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AN 80 years ago, is less prepared to resist surprise attack than Hawaii or |the Philippines were on Dec. 7, 1941.

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‘1 This is the impression given me by high brass, low brass and no States’ Alaskan bases were aimed 3 brass, ‘and confirmed by personal observation of almost “all the'!1500 miles down the Aleutian chain FLUSHING, N.Y. Oct. 20 (UP)—

into Communism in the film cap- | eTee forces left in Alaska worth talking about.

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I ever heard in my life.” | During the recent war, the United

Czechs Nip Reported Compromise Plan

lof islands at Japan. These, with The United Nations Geheral As-

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{ | : ital, | Alaska is far more important to, — Cees minor exceptions, were built to lagt sembly failed again today to crack No Increase Due Here Committee Chazrman J. Parnell the people of Amefica, the gen-| Charles R. Moore, United Press jonly a few years. They are in large the crucial East-West deadlock over ., State O Before 30-60 Days | Thomas opened the hearings in the erals here say, than were the cable edilor in San Francisco, has [part abandoned, while the Poland's successor on the United | Indiana bakers were holding the marble-lined, kieig-lighted House Philippines. Alaska not only is an| Just completed a “weather plane” central Alaska scheme starts prac- Nations Security Council, Marion Cour B broad prices today us house caucus room by: ‘© outpost. for defense, but could be| trip to Alaska with the U. 8. Air |tically from scratch. | Czechoslovakia, nipping in the | was up to 76 he on prises 'ofay. a8 ONE: Declaring there are Com- a base for immediate air attack | Forces. His conclusions, based on | Now, while armchair strategists bud a reported compromise plan, | of Robert Lee Vives 2 any. sities over the mo | munists in the movie industry who against the cities of the United| Interviews with high and low 3nd some military men alike talk of served notice it would not serve if | st. t try felt the sting of mounting Wan, 10° see Sovies totalitarianism States. - tattle | ranks of military py and per- nossible airborne assault over the elected. ° | 5 A Socepls 8 . prices on the grain exchanges. | hed everywhere. | Mileage shal. observation, contained frozen top of the world, Alaska 15 Tne Czechs renounced any desire on WSR I TWO: Putting off until next week| From Ladd Field at Pairbanks,| {® this eiclusive dispatch. described by the Army men here 85 for the disputed Eastern European | yesterday. manager of the Indians Bakers’ consideration of an attempt by at-|ih central Alaska, it is only about hardly more than a training ground seat oy Security Council after the | He was ridi fon, sald no hike in the torneys for some of the Hollywood 1500 air miles to Seattle, or roughly «nd holding out for reinforcements,/for a handful of special alr, ground 's7 United Nations failed in their Association, wit. to quash the h Hawai motorcycle 0 price of a loaf of bread was in nesses to q e hearings onthe distance from Seattle to Minne- 8s Hawail did, were said by’ Gen.|and sea forces. 10th and 11th ballots to choose be- Turner, 33. of for 30° 4 60 days. the grounds they were an unconsti- apolis, Atkinson to be extremely small. That this situation is well known the Soviet Ukraine, Russia’ y prospect. lor 60 days tutional attempt to infringe on! “The American ple,” he adred [reeen Lhe MOV 8, 3 it collided witk Meanwhile, bakers in New York, fa a) Pp hg Se | It is about 3000 air miles from. "" FH Fin 3 Pes EE [to any interested major military candidate, and India, the United Daisy Taylor, Pittsburgh, Omaha, Milwaukee and ad ED hs oug hl a| Ladd Field to eastern cities like, & © “0 "8 a ph Jolt wh ns RY power, the top soldiers here are gtates’ nominee. taine Ave. Tu Atlanta announced increases of one) 0 a ni one which |v York and Washington, or the |g oon "000 30 onsY 10icertain. Defense Beste =U | On the 10th ballot the Ukraine | ly hurt, to two cents a loaf, Bakers in many! approximate distance from San » ense “Up ot 20 votes and India, with 35 other cities were expected to take yr a a iowa alg hts ere Prancisco to Boston. It is even Bullding Costs Soar Our defenses here are being in for election. "2 the 11th ihn Vier similar aotion. oh ; Proceso ae oy os less to cities of the Midwest like Military bullding and maintenance beefed up, but at a molasses-in-nallot, the Ukraine got 30 and In- | anapolis durin Blame Soaring Prices ra i cause of “White House pressure,” |[adisnapolis, Sosis Bite un Swe to fouriNome pace sel by limited SUPPLY, dia 25, with the necessary major- | Wesley Dafl SMOKY DEATH--Billows of smoke rise high in the sky over | ae n including the . MAJ. @en. Joseph H. Atkinson, times those in the states, I was/weather that ranges at Fairbanks icy 37, : ki They all blamed soaring prices . Agantic after the quns of the Coast Guard cutter, Bibb, |, "407 charges, including theineaq of the Alaskan air command, told by men who chart the figures. [from 90 degrees above zero in the! ; ; mond, was at the nation's grain exchanges but ihe | Narvie hdd Hoi et Boma oy Queen, The huge |[2hiasy of White House pressure, iq; . The defense program for central/summer to 70 below in the winter,| [0 More than three weeks since Wher ht was § 4 pd tiyin 30 » MIU ) ueen. e hu . w ; y e Mr. Ehlers sald Hoosler housewives de 5: Tie ee yma yl > id ) voraston 1 yge have been leveled a our arme| “Prom Ladd Field airplanes now Alaska, the generals here say, hasjand the fantastic costs of miliiurgii® St ballol was Ss being - by Leon 2a were taking care of their own price Pa Va ig ig At yr ales hier ‘ fuel ith 69 ar. o uction of ‘Mission to Moscow,’ "lin daily operation—not experi- barely been started. building and maintenance in such a the lin oe Latin Am, Rear Lue x proBlem by cutting down sharply! lorced down in the Atlantic aller running out of 1uel wi Pel T. Warner sald. |mental models—can reach anywhere| Brig. Gen. Frank F. Everest, com- climate. Is RR eh o_. ne = 3 Kentuck on vad Sonsumption. sons sboard. A we iy saved, aii a ‘One of Our Allies’ [in Hie Palle Stages. Our B-20's Hanger of $e Fukon sector—the| Asked about large appropriations “1% & . ve ar Shel com f Harrison Be “Most br 30 “That pict ; : ig heartland a rthern part laska : : to 80 days Ahead Mr Eblrs Tid, " * . our or oe aa, hen san Cite Previous Fligh of Alaska- ny - Ladd Field jo A an miliary afiais, Sen. return for the Soviet votes which Ky. was fata “I have talked to iderabl Fri htened * ot ea evious Flights said: helped elect Argentina to the Se- night when th Malibu . Sop | Sa ¥ existence, with Russia as one of The U. 8. alr forces’ B-20 Pacusan —sald that at this time we have! “You cannot fight battles With | rity Council sideswiped tw ’ n 8 0 ~ 'aR oe 1 . days and they feel they can hold ... 3 SS + . our allles. It was made to fulfill reampoat recently flew 9444 milcs{OPW two airfields fully ready fo|dollars. It takes airplanes, people, my’ futility of further balloting Columbus. ont Jor & while vet 0 ie ays ir urvivor the same wartime purpose for on-stop from Hawaii to @airo, over|Dandle any considerable number of tanks, guns and bullets. It takes ompted Oswald Aranha of Brazil Wane Mo . : I : . which we made such other Pictures ‘Alaska. Eight B-20's flew 7115 airplanes, and to house the men airports in being, not on paper. Assembly pres\ent, to mw | Be os Kille Pini-Sized Lost Helped | ‘Babies Become Ill, Cried for Water,’ Sky Queen * ‘At a ores. Tols Is the ANY imiles from “Tokyo tw Washington(Wie BY.and service them. ete Of these are in Alaska in sul- oer business, including the -ex- | car in which } - ; o 4 : . +» and a great many more. . . .” with one refue stop at Elmen-| a - ficient numbers.” Sure, if thie Sutket ton. Passenger Asserts on Arrival at Boston Mr. Warmer said he and his|gorf Fed Anchorage. "banks and Elmendorf Field at [Plosive Duka dishuls, with b Yew with a truck n to go into the market and buy atl brothers hate communism and More than 10 years ago, on July Anchorage, about 290 air miles| BRITISH GOLD TO U. S. : L. W. Walke

Here is an eyewitness account of the forced landing in midAtlantic of the Bermuda Sky Queen as told by Mrs. Edgar Ritchie,

Communists. If there are any in 14, 1937, three Russian flyers landed south of Fairbanks. Anchorage is| LONDON, Oct. 20 (U. Pitts later in the Assembly was fatally in,

plane he was

higher prices, there will have to be Hollywood, he sald, “let us dig in a San Jacinto, Cal., pasture after on the Cook inlet leading to the| Daily Express said today that the!

some | nereuss ny peice, any Andover, N. B., one of the 60 survivors. ; them out.” flying non-stop 6668 miles from Mos- Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific/Queen Mary safled for New York OES TO COLLECT FOOD and crashed ¢ more than a cent a pound.” By MRS. EDGAR RITCHIE, Written for the Combined American Press But he sald “We can't fight cow across the North Rolar arca in Ocean. yesterday with another $40,000,000 North Park Chapter 404, OES, will French Lick Extensive use of the % BOSTON, Oct. 20—The announcement of the landing was timed dictatorships by borrowing dicta- |; single-engined plane. It was a Combat Strength Punny {worth of gold to replenish the collect food for the Masonic Home and Eugene |]

Dayton, riding seriously hurt. Thomas Gc Union St., wa: at General | severe injurie

pou y “we size” 80 well that most of us had no time to realize the danger. torial , methods.” ei tae Su Jted has In my mind I was practically out of the pontoon pushing up “Nor can we defend freedom.’ said, Total consumption of bread |e wings. I was wondering how awful it was going to be. My tongue he said, “by curtailing liberties.”

| 3 v y "i LW L ¢ has fallen off five to 10 per cent “tuck to the roof of my mouth, I could not swallow. I thought I was

since the last week in September | tRITStY but it was fear. and bakers are adding to that sav-| We had put on our lifejackets,

world distance record at that iime.| Their combat strength is puny. British gold stocks in the United donation at their stated meeting at Alaska’s chances at this moment| Reports of an “iron ring of de- States. The treasury declined to(8 p. m. tomorrow, in the Masonic i of surviving an airborne attack fenses” already built or being built comment. Hall, 30th and Clifton Sts. !

ing by cutting down on their “over bake” each day, ‘

District Meetings Held

The national picture, he said, will become clearer when thie American Bakers' Association meets in Chicago for its 50th anniversary session next week.” Meanwhile, Mr, Ehlers is holding district meetings in various parts of Indiana to get the full picture here. Meanwhile, President Truman's food committee opened a series of

meetings today to find out whether | ‘my hands were pressed tightly to-

poultryless Thursday can be dropped without wrecking the food conservation drive. There appeared to be a better than even chance that pouitry css Thursday would be either scuttled or modified,

Charges Pressur On School Board

Charges thal pressure groups are trying to gain control of the Indianapolis School Board were made today by Edgar H. Evans, honorary chairman of the Citizens School Committee, “The Citizens School Committee has always avoided the introduc tion of any political, racial or re-

ligious issues and has never attempted to extract any promises from its candidates," Mr, Evans sald

Asserting that to take the school board for granted “is a great men. ace to sound. progressive school government” Mr, Evans declared, “We must keep our schools free from pressure groups.” Committee candidates are Olma Bruck, J. Dwight Peterson, H Nathan Swaim, Car! P. Brandt, Emil V. Schaad. Raymond F. Brandes and Leon C. Thompson.

last 2 of 6 Suspects Held in 'Kidnaping The last two of six men charged with kidnaping an 18-year-old South Side girl two weeks ago were being held here today. Police last night arrived from Chanute, Kas., with Robert H. Johnson, 20, of 853 Roache St, and James E. Henderson, 24, of 2647 Northwestern Ave. An alert Santa Fe Railroad detective arrested the pair Thursday when he suspected them of more than train-riding.

Man Injured Seriously In Fuel Oil Drum Blast Oscar Reeves, 36, of 143 Villa Ave, was injured seriously. yesterday when a drum of fuel oil exploded while he was trying to weld it at his home, He was thrown several feet by

the force of the blast and his left leg was broken.

Our Fair City—Neighborhoods Demand Better Services in Times Survey of Woes

(Continued From Page One) dumps in the Middlewest just a rifle shot away from downtown? Can the board of Health ar the City Smoke Inspector stop these

dumping grounds from smoking like active volcanoes?

. Are there any ordinances to.pre-

‘vent firms from dumping animal offal in these dumps? If so, why aren't these ordinances enforced? What can the Board of Health do to stop rats from gnawing at tre faces, necks and arms of sleeping infants and children?

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The plane hit and bounced and [then we were down. | 1 expected every wave to take ‘off a wing or a pontoon. I had the feeling of being trapped. 1 would rather have been out on the wing even than inside the plane, © ‘Scared Stir T thought “We can never get out the doors, we are going to die.” I was not ready to die. I was scared stiff. I visualized the plane's sinking, the babies drowning, my baby drowning. Those hours we waited for death

gether the whole time, I believe There seemed to be no escape from the plane--not even jumping

out into the sea with a chance to ‘swim for our lives.

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The cutter's (Bibb) boat had fallen from the davits into the sea when they were hoisting it. What ‘hance had we if a strong life boat couldn't stand the sea? what other! way could there be? Babies Cry for Walter So we sat, The babies just slept and vomited and cried for water and slept again, Our 3-year-old boy, Gordon, spent the hours on his father's knee just watching the waves slapping the plane and never saying a word, One little boy in our section kept wakening with a scream crying “get “me off the plane.” Then his mother would soothe him. He would! sleep again only to wake screaming over and over again A woman's scream would have set us off but a baby's scream just tore every mother's heart to pieces. 3 Seamen Disappear Three of the merchant seamen disappeared. We were told that they had gone off in a raft to get A line across. Then the feeling came that rescue had almost reached us but every creak of the plane, every sound of the “sea told that it was too late.

Now I put up every prayer 7 knew I can't go on but will say this, that if any women and children

had been left on board overnight, if we had had to sit there and watch the darkness and hear every crashing wave and every creak and groan of the plane, I and all the other women I have talked to would probably have gone mad

Grossly Overcrowded,

Passengers Charge BOSTON, Oct. 20 (UP)--Thirty~ seven rescued passengers of the illfated flying boat Bermuda Sky Queen charged today that the plane forced down while attempting the largest heavier-than-air flight in history-—was “grossly overcrowded.” Civil Aeronautics Board members, after questioning the charter airline plane's seven-man crew, announced that a public hearing would be held in New York, start-

FARM POPULATION DOWN Less than 10 per cent of the population of Illinois live on farms.

|vide gtreet cleaning service in business districts in Irvington, Bright. iwood, Fairview and other areas of} |town? Why can't it keep Monu{ment Circle clean? - | What happened to the plan to {widen 30th St, as a crosstown thoroughfare? How long will it take to replace the city's antiquated garbage rains with modern collection equipmen? | What can the Santtary Board do to reduce the casualties among garbage cans after each collection day? | What can the Works Board do to {provide at least temporary side

—ewalks on Sherman Drive between questions

, Democratic candidate said of Wil-

Ichildren have to cross to and from

ing Oct. 30, to determine why the four-engined craft ran out of gasoline less than two-thirds across on ro its flight from Foynes, Eire,

Feeney Denies Use 0f ‘Poison Tactics

Al Feeney, Democratic candidate. for mayor, declared today his op“must be reading fairy in making charges that 1 am using poison squad tactics.” “I have asked repeatedly and will

contin® to ask what experience my opponent has had since or before coming to Indiana which will give some nssurance to the voters that he will be able to accomplish the hundreds of things he and his managers say he will do,” the

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liam H. Wemmer, Sought Party's Support Mr. Feeney declared, “Sure IT sought the support of my party and am proud to say that I received it, but there was no influential few to spend more than $50,000 to nominate me or to sign a note for a $19,000 overdraft which represented an amount, over what was collected, spent in my opponent's behalf.” } “If IT am blectdd,” he asserted, “there will be no favored group able to walk in on me and remind mg that they not only drafted me but bought and paid for my campaign.” The former Marion County sheriff and stale police head declared, “What the voters want to know is which candidate has the best record of actual accomplishments to back up his claims that he has the ability to clean up the mess our city is in"

Tribute Planned For War Dead

Plans were to be prepared today for a city memorial service on the return of the first World War II

dead to Indianapolis as a tribute to all Indiana war dead. Three bodies of Indianapolis war dead—the first of 88 to be returned within the next two weeks—are expected to arrive here this week. Permission to place the caskets on public view will be sought from the families. ¢ After the Army Graves Registration completes inspection and checking of the caskets and outer cases, the bodies will be sent, each with an individual honor guard, to their home community for burial. Representatives of all Indianapolis patriotic organizations will meet at 5 p. m, today at the Forty & Eight Society headquarters to complete plans for the memorial service,

What plan does the Works Board have, if any, to provide guard gates at open railroad crossings which

schools?

. » What ‘to Do? WHAT CAN anybody do to improve public transportation in Indianapolis? Since City Hall controls the streets over which the public transportation system operates, what policy does City Hall have to facilitate expansion and improvement? These are some of the questions citizens asked The Times. The grew out of existing

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WORKS and sani- 34th and 38th Sts, and on 34th 5t. grievances. a1 HORE IN INDIANA FOR 75 YEARS spend $2 million near Keystone Ave. so that school A detailed list of grievances fol- | fl? a : ~ [children don't have to walk in the lows in succeeding articles. i } : pstreet? vi FouoRBOW: Irvington, yy Ego : x . kod ‘ £ : V7

Here in Marion County, one out of every five people used Red Feather Services last year. These are the direct beneficiaries. Actually, every one of us benefits when we live in a city where community spirit and conscience strive to protect the young people, strengthen family life, provide health and medical services, care for the helpless, handicapped and aged. What else could you buy with your dollars that would mean so much to so many?

® HEALTH SERVICES-~Preventing disease, protecting community ’ health, providing nursing and convalescent care.

® CHILD WELFARE SERVICES—Caring for orphaned, homeless, neglected, mistreated, dependent or otherwise needy children.

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; ’ ® SPECIALIZED SERVICES—Help for the handicapped, blind, aged and infirm, transients, legal aid, travelers’ aid. ® YOUTH AND GROUP WORK SERVICES—Citizenship training, preventing juvenile delinquency, wholesome recreation, leadership for youth. : ® FAMILY SERVICES—Helping families, in trouble and want, fo regain independence and happiness. ° > = 1

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