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By DAVID

VOLUME 53—NUMBER 110

M. NICHOL

- BERN, July 17—Europe, as it nears its third year of war, is

approaching in the next winter

a critical period when the twin

threats of hunger and disease are expected to assume dangerous proportions for the first time in this conflict. Health experts, anxiously watching the fluctuations in the limited and generally unsatisfactory statistics which . still are available, admit the existence of “ideal” epidemic conditions and express some surprise that the outbreaks already, so far as they can be detected, are relatively few. And just as in the last war, when it required two years for hunger to make itself apparent in the general health standards of Europe's peoples, so now the signs of malnutrition are becoming ‘evident and are expected to increase.

Mr. Nichol

Isolated disease figures are of . little value to

, the laymen and even the experts are having their troubles.

THURSDAY, LY 17, 1041

Not

actual numbers so much as soaring, unseasonal rises in mortality rates are the signs for which the health detectives search. But _mortality rates require accurate population -statistics, and these are ‘as uncertain in ‘Europe today as tomorrow’s breakfast. :

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FRENCH OFFICIALS IN Marseilles, for example, believed there were more than 1,000,000 persons in the city. A census for rationing purposes showed less than 800,000, a difference that would have thrown mortality rates one-fourth out of line, Whole areas have been cleared or crowded, as the waves of conquest rolled over the continent.

This is the first of two articles discussing the state of European health as affected by World War IL

Millions of refugees have taken to the road, millions of men have been shifted about as war prisoners or imported laborers, perhaps another 1,000,000 “resettlers” have made their dreary way to new homes.

Entered as Second-Class

at Potsoftice, Indianapolis, Ind.

There are other difficulties. Communication is slow. What reporting systems existed in rural areas often have disappeared completely

with the collapse of governments.

German figures, fairly complete

for the Reich, show only the incidence of communicable disease and not the mortality rates for some of the occupied areas to the east,

and Russia, a

reservoir of disease as well as raw materials which the

‘Germans may also tap, has provided no health figures since 1938. The one place in the world to which anything like regular reports still come is the Epidemiological Intelligence Service of the League of Nations, where a staff reduced now to only three, under the direction of Dr. Yves M. Biraud, a' Johns Hopkins graduate, undertakes to map the ever-changing picture. It is from their weekly publications that the following picture is pieced together,

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TYPHUS, THE LOUSE-BORNE scourge that wiped out a sixth of the Rumanian people and killed from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 Russians during the last war, is the greatest danger and the greatest unknown. Stemming more directly from malnutrition is tuberculosis, which is

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already on the increase and may

be ost sary wa

‘areas where food problems are especially difficult next winter,

® x =» MEASLES HAS TAKEN its toll.

» » » oy particularly in England, where like:

everything else the disease had fallen into well-ordered, predictable

cycles, varying from area to area,

which ‘have been completely upset

bythe shifting of bomb refugee youngsters. Typhoid swept through former Poland after the collapse of the!

government under the pounding of the German armed forces.

many casualties it caused may 8000 to 10,000 persons are believed in Warsaw.

How, never be known accurately, bub. to have died from this cause alona

. Eighteen months later, I. saw peremptory wamingg

about the water supply through most of the Warthegau. Not directly attributable to the war, but adding to the miserlok of Europe's peoples, has been spinal: meningitis, which occurs mn. { cycles that rise and fall over several years, It reached a peak period,

particularly in’ the Balkans, from

1938 to 1040, and in March, 1040,"

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JAPANESE MOBILIZATION REPORTE

DRAFT DRAWING

AFFECTS 750,000

Blindfolded Secretary

Knox to Select First

Capsule Tonight in Second Lottery; Expected to Take Two Hours. WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P.).—The luck of the draw

in the nation’s second peace-time conscription

lottery

will determine tonight the order in which 750,000 men 21

years of age will be called for

military service.

Secretary of Navy Frank Knox will draw the first melon-colored capsule.from the “goldfish” bowl that was used in the World War and first peace-time lotteries.

20,599 HOOSIER

The new registrants had become 21 years old since the. lottery last Octobér involving 16,500,000 men between 21 and 36 years. Eight hundred eapstiles, which have been under heavy guard since the order numbers were placed in them, will be drawn at the InterDepartmental Auditorium, starting at Tp. m. Selective Service officials planned to integrate the new registrants in the lists of men already classified by local boards. For example, if a local board has

. 200 new registrants and has classi-

fied 2000 men who have not been called for service. one new régistrant will be inserted in the list after every 10 classified men,

Radio Station WFBM will broadcast the national draft lottery from 7 to 7:15 p. m. today (C. D. T.) and Radio Station WIBC will broadcast it from 7:15 fo 8:15 p. m

Despite the fact that 800 numbers will be drawn, the highest registration reported by any local board was 661 in Baltimore. The extra numbers will provide for late registrants. Officials expected the lottery would be completed within two hours, as compared to the 17-hour drawing started Oct. 29 by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. He will be out of the city tonight and Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson will represent him, Others who will draw numbers included: Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff; Rear Admiral, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation; Chairman Robert R. Reynolds (D. N. C.), of the Senate Military Affairs Committee; Chairman Andrew J. May (D. Ky.), of the House Military Affairs Committee, representatives of 12 veterans organizations, and 50 selectees drafted in the previous lottery who have become noncommissioned officers,

Brig. Gen. : Lewis B. Hershey,

; deputy director of Selective Service,

will open the ceremony with a brief address. Col, Charles R., Morris, Elizabeth, N. J, who has participated in all drawings since 1917, will blindfold Knox and lead him to the bowl. The auditorium will be darkened except for a light shining through the bottom of the bow] |Assoc

upon the capsules.

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SIBLEY HEADS U. S§. 0. .

NEW YORK, July 17 (U. P.).—|

Harper Sibley, former president of

. the United States Chamber of Com-

merce, was elected president of the United Service Organizations for National Defense today. He ‘sueceeds Walter Hoving, who will continue as chairman of the board of directors,

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SELECTEES WAIT

None in New Draft Likely to| Be Called Within Next Six Weeks.

The immediate future of 20,509 young Hoosiers was in the hands of Lady Luck today as Federal officials prepared to begin drawing capsules from the famous goldfish bowl at Washington at 7 p. m. today (Indianapolis Time) in the second peacetime draft lottery.

Those youths whose serial numbers are among the first to be pulled from the bowl will be integrated “low” in the present. draft board order number lists and, if found physically fit, are likely to be summoned for Army service within the - next three months. Those youths whose serial numbers ‘are among the last to be drawn will be placed toward the end of the present order number lists and it may be several months, if they are physically fit for induction, before they are summoned. Local draft oticials - predicted, however, that none of the youths affected by tonight's lottery would be called before September. It will take the local draft boards at least 10 days to integrate the new registrants with the old and then the regular draft procedure, classification and physical examinations, which takes several days, will begin. Three thousand and thirty-five Marion County men are involved in tonight’s lottery. “iia . Youths interested in learning (Continued on Page Six)

WHEAT QUOTA GROUP PLANS MASS MEETING

Penalty Delay W Won't Halt Fight, Counsel Says.

The executive committee of the Indiana Marketing Quota Protest Association met today in Indianapolis to dscuss plans for a mass meeting here of all Hoosier farmers who ‘want penalties lifted from wheat grown in excess of quotas. Alva Bitner, Rushville grower, secretary of the committee, said the committee also will check over the membership and will discuss a possible. new move in Washington. A meeting of farmers, to be addressed by Lamont O’Harra, committee president, has been called at the Danville courthouse for 8:30 p. m. (€. S. T.) Saturday. Meanwhile, Robert I. Marsh; at-

4ltorney for the Association, stated

that the 12-month extension on the penalties will “not halt the farmers of Indiana from organizing to-op-pose monopoly control of crops by the Agricultural Department.” He: said: that the ' extension was not relief but merely a prolonging of the “agony.”

DAYTON. O., July 17 (U. P).—A| leader of the Farmers’ Protective Association today threatened a

striké by Tarmers “to starve out the

nation” if: wheat marketing quotas

‘24 are not lifted by the Federal Gov-| 8 ernment,

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Small Fraction

Budget Spent. on Inspectigr

By SAM TYNDALL ONE MORNING three weeks ago, John P. Booty, manager of a local typewriter agency, was busy in his office, 321 N. Pennsylvania St. The phone rang and a man, explaining it was the FBI in Washington, asked Mr. Booty .to hold on. Pretty soon a feminine voice came on the line and said; “This is the Bethlehem Steel Co. in Baltimore—please hold on a minule. ” Mr. Booty “held on” for about five minutes, getting more and more perplexed. Finally the girl came back on the line and explained there was a “call coming from a ship, but I am having trouble getting it.” Right then, Mr. Booty guessed what it was all about. The word, “ship,” was the clue, for he knew that his brother, Alfred, whom he had not seen in 40 years, was an officer in the British Navy. Pretty soon Alfred was on the

of Health

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Ey is the second and last of two _ on leent health conditions.)

.. . By RICHARD LEWIS Public health in Indianapolis costs the taxpayers: $1;000;000- a year.

Of this, 5 per cent or $50,000 is spent on

tive functions which

include sanitary and food inspections which affect the great majority of citizens, according to a survey by The Indianapolis Times. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health ‘officer, admits that. the corps

than 22 years ago. A decade ago, there were 18 inspectors. A minimum of 24 are required to police the City adequately, Dr. Morgan believes. The men should wear uniforms—white in summer and khaki in winter. At present, they wear plain work clothes and are identified only by badges. A supplemental force of experts must be added to the two restaurant inspectors who. police the City’s 1500 eating establishments—or try to— and two more meat, inspectors are needed, according to the health officer. To prevent a recurrence of the tragedy in which two persons died of poison‘gas during the fumigation of an apartment building here recently,” Dr. Morgan believes at least two fumigation experts should be added to' the Health Department administrative staff. ' The experts would supervise all fuinigation operations involving toxic gases. They would eliminate fly-by-night exterminaters who now operate in the City virtually without interference, since there is no check on them and no, licensing system. In the Health Department office at City Hall, extra clerical help is (Continued om Page Six)

GEN. LEAR GETS 0. K.

OF WAR DEPARTMENT

«WASHINGTON, «July: 17 (U, P.. —Undersecretary of ‘War Robert P. Patterson said today that the War Department supported the disciplinary action meted out by Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear to 350 soldiers who yoohooed at shorts-clad girls on a Memphis, ‘Tenn., golf course. Mr. Patterson told a press conference that the matter was closed as far as’ the War Department ‘is concerned. Gen. Lear, he said, submitted a full report—which will not be made public—on why he ordered members of the 110th Quartermaster Battalion to march 15 miles as a disciplinary measure. “We always support our generals,” he added. “Where would we be otherwise.” We have matters of far more p importance in the War Department than that.”

SUMMER'S COMING BACK FOR AWHILE

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. .... 58 10a m..... 7 7a.m..... 60 1lam..."78 8a. m. .... 67 12 (noon) .. 81 Sam ....M 1 1p. m.... 81

_1t's back to summer temperatures tonight and fomorrow for Indianeather Bureau predicted today. Also, thére may be showers or thunderstorms tomorrow.

HOPKINS IN LONDON

LONDON, July 17 (U. P) Harry | 5, UL 8. Lend: Lend: Lease Ad-|

‘of 13 sanitary inspéctors in inadequte. : The staff is no larger today

GRAND JURY TO OPEN BLUE. DRIVE HEARING

13 Witnesses to Testify in Gaming, Liquor Probe.

Thirteen persons were to appear before the Marion County grand jury today as it opened an investigation of liquor and gambling law violations. It was the latest step in Prosecutor Sherwood Blue's cleanup campaign which has produced two raids in nearly a week, Two taverns which the Prosecutor told the County Liquor Board last Monday had been violating the laws were reported to be the first subjects of the probe. Mr. Blue has asked that their licenses be revoked and that the liquor board’ and his office ‘cooperate in cleaning up future cases. Among : today’s grand ‘jury witnesses were to be representatives of the State Alcoholic Beverages Commission, police officers, members of the -prosecutor’s: staff and others. . Members of the jury are John W. Friday, 2242 N. Alabama St. foreman; Thomas M. Reidy, 1002 Elm St.: Joseph Fritsch, 2518 E. 10th St.; Daily McCoy, 2014 'N. Talbot St.; Hyman Friedman, 3019 Park Ave, and Hobart N. Trotter, 2020 E. 46th St. Mr. Blue indicated he would present evidence on all phases of ‘his drive and that the jury probably would. subpena - witnesses - in several cases. :

NAVY BEATS SCHEDULE

WASHINGTON, July 17 (U, P.) — The Navy Department said today that its huge shipbuilding-program, originally scheduled for completion in 1946, should be completed in 1944 if the present construction rate is maintained. It said that during the 40-day period ended July 10, there were 22 naval vessels launched. and keels laid for 42 others.

Girl Rides Bounding Main

All-Night

NEW YORK, July 17 (U.P) .— The steamer Sandy Hook passed a strange craft in Ambrose Channel ‘today and pulled up for a look.

! “There was pretty Elanore Mal

‘donado, *19, sitting on an ‘automo-

' » He: cited the case of ‘anti-aircraft

got farther shi

|Radio, the War and FBI Unite Brothers After 40 Years

line and the two virtual ‘strangers’ were arranging to meet in Baltimore the next day. It had been 40 years since Mr. Booty, then a lad of 18, left his native England for America after his parents died. His brother,’ Alfred, who was only six months old, was left in an orphanage. Jack Booty became a naturalized citizen of the United States, while Alfred was reared in England by foster parents and, at 14, ran away and joined the British Navy. Immediately after the phone conversation, Jack grabbed a train and the next day. in Baltimore, met his brother, wearing his blue naval uniform and a Van Dyke beard. From then on it was a matter of getting acquainted all over again. From Alfred, Jack learned that two other brothers were in the Navy, one in the Army; two brothers-in-law were in the Navy and another in the Army, and

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SPEED I URGED

} 1 speedy action on the Togs Tor

Marshal Warns . Safiators Aug. 1 ‘Deadline’ for Service Decision.

BULLETIN

‘WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P.). Gen. Geerge C. Marshal, Chief of Staff, told the Senate Military Affairs Committee today that the Army foresees the possibility of Spain, Portugal and Africa falling to the Axis powers.

WASHINGTON. Julv 17 (U. P.) — General George C, Marshall, Army chief-of-staff, told the Senate Mili-

tary ‘Affairs Committee today that Aug. 1 is the “deadline” for acceptance or rejection of legislation to extend the length of service of the mobilized national guard and selectees. He also told the committee that the United States is financing the Expansion of aviation facilities in Brazil to surround ths hemisphere with a “ring of protection” against a “ruthless foreign power.” Under -the present legislation, Marshall said, National Guardsmen must be demobilized and replaced by September - and A selectees by October. He said the demobilization would impair defenses. at certain outposts garrisoned, of Decessit) by the ‘guardsmen ° and inees

protection for Hawaii. The Army was forced to send a National Guard regiment for the task. If that regiment. is to be demobilized, he said, relief must sail from San Prancisco by Aug. 1 so the regiment can sail back Aug. 15. Two weeks in this country is required for demobilization.’ Charges that his recommendations to extend service of and selectees were designed to set up an “A. E. F.” are “completely unfounded,” Marshall said. : Marshall's reference to Brazil came in the midst of a discussion of legislative controls over operation

his testimony siders the United States to be in a 66 ve emergency.” “It would not be in the public inJarest lo4ull all we know.” Jo said. “That might result in something like the Sinking of the Maine of the Zinmerman note.”

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ference that the total Government

she ~ Kept,

Alfred

Price Holds Up _ Secret Weapon

GT y 1740, B). BL ts" for ty bill are motivated partly by a desire to obtain an “improved weapon” for which the designers are attempting to obtain a price 100 per cent above the cost of production, it was learned today. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, in secret testimony before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, said the department. wishes to place an order for a: limited quantity of the weapons to make a thorough test. Patterson's testimony was made public -today, but the nature of the “improved weapon,” was not.

ASKS CURTAILMENT OF CONSUMER 600DS

Morgenthau: Fears Delays in Defense Output.

WASHINGTON, July, 17.(U. BP). —Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. said today that nondefense ‘manufacturing must be sharply restricted immediately if defense production is to reach desired levels. Mr, Morgenthau told a press .con-

expenditures this fiscal year would not be much over. $19,000,000,000 unless immediate steps are taken to curb the production of factory-made articles for civilian uses. The bureau of the budget has estimated the 1042 fiscal year expenditures at ,000,000,000, including $15,500,000, for national defense. The Secretary said that he hoped. his $19,000,000,000 figure is wrong, but said that the showing in the pastifew months. had. not been “very encouraging. a 7 cited the automobile industry | “a glaring example” of producyy facilities that ‘should be "diyerien drastically W defense producon,

CAFE TALK BANNED

BERLIN, July 17 (U. P). — A Government decree today banned conversation or the serving .of meals in restaurants, cafes and beer halls while High Command Som iques are being broadcast. + Fines will assessed for violations.

BURNING.

LONDON— * [The steeple of Bow Bells rose like a sword against ' the flame . . . it was acrid, choking, almost unbreath- | able . . & then London shook itself and came out of the trance.. The basic plot was: "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Robert J. Casey's fourth article ‘in his stirring series appears today on

BLOW AGAINST

the Nipponese islands.

BERLIN REPORTS | SMOLENSK FALL

Claim Chisinau and Forts Near Kiev Taken; Nine Million Men Battle.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

German reports claimed today the capture of Smolensk, vital town 235 miles from Moscow, Chisinau (Kishenev), capital ;of Bessarabia, and the last of the heavy fortifications protecting the Kiev area. On the main Russo-German front

|the Nazi high command limited its].

communique to sweeping assertions of a propagandist nature except for the claim to capture of Chisinau, 35 milgs inside Bessarabia from the Rumanian frontier. The high com-

gaged in the Russian battles. From all reports, this picture of the front was given: :NORTHERN SECTOR—German troops sweeping up toward Lenin-

dicated; Russian reports said extremely heavy fighting was in progress in the Pskov-Porkov area. CENTRAL SECTOR — German quarters reported capture of Smolensk on the road 'to Moscow, other Nazi sources suggested Nazi vanguard “might” be within 100 miles of Moscow; DNB claimed that Polotsk, 80 miles northwest of Vitebsk had been taken after holding out for some days in the rear of the German: vanguard; Russian reports indicated counter-offensive had carried Russians 30 miles back west

over the Dnieper to Bobruisk.

SOUTHERN SECTOR — High Command, reported capture of Chisinau; DNB claimed that final heavy bunkers of Kiev defense sys‘tem captured after Nazi spearhead had earlier swept around them; Russians still- placed ting center at Novograd Volynsk, 125 miles west of Kiev. ) ‘

mand said 9,000,000 men were en-|

grad but exact whereabouts not in-|

SIBERIA HINTED

Million New Troops May: Attack Russia After Lt ‘Squeeze’ of Indo-China; Konoye Forming New Cabinet.

By UNITED PRESS iy Japanese Emperor Hirohito today instructed Prings Fuminaro Konoye to form a new Cabinet as Shanghai he: reports that full mobilization was in progress througho

The Shanghai advices said that the new orders would call to the colors possibly one million more men, perhaps doubling the size of Japan's Army.

The new forces, it was res ne ported are destined for action “in the north,” presumably : move toward Russian Sibet p!

1 These -yeports said Japan ap Snuy hep hoped to be hic: ussia . has tea re A portant bases in Indo-China, Shanghai = ‘was convinced Japan has submitted demands of ultimative, character to the Frenc Government concerning Ind and specifically the Cam naval base. It appeared that the would be forced to yield in China and that no great force be required to force her subm There was considerable suspic therefore, that the Japanesé simultaneously preparing for in Siberia, presumably at the b ding of the Germans, a

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Strangest bit of news pern through Japanese censorship was the story that Japanese scl which had been schedulvd to their summer vacations. this were being extended two weeks ' “relieve the currently over transportation facilities.” Shanghai reported thatthe Yoo kohama specie bank is believed have started suddenly to dispose

dollar credits, presumably in an : pation of a U. S. freezing : whith would be likely in event

Japanese move north. The ‘Japanese military plans 1 moving forward simultaneously ¥ solution of the Tokyo cabinet ¢ Konoye was premier in the inet which resigned’ yesterday. new Cabinet is expected to be n tionalist, militaristic and possi a semi-dictatorship of the Jap armed forces. Konoye was chosen to form new and “stronger” Cabinet by group of elder statesmen, former premiers, who advised Emperor. ‘The official Domei N

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Agency said that no basic change §i foreign policy was expected.

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Moves

"By United Press War Experts

Two factors support the growing hope in Britain—it still is in 4 | hope stage and not a conviction—that Hitler has made his first big n take of the war in attacking Russia. 4 _ One is the Red Army's stand against the Wehrmacht, trading bi for blow and inflicting heavy losses without showing any sign of fold! up under its own losses.

start of the campaign 26 days ago most of it was through the w outer defenses of the buffer ter tory of the Baltic states and Pe If the Germans now begin