Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1942 — Page 1
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! | The War and You— | Hope at Top
SUGAR BOOKS VOID SUPPLIES OF HOARDERS
Americans Will ‘Go Back to School’ to Get Their
Ration Stamps.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (U. P). —Millions of Americans will flock to their neighborhood schools
within the next few weeks to ob-| pu
tain individual stamp booklets to! govern their
the duration.
New York World-Telegram Radio Editor |
years’ the
Bob Voted No. 1 on | Air; Dinah Shore
11. SUB SUNK IN COLLISION
Gets New Honors. By ALTON COOK
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NEW YORK, Feb. 7—After eight] Crash Occurred Off Panama’
allegiance to Jack Benny, radio editors of the United
FEAR 36 DEAL
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Note to Mrs. Big: If air
raids come and civil defense doesn’t work letter-perfect
AUSTRALIA KEY
POINT IN PLANS
T0 STRIKE AXIS
Singapore City Under Fire;
| War Time |
Don’t Forget to Set Clocks Hour Ahead at 2 A. M. Monday.
HOOSIERS WILL LOSE some 3,500,000 hours of sleep tomorrow night. “War time,” you know, At 2 a. m. Monday, the nation
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SET FOR 1042, REST ‘LATER
West Point to Add Course
States and Canada have switched to a new favorite. Bob Hope is the| new man of the year selected by
1144 editors voting in the 11th an-|
Jan. 24, Navy Reveals; 3 of Crew Saved.
EB sugar purchases for
The impending gram, outlined by Price Adminis- | trator l.eon Henderson today, voids any advantage persons who
rationing pro- §
nhoarded sugar expected to gain!'g 1
and stiff penalties—as!
much as 10 years in prison and a $10.000 fine—for those who falsify | statements on the amount they! have on hand. | Under the plan, school teachers
provides
will be charged with registering | :
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consumers and will be required to obtain a signed statement on the] amount of sugar they have at
home. Must Use Supply HER
exceeds two pounds
registrar will tear stamps from the |
“hoarder’s” booklets equivalent to|rushes most radio stars to quick | eh popularity, Bob's rise has been slow, ! extending over a half dozen years.| Little by little he passed established |
the excess amount, thus depriving him of the right to purchase sugar until his accumulated stocks are used.
will be instituted as soon as the | stamp booklets have been printed | and distributed to every family. | Each bock will contain 28 stamps, ! each one good for a week's quota.! How much that will be has not been | decided but Mr. Henderson believes!
it probably will be no more than Allen and Fibber McGee & Molly SNK immediately. 12 ounces per person per week at were lined up in that order behin {Hope. The newcomer to the upper |
{ > {brackets is Red Skelton. a !voted fifth among comedians, ahead Manc of Rear Admiral Frank H.
Only one person from each fam-'gf Charlie He can!cantor. 3 ; | margin, Any other person living in| Skelton as the outstanding new star | Message in Buoy |
the start,
Only One Need Register ily unit needs to register. obtain booklets for the entire family unit the household but of the family will be required to! register personally.
{He is voted top man over all comefor dians and his program is voted the! suring a diving test off Portsmouth, each member of the family, the! best on the air.
radio editors’ Mr. Henderson said the program |vear he heads them all.
Charlie Drops to 11
second year, is dropped way below the leaders—11th this time.
not a member tq appear during the year.
nual tors’ poll, completed today.
World-Telefrem Yadio efi-! wASHINGTON, Fob. 7 (0 Pe
The U. S. submarine S-26 was sunk | Jan. 24 when it collided with an-| ‘other U. S. naval vessel off Panama, |
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox| lannounced today. About 36 men
{apparently were lost. said only
The Navy three men were rescued. Without disclosing the number abeard at the time of the crash, it added that next of kin of casualties have been noti- = | fied. Ships of the class of the S-26 t ‘usually carry four officers and 35 men. The Navy said ithe accident occurred while the vessel was operat{ing on the surface. Divers located | the sunken ship Jan. 29 in 301 feet |of water but there was no indica{tion of life on board and hope of | finding anyone alive has been jabandoned. Salvage operations are continuing, however.
Recall Other Disasters
9 : ’ Loss of the S-26 was the first Bob Hope is paid a double tribute. | submarine disaster since the old
| submersible O-9 went to the bottom
[N. H., last June 20. Thirty-three men were trapped aboard the O-9, had been reconditioned shortly before the accident. It was also off Portsmouth that . the submarine Squalus went to the this | bottom on May 23, 1939. Twenty-| | six men perished on the Squalus | while 33 were saved. The vessel! later was raised and recommisi sioned ie Three men who were on the {bridge of the submarine were
In the vote on comedians, Benny, | thrown CloBR Of ihe orn) Whien : These three
Unlike the rapid zoom which
favorites until
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CHARLIE M'CARTHY. for
d | men were rescued. Rescue operations 'menced immediately
were com-
He was under com-
and Eddie | Sadler, commandant of the 15th overwhelming / naval district, and Capt. Thomas J.
also selecteq DoVIe.
McCarthy By an the editors
A buoy ejected from the sub-
The outstanding new star selected |
|a year ago, Dinah Shore, wins added Marine's signal gun was located on
Mr. Henderson added tnat price honors this vear. She is voted best the surface. It contained a message | ceilings will be imposed on retailed of the girl popular singers, over the | Which revealed that the forward and sugar if “profiteering” continues. |perennial favorite Kate Smith. In after ends, which contained the OPA hasn't decided just what to!the other popular-music depart- | compartments fitted for rescue work do about those who eat out regular-!ments. Bing Crosby is first among |With a diving bell, had been flood-'
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They probably will not have to!male singers, Guy Lombardo first ed. The surviving members of the]
obtain sugar stamps aithough books among bands. This is 11 years in a crew were in the central operating!
will be printed for them just in case {Continued on Page Two)
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| compartment. The Navy explained that because of the design of the conning tow-| adio Theater First ler structure in this type of sub-| NONE OF the other dramatic pro- marine, it would not have been pos-!
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(which few expect), better get set for terrific public criticism of yourself. Morale of OCD staff is reeling from overdoses of dilettantism ad mayrischaneyism (nee boondoggling).
Memo to rhythmist Chaney: Maybe you haven't heard, but you're on the way out. So is the OCD’s whole physical fitness division, whether Congress orders it or not.
Memo to Joe Lash, Mrs. R.’s ex-pinko professional youth: Your
job as an OCD youth adviser is being liquidated. Mayor La Guardia is stepping down soon as OCD director. But there's only one man big enough to fire Mrs. Roosevelt. Or is he? on
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; Byrd repealer of new law providing pensions for Congressmen is likely to pass. “Bundles for Congressmen” movement has stung plenty. ”
IT'S OFFICIAL now. Congress and the Treasury are considering a general sales tax. Luther Gulick, a special Morgenthau assistant, tells
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sales taxes, a tax source we are considering here on the hill and in the Treasury for the emergency.” ”
‘Ghosts’ Write Speeches
OFFICE OF Facts and Figures is ghost-writing ~ speeches for some government bigwigs, Helped Knox on one—but his Hitler- : comes first boner, which upset applecarts from Chungking to Batavia to Sydney, was all his own.
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2 2 ” ” MARITIME COMMISSION plans to convert 17 Great Lakes auto carriers to ore carriers. upping one-fleet capacity 100.000 tons. (Boats were originally built for ore, then converted to the now-doomed auto trade).
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Cosmetics Put in Ceramic Jars
CONCERNS BOTH old and new are about to get going on substitutes required in many fields. Example: Ceramic jars for cosmetics. replacing tin containers. Older companies are being advised to hop to it before newcomers exploit the chance.
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Look fo- rationing of gasoline, soon after sugar. Reason: Not a gas shortage yet, but need of conserving tires. (Government may eventually commandeer your “pleasuve-car” tires for defense workers and it won't want worn-out ones). Canada is already rationing gasoline, = = n STAGGERING hours for industry, business, schools, will be pushed by defense transport boss Eastman to ease problems arising from new concentrations of workers and auto-and-tire shortage. Another Eastman plan: Putting school busses on double duty, to haul war workers.
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‘Pipe Down’ on Shooing ‘Parasites’
WHITE HOUSE may pipe down about shooing “parasites” out of this war-jammed city. Parallel between social drones and Government swivel-chair squatters is too deadly. Note: Servant short-
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sets its clocks ahead one hour in
accordance with an act of Congress,
Forts in Manila Bay Also Shelled.
a House committee: | “Twenty-two states have general |
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign Editor
Cal DAYLIGHT SAVING
Armed forces of the united na-| tions smashed four more Japanese naval ships and many small boats! in the East Indies and the Strait!
fof Johore today and Australia officially was cited as the potential offensive base from which a
|counter-offensive might be launched |
‘against Japan.
Many great movements of allied |
armed strength are being carried lout secretly, Australian War Minister F. M. Forde declared in a speech at Sydney.
“We are thinking of Australia as| 'an immense allied strong point,” he!
continued. “We may yet be the base from which the allies eventually start a campaign to free the Pacific.” Warns of Setbacks Mr. Forde emphasized that there would be more setbacks in the Far | East before a counter-offensive can be launched and dispatches from Singapore and Batavia again pointed to early enemy assaults upon the
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If you want to do it exactly right, you will, at 2 a. m., move the hands of your clock up to 3 | a. m. But if you get sleepy | before the deadline and go to bed at, say 10 p. m., set the hands up | to 11 p. m. before dozing off. | And don't be surprised if it's a | little darker than usual the next morning.
| British naval base and the main | SHORT, KIMMEL
{Dutch islands of Java and Sumatra.
| But the Japanese were suffering severe losses as they pushed slowly
toward the main Allied bases communication lines.
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Dispatches from the far flung
| fronts showed: returned the fire of Japanese heavy artillery bombarding Fort Drum. | Fort Mills and Fort Hughes in what
| appeared te be the beginning of a big-scale attack on Corregidor,
2 brought down two enemy aircraft and probably lost two near
Step Follows Inquiry Blaming Them for Pearl
Harbor Disaster.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (U. P.).— Maj. Walter C. Short and Rear
In the Philippines, American | big guns at Corregidor fortress!
American P-40 fighter planes/ Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the
two ranking officers on whom the Roberts Commission placed respon-
‘Bali, the little Soutn Seas island sibility for the Pearl Harbor disthat has been heralded as one of (aster, have applied for retirement, | the most peaceful and picturesque | it was announced today.
spots in the world.
A Japanese cruiser and
| The applications are under con-
{3 : . sideration, according to separate
J - transport were sunk and ha nible by the Secre other cruiser and a submarine dam- | {aries of ar an avy.
|aged or sunk in the Dutch East Indies as The Netherlands
forces |
The special board of inquiry headed by Supreme Court Justice
[raised their toll of enemy ships to) Owen J. Roberts in its recent re{89 since the war began. The Jap- (Port to President Roosevelt charged 'anese have suffered 40 warships and | that the Japanese successes in their | transports sunk or damaged since|Dec. 7 assault on Pearl Harbor {the battle of Macassar Straits pe-| were primarily due to failure of
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The Dutch acknowledged
Short and Kimmel to consult each
the |other and their failure to maintain
loss of the important naval base|proper safeguards.
of Amboina and the big port of
Kimmel was commander-in-chief
Pontianak, on the west coast of|of the Pacific and U. S. fleets as
Borneo.
Japanese planes made their third | temporary
a full admiral and Short was a lieutenant general in
For Pilots in New Speedup Program.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (U. P.).—The War Department announced today that the U. S. Army Air Forces will be expanded to 2,000,000 officers and men. The anonuncement said that there will be 1,000,000 officers and men in the Air Forces this year and “double that number later on.” The move is part of the air exe pansion pian by President Rpose=
velt calling for the construction of 185,00¢ planes in 1942 and 1943.
First Air Course at Point
As part of the expansion, air training wili be added to the cure riculum at Military Academy at West Point. An unspecified number of cadets will. ke graduated as pilots, and thus save a year which is now required for their air traine ing after concluding their academie course. It is the first time that flying instruction has been given the West Pointers and is recognition of the growing part of air power in our war setup. All cadets desiring pilot training and who can pass the necessary physical examinations will be given elementary, basic and advanced flying training. The plan for traine ing makes no basic changes in the academic schedule because the air instruction will replace “certain parts of tactical instruction.” 2 2 ”
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3ATAVIA—Dutch sink Japanese cruiser and transport, damage another cruiser and submarine in battle against invasion of East Indies.
PHILIPPINES—Japanese heavy artillery shelled Ft. Drum, Ft. Mills and Ft. Hughes in Manila Bay as part of preparations for an apparent attack on the fortress of Corregidor, and American big guns returned the fire.
SINGAPORE—Japanese siege guns blast Singapore City;
. : : Ae raid on i i ; aii - age may eventually outweigh “lion-hunting” instinct and start exo- at ies gree haval base command Of fhe Howalisa Depart dus of widows and butterflies. The Jeeves are getting U. S. jobs. ¥8s also bombed air- ment when the attack occurred.
|dromes on the islands of Sumatra, Both were relieved of duty on
grams gave Radio Theater any com- sible to use the submarine rescue petition in its branch of entertain-| bell over the central compartment, |
British artillery shells boat
SOUTH BEND BURNS
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Feb. P.).—Indiana’s second airport fire in two days last night destroyed the administration building at the South Bend airport, causing an estimated damage of $75.000. The main
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was night. Firemen from seven South Bend district fire departments battled the blaze. The frame building housed offices of the C. A. A. the U. S. Weather Bureau. commercial airlines companies. and 2a radio range beacon and control room.
leveled by fire Wednesday
Authorities were unable to deter-!
mine cause immediately, but said they believed it originated in a trash pile in the basement near the furnace,
ment. Nearest, but far behind, were even if the ship had been located |
| Aldrich Family and Helen Hayes. Information Please registered its fourth victory among quiz shows, ahead of Take It Or Leave It and Quiz Kids. In the closest vote of the poll, H. V. Kaltenborn beat out Raymond Gram Swing for first place | among commentators. The margin was three votes. Elmer Davis, Lowell Thomas and William Shirer came next. Harry von Zell heads the studio announcers and Bill Stern the sport experts. z
Pons Best Soloist {| IN SERIOUS music, Lily Pons and |
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in time Six divers were flown from Washington to the Canal Zone to assist
the divers already engaged in res-.
cue and salvage operations.
SHIP IS TORPEDOED: 40 ARRIVE IN PORT
Third Lifeboat Missing in Sinking Off Canada. AN
EASTERN CANADIAN
{PORT, Feb. 7 (U. P.).—Two life-| {boats containing about 40 survivors
ond,
spectively, among soloists; G JeopeC } g {of a ship torpedoed off the eastern
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LONGER hours, ordered in Government offices as war measure, |
are futile in many cases: Non-war bureaus, with no increased duties simply have more time to dawdle.
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RIVERS-AND-HARBORS pork barrel will go to House on all- | or-nothing basis. Committee Chairman Mansfield firmly refuses to drop non-essential projects or to let essential ones, like new Soo Canal lock, be submitted separately. Sugar-coating for the billion-dollar pill: Measure would authorize war agencies to determine which projects are urgent, defer others for duration. 2 tJ PAUL McNUTT is angling to head the President's soon-to-be-named manpower committee. Its job: To budget men among armed forces, war industry, essential civilian industry, agriculture. War factories complain of hit-or-miss recruiting (mostly by Navy, Marines). They say key men, deferred by draft boards as (Continued on Page Two)
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land Celebes.
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Dec. 17. In the fighting around Amboina an enemy cruiser and transport |
were sunk and a submarine was, damaged. The second cruiser was|
damaged or sunk off the west coast! {of Borneo, where the enemy’s hold | ON AlD T0 GERMANY {on Pontianak gave him a dangerous! ‘base for more stabs toward Java. | _
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British heavy guns at Singapore smashed a fleet of small! boats collected by the Japanese on Africa Is Reported. tempt to launch a direct assault on| By UNITED PRESS the island, where additional defense Undersecretary of State Sumner units were arriving and taking their welles said today that inquiries (Continued on Page Two) |were being made of Vichy regarda jin reports that the Axis campaign
| the Johore coast for an apparent at-
plies from France.
Support to Nazis’ Drive in
in Africa was being aided by sup-|
armada being assembled by Japanese for a direct attac on the fortress island.
RANGOON—British rule the skies over Burma, shooting down || to 22 enemy planes.
MALTA—British Mediterranean base suffers worst aerial attack of war, reviving fears of Axis invasion attempt.
CAIRO—British claim success in aerial attack on Axis tank columns; report land defense + lines hold.
MOSCOW—N azi resistance stiffens; Russians throw 52-ton | tanks into battle west of Moscow.
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been made thus far.
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ARMY ‘PEEPS’ WATCH ALONG CANAL ROAD
ANCON, C. Z. Feb. 7 P)— Army “peeps’—light service cars— today chugged across a 47-mile highway from Cristobal to Panama City which Army officials called the most Important single link in the vital defenses of Panama Canal. The highway provides a 45-minute automobile connection between the
A Berne broadcast heard by NBC's listening post in Los Angeles said Vichy had agreed to support Hitler's armies in North Africa. Direct Vichy reports, however, said negotiations for improvement | of relations with Germany were snagged for three reasons. They were: 1. Refusal to accept a German | requisition for 52,000 horses for the Germans in Russia. 2. Refusal of Germany to evacu-|
On Inside Pages Details of Fighting .. Glamour Jobs Irk House In the Services . Japan Unmasked MacArthur in Philippines
Ry grr Storm Causes Blackout in NAVY AIR SCHOOL
Fert DRigrams. A third lifeboat which got away | —_— Eastern Part of County Represents Midwest in
When President Roosevelt th . : iL. was] stepped to a microphone before | rom e stricken vessel still was| Training of 30,000 Fliers. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (U. P.) —
the two houses of Congress Dec. J Sha ron re te a 8, the broadcast of his speech ask- UTE © TIED crewmates were ing for a declaration of war im- Ded aboard the ship as she went The Navy is expected to announce | soon selection of a Far Western! {university and an Eastern university
. g own. pressed the radio editors as the Gown [for use under the aviation training
outstanding single event of the year. Power in Cumberland and the ; : Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It i) TIMES FEATURES jy: : “Washout” of several state high- eastern part of the County wp [Dromram 2 ie ry ihe not vet completed but is open for ON INSIDE PAGES Eleven crewmen and Capt. Carl S.{ways In the northern and south- off from Lye p. m. to 4:30 a. m./ It has chosen the University of emergency use. By March 31 the (Johnson, who were brought here western sections of the state. ona as emergency Crews Worked|qeoypi, for the South and the Uni. concrete slabs will be down along’ early yesterday by a fishing boat Wiuy ® 13 pRGSSiFigns, a Nghily dayligit 1s Yepuir the versity of Iowa for the Middlewest. the whole 47 miles. 14 after drifting 34 hours in an open critically, during yesterday's rain- damage. | The universities selected will pro- | Chief source of the trouble ap-| ;q. buildings and grounds for the The extreme eastern part of the Deareq to be on a “feeder line” op-|),,u,; "athietic and physical educa|County, including Curieviang, | Doslie Saturn Pa Dene Jon activities, dormitories to house eee {was worst hit bv the wer stop- Where the wind cause e wires to| oi y Marion County Rationing Board Financial 9 Radio STATE CANNERY EXPANDS | ,.0c which officials a the Indi. | CTOSS. This, power officials said, ET gh Sa will open Monday in the World War Forum 8 Mrs. Roosevelt. 7| FT. WAYNE, Feb. 7 (U. P).— anapolis Power & Light Co. at- blew a fuse at the Mitthoefer Road phases of the training program, Memorial. The office was formerly Homemaking .. 5 Serial Story -..13 Officials of the Crown Can Co. to- tributed to “weather conditions.” and U. S. Road 40, resulting in the dining room and food handling in the Indianapolis Chamber of In Indpls. .... 3 Side Glances... 8 day announced expansion of plant They said that the driving wind |blackout. facilities for the feeding of the 2000 Commerce Building. The move has Inside Indpls... 7 Society 4, 5 facilities here by 300 per cent, and (and snow caused power lines to| The operator at the Cumberland|gng the necessary number of beds been made to give the board more|Johnson ...... 8, 10| planes to employ an additional 150|cross and transformers and fuses|telephone exchange had to use a
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Here's what we can blame on the weather: “Blackout” of the extreme eastern! ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Feb. 7 (U. section of Marion County for almost | P.).—Hope for rescue of 26 missing | five hours early today and sporadic | |CTeW members of the torpedoed power shutoffs in various parts of | (tanker Indian Arrow diminished to- | Indianapolis last night. |
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U. S. TO SCAN SPEECHES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (U., P).— The White House announced today that Cabinet members, undersecre= ate Paris and enable the French taries and Federal administrators Government to return. | woula be asked to submit any 3. Refusal of Berlin to liberate 1,- speeches they make from now on 400,000 French prisoners of war. [to the Office of Facts and Figures for prior clearance.
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Clapper ....... 7:Music Comics .......13 Obituaries .... 6 lifeboat almost within sight of land. |fall here.
Crossword ....11 Pegler .. 8 left the Coast Guard station here | Editorials ..... 8 Pyle
F. D. R. JR, IN HOSPITAL
NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (U. P.).—| Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. the President’s son who is a mem- William L. Batt, director of ma= ber of the Naval Reserve on active terials for the War Production duty, is in Brooklyn Naval Hos-|Board, deplored last night the pital for an appendectomy which is| “smugness and satisfaction” in the now being performed, Third Naval| United States over progress of the District Headquarters announced war, and warned that it can easily today, be lost. 3 .
RATION BOARD TO MOVE
The new headquarters of the
DEPLORES U. S. “SMUGNESS” NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (U. Pl
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