Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1941 — Page 2

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"PARIS HUNGRY,

SHORT OF COAL

Buying. Sufficient Food Is “* Almost Impossible; Bitter at Vichy.

By GLENN STADLER United Press Staff Correspondent

3 . PARIS, Jan. 7 (Via Berlin; Delayed) ~Paris, enduring what is _ called its worst food shortage since the German siege of 1870-71, di-

- vided the blame today between the|w

~ Vichy Government and farmers who, it was complained, refuse to “send their products to the Paris area because controled prices did not permit a profit.

"It has become almost impossible |

“to. buy sufficient food, “eat, potatoes, butter

especially and good

vegetables even with money and | |

“ration cards. But the’ “black” or

. illegal market flourishes, with prices

“ranging up to 500 per cent more than before the German occupation. Outlying departments are well supplied, it is reported, but will not send food to Paris, or cannot because of a lack of transport. (A United Press aispatch from

Vichy last week reported that the ||

Germans had bought up great quan-

tities of foad in Paris and. that their |

requisitioning of French rolling stock | _ played a big part in the transport fshoriage.) Lack of coal for household heating > purposes adds to the suffering of : Parisians.

from the southeastern coal fields.

= jority of French people cannot afford to patronize them. These peo- / ple stand in line for hours in the ¢ snow hoping that something will be “left for them in food shops when

Many stores are compelled to re main open even though they have * Bothing to sell.

LONE SURVIVOR OF CLUB TO HOLD FEAST

(Continued from Page One)

A harness maker did this and then we had it put away ia ..&.bank vault after each meeting.” All but two of the_club’s members were born in Frankfort. Mr. Lancaster was born in Kentucky and Mr. Barringer in Towa. Mr. Thatcher has lived in Indiarapolis 40 years and is a retired printer. He has three sons living here. . “The club hasn't met for two years because of Mr, Paris’ illness,” he said. “The two of us have met

' twice by ourselves, in 1937 and 1938.

Now I am the last one, and after this banquet, the whole idea is done . . . settled.” Mr. Thatcher is a bit undecided as to where or when he will hald this final banquet. . “I don’t know whether Mr. Paris made a provision in his will affecting the banquet or not,” he said.

~ “Anyway, I probably will have my

sister-in-law cook the dinner and I'll get the game somewhere. I am going to Frankfort for Mr. Paris’ funeral and after I get back I'll know a little more about it.” ~ The only thing that worries Mr. Thatcher now is the champagne. “I hope it is fit to drink,” he said. “Half of it has evaporated, but if it is all right, you can be sure that Ill drink it. 4

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Mr. Mason

offensive. | Once large scale fighting began not impossible, to restraii the natives. Their conquest by Italy was successful with modern weapons which represented to the Eth; .opians an extreme of brutality. | Bombs dropped from the tir and gas shells fell amid women and ¢hildren and terrorized the natives. The havoc was too recent to have been forgotten.

May Demand Revengi

| The Ethiopians had no ref iliatory weapons and were forcéd [(o surrender or be slaughtered mercilessly.

ininds, it scarcely is to hie expected that the natives will not seek revenge if active warfare breaks out in Ethiopia and defeat begins to lovertakz the Italians. The Italians would be hampered fin their operations if they had to protect their women and Children from attack. At the same time, it 'is impossible to. predict the action lof the naives if the Italians were forced to surrender and there were not sufficient British troops in the

3 The coal shortage was| :blamed on lack of transportation)

‘capitulated area to maintain discipline. No serious difficulties would seem

Most restaurants are sufficiently|te exist at the present tim: to in-

A supplied with food but'a great ma-|

terfere with the evacuation of women and ‘children, . The port of Djibouti, in French Somaliland is open to shipping and i would not be. difficult to arrange fo; transportation back to Italy or to keep the refugees in Egypt for (he war’s

| |duration.

No Time for Pride

If the Italian Government does not accept the offer, the iesponsibility for whatever consequences may follow have to be accepted by the Fascists. No question of pride should be allowed to complicate the problem which concerris only the fortunes or misfortune of ‘warfare. The Italian Army in| Ethiopia is not in'a position to conduct a long and severe war. It is cub off from |? supplies and reinforcements even more than is i Graziani in Libya. Sorne meager Italian shipping might conceivably get thidugh the British fleet's blockade of Libya. It is impossible, however, for any help to reach Ethiopia. The sea .route is blocked. The distance by air between Ethiopia and Italy is 2000 miles. The Army is thus isolated and locked ‘within its present boundaries.

Supplies Limited

The Italian supplies iii Ethiopia are known to be limited, been understood that there is a special shortage of fuel oil for the operation of .mechanized units. The position of the [lfalians in their newly acquired territory thus is more difficult than in ‘Libya. In addition to depleted material, there is the extra handicap ¢i a native population waiting for @n opportunity to revolt when favorable conditions develop. The British have an Army from South Africa understood to be concentrated in' Kenya, bordering Ethiopia on the. south. It is probable thet this force will co-operate with a British drive from the Anglo-|’ Egyptian Sudan, striking from the north and west, If the British strategy is based on such a pincer movement, the Italians will have to fight on twh fronts. A fairly short campaign should result in complete British succes.

GROTTO AUXILIARY MEETS TOMORROW

The Women’s Auxiliiry of .the

Ql Sahara Grotto will meet for the

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first- time this year at the Grotto home, 13th St. and Paik Ave, toson, newly installed president, will preside. Two eofniiiiide meetings gre also scheduled for this. week. The investigating committee=will

2932 Guilford Ave. tomorrow at 12:30 p. m, arc the membership committee wil. convene at the home of Mrs, Mirie Manker, 1036 N, Illinois St., Fri day at 12:30 p. m,

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War Moves

By J. W. T. MASON United

Advices from London that Creat Britain intends to offer vo-operation with Italy for the removal of

be lightly dismissed by the Fascists as a humiliafion. It is & humane gesture which hiis various precedents in the history of warfare when soldiers have provided for such escapes in ‘the inidst of combat. Italy ‘must face the fact tht the war in Africa is going against the Fascist Aimy. There is every rbason to believe that after the successes the Biitish are havinj in Libya they eventually will ‘make Ethiopia their objective in a

With such memories still in their |

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LABOR DRAFT IN DEFENSE URGED

Martin Als Asks Indus ry Mobilized, Calls for. | | . 6-Day Work Week.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (U, PJ). —Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore! aircraft manufacturer, told the Eouse Naval Affairs Committee today that he believed i may become ngcessary for the Federal Government to “draft” industry and ‘labdr to overcome defense production legs. Mr. Martin’; suggestion was nade at a committce hearing on production problems. He also said | that establishment of the six-day work week ‘in deferise industries is eissential and that it would increase| production 12 or| 15 per cent. He declared that the following objectives should be accomplished: 1. There should be a “strong co-

defense and - conmercial.”

ordination” ¢f all industry, "both | ‘This could be accomplished by creation of a Governnjent agency with broad powers, or the placing of such authority in sore existing agency.

Draft o/ Tools Suggested,

2. The co-o dinating agency should have power to “draft” idle machine tools and put them to work on defense materiel. -3. It shoul(i have authority to curtail non-military production injcom- | mercial plants, and turn the increased capiicity to defense work. Mr. Martin said that the granting of “draft” powers to the Ggvernment would prevent labor orggnizations from |/‘taking a. bite thto a bigger and pigger melon” ang trying to “put the manufactures in a jam” through strikes.

New Attitude Sought |

It has)

rneet at. the home, ¢f Mrs. Flora]

‘| prograni to build up a reserve of

Chairman| Carl Vinson commented that industry was now doing] business with the Government on the basis of sgccepting orders [if it wanted to. “Business has got to get out of that atmosphere,” Mr. Vinsor| said. “We have got to let business know that the firjt thing in this country today is national defense.” | Mr. Vinscdn said the public generally beliey ed that planes can be “standardized,” as automobilgs are, “so that w¢ can produce 2000 or 3000 airplar es a day. He asked what Mr. Martin had to say abouf that. “You carn standardize standards of planes,” Mr. Martin replied, “but you cannot freeze types.” Ile explained thiit the aircraft industry faces the hecessity of keeping on top or ahead of the best de¢velopments of a competitor, and {hat as newer typ¢s are developed sbroad, the American manufacturers must be ready ind able to turn|out a better, fasjer product in order to ‘win the game.’

Defense Work Spread Urged

Meanwhile, the War Depertment called on jar materials coniractors to sub-let more of their viork to small manufacturers to overcome “serious obstacles” in the production of armaments. Defense chieftains also were reported corisidering establishinent of “little def¢nse commissions” jin each state to c¢-ordinate production. The deinand for wider qistribution of amy production was contained in a memorandum prepared by Underjecretary of War | Robert P. Patterson. It was sent to ¢hiefs of the Army's supply services with instructions that it be forwerded to prime cantractors holding] orders for more than $5,000,000,000 worth of arms, planes, tanks i munitions.

Mas 3 Production Waits

Similar | pleas for decentyalization of cefense production haye been mace recently by Un(lersecretary of ihe Navy James |V, Forrestal anil William S. Knudsen, director g¢neral of the Office of Productijin Management. | | A Defense Cojnmission survey last month | indicated that many small plants now are lying idle which could be put to use Purpos® of the proposed state defense c)mmissions would be to permit decentralization of [the fastgrowing volume of administrative work in connection with the rearmameit program. Th¢ groups would hb: patterned along lines of the so-called service comnittees of the Wold War. They were designed {op co-ordinate locpl participation in the defense | program with njitional policy-majging and other top-ranking agencies. On ajother defense Front, Senator Pa; McCarran (D. Ilev.) proposed tiiat the United States institute a ivilian glider pilct training

fighting airmen.

bone MALE CHORUS TO MEET

‘Mémters of the py County G. O. ¥, Male Chorus will meet tomorrow evening at the home of their director, Oliver W. [Pickhardt, in Southport. The merbers will meet first at 120 E. Opio St. at 7:15 p. m.

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Sham i and Fagor iar, 35¢

By HENRY T. GORRELL | . United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE GREEK ARMY BEYOND KLISURA, Jan. 12 (delayed).

~The Greek Evzones who capiured Kliisura Thursday after a four-day battle are pushing on northwest, with little food, and almost no fest. The fleeing Italians stripp »d ‘the countryside of pigs, sheep, Ee and almost everything. else that might serve as food, and the Greeks are subsisting on iron rations and the few rabbits they shoot as they

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Italian Prisoners in e Albania Too T ired to Need Guards |

march, slogging through snow several feet-deep-in places. The soldiers are hot all young men. I saw one with a long white beard and flowing white hair who trudged along.a mountainside within a few hundred yards of the Italian line. - He wore army trousers and boots, a great coat and a shepnerd’s woolen cap. Through an interpreter, I asked him Where he was going. “I fought in these hills in the Balkan War of 1912 and I ‘was a middle aged man then,” he said.

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