Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1943 — Page 1

7 miles north of Rostov.

39 Promoted,

Eo ADMITS MAJOR SOVIET ‘PENETRATION

Nazis to Rush More Recruits to Front as Russia

Continues Gains.

(War Moves Today, Page Eight)

“By UNITED PRESS One of Reich's leading military commentators conceded in a Berlin broadcast today that the Russians had broken through Nazi lines on the southern front and he said that every possible German must be sent to the front. Gen. Kurt Dietmar, making the broadcast, admitted" that the Red army had “achieved penetration? of not inconsiderable depth” and that as a result the Germans would have to put up with “greater hardships at home to increase the flow of recruits to the front.” “We needed our troops and orks ers for occupied territories and for the economic: organization of Europe,” he said. “Thus it hgppened: that we had too few men at the front.

Rout in Some Sectors

“Though numbers alone cannot decide a éampaign, they cannot be entirely neglected without danger. Even Frederick the Great said, ‘With a too unequal force victory may be: denied even the most effi--cient troops.’ ” Russian : dispatches reported the German retreat was becoming a rout in some Caucasus sectors. Red army troops were driving in two directions on Armavir and

Vv . Gen. van ‘Krichefiko’s cossacks ‘raced 13 miles up the Caucasus railroad from the town of Mineralnye Vody during the night. They were within 100 miles of Armavir, a strategic town on the railroad and on the Rostov-Makach Kala ‘oil line :- which parallels it. Voroshilovsk, the other German point immediately threatened, is 42 miles east 6f Armavir.

Refuse to Admit Georgievsk Fall

Other Soviet forces were driving down from the Kalmyk steppes and had advanced to Konstantinovskaya, 34 miles northeast of Voroshilovsk. These two columns threatened to cut off the enemy troops retreating from the ‘Georgievsk - Mineralnye Vody-Piatygorsk region captured yesterday by the Russians. Moscow said Soviet troops had captured the key towns of an -entire Caucasus railroad system, reaching from the foothills toward the Kalmyk steppes, -in a day of big gains yesterday. On the Stalingrad-Don front Col. Gen. Andrei I. Yeremenko advanced from Luberle down the StalingradTikhoretsk railroad on Salsk, 50 miles southwestward while other forces occupied five new villages on his right flank, and a Russian army ‘drove westward on ' Shakhty, 47

Tire Inspection Time Extended

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U. P.). ~The OPA, acting to minimize inconvenience to motorists, today revised the tire inspection program. The deadline for the first inspection for holders of “A” gasoline ration books was extended to the end of March from Jan. 31. Subsegent examinations for this group will be held once every six months. Motorists with “B” or “C” books "or bulk coupons for fleets of trucks will be required to undergo their first tire inspections by the end of February under the new plan instead of Jan. 31. Sub-" sequent inspections for “B” book holders will be held once every four months and for “C” and bulk coupong once every three months.

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A butcher all his life, Richard Sowders is seeing horsemeat for human consumption on sale for the first time. Mr. Sowders stands behind cartons of horsemeat and Bolas, an opened box of it.

Booth Fisheries’ Corp.

Tender and Tasty,’ Some Say; Reported Sweeter Than Beef

By VICTOR

Old: Nellie may have gone out of the army to a great extent when it was. mechanized, but . the dapple grays, ‘the bays and the roans “gre now going all out in the war effort. Horse: meat, long :scorneds by Americans. as a table. delicacy, gradually finding 168 way ints the modern menu. Europeans: have horse meat for Sentutiog because ‘of its. supposedly nutritious value, ——sflavor-and-low cosf. . : Today, Americans, feeling the piith of war as they gaze at empty .meat counters,-are beginning to foldow, in the Europeans’ footsteps. ‘Cléveland, O., and Portland, Ore.,

Ui S. BOMBERS BLAST NAPLES

Allied Planes = Pounding Rommel’s Forces From

Two Directions.

LONDON, ‘Jan. 12 (U. P.).— American Consolidated bombers based ' in the Middle East raided Naples yesterday afternoon, started a large fire and shot down one enemy fighter plane, it was announced officially today. ® The. planes were manned by American crews. The bombers were attacked by a force:of Messerschmitt 109s, a communique issued by the ninth JU. 8. air = force at Cairo said. °® Two American planes were shot down. :

Attacked in Daylight

It was a daylight attack directed!

against shipping and harbor installations at Naples, which is the reinforcement base for axis armies in Libya and Tunisia. Heavy clouds obscured the result of the bombing; the communique said, Rome admitted 23 were killed and 65 wounded in the raid. Axis forces in Tunisia and Tripolitania were ‘being hammered from two sides: by allied planes based in North Africa on the west, and in Tripolitania on the east. The feeling persisted in London that Lieut. Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery's British eighth army was prepared for an immediate “blow against the remnants of the Afrika Korps before Tripoli. ‘Despite the damaging air attacks, it would take (Continued on Page Five)

REPORT CHILD WEDDING

. BERNE, Ind, Jan. 12 (U. P.).— Adams county authorities and school officials today were investigating a reported “child marriage” of a 13-year-old Geneva girl and a 20-year-old Jay county youth. The girl was absent from the seventh grade classes and was said to have given marriage as the reason. Reported scene of the marriage was Winchester, Ky.

500 NAZI SUBS

PREPARED FOR GIANT BATTLE

London Expects Next War

Phase to Be Attack on

Supply Lines.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

LONDON, Jan. 12.—A gigantic

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“battle of the supply lines” impends in the European and African theaters of war, and the axis is preparing to throw more than 500 submarines iko it in an attempt to choke off weapons and food for allied armies. It will not be as drastic a battle as the clash of tank against tank and the conflict of bomber against fighter in the clouds, but it will have great bearing on the length of the war. The best opinion is that a good part of 1943 will be devoted to the “battle of the supply lines” and that only a military miracle will enable the allies to knock out the axis this year. Broadly speaking, these are the

objectives of the rival forces:

ALLIES—To close a steel ring around the axis fortress of Europe and at the same time protect the vital network of communication

lines needed to bring the full weight of American, British and Russian | strength against Germany,

AXIS—To delay and if possible

prevent, the closing of the allied ring

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have’ already seen ‘horse meat on the butchers’ shelves for human

“And now it's in Indianapolis. The Booth Fisheries Corp., -236 Massachusetts ave, has been carrying horse meat for approximately 60 days. ' It is packed by the Hill Packing Co. of Topeka, Kas, and is labeled “Hill's finest coarse chopped horse meat.” ~The product is U. S. inspected and passed by the department of agriculture. . The three-quarter pound. carton, in which the meat comes, has on its side “instructions as to “ways it can be used. Among them are a horse meat loaf, a variety. of "chili, and a horseburger. + ‘The '12-ounce cartons sell for" 15 cents, ‘They Say It’s Tasty )

‘Harry Hajlbeck, assistant - manager of- the- store, stated, “The sale has, been very; good. The only limit ‘on our ‘sale is the amount we can buy. “Everyone wants it. We have 40 or . 50 . stores in various - cities throughout the country, and they are trying to- order it by the carloads. “We could sell 20 to 30 thousand pounds a’ week if we could-get it.” People ‘who have eaten: horse meat prepared in a variety of ways claim that it is a very tasty and tender meat, similar to beef but having a sweeter flavor. Giddy-ap, Nellie.

JAP PLANE LOSSES IN SOLOMONS NOW 680

‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U. P). —U. 8. planes in an air battle in the Solomons shot down four Japanese zero fighters, bringing enemy aircraft losses in the Solomons; campaign to 680, the navy announced today. The action took place yesterday (island time) between Santa Isabel and New Georgia islands northwest of Guadalcanal when 12 zeros attacked a force of Douglas dauntless dive bombers escorted by Grumman Wildcat fighters. One

‘Wildcat fighter failed to return.

and to win time to build submarines and airplanes to be used in attacks on united nations supply lines, particularly ‘the flow of war materials

to reliable authorities; includes offensive action by the axis whenever

and wherever the results appear promising. ians were said to be ready to put 500 submarines into that campaign.

The Germans and Ital-

Hope for Lucky Break Some well-informed persons be-

lieve the axis eventually will commit itself to a war OF attrition, hoping the allies will exhaust themselves to the point: where they will settle for a compromise peace. This plan would include, in the minds of the German leaders, the possibility that they might be able to get in a

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FLYNN AS DIPLOMAT

WORRIES FDR AIDS

They Wonder Why Presi-

dent. Tries Them So.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan: 12.—Senate

Democrats are long-suffering, but they wish President wouldn't try them so far.

Roosevelt That about sums up their private

reaction to the appointment of Boss Bd Flynn of the Bronx as minister to Australia and roving ambassador—envoy to a most important ally, and trouble. shooter in a critical theater of war.

Democrats, uncomfortable as they

are in the new congress with its unfamiliar Republican bulge, . feel that the president has handed the opposition, political issue to start off the new season.

ready-made, a juicy

The senate lobby was sour with

talk about the nomination,

For Mr. Flynn is not only a

political boss of the old school, but a shopworn political boss already eased into the discard. He is resigning as chairman of the Democratic. national committee at a meeting he has called for next Monday in Chicago, at which Postmaster General Frank C. Walker will be elected his successor.

. Republicans, as expected, greeted (Continued on Page Two)

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Heads War Fund

William C. Griffith

GRIFFITH NAMED 1943 PRESIDENT

Tharp, Shipnes Elected; Cannon Is Retained

As. Treasurer.

‘William C. Griffith, Indianapolis business and civic leader, will head the local United War fund in 1943. He was elected president by the board of directors at their annual meeting in .the Indianapelis Athletic club yesterday. ‘Mr. Griffith will succeed ‘Arthur R. Baxter, who has headed the war fund since its inception last year. The fund’s. money- for Ssh nmin. his munity fund, thé service men’s centers*and war Felief agencies,

head with the Pletcher Trust Co., and head ‘of the Community fund, and Stanley W. Shipnes, manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co., were named vice presidents. Fermor S. Cannon, president of the Railroadmen’s Federal Savings & Loan association, was re-elected treasurer. 2 In Service Honored Newly elected directors are Joseph E. Cain, vice president and treasurer of P. R. Mallory & Co.; Harry S. Hanna, vice president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. and Mr. Shipnes. Eli Lilly was re-elected advisory member of the board of directors. Warrack Wallace and Wilson Mothershead, both of whom have been directors and are now in the armed forces, were named directors in absentia? : Directors whose terms had expired but who were re-elected are Mr. Baxter, Mr. Cannon, James F. Carroll,” Theodore B. Griffith, J. J. Kiser, W. I. Longsworth, Charles J. Lynn, Thomas D. Sheerin and’ Mr. Tharp. Continues as Director Hold-over directors -are A. E. Baker, J. M. Bloch, Homer E. Capehart, George A. Kuhn, Hugh McK. Landon, J. K. Lilly, William J. Mooney, H. T. Pritchard, Booth Tarkington, Harold B. West and C. E. Whitehill. Kenneth W. Miller, executive’ séeretary of the community fund, also serves as secretary of the war fund’s board of directors. Mr. Griffith, has been active in numerous civic and welfare projects. In the war fund drive last year, he served as chairman .of the industrial division which alone . raised $747,000. The entire campaign goal was $1,500,000 and a total of $1,800,000 was raised. Mr, Griffith is vice president of the Indiana Trust Co., president of the Griffith Distributing Co., and a past president of the Communty fund. :

PROTESTS TOLL ON U. S. “WASHINGTON, . Jan. 12 (U. P.), —=Secretary of War Henry L. Stimsori- has protested proposed charging of tolls for: government vehicles crossing the Golden Gate bridge at

San Francisco, it was disclosed to-

day. :

Eutered. as sosmnt.clae Matter: at Puyo

Harold B. Tharp, a department’

Issued daily except i:

MERIT RULES DISREGARDEL

‘ice,

BEEKER SAY

Safety Board Requ That Appointments I: . Termed Acting.

| A sweeping: shakeup in the |: dianapolis police departmenf i:

Chief Clifford Beeker was appirc by the safety board today,’ with

ments are in “acting” capar since some of the promoted off do not qualify under the meri} Chief Beeker promoted one In Lieut. Edward D. Rouls, to the of acting deputy inspector. Four men were promoted tenants—Sergt. Alfred A. Sih Detective Sergeant Edward Investigator Jack Small and vestigator Audrey Jacobs.

21 Patrolmen Advance Twenty-one patrolmen were

LAXITY CHARGED

sole proviso that the new appoint

ignated to be sergeants, 12 p:iiol-

men were designated to be in: gators and one patrolman was signed a corporal’s rank.

“| court recently.

This brought the total nuniicr

of promotions to 39. Chief Beeker ordered 23 re tions or demotions, one of ther: cluding the demoting of Capt. lv tin. Logan to patrolman. Also reduced were two lieuten: —Dan Scanlon to patrolman, Roses Jordan to acting invest

S

oe demotions made, Mr. Be: cr

said, were:.“because those red showed conduct affecting the 1 ~ tiveness and morale of the dep ment.” He fold the safety board the was his opinion thatthe swee shakeup would improve the ef tiveness ‘of the force. Will Remy, president of board, asked if the changes + related in any way to the re: crime wave. Mr. Beeker answered in affirmative.” He said that spe (Continued on Page Five)

FOOD-FOR-VICTORY

W DAY OBSERVI

County Farmers Prepari To Increase Output.

Marion county farmers are ting a 10 per cent increase in crop production as their goa! 1943.. About 1000 of them will ‘plans for reaching it tonight w) they gather in Farm Mobiliza! Day meetings throughout county. Similar assemblies were be held throughout the nation to to hear reports on wartime ne of the united nations and to cuss ways and means to utilize ev piece of machinery and every i: building te meet the country’s hi; est food producing goal in hist As a part of the nation-wide Day program, farmers will I Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, a message from Presi Roosevelt, and leaders of the Uni nations fighting ‘forces overseas a half-hour radio program §! Pp. m. A Hoosier farmer, Ed Keller Delaware county, will appear the broadcast which will be sho waved to’ all parts of the world.

Economic Stabilization Direc James ¥. Byrnes will read Presi: Roosevelt’s message. Marion county meetings will gin at 7:30 p. m. in each of county's eight townships. Speakers will represent the partment of agriculture and Indiana Farm bureau.. At Decatur Central high sche

speakers will be Howard Mil

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| SOCIAL SERVIGE

“| cases of a number of welfare re-

Proposes End To License Plum

A bill to abolish the biggest political plum in the hands of the Republicans in the state today—the 25-cent notary fee charged by license branch managers for motor vehicle registrations — was introduced in the senate .today by Senator John Gonas (D. South Bend). : Best bet: It will never get out of the G. O. P.-controlled finance committee.

"Mothers. Who Neglect Children’—-Niblack.

A scathing indictment of the investigation methods of the Marion county welfare department was

made today by Municipal Judge John L. Niblack in a report on the

cipients that have gone through his

The judge said that all the cases cited “show a remarkable absence of efficient investigation.”

# Legislature Gets Report In his report, which was sub-

Proposed Bill to Provide Services for 90,000

More Residents.

By WILLIAM R. CRABB Marion county members of the state legislature plan to rewrite Mayor Tyndall's city hospital reform bill to estab=

al } : |lish a county general hospital ‘Aid Given to Worthless

and bring the health department under a non-political setup. - The changes in the proposal are to be sponsored by Rep. Charles Ehlers (R. Indianapolis), chairman of the affairs of Indianapolis com= mittee, and Rep. Paul Moffett (R. Indianapolis), who is a rural resi« dent of the county. They have the backihg of the In= dianapolis Chamber of Commerce and several other civic and taxpayer: groups are expected to join in their support. 2 4 Urges Non-Partisan Board

Mayor Tyndall presented a plan

mitted to all members of the legislature, the jude made the follow-' - ing recommendations: That the welfare law be amended so - that institutional cases could. be. kept in an institution and the mentally unfit be given assistance, rather “than ' an outright sum of money; that the law be amended

“{to give the prosecuting attorney

and grand jury of each county ac-

iticess to welfare department files ‘2/and to require the grand jury to ~Imake periodic investigations of re-

lief cases; that_the county welfare

ieirecords be opened to accredited

newspapers, and that the probation department of the county municipal courts not be transferred to the

i¢| welfare department as proposed in ey |

one hill to be introduced. In discussing the relief cases that have gone through his court, the judge said: Scores Worthless Mothers

“If there was any investizathen the county department is very tolerant as to who ‘should be drawing public benefits or has been very lax in pruning the

7 rolls of persons who should not be

‘drawing the different benefits and |in otherwise carrying: out the law

{under which: the public welfare de-

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| partment. is operated.” Judge . Niblack said that in his ‘opinion the county welfare department should be the “watch dog” of the public’s treasury and that in addition to seeing the deserving persons receive assistance it should also (Continued on Page Two) pe ————————

''PELLEY TAKES PLEA

TO SUPREME COURT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U. P.).

.j—William Dudley Pelley, Lawrence

iA. Brown and the Fellowship Press ‘lof Noblesville, Ind., who were con..victed ' last ‘ August on sedition ‘i charges, today requested the su- ' preme court to review their con-

1 victions.

Pelley and Brown, sentenced to 15 and five years, respectively, by | the. Indiana southern federal dis{trict court, based their petition for

-'& review, among other reasons, on

the ground that women were ex-

‘icluded from the grand jury. Their . conviction was affirmed by the cir-

cuit court of appeals in December.

U. 8. PLANE SINKS SUB LONDON, Jan. 12 (U, P). —-A

Consolidated Liberator bomber has sunk an enemy submarine in the

Bay of Biscay, the United States army air | force announced today. There was no indication when the action occurred.

mission, describes it.)

FLEET, PEARL HARBOR,

stretcher “to

(The correspondent who wrote the following dispatch has been compelled by reasons of military security to suppress one of the best of the Pacific war since Oct. 26. On that date, he witnessed oN ot he Alrorsts.ortios Hern, and: sow; Wils' ostal" Yer

By CHARLES P. ARNOT 2 de i United Press Staff’ Correspondent !

HEADQUARTERS, UNITED - STATES PACIFIC

Jan. 12.—A seaman, lying on

the blistering deck of the crippled aircraft carrier Hornet as enemy. - planes shrieked ‘down, tried to climb off his have another shot at the Japs

A man with a broken back tried to refuse a surgeon ’s care so his buddy could be treated first. Four men ran to throw a blazing, bone-searing nest

diary bomb off the deck.

Men rammed powder into almost red hot guns “with their bare hands when the ‘automatic ‘controls were

knocked: out. rn

Those. are a ow 5 of f the scores sof incidents. that made

1 was with the fleet. Hornet, and I heard at firs: men in all four engagemer Japan paid a price fo should never forget. The « Hornet—Sunk in the

J Japan paid with a large ail: sunk and two erfiser:

|Japanese Pay Heavy Price for the Homsk and 10 Othe U.S. Ships

saw the hit that crippled the ‘and the stories of officers snd concerned. those ships whieh her navy rg was: ttle of Santa Crus. Oct. 26. {t carrier damaged and prob1d three destroyers damaged

to the legislators at a luncheon last

week which would place supervision

of the hospital in the hands of a non-partisan five-man board of trustees. The board in turn would appoint a five-man board of diree= tors to administer the hospital. ‘The

directors then would name the hos pital superintendent. The revised plan would provide hospital service for those among the 90,000 residents of Marion coun outside the city limits, who now must depend on township trustee funds for medical attention for their needy families. Provides Added Services

It also would provide them with, health department services, which are now given with a county budget ; of only $10,000. 4 This revised proposal would. finance the county general hospital from county funds. The board trustees would appoint the board of directors which in turn would nam the county hospital superintendent, the tuberculosis sanitorium and thi county health officer. At the luncheon, Mayor Tyndall was asked why his proposal wasn't county-wide. He explained that thought by doing so he would “over-stepping” his jurisdiction,

Favors Two-Year Trial.

Asked why he didn’t include the health ‘department, he replied that he believed the hospital plan should be tried out for two years, and it proved successful the health des partment could be included by the 1945 legislature. The legislators and the Chamber of Commerce experts contend the hospital and the health departs ment’ are so related that separa paration of he we would be difficult. 3 ey all agree that the mayor's proposal is a step in. the right di= rection but “doesn’t go far eno The freeing of the hospital * politics was one of his major. paign platform planks. The Tyndall set similar to the present city adi tration of the Citizens Gas & utility.

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On the War Fro

| (Jan. 12, 1943)

RUSSIA—Red army makes 13-; gain in Caucasus after captu vital rail centers, Nazi Gen. K Dietmar admits serious Russ breakthrough. :

AIR FRONT--Allied bombers Naples, - reinforcement base " axis Tunisian armies; British Ruhr sixth time in nine n

NORTH AFRICA — — French se pass near. Pont du Fahs, trapping German forces,

BURMA—Japsnese resistance fens northwest of Akyab, .

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC-—

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