Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1941 — Page 3

TUESDAY, MARCH 18,

1,455,000 GET JOBS IN DEFENSE PLANTS

Contracts Totaling More Than 12 Billions Awarded Between June 1 and Feb. 1;

1,300,000 Under

By SANDOR S. ELEIN

United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 18.—The United States enters

the active phase of the British

tion of munitions and the mobilization of manpower gaining momentum after some intervals of delay. Let's take a look at how the day-by-day awards of contracts, production of planes and arrivals of recruits at Army and Navy posts add up in the national picture today:

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An estimated 5000 compai on these defense orders under that number are participating] . { in the work as sub-contrac-tors. The work has created jobs for an estimated 1.455.000 men and women Government emplovment agencies have begun registering men more jobs which will be available as the program expands | For the first time since the World War the Army has more than 1,000,000 men under arms The Navy has reached a peacetime high of 267.000 men. The Marines have 48.517, making a total military force now of more than 1,300,000 men,

Battleships for Navy The Navy's strength afloat is momentarily slightly reduced because of the transfer of 50 destroyers to Britain but new ships are coming down the ways more and more rapidly, Two new 35,000-ton battleships—the North Carolina and Washington—will join the fleet in April and May, respectively, the first new U, S. battleships in 20 vears. At least 13 other new combat vessels in major categories are scheduled for commissioning this year, as well as dozens of small craft Airplane production, although still behind schedule, has picked up sharply since the start of the year. The output now is at the rate of about 1000 per month. Pilot training for the armed serv-| fees progressing speedily. On! March 22 the Army will initiate a program to train 12000 fliers a year. The Navy declines to disclose details of its training program, but it is known to be moving ahead quickly.

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Camp Construction Lags Camp and cantonment construc- | tion is behind schedule, but part of the lag already has been overcome Officials expect the program to be

an Army of 1,400.000 men. The impact of the program is being brought home even to the nation's housewives bv the gradual invocation of priorities—a step to conserve vital raw materials and manufacturing facilities. Priorities have been imposed on aluminum, thus curtailing the output of pots and pans made of that metal. Ott priorities are in the making. The long-range ramifications of the defense program, together with | the war-aid program. are still al-| most impossible to visualize. Defense officials say the outlook is certainiy | for millions more jobs and scores of | new industrial plants,

Billions More to Come

Virtually all of the $12,575.869.000 defense ~ontracts outstanding are| from cash appropriations and contract authorizations voted by Con-| gress last summer More are to! come. The President has budgeted | £10.800.000,000 for defense in the fiscal vear beginning next July 1. In| addition, he has asked $7,000,000000 | for British aid Here is a breakdwyn by major] categories of defense contracts to! Feb. 1. as compared with the spending program thus far authorized for

“alled For | 70.000.000 | 210.000.000 1.780.000.000 1.630.000.000 1.440.000.000 |

1.270.000.000

RR0.000. 000

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Traffic Record Total

Here Is the County City 10 17

1940 36 —March 17— 1 Accidents Arrests | MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid

Injured

14 3

Violations Speeding 29 a8 Reckless driving. 11 11 Failure tot stop at through street 10 7 Disobeying traffic signals : Drunken driving All others

14 1

13 3 51

136 113

Totals MEETING Rotary Club, lw y : Alpha rade n . Gyro Club, luncheon Mercator Club, lunche

S TODAY eon, Claypool Hotel, Men's Club, iuncheon, Y. M. C. A, no Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of oon Spink Arms, noon. 1, Hotel Lincoln,

"Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, hoon

University of Michigan Club, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Knights of Columbus, luncheon, K, of © Clubhouse, noon. Lutheran Service Club, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon. : Fine Paper Credit Group, luncheon, Wm, H._ Block Co., noon. iwi Indiana Motor Truck Association, luncheon otel Antl noon. Club of Mathematics Teachers of Induianapolis, dinner meeting, George Washington High School. § bp. m, ‘ Actuarial Club, dinner, Hotel Washington, § p. m, Amalgamated Division Hotel Washington, 7:30 p

Antlers

1211, meeting, m.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

dianapelis Utility Club, luncheon, HoWashington, 12:15 p. m polis Hunting and Fishing Club, Hotel Washi on, 7 |

\ n, 30 pp m | Ohio Oil Co.. Hotel Washington. 8 pm ! Y. M. C. A. Camera Club, meeting, Cen-| tral Y. M. C. 7:30 po m. Lions Club, luncheon, Claypool

In te

Indiana

Hotel | Club,

Young Men's Discussion dinner ou. , E p.m Purdue Alumni Association, luncheon, Ho‘: Severin, noon Twelfth District, American Legion, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. :

75.869.000 between June 1, 1940, and Feb. 1 of this year.

for)’

1 000.000.

| tries alone.

completed by June, in time to house |

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Elma J. Sutter

52 M

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1941

+ Arms in U. S.

aid program with the produc-

d defense contracts totaling

vies, big and little, are working direct contracts. Many times

Tanks and combat vehicles... ‘ransportation

300,000,000 210,000,000

300.000,000 290,000,000

360,000,000 290,000,000

430,000,000 480,000,000

350,000,000 320,000,000

Stockpile Emergency merchant fleet...

120,000,000

In addition, there are about $750.000,000 of other defense contracts. For instance. the figure above for industrial facilities does not include $404.565.279 of defense plant financing by the Defense Plant Corp. The United States, including private sources and the Government, and the British Government together have placed contracts totalling $2,138,000 for 784 defense plants and expansion projects. Of these, the Government -— War and Navy

DELAY AHEAD IN PLANE OUTPUT

Strikes Shut Off Flow of Parts, Meaning Fewer Bombers Next Month.

By JOHN W. LOVE

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 18.—Late next month or in May the American production of bombing planes will slow down again, The cause will be found in the strikes now going on

in industrial plants. The delay can be foreseen clearly, but it is now too late to avoid it. The damage has been caused— and damage is still going on. In Canada 80 hombers are waiting for a small part—only one of 20,000 parts, but it is an essential. It is made, or rather it was made, in a New York factory now tied up in a strike. Discoveries like these, a whole string of them, of choke-points within choke-points, of clots in the arterial circulation of an enormous system—these have been stirring Congressmen to new interest in labor difficulties.

High Specialization Hurts

The revelations bring to light the fact that many of the Army's and the Navy's sources of supply are actually exclusive sources for individual parts. Any interruption in any of them may shut down the work as effectively as if they all shut down, Most dangerous of the labor stoppages in some 26 or 28 plants with defense contracts is that in the Universal-Cyclops Steel Corp.'s plant in Bridgeville, Pa. Besides making high-speed steel for a va{riety of industrial uses it had been | turning out propeller blades for bombers—one of two plants mak-

Faces Firing Squad

First man ever sentenced to death in Weber County, Utah, Walter Robert Avery, 32, chose death by a firing squad over death by hanging. The choice is granted convicted murderers in Utah, Avery, from San Francisco, was convicted of killing a peliceman in a grocery holdup, and execution is set for April 24 at the Utah Penitentiary in Salt Lake. He's shown here writing “a few of my thoughts,” which he hopes may be a crime deterrent for others.

Departments, Reconstruction Finance Corp. and the Defense Plant Corp.—have arranged to finance 302 plants at an estimated cost of $1.574,000,000. The British are financing 61 new plant and expansion projects at a cost of $171.000.000, some of which are being taken over by this Government. In adidtion, there are 421 other similar projects financed privately at an estimated cost of $393,-

Between May, 1940, and February, 1941, employment increased 1.445,000. Of this total, 968.000 new jobs opened up in manufacturing indus-

The aircraft industry showed the | largest gain in wage earners. The number employed in that industry increased from 81,600 in June, 1940,! to 140.900 in January of this year, a; gain of 72.7 per cent

Powder Plant Completed Comparatively few of the indus-

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trial plants being financed by the resented in diplomatic quarters as Army and Navy have been com-|being willing to pass the food shipfor ments through the blockade, provirtually all of these projects did/ vided:

pleted However, the funds

not become available’ until July 1!

ast. One of the biggest of

Army's plants, a smokeless powder or indirect benefit

factory at Radford, Va., will start] partial production this week, three] months ahead of schedule. The latest Army figures included | t

255,000 National Guardsmen called | German armistice.

to active service, and 213,000 selec-| tive service trainees. | ¢

8 The Navy's strength afloat as of ships from New York 17 | March 1 was 323 combat ships in grain,

major categories, a drop of 72 compared with last June 30. Neither the Army nor Navy now |

FRENCH FOOD

0. K. Depends on Ultimate

the shipped shall be used to the direct

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ing them for bombers. It had also been making, until the strike, a tiny but essential part for the fuse for the bhombs, and Stewart-Warner in Chicago has had 0 stop assembling the fuse, according to word to Washington,

Allis-Chalmers Effects Felt

PLEA STUDIED

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Engineers Trained as Infantry, Too

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These men of the 106th Engineers, Co, C from Mississippi, charge down hill during operation maneuvers at Camp Blanding, Fla. The Engineers operate as infantry as well as engineers during war, cross rivers in hoats as an advance guard to route the enemy so that they can build bridges.

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NORTH AFRICAN FRENCH ANGRY

Deny British Charge That Area Is ‘Honeycombed’ With Germans. By JOSEPH L. RAVOTTO

United Press Staff Correspondent CASABLANCA, French Morocco, March 18. —French officials expressed anger today over British charges that French North .4frica is “honeycombed” with Germans, They insisted that in Morocco German and Italian armistice come= missions are established only at Casablanca and Fez. As to the presence of German Gestapo agents in North Africa, one French official shrugged his shoule ders and said: “Are there any States?” There are other tagonism in North the British. Both the Oran and Dakar naval actions aroused resentment but at the present time the British blocke ade is the chief subject of criticism. I found indications that if the British attempt to exercise control of communications between France and North Africa there is likely to be trouble. “Dakar and Oran were not neces=

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causes of anAfrica toward

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1S HITLER IN A BALKAN TRAP?

May Be Forced to Fight On 2 Fronts or Lose Face in ‘Retreat.’ By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS

Timer. Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, March 18. —1It was from the fields of Macedonia

Another little item was a piece of heat-resisting alloy steel going into | the turbosupercharger which en-| ables the bomber plane to fly at great height. General Electric has stopped manufacture of the super-| charger because the employees of Universal - Cyclops have stopped | work at Bridgeville, and a certain group of planes will wait. { It's the old story of the nail in| the horseshoe of the warhorse of! the King. Just enough nailmakers|

Consumption, Word From Welles.

WASHINGTON, March 18 (U. P.)—The United States is willing to permit the shipment of specified grain suppiles to unoccupied France | with certain conditions as to its ultimate consumption, Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles has said in response to inquiries. At the same time Britain was rep-

April or May. Effects of the strike in the Allis- | Chalmers plant at Milwaukee are being noticed this week at the new smokeless-powder plant in Radford, | Va The company makes generators which supply the hydraulic system which distributes power through the big powder works. They | also are needed at the Charlestown, | Ind., powder plant.

1. That none of the food so

of Germany or

A 75 Men Delay Bombers ccupied France. . 2. That the Vichy Government equire Germany to adhere strictly o the provisions of the Franco-

The delay in delivery of the Canadian bombers is caused by the| shortage of a piece which 75 work- | men had been making in the Staten! Island plant of the S. S. White| Dental Manufacturing Co. More] than 500 employees are on the! street, statement was| Officers of the C. I. O, who have remarks of French | been trying to get workmen to give ho, after |up their “outlaw”

Meanwhile, plans were made in his country to send two French with food

Mr. Welles’ prompted by Ambassador Henri-Haye w

strike in the plant |

reveal the plane strength of their| conferring with President Roosevelt | Of the Vanadium Corp. of America, |

respective air arms. There prob-| ably has not been any substantial increase in combat aircraft strength | for either service, because the bulk of plane production so far has gone | to the British. There has been a| sizable increase in the number of | training planes, however, The War Department said that as of March 1, it had contracted | for 248 construction projects, cluding new camps, ordnance plants |

In- Mr. Welles said.

yesterday, ex pressed confidence also at Bridgeville, Pa. are quoting that American foodstuffs soon; members of the Office of Production | would be en route to unoccupied | Management as saying other plants | France in quantity. will shut down if they cannot get “The French ambassador un- the supplies of Ferocvanadium and | ; .| other concentrates of alloying maoY oo Tefefolus YG | terials. These are used on Si hquest he had submitted for emer- | g

gency release of food grain for un | speed sm giner out eas ” occupied France as cargo for two! ov ong ‘ as Boog in ustiles French ships now in New York, € many sources of Ferro-alloys,!

“He has been informed that the!the national supply, and makes it |

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that, centuries before Christ, Alexander the Great of Macedon set forth to settle the fate of the then known world—the Near and Middle East. Today, from Washington, President Roosevelt is influencing events on that same Macedonian front where phalanxes of Greeks and Britons are awaiting the Balkan showdown now regarded as a matter of days or even hours. Adolf Hitler, it is thought here, may be caught in a trap of his own

are idle for the King to feel it in making. It looks as if he would be | | forced

to fight on two fronts— something he has always been at great pains to avoid—or else back down and suffer a humiliating loss of prestige.

Warned Two Secretaly

His present predicament in the Balkans is due to his effort to frighten Greece, Jugoslavia and Turkey into following Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria into his fold. Secretly both Turkey and Jugoia were warned that thay would suffer the fate of Poland, Norway and the rest if they refused to heed the Nazi advice. And, to rub it in, Nazi diplomats brought their new horror film, entitled “The War in the West,” to Belgrade and Ankara and invited high Serb and Turkish officials to come and see what Hitler had done to Belgium and France. On top of all that, the Nazis broadcast the statement that if the British landed men in Greece the Seman would attack aulomatica y.

Things Have Changed

For a time it looked as if the Nazis would have things pretty much their own way. A fortnight ago

any bottleneck in the group affects| Turkey was reported to be ready to]

sigh on the dotted line. Only a

and other facilities. Of this num- | President was entirely willing that |DPeside the point, for the moment, Week ago, Jugoslavia seemed defi-

ber, 214 were under construction. 22 were completed and 12 not

| started

The Army's construction program | requires the erection of 52.063! buildings. Already 24.353 are completed. These, together with 2400] other buildings nearly completed, | were occupied or ready for occupancy, While none of the Army's camp | and cantonment projects are fully! completed, use is being made of | those units which can be occupied, | of 46 such projects, 32 are nearly| completed.

lis Real Estate Board, Property Division, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon,

Co-operative Club of Indianapolis, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon 10-Plus Club, meeting, Chamber of Com7:3 Kiwanis noon,

Indivna; Managers’

0 p. m. Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

| would be permitted.

Olney, pulmonary coronary oEEInSIon. lobar pneumonia. carcinom peritonitis.

cerebral hemorrhage.

this request should be raised with |!0 Plan to increase the production the American Red Cross, which now |0f America’s industries 60 per cent, has it under consideration. | Which William 8. Knudsen asked

“It is, of course, obvious that the | for yesterday.

American Government must assure | itself that the final consumption of TWO U S WRITERS ' 5

all food sent takes place within the area of unoccupied France.” " | BERLIN, March 18 (U, P.)— supplies from

There were indications in quarters outside the State Department German military authorities have] arrested Jay Allen, an American,

that Great Britain and France soon would reach an agreement whereby correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance, and an-

movement of food this country through the British blockade to unoccupied France other American newspaperman, un-| identified, who tried to cross the!

demarcation line between occupied | and unoccupied France without a permit, according to DNB, the official news agency. | DNB said the two men had] traveled to Paris from unoccupied France without permission several days ago. The United States charge d'affairs at Paris, Maynard B. Barnes, apparently wanted to intervene at first, but later decided

B. Thomas, 67, at

2630 N. hemorrhage 80, at 114 S. Elder, Hannah M. Jones, 90, at 33 S. Gladstone, at 373 N. Holmes,

City,

Elizabeth Mayme obs, Walter N. Blunk, 861,

a E. Todd, at acute

Harting, 72, at

James 75, | Ernst W. . Vincent's !

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

Leland G. Arnold, 20. of 42 W. Kansas; Florence M. Ware 26, of 1141 8. Richland George W. Brown, 17. of 324 W. Rav: Dorothy M. Henderson, 26, of 2704 Rader Maurice W, Tull, 22, of 1115 Central 27. of 720 E. 13th.

BIRTHS Girls Woodrow, Katherine ethodist Earl, Bdith Park, at Methodist, Lee, Pearl McClellan, at City Alva, Louella Cowell, at Coleman Kenneth, Mary Clark, at St. Francis, Joseph, Edna Fowley, at St. Vincent's ih Imagene Bolton, at 2009 N. Key-

(Rene, Anna Washingion, at 139 W,

“Alfred, 2314 Winthrop James, Catherine Campbell, at 2331 Fairview

ew, Harold, Edna Hoard, at 1106 Deloss, Grover, Irma Roberts, at 342 Hanson Clifton, Mary Armstrong, at 2829 Columbia. Virgil, 821 Jersey,

Stearman, at

Richardeen Edwards, at

|

Beatrice Hill, at

Boys Irvin, Beaula Halkins, at Coleman !

Cortez, Bonnie Deckard, at St. Francis, |®r: Warmer Thursday.

Alphonse, Anna Laker at St William, Helen Neihaus at St. Francis. Arthur, Grace Pavne, at St. Vincent's. lvin, Lillian Robey, at St. Vincent's. | Cavins, Margaret Marshall, at St. Vin-| cent's { Richard, Marv Dooley, at St. Vincent's Arthur, Lucille Cottey, at St. Vincent's. Everett, Dorothy Vandever. at City. Hubert, Thelma Hatchett, at City, Donald. Marie McClain, at Methodi Kozmo, Angeline Kostaff, at #6

Francis

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Nellie Carmichael, at 1528 Reis Anna Bates, at 1237

Leroy ner. | fox is. Broadview rac

Ravmond, Florence Fancher. at 1442 W. Market

Ernest. Dorothy Mumaw. at 1932 Hillside. | James, Georgia Bush, at 810 Blake.

DEATHS

John Mears, 67, at 126 N. Arsenal, hypostatic pneumonia. Alice Korves, 63, at St. Vincent's, coronay oes i” ‘ rene arden, at City, cerebral hemorrhage, . :

cloudiness and not so cold tonight, lowest temperature tonight about 15; tomorrow mostly perature.

so cold tonight; followed by light rain or snow ) | west in late afternoon or at night; rising | temperature.

{snow in southwest in late afternoon or at night;

N. New morrow increasing cloudiness and warmer Thursday.

| Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver

to take no diplomatic action when he learned that Mr. Allen had vioe lated regulations, DNB said.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau GETS SECOND DIVORCE

RENO, Nev. March 18 (U, P.) .— Mrs. Julia E. Hess, formerly prominent in St. Louis, Mo., society, has won her second divorce from Otto T. Hess, New York attorney. She previously divorced him in St. Louis in December, 1937, then re-married him Feb, 11, 1938, at Alexandria,

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Increasing with

cloudy with rising tem.

Sunrise 5:51 | Sunset . 3:58

TEMPERATURE ~March 18, 1940

a m........ 38}

BAROMETER 6:30 a. m.... 30:55

Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan. 1...... Deficiency since Jan.

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Increasing cloudiness and not tomorrow mosily cloudy, in north-

Va.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK COP aRd "he Chicago" Dang anapolis Times LONDON, March 18.—Quality and not quantity will be the decisive factor in air warfare, according to air experts, and the battle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe will be importantly influenced by the one which outstrips the other in the high-fly-ing qualities of its planes. Behind t h e criticism of the Aircraft Production Ministry which has been current during past weeks, lies the necessity for achieving co-operation between the service and the constructor, the air

Lower Michigan—Portly cloudv tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy, light rain or

rising temperature tomorrow, hio—Fair and not so cold tonight; to-

Kentucky—Fair and not so cold tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warm-

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A, M. Station Weather Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex, Cloudy 30.23 33 Bismarck, N. D. .....PtCldy

13 oston PtCldy 1

Dodge City, Kas. ....Clear Jacksonville. Fla, .... Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock, Ark. .... Los Angeles Miami, Fla. Mpls. -St. Paul . Mobile Ala New Y

Miss Kirkpatrick Portland, Ore. . ...... San Antonio, Tex. ... San Francisco ....... t. Louis «.C Tampa, Fla. ....... ..PtCldy Washington, D. C. «.Clear

nitely to have cast her lot with the Germans. Now, however, the situation appears to have undergone a rather sensational change. It may even be that the Balkan tide has turned against Hitler, British troops are pouring into Greece. Others are either in Turkey or close by, ready to move in if and when Turkey wants them. Jugoslavia has stiffened her attitude toward tiie Germans, and Ankara is said to have told Belgrade that if war comes Turkey will go to Jugoslavia’'s aid. In all this the United States is playing an important role. The President has let both Jugoslavia and Turkey know that they are included in the war aid program if they will but say the word. They can get free tanks, free planes, free guns, free food, free war materials of all kinds, if they will join the coalition against the Axis. Thus the showdown is approaching in Macedonia. Hitler must make up his mind. If he attacks, he may find himself involved in a new and major war on a second f{ront—a war which he must win at all costs. If he doesn't attack he will lose prestige, a very serious thing for him.

ANZAC CHIEF TO SEE F. D. R.

MANCHESTER, England, March 18 (U. P.).—Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies planned today to visit the United States and meet President Roosevelt after completing his tour of Great Britain and seeing President Eamon de Valera of Eire.

Highest-Flying Planes to Influence Outcome Of British-Nazi Air Warfare, Experts Say

correspondent of the Sunday Times writes. The output of a great number of planes must not prevent advance to new types which can reach higher altitudes. Height gives the fighter tactical advantage in attack and gives the bomber immunity from interception, The Luftwaffe, last fall, suffered defeat because British planes could outfly it, but there is danger today, the Times’ air expert said, that Germany’s head start in production has given her greater freedom to concentrate on developing new types,

{while the British have had to race

to increase the production of existing types. It should not be assumed from that, however, that the British have not produced new types. Six new planes were demonstrated to an

impressive group of senior air staff

.

By ROBERT J. CASEY Copyright. 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

With the Middle East Command, March 15 (Delayed) —More lost legions came out of the shadows of Ethiopia today and paused briefly in the communiques. They went back into the bush again and now are just as mysterious as ever, with this difference: il Duce knows where they are—Il Duce and several thousand of his fleet= footed troops.

There are, for instance, Haile Selassie’s patriots, who a month ago recaptured Kurmuk and Geissan, on the Sudanese frontier, and then disappeared into the Ethiopian jungle. Their emergence was brief but important. There was the news that they swept down on an Italian column at the Sholi crossing of the Blue Nile, obliterated it, and vanished. Now the news is that they are in the light again, for the time being after chopping a path through the jungle to Afodu, where they stormed an important military post and captured the garrison. At present, they are holding Asosa, which was Benito Mussolini's | strongest base in western Ethiopia. And after a long silence, you hear of the boys who whetted thelr knives after the capture of Barentu and started north. Swarming up sheer cliff walls or snaking their way through the matted brush, they got back into the day's dispatches by a brief encounter with the Italians near Adiugri. Adiugri is just another collection of mud wigwams. But that's not the point. It is squarely on the main road between Asmara and Gondar. Its capture would just about stop Mussolini's troop movements between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Most important of the day's revelations, however, has to do with the routing of Italian forces in the Gojjam district and the sudden advance on Debra Markos, 140 miles northeast of Addis Ababa. The | Italians originally had 20,000 troops |in this region, but prisoners report | desertions have been numerous and casualties in the encounters with native irregular troops considerable. Corpses and wrecked transports have filled the ditches along the line of retreat from Bourye to Debra-Markos and there has been no rearguard action. If there is no stand at DebraMarkos—and present signs indicate there won't be—the road will be open to the capital except for dubious resistance of the retreating Fascists. One obstacle in the way is a fort on the Blue Nile which experts consider no great importance. Italians here in the western desert are ‘lost when away from roads while Haile Selassie’s hordes, fighting on home grounds, scamper through the jungle and harass them from the sides and rear. Roads into Addis Ababa seem to be pretty well cluttered up with

19 COUNTY YOUTHS WILL BE INDUCTED

Nineteen registrants of Marion County Local Board 5 have been ordered to report for induction into the Army Friday. They are: David Childs. 1801 W. 10th St.; Jacob Roland Makel, 641 Bright St.. Lorenzo Bell Owens, 709 W. Vermont St.: William Davis, 344 N. California St.: Dinnis Clark Shirley, 622 N. California St.; William Howard Fuqua, 1031 N, West St.; Albert Turner, 613 W. Vermont St.: Fred Davis, 518 N. West St.: Richard Long, 431 N. California St.; Hilton Mason Borah, 713 Locke St.; Vernon Gilbert Routh, 522 Bright St.: Audrey Green, 809 Paca St... Ruben Jones, 455 Blake St.: Ernest Mearland Barnes, 516 Blake St Willie Claude Tidwell, 424 N California St: William Edward Carr, 610 Patterson St.; Claude Jefferson, 815 Paca

Mr. Casey

St.; Solden B. Hardin, 149 Bright St, and Joe Melven Steger, 208 Geisendorff St

officers, American Army air corps observers, and the American Ambassador, John G. Winant., These were the planes which Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair mentioned, in last week's speech on air estimates in Parliament. There were three new heavy bombers: the Shirling Short, the Avro Manchester, and the Halifax; and three new fighters: the Tornado, the Whirlwind, and the Beau fighter. This last is especially adapted for night fighting. The Douglas and the Boston, medium bombers, are also sufficiently fast and maneuverable for night fighting, the Air Minister revealed. However, the Times’ air correspondent expressed the view that demands of research and development may have to be separated from

Ethiopian Hordes Back in News, asl Duce Well Knows

production in order to guarantee tne maintenance of high quality.

sary,” one French authority told me. “Those were great psycholog=ical blunders which the British never would have commited had they known us better.” The French are angry with the British for their severe blockade of North Africa as well as France. The average Frenchman thinks that it would be to the interest of the Brit= ish to allow gasoline, crude oil and foodstuffs to flow into Morocco so as to keep this region out of the war and reduce the necessity of obtaine ing supplies elsewhere,

II Duce’s legions coming from somewhere else. The flying column from Kenya has gone into a vastly silence again, somewhere around

Jijigga, but there are echoes to indicate that it is fairly near its objective. . The war in Italian Somaliland is virtually ended except for mopping up operations. Prisoners tell of growing bitterness between the |appealed to the United States for old regular Italian troops—mostly | food and guns in a St. Patrick's royalists—and Mussolini's political | Day message broadcast at 4:15 a.m. blackshirts, each blaming the other | today (9:15 p. m. Monday CST.). for the great debacle and forgetting| He disclosed that Frank Aiken, about the British army which also | defense minister, was en route to had something to do with it. the United States to attempt to There are reports that the Duke | buy wheat to avert a serious bread D’Aosta may presently ask for an | shortage, and whatever weapons for armistice. It is not official, but it|the defense of Eire that he found doesn't seem at all unlikely. | available,

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EIRE SEEKS U.

DUBLIN, March 18 (U. PP). Prime Minister Eamon de Valera

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