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v. 8 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1942. SECTION 1 to Order Rationing Of Meat 2 Policemen Deliver Baby After His Mother's Death $25,000 Ashed For Defense In Kentucky Policeman's Temper Brings Fine, Censure Sam Sclareneo Shakes Attorney During Trial Meredith Aims Blast At WM.C, Gets Replies After a one-sentence inquiry from a War Manpower Commission official about laws governing race separation in Kentucky schools had drawn from State Attorney General Hubert Meredith a condemnation of "bureaucracy gone to seed," it developed that the facts were these: pn7r if i jT i Scuffling with an attorney who accused him of acting like a "crazy man" yesterday landed Patrolman Sam Sclafenco on the carpets of the police court and the safety director. Judge S.

M. Russell fined the patrolman $3 on a contempt charge and Director H. Watson Lindsey "reprimanded him severely for losing his temper. The altercation grew out of the arrest on disorderly conduct charges of Miss Isabel Levith, 21, of 517 Gernert Court; Norman Baron, 32, of 1244 S. Brook, and Gabriel Walz, 40, of 2512 Osage.

Sclareneo and Patrolman L. O. Harris said that because of the late hour they stopped Miss Levith and another woman at 2d and Jacob and that they arrested Miss Levith when she refused to answer questions. Tears Attorney's Shirt. But Simeon Jacobs, attorney, complained that Sclareneo, stopping Miss Levith while she was walking home at 2 a.m.

from the bag plant where she works, "acted like a crazy man." He added that the men were booked when they went to headquarters to offer their services as witnesses. Sclareneo grabbed the attorney and shook him, tearing his shirt. They were separated and Judge Russell advised the officer to sit down and cool off. Sclareneo replied he was just standing on his rights Miss Levith drew a $2 fine. Charges against Baron and Walz were filed away.

Family Couldn't Find Doctor Unaware that his mother was dead and that he owed his life to a minor surgical operation performed by two county patrolmen, Baby Vittitoe, born early yesterday morning, was "doing fine" last night at St. Joseph Infirmary. Cruising in the neighborhood about 3 a.m. yesterday. Patrolmen William Snellen and William Sturgeon were directed to go to the home of Elmer Vittitoe on the Black Mud Lane near Poplar Level Road on an emergency call.

Doctor On Emergency Call. Mrs. Lucy Taylor, a neighbor, had called county police headquarters, saying, "A baby has been born, the mother is dead and we can't get a doctor." Mrs. Helen Vittitoe unattended by a physician because none could be obtained died about fifty minutes before the police received the call. Mothers-to-be in Louisville get adequate care, says a story on Fage 3, Section 2.

Her family physician, Dr. D. A. Bates, Okolona, couldn't be reached, since he was out on an emergency call. County Police Sergt.

Ray Nachand in the meantime had phoned Dr. Hugh R. Leavell, city-county health director, asking for advice. Leavell Gives Directions. Fearing the baby would die before a physician could reach the home, Dr.

Leavell gave instructions on completing the delivery of the baby, and directions for sterilization of instruments and the care of the infant. These directions, relayed by telephone to the anxious patrolmen, were followed successfully with the help of Father Saffrin of Holy Family Church, who preceded police at the home. Then the baby was taken to the hospital. Snellen and Sturgeon relied partially on Red Cross emergency separation of races in your school system, together with any United States Supreme Court interpretations thereof, or opinions of tha Attorney General thereon." Johnson's request was on the letterhead of Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission.

After informing Johnson it i3 his opinion that both the white and Negro races in Kentucky are satisfied with the constitutional separation of school systems, Meredith said: "The Government is spending a lot of money in an effort to convince us that we should assist in the war effort, although every right-thinking citizen already is sold on that proposition. It seems strange that a commission calling itself the 'War Manpower Commission should have time to concern itself with the elementary educational system of Kentucky, or devote its efforts to stirring up and keeping racial prejudices alive. Defends Commission. A member of the public relations staff of the War Manpower Commission said at Washington that the commission could have no possible interest in seeking to break down the laws governing' segregation of Negro and white pupils in public school classes. "We are heartily in favor of every individual doing his utmost to assist the war effort likewise, we are in favor of all the commissions, bureaus, divisions and departments of the Federal Government devoting their time and efforts exclusively to the prosecution of the war effort." Meredith informed Johnson the Kentucky Constitution says there shall be no racial distinction in distributing the school fund, but stipulates that separate schools must be maintained.

While schools for the higher education of Negroes are not fully up to standards for white schools, Meredith said the state compensates the with on annual appropration of to pay the tuition and expenses of Negro students at put- Photo. NURSE HELEN GROTTENTHALER, St Joseph Infirmary, is holding Baby Vittitoe, who owes his life to the work of two Jefferson County patrolmen. 1. A member of the commission said in Washington last night that if any of its representatives had inquired about such laws it was only because they are trying to abide by them in teaching Negro youth to operate machines in connection with the war effort. Knows of No Inquiry.

2. Dr. Robert Weaver, head of the commission's Negro Manpower Division, said his division seeks to abide by local and state regulations in its campaign to train- Negro machinists. Dr. Weaver added his division always seeks to find out whether Negro and white youths may work on the same machines at the same hours, or if they must receive instructions separately.

3. Dr. Weaver also said he knew of no inquiry to Meredith, but that one of the division's field men might have made one. Meredith wrote George M. Johnson, assistant secretary of the War Manpower Comission's Committee on Fair Employment Practice, that "extension of bureaucratic activities to non-war efforts is rapidly developing an undercurrent of opposition to the setup there in Washington." Doctor Weaver, a Negro, said his division seeks to abide by local and state regulations in its campaign to train Negro machinists.

Because the training machines often are in the public schools Dr. Weaver said, his division always seeks to find out whether Negro and white youths may work on the same machines at the same hours, or if they must receive instructions separately. Johnson had written the Attorney General for "excerpts from your laws relating to the the railroads in handling emergency traffic, Eastman added: "While the railroads have done a splendid job, they would h-ive been in a sorry plight if they had not had the help of their erst-jvhile foes, the trucks and buses. "The railroads themselves are among the largest users of trucks and buses. They have woven them closely into their rail operations and their efficiency will drop considerably if they are deprived of the use of such vehicles." HEARING flrmllh and happlnn ImprnT with fond hearlnc Far romplrla Information without nhllrtfnn ar( J.

W. MeClain. 227 Krmlin Bide 3rd Sc Broadway. WAbaih 4570. RE-R00F IV SOOTHES CHAFED SKIN feTi vlOROLINEf WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY With RU-BER-OID Over Half U.S.

Income To Go Into War Effort According to the report made to the police, the family called other doctors they could think of but "all were unavailable or couldn't make the call." The newborn child was the seventh in the family. Mrs. Vittitoe left six other children ranging from 13 to 2. They are Marvin, Richard, Angeline, Alvina, Shirley Ann and Mary. Frankfort, Aug.

31 (JP) Belief that home defense and medical training being carried out is vital to Kentucky and that the State Defense Council should be allowed $25,000 a year for expenses was qxpressed by Civilian Defense Director J. J. Greenleaf in a report to Governor Johnson revealed today. The director asked for a total allocation of $30,000 to $40,000 a year to "meet immediately any unexpected emergency." Approved By Council. The report.

Greenleaf said, had Haeen unanimously approved by the defense council. Greenleaf pointed out the General Assembly appropriated a year and asked that the Chief Executive grant the additional money from his defense emergency fund. High praise was given the civilian defense schools under direction of Maj. David J. Williams, Army officer assigned to Kentucky.

Medical emergency units have been organized in several counties by Dr. John B. Floyd of the State Board of Health, Director Greenleaf said. Praises Units' Work. He added that while actual enemy invasion was regarded as "a remote possibility," the units proved their worth during the recent oil explosion fire in Harlan and the flood at Hazard.

July expenses were reported as $823, plus $1,577 encumbered, out of the $10,000 annual appropriation for the fiscal year begun July 1. In addition, he said, it would be necessary to replace the council's automobile which was "practically destroyed" in an accident in which Shelton M. Sauf-fley, was injured and his mother killed. Sauffley, a member of the State fire marshal's staff, was using the car in promoting the training schools, the director said, when the accident occurred. Torpedoju Tanker Saved.

Alexandria, Egypt, Aug. 31 OP) An American tanker was torpedoed twice, but was towed to port by destroyers during the recent convoy gantlet-running to Malta, Admiral Sir Henry H. Harwood said today. Senators Vote Corporation Tax Credit Continued from First Page. ment with the Treasury Department that high corporate tax rates may work extreme hardships on taxpayers whose current income is later offset by losses.

Unless losses incurred in some years may be-offset against income of other years, capital may be taxed as income, it was explained. Likewise, if a corporation has excess profits in one year and less than normal profits in a second year, it may be forced to pay excess profits taxes even though it has not earned excess profits over the two-year period. Carry-Back Approved. The committee adopted an amendment saying that for 1943 the carry-back may be for one. year only, for 1944 and subse quent years, for two years.

Losses and unused excess profits credits not carried back could be carried forward for two years as under the present law. In adopting the 45 per cent normal-surtax rate the committee rejected a Treasury proposal for 55 pc cent. Based upoiVuch an increase the Treasury had recommended a 12 per cent postwar credit. As approved by the committee the postwar credit would not be allowed on normal taxes paid by corporations. Penalty Tax Set.

House provisions for a 2 per cent penalty tax upon corporations that resort to consolidated income tax returns were ap proved by the Senate committee. Special consideration for small businesses as provided in the House bill were approved by the Senate committee. For corpora tions having earnings up to $25, 000 the normal rates would be 15 per cent on the first $5,000, 17 per cent $5,000 to $20,000 income and 19 per cent on incomes between $20,000 and $25,000. The surtax rate on corporations of this class, which is now 6 per cent, would be increased to 10 per cent. Nazis Gain Below Stalingrad, Lose Ground to the 'Northwest instructions taken only a taken only a few weeks ago.

"He's a fine baby," said Mr. Snellen proudly of the six-pound infant. "Sturgeon and I are off duty until tomorrow and we certainly need the rest after last night." Snellen has been a member of the force for seven years and Sturgeon became a member two months ago. one column south of Krasnodar was driving toward the Black Sea and another below Prokhla-dnaya was perilously near the Grozny oilfields. In great tank battles on the flats between the Don and the Volga northwest of Stalingrad, the Russians said they were holding their own and crippling scores of attacking panzers.

The skies were clouded with German dive bombers and Russian fighters parrying their thrusts. Hundreds of tanks were in combat. Rzhev Fight Is Bitter. In the Kotelnikovski sector southwest of Stalingrad, where the Germans were attempting to develop the southern arm of an envelopment, numerous attacks were reported repulsed before the midnight communique acknowledged a German advance in this area. The Russian advance in the Kletskaya area was on the west of-state universities.

1 lH Ul I 0 OS) Proposal Believed to W.P.B. 'Final' Continued from First Page. will be so framed as to safeguard military and lend-lease needs during periods of scarcity, Wick-ard said, but at the same time would have sufficient flexibility to give civilians increased supplies if the shortage is eased. "In the meantime, to help meet the situation," Wickard continued, "the committee recommended that civilians voluntarily conserve the so-called 'red meats' beef, pork, lamb and mutton by substituting cheese, poultry, fish and beans for part of their meat requirements. "Suggestions of various ways in which civilians can voluntarily reduce meat consumption, including the possibility of meatless days, will be announced shortly by the committee." Average Exceeds Other The total of two and a half pounds weekly per capita, which is about the level of the late 1930's, is "far in excess of the meat consumption in other belligerent nations," Wickard said.

Britain allows slightly more than one pound a person, the German ration is twelve and a half ounces and the Italian three and a half to four and a half ounces. "The committee warned that the need for voluntary action by civilians to conserve meat will necessarily continue through the period when record-breaking supplies of meat will be going into packers' warehouses as the huge crops of hogs and cattle go to market during late autumn and early winter," the announcement said. "A substantial part of the record slaughter in those months will have to be conserved against military needs, the needs ot our allies, and for civilian use in the spring and summer of 1943 when marketing, as always, will" be lighter than in the winter months. It will be necessary for packers to hold the meat back, and for civilians to. understand that the huge supplies must be reserved for later use." Five Indicted For Conspiring Against U.

S. 2 3 Officials, Tool Dealers Named Continued from First Page. tools from being allocated to war contractors. Rhoads and Glascr are alleged to have made a profit of $30,000 by selling to Clarence J. O'Brien and a partner an option on machine tools received from Emer-man.

The conspiracy was "hatched" in Emerman's hotel room here May 19, the indictment charged. "Vital machine tools with a market value in excess of remained idle "for a period of more than six weeks," because no report of their availability wa made by any of the five defendants, the indictment stated. Heavy Penalties Possible. A two-year jail term and $10,000 fine may be imposed on the conspiracy charge, the Justice Department said, but Rhoads and Glaser, also indicted on a charge of making false returns on expense accounts to the Government, face a possible additional penalty of up to ten years in prison and $10,000 fine for that offense, should they be convicted. While the Government said the option was transferred to Clarence J.

O'Brien and Frank L. O'Brien. a partnership known as the O'Brien Machinery Company, O'Brien. was not named in the indictment. Instead, it named the younger O'Brien, associated with the firm the Egyptian command to Gen Sir Harold Alexander.

Recent reports said Rommel had reinforced his army with the 164th German Division from Crete and the Italian Pistois Division, a total of between 000 and 30,000 men. The Axis a'so was said to have received fresh units of parachute troops. In an attempt to hamper Rom- mels preparations. Allied air forces, including U. S.

Army Flying Fortresses, have been very active during the last week, bombing Axis communication lines and ports, especially To bruk. The British Navy also cooperated in these activities, the main action being the great bom bardment of Rommel's big base south of El Daba on Saturday. Pope Says T.V.A. Second In Power Output Nashville, Aug. 31 W) The Tennessee Valley Authority is producing power at an all-time high and has become the second largest power system in the nation, Director James P.

Pope told the Nashville Tennessean today. Only the Niagara-Hudson system on the Atlantic Seaboard is producing more, the former Senator from Idaho said. Pope said that despite a recent W.P.B. ruling lowering priorities for T.V.A. dams now under construction work would continue on schedule on the more important dams.

Genuine rUIHM FP ASPHALT hnllNluLtj side of the Don north of the Nazi bridgeheads on the bend of the river. The relatively narrow corridor through which the Germans were pouring forces to the distant approaches of Stalingrad was' in constant danger of flanking. Enemy resistance to the Rzhev offensive aimed at drawing off, German attacking power from Stalingrad and the Caucasus was reported stubborn and stiffening through constant reinforcement. Street fighting continued in Rzhev, but the Russians generally were silent as their operation developed. The old city is virtually a shambles and the Red Army was forced to fight for every street and house.

Severe fighting continued on the banks of numerous waterways in the Rzhev district, but the rains forecast a long period or stalemate in the mud of autumn and ice of winter. machines used by their 5th Tank Division buried in the mud and used as pillboxes. Only in their second line of defense did the Germans have concrete pillboxes, and they were not reinforced with steel. Their value was in the skillful use of natural positions and organization of enfilading fire. Continued from First Page.

bankers of America) have played a distinguished role as volunteers in the promotion and sale of war savings bonds. "They have met unprecedented demands from industry for the expansion and conversion of production necessary to win the battle of production. "They have been in the forefront of the fight against inflation, not only through the sale of savings bonds to the people but by putting into effect restrictions on consumer credit and combatting unnecessary expenditures of all. kinds. "They have been indispensable in the freezing of foreign funds to prevent their use directly or inriirectlv bv the enemy." Morgenthau, while warning 1 against complacency, told the bankers: "It is a cause for some satisfaction that inflation has been more effectively controlled to date in this war, in the face of a production and expenditure program of immensely greater dimensions, than in the corresponding state of our participation in the World War of twenty-five ago.

"I have just seen an estimp of the Department of Commerce twin 2 that the neoDle's savings showing that the people's savings in the first twOsfluarters of 1942 were twice as great as in 1941, due partly to price ceilings, credit restrictions and to the growing shortages of many kiijds- of goods, but also in very large measure to the people's awareness of the need for saving. Carriers Draw Praise. "The estimate shows individual savings at an annual rate of 24.4 billions in the second quarter of this year, as compared with 19.3 billions in the first quarter and an average of 12.8 billions in 1941." Joseph B. Eastman, coordinator of defense transportation, said the transportation system of the country had operated "reasonably close" to 100 per cent of efficiency since the beginning of the emergency in 1939. "Thus far, there has.

been no breakdown and no seripus congestion in domestic transportation. It has done adequately and well all that it has been called upon to do." Praising at length the record of J'none lor tree Estimate! Ask About Our Convenient a Sample Time Payment Plan NATIONAL ROOFING SUPPLY CO. i "The Best In Roofing Since 1880" A 306 E. Main St. Between Floyd nd Preston sts.

WAbash- 1841 -AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAi American Tanks Help Reds Dent Nazi Line Germans Suffer Heavy Losses Continued from First Page. puperiority of the Nazi hordes beating at Stalingrad The situation as summed up by the Russians last night was: The fall rains which first bogged Hitler's machines in the bottomless Russian quagmires already have started in the Rzhev sector 130 miles from Moscow. The Russians, mounting a roun-ter-attack in that area, continued to drive west, have passed the city on the north and south and Ere fighting in Rzhev itself. The north bank of the Volga in its upper reaches has been cleared completely of the foe. The Germans likewise were stopped in the Caucasus where Roosevelt Makes Plea For Safety Says Carelessness Impedes War Effort Continued from First Page.

nation to the utter defeat of such "inhuman tyrants" as the German, Italian and Japanese flung back at the Axis the enswer to their taunting inquiry "Where is the United States Navy?" "It is there where it has always been," he said, "it is in there fighting. It is carrying out the command to hit our enemy, and hit him again, wherever and whenever we find him." The enemies who asked the question, he said, already have sampled the answer in the Atlantic, in the Coral Sea, off Midway and in the Jap attempts to "recapture that which was taken from them in the Solomon Islands." But, in his first radio Fpeech since April 28, Mr. Roosevelt grimly warned that the "battle cannot be fought and won without cost and the cost may be heavy in ships and in men." The challenging question about the American fleet, he recalled, as asked in the "months without victories" which followed Pearl Harbor a day which "contained the darkest hour in our Navy's history;" a day when "infamously attacked, seriously damaged, ships of our fleet were put out of commission, and more than 3.000 men were killed or wounded." LaGuarrlia Proposes Power Plant Purchase New York. Aug. 31 C43) Mayor F.

H. La Guardia proposed to the city council today that New ork City enter the public power business for first time by purchasing the Staten Island Edison Corporation, a subsidiary of the Associated Gas Electric Corporation. Although ihe city operates the Rapid Transit System power plants, it never has sold power to the public. The Staten Island company serves the entire borough of Richmond. Before the city could acquire the utility it would be necessary to submit the proposal to the voters.

Axis Opens Neiv Drive On Allies In Egypt Qjuuimnqhjow DRIVE-IN SERVICE ml HONV Our insulate their free estimates Sash, etc. Levy's can give you insulating jobs. at Continued from First Page. occupants. The walls had crumbled under Red Army shells.

"Katiusha" Is Secret. "That is the work of Katiusha," the conducting officer said. He pointed to craters ten feet deep. This "Katiusha" is the famed secret weapon which helped save Moscow last autumn. In the town itself more than a hundred women, children and old men, who once lived there, stumbled about the ruins, searching for their belongings, washing their clothes in the Derzha River or waiting in line for food.

A tattoo of gunfire beat over the soggy fields and damp forest, and a pall of smoke hung on the horizon. The autumn rains have started here, promising to bog down both armies before long. U. S. Materiel Effective.

The offensive, although slowed by German resistance, already has achieved a principal purpose. It forced the Germans to bring reinforcements here from another sector, parts of five divisions. It also proved these things: That the Red Army still is strong enough to take and maintain an offensive on a limited front. That U. S.

materiel, now a regular part of Red Army equipment, has been tried and found effective. That the German defensive line, although expanded for seven months west of Moscow, still is vulnerable to concentrated attack. American-made trucks and jeeps as well as tanks were in on this offensive. So were the U. S.

airacobras, which the Russians like about as well as any fighter at their disposal; also U. S. Tomahawks and Kittyhawks and British Hurricanes. Tanks Bogged Down. The M-3 tanks demonstrated excellent fire-power, the Russian officers said.

They were used against the enemy's fire-points. Their only drawback was that sometimes their narrow caterpillar treads sank down in the mud. However, so did the German tanks thirty of seventy medium Continued from First Page. strength after the exhausting 300-mile drive across the desert in his bid for the Nile Delta. The Allies, too, have brought up reinforcements, including American tanks and planes, manned by American personnel.

Both sideshave taken advantage of the luil to protect their positions with minefields, barbed wire entanglements and trenches. There was no accurate information as to the comparative strength of the opposing armies, since the size of reinforcements has been kept secret. Prime Minister Churchill said July 3, at the time Rommel was halted, that the Allies had 50,000 troops left out of the 100,000 they had in May. He said the Axis had 90,000, including 50,000 Germans, in May, but did rot give any figures on Axis losses in the May-June fighting. 10,000 Taken Prisoner.

Both sides, however, 'have been pouring in enormous numbers of troops and great quantities of equipment during the last two months. Even at the time Rommel's drive was halted, reports from Alexandria told of continuous Allied columns rolling through from other parts of the Middle East toward the front. Gen. Sir Claude J. E.

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