Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1944 — Page 17

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2 “I THINK Mr.

fion,” said Rep. Samuel A. Weiss (D. Pa), of the house combat-pay

Stimson evaded the direct ques-

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“This suggestion

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WE FIND THAT Inside Indianapolis isn't alone in

making mistakes.

One of our agents was over at

DePauw Wednesday and picked up a copy of the current issue of the school publication, The DePauw,

There, right on th

another afternoon

e front page was a story with mention of Clyde E. Woldman, That's the way they spelled the name of none other than the school’s president, Clyde E. Wildman. Turning to the editorial page, we discovered that the city editor of The DePauw for the day was none other than Sally Wildman—daughter of the prexy.... All of which is building up to the point of admitting we made an error in mentioning Wasson's phone number the other day. It's RI. 7411. The number we gave was that of newspaper, the name of which

seems to have escaped us. ... Claude Allison of the Walker theater staff received a letter from a sailor, Henry L. Miles, Stm. 2-¢, on the Pacific, saying he had been in an argument with some of his shipmates

over the direction jog the screen in

in which patrons face while watchthe theater, “I say the lobby runs

southeast and west, and seated ldoking at the screen,

you're looking northwest.”

Actually, Claude says,

trons are facing due north and the screen faces due

th. But that's from the letter is

not really the point. - What we get the thought that no matter where

they are or what they're doing, the service ‘men's thoughts are of home—of familiar places, and friends,

Have you written

lately?

One Way to Get Drafted

THERE'S AN & cat”

OLD saying that “curiosity killed

Well, a clerk from a Muncie draft board was

in state headquarters here the other day and related an incident in point. A young man there kept wondering why he hadn't been called for examination. Finally, his curiosity overcame him and he went to

the draft board. said: “Why, you

The clerk looked up his record, and ‘re dead!” “What do you mean?”

asked the startled young man. The clerk showed

Fighting Back

WASHINGTON, June 9.—Politicians who have felt the force in this year's primary campaigns of the new political phenomenon—the C. I. O. Political Action committee—are coming around to the idea that the

best way to stand

law, for it would

up against it is to use some of the C. 1. O's own methods, particularly in better organization cf their supporters and in intensification of such chores as doorbell ringing, This is a symposium conclusion from statements of half a dozen congressmen who either have lost renominations this year or have managed to win over opposition they never had before. They have given up hope (if they ever hag it) that the C. I. O. political work can be restrained by be a violation of one of the funda-

mentals of democracy to forbid any group, labor or obherwise, the right to be politically active so long as it- observes the statutes dealing with eampaign contributions. Sidney Hillman and other political lead-

ersof the C. I O. of law and there

declare there has been no violation will be none, and they have been

sustained so far by Attorney General Biddle,

Watching Their Step

THE HILLMAN group has been given abundant notice that its foes are watching for a misstep that would land the C. I. O. politicos before a grand jury —and the Hillmanites are watching their step. But they know as well as anybody that no American citizen can be prevented (other than through the Hatch act covering federal employees) from getting his neighbors to qualify themselves for voting, or. from trying to induce others to vote for a certain candidate. © C. I O; successes so far (which the leaders are piping down because they do not wish to appear too to the orthodox politicians) have been won through a combination of organizational fervor with

hard work, The

My Day

methods, so far as congressmen are

’

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—It has been called to my attention that in speaking of St. Elizabeth's hos-

pital as the only

federal hospital for mental cases, I

did not mention that the veterans administration

and the services

have hospitals that care for such cases also. © The veterans administration has 28 neuro-psychiatric hospitals

Casualty Rates Highest

FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1944

County, City Begin Mobi-! lizing Aganist Mosquitoes; | Report Awatied. |

County and city officials we began mobilizing local government|| machinery to combat the growing menace of malaria mosquitoes in Marjon county. | Plans for financing sanitation} projects and hiring pest extermina-|, tion experts were pushed by toeal officials following announcement} that the state health board soon} would complete its survey g mosquito conditions here and make} a report to local authorities, Addison J. Parry, county council president, and Dr. Herman G. Mg gan, city health director, said they were prepared to act on the state

Italy, infantry represents 19.8 per cent of the total strength but has suffered 70 per cent of the casualties. In the Southwest Pacific, infantry is 15 per cent of the total strength and sustains 26 per cent of the casualties. In all theaters combined, infantry represents one-fourth of the strength, one-half of casualties. Morale and pride of service, so essential to winning battles, his letter said, are nowhere more important than in the infantry.

him a newspaper clipping reporting the death of a man with the same name. It was the questioner’s soon as the report is made, father, The board quickly changed its records. We To Call Parle haven't heard whether the curious one has received - y his notice, But he probably will soon, if he hasnt| “I will call a conference of all already. . . . A couple of civilian employees of a gov- county and city officials connected ernmental agency were playing catch with a baseball With the project as soon as the state on the world war memcrial plaza near the American | board’s recommendations are made,” Legion building the other day when a custodian came Mr. Parry said. up and stopped them, “This,” he said, “is dedicated] “I believe that with prompt acto the war dead, and in one sense you're playing base- tion on all fronts Indianapolis and ball in a cemetery.” The men hadn't thought of it/Marion county can be kept free from in that way, Neither had we. any serious malaria epidemic,” he

’ added. “The county council is ready Firemen Save Gas

to appropriate the necessary funds OLLIE SHAW of the Peasiee-Gaulbert Corp. | TOF the county's share of the (linoleum) was driving to work yesterday when his|Projects. I believe that every dollar car caught fire. It happened about 24th st. and Col- PePt in a malaria control program lege ave. Quick as a wink, Ollie his car to the| Vil be money well spent. left and headed for the fire station at 24th and Car-| Dr: Morgan, who met with Mr. rollion. Startled n ustomed to having PTY. Sherlie Deming, city board of : deliv to them - nace ed the bl : {works president, and others inPolice Ca OE Ricl or stings of the Pal terested in mosquito control several clubs need some outdoor game equipment, particularly’

weeks ago, said his department

such games as lawn tennis, badminton, ete. If any- | Would recommend the appropriation | one has any equipment they'd like to donate to the °f sufficient city funds to set up Pal clubs, it can be delivered to the police juvenile aid effective mosquito control projects. department, 3 8. Sabu st. That's just a couple Soldiers Returning doors north ce headquarters, ~ There's a big! .. American flag in front of the place. The flag hel The chief menace of malaria donated by the Bruce-Robison Legion post. ...A "0" is its spread from fever-ridden resident of N. Galeston st, in the vicinity of Wash. S0.diers returning from the tropics, ington st. and Post road, outside the city, asks what | Dr: Morgan said. “If mosquitoes he can do with the tin cans and scrap papeg, he has| 27 Dot controlled they may soon besaved for the salvage campaign. There's no setup to! come carriers of malaria from the collect salvage outside the city limits. But there wily | Infected soldiers. be a tin can collection next week, and if he can get! The state health board is expected the cans into town and leave them in front of some, '° recommend, among other things, willing citizen's home, they'll be picked up. . The pick-| Te hiring of a competent sanitary up north of 16th will be Monday and Tuesday, while engineer and entomologist.

sun of 16 1 wl be Wedoestay and Thus. A ro amas a” oh ow ‘ps for paper, arrangements A - ! pe ge are peing made for a news | where stagnant water collects.

paper collection: this summer, possibly with a pickup grounds from the curb, and this might solve his problem. Even| These are breeding . for though the invasion is under way, there's still a drastic | mosquitoes. need for salyaged tin, paper and fat, Urges Co-operation

Also Dr. Morgan said citizens would have to co-operate wholeheartedly in an anti-mosquito drive.

By F red Ww. P erkins Recents could help a great

1 by eliminating all moisture- | holding materials, such as cans or concerned, have been simple. The C. I. O. forces have |stopped-up water spouts,” he said. backed the most promising candidate in opposition|“Also some low, damp grounds

health board's recommendations as! ™#

crumbling before allied advances.

anti-invasion headquarters “somewhere in France.”

Worried Rommel and His Generals Scan Map of Invasion Theater

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Lines of worry are beginning to show in the faces of these Nazi officers as they learn that Germany's “impregnable” Atlantic wall is

Surrounded by his generals, Field Marshal Irwin Rommel (center with baton) studies a map at his new

(Photo radioed today from Stockholm).

EXERCISES SET;

112 Seniors to Get Diplomas Monday Night at

Auditorium.

Broad Ripple high school seniors | will graduate Monday night at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium. Diplomas will be presented to 112 seniors by Theodore L. Locke, board | of school commissioners’ president, | and K. V. Ammerman, principal, | will make special awards. James Zervas, Josephine Taylor, and Robert Dunn, class members, will speak at the exercises.

Will Receive Diplomas Those to receive diplomas will be: Paul Amot, Jack Adams, Elinor Allsworth, Margaret Augustine, Barbara Bard, Betty Jean Barnhill, Robert Beasley, John Bellew, Robert Bevis, «James Blakeslee, Nancy Boerner, Joanne Bookwalter, WilHam Burt, Jack Caylor Eddie Ceigler, Olea Christ, Wilburta Coffey, wester, Jane Dillon, Miriam DuGranrut, Faulk, Nadine Prazier, Roberta Fulton, Dorothy Gillum, William Green, Hilda Hamant, Dorothy Hamilton, Shirley Harlan, Betty Jo Harms, Gene Harner, James Harris, Juanita Harris, Carolyn Harvey, Joseph Heaver, Marjorie Hopper, Shirley Hugill, William Hutchinson, Barbara Jones, Betty Jones, Blanche Kelly, Katherine Klee, Imogene Klein schmidt, Joan Kopp, Robert Kunze, Harrison Lackey, Patricia Long, Suzanne Mahalowitz, Marian Markle, Elsielou Mar-

tin, John Martin, Louise Martin, Virginia Maurer, Geneva McBride, Doris McCarty, Nancy McClamrock, Myralou McCormick, Jack McGail, Rhea Jean McGoldrick, Ralph Meckling, Bill Miller, Delores Millikan, Jerry Mogg. Donad Newkirk, Betiy Norton, Carol O'Day, Marthann Oertel, Joan Orr, Jack Pagel, David Pfleiderer, Evelyn Pickard, Lois Pollock, Ruth Ellen Raison, Betty Ramsay, Suzanne Reeder, Joan Robinson, Jack Roesth, Nancy Schreiber, Leva Sears, Merrald Shrader, Grace Simpson, Jack Siler, Helen Jean Smith, Robert Stadler, Gene Stark, Rose Marie Steinbach, Kathleen Stewart, Lloyd Stump, John Talbott, Miss Taylor, Sarah Thornburg, Margaret Tutrow, Lorraine Ulrich, Janie Van Meter, Glenda Rose Vaughn, Pred Verderosa, Marjorie Walker, Christine Weaver, Milton Wheeler, Betty White, Hilda Williams and Mr, Zervas,

WILDCAT STRIKE AT

BROAD RIPPLE'S ;

ENGINE PLANT ENDS

fronts in Wednesday's fighting.

Gnats Bring Out Fire Department

ERIE, Pa, June 9 (U. P.).—~Believing he saw smoke pouring from a window of a hospital room, a passerby turned in a fire

alarm.

to an incumbent with a record not satisfactory to/under shrubbery are breeding places the C. L O. for mosquitoes.” The result may be election of a congressman more| Mr. Parry said the council will be anti-union than the defeated man. But if the C. I. O. prepared to appropriate funds for gets the credit for the result, other congressmen are the program to the county health provided with a spectre of opposition in their districts|board to get projects started by from a closely-knit organization usually outnumbering | mid-summer. the supporters they can depend upon for “getting-out-the-vote” work in which the C, I. O. is specializing. Elections May Be Different RUSS SEIZE THIRD THIS YEAR'S developments have been restricted HEIGHT IN ROMANI A to primaries, in which voting usually is light, providing an opportunity for an aggressive group to make . itself felt. The elections may turn up s different] MOSCOW, June 9 (U. P).—Sostory—but will not alter the demonstrated fact that in| viet army troops continued smalla Primary a strong sud vigorous group can give much scale attacks along the Romanian trouble an incumbent. - { a fter uri Recent defeats in the Alabama primary of Repre-| Joost Jag A e he i t in ih . sentatives Starnes and Newsome are said to have been | ” Po g : wy pays caused, at least in part, by C. I O. political activity. Porth of Iasi and seizing a series In the same primary Representatives Hobbs and of enemy trenches south of TirasManasco had C. I -O. opposition, but they won, the pol on the lower Dnestr river, latter narrowly. Mr. Hobbs, veteran of 10 years in| The Germans made an unsuccongress and sponsor of an anti-racketeering bill t0| cesstul attempt to retake a position which organized labor objects, found it necessary to captured by the Russians yesterday resume a practice he had learned in his Political in the fighting north and northwest Jouth me interviewing of voters in their homes sadvol. sei ana 2» - enemy. troops were In California Representative Costello, of Hollywood, | Another 200 Germans, were Kill i also a 10-year man in the house, was knocked out| when Soviet patrols stabbed into through a spectacular campaign put on in the last|the enemy lines below Tiraspol and i Weeks before the primey by his C. I O. opposi- | occupied a group of trenches. ere was muc one rin as well as t y bell ging 1 A communique said that the RusOne C. I O. objective in the November election, according to Political Chairman Hillman, is to get out “the biggest vote in history.” Mr. Hillman will be helped in this by his opponents if they do what they say they are going to do—organize the opposition to the C. IL O.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

T think that this is one of the reasons why more and more young: are deciding that it is not enough to vote and to try to have an intelligent opinpasserby mistook for smoke

hovering about the tower of the building.

BIRDS TRANSPLANT

sians destroyed or disabled 15 tanks and shot down 22 planes on all

Firemen arriving at the scene H saw no smoke, no fire, What the |

turned out to be swarms of gnats |

LOCKLAND, O., June 9 (U. P.).—| A wildcat strike, in progress at the | Wright Aeronautical Corp. since in-| | vasion day, apparently had ended | today as a company spokesman re-| { ported that the production force at| the $155,000,000 airplane engine | plant was “almost normal.” The company reported that ap-| proximately 90 per cent of the| 10,000 production workers employed | on the first shift had begun work! again and that engines were rolling off the assembly line.

(Blitrei

BY EARL RICHERT

ROBERT W. LYONS, the man about whom is revolving the biggest storm in the Republican party in many years, returned today to Indianapolis from Washington and termed reports that he would resign his newly-won post of national committeeman as “news to me.”

He would not comment further.

It is no secret that a number of influential G. O. P. leaders think

that the only way to keep the Ku Klux Klan stigma from being saddled upon the entire Republican ticket (Mr. Lyons was once state treasurer of the Klan) is to have him step down. They favor having him issue a statement saying that he believed the Klan issue was dead, but that since such a storm was being raised aver his election he was willing to get out in the interests of the party's welfare, Such a plan reportedly will be put to him over the week-end. Whether anything will come of this, of course, remains to be seen.

. = Daniels in Line JOSEPH J. DANIELS, former 11th district G. O. P. chairman and a close friend and political associate of Mr. Lyons’, reportedly is the man who will be selected to replace Mr. Lyons in case he does resign. Many G. O. P. politicos believe

that Mr. Lyons would be willing to step aside for his friend. It

was Mr. Lyons and Mr. Daniels.

who were chefly responsible for the present district chairman, James L. Bradford, winning the heated party fight in 1940 over the G. O. P. county chairmanship. Mr. Daniels is one of the few Hoosier G. O. P. leaders who stuck by Wendell Willkie to the last.

»

Democrat Hurt

ONE HUMOROUS sidelight of the Lyons incident that it completely eliminated the chances of one fairly prominent Democrat, formerly affiliated with the Klan, to win a spot on the Democratic state ticket at the party's convention here next week. Now that the Klan issue has been raised and they intend to

Up Front With Mauldin

| atorial

use it, the Democrats are going over their candidates carefully to be sure that they don't put a former Klansman on the ticket.

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Hancock Critical

ED HANCOCK, the veteran publisher of the Greensburg Daily News who was dealt out of the short-term U. 8. senate nomination at the G. O. P. state convention here last week in favor of Capt. William E. Jenner, is another Republican who evidently isn’t very happy about the present G. O. P. set-up. He penned two editorials in which he said: “The election of Robert W. Lyons , . . has brought down on the Republican party a storm of criticism, the equal of which was never heard in party circles before. ,.. “If Lyons really has any interest in the success of the Republican party this fall, he will resign and remove himself as national committeeman. If he does not do this, there is but one course remaining, his removal from the position by those who elected him.” In the other editorial he pointed out that the wishes of the Republican editors had been flouted. (The Republican Editorial association had indorsed Mr. Hancock.) He praised Capt. Jenner but pointed out that the captain had not even been consulted on whether he wanted the shortterm nomination. = ”

Martin Hopeful

DEMOCRATIC PRE-CONVEN-TION notes: Withdrawal of Clarence U. Gramelspacher, Jasper businessman and treasurer of the Democratic state committee, from the gubernatorial race was expected. It long has been apparent that the nomination was a cinch for Senator Samuel D. Jackson. , . . Warren W. Martin, chairman of the state industrial boards, would like to have a supreme court judgeship nomination but apparently will be given the appellate judgeship nomination from the southern Indiana district. Governor Schricker’s comment on the selection of a state ticket: “I naturally am vitally interested in the type of ticket we nominate, but the doors haven't been closed

| to anyone. There probably will be

several contests.” The governor, unopposed candidate for the sennomination, will open headquarters the night before the convention.

LA. F. OF L. LEADER | BROADCASTS TO NAZIS

WASHINGTON, June 9 (U. P).—

JAPS RETREAT IN INDIA, BURMA

Hurl 80,000 Troops Against Chinese Defenses in Honan Province.

By UNITED PRESS The Japanese continued to ree treat today before strong allied forces In India and Burma, although the enemy was reported making a heavy attack on the last Chinese defense lines on the northern edge of Changsha in Honan province, A Chinese spokesman disclosed that the Japanese brought 80,000 men into the assault on Changsha, a key position on the Cantone Hankow railway, although there were no details of the fighting. Allied tank-supported troops made another three-mile advance south ward on the Kohima-Imphal highe way in India, to reach a point 14 miles below Kohima. The Japanese were withdrawing steadily from the Kohima area, and also in the Kamaing area of northern Burma,

Foe Cut in New Guinea

In northwestern Dutch New Guinea, American troops, with the aid of tank, artillery and naval fire, were gradually reducing the Japanese forces trapped in caves and cliffs east of newly occupied Mokmer airdrome. The United States troops in taking Mokmer brought their lines within one mile of Borokoe airfield and two miles of the Sorido airstrip, Liberators again struck at Japanese’ shipping off the northwestern Dutch New Guinea coast and scored two hits near the bow of a heavy enemy cruiser, the third warship hit by allied fliers in that area in four days.

FLYING SHOES CAUSE WOMAN TO FAINT

NEW YORK, June 8 (U. P).— Joe Arcano of Bronx, N. Y, never bothered anyone with his daily preluncheon workout—15 swings from the door-jamb of his fifth-floor office—until yesterday. Then, on the 12th swing, his shoes flew off and crashed through the window,

Down below Eleanor Harris of Bronx, N. Y., found herself in the middle of a shower of splintered glass and two brogans. She fainted. Arcano rushed down, retrieved his shoes and apologized. SANITATION PLANNED The Maj. Harold C. Megrew auXe iliary 3, United Spanish War Vete erans, will hold an initiation at 8 p.m. next Monday at Ft. Friendly, Mrs. Dora B. Love, president, will conduct the ceremony.

HOLD EVERYTHING