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ready, who won't come back. Indianapolis once was described as a modern city with touches of the south—wide streets and lit tle of the hurly-burly common in most northern cities. The pace, since Pearl Harbor, has been faster. Thousands have moved here, .to work in the war plants. One person out of every five is a new= comer, since 1940. Close to half a million live in the city and environs. « War: has boomed industrial growth far beyond the rosiest Chamber of Commerce dreams. Handsome new factories—Allison, Lukas-Harold, Curtiss-Wright, Bridgeport Brass—ring the city, usually built in the corn field fringes.

Manpower Biggest Problem

In 1941 we thought that 75,000 working In industry was very good, Yet, around the beginning of this year—the war’s peak—that number had swelled to 137,000 “persons. It has tapered off since. Manpower soon succeeded the

shortage of materials as the war's {tin paper and fats continue.

biggest home-front problem. Industry. trained some 75,000 new hands here. It hired women to replace the men who put on uniforms. But many of those women have left the assembly lines before the final battles are won. "Hours were lengthened to-three shifts in many plants; the government ordered a 48-hour week, “froze” workers in their jobs, and tried to keep out war contracts for three months by labeling the

THURSDAY, DEC. , 1044 _ = Indianapolis Takes the | In Stride, Won't Let Down

city a Group 1 labor' shortage area. . A superb record for labor peace here, was almost untarnished, |. only by minor flare-ups, until last week's strike at the U, 8. Rubber Co. factory. Although difficult problems had to ‘be solved when Negroes were given more war work, tolerance won over prejudice and racial peace was the reward, a boast some other cities can't make,

and take, Indianapolis was behind on its house-building when the war began. To keep rents

moved here, OPA had to set rent ceilings.

Stores, offices and schools stag. gered their hours to spread the burden on the city’s streetcars and busses and its crowded restaurants, . Monday night shopping hours first brought out a sight now familiar—the girl war worker dressed in slacks, fur coat and wearing her identification badge. The air raid wardens came and went but ‘the salvage drives’ for

Camp Atterbury mushroomed into a giant training camp which poured busses of soldiers into the city for a good time. Stout fleld, once a national guard airport, became headquarters for the troop carrier command. Big transport planes and gliders soon were no novelty in our skies.

Ft. Harrison Expands

Pt. Harrison expanded as the tide of draftees rolled in. The naval armory and Butler univer-

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sity were busy training for the air corps and navy. USO ‘canteens and recreation centers sprang up over the city. Inevitably, the good wages and jobs-for-everyone boomed busi ness at the stores, bars, movies. And we reached, or bettered, our goals in war bond drives, in the War and Community Fund. Save ings accounts grew. B : How about aftérward? Oldtimers shuddered to think what would happen when the war boom ended. They have a sure

prise coming. There will be half again as many industrial jobs after the war as there were in 1940, the Committee for Economic Development found in a survey.

“Kitchen Cabinet” at Work

A lot needs to be done. The city wasn't in perfect shape by any means before the war. A group of well-known businessmen are working as a “kitchen. cab inet” for Mayor Tyndall, mapping out post-war plans to make Ine dianapolis better. That's for tomorrow.

Bo Bd 5 erp 0 healthy, Then they torrent of munitions, on this third Hired and dort HO ES In the el. | Pearl Harbor day. or painful { soistimes. howe t Jomething wrong with Jour PLAN ROCKET OUTPUT i dition and valuable, sleep. CHICAGO, Dec, 7 (U. P.) ~The Po to ret In yous b's |Rheem Manufacturing Co. -analso nagging Taumatio nounced last night that it has Da Le Dn on Sn is oe Sik ,|taken over “a substantial section” Aches And Md disinges. Jor Dean's of the basic magnesium plant at Pills, used successfully by for over | Las Vegas, Nev, to manufacture

For today and until V-day the job is plain. It is Allison airplane engines “Norden bombsights, Cure tiss-Wright propellers, Lilly penicillin, Real Silk parachutes, Mallory radar. Stewart-Warner rocke ets, Bridgeport Brass shell cases, Stokely rations—-and hundreds more. It’s running at flood tide, this

rocket projectiles and mortar shells for- army and navy ordnance.

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light of pink flares dropped by circling Wellington bombers, They brushed the last E. L. A, 8, With a city bulging at the [resistance on historic Acropolis hilt seams, there had to be some give land in the Parthenon around mid-

night. .

There were casualties on both

from soaring, as more people |sides.

British army headquarters re-

reived information that the E. L. A. 8. was enlisting American help for a pafade today. A proclamation of martial law forbidding all such gatherings seemed ignored.

troops were ‘believed still in Athens, Another 7000 were in the outskirts.

had intended to parade into the and measures director, capital during the night. The pro|cession failed to materialize.

and American-made Sherman tanks roamed ‘most of the city. were believed, however, to have full control of less than 25 per cent of Athens. li

British guards were doubled in

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toro, kines. srt tr EINCERDRINTING FOR CAB DRIVERS URGED

Another move in the effort by|dianapolis as honored guest and One report was that those outside Mrs. Maude Hobson, city weights speaker at the annual moderator's| and neat, en masse turns of phrase|times at odds, as you might

to curb|dinner tomorrow evening at the Ho- : growing abuses = among taxicab tél Gibson. during, the ‘course of the evening's

Some 2000 or more E. L. A, S.

drivers has been made.

cabs. The board was asked to recom

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several veterans’ organizations an

But their scattered fire from roof- servicemen. tops. and windows made it danger-

» It was learned today that she British patrols in armored carsinas submittéd a letter to the safety board asking it" to recommend a They |ReW city ordinance regulating taxi-

In each cab would be posted its|luncheon tomorrow, In addition, Mrs. Hobson has suggested that the ordinance require that a receipt be

It was further expected that

DR. VALE TO TALK AT | MODERATOR’S DINNER

The Presbytery of Cincinnati will

present Dr. Roy Ewing Vale of In- second of no more than con

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Dr. Vale, who is the moderator of | music. the General Assembly of the Pres-

terian church, will speak on *Door-|their excellent work. Not that other analysis _| ways to Destiny.” Mrs. Vale will be| members of the orchestra were Toute 15° the Stil guests. of ensemble performance. Those Presbyterian laymen and minis-| mentioned just stood out, that’s all. ters will entertain Dr. -Vale' at|of course, as might happen even in an empyrean society, there were occasional fluff. But——small matter.

COL. DRYSDALE Lionel Barrymore may be a mu- as one should have liked.

TO ADDRESS CLUB sical dilettante, but there should be

more of such among the laity, It

too ‘much precision, too much

morrow in the Claypool hotel.

Recently retired, Col. Drysdale for a symphony orchestra. formerly was commanding officer of

ous for those in allied uniforms|proposal at its regular meeting chief of staff to Gen. Stillwell in the |of harmonic progressions. It is good|though, might be tempered down

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someexpect. But Mr. Barrymore makes things almost right at the end. by dipping

At random, special praise went|iDt0 his preludium material again.

The number, given i byterian church in the U. 8. A, and] to the concertmaster, the tympanist, | mire is just, ow = Ja lows). Je

pastor of the Tabernacle Presby-|the tuba-player and the oboist for ang considerably less than tmmortal

Myr, Sevitzky's tendency to : mend to the city council passage of AONE the 700 expected dinner) wanting in the essential attributes| .. +i. slow parts of as

an ordinance requiring the finger small-arms fire | printing- and photographing of all echoed all around the perimeter of drivers. the British-held “island” of about one square mile in the center of Athens. Farther southeast, regular Greek army troops were clearing given to each passenger, out another portion of the city against some snpiper fire. The E. L, A. 8. was incapable of women’s groups would support the holding any point long in strength.|proposed ordinance as an aid to

vich symphony gave to it a tedious~ ness it scarcely deserved. The first movement, in addition, had just

poring over to sound as spontaneous

However, he got all the humor, Col. Walter 8. Drysdale will ad-|isnt every famous actor or banker|the studied banalities of the second 4 |dress the Exchange club at noon to- |... federal executive who can toss| movement. The other compositions off a workmanlike piece of music| Went agreeably, as to interpretation. Anyway, the Indianapolis Syme The preludium section, quite ob-|pPhony is a well-trained orchestra, The safety board will consider the |Ft- Harrison and later was assistant viously, follows certain Puccini tricks|some of whose bigger sounds,

and loud, yet it moves along mel-'a more normal, less explosive level

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