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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1942
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.D.R.-Farm Deal Forces Henderson
deparimert.
And the wise guys around our city peally know. But brother, how
wrong they are. Here's the truth.
The general doesn’t know himself.
He hasn't even definitely made up- his mind. He absolutely refuses to be quoted, but here are the facts. He's interviewed a field of 15 men. He's picked two. He's practically decided on the one. Who?. The general hasn't even told Mrs. Tyndall. And chuckling with his secret, kept locked in-his heart, he also refuses to tell Henry Ostrom, county G. O. P. chairman. And Henry is just busting to know. Neithér will he tell Charles Jewett,” ‘his campaign manager, who alse is busting to know. ‘So if the ‘genera! himself - doesn’t know yet for sure, or Mrs. (Tyndall, or Henry Ostrom, or Charlie Jewett, who should know?
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‘Here Are Some Facts .
WHILE THE general won't even say anything, much less be quoted, here are a couple of facts you can bet your bottom dollar on, He'll make .up’ his mind hy the °
of the week sand probably —~ the grand ‘announcement Monday.’ Possibly tomorrow, but doubtful. Bet on Monday.
“Want to. know Who,the, general 1
has interviewed? This can be gotten by anybody who'll take the time to swing around the corridors
Here's a List of 15 Names—He's There—But You'll Have to Figure Out Gen. Tyndall's Ultimate Choice Yourself.
| Ey EDWIN C. HEINKE “Most everybody in Indianapolis is waiting for Mayorelect Tyndall to name the city’s new police chief.
Well, there's been a lot of rumor. - been picked by those “really in the”know” than there are men in the
In fact, more police chiefs have
FAST-MOVING NEW U. S. GUNS BEAT ROMMEL
Stop Best Axis Tanks ‘Cold’ With Armor-Piercing Shellfire.
By RICHARD D. McMILLAN (Copyright, 1942, hy United Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The biggest surprise of the war came to the Germans one day along the EI Alamein front when there was a
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Advertising Executive Looks Into Future, Fore- | sees Era So Dazzling as to Make History Seem Like ‘Small Potatoes.’
Victory
(Editorial, Page 22)
By ARTHUR KUDNER
(Reprinted From The Atlantic Monthly)
THE OLD COWHAND SAT there squatting on his heels. We had been in lazy discussion about the state of the
nation. threw long indigo shado up the talk. all this is over.
It was late afternoon and to the east the pinons x up the hills. At last he buttoned “Anyhow,” he said, “it’ll sure be hell when
He rode off down the canyon then as he always had,
| Elimination
series of terrific flashes and big armor-piercing shells ripped and | withered the Nazi panzer divisions. An American secret weapon, destined to turn the tide of battle in the desert, had gone into action for the first time. Marshal Erwin Rommel was on the approaches to Alexandria, and the British Eighth army held a narrow front between the Mediterranean and a large marsh when the new weapon was thrown into the battle. It is a powerful-hitting, self-
propelling anti-tank gun mounted on the chassis of a General Grant M-3 tank.
. Closely Kept Secret Mayor-elect Tyndall It was hastily manufactured in
R SIANS PUSH the United States and was shipped
to the Middle East with such secrecy that few officers or men in the | Eighth army knew of its existence until the night -before Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery opened his jE Alamein offensive. 5 That night they were moved quickly up to the front lines. British Center of Entire German-| and New Zealand gunners had been
ready, competent, contained. 1 thought of all the years he ‘had been chambermaiding cattle up these draws and across the mesas, parched or shivering as tlie seasons willed. Flush years, lean years, confident years, fearful years for the nation and the world. He had survived them all. During even the best of them, the most he had got out of it was fifty a month and a tender behind. Yet he was now worrying, and not about the war but about the future of America. It struck me it must have taken a very thorough spreading of defeatism throughout our country to have accomplished that How is it with us, I wondered as [ watched him go. What he says I hear other men saying also. Have
we as a people really lost faith in ourselves and in the limitless promise of this most favored land? Is it indeed true of usv now, ‘as Walt Whitman mourned in 1876, that “never ‘was there, perhaps, more hollowness at hearfithan at present, and here in the. United States. Gentine belief seems" ve-left us"? How was it, say, a hundred yearsisirgled out America as it special ago? At the beginning of the most | beneficiary, did men sense and were astonishing and fruitful century the they uplifted by what might be in world has even known, and which |store?
Born in Lapeer, Mich, Arthur Kudner has seen and participated in the epermous development of the motor industry in his native state. Head of the advertising agency which bears his name, he looks out from his headquarters in Radio City to survey the nation-wide potential that we are now building up to win this war — a potential which he is sure we shall carry over into the peace.
- that this top billing may be all
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at police headquarters. And you can bet another buck: _or two that the list is complete. If you're not onthe: list, go about your work. You're;not going to be the next chief of police. Not knowing any more than the general, and you know by this time what he knows, it's just a _frifle_hard to place at the top of the list the men who have. the: best chance to wear the shiny,: gold badge. 2 x =»
Candidates Listed
IT'S POSSIBLE, just possible,
Held Rail Net in N. Russia ‘Is’ Threatened.
:MOSEOW, Dec. 18 (U. P.).—The Soviet army. ‘revealed today that it had. ‘driven on the central front to within 85 miles. of Smolensk; pivot point-of the whole German campaign in Russia. ! A special . communique said the Red army: was fighting in the vicinity. of “Bely, 85 ‘miles north and ‘slightly “east of Smolensk, and 60 miles west. of the Rzhev-Vyazma railway line. The Russians. were making rapid progress. “The noon communique reported Soviet forces fighting in “the area: of the Rzhev-Vyazma railroad” had captured a village, the ninth they had taken in this area in the last three days.
One of Two Key Rail Centers
.A main railway runs from Smolensk, back through Warsaw, into Germany. From Smolensk, German supply lines stretch north and south. The capture of Smolensk would remove the heart of this chain. The only place in Russia comparable to: it in importance to the Germans is Kiev, far down the Dneiper, and if they lost Smolensk, the Germans would have the greatest difficulty
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Rommel Artillery and Panzer Units Among Those Trapped
War Moves Today, Page 18)
right. At least it’s going to send & new batch of rumors buzzing , through the mill. Here goes— Acting Captain of Detectives
Patrolman Clifford Beeker, as- . sistant bailiff in Municipal Judge John L. Niblack's court. Lieutenant of Detectives: Noel Jones. Police Inspector Jess McMurtry. George Winkler, an agent in the department of internal revenue. Lieutenant of Detectives Roscoe K. Jordan. Sergt. Albert Magenheimer, as-
Capt. Leolin Troutman, charge of traffic. Frank Owen, head of the police (Continued on Page Six)
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its attack on axis bases, airdromes, communications, troops and ships.
By UNITED PRE y D ERESS Walter Logan, United Press corre-
toward Tripoli.
Most of the German Afrika Korps’ anti-tank artillery was trapped to-
British Eighth army, 90 miles west of El Agheila, pushed itd advance
The 12th panzer division also was among the trapped enemy trpops,
front dispatches said, and British| tanks and . infantry along = with
British and ‘American planes were drawing. the ring tighter all the time, fi 3 ‘The allied army in Tunisia also
yenvron a ‘round- -the-clock basis in
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spondent at North African headquarters, reported that allied airdron'es in Tunisia were drying out rapidly and that the British and Americans were enabled to increase their air pressure on the enemy. Boeing flying fortresses, raiding Tunis and Bizerte, shot down three enemy planes and twin Allisonmotored P-38 Lightnings downed two more in offensive sweeps along the East Tunisian coast, The Germans iin Tripolitania were fighting desperately to escape but late dispatches indicated that. their
situation was increasingly hopeless|’
and it was even suggested that the Afrika.Korps command might have to divert men from their general retreat toward Tunisia to. save them. Germany, trying to minimize the extent of the threatening axis disaster, hronseas that Marshal Erwin Rims), goiggnande: in ef, “is elsewher, on another A ” Rumors were circulatéd ad that Rom- | mel himself had t in the| Eighth army's 'trap So military quarters gave! them. littlé" Sedence. The general | belief was that Rommel hind left Gep. Kutt Ramcke, his second in command,- in charge of the’ ‘Atrika Korps: retreat and had gone to Tunisia to grganize the lgst-
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| especially trained to operate the guns at stations miles in the rear of the front lines. That night, as they rode up to the front through the dust of the desert tracks, one of the gunners said to me: “It’s the best gun we have ever handled.” Germans Amazed
I watched the guns wheel into position and open fire. The shells rippéd through .the armor of all types of axis tanks—German Mark IIIs, Mark IVs and the new Italian Semoventes. The panzer divisions crumpled under the fire, their lines dissolved and they retreated. But they reformed in the rear and came back for more, hardly believing that any weapon could be so destructive. They got another dose of the same medicine. It was a mystifying surprise to the Germans, probably as great a surprise as they received (Continued on Page Nine)
RAY FISHER NAMED AS. HIGHWAY HEAD
| Hollingsworth and Ferguson Get County Jobs.
County commissioners -have ap-| pointed Ray Fisher, former Franklin | township resident, as county highway superintendent to succeed Luther E. Tex, who recently was appointed city street commissioner by Mayor-eleet Robert H. Tyndall. For the last year, Mr. Fisher has been serving as assistant’ county road superintendent. The commissioners named Sam Hollingsworth, of Pike township, as assistant road superintendent and ‘Ross Ferguson, of Decatur township, was appointed foreman of the county
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On the War Fronts
(Dec. 18, 1942)
NORTH AFRICA—British pursue enemy 90 miles west of El Agheila; hack at trapped axis forces near Wadi Matratin. American planes operate on round-the-clock raid schedule in Tunisia as drying airports facilitate attack.
AIR WAR—R. A. F. loses 18 planes :
in stormy weather raid on nosthwest Germany,
RUSSIA—Red army. drives to with« in 85 miles of Smolensk, pivotal , point of German lines. :
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC—Increasing patrol activity shirts allied; drive on Salamaua, west +of Bun; U. 8. planes in Solomons raid Munga hay for seventh straight day. :
CHINA — Chinese recapture Hosshueh, Coase
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From Chaos Came Empire Building
SUPPOSE WE LOOK BACK a moment. Suppose we mingle’ in a
typical political gathering of those
days somewhere in. the hinterland |
of the United States and listen to a local politician’ report on national
affairs.
“President Harrison is dead, cut off at the threshold of his term,” he is saying, “and in his place we have Tyler, so hard-mouthed and
mule-headed that his cabinet resigns en masse during his first year. He loses the confidence of congress almost before he starts and has nearly gotten himself impeached. And what treason there is in high places when we see the son of a secretary of war hanged at the yardarm for conspiracy.
“We are dragging bottom in a frightful depression, yet the legislative and executive arm alike are helpless to make any constructive moves, Business is paralyzed; specie payments have been discontinued by all banks for more than a year; like a string of firecrackers, more and more banks burst while congress wrangles year in, year out,
“We are a most minor country, my friends,” the gloomy speaker warns. “Hideous and awful war with England looms over the Oregon boundary. Food and clothing are hard to come by; the heritage of our children is poverty and exploitation. Doctors are diamond -scarce as grippe ravages the nation. Small wonder that Asiatic cholera has appeared among us. Yet, on top of all this, congress, crowning folly with extravagance, has seen fit to squan-
der $30,000 on the Morse system, a crackpot invention for “telegraphic communication.” A dire prospect, certainly. Yet out of it flowered that wondrous century which brings us up to now
|—and my cowhand friend’s conclu-
sion that it'll sure be hell when all this is over. Out of it flowered, also, the men we needed in the times and
places which, needed them, from |S
Lincoln and Grant to the explorers and boomers and inventors and entertainers and empire-builders and industrialists and boosters and debunkers for which our development called. Perhaps there is something deep in the American marrow—far deeper than the cadgy and sterile pessimism we speak from off the top of our minds—that made ‘these things possible. Perhaps it is something like that which moved Old Man Lester, another venerable southwedtern cowman of my acquaintance, to reply, when asked if he were not worried sick about a seemingly endless drought, “Nope. I've always noticed that in this country ‘it rains just about 30 seconds before it’s altogether too late.”
Looking Back at Turn of Century J WHAT WAS HAPPENING when the date line Joined the 19th and
20th centuries?
The Wrights were conquering the air with consequences that revo-
lutionized the ways of peace and the concepts of war, and forever changed the geographical security of empires; the first radio messages were stuttering their faltering way across the Atlantic; speed in all
things ‘was accelerating to the point where space lost its sense of meaningless dimension. Electric power was sparking a gap in men’s minds and plans; taking ' form- were vast superpower projects to harness the waters that irrigate where they do not engulf immense regions of the
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country. The telephone ‘developed so enormously in a generation that in 1922 the annual expenditures of
ment before the first world war.
coal mining were quadrupled between 1890 and 1920, After the first
were mining nearly half of the world’s’ coal. In the social field, the motor car was destined to transform American life, to break urban constriction and rural isolation alike, to redraw the
the Bell system were: two-thirds Fi those of the United States govern-|
Iron and steel production .and|:
BROWN SEEN AS SUCCESSOR T0 OPA CHIEF
| of Subsidy Plan , Will Increase
Wickard Power.
(Profiles of Henderson and Brown, Page 32)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U. P). —An administration deal with the ’lcongressional, farm bloc, which threatened otherwise to wreck the anti-inflation program, forced Price Administrator Leon Hendérson to resign, congressional sources said today. It was a four-play deal, in which congress held all the high cards, and climaxes a long, bitter feud between: President Roosevelt and the farm bloc. On the basis of current information, the farm bloc has won a substantial victory.
Feared Price Rise:
Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D. Mich.), defeated for re-election last month, is expected to succeed Henderson. He is a strong administra-
inflation bill through the senate, but will be far more acceptable to
' | congress ‘than Henderson.
President Roosevelt, however, refused to discuss Brown's future at his press conference today. Asked
Mr. Roosevelt said he had nothing on that subject at the present time. as. tq whether OPA
| Questioned. { rationing ‘machinery would be over-
hauled or materially revised, the president said he did not know. As a matter of fact, he added, the ra-| tioning machinery is being revised’ all the time. He cited the OPA’s temporary suspension of all but “T” gasoline ‘ration ‘cards as an’ example. He disclaimed knowledge of re‘vorts that OPA’s rationing duties Hight be divided under two execu< ves.
Congress ‘Bought Off’
Congressional - sources said the farm bloc had been ready—and had the votes in the new congress—to jam through a bill that would have forced the administration to include all of the
of the farmer and his family, in the computation of farm parity prices. That would, it is maintained by 3 2iminisistion, send food prices keting and wreck the president’s anti-inflation program. Thus, with Brown acting as gobetween with Secretary of Agriculture~ Claude R. Wickard and the farm bloc, the administration bought off congress. In return for agreement among
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ANOTHER NEW NAZI GENERAL IN RUSSIA?
Von Manstein Reported Put
Into Central Command.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (U. P.).— A London radio broadcast heard here by; United Press today feported that Hitler again had shifted commanders on the Russian front, naming Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein commander of German armies attempting to halt advancing Russian troops on the central sector. The British broadcast said Von Manstein, who commanded German forces in the long and bitter Crimean campaign in 1941 and the first part of this year, succeeded Marshal Wilhelm
if Brown would succeed Henderson, |
costs of farm labor, including that |,
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SLIGHT RISE N PRICES | LIKELY
Meat ' Supply. Rg Rgdiced to 35 Ounces Per Person For-Early 1943."-
_ By UNITED PRESS The pinch of war smoved closer on the home front today, with many steps ‘already announced or in, the making to change further the daily ‘lives. of all Americans. Food, prices, travel, education and most, forms of business were affected by the developments during the last 24 “hours. © To the average citizen they mean:
HIGHER COST OF 6 LIVING— The resignation of Price Administrator .Leon Henderson in: a deal with ' the congressional farm bloc will probably bring slightly higher prices . through. increases in farm commodity ceilings. These increases will be moderate, but they will be reflected . in greater costs for the
meat, vegetables and fruits served
on_the nation’s tables.
LESS MEA T—Each American adult will eat only 35 ounces of meat per week during the first three months of 1943—and very likely less. Formal rationing is still scheduled for an indefinite date, but until then the OPA, controlling, meat supplies through restrictions ..on packers’ - deliveries, may, cut con(Continued on Page ‘Nine
HURRY ORDER” FROM AFRICA
On Emergency Missions ~ Now Eligible.
Petroleum Co-ordinator
pleasure car drivers in the East have little chance of getting their gasoline ration restored. 5 Asked if the order restrioting gasoline sales to T-card holders | would mean a general overhatling of the pleasure car rationing wtem, Mr. Ickes said: J “I think they (pleasure drivers) will have a hard job getting the gasoline they have been getting.”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U. P.). — Tremendous military . needs for gasoline on fighting fronts today forced the government to stop sale of gasoline to the 7,000,000 private
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the Atlantic seaboard. President Roosevelt, the drastic action to his press conference, expressed hope that the ban on sale of gasoline to any motorists except commercial vehicles could be lifted in. a day or two. The office of price administration, which ‘issued the order; said extent of the han would be mined by a survey of plies. Petroleum Ad L. Ickes. was making r= —=| today.
<7 May Cut. Coupon Value A "Officials said it: was quite likely that when the emergency suspen= sion is lifted, the gallon value of ration coupons may be changed. It was expected that “A” coupons either would continue suspended for some time or their value would be cut drastically, probably to one or two gallons a coupon.
gallons in the East. The OPA order—efiective at noon today—specifically prohibits filling station operators from honoring any gasoline ‘ration coupons “except ‘IT’ coupons for commercial vehicles oe
gency use.” Thus the order bans sales of gas~ oline on “A,” “B” or “C” cards for pleasure cars. Only cars able to purchase. gaso~ line under the emergency order will be commercial vehicles—truck, taxis, etc.—and a few government-owned passenger cars. Get Order From Africa : Mr. Roosevelt explained ; to hip press conference that the ‘temporary emergency on the East coast was - caused by a hurry-up order. from North Africa for gasoliné-presume
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NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (U. P)— L. Ickes indicated here today that ‘
explaining
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“A” coupons now are worth three :
ably for our air force and armoved
units. He said this order could be filled faster by shipping motor fuel direct« ly from the East coast than by shipping it from Texas. Spokesmen for Ickes said he ohn ably would issue a statement soon. . They explained that the order .
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stop a run on filling stations, An:
order suspending “A” coupons had been expected last night, but there
had been no hint that it wouldbe ~
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