the eection. He said he felt that the present voting laws were adequate

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normal times and that any changes |87¢¢d to let fo ease voting regulations for the |trate conferred with Mr. Byrnes,

soldiers should be only temporary.

MRS. R. SHOWALTER ~ DUE ON PARK BOARD

Mayor Tyndall today appointed Mrs. Ralph Showalter, 5601 N. Meridian st, to the park board to!

succeed Miss Gertrude V. Brown, | Francis Biddle received instructions

whose four-vear term aAvire {from the President to prepare the | “ye. pires Dee. | | papers necessary for the government fer based on a formula suggested * {to seize and operate tne railroads in|by Mr.

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served in 1940 as the Marion county would apply to the 300 railroads IN-lawarded by an emergency board

chairman of the Women's Willkie | _ lub,

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She now is chairman of the wom- tion in the world ‘war when Prest-|

en's division of the war finance d committee and heads

ber of the board of the League of | Women Voters.

advocate of “local autonomy” Sumrision of neighborhood play- |

ig are board post carries nob

carriers and the five operating, {the President summoned the non-

Two Railroad Unions Accept FDR Offer and Call Off Strike

{sented to. Mr. Roosevelt a new wage { sroposal which War Mobilization Di[rector James P. Byrnes planned to | submit - today to the management representatives and to stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson.

rot developed before

both the Dec. 28, 1017. Marion county and the Indianapolis | cated there would be no strike | speakers’ bureaus. She is A mem- under government operation,

[sible federal control after a Miss Brown is a director of the swift developments in his efforts to Northeast Community center. While force a settlement and break the on the park board, she was a firm deadlock between the administra. in the tion, the union and the carriers. |

To Our Many Friends, and Employees...

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v ess esnessenaniany sateas “eee Pack 1B. ian.si ones ssnnunttnstetiosasenisaisssvassss 1 - Motor avnnteussrIRRsaetiiineterinurente 1 » 3 2 AERBBAEBANL ERENT RIOOIRIO RES 1 . CASH CONTRIBUTORS : Clothe-A-Child Fund limiting of the session depends’ City Sugineerini Cu. Tne, 34 Emplogens.. . $131.00 of oe agaators t Protection Local 1683, International Association of oid Most G. O. P. legislators have Pant roe HR aE Reh EER Are es 308.00 themselves privately, how- Departments 318, 389, 390, "Allison Engineering, second ‘ee Jai ever, as favoring a short session. Gauge Design. Altaon's. sana ROR sosvesnsinane 50.00 the session would be opened for Men's partment A/sson serssSirasestonnpenns i ut ie ee. 'p | Employees of Wallace Tool & Die 00.....eesveussssrensenrses = 5000 ge, ul that an| Allison's, , Department B10, PUBL Beeroionissasiorsnre ds00 > : Climax Machinery Bras suscrnr eet ententes 3 Intra-party fight would develop. | giondard Machine Co. and Philip E Hoop III ............. 26.00 There ls considerable sentiment! Employees of Colonial Furniture 0O................... ) 20.00 Among =a pall amb of Allison's Rough Casting Inspection, Department 517, Plant §. 18.00 State Salvo Gates) pegment Of | rye 16 Clothe-A-Child Club of Lukas-Harold Maintenance direct primar passage Department .................. evereanessessasarsarascnee 16.00 a the attempt a Process ‘and Tool- Routing, Allison's... vesesissesiesesisiiranes un state organization to give Mr. Gates Santa's Helper as vane Cer sssssssnrans sereeraaeeies ssesesnsere om the party's gubernatorial nomina- Square Deal Tire CO. iinvinsinsionresioncanconiasiesisncnnces v tion. Mitchum & Schaefer Employees ............... . 35 Proponents of the direct primary Leah Homer EB A ESTER EEIORIIRNI IIR RNTRRINNIRRIRRIIRIRI IRS 10.00 law think they would have a chance Marigold Garden Club. . TEENIE RI RNIN TERIRRtOIRIIII IIR 10.00 ; passing a direct prima law if H. 8 L.. SP BRIBE IRRI IIR INE IRRIRRIRNINRI REY o a Democratic ry would | In Memory of ‘Dad—E. Ho iieiiereaianianrsansseraninnens ee 5 Join them They say they could » o 8 evs s sass ERIr ater y eres IeNIaN RRR aR aBIOO IORI ROS so passed i in the sen- CA Beiter rae re trata aaa teense " pe RB Das is a by a Mary Frances, 8; Tommy, 4; Rita Ann, 3; Jack, 2...000000000 5.00 Dawson, the one G. O. P. state ofi-| Jim McCahill ...... Cereeiaatesieeiiatiitaatieiiaierianiaates 1.00 ela] whe is not on the Gates band-| Billy McCahill ...... Ceres esraranrasrtnsnntintars eesessennee 1.00 wagon, James N, Phillips. c.eeiverencecrsssascancascsrensssionronces 2.00 Democrats Cool A Bridge Club. ...cceerverecssscsncossanssccsass sesescssrecsne 2.00 A MOhEr ,.....c0c00c0ecencasioniecsanronss-sorsaisscasssons 2.00 But the Democrats, many of i whom favor the direct primary, are | War Hospitals Fund cool to an attempt to pass such, n..ional Association of Women. ..............cecve0reneeees.$ 20.00 legislation at a special session called | Chas, Drexler & Co, Employees. . . 19.50 for another purpose. They say such | Employees of West Baking Co. in Memory of Frank Snell. .... 18.00 ge Show d De Passed AL & TERU- | [ia oid SKEOLS esse srreenseeeeieneeeenieereierianens 1500 J! b Bho ever eaieaseeieaenres » G. ©. P. organisation leaders say | Casey Smt iar ivaisasserassiiiesesases 10,00 Haat dey ould kil 4 direct primary Peter A. BeCtkiewica...uovsssnisssessssussussrsnssisacsones S00 Governor Schricker said that he aaron sehvevisriistininnginiis S00 wollld eonfer with Mr. Gates and 1 " tereesssresrrireananees or 2.00 Democratic Chairman Fred Bays Two Sons in Service. ....... teresa esatenntantasIsttseIteIERIES ’ before issuing a legislative call. Marjorie and Rema Kinzie... ....c.co0ieeieecsrissisnionioanas bot He announced yesterday that he, oe LL rieETAStEATEAeI ESTES Creare ria rs ii iarsaes To would propose to members of the Tl PAISONS .o.eecenicnnne. seteeresimecesiesitiagieanastes Indiana ' congressional delegation] Times Christmas Fund what he termed “a simple plan” for | o NT 10.00 “solving the soldiers’ vote question on | R. H Dickson. ........... sersesaesaertiiresaise $ lose § national scale. { J.J. Mason and FAMILY... 006000000 i00ceacrsanrsstastoscsncne A > . Myrtle M. HUNLET. ...4.oeeucnsecsncnssonssassscsscosiacisnnne 10.00 Governar’s Proposal C. W. WERLNETS. ... ivseauetuserirnrsnrsasvanceinnisnieniases 10.00 His plan provides. for the printing! William Riehards ....evessvecciiicsonioersescnisnanineiaess *% of cards which would be distributed | MATY ake: ves ree tssttencsenansastnesasssisniiene J “by thé army and navy to all mem. | Charles an@*David Kriech.. Ceareerirtanis ears etttr urate So _ bets of thé armed forces. These Mabel Renick .. Ci resatesttrsaseniestastasieeienrens 5. cards would be signed by the! iy and Mrs. Harold Shirley. ...eeesvsssesvenreseanranranesns 2.00 soldiers and mailed to their respec-| A Friend ............... ter iieesisatastiisatasitesitrtnetane 1.00 tive secretaries of state for distri- | 3 PE bution to the soldiers’ and sailors’ | Total Today seven teesesseienistreatanitssistsncnnrases $ 90! " 0 home counties, These cards would | Previous Contributions .....eeieeceiesssiasnecranianiniieeces 8,567.78 serve as applications for ballots. - The county clerks, on receipt of | Total to Date...... vereessesinessrsecrsasesacicanransess $ 0473.08 these cards would mail the ballots | Mile-O-Dimes EStimate .......cc.oeoevevsconcassessccrsssssss 4,900.00

TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS cereeneass $14,373, "

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him arbitrate because “the war cannot wait.” His offer was accepted by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, with an aggregate membership of about 200,000 of the 350,000 in the operating group. But the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors and the Switchmen's union rejected it, It was understood that the holdouts objected to the President's arbitration proposal because they already had. rejected a carriers’ of-

he two operating unions who had Mr. Roosevelt arbi-

The " non-operating groups pre-

Biddle Gets Order Meanwhile, Attorney

General | |

Roosevelt, That formula vent a satisfactory wage formula is held that the unions could receive the strike no more in stralght-time raises! eadline. Any seizure presumdbly than the four cents an hour

olved in the troubled negotiations yg proposed an additional four nd would duplicate government ges Foents an hour as overtime compen{sation and away-from-home .expenses. The unions had asked eight jcents an hour plus time and a half [after 40 hours for yardmen and full payment of away-from-home ex-) penses for employees paid on a mileage basis, :

No Action Taken

ent Wilson took over the roads! Union leaders indi-|

| Mr. Roosevelt prepared for pos-| day of |

He'll Tell More Later

in congress and out,

JAP LEADERS BUILD

CHUNGKING, Dec. 24 (U. P.).— High-ranking Japanese officials are

emergency headquarters in Shanghal in the event the Japanese capi[tal becomes a target for mass allied

‘alr raids, a former Shanghai editor

sald today. Chal Cheh Hao, editor of the discontinued Shanghai Shun Pao, expressed that belief on his arrival at Chungking with his wife and four children, and two former employes. They fled Shanghai disguised as peasants. Chao said Japanese authorities have established offices in one of the principal buildings of Shanghei's international settlement, 'Informed circles believe, he said, that they were preparing these offices as emergency headquarters against the day when Tokyo may be bombed regularly,

Can't Outtalk

Policewomen

BY THIS TIME two Indianapolis men have learned they can't

outtalk a woman, let alone a policewoman, Russell C. Stevens, 5725 N.

Capitol ave, and Elton F. Leffler, 203 8. Illinois st, were arrested last night after a verbal dispute with Policewomen Julie D. Wiegler and Christabel Carey as the officers - were making a routine check of the Cozy Bar, 113 E Wabash st. Calling headquarters for male assistance, the policewomen said the two men insulted them, made remarks and incited the other patrons, « Arriving at the tavern Patrol men Foley Shaw and Paul A. Huckreide arrested the men after they said, “You're just sent by Bill Remy to annoy. businessmen.” (Mr. Remy Is president of the safety board.) On their report the policemen wrote, “They told us they would get our jobs if we arrested them, so we arrested them to see if they could.” Mr, Stevens and Mr. Leffler were charged with interfering with police in line of duty and disorderly conduct.

U. S. SUBMARINE WITH

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U. Py. ~The navy announced today that the 1475-ton U, 8. submarine Grayling is overdue and presumed lost. Although the navy did not say where the craft disappeared, it pre- | sumably was in the Pacific or the Far East where the preponderance | lof the U. 8. underseas fleet is car- | rying on ‘a destructive campaign | against Japanese supply lines.

After he was notified of

the | joperating. brotherhoods’

With negotiations between the| decisions,

rotherhoods at a hopeless stale- operating union leaders and pre-|

‘accepted nor rejected it and asked that they talk about a wage settleiment instead, They told the President they! ‘would accept the sliding scale of Increases, ranging from 4 to 10 | cents, which Vinson had proposed, if they would be granted overtime pay as a straight increase of 6 cents an hour instead of time and ‘a half for hours in excess of 40. The unions had rejected the slid gine scale and had long insisted on 5 | straight-time Increases of 8 cents Sian hour awarded last May by an| J emergency board, Vinson vetoed | Bithat award and a second board ¥ recommended the graduated scale Bin conformance with his views. The unions proposed the overtime formula to safeguard them g (Against reduced earnings resulting Bifrom a possible reduction in work- * 5 Ing, hours. If they should surrender 4 id) § their Mele Dropess] in exchange for the

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J jexcess of 40—they presumably would f [ask & guaranteed 48-hour week, —————

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‘dates for new brown and green.

normal complement of 65 men, was | skippered by Lt. Cmdr. - Robert

| Marion Brinker, 33, of Park Ridge, { I.

/mate, he asked the unions to let sented them the same arbitration MORE | DATES LIST LISTED |

a proposition. The union chiefs neither

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U. P). j—The office of price administration today announced additional validity

stamps. Brown stamp “V” will become good Jan, 23; “W” on Jan. 30 and “X" on Feb. 6. All expire Feb, 26. Brown stamps “Y" and “X" will become valid Feb. 13 and Feb. 20, respectively, and will be good through March 20. Green stamps “G.” “H” and “J” become valid on Jan. 1 and are good through Feb. 20. The currently good green stamps—"D.” “E” and “F'—will be valid through Jan. 20.

On the War Fronts

(Dee. 24, 1943)

Sy UNITED PRESS

ITALY: 8th army clearing German suicide squads from Adriatic

The President said he would tell more about the Cairo and Tehran conferences when he delivers his

SHANGHAI HIDEAWAY

prepared to flee from Tokyo to

“lone huge blaze.”

65 ABOARD, OVERDUE

|than the circuits can handle, causThe Grayling, which carries a|ing long delays. In some instances

FOR RATION STAMPS

result of this false reasoning, I think also on the list. 2 dissin an aftort 1d Maat or even . » encourage an outbreak of partisan Wounded thifkhig and talking. I hope I am wrong. For, surely, our first and] PVT: ARLEY P, HAZELETT, foremost tasks are all concerned] on of Mrs. Mary Haselett, forwith winning the war and winning a merly of 200 X. Washington sq Jusi' pence that will last for genere- iii 8. soldiers ed in the Mediterranean ares.

state of the union message to con-| of Mrs, Julia Morris, New Castle, - (gress in about two weeks. and T, 5th Gr. James J, Wolfe, “And, on that occasion, I shall| son of Mrs, Villian Wolfe, Vin also have a great deal to say about| cennes, certain conditions here at home.” Wounded in the an theaThat meant plainly that the| ter is 8. Sgt. Lloyd V. Alibright, President will again .take up the| son of Mrs, Ruby T. Allbright, cudgels publicly for su ..of his| Terre Haute, anti-inflation program - -. NOW . ® is under attack from many points Honored

LT. COL. JOHN W. McPHEETERS, husband of Mrs, Jeanette

nn <a i for service in Tunisia reads: “An adjacent unit was being subjected to heavy enemy. shelling and, as a result, two ammu- , nition piles near a 155-millimeter gun position were set afire. Seeing the fire and realizing the necessity for quick action, he voluntarily ran over to the gun position

since 1875. He was an of

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SEARCH HOTEL FIRE RUINS

HULL, Que, Dec, 24 (U, P).w Firemen and civic works departe ment employees chopped their way into the ice encrusted ruins of the Central hotel today to determine if any of the 15 guests still missing

had died in the fire which destroyed the hotel and damaged the adjoine ing block yesterday.

thilde; four daughters, Mrs, Herbert

8t. Louis, Mo.; of Indianapolis; one sister, Mrs.

bombardment of Berlin with an at-

towering 10,000 feet over the heart of Nazidom.

mean that German rocket guns on

a “secret weapon” had fired across the channel for the first time. The British Broadcasting Corp. | translated a German use of the, word “lichtgranaten” as meaning that rockets were used in a trans-| channel shelling. A recheck indi- | cated that starshells or flareshells was meant, “As crews made their way home after the Berlin smash they could see a deep red glow over Berlin visible for 120 miles,” the air ministry said. “The fires later merged into e . The air armada, taking advantage of one of the longest nights of the year, delayed its take-off until midnight and caught the German defenses by surprise, All crews agreed that the Germans failed to realize that their battered capital was. the night's target until it was too late,

Stagger Holiday

. Soldier Leaves

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U, P.). ~Thousands of soldiers will visit their homes during the holidays but every effort will be made to avoid overloading transportation facilities, the war department announced today. Fourteen-day furloughs have been. authorized from Dec. 11 to Jan. 11, but not more than 10 per cenb of the strength of a camp or post may be on furlough at any one time, Such furloughs are issued with the provision that the pass holder will not - travel on Dec. 24 or Dec, 25. New Year’s day passes will be issued with similar restrictions. In addition, special Christmas and New Year's day passes will be issued, as well” us non-week end three-day passes These passes all will be subject to the 10 per cént of strength limita“tion,

TELEPHONE CIRCUITS WORK TO CAPACITY

Persons placing long distance {phone calls tonight and tomorrow | will have to be patient. : A. M. Taylor, general traffic manager of the Indiana Bell Telephone |Co., said today that there will be more long distance calls placed

| calls cannot be completed, he said. Mr, Taylor pointed out that every {effort will. be made to handle the {calls, and all switchboards will be manned. . However, he urged the public to ‘avoid _ sending Christmas greetings by phone since vital war calls will have to be made during the holidays as well as on other days.

UNATTENDED LIGHTS RESTRICTION LIFTED

It's no Jonger lights out for Indianapol's homes and stores after residents go out for the evening or clerks go home.

the Indianapolis civilian defense, unattended lights may be left In homes and stores as a protection against possible burglaries. Previously, the group had ruled all unattended lights must be out

or blackout,

A —————————— CHANGTER DRIVE NEAR END CHUNGKING, Dec. M4 (U. P).—~

Flying Fortresses Join Smash At French Rocket Coast

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tack in force which sent smoke|one pilot said,

London newspapers seized on a Nazi broadcast misinterpreted to

the French coast, long heralded as | Aachen near the Belgian and Dutch |

According to the new ruling of :

Whether or not there 1a an alr reid ;

Henry C. Schwier of Indianapolis, |and four grandchildren,

REBEKAHS TO MEET Fidelity Rebekah lodge will meet Monday night for conferring of degrees,

“We had them absolutely foxed,”

Only 17 bombers were lost in the raid, which ended a week’s respite for Berlin, and in subsidiary -attacks on central and western Germany. A German DNB news agency dispatch said the bombers also raided |

borders, destroying the town hall on! {the site of the palace of the Em-! peror Charlemagne and heavily . damaging the southern front of the| cathedral where the emperor was! crowned.

Berlin's 97th Raid

The R. A. F. pre-dawn raid on Berlin was the 97th raid of the war on Berlin -and boosted to approximately 11,000 tons the weight of explosives dropped on the German capital since the start of the cur-, rent offensive Nov, 18, The air ministry announced only yesterday that previous raids had damaged seriously. Adolf Hitler's chancellery and caused “very heavy” damage. to 33 major industrial plants, 25 public buildings and 11 other vital installations, including Berlin's big Tempelhof airdrome. Reconnaissance photographs showed that among the buildings hit severely were the residence of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, the new Reichsbank and six ministries.

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PEACE ON EARTH GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN ... . ’ Let our faith in the meaning of Christmas give greater strength to our peace-loving hearts. Let us renew our efiorts in the mighty cause of Victory, to hasten the dawn of a brighter world, a world more free than it has been in the history of man. - YOUR NATION'S FUTURE IS YOUR FUTURE BUY MORE WAR BONDS “AND STAMPS

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