Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1945 — Page 2

WELFARE BILL

| daughter. of Mrs, Leéna Pritchard,

eon: Proposed. Intro-

‘duced as Legislature _. Studies Merit System.

The legislature today focused at-| téntion. on state merit system prob- | lems and changes proposed in the! welfare department. operations. | ‘A bill to set up new rules for the, slave welfare’ department, eliminat- | ing of

e board from its juris-|. and forcing the proposed! tate board to operate more by ! ne by edict, was introduced in vs house. _ “Phe measure was * submitted by| Cparl B, Teckemeyer (R. Indi-|

| college, Kimwich, Mo.,

Joins Red Cross Staff in England

¥ MISS HARRIET M, ZEIGLER,

2609 Boulevard pl, has arrived in . England to serve as an American Red Cross staff assistant. She is

one of the 200 |

Negroes now serving overseas with the Red Cross. Until her recent appoint ment, she was employed by P.R. Mallory and the national youth administration. She was graduated from Shortridge high school and atténded Y.W.C. A, and Butler

Miss Zeigler

“university.

{it drove into the courtyard.

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Job Skippers’ Face Drdft Board Calls

6.1, KILLED IN FRENCH ‘BLACK MARKET WAR wasmoron sen + wr

| Draft boards throvghout the coun3 AEADQUARTERS 9TH AIR try swung into action today to carry | SERVICE COMMAND, France, Jan ut the ernment’'s n ti l6 (Delayed (U. P.».— Military police] : : She EE haw dares Ive broke up ‘a black 'markef gang of ‘of ‘nauction o all occupationaily | American soldiers and French civil- | deferred - men, even - those below,

Hans dealing in stolen U, 8. rations army .physical standards. who quit, which one | essential jobs without authorization. |

after fa gun battle i {soldier was killed ‘and three wound-| it was disclosed today.

The new order, applicable to a jed, {pool of about 5,000,000 men in- the | tary police raided a hotel in northern French town where group had been selling Separately or by the meal. . Pvt. - Frank J. Woods of New| York, a military policeman, was|/ing rate of turnover in vital incuskilled when the driver of a truck tries and covered all men classified

used by the thieves opened fire as |as 2-A and 2-B and those whose

the | ters over the week-end in the wake

dations for tighter job controls.

driver was wounded. [lowed by the letters F or L. The

The gunfight began when mili- 18-37 year brackets, was issued by a’ selective service national headquar- |

rations (of President ‘Roosevelt's recommen- |

It was designed to Halt an alarm-|

The |2-A and 2-B classifications are fol- |

Five American deserters and nine [¥* and L listings are given ta 4-F's| French civilians were included in |and limited service men (1-A-Ls) |

*'. $. 0: Hughes (R. Ft. Wayne).

worth of rations, & jeep and two trucks were recovered at gang headquarters. :

anapolis) head of the welfare legislatlve investigating committee and

The bill embraces all the recommendations made by the Tecke| meyer committee in a Lwo-yYear probe of welfare department opera-

PENSION AROUP. TO ‘DINE

have a bean soup and cornbread supper at 7:30 p. m, Wednesday at 2809 W. Michigan st.

—|the gang. Several thousand dollars|{wha have additional deferments for

occupational reasons. All men with 2A and 2B ‘classifi

cations of any type, the announce- |

ment said, will be.subject to immediate reclassification and Induction |

without local board approval. The! army will use “drastically lower” ste andards 1 to induct those who pre-

viously were rejected on physical grounds. > “In complying with the instruc-

tions of the director of war mobil-’

ization,” the order said, “the army | will accept certain men below our general “service physical standards who are reclassified and presented for induction by the selective service’ system (and) - placed in assignments best suited to their physical condition,” The army will fix special quotas for such “job skippers” and assign them to other than regular duties. | Neither ‘the extent-.pf. the quotas nor-- the type of duties: was dis- | closed.

Farm Workers Exempt

The order did not apply to men listed only as 4-F's biit legislation already has been introduced in congress: to give them the choice ‘of getting into essential work or facing | induction, | Men deferred for agricultural work also. were not affected by

{the new order, but. the Tydings

amendment on “TAT déTerments” Old age pension group 15, will /if tlfey leave their present jobs| | carries the threat of induction for

{those who leave their jobs without authority. Defefments of younger | farm wor rkers already are under re-

vie “with. a view to tightening them up. The new order was primarily an efforts to.-trelieve the manpower crisis by persuading more men to

go into essential work and to stick

to the job, once they are there. The army's most pressing need still is for young men physically and mentally Yit for .combat, but it has agreed .to draft job-skippers up to 37, including some with physical defects, to help stabilize the wartime labor forge. The 2-A and .2-B classifications naw include about 4,256,000 registrants. The 2-A's and 2-B’s. with L. or Flistings number 857,000.

BRISBANE'S ESTATE GIVEN TO NEW"JERSEY

RED BANK, N: I, Jan, 8 (U, P.), ~The ‘estate of the late Arthur Brisbane at ‘Allaire, N, J., including a 50-room mansicn, a 100-foot tower overlooking the Atlantic and 400 ACTes- 6f Wooded grounds, Has? een given to the state of New Jersey by

‘Brisbane's heirs. It will be used for a soldier con-|the class will,

valescent hospital.

BROAD TN

~ ACTIVITIES LISTED

. Broad Ripple high school activities for the coming week have been announced. Officers will be elected at a meet-

ifg of Quill and Scroll, journalism |

honor ry society; The group will meet for dinner in" the home of Mrs. | Barbara Priest, sponsor. The date of the meeting has not been announced,

The Cozy Hour, a girls’ organiza- |

tion, will meet Wednesday. Possible

projetfs for the Red Cross will be'

discussed, Mary Ann Schafer will be enterzained with several readings. A trio composed of Rose Ann Hill, Le Carda Johnson and Carolyn Mc-

| Cullough will sing modern musical

selections, “The accompanist will, be Dolores Daugall. : ~ Graduating class exercises will be held Jan, 18-19, Seniors will be graduated Jan. 22, Floyd Chafee, senior class vice president, will have charge of entertainment, The. class prophecy was written

by “Dorothy Willace, Betty Rickert

and Margarét St, Clair. Marjorie Baker and Marjorie Hawkins wrote The class history Is in the charge of Curtis Jordan,

MONDAY, TAN. 8 5

Great Lakes Link

Remains Unfrozen

ULT ST. MARIE, Ont., Jan. 8. vii} P.).—The winter hasn't been so bad. For the first time in history, the locks on the Sault St. Marie river have been open

| in the month of January for movement of ships from Lake

Superior to Lake Michigan. Four cargo ships bound from Duluth, Minn., to Chicago moved through ‘the - ice-free locks this week-end. : The latest the locks have ever been open was Dec. 26, 1904,

G. 0. P.-.NEWSMEN TO MEET IN FEBRUARY

- Tentative plans to hold the 66th annual ‘mid- winter meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial association here Feb. 19 were announced’ today by Leo Kinman, president. Should hotel ‘accommodations be unavailable at' that time, alternate dates have been scheduled for Feb. 12 or Feb. 26, he said.

TGi- 0. P. editorialists” Wilk begin

to prime thé pump for a Republican victory in 1946 at the meeting. Claude Billings of Akron (is the

| association’ 5 secrétary.

ONE: - Require the proposed new Legislators Balk, However, three-member, full- time state welfare board -to hear personally = On Complete National cases of recipients who appeal from chil decisions of the county welfare Labor Service. Boards, WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U.P.).— TWO: Require the board to first a EE * show its legal authority before issu-{ Congress appeared - today e ing a new regulation and file copies [ready to follow White House leadérof the new regulations with county ‘ship for drafting 4-F's and nurses. clerks. It balked for the time being, howae Require the sate web ever, on the idea of complete naa for applicants for jobs in { tional service legislation. ‘the department, receiving from the! In response to- President Roosestate personnel board only sugges- velt’s request for “total mobilization tions on the examinations. of all hunfh resources for the © FOUR' Raise the agé limit for ,,cecytion of the war,” congresShildren Bibel thild benefits| I sional leaders were prepared to put iio Sik from the state ithe tightening of manpower conboard the right do tell county wel-trols at the ‘top of the legislative fare departments how many em- calendar. - | ployees they shall have. . | A sampling of congressional reacSIX: ‘Fixes limits on travel ex- tion, however,” indicated a desire to , Penses of welfare employees. try so-called stop-gap measures, SEVEN: Restores the property | such as the 4-F draft and a check clause in the old age as-ion. job-jumping -by occupationally- | “sistance law, giving the state the deferred men, before embarking on right to recover from a deceased | more drastic courses of action. Or-| rec] 's estate the dmount" of | ganized labor expressed strong hosben | tility to & labor draft. | sherecy| Barkley 1s Typical — | the welfare files pelg! : . Typical of ‘the feeling in congress wi state 2a oounty Sf was the attitude of Senate Demoand t ¢ P tees to get or- {cratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of matioy them. | Kentucky. Meagwhile, Senator John A, Ken-!| “The question of what should be dall (R. Danville);*chairman of the done about getting 4-F's into es-| . legislative committee created by the sential jobs is wholly independent last legislature to” probe the state of the question of national service merit system, said his group would legislation,” Barkley said. “It issue recommendations this after- should be taken up promptly and noon. !'not have to wait on national service Most members of the commeittee| legislation.” were understood to feel that thei Thus, it appeared that the first. state's present merit system is not legislation on the subject would be working properly and may recom- along these lines: mend some new legislation to cor-| © ONE: A requirement that 4-F's pect the conditions. in | get into essential jobs or face in-

{duction into non-combat service or

V- MAIL CONTEST {labor battalions. {| TWO: A similar draft for men WINNERS LISTED who leave jobs on which they ‘are occupationally-deferred fo enter less Gladys Settle, freshman, today | essential employment. | THREE: A draft of nurses unless had been named first-place winner | the présent program of voluntary in the V-mail contest at Technical enlistment gets the 20,000 which the high school. : | armed forces still need. This Week magazine and the Co- | Many members of congress felt lumbia Scholastic Press association | | that the selective service system and "are sponsoring a contest., The} ithe armed forces already have autheme of the letters, to men over- thority to. invoke the 4-F draft and seas, is “What I Am Doing to Bring | prevention of job-jamping. You Home More Quickly.” First Step Is Taken Other winners at Technical were Phyllis Peacock and Edgar “Rui They pointed to the fact that The three winning letters will be | selective service over the week-end printed in the Arsenal Cannon, and | took one step in that direction by . the first-plase letter forwarded to { ordering. induction of all occupathe. national contest. cies: [tionally deferred men, regardless of rnin physical defects, who change jobs Technical seniors will be honored { without draft board approval. at a “winter party” Jan. 11 at the | Bills: introduced’ in both houses boys’ gym. | within a few hours after the PresWalter Enoch will be master of 'jGent’s message was received apceremonies. Others on the com- peared likely to he the vehicles mittee in charge are Carol Holman, through which the congress would | L. Rex Cook, Charles Branson, Bar- cjose such gaps. Designed to stop bara Wood, Donald Mason and jahor turnover, the measures would Carol J. Singleton. _ {make subject to induction any 18-

: 45-year registrant, including 4-Fs,!| SEVERE ALUMINUM {who refuses to take an essential job. | |. There was no such speed to put | CRISIS IS FEARED forth national service legislation, | KNOXVILLE, 1 3 3 however. Senator Warren R. Austin enn., Jan. 8|(p yt) and Rep--Jemes-MWadse | (U.P).—A war production board [worth (R. N. ¥.), who have sponA nk that aluminum | req it in the past, adopted a sheet has joined the new list of}. “wait-and-see” attitude. Both want- | critical metals. He warned that, | ied to measure congressional temper unless additional manpower is ob- land see whether it had prospects tained, the most serious aluminuni {of a better reception this time, . 'T. E. Covel, deputy director. of Overshadows All Else WPB’s , aluminum and magnestim The urgency of the manpower division, told the chamber of com- | yation completely overshadowed merce that WPB was forced to in-| lother legislative requests which struct the Aluminum Co. of Ameri-| {President Roosevelt addressed to Qo 3a Huse 58 wer bools Jog the) the congress in his state of ef union message. the way for most essential output. | Shunted into the background for | {the time being were his requests | for peacetime compulsory military | training, expansion of social secur-, lity, development - ‘of great river) basins along the lines of the Tennessee valley authority, and post- | war jobs stimulating through pub# lic works and government financial | aid for expansion of private enter-| prise. dd

"VU. 8.8. DAYTON COMMISSIONED

PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 8 (U. PJ. ~The 10,000-ton cruiser, U. 8, 8. Dayton, was the latest addition to! the fighting-fleet today following its commissioning at the Philadelphia "navy yard yesterday, It was placed in command of Capt. Paul W. Steinhégen, Milwaukee,

Teachers to Put 7 Proposals ‘Before Assembly Tomorrow

The legislative’ program of the status as other teachers regarding Indiana council of teachers’ unions distribution of state, funds for salprobably. will be. proposed to the, | aries.

legislature tomorrow, it was learned, THREE: Prohibit state school today. 7funds from being: diverted by local # M. Dale Williams, Jobbyist for the | school units. organization, declared the program! FOUR: Establish~ a permanent ‘would follow the recommendations | minimum salary law commensurate made recently Dy: the group's legis=| | with increased ‘costs for teachers * (and those preparing. for the profes- | ‘said the Program would “sup- | sion. that of the Indiana state fed- | FIVE: Reduce size of grade school | of labor, but would work classes from about 85 to’'25. uy of other * teagher | SIX: Support a resolutiun seeking | legislation to authorize municipali- | g Yonchers’ council proposals ties. to negotiate’ with -¢ity emFoes: Who are members of Jabor y eirement fund he $960 to $1200, 5 SEVEN. Support a. resolution pros } ithe riding for a By and pension system [* Meaching public spinon }

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