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Jobs for 60 Million? How? ‘Guaranteed Annual Wage’ To Become Vital U.S. Issue
(First of a Series)
By ALLEN L. SWIM, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 189 —You hear lots of talk, and around the country, about '‘60,000,000 jobs” *jobs for all.” : A growing number of those who hear these phrases ask: “What kind of jobs? “Steady jobs, giving workers good al jobs, at pay that goes up and down, and sometimes stops for long for years to the idea of annual inlayoff periods?” {comes for workers. One who asks these questions os»
is Phillip Murray, president of the| THOSE who want to stabilize emCongress of Industrial Organiza-|pjoyment and pay point’ out that| tion. ‘He says his big labor organ-|a high hourly wage rate. doesn't inization is going make a real bat- gure a good yearly living income. tle for “guaranteed annual wages.” They cite the building trades. Another is Eric A. Johnston pres- | “Free lance” construction workident of the United States Cham- ers, frequently moving from job to| ber of Commerce. He doesn't like job often earn $1.25 or $1.65, or $2 to use the term “guaranteed annual wages” unless it's carefully defined, | But he says that business and in-| dustry must do all they can to pro-| vide “greater continuity of employ-| ment.” Some American Federation of Labor leaders ae given thought | (Continued on Page 9—Column 3) o o o
Unions Deny They Are Trying To Muscle In on Management
By CHARLES T. LUCEY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer DETROIT, March, 19, -~What about this talk of the unions trying to muscle in on management? Auto industry spokesmen say the United Automobile Workers union seeks to usurp management's functions. "Union leaders deny it, Management begins its bill of ‘particulars by citing the plan” suggested early in the war by Walter Reuther, U. A. W. vice|say the union's peacetime objective president. lis the same. It proposed an aviation produc-| Unionization of foremen ‘also is tion board on. which government,|cited by management. It is seen labor and management would have us an attempt to weaken manageequal representation. The board) ment ‘control over the men upon would have had “full authority. to| | whom it. must depend for proorganize and supervise” airplane duction. production in the automotive in-| U. A. W. officials say they don't dustry. | want the foremen in the C. I. O.— The Reuther plan would have that it is all right for them to orgiven labor a say-s0 on industry | policy-making. Marmperoent people | (Continued on Page 2—Column 1) # »
after the war-—about
all-year incomes? Or season-
1940, according to the government's bureau of labor statistics, which studied the incomes of 413,000 workers in that-group:
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STATE T0 KEEP CURFEW HOUR DESPITE N. Y.
New Law Provides Closing;! i id.
| LaGuardia Alone in U.S.
| On Defiance. Ja S$ Sa) On April 1, the Byrnes curfew directive will receive the solid support of Indiana law with a flat mid-| : ee
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through the week. Sea of Japan
The recent legislative snipped the extra hour off the 1 a. m. Saturday | deadline, in effect since 1939.. This rules out the possibility of altering | the dcor-closing time via mayor's | caprice, such as occurred in Mayor LaGuardia's non-conformist New York City. | LaGuardia appeared today to be going it alone for the present in his defiance of the government's curfew. Mayors and other cities,
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officials of many including Indianapolis, | said that they would stick by the | midnight closing. This eased some- | | what the fears of officials that the defiance would become epiderhic, but they still were much concerned over the situation in the nation’s largest city. New York Open to 1 A, M. LaGuardia yesterday announced {that he had extended New York's public drinking to 1 a. m. He acted on his own authority, without | {consulting War Mobilization Direc- | tor James F, Byrnes. | Mayor Tyndall said. today Indilanapolis would Have ‘gone along” with the Byrnes directive anyway. “If one unit on a battlefield de-
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U. S. Planes Blast Cities 9 Hours
nN Ton Bombs Fall Retreat Jamming Roads as 80,000 Follow-Up. Try Escape.
| LONDON, March 19 (U. By BRUCE W. MUNN
| United Press Staff Correspondent P.).—The-U. S. 8th air fore: PARIS. March 19. — The announced today that its
German 1st and 7th armies bombers razed and burned began a general retreat from great areas of Berlin's con- i, gaa) Palatinate triangle
(centrated war industries yves- today under a rain of Amer|terday in the heaviest bombard-
| ment of the war on any single Ger-
Air Bases @ Naval Bases
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ican air bombs and gunfire. A gap of 40 miles or less re mained open between the AmerStrong forces of both American
\and British bombeis today droppéd ican 3d -and Tth armies, closing [heavy loads. of bombs—some the 'in around the confused -Germans Inew 11-ton super bombs—on widely from the north and south. scattered parts of Germany to Inside the pocket; long columns day. : of German troops and armor were More than 1200 U. S. heavy reported streaming eastward toward 2X bombers and upward of 600 fight- the Rhine in a belated and apparers hit today’s targets. ently disorderly attempt to with. They included a jet plane plant draw before the points of the at Baumenheim, 20 ‘miles north American pincers close. of ‘Augsburg, air fields near Neu- Planes Strafe Roads | berg north-of Muenchen anl Leip-| American bombets attacked the- | heim near Ulm, industrial targets packed roads at dawn. By mid-day
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cided to take off on its own, our armies would be in a bad fix,” said the mayor. Police Chief Jesse McMurtry said taverns have displayed “a virtual blanket compliance with the Byrnes midnight curfew. The chief said he thought it was a good thing any- | way, asserting that he saw no evi-)| dence of ‘fast drinking” and in-! creased rowdyism., LaGuardia says| he detected such goings-on in the metropolis with drinkers striving to | get in under the deadline,
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Acquisition by the United States of air bases within B-29 range of Japan put the enemy homeland's | six major war production cities sadly out of luck. As this map shows, they are clustered fairly close together, so that more than ore of them can be smashed on a single mission. {
Kidnap Disabled | JAPAN WIDENED
lat Plauen west of Chemnitz in| ‘the U. S. Oth air force had sent | saxony, and war factories at Jena, more than .1300 medium bombers (west of Leipzig. land fighter-bombers ‘against the Supers Drop on Viaducts | fleeing Nazis and. the massed | Lancasters of the R. A. F. carted | slaughter still was going on. '11-ton and six-ton bombs to hit| FIying weather over the target railway viaducts at Arnsberg south. area was perfect with indications east of Tamm and in the vicinity that the number of sorties would lof Bielefeld in the Ruhr area. be doubled by nightfall. They followed British bombers, Returning fliers said the highwhich last night attacked transport Ways were black with German Senters of Witten, southeast of troops. and civilians. The scenes m, and Hanau, east Frankfurt, | Were reminiscent of the German . Bon record attack on Berlin by invasion of France in 1940, the
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Difference in Attitude “Indianapolis isn't New York and {there's a lot of difference in .the attitude of the people,” observed
Bill to Help Veterans Buy
Two Mishawaka Children Are Victims of Disinfection.
By DOUGLAS WALLOP United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 19. —
Nagoya Still till Burning After
Record B-29-Raid.
upwards of 2000 American planes, | fliers said. yesterday cost the 8th air force 25 80,000 Believed in Pocket
bombers and five fighters. About 1000 Nazi motor vehicles A communique reviewing the Ber- an4 100 tanks or armored cars wers
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Farms Pushed by Landis,
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY, Times Stafi Writer WASHINGTON, March 19.—Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind) today spearheaded a drive to enlarge and revamp the G. I. bill so ex-service
men could borrow money to byy farms with greater ease and in larger amounts.
Since only Republicans were asked to sign a new measure, intro- | it is considered as more pelitical than|
duced as the veterans farm act, a bill with serious chance of pas-
sage. appraisers will be selected from the! Under the -plan,—velerans—could. lists submitted —by— the organized Yor.ow $15,000 to buy farms and veteran groups: Under this bill the pay 3 per cent interest for 40 years. veteran can use his own judgment | “All organized veteran - groups,'as to how he will farm. county commissioners and county | “I believe that the. agricultural agricultural agents are asked to inclined veterans are entitled to ob- | co-opefate in the prograni,” Mr. tain an opportunity, to live on a Landis said. |small part of the land they fought | ~This.SI0Up. will make up the per- to preserve.” sonnel deemed necessary to prov ide; the qualified veteran with a farm. ' ministration, which 1s In charge ot! “This bill does not include co-|that section of the G. I. bill, re-| farming, nor. will appraisal committee be seThe
chilnty lected on a Jofiical basis. "
Against Un-American Acts
By EARL RICHERT, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, March 19.—A majority of the folks who mold public | opinion in the United States believe congress must be constantly on the lookout for forces seeking to undermine our government according to| Rep. Karl Mundt (R, 8. D.). He recently asked 100 leaders of various groups in the country for their thoughts on the creation of a permanent house committee on unAmerican - activities Rep. - Mundt has received 62 replies. All but | John E. Davis, eight expressed the opinion that in cratic presidential candidate, for peace as well as war, congress example, set out his views in a should have a group watching or- three-page brief. He said we must ganizations which advocate change be sure that subversive elements are in our institutions. |not hiding behind the right of free “I am surprised by the vigor of the speech. sentiments expressed,” Rep. Mundt| Most persons who favor constant said. Particularly were the veterans’|vigilance against un- American acgroups ‘vigorous in their support of tivities said they regard the Concreation of a permanent committee.”
the 1924 Demo-
British Civilions Face Death
‘By Rocket With Cool Bravery
By FRED W. PERKINS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 19.—Now that British. censorship permits; revelation that some of the giaut German rockets are falling in London, the writer may tell some of his experiences there during February. My main job was to cover the World Trade Union conference which | met in the: huge building of the London county council, across the Thames from the houses of parliament. It is almost as large as the United States capitol and vg structed in the same solid style of the destruction that must have) Bo, when “the building quivered | been wrought where the rockets fell. perceptibly from the force of blasts| When the full story, is told, it which turned out to be as much as will be a further tribute to British two miles away, it gave some idea civilians to stand up against the
threat of sudden death. Previously they bravely carried TIMES INDEX. on through the great blifz and last 4! Jane Jordan. 15 12' Movies
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tions of the flying bombs. The world labor conference, con- | r taining many delegates from coun15 Fred Perkins. 9{ries that have been under Ger15: Ernie Pyle ..° 9 man domination, devoted much time 10! Radio to denunciation of Nazi cruenties. 10 Mrs. Roosevelt 9| once a Prerichman had concluded 11| Side Glances, 10/5,ch an oration when a period was Mcta Given. .. 11|{Tom Sto 2 10 crash. The delegates looked at Harry. Hansen 10) Up Fron 9 Inside Indpls.. 9 Women's News 1 | Continues on 0 Page $—Column b ry
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+ 13put to it by the sound of a rocket]
SOUTH BEND, Ind, March 19 Clark Griffith of the Washington (U. P.).—Four perscns died im Sta Senators called off his one-day | Joseph “county today of asphy¥ia-| rauq with the New York Yankees | tion. Two .were young children] today. killed by cyanide gas used to disin- | But not until he had been as-
fect their home. Mrs. William W. Taylor, Misha-! sured that .Col. Larry 8. Macwhatsoever. But then only beer waka, found the bodies of her chil-| Phail did not “kidnap’ an Indiana {and.wine were sold. dren, Helen Ann, 2, and Alberta ‘soldier ball player from him ‘in When hard liquor sales Became Mae, 13 months, in their cribs. Undersecretary of War Robert "| legal in 1935, the: legislature estab-| Police discovered the podies of | Patterson's private airplane. lished a 1 a. m. deadline on week- Nelson Wiltfong and Charles M.| It was an affair to stir the [days, with'a 2a; m. TT on ‘satir- | Frederick: in-their room ina build- | days. ing owned by the city of South | The closing times were pulled Bend. Death was blamed on Tumes| | back to midnight on week-days and jfrom an unlighted gas stove. {1 a. m, on Saturdays in 1039, re- Mishawaka police -said ‘that the | maining thus until next April 1. * |Taylor home was Sisinfeciae wi | S————— is | cyanide gas Saturday.
Hoosier Heroes—— had been told they could e a ay
JOINS PROTEST ON jhe house last nighH Hy any BLOODY CLOTHING + the ‘windows- open, police adde; = 1 DEAD, 5 MISSING, | es Tove lu 11th District Legion Sends
night - with windows - open. = This | Letter to Ludlow.
morning, the parents closed the letter profesting
Chief McMurtry. “New Yorkers al- | ways demand special privileges.” Meanwhile alcoholics, not necesi sarily anonymous, were looking back fondly on the days immediately after repeal between 1933 and 1935 when there was ho closing time
“imagination of a scenario writer
windows and left the youngsters ly-
ing asleep in their beds. A sending of
| Louis Ludlow today by the 11th dis{trict of the American Legion. The action by the Legion came] after protests from various Indian-|
due Submarine Shark. | Farm Draft Snags An Indianapolis ski ‘trooper has As Board Resigns
been killed in action, and two local | apolis- families whose sons have been |navy men are listed as missing on| The explosive Hoosier farm draft|, ino i, action and who have been
the submarine Shark, according to|problem emitted more steam this| gent packages of bloody clothing (today's casualty lists. In addition, {week-end when the remaining two| from the Kansas City, Mo., three other Indianapolis men are members of local board 2 in Howard effects bureau.
missing in action, 13 are wounded iecpynty resigned. “The 11th district, American Leand four are prisoneis of the Ger |
man government. KILLED
army
Clifford Meadows. O. V. Farmer, heartedly supports you in any ac-| the. board's chairman, quit last tion you may take in calling the Pvt. Edward H. Enners III, of Thursday. attention of the war department to Kew Gardens, L. I, formerly of| Board members abdicated in pro- the very deplorable acts of the Indianapolis, in Italy. |test over what they interpreted as army in sending the blood-stained MISSING |a state selective service : " Motor Machinist's Mate 1-¢ Or- Filing Highiening of all farm ge. ary ville Gross Chilcote, 6179 Park ave., |
on the Shark. Fireman 1-c
back home,” the
{farmers were extremely irked over Jutant, said. | this turngof events, Mr. Padfield ex- | Legion officials said that it was | (Continued on “Page 3—Column 1) | Plained today: unnecessary for parents io
Frederick Luede-
IN POST-WAR PERIOD (Continued on Page 5—Column 2) lessness or inefficiency.”
WASHINGTON, March 19 (U. P.).| |
an increase in crime after the war. In his report to congress for the fiscal year ending last June. 30,! | Biddle said preparations were un-| | derway to ropa and modernize] NORTHEAST county residents | federal prison facilities to take care | and anti-gambling forces are of the : ‘natural increase of offend- wondering What cooks at We ers whicn may be expected upon CTocken Loop betes ticker, | cessation 01 hosiliities. .| .6515 N. Keystone ave., may be run--LATEST HITLER REPORT. ning afoul (or is: it afowl?) 'of | certain gaming restrictions, comBy UNITED PRESS Reports were cufrent in foreign 1
plainants want the Chicken Loop cooped up. They contend that not only chicken, but’ also bones of the galloping variety are on the menu. Sheriff Otto Petit, who ordinarily makes it his business .to
capitals today that Adolf Hitler had
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| bloodstained clothing to families of | | battle casualties was mailed to Rep.
THey are Clarence Padfield and gion, department of Indiana, whole- |
“directive” clothing of battle cdsualties of the defenses of Altdamm, fortress city letter On the east bank of the Oder before
L. C. Duckworth, com- Sten, Asserting that Howard county mander, and C. B. Chambers, ad- 48
pe Oder at Altdamm entered its final | “Tt got too tough for me. I was| [caused -any more grief and that) phase
h acts on the part of the army SEES CRIME INCREASE. Tcky to gst three lows sleep a Ey happen “through care- | Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's flank |
omer ceners runes meat Jyst What's Cookin’ at the Chicken Loop? Galloping Bones, Say Anti-Gambling Forces
{lin raid revealed that the U. S destroyed or damaged yesterday. American cartier planes rocked planes scattered 3000 tons of bombs | Today’ s'toll promised to be greater.
\the Japanese homeland again tos 'Dfough most of the capitals in-| A, estimated 80.000 German sol-
|day, according te Tokyo, and other dustries and left them ablaze or! diers were believed left inside the - ~°
littered with wreckage. Bombs blanketed the entire plant of the sprawling Rheinmetall Borsig plant in the Tegel suburb of Berlin. It produces a wide variety of war material, including tanks, guns, bombs and torpedoes.
U. S. aerial forces joined a rapidly growing offensive against the enemy’s inner defense bases. Tokyo said waves of U.S. navy | planes attacked the vital OsakaKobe wari industrial area for at | least nine hours today and also hit Shikaku island and Kyushu, south-| ernmost of the home islands. {
closing pocket. Their long delay in + starting the retreat threatened to cost them heavily in the next few days Lt. Gen. George ‘S. Patton's U. 8S. 3d army spearheads already were {within 15 miles of Kaiserlautern, Covers 25 City Blocks ' | where the main escape roads center. Today's communique said the! The Germans were reported put“Kyushu was-the-main-target yes- plant was “severely damaged: and (ling up only sporadic opposition in rday of a carrier force, which set afire” It covers about 25 city the pocket. They fought hardest— | Tokyo estimated at 1400 planes. blocks, and employs an estimated aleng the northeastern shoulder of , | Just east of the Osaka-Kobe area, | 25,000 persons + the gap to keep open the roads to |Japare third largest city, Nagoya, “Large machine and assembly Mainz and Likwigshaten, Rhine was ablaze from a pre-dawn shops, smelting furnaces and forges! cities. ZiT iol early yesterday by 325-to 350 wére heavily hit by bombs which! Patton's troops early today were Superfortresses, the greatest B-29 planketed the entire plant,” the only 14 miles southwest of Maina armada of the war. communique said. ,and about 35: miles northwest .of No Boscbors Last | “There were Jarge explosions. and Ludwigshafen. ;They.cressed the (A communique issued “by the When the bombers turned for home; Nahe river, main. German ‘defensige |20th air force in Washington said Puildings were burning throughout | position on the northern flank of | none of the giant bombers was lost the target area.’ fhe Rhine - Palatinate at several “due to enemy action.’ The Borsig armored vehicle fac- points Returning crewmen reported Ory at Herhingedor!, another Ber-! At uge fires in the industrial heart | of the city with dese smoke rising] (Continued on Page Column Bn (Continued on Page 5~Columin 3) to 6000 feet.” DD opposition was meager and ineffective, it said, but anti-
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& < / know such things, says he doesn't Sorreguemines = ; know about this one. He / “I'll certainly put an investiga- FRANCE : tor on this case immediately,” he promised. The sheriff also » said he would welcome com- | MILES plaints, plus descriptions of alleged hi-jinks in the county, Sheriff Petit says he will not make ‘a raid until one of the remonstrants comes forward ‘to | sign an affidavit in’ the. prosecutor's office. . Only upon such an | affidavit; he points out, can a search warrant be issued. Latest source to _ protest reported gambling in thé Chicken Loop is Dr. Howard Baumgartel, secretary . of the Indianapolis
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y * £ . Hogueneus % Efforts of the U. §. 3d and 7th armies to trap 80,000 Nazis in the Saar paced the western front action today. Forward elements of the two swiftly-moving armies at one ‘point were believed less than 20 miles apart. To the north, the 1st army was expandin ‘its: Remagen bridgehead despite the collapse of the Ludendorff Span. The 1st was feporied holding six miles of the vital Ruhr super-highway,
"On ihe War Fronts
WESTERN "FRONT ~~ Third army Churth federation | sends 12 divisions into Saar basin In a letter to Sheriff Petit. Dr | PACIFIC—Tokyo reports U. S. navy, after capture. of Rhine evasmng 's ee -Kobe area;| town of Bingen. Baumgartel, declares, “some com- | plane attack on Osaka-Kobe American Liberators bomb - Fore gASTERN FRONT — Russian trees } mosa for Qfth straight day. ‘drive wedge in main defenses of ALY — Patrolling continues active “Altdamm, eastern suburb of Bale 5 3th aid Sth army teominit) “tic port of Stettin.
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