Hutchinson News Herald (Newspaper) - September 15, 1943, Hutchinson, Kansas The Cooler THE HUTCHINSON Final City Edition 74 SEPTEMBER 1943 SINGLE 5c Congress Told To Keep Hands Military Washington high command sharply rejected Wed congressional proposals that planned induction of Harbor fathers be postponed or Urging that selective service be permitted to go forward with its program for Inking after October Joseph deputy chief of warned senate and house mili tary that any reduction in the prospective draft pool would necessitate n change in the nations strategical An army of by the end of this year Is the minimum force required for the tasks he Undersecretary of War following as a wit ness in hearings on the explosive told the legislators that production of war planes would go to pieces if the deferment of fathers disrupted the present se service Would Take Skilled Men Specifically opposing the by Senator Wheeler to postpone for the remainder of the Patterson said If the proposal were the men to be added to the mili tary forces would necessarily be the who lire doing skilled work in munitions In that our production of planes would go to pieces and with it would go our surest means of Declaring that a shortage of labor in aircraft plants is cutting down the number of planes that might be produced for waging war against our Patterson he believed the only solution to bo enactment by congress of notional selective legislation for compulsory manpower Must Employ Manpower While Patterson said there is no question that if correctly is adequate to win the he stated it would not ho adequate if the fa thers of draft age were told that they had no military or toward winning the He quoted the following para graphs from what he said was a recent report by Bernard Bar uch on the question of Industrial mobilization The interests of war production demand that from now on defer ments bo made more on the basis of occupation than family The draft already has cut so deep ly into at work ers that war production is being Of the seven million ed fathers of military about onehalf are believed to be en gaged in industries less essential to the If these fathers were freed from the they would bo able to remain untouched in these less essential contributing nothing to the mo of manpower for Axis Armies Larger Patterson estimated Axis strength in the field at 55G divi which he said was in excess of the ground forces of the United During sharp statements by committee men developed over the question of specific data on men now in Senator Millikin give a specific answer to charges that adequately trained men are being kept unnecessarily long in army camps in this McNarney said he could not answer questions of this nature in open He was then instructed by Chairman Reynolds to produce concrete figures for committee members and other legislators at a scheduled closed meeting this Reynolds acted after Senator Holman asserted there was no use of us holding meet More Than OneFourth Bonds Bought Reno County Standing In War Loan Drive September quota The Weather tonight ex cept little change in tempera ture in extreme northwest portion little change in tem Thursday Cooler weather returned to Kansas but fall rains held Temperatures rose as high as 96 at Ellis The mercury dropped to 46 at Good land Wednesday As dry weather continued in the the weekly weather and crop re port noted delay in seeding of Winter wheat and need for a gen eral Seeding of winter bar ley has federal and state report and a consid erable acreage of rye is being planted for supplemental Prospects for winter wheat pas ture for fall and winter grazing are Weather Report High temperature Tuesday 89 low Wednesday at Year ago low rain Airport OAA Station Yesterday Today I BO Oil 871 811 7 70 OBJ ings if we are not going to learn The deputy chief of staff told the committee he could not give publicly figures on the number of adequately trained men that still arc in this because the information would bof great val ue to the He added that he would make the information available in executive Under questioning by Senator Austin McNarney said there now are about married men in the of whom about are Congressional leaders have in the decision on whether to defer or end the general drafting of fathers will hinge on high command justification for such Opening Of School Set Back Again City schools were postponed to following the death of a 17yearold Emporia boy from Infantile paralysis Wed at a local hospital and the report of another Hutch Inson child ill with the Clifford David son of and 410 South died sud denly at after appar ently showing improvement since entering the clinic He was a victim of the virulent bulbar type of which affects throat said City Physician Guy Woman Critically III Another Lyon county Charles Hart between Emporia and Bur was dangerously ill at the after arriving here Tues day and was put hito an ron Her condition was still critical Wednesday Charles 704 was to the isolation ward of the Tuesday The hos pital now has 31 patients in vari ous stages of Illness and receiving the Kenny treat Third Postponement Schools were postponed for the bird time on recommendation of The city physician t first recommended closing until 1 but later agreed with school board members in closing until 27 with additional conditional upon urther developments in the dis ease The board members voted unanimously to postpone Two local cases have been re ported this Sales to date Needed to fill Reno countys third war loan drive took an upward turn Wed with Hutchinson getting near a figure and the rest of the county approaching a third of a City Chairman Will Thomp son reported city sales plus a backlog of orders written at some totaled increasing sales to date to Buhler Over Top Buhler went over its with County Chairman John Rickard increasing coun ty sales to Little River township reported Part ridge and Westminster sent an added Thursdays report should be a good Cessna Aircraft was pre paring Wednesday afternoon to buy a quarter million dollars worth of Of this will count toward Hutchinsons goal and toward Clay town Clay township has also re ported sales of in addi More To Insurance Great American Life Insurance bought another increasing its investment so far in the drive to Sailors bought another in bonds Tuesday at Hutchinson nav al air their purchases be ing in addition to regular payroll The navy will devote its regular 8 Thursday program on sta tion to war bond cam with City Chairman Thompson as guest speaker in ad dition to NAS Wallace County Over Top Topeka on the western border of be came today the first county to go over the top in the Third War Loan state war finance headquarters County Chairman Elmer Frasier said the county had reached its quota with all cities and townships meeting or exceeding their Women Take Over Mens Dormitory Lawrence Normally a mens residence hall at Kansas hall this fall is to be opened as a womens dormi Chancellor Deane Malott said today the flood of applica tions from young women for resi dent hall accommodations made the action Unidentified Boy After a Fall Wichita unidentified about 12 years died in a Wichita hospital today several hours after he was injured in a fall from a telephone Police reported the boy evident ly lost his hold and toppled to the pavement while climbing the pole last Parsons Hanker Dies Parsons president of the Parsons Com bank and former president of the Kansas Bankers Associa died Tuesday night in New York where he was attending a wartime conference of officials of the American Bankers Wight Repeal Victory Tax Washington of the 3 per cent Victory tax was pro posed by a member of the house ways and means committee as a cure for the decimal point jitters suffered by many income tax Robertson mem er of the committee which orig the said there must be some simpler way of collecting the a year netted from ho Victory did not spe substitute for the Victory but some authorities were known o be discussing a 5 per cent sales ax as a possible How ever congressional tax leaders pri vately expressed doubt that there s much prospect for enactment of a sales Capitol Hill heard meanwhile that the administration probably would present to congress 20t not a specific program to raise more wartime but sev eral alternative plans for digging deeper into taxpayers The administrations tax pro were reported to have jeen decided upon finally yester day at a White House Deal Foe Easy Winner Kansas Republican attorney who campaigned against regi mentation and was easy victor in the Second Kansas districts special election to fill a congressional He defeated Herbert farmer and orchard the better than two oone in the election which filled the vacancy caused by the recent death of Republican who represented the district for 20 With only three of the districts 407 precincts the vote was Scrivner Drake A native of he attended schools in Kansas graduating from high school in During World War I he enlisted in the 129th Field Artillery and saw ac tion in being decorated with the Purple Heart and the Silver After the war he studied law and was graduated from the University of Kansas in State Cash Balance Is Nearly Trebled Topeka Kansas gen eral fund had a cash balance of at the end of compared with a year State Treasurer Walter Wilson reported At the same cash on hand in fee funds amounted to compared with 580 on During the year the unemploy ment trust fund climbed from to Sleepy Giants Drop 10 Game To Phils Philadelphia Kraus shut out the New York Giants on four hits this to pace the Phillies to a I to victory in the first game of i triple off Mungo scored May with the Phils only Allies Again Forced Back I PROPOSED NEW AIRLINE ROUTES through Kansas sought by Continental and Braniff arc shown by on the Map by courtesy of Transcontinental Hutchinson Way Get Good Air Service Hutchinson Is becoming a larg er point on the air Two air lines are competing in for new routes which would give this city a direct east ern while a third company s making arrangements to get into he aviation chairman of the Chamber of Com said Applications by Continental Air which already serves Hutchinson on its Denver and by ental Western have jeen with Civil Aeronautics proposing service through Salina and Topeka between Wichita and Kansas Braniff Ignores Hutchinson Braniff has filed application for service through Topeka between Wichita and Kansas leaving out Hutch and but the company s expected to make application to Stevens testified In Washington at an examiners pre learing on public convenience and necessity of the proposed The examiner has recommended he applications hearing by the aeronautics TWA says it would link Hutch in proposed coast air service to nearly 100 principal cities as part of a plan for the development of the na ions air transport Link All Cities TWAs proposal to extend its fa would place most towns of or more along ts route territory east of Kansas within 25 miles of an airline putting them all nearer to The airline seeks au to link the new cities with which it already serves by cre ating an orderly series of new routes which largely would paral lel the By set ting proper President Jack Frye of TWA all the cities would be woven injo the companys transcontinental sys Daily schedules would be brought to All the new routes would be op with multiengine Continental Has Plan Continental is trying to connect its present Denver Colorado route with a new line from Denver to Kansas With Hutchinson already con with Tulsa on the a new connection by Continental north through Salina might have important possibilities later with development through here of a crosscountry northsouth Flashes Of Life Added Duties Marie Kelley Donahue puts in a busy day caring for eight of her 11 children who live at But when the trustees of the Trumbull rural school appealed for school Kelley volunteered her No novice at the she taught school before in now instructs class of Equal Rights Los Angeles ad dition to the Red Cross public instruction program A class in baby dia and middleof for prospective Delaware In Bond Lead Washington held top place Wednesday in the first nationwide prog ress report on the Third War but New York drew special commendation for placing With bond sales through Mon day totaling Delaware achieved 34 per cent of its New how with a quota of or more than 25 per cent of the national reported sales of to attain 28 per cent of its The treasury meanwhile set aside Friday as Back Salerno Day In the drive as a tribute to American soldiers fighting to hold their bridgehead on the Italian Boeing Force Gets An Increase In Pay Washington War La jor Board announced approval of oy increases ranging from 5 cents o 15 cents an hour tof about office and technical workers at the Wichita plant of he Boeing Airplane The new rates are retroactive o October 1942 and are sub ect to approval by the director of economic Finish Indianapolis Albert a 49yearold photog rapher with studios in down town charged with possession of obscene photo told Judge John Niblack that its all in the mind of the person who looks at the pictures whether they are art or are Judge Niblack re I was brought up in a Methodist family and they look obscene to so it will be and costs and 180 Register In October For Book 4 Washington nationwide registration for ration book 4 the Office of Price Ad ministration hopes will be the last ration book of the be held within the last ten days of An OPA in disclos ing plans today for distribution of the new set of said it was hoped thf book would last three if It will be used in conjunction with book 3 and with glass or plastic tokens scheduled for distribution after The decision to hold another schoolhouse instead of distributing the book by mail as was done with is based on desire to get the new cou pons into use in The books will be passed out at the saving labor and Exact dates and places of regis tration in each be determined by regional and local rationing New Commander In The Middle East Cairo Army head quarters announced today that Ralph Royce has taken over command of all United States forces in the Middle East from Lewis who has left for an important as in another theater of op The announcement did not dis close the nature of Breretons new Royco who has been command ing general of the First Air Force at Mitchell Long since April is the flying general who in led 13 bombers from an Australian base on a raid against a Japanese position in the Philippine Royce received the Distin Service Cross for his spec raid on the Philippines and was later awarded the Distin Flying Intruder Killed By Blast From Shotgun Wichita shotgun blast fired by 71yearold William Waters early killed a man he believed was attempting to enter his Captain of De OConnor The dead man was identified as Fred Waters told police awakened by a he shouted Get away from here and fired when the warning went An inquest was to be A Portuguese Held By FBI As Washington Director Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bu reau of Investigation announced Wednesday the arrest in of John Da Silva on charges that he acted as a spy for Hoover said Purvis transmitted information to his principals in and on two occasions re cash payments for his serv a Portuguese al began his espionage ac early in 1942 when he was contacted by a crew member of a neutral vessel who had been recruited by the German intelli gence Hoover described Purvis as said the Portuguese ad mitted under questioning that he had received a letter by courier from a representative of the Ger man espionage service in and that he sent a reply back by the same person who delivered the message to Purvis was contacted by at least two Hoover Assignments Listed of the representatives of the German espionage system brought to the United States a personal letter addressed to Purvis containing certain identifying code Hoover and also brought a list of 16 specific as to be covered by Pur The according to included information on warship damage at Pearl losses in sea ac convoy informa tion on American bases in cen tral and South America and on the African including mine All Data Wanted Other assignments handled by as described by Hoover American plans for landing in Africa and activities affecting the Cape Verde and the Ca nary Islands all possible informa tion on the Panama canal general information on war production figures on shipments to Russia and Australia specific data on embarkation of troops in formation on merchant marine traffic to Thomas and Santa Also intelligence on and location of the sinking of ships report on convoys bound for the names of warships protecting convoys data on the type of groups and kind of equip ment transported recruitment of radio operators who vould be willing to furnish information di rect from their Asked a Month Hoover said that in a letter acknowledging receipt of funds from the German spy Pur vis demanded a month for continuing his While Purvis awaited a reply to his the men who com prised the spy ring in Lisbon for which he had been working were arrested by Portuguese author Hoover Osteopaths In Protest New Troops To Aid Of Yanks Near Salerno By Roger Greene Associated Press War Editor American 5th army troops were credited today with beating off violent German counterattacks in the blazing battlo of Salerno in but despite the arrival of fresh reinforcements the Allies have been forced back at some points for the second time in 24 Determined counterattacks have been carried out by both a communique from Dwight headquarters an In some places our troops have been forced to yield but new positions are being consolidated and reinforcements continue to Topeka have complained to Andrew Schoeppel that their profession was being attacked and warned that as a result public health might be jeopardized in some A delegation told the governor their right to practice was being infringed by injunction suits brought by the state board of medical registration and examina tion and that the hospital at Her ington would have to close if they were denied the right to take their patients Because of the shortage of the group the public health harmed if osteopathic practice was Schoeppel told the delegation Paul Hutchinson and Robert president and secretary of the osteopath state did not know what the state could do but would arrive Frontline dispatches Enid the Americans were launching strong stopping vicious Nazi thrusts against the dead cen ter of the Allied and for the moment at least were weathering the gravest crisis in the italian Not Too Unfavorable An Allied officer said the situ ation at the end of the days sav fighting was a little more in our especially with the arrival of fresh rein Blistering American and British fire drove back repeated Nazi attacks and the northwest African air force hurled all planes at its command against the Ger mans in the greatest air assault ever witnessed in the Mediter ranean Troops of at least one more German fourth re ported in identified in the furious Dispatches said the Allies yield ed ground nt nightfall to straight en their The daily war bulletin said powerful seaborne reinforce ments were being landed all along a 27mile coastal stretch from Salerno southward to Isle of Capri Taken Capture of the famed Isle of Capri was also Capri lies just off the tip of peninsula which forms one arm of the Bay of Allied cruisers and warships hurled tons of shells into Ger man positions on the mainland all day a communique German headquarters edged that Allied troops who had been thrown back Tuesday at 13 miles southeast of Sa lerno and nine miles inland from the again put up resistance close to the coast under cover of naval The Nazi command that German troops scored great successes in attacks in which one enemy group was encircled and another one was de British Advancing In the British 8th army troops racing up the coast to ease the pressure on Mark Clarks 5th army were officially described as having reached only 07 airline miles from Allied warplanes supporting the attack made more than sort ies from dawn Tuesday to dawn Even flying fortresses took part in pounding the German positions in front of the Salerno bridge with bombers of the strate gic airforce alone flying more than 000 The terrific air attack was con on the few miles be tween Salerno and 13 miles to the The attack was even greater than the huge Allied effort last May 0 that broke the German will to resist before Bizerte and New Developments Rumored Unconfirmed reports reaching London declared the powerful British 9th army was on the move from its middle east bases facing the invasion route to Greece and the A dispatch to the Stockholm newspaper Svenska from said Gen Sir Henry Maitland Wilsons Olh army had embarked for an un known I British military officials in Lon don withheld comment on the rc I An Algiers radio broadcast I said important new military developments are immin ent and pointed out the surren der of the Italian navy had clear ed the Mediterranean for an as sault on German ramparts in southeast On Other Fronts Other developments armies threaten great hydroelectric power center at advance within 80 miles of Ukraine capital at Kiev Moscow says Germans fleeing in disorder toward Dnieper river defense Russians cap ture 300 more Southwest storm within one mile of Lae airdrome MacArthur announces Jap anese completely routed and de at fallen AllStars To Play Overseas Washington Wai Department announced Wed that two allstar base ball teams from the National and American Leagues will play a series of Interleague games for troops overseas in the Pacific The announcement was made at the office of Major General the de public relations di in the presence of baseball Commissioner Kenc saw whose offer to send the teams was accepted by the The teams will be sent to undisclosed in the Pacific theater of operations following tile close of the world the announce ment The offer was accepted fol lowing a meeting of Os director of the special services army serv ice and Larry assistant to the undersecretary of The trip will be handled by the special services Topeka Kansas legis lative council accepted the resig nation of Donald Stewart who has been called to active duty with the army as u China Wants Formosa And Korea Freed Washington first major declaration of policy un postwar territory in the far voiced by Foreign Minister called today for complete eradication of Japanese influence in strategic Korea and Japan annexed the Korean peninsula in 1910 but patriots have fought Nippons nomination ever since and even now have a free Korean an island between Japan and the was ceded by China after the Sino Japanese conflict in Soong says this equal to about Massachusetts and is essentially Soong laid down this tentative blueprint of Chinese aims at a press conference He said Korea should be made independent and should become a part of the Republic of We dont want to see Thailand though theyre fighting us by anyone but the Soong and China more over has no desire to control In He said he wasnt prepared to discuss the future of Hongkong and Mongolia at this He told reporters Japan was constantly bombarding Chungking with peace growing in liberality as the Allies exert moru military pressure on the farflung Japanese outposts of They are now ready to get out of and well go over to their Soong You theyre trying to make it a racial But China isnt having any of Soong indicated as he de clared that newly announced decision to end one parly rule and adopt a constitu that China was im its political course toward a broadening and deep ening He predicted a strong central Chinese government after the with universal suffrage as far as for regional handicaps in poor communications and Intercepted Letters MORGENTHAU SECRETARY OF TREASURY Dear Henry W e r e over emphasizing bond buying us a home front It be a but salting ready cash for future at good inter is no sacrifice
