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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1941

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ritain’s Meat Ration Ordered Cut To Lowest Level Of War

ERBS SHOUT HATRED OF AXIS PACT

4000 ON WPA PICKET RIGHTS IN STATE LOSE AT BETHLEHEM £ _ JS | OBS APRIL |

Permission Given After Leaders Vote to Use ‘Force if Necessary.’

(Additional Labor News, Page 20)

Verdict Reversed

STRIKERS GET

Rolls to Be Reduced to 39,000, Lowest Level in Its History.

Four thousand persons will be dropped from the Indiana WPA [rolls on April 1, slashing the state's quota to its lowest level since for- | mation of the relief agency in 1935. The reduction, caused by a shortage of funds, will drop the number |of Hoosiers on WPA rolls from 43.000 fo 39.000 according to Administrator John K. Jennings. The April 1 quota reduction is the second straight monthly slash of 4000 persons, that number also being taken from the rolls on March 1. Mr. Jennings asserted that while the defense program had generally decreased, the total need throughout the State there are still many thousand of Hoosiers who have been unable to find jobs and are in need of work-relief employment,

BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 26 U. P.).—Maj. Joseph Martin, commander of the State Police barracks here, today gave the C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee permission to restore picket lines around the parent plant of the Bethlehem | Steel Corp. after strike leaders had | decided to re-establish them “by | force, if necessary.” Maj. Martin's decision, which averted threatened violence, was announced to a mass meeting of strikers by John Riffe, C. I. O. field director “He has asked us not to block | sidewalks and to identify our pickets |

n ” un Ie 1 so they will not be molested,” Mr. | i Riffe said. "We are having Signs

made which our pickets will carry.” Relief Fraud Conviction Set At the same time Mr. Riffe an-| Aside by State Supreme ployment and the dwindling need |

nounced: that the company had can- | Court. are not evenly spread over the state

celed a scheduled meeting between | S. W. O. C. representatives and offi- | cials ot the Employees Representa- : Ruling that the evidence submit- and are to a large degree proportional to the amount of national de[Tense contracts let in that particular

Dan R. Anderson

Need Greater in Places

“It is important to realize,” he said, “that the gains in private em- |

tion Plan, an alleged company unit. The meeting had been scheduled for ted was insufficient. the Indiana Su-

10 a. m.

Johnstown Strike Averted

(preme Court today reversed the re-

lief fraud conviction of Dan R. Ane |

Kennedy Fires Away

Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy

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YOUNG PARADERS SEIZED BY BELGRADE'S POLICE: | FRENCH TRADE FOR FOOD

in Berlin oworter Chiefs Who me. | Signed With Nazis Return Home, On War Front

Today's War Moves

U. S. Makes Plans tol Help English Beat

Hunger. By HARRISON SALISBURY

United Press Staff Correspondent Great Britain today cut her meat ration to the lowest level of the | [war and tightened her belt for the

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Police busied themselves quelling the outhreaks and halted many of

Battle of the Atlantic in which food | 5¥ \ pt © British troop movements (the revelation from Vichy of the | fa 8 BELGRADE, March 26 (U. France food | | streets today in protest The German action had been conmore generous than the British who oi many is allowing the shipment from them before could get under

we 8 may be the vital factor. | a 3 ah War nla ) ; ne plannin x The British action coincided with | Go ; TE wes : terms upon which the Germans | : P. agreed to release to Unoccupied | 0 | 1.) Students demonstrated stores previously ear- | aE repeatedly in the R . marked for use by the Reich army | ; Lire : ie Belg: ade of occupation, | against Jugoslavia's adhere trasted publicly by Vice Premier | 1 e to tl her {Admiral Jean Francois Darlan as| 1ce 10 the Axis pact, maintain a blockade of France, | Today it became known that Geer-| § \ they Occupied to Unoccupied France of 800,000 tons of wheat, 800,000 tons

Yosuke Matsuoka (way,

of potatoes and 200,000 tons of

Several high school students were

area.” He pointed out that in the south-

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sugar

But in return unoccupied France

arrested,

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about noon and continued to break out for several

any meetings at this Riffe said He said

restored a:

hours thereafter, Youngsters from the Belgrade high school managed to hold a brief Pro|test rally before police interfered, Then they tried to Join other

students assembled at Kalebegdan | Park for another demonstration but pure action prevented them from carrying out their plan,

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A force of 150 troopers, some of them mounted and using night sticks and tear gas, broke up the picket lines around the plant last night in a struggle of wild disorder in which a score of persons was inJjured. Mr. Riffe said the S. W. O. C. had a committee of 15 ready to negotiate | when he received a call from an assistant to W. L. Trumbauer, Bethlehem's industrial relations manager, cancelling the conference. “We had held the picket line away from the plant in an attempt peacefully to settle this strike,” he said. "Now we are going to re-establish finrestricted picket lines as soon as we can. No one has a right to stop|® us from picketing and we are here !'S to show them that.” | Mr, Riffe said the 8. W. O. C. haq '®S'imony that claims had been is(Continued on Page Ten) (sued for groceries supplied to three

City officials believe that Indian-

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” n ” “The company will not agree to!derson, Indianapolis grocer, and or- Western portion of the state, which | time.” {has been practically untouched by | T 7 + U S f + ; : w food supplies from what were de1e picket lines would be! Mr. Anderson was convicted on load has increased since January, | ype Fi er Oo rge Q e Y [scribea as its “surplus” stocks. [April 6, 1940, on a charge of obtain- | 1940, because of reduced employment | ‘I have called meeting of “ b ‘ a Wi > Ave ‘ he ‘ " . all strikers at which our Was sentenced to serve 180 days on | In spite of the upturn of busi- | Unaccustomed writing publicity, Fire Chief Fred C.] These shipments include 600,000 : the Statg Farm and fined $50 and ness, it is surprising to note the num- | Kennedy bent uncomfortably over the typewriter keyboard and frowned pigs and calves, 190,000 head of catlines will be outlined,” he added | a . 3 " ison y one . y ? | A threatened strike at Bethlehem's| The indictment charged Mr. An- registered with the State Employ- | Tiny drops of gathered on his brow I'he hand that oil, 100,000 tons of salt, 60,000 tons Japan 5 Place Is Beside y derson with filing a $4.05 claim for! ment Service even in those counties | fought a thousand fires shook, At last he found it, the letter "8S ol vegetables, 8000 tons of cheese Germa : | ny.” He Tells was averted when leaders of an in- 4 b . . 4 } N ii — : y S dependent union postponed their 0 2 “Melvin Woodson.” At the trial | 800d,” Mr. Jennings said. lightning-like blow for the public | Vichy explained that a large portsafely. Slowly as the Chief struggled [tion of these supplies would be | Joseph Levine, an S. W. O. C. at- [name was on the relief rolls, ’ R arch 2 ) announced that a volition! Two other defendants in the case, | ‘A large percentage of these per- | gan to take shape | cause unoccupied France “has none BERLIN, Math % (U. Ps Many of the demonstrators w . : Ti i are unskilled and past the| “sEverail891 large fire left.” monstrators were a TAT] . lee ‘ » vos | Prime f have Ei aka arriv ter Easton or Philadelphia seeking an |€rator, and John Neenan, former re- | Prime o ws ! Matsuoaka arrived at Anhalter Sta-| e : ’ i an “ion restraining re Niet order writer, also were convicted | find jobs because industry generally (the & necessity for edUcating be to this revelation was not known tonight © omentous via We) pork received here said that LAT | 5 Fo | {but there already is much opposition nigh h a momentous visil ‘ast night police dispersed a group 4 y ‘toy esvectivelv high school graduates.” he wrote. Then, as an alterthought, terference against lawful. peaceful [and 30-day terms, respectively faves. : ’ ; AD w— | me shot w | ‘hic . icketine" at the Bethlehem works | Supreme Court Judge Frank Rich-| He asserted that because of these he added: “according to Fred ( | French blockade because of fear should watched by the Shot ran hye which started the picketing” ¢ € S. Huge Crowd Is Expected that food going to France will wind 7, a War in 1914. They, too, were |with this statement : | continued need of the WPA pro-| With a sigh, Chief Kenned: : En 1 { Berl Matsuoka! The University | “We are unable to find any evi-| gram: straightened up and looked out of place supplies purchased or requisi-| wn route to &erlin Matsuoka) Ihe University at Liubjana was tioned by the Nazis. talked with German, Italian and closed after demonstrations there inv i » , " Q % 5 ur or "8 - alan » T an f action,| 1 | jury might properly and reasonably | that there will be a further “sea-|alarm bell. To a man of ac { : he ; have drawn the inference that An. SOnal decrease” in the WPA rolls | this sallow business of writing pub-| Hearing shipment by the United States to| He told them that Japan has no| WA forces of police, armed with derson’s representation was false or \France of two shiploads of wheat, |Cl2im on the United States but he machine guns and tear gas bombs, known bv him to he false. each of The 4000 slash on April 1 will be| But in the line of duty, he persist- . ak ny aan ; TRONIL a add ib _—_ rls divided proportionately among the ed with a grim, tight-lipped expres-|apolis is about as “hepped up” over reached Marseille. This was the What occurs during his visits to Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign | 4 is ,» State's five WPA districts found before he could be convicted. oi : ‘ . . . The opinion stated that it was| —— a burning building. civic contro-|brought a load of powdered milk, | Foreign Minister Joachim von yah returned from Vienna, where | “DElays in tu/?q turning in firE tim ‘| vitamin concentrates and other Ribbentrop welcomed Matsuoka at | 1ey made Jugoslavia a satellite of : versy in some e [late Thomas M. Quinn, former Cen- INMATES FLEE FIRE i ’ 7 ’ ‘ter Township Trustee, “were friend- {getting too much, Wearily, he gave postcards have been flooding{no¥ Are being distributed around him by automobile to the Bellevue |, Many = well.to.do citizens sen Tun alle s secretary. |@ A the unoccupi , istr alace ilies to the country in fear i] as : B it up and called in his secretary. | = fo. City Councilmen and qCona cupied zone. Distribution and saw each other every day, but . Boris a Ha : ” : ‘ J 4 these facts require no imputation of “Delays in turning in fire Has the volume reached a new high is io be started at Marseille next eae Yom wp Ok Woh La Ask Chance to Fight . oti Ny : hr W ifor any caus ay result in the loss ¥ Ey reek, | 1s an S SS nouses closec aw, Py 2h Waste s| for any cause may Then, too, an unprecedented | Demonstrations mn testimony as a witness for the : . : , ’ ” slave 1 ; Wt the route from the station to the the Serb area and re ‘Woman Prisoner Overcome, the fire damage. Yet these delay: : , ; Battle of the Atlantic the British | | DOr Ww ’ cil chambers at 7:30 tonight when|. ; ew e. 1 . , ,| ports were filtering in of figh : y ha : Wh Ye ivintes ive » BECOMES ! have a major foo ‘oble .| palace, where Matsuoka will stay ghts bes any of ae Joes upon which fraud! But Is Revived {occur largely because peaple become the Council will hold a special ses- Ji d problem all thei: predicated.” | x i. ove [tors Ww v SG emergency Davlight Savings Time proposal announcement, of the reduced meat °I'S Were headed by uniformed Labor $01 Hb denbined the Goverminnt BD . ‘ 2 Oi 5 3 . 3 . the y1* { "re . " YOa Times Speeim “The only way to overcome this y ugh iving pro] (ration, which resulted from a de- Front leaders. gy sng Yo to\Operate with Gel SHELBYVILLE, March 26.—One or 8 fan | [per 3 ) of ’ (grams received by Mayor SulliVAn| “mw, naw ration is about 20 cents icans and we leave them alone,” |PEIMitting German war materials to m—— —— matically in the face of danger. ic «10 to one” in favor of Dayligit | px nH rile “ i [pass through the country y (not imply fraud in the case. Jail was overcome by smoke early (Continued on Page Ten) I 7 Main Sach E 1 ler To ; i ' on. | today i ire whic maged ¢ ; v : . 'veek, a reduction of one-sixth; chil-|[10W that example and leave us in| WEATHERMAN SAYS | Quoted in the opinion was a con-|!0%ay in a fire which damaged a AB Tonight's public hearing follows | onc” ations were reduced inn peace in Asia. ‘|strations, demanding that they be : introduction o p ht Saving | , (Continued on Page Ten) |" The other prisoners, including one INSTRUCTOR DIES IN introduction of the Daylight Saving — suspected murderer, were escorted | i LOCAL TEMPERATURES AR MY PLANE CRASH Ff 6a mm... 3 10 . 38

Mr. [dered a new trial must ship to the occupied zone large | a national defense activity, the relief | ing money under false pretenses and in coal mines and stone quarries. RICHARD LEWIS Half a Million Sheep , S, 10 WATCH plans for re-e g our picket | costs. ber of unemployed persons who have a mighty frown tle, 565,000 sheep, 36,000 tons of table Cambria works at Johnstown, Pa : . J » . A Cerin relief groceries purportedly delivered | in Which business is unusually The calloused forefinger hovered in mid-air and then delivered a and 1,700,000 litres of wine e r scheduled election to “avoid trouble,” |1t Was testified that no one by that Claims Many Unskilled with ti I , R porte Th ’ | with the typewriter, a message be- | brought over from North Africa, be3 : Nai 3 ey hives . Ir CT sons al Japan's Foreign Minister Yosuke, would be in Federal Court at John Barton Griffin, milk route op-| y 1 hia youngsters 3 3 : Eo life and are unable to parts of -0028 {8% What the British reaction would : nesters of 15 and 16, Stat otor Police fr ‘far . in. and already have served four-month | iS seeking young, easily trained Public what to do when fire occurs, , . . : State Motor Police from “further in ; lin Parliament to the relaxing of the to the Axis countries which he said °f Youths at Sarajevo, where the man concluded the 17-page opinion | facts there is little question of the Kennedy, fire chief.” ited "me age oy [up in German stores or merely re-| demonstrating against the pact. : 0 Fi ldence in the record from which the| The State Administrator predicted the window, half wishing for the | Tonight at rst ‘ | vestor London has given approval to the Japanese newspapermen. yes erday had spread to the streets, | during the coming months. licity was distasteful ; ar | One U. 8. relief ship has already Advised America to watch carefully guarded Belgrade today as Premier which was a fact necessary to he Ml i . : lsion as though he were rushing into the daylight savings question as it|freighter, Cold Harbor. whaich | Berlin and Rome Minister Alexander Cincar-Marko- —— | ha: shown that Mr. Anderson and tne i 18 " NTR AR ‘ r ohildp . the decorated station and rode with he Axis ALARMS,” he continued. I} wih More than 5000 letters, telegrams foods for children. These supplies ly, frequently had luncheon together | Y ; {of los | op is m,” he ordered : : of 200,000 pounds ‘der itk| Thousands of men and women, |9! an explosion, | AT SHELBYVILLE JAIL Take this down,” he « Mavor Reginald Sullivan. Today pounds of powdered milk | | a sort r will increase | With the growing i sity y| four hours before he arrived, lined | were reported of life and certainly will crowd is expected to jam the Coun | h the growing intensity of the throughout State disclosed no acquaintance with m whie y . : ve | W i 5 ner Y oye tween police and angry de ‘Aw [panic stricken when faced with an = = © public reaction to the own which was reflected in today's While he is here. The demonstrat- monstra The high court pointed out that Reaction p etters and tele-| . on “ . . (many in t 3 is to teach them to react auto- Reaction through letter cline in British produced livestock.| “We want nothing from Amer-| ys i, atvath on Ciresce. by other allegedly fictitious versons diq,0f 12 inmates of the Shelby County h : | wort of said ) [ Time, he said. Soldier; joined in some demons versation between Mr. Quinn and Portion of the brick-steel structure by ._|sent to " . IT COULD BE WORSE Time ordinance March 17 by the | APout 14 cents a week ‘to about 10 Perhaps 1 Shall do something i: 1b Tew uty 4 ) { 4 I 0 | : [to safety at the city police head- | 26 vous OF 11 a. m.... 40

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mee - cents, here. Americans must wait and see|CCiman troops who might seek to | t Indianapolis Junior Chamber of WAR COUNCIL’ HELD | Mrs. Ruth Hartopp, Chicago, held] MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 3 12 (noon) .. 45 |

whether I undertake something in| ®VleT Jugosiav territory, Commerce, In the event of an overon a vagrancy charge, was found, (U. P.).—An Army flying instructor % 1pm..w | BY b. 0. P. OFFICIALS |

U. S. to Help | Europe.” | It was reported in diplomatie flow, the use of Tomlinson Hall will} 17, § Secretary of Agriculture] Matsuoka described events since (Continued on Page Ten) he considered for a second public [overcome by smoke by Deputy|was fatelly injured today, and a [Sheriff Tred Courtney, and was student was unhurt, when they were | Democratic Attorneys Seek ing under today and said we should | Speed on Suits. be thankful for the mild but cloudy |

. y Claude Wickard is preparing plans | the Japanese invasion of Man- EE ais hearing, possibly next week. ~~ lat Washington for the release of churia in 1931 and his defense of | “I never saw anything like it, |quickly revived. Mr. Courtney and | forced to bail out of a training ship | Sheriff Leonard Worland both lived | 14 miles east of here. | weather it has brought. | Republican State officials

dried fruit, eggs, cheese, concen-|the Japanese course before the | Safet Exams Mr. Wood commented. trated milk and other foods which League of Nations at Geneva Y Meanwhile, a doubt grew whether For C U od with their families in the residential Lieut. C. D. Bird Jr. of Belle- ars rge | quarters of the jail where the fire fontaine, O, died in the Maxwell Outside the high pressure, said | VAT council with their attorners to-

occupy a minimum of cargo space.| “I returned to Tokvo from Genthe Council has the power to adopt| gir Arthur Salter, British shipping leva (i 9) i \ ¥ . ) sh n 1932) 7 such an ordinance before June 1 a Luly nowleaze is believed to have started. Field Hospital shortly after the grafic Capt. Leo Troutman es The prisoners were taken to the accident. Physicians had ampu- day advocated a semi-annual he, were the following places with day to outline their defense to Gov(ernor Henry Schricker's suits at-

“Hi,” said the Weatherman today, | and he didn't mean hello. He was describing the weather-

ological pressure Hoosiers are work- | when the enabling legislation is ex-|

pected to become effective, | The enabling act, as approved by the 1941 General Assembly, was not (Continued on Page Ten)

expert, is due at Washington shortly | that England and America would to confer on the vital problem of ob- [eternally oppose Japan's recon-| taining more shipping tonnage with [struction in the Far East. There- | held a {Johnson County Jail at Franklin. tated both, is Jegs In an Aemp: yl which to move such supplies. (fore, our place is alone at Ger-| safety inspection of automobiles, { ix CAUS 7 \ as save his life. Lieut, Vincent A. hk an TO ed by the fire was RK. EE Alona. Pi. Wer orhurc| costing each motorist “about 5 bach 8) — $2.50" per inspection. A small “tag” certifying

The British are moving ener- manv's side,” he said. getically to meet the threat of the | “I have remained of that German counter-blockade which was | jon and therefore 1 fought formally extended only yesterday by ihe was

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York—Snow flurries.

Oklahoma storms.

and Texas — Rain-|C0X for an hour. They asked if the

[tacking constitutionality of their “decentralization” program. Meanwhile, Democratic attornevs conferred with Circuit Judge Earl

court would be free to hear the first

Mackey's Own Story

|A Black Streak of Powdered Aluminum

case involving the two G. ©. P.| ae ig— Attorney General acts immediately NORTH STAR IN STRAITS after the return date Saturday. | PUNTA ARENAS, Chile. March 2¢ Judge Cox assured them “that he|

(U. P.) —The S. S. North Star of the would be ready to start proceedings | Byrd Antarctic Expedition arrived 2% any time. vesterday at this port in the Magel- | The Judge also told them he belan Straits after battling a storm lieved that the judge who hears any at Cape Horn. It brought 35 men portion of the cases challenging conwho had spent 15 months at the site Stitutionality of the Legislature's reof the expedition. The S. S. Bear O'f2nization program should hear is expected March 29. |all of them. { Frank C. Dailey and Walter ‘Myers, representing the Governor, and Attorney General George {Beamer and Deputy Attorney Gen-

TIMES FEATURES | ON INSIDE PAGES mes Northam attended the

Republican attorneys said they would file some action before Saturday, the deadline for their appear3 ance. Both parties are anxious for 131an early hearing and the first case . '" |may get under way next week.

Gulf States—Showers.

By CAPT. JOSEPH C. MACKEY (Copyright, 1941, by Star Newspaper Service: distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.; reproduction in whole or in part prohibited.)

MANY CURIOUS AND almost ecrie factors enter into the story of my rescue. Except for these wholly unplanned factors, our wrecked plane in the wilds of N ewfoundland might not have been found for months or even for years, perhaps never. Despite my deternfination to fight my

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than probable the infection would have rendered me an easy victim to the wilderness’ power of cold and privation. On the 25 -mile journey I was already embarked on, I had gone a pitiful 300 yards when my rescue came. The first of these curious factors was the sea marker. A sea marker is a sort of flask of aluminum powder which is carried by all planes crossing water for the purpose of estimating an airplane’s drift. We drop the flask onto the water and the aluminum powder spreads in a bright patch which we watch to calculate the amount of our drift in the air. I had six of these sea markers in my plane when we crashed. Five of them burst on the impact. When I waked from unconsciousness and looked around the plane

Capt. Mackey

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way out to the railway, 25 miles distant, it is only now I realize how slim were the chances of my success. For already the infection which was later found in my head wounds had set in. After a day or (wo it is more

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This is the third and last of a series by Capt. Joseph C. Mackey, pilot of the plane in which Sir Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin, died.

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On Silvery Snow Brings About His Rescue

that first hour, the whole scene was one weird and ghostly spectacle of silvery aluminum. Everything was powdered with it, the wreckage itself, the figures of my companions. Though the plane was wrecked badly, by some miracle the cain lights, fed by battery, still glowed. “And all shone in this strange unearthly glare of the aluminum from the five burst sea markers. During that unforgettable first night when Sir Frederick tried so desperately to communicate something to me, he and I and all about us were bathed in that silvery glare. Yet it was the one unbroken sea marker that brought about my plane rescue. For it was not the wreckage of the plane that Jim Allison saw when he passed over me. It was not I, plowing along with my toboggan. It was a black streak in the snow. The third day, when cushions, life preservers and other things had failed to make a smoke fire, I had taken this one unbroken sea marker over to my rock and (Continued on Page Five)

three-power be a Berlin to the area around Iceland. fected.” Pal Pe Iceland, it was charged, is now SH a —— as a transfer point for cargoes from _ y CAE NT the United States en route to Brit- | od BRITISH FIRM STRUCK ain. | TRONA, Cal, March 26 (U, P.).— | [A Federal Labor Conciliator today

entered negotiations to end a strike |

adequacy of brakes, steering apparatus and lights would be issued after each inspection. Capt. Troutman estimated it would take about 24 men to operate such an inspection service and he said that if any money was

of 1300 employees of the British-|

4 80,000 PLANES IN |owned American Potash and Chem-|

ical Corp., a major source of potash

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7-Billion-Dollar British Aid Bill Flown to F. D. R. |

WASHINGTON, March 26 (U. P.).—Defense officials are working | on schedules envisioning produc- | tion of 80,000 planes for the United | States and Great Britain by the | summer of 1943. These planes would | include the 33,000 now on order, This was disclosed in authori-

saved from the $2.50 fee, it could be turned over to the Traffic Department to “buy yellow paint to mark restricted parking areas.”

War Moves Today

By J. W,. T. MASON United Press War Expert

London reports that arrival of German troops in North Africa is occurring in numbers that cannot be ignored suggests more intensive naval action may have to be taken to interrupt the passage of Nazi transports. The problem, however, is temporarily difficult to solve and may require some shifting of duties of the British Mediterranean Fleet. tative defense quarters today as| Reports that the Germans were beginning to ine President Roosevelt prepared to | crease their dispatch of troops to the Tripolitanian sign the $7,000,000 war-aid appro- province of Libya coincided with the beginning of British action in sends | priation bill which will free a flood ing men and munitions inte Greece. The two movements are associated, [of new armament orders for Brit- | British troopships and supply vessels en route to Greece have to be lain and perhaps other Axis foes. convoyed by warships. That means | The bill was flown to the President concentration of British squadrons shipping has made it impossible for | in the Gulf of Mexico by commer- has been necessary in the Eastern ine British to detach any number cial and military planes. Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea : i | Although Congress has disposed to the detriment of normal naval ©f Warships from convoy work in of the last pending British-aid patrol duty in other Mediterranean the Atlantic for service in the Medi~ | measure, controversy over its effects areas. terranean. In consequence, & pars continued with renewed discussion| The German efforts to intensify tial opening has had to remain (Continued on, Page Ten) their spring offensive against British| (Continued on Page Ten), v °

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Mr. Mason