Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1942 — Page 5
Allies 10 Miles From Tunis; STATE 37TH IN
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Russians Turn Nazi Flank
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by plane when they were appreWeygand was taken to Germany by the gestapo. The relations of the allies with
Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Admiral Jean Francois Darlan still were not clarified. De Gaulle was reported to be planning to back up his claims with a personal appeal to President Roosevelt. Darlan was said to be planning to send a mission to London and Washington. At the eastern end of the African front the pace of developments was slowed while the British 8th army brought up heavy supplies and equipment to blast its way through El Agheila, where it is believed Marshal Erwin Rommel plans to make a last-ditch stand.
Nazi Withdrawal Likely
On the Russian front the red army appeared to be slashing the Nazi positions from Stalingrad west to the Don river bend so heavily that a general German withdrawal did not appear improbable. The Russians, smashing resistance and advancing on all sectors in a gigantic Volga-Don offensive, today were reported to have practically wiped out the German left flank northwest of Stalingrad. ‘Trapped German and Rumanian * forces were being ruthlessly exterminated, as the prongs of a giant pincers rolled on in the plains west of the Don river, German killed and captured had mounted to more than 116,500 since the offensive opened on Nov. 19. “The Stalingrad offensive continues relentlessly and unceasingly over snowy fields littered with the wreckage of tanks and guns, and © corpses,” radio Moscow said.
Battle Lines Interlocked
(Radio Berlin claimed that the main Soviet offensive was checked in some places and thrown back everywhere. It said battle lines were “most interlocked.”) The defenders of Stalingrad, steadily drove the Germans back, but the most profitable operations were reported northwest of the city. There, on one sector, Soviet tanks and infantry destroyed 66 tanks and 25 planes, wreste:l a railway station from the Germans, captured 19 locomotives, 100 coaches, 168 gasoline
trucks and several dumps of materiel. In the northern tip of Stalingrad, battle line dispatches said, the Rus-
sians had made considerable gains) |
in a workers’ settlement near the Stalin tractor factory.
Trap German Wing
Soviet forces which had driven down from the north of Stalingrad to lift the siege had trapped the German wing. These Germans, dispatches said, were being killed. In the center of Stalingrad, Maj. Gen. Alexi Rodimtzev’s forces advanced in the heaviest fighting. In the southern part of the city, the Russians, in hand to hand battle, drove the Germans from one fortified line after another. “Substantial success” had been made in carving up the Germans’ right flank south of Stalingrad and destroying it piece by piece, dispatches said. .
Land Buna Reinforcements
In the Pacific the Japanese were said to have bolstered their positions in New Guinea by landing fresh troops, described as strong soldiers of excellent physique. The allied drive to knock them from the Buna-Gona sector, however, went forward without interruption. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s planes bombed Lae and Timor. The American air force in China was hitting at the Japanese in the Canton-Hongkong area, sinking an 8000-ton ship, damaging a 4000-ton vessel and attacking airdromes and war factories.
MARINE PRACTICE PROVES TOO TOUGH
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (U. P.). —David Schimel, 9, has a big brother in the marines and wanted to be a big marine himself. He tried. Somewhat later he showed up, dripping wet, at the police station and announced he Xo to
give himself up. He Ss vague about his wet clothes but finally vouch-safed that he was establishing a beach head when he fell in the bay. He said he had rescued
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GAS RATIONING FIGHT GOES ON
Roosevelt Says Plan Must Take Effect Tuesday; ‘Anti’ Bloc Meets.
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tee’s report which warned that unless corrective measures were taken to conserve existing rubber tires “this country will face both a military and civilian collapse.” “Since then,” the president said
last night, “the situation has become more acute, not less. Since then our military requirements for rubber have become greater, not smaller. Since then many tons of precious rubber. have been lost through driving not essential to the war effort. We must keep every pound we can on our wheels to maintain our wartime transportation system. “We must do everything within our power to see that the program starts Dec. 1 because victory must not be delayed through failure to support our fighting forces.”
Henderson, Jeffers Speak
Mr. Roosevelt’s appeal was supported in addresses last night by both Mr. Henderson and Mr. Jeffers in which they denounced “business-as-usual” groups who seek to delay the nation-wide program. Jeffers summed up the program this way: “The entire purpose of mileage rationing is to insure that they (the people) will get to work and back, not just this month and next, but in the months to come. The worker can obtain enough gasoline for his necessary driving. The farmer can obtain enough for getting his produce to market. Every citizen can get enough gasoline for essential driving. But there we have to stop. Non-essential driving is one of the luxuries all of us have to give up for the duration.” Mr. Henderson charged that those opposing nation-wide rationing were “self-seeking groups” who would “gamble America’s future . , . for a gallon of gasoline.” He also referred to them as “pressure boys” and “profit-before-sacrifice boys.”
30 Million Tires in ’43
Mr. Jeffers and Mr. Henderson’ appeared today before the senate committee investigating the war effort. That committee’s chairman, Senator Harry S. Truman (D. Mo.) believes nation-wide rationing necessary, but he wants to explain to the people clearly why it is necessary—to conserve irreplaceable rub-; ber tires for essential driving. Mr. Jeffers told the committee that unless rationing is enforced, the united mations’ rubber stockpile would be reduced to “consid-
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MENTAL CARE
Program for Institutions Outlined; Unified
Control Needed. (Continued from Page One)
It is true that improvements in the physical property may not be possible during the war, but plans should be made now and carried out at the earliest possible time. The citizens of the state should be apprised of the investment they have in these 20 institutions. The eight hospitals for the mentally ill and the deficients alone total more than $20,700,000 in investment!
Few Properly Cared For
To recite all of the ills and inequities of the institutional problem would require volumes. The problem is illustrated adequately in the official report to the last legislature: “On June 30, 1940,” said this report, “there were 8433 patients in
the five mental hospitals in this state. . » . If the ratio of persons suffering from mental disease to the whole population computed for the entire country holds for Indiana, between 15,000 and 25,000 persons in this state are at present suffering from such illness. « « « “Whatever the actual number of cases in this state may be, this much is certain: Only a fraction of the total number of cases is admitted to our mental hospitals.” The report then goes on to make this amazing admission: “Comparison of the number of patients admitted for the first time to a hospital in any one year with the number discharged from that hospital in the same period affords a fair index of the efficiency of its treatment program. In 1937, this ratio of first admissions to discharges was exceeded by 36 states, placing Indiana in the 37th posi-
the bottom of the list.” Discussing personnel, the report said: “The problem of proper care of patients in the mental hospitals of this state is largely a matter of the abjlity or inability of these institutions to employ adequate personnel, adequate both in training and in numbers. “Most persons employed as attendants at these hospitals have not
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had previous experience in this line of work. ... THE NEED FOR IM-| PROVEMENT IN THE QUALITY, OF PERSONNEL CANNOT BE, EMPHASIZED TOO STRONGLY. . + » Buildings themselves do not cure or heal, nor is there any mechanical way by which recovered patients can be turned out. The human element is still vital.” The report then went on to list Indiana’s hospital staffing in relation to the standards laid down by the American Psychiatric association. These tables afford highly interesting contrasts. The employment figures were for the year ended June 30, 1940:
PHYSICIANS A.P. A. Standards (1 to 150 Employed by Hospital patients) hospital “ws 13 sees 11 coe 8 veer’ 10
NURSES A.P. A. Standards (1 to 60 Employed by patients) hospital
Logansport Richmond Evansville Madison ...
Hospital Central . Logansport ... 4 Richmond .... 5 Evansville 3 Madison 1
NURSES AND ATTENDANTS (Combined) A. P. A Standards (1to 8 Employed by Hospital patients) hospital Central .......254 154 Logansport ....237 145 Richmond .....203 151 Evansville .....148 85 Madison’ 126 “The problem of adequate personnel,” says this official report, “is at bottom a financial] problem. . .. The whole issue of adequate care for the mentally ill can be reduced to the question of whether economy of operation or restoration of the patient to mental health and to his community is the paramount problem. “Yet there is another economic consideration which must be weighed. Unless it is possible to return mental patients to their communities at a faster rate, Indiana shortly will be faced with the necessity for spending more millions for the building of additional mental hospitai accommodations.” There is the crux of Indiana’s mental hospital situation. It is almost a twin of the problem facing the penal and correctional institutions, The answers seem obvious.
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