Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1942 — Page 1

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scmires nowardl VOLUME 53—~NUMBER 251 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1942

*¥ narrow striit of Bab EI’ Mandeb

‘Somaliland, Last Vic y African

VITAL DIBOUT

HOISTS COLORS OF DE GAULLE

Acting Governor Signs Pact With ‘British and ~ Free French.

. LONDON, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—Prench Somaliland, Vichy France's iast stronghold in Africa, came over to “the cause of the united nations to-

vy. : "Headquarters of Gen. Charles de Gaulle announced that the Cruss of Lorraine, the Fighting French

flag, marking the colony’s adhesion|

to the allied cause, was hoisted ias: night over Djibouti, colonial capital and terminal of the railroad to Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia. + A {foreign office bulletin, announced that French Somaliland had adhered to’ the united nations as part. of the Fighting French at 8:15 a. m. yesterday by an agreement signed at Chebele, on the - Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad. Acting Governor Signs

Signatories were Maj. Gen. C. C.! Fowkes, British+ commander in Ethiopia, and M. Chancel, Fighting French delegate in East Africa, on one hand, and Gen. du Pont, acting governor of French Somaliland, on the other. * British military and diplomatic authorities had ‘been negotiaung with French Somaliland authorities during the week-end. Then axis radios announced that Fighting French and British forces had marched irito the colony, on the Gulf of Aden just below the Red sea on the east coast of Africa, and | were - marching on! Djibouti, after + dropping leaflets om_the city, an-

| nouncing the allies were going to] §

occupy the territory. Acquisition of the 8492 squaremile territory, with a population of | about: 45000 natives and 1700 Eurbpeans was a major allied vie- |. tor : Dciginiatos Strait, Railroad

French Somaliland commands the

between the Red sea and the Gulf of Aden but above all it is the starting: point for the only railrodd running into Ethiopia, and thus the allied supply problem into that part of interior Africa is greatly simpli: fied. * Although axis broadcasts reported severe. clashes, it was indicated here that there had been little if any fighting between the French Somaliland garrison and allied forces. Announcing the invasion, axis ra dios sought to make it appear that Britain was trying to take. over French Somaliland ° before : the United States: a.

On the War Fronts |

(Dec... 29,. 1942)

EAST AFRICA — French Somaliland, Vichy's last African colony; joins Fighting French,

RUSSIA—Soviet pincers | close on Rostov, with one army only 80 miles away to the north, a sec‘ond ‘56 miles south of Kotelnikovski and inside Rostov province.

RUSBIA—Soviet armies continue to] © gain along 1100-mile front, push-|.

‘ing past Kamensk and virtually surrodnding Kotelnikovski.

NORTH AFRICA—Growing allied air offensive reportedly damages every ‘axis-held port in Tunisia; British contact Afrika Korps west of Sirte.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — Jap cruiser wrecked at Rabaul. Wedge at Buna beachhead deepened.

BURMA—British now 20 miles from| *

Akyah, CHINA=—Japanese Shantung-Hupeh ‘offensive partially thwarted.

(U. 8. communiques and War Moves Today, Page Six):

SEES CONGRESS ‘MANDATED’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (U. P.) = Senator W. Warren Barbour (R. N. J) said in a formal statement today that the Republican victory in the November elections was a mandate from the American people to congress “to exercise its constitutional functions and not to continually delegate their power to the executive branch of the government.”

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Jane Jordan... 17

14 Mrs. Roosevelt iB .: 1d Side Glances. .

They're Willi

Mrs. Pauline Miller. . . “Need rationing, positively.”

Mrs.~Don ‘Williams . +: Thumbs down on ‘hoarders.” <3

‘Mrs. Zz K. Bales . . “Two men in the ‘service. » 2 a . -

Housewives ret Aas: Supplies Under Rationing|

By V ICTOR

to the proposed set-up-to come with

In fact they are grateful to any system that will put their favorite

brands back on the shelves.

In an inquiring mood we determined to corner the housewife on the street as. She was downtown today to complete the Christmas festivities—

CLEAR CONFUSION ON GAS CARD NO. 3

Expiration Date Definitely To Be Jan. 21.

Local rationing boards were instructed by the state OPA office today of the new validity dates for fuel oil coupons. Fuel oil coupon 2 will be good until Jan. 26 and coupon 3 will expire Feb. 20. Other rationing dates affecting civilians now “are: Sugar—Coupon 10 is good until Jan. 31. . . Coffee—Coupon 27 is good until Jan. 3. Coupon 28 will be good from Jan, 4 to Feb. 7.

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Gasoline—Coupon 3 of ‘A book is]

good until Jan. 21. . . Out of the confusion at.the state OPA office came the announcément

yesterday morning that coupon 3 in|.

the A gas rationing book would not

J| expire until Jan. 31, even though

an. expiration date of Jan. 21 is printed on the coupon. After a double check with amendments and regulatiops coming from the Cleveland regional- OPA office and: ‘national headquarters at Washington, state rationing officials retracted their statement, announcing that: She: coupon - would expire dion. fal al. C- gasoline: books: will. expire on March. 1; Sfiwiien they must be renewed, and 'B books will expire according

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tioning will be good. thing.”

Hoosier "housewives' are not objecting to the. Present. rationing nor

to the date on the outsidey

ing to Share

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TOUHY AND 4

FBI KILLS 2 OTH

Colony Joins Allies

ALS SEIZED;

Most Citizens Don’t Hoard,

“Mrs. Robert’ LeBeaii.. “Ra

Mrs. A. A. Stein .« . “Can't get canned goods.”

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the new year. .

exchanging. gifts. To * the . woman, they. expressed gratitude toward:the rationing system - which will give all an equal chance at the more “scarce foodstuffs. -

Can’t Correct Mistakes

Some ' expressed doubts that it would have been ‘necessary if ‘all had played fair at the first. But, as Mrs, Pauline Miller, a buyer from Memphis, Tenn. said, “That’s water under the bridge. It's too late now to worry abcut the people who bought up: _everything in sight. “I feel they are responsible s for our predicament. But as long: as we are short on products, the only fair way of seeing that all are provided for is the rationing setup. “I have to travel through most of the 48 states in my work, yet I still maintain -my home. I find in Tennessee, as well as in all parts

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RAIN TO CONTINUE, BUREAU REPORTS Raincoats, umbrellas and galoshes were due for a further workout today as the weather bureau predicted continued light rain or’ drizzle today and tonight. A slight drop in temperatures was forecast for today, but no- cold wave is in sight, at least for the next 24 hours. The comparatively: : high temperatures and rainy. weather were fairly widespread throughout the country. - a

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Edson’s eslupm, Page 14.

frozen fruits and vegetables will be

: EX Sa a most like- | 1y- countermeasure.

prevent store shelves being cleaned

| | retailers limited sales to one or two

‘| tion will be. Mr. Wickard indicated

CANNED GOODS FREEZE HINTED IF PANIC RISES

But Some Buying Waves Cause Trouble.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (U. P.). —Rationing authorities indicated today that, if necessary, they might “freeze” the sale of all canned goods to forestall any. threat of widespread panic buying. Americans generally, they said, appeared to be heeding the government’s “no hoarding” appeal. But they admitted that buying waves had developed in some parts of the country which, if continued, might require quick and drastic action.

Mrs. Hopkins, wife of Harry, throws a hard-times party—there were only 30 {dishes. Read Peter

Overnment’s appeal was

"made/in a broadcast Sunday night

griculture Secretary Claude R. ickard following an announcement that 'dli canned, dried and

rationed on’ a "polap: Sysem in

“if a general run should des A: general “freeze” on ‘all

Officials hoped that the govern-

‘ment’s appeal and the informal|

rationing system already imposed by many retailers would suffice to

out in the next few weeks. Since a ‘shortage of canned goods first became evident some time ago many

cans for each customer or refused 1o sell to anyone except regular customers. “Points” Being Worked Out There still was no indication at all what the final canned goods ra-

that total supplies in 1943 would not exceed 33 pounds per person. Officials said it would be erroneous to assume that the ration will be about 33 one-pound cans a month. They pointed out that a large number of factors have to be taken into account—for example, that some types of cannel goods are much - more popular than others. ‘Rationing authorities, they said,

presently are engaged in the com-| -

plex job of computing the “point” values of hundreds of individual canned items, and this task was not expected to be completed before the end of January.

LLIGIT LITERATURE SALESMAN JAILED Maximum 180 Days, $500 Fine Decreed by Niblack.

Convicted of selling obscene literature to boys of high school and grade school age, a 59-year-old man today was given the maximum penalty—180 days at the state farm and $500 and costs. The sentence was pronounced by Municipal Judge John Niblack. After William Paul Branigan, Stubbins hotel, the defendant, had pléaded guilty, Judge Niblack said to him: “I do not believe you nave added much to. the moral uplift of this community.” ; Branigan admitted he had been] selling ‘illicit literature. and drugs for two years. .For eight weeks police have trailed him. ‘Yesterday they got a call from a gasoline filling station at Belmont ave. and Washington st. that a person selling the obscene literature was in the neighborhood. Patrolman William Jones and Detective William Lahrman seized) him. Detective Lahrman sold the contraband literature to young boys; charging from 10 ‘cents to: $1. The Nisterial Was

Lieut. Harriet Stout visits. the

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struction, ‘naturally. . Naturally. They had suspected: for a long

WALLACE ASKS WORK FOR ALL World - Council “and Court Needed to Keep Peace, He “Says in Broadcast.

(Wallace Text, Page Four)

" By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondént WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Vice President Henry A. Wallace, con~ tinuing the sketching of a blueprint of a post-war world, today envisions a “free world democracy’ for all the world but believes the united nations will have to supervise- or .inspect the school systems of Germany and Japan after the ‘war, In the post-war world, according to Wallace, there -must be. jobs: for everyone and security for all the world — victors and vanquished— farm depression and war. To achieve that there must be a world council and a world court with a “minimum of centralization and a (Continued on Page 12)

Stout Primps for WAACs

tata Sdndinistration buildin

at Stout field where a ge Number of other WAACs will soon be “: “home,”

(Barracks Half Completed; “They'll Move in Sear

By. ROSEMARY REDDING Soldiers at Stout field ‘are working with one.eye on. the job ani the other. on the ‘WAAC’s ‘barracks. They’ re. interested - in ‘the cor

time that one day there would !

barracks. These were two “sto: “|affairs. - Now, the work on the barracks

boys have moved on to speculatir ; about when the feminine army wi | arrive. It isn’t a military secret and: tr officers aren’t holding out on the. 1 either. But even the officers aren't sw» about the date. “Several weeks,” is as definite 23 they can be. :

Just an. Inspection

But some of the boys were given a bit of a preview today when tro WAACSs visited : the troop -carri x command base for a kind of unofiicial inspection of the new quarter. One of them was a hometown gi! Lieut. Harriet Stout, wife of Lieu. (j..g.) William Stout, now station< i at the Great Lakes naval trainin: station. Lieut. Stout now heads 1.» WAAC recruiting in Connecticut and is home for a visit, With her was Lieut. ‘Gertrude Pratt, the Tee cruiting head here.

mud that covers the field and pulle { themselves up through the doors « f buildings; still without steps. The field is providing housing for 222 of the army auxiliaries. ¢ them, 130 will be Yon right at ti 2 base. They'll take over many kir i (Continued on Page 12)

when he crawled into the bedroom windows of five homes and pulled the ' bed clothes off of women victims. Six aqiads. ‘of police raced up-and down. the streets chasing the prowler from one locality to another but never caught up with him. He started his foray at 412 E. 15th st, where he crawled into the bedroom of Miss Arlene Cooper. Awakened ‘by sudden loss of her bed blankets, Miss Cooper screamed despite the assailants threat to

This sent the burglar climbing

Local Women Terrorized by ‘Prowler Entering Beda: Sg nh das

A burglar terrorized © a wholejand money. Mr. Kinney yelled ari tle ‘casualties raising. their loss. of North side neighborhood early tuday|the prowler dropped the trouse: : effectives to more than 50,000. The

and ran. Twenty minutes later, the prov - er, described as the same man each case, entered the bedroom « Mrs. Doda Atha, 64, of 1507 Colle: 2 ave., and started to pull off her bei blankets but fled when sh: screamed. ‘Mrs. Bertha Bullard, of 1405 Ca: - - rollton ave., was awakened an ho later by the prowler yanking at he: blankets. © ' “Keep quiet or ™m kill - you,” tt 3 intruder said. Bub, Mrs, Bullard . said. sh: screamed anyway. and the. ma jumped out the. window.

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out the window as Miss Cooper's| Fourteen minutes after that. epiSioptater, Arthur Freeman, came|sode, the burglar crawled into i. state commander of her assistance. bedroom

‘window. of Miss Margar::

{{uankete off hetausi she

| At Mouth of Don.

a feminine contingent stationed there and it became a certainty whe:

i Tr ’ construction’ on ‘barracks began. They weren't quite like the ordina: "! Red army developed a pincer move.

;| ing southward down the Voronezh just about half completed and thc"

They waded through the sea «f:

. nue of escape from Kotelnikovski,

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SURREN

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DERN IN

RED PAJAMAS

Mobsmen Back Out Hands Raised as

of Apartment With Agents Stand by

With Machine Guns, Tear Gas.

CHICAGO, Dec. 29 (.

P.) —FBl Director J. Ed = ie

er; Basil (The Owl) Banghart, his lieutenant; Edward Da

lak, escaped Joliet prison iter;

Matthew Nelson, lifer.

William Stewart, lifer, and

Slain resisting capture were Eugene Lanthron, alias James O'Connor, lifer, and St. Clair Mclnerney, alias. Baby Doll and the Saint, a safe blower and Tobber. Bion 3

“This wipes out the Touhy gang,”

Hoover said.

After mowing down the two men who resisted, the: FBI

"SOVIETS ENTER ROSTOV REGION

Pincers Now Less Than 80

Miles From Vital City

MOSCOW, Dec. 20 (U. P.).—The iment against Rostov today by driv-

railroad to within less than 80 miles of the city and breaking into the Rostov ‘administrative district from -he northeast. Russian forces all but surrounded Kotelnikovski, the principal German base southwest of Stalingrad, and swept 56 miles to the south, entering the tip of the Rostov administrative district, : Six German divisions wlich started a counter-offensive southwest of Stalingrad Dec. 12, attempting ‘0 relieve the 22 divisions trapped between the’ Volga and the Don,

men moved against the gang leaders with tommy guns, tear gas and rifles in a. Nor} |

apartment. : _ Touhy, his: black hair dyed blond. and wearing red silk Pajamas, urd tendered docilely. Hoover -described the scene thin way: “The “zero hour was set. oF, 5 o'clock this morning for the raid on the Touhy-Banghart hideout, © “FBI _agents surrounded tHe building. They had an apartment on the floor opposite Touhy’s apart ment, The FBI was equipped with machine guns, ‘high-powered rifles and tear gas. The building was lighted with ‘searchlights at exactly 5 o'clock. Deliberate 10 Minutes

“Loudspeakers which had been set: up told the men to surrender and instructed them to come out of their apartment . backwards, hands up and one at a time, Banghart first. ' “The men deliberated 10 minutes. Banghart, acting as spokesman, indicated they would surrender and following instructions, backed out of the room, hands up, and was

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appeared to have been fully routed | taken.

and ‘thrown out of action. Their rout opened the. way for: the: Russians to swing down the rail line between: Kotelnikovski and Salsk and develop their left wing’s thrust across 100 miles of flatlands.

Russians Near Kamensk The arrival of German reinforcements failed to halt the advance of Lieut. Gen. Philip Golikov’s Soviet | sorces down the Voronezh railroad. His troops captured the station of Cherdkovo, 30 miles north of en- . circled Millerovo, while his advanced forces were reported in the immediate vicinity of Kamensk, less than 60 miles north of Rostov, at the mouth of the Don. § The Germans had only one ave-

front dispatches reported. Driving in#rom all directions, the Russians cut ‘five of the six highways leading to the city. . ‘The. Kotelnikovski battle to date

killed, 3500 ‘taken prisoner and bat-

Russians had destroyed or ‘captured | 487 tanks. :

EX-COMMANDER OF |

STATE LEGION =

Raymond B. Townsley Had|

Been Ill in Texas.

~-Raymond ' B. Townsley ey, B1, past|g the American

“The others followed. and there was no struggle. They were. Touhy and Edward Darlak.” At ‘that point Hoover smiled and remarked that the FBI’s only jurisdiction in the case was for draft evasion, except in the case of Banghatt, who was wanted on a prefious federal conviction with 36 years to run for a $100,000 Charlotte, N. C, mail robbery. The boys had neglected to regis~ | ter for the draft after they broke . from Joliet, Hoover remarked. - ~The Touhy mobsters shot their

penitentiary at Joliet, 11l, last Oct. 9, . Two Mowed Down :

The. mob’s leaders surrendered with a docility in marked contrast to Lanthorn and ‘McInerney. : These men .were surrounded similar fashion at 11:15 o'clock last night and mowed down by Ta guns when they tried to shoot; thei way out of the trap. ~

PROHIBITION SEEN

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Legion, died today at a government’

ave. tho PIOWIOh | FE hospital at El Paso, Tex. He had{ i a Boones. SE een a patient there since Nov. 19. |

Mr. Townsley was a native of Sul-| ho