Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1943 — Page 1

Fear Food S U.S. to Be

But Americans will Still

ue . By DANIEL M.

exact greatér sacrifices from

‘gasoline | and ‘fuel oil shortages, is here today and" will”

grow: worse ‘tomorrow.

An inevitable tide of ‘complaint, ‘whether justified or

not,’ is. expected to produce covering all branches of food

; Presiteiit Roosevelt’ sought to checkrhate and discount such complaints ‘in his annual message to congress. In 1943, he said, “We‘shall. feel in many ways in our daily lives the sharp pinch.of total ‘war.”

JAPS. MAY GET ~ JOBS: IN STATE

Selective Process Is Plan ' Of War Relocation Authority.

The local office of war informa-~ tion today confirmed reports from Chicago that a number of skilled

+: World; Congressional Investigations of -

a Supplies Are Probable., .' (This'ss the. first of several alapatehes about. the food ris)

: Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON,’ Jan. 15.—A food crisis, which ; may

4 Mminiaeator Wickacd rus rom.

| may not: be ssbing fjust what

hortage in come Acute |

Be Best-Fed Civilians in

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civilians than do the rubber,

congressional investigations supply and distribution.

He added: : “Fortunately, there are only a few Americans ‘who place "appetite above- patriotism. The overwhelming majority : realize that the food we send abroad is for military purposes for j our ‘own and § yallied. fighting forces ahd for

Americans will go Nodbrr. nt the warn that! they. they: like.

To ,

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.dure will Bave to be very selective and it will take in only the workers| . having vitally needed skills and , who have been thoroughly :investigated by the federal bureau of investigation, / Some reports ; coming directly -from. the new Chicago WRA headquarjers, indicated that the réloca‘tion, of ese workers ‘was ‘to ‘include farm workers, leading to ‘ spetulation: that a mass movement was in prospect.: "| Invdives Wide Inquiries

‘ Local fafm organizations and the =X, 8. employment service reported, however, that farm laborers deflwill net ‘be included under

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NO :MORE_WASHTUBS!

WASHINGTO , Jan. 15 (U. P). board sound

“| of 1042?” farmers: everywhere are asking. ;

.{in April, 1940, but the, conviction

.| thorities- for further disposition. “hes Supe court - ruled that),

e|by Andersons attorney was sus- | tained by Criminal Court. Judge

-~. Washington officials: reply: + “Tt can be ‘donesthrough & combination of hard work and - good weather.” ‘Manpower ‘Chairman: McNutt {Continued on Page Four) :

CHARGES AGAINST

* GROCER DROPPED)

Bie Says New Anderson|

Trial Unwarranted.

The three-year-old et against Dan R. Anderson, grocer, charging him with filing false relief claims for groceries, was dismissed in criminal court today. “Anderson - was convicted of the charge by a jury in criminal court

was reversed by the Indiana Supreme’ court one year later and the, case sent back to county au-

evidence in the case was insufmcient. Prosecittor ‘Sherwood Blue . said that he made a thorough investigation of the evidence and was un-

ar il cote.

| ‘was imminent.

| tresses raided the east Tunisian re.}inforcement ports of Sousse and

tinged {RU 1 it 000° of padi Saupe againét the. Afrika.

BRITISH SUBS SNK 4 SHIPS,

SHELL MALY]

Germany Preparing " Public} | To Take News of Further |

African Defeats. "(War Moves Today, Page Six)

LONDON, Jan. 15 (O. P.). — The allies struck. hard. by®air and sea

today at enemy bases and supply|

lines’ in the: Medi area, and’ axis sources said violent land fighting had broken out .only 37 ‘miles ‘from the big Germah _stronghold of Tunis. .'The German - controlled Paris

radio said: the land fighting flared |

up at Pont du Fahs, 37 miles south west of “Tunis, and claimed. that

2000 -allied - troops had been killed} ‘and 20 tanks wrecked. There was} no. confirmation from united na-| tions quarters, but the increasing} “{nervousness of axis propaganda broadcas

ts seemed to indicate that a big allied push, designed to drive the Germans out’ of North Africa,

All glong the North African front the “allies were busy softening up axis bases .angd hacking at communication lines.’ American ‘flying for-

Stax and started lange fires in harbor installations. =

BA26 bombers attacked , the: Ma-]. hares area, 20 miles southwest .of | Sik and reported Hie 0 4 wong :

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enemy supply ig near Naples, oid sinking it, and then in a| daring surface raid on the south

power. Expect ‘Aled Drive Soon

Allied asd axis reports alike. Indi-py rs cated, that Montgomery's drive. to-}

hi War wanker, ‘Brownie on ard

and» vert Betty of the Lukas-Harold’ plant where no vos are

crippled cables caTTying electric WE Al ben

FIX | STAMP 11 VALUE |

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U.. P). announced today’ that. {11 becomes’ valid deh; be good for three until March -15. Sugar “sarap, 10; which is valid for three , exX=

W. D. Bain.

pires at. midnight Jan.:31;

ward Tripolt and ‘Tunisia was com- -tor fm

for more pad news from Africa, sald ior * Sa § Montgomery was about to throw 107 4% divisions agains; ihe afls forts’ op, 5

TIMES FEATURES . INSIDE P PAGES

Medal Honors

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lu 18 Jane Jordan. 21| valet”

17 Men in'Service J0 a

Local Private

| Explanation of Strike in: the ‘East.

old Ahe;senate yesterday that] Ag the. miners

TON, Jan. 18 (U. Pols

with Serge. Gootge' Bender (left)

Gains Are Enouuragin.

‘|ing made by the Red am: | Russians are, not . by. any

; | Buropean Russia,’

| gained considerable groungithan * dtring all ot last wionier's

“SEEKS T0 BREAK

|achieved few of the major o-jc : German divisions before Stalii ra

IE Russians: Still + Cin’ Win War Alone.

nap of Russian Fr Front, Pay: Sia) . By SEXSON E. HUMPRE ue ¢ Despite the encouraging gic re-

knocking. at the gates of Be: : Hitler: isin serious troub i= southern Russia, but still holds | greater ‘part of | his 1041-1947 quests, the ‘richest POT:

. The Russian! oftensives

drive .. across the SNOW=i steppes—but Soviet troops

tives of these offensives ; © ‘Nazis S(ill Effective They have surrounded ti:

but they have not annihilates or ‘rendered them ineffective

fighting force.

» Before Moscow the Germar., a 7e

50 miles” from - the advance posi ions, they won in October, 1941, The Red arnty has net ‘or Rah

kon >

Wine. Loader Called for{3ee Tove

5 Bupiteg kis mended left foreleg.

$ Badd 2 7 A et £ oe mascot oi ag

i | And‘so today he wears on his har-

-| nessa war worker's ‘identification

[badge which; reads: Brownie, K-43,

And: elisving wn orders, Brownie has: taken’ it upon+ himself ‘ to see that - thére are no- dogs allowed. There .. were. half. a - dozen... strays around when he assumed his duties. none.

eh Today 4 il: He is jon [duty 24 ~hours out of

et. every 24 aud escorts the guards on

‘In-fact,she puts in extra

y rhe! ptrols a other than

gu hangs out in the breeze.

ng as Fund: to o ond

Free. “Textbooks. - was & i

: i he. wade goin to ake any

| Hostov’ or Kharkov

{ hE AIR WAR—First major air raid ‘of Hi * north |NoRTH AFRICA--Violent fighting

. 150,000" troops 3s/Bommmel, ‘Amer-

1s

} Suse hig xthrée. others, al Italian. coast.

: SOUTHWEST PACIFIC--Austral-

- ‘bomb New Guinea cogst. BURMA British bomb Akjab area.

es the War

“Fronts

_ (Jan. 15,.1943) °

1943 made on Mas U-boat. base|

rapoeted by. axis! 37 ol. * says | BAtish ‘about. “to hurl|-

raid; Sousse submarines deps in Mediter-

ican flying and. Sfax. . _ stroy four: axis:

eH &

. Han’ commandos’ make commando » ‘foray near Salamana; allied planes

§. 8. Comming; Page Six)

LENINGRAD RING

Timoshenko Opens New Soviet ‘Offensive 'in ‘North Russia.

i By UNITED PRES ss Rifsslan armige repulsed, counter-

through, the recept Rt would Eave been as if a deter force fighting’ from the M:: (Kalinin) area had then {Saght |

to: Columbus, 0. (Smolensk). - Gains Compared

“But the. Nazis would still Iie | Richmond and six-month-lony tempts © to retake Diyton, (Rzhev) would have been un

‘Chicago would still be surrou!): ‘and able to get supplies : food only across the frozen lal: “The magnitude of the job rem

dent Roosevelt won't even “hi for victory before 1944 and why

el on Sey a T0000 is ei

ing is the best reason why Pu: a

feels that an Aico:

que today said that R. . heavy: bombers which tacked the big Nazi subma base ‘at Lorient, France night were, aided. by .b moonlight and started ; fires, in the target area. The Germans sent up a8 barrage from - heavy and * | caliber anti-aircraft guns, the © frunique said, but the British a reported they succeeded in hits on their objectives. : “Y saw 10 large fires and &- ticularly bright red expolsion: m one of the drydocks, followed | a great billow of black smoke & gesting that an oil tank was a captain of a Halifax bomber cruised over the target area half hour after dropping his: be reported. . :

Sub. Menace on Front Pag.

' Two planes were reported m The. raid was made at a when the submarine Hind:

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5 = ; a: nthe.

sitack. might . be ‘developed on a scale large enough to free the old|in czarist capital. from its. 15-month German siege. . Huge Guns Brought Up Stockholm: assertéd that the Russians ‘had massed at their front, ,| siege guns equal to those with which ‘Ithe Germans reduced Sevastopol, Jin the" Crimes, almost to dust last

‘the| In.

- past, heavy : By may have coincid ce reports that su pens were filled, or in an by the British to keep the U<k away from an important alll voy, but the target last nig believed to have been as well as nearby objectives. Air circles in London stresse fact that the bomber comm: made plain its intentions to

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d|tralize such submarine bases

said that the ions damage and loss : French town was inevitable.

the Lorient attack was cinted the allies: were ruthless in determination to deal il