Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1943 — Page 1

}. of Pont Du Fahs in an attempt to keep open a corridor through which | ;

British Seize

AFRIKA KORPS RACING WEST

Fall of City Is Imminent; Allied - Planes Blast Road to Tunisia.

LONDON, Jan. 22 (U. P.).—Brit-|

ish sources said today that the capture of Tripoli was imminent. _ Allied radio reports said that the main defenses of the big axis base had fallen and that advanced units of the British eighth army had fought their way into the suburbs of the flaming “jewel city” of the Italian African empire. The vital airport of Castel Benito, 10 miles south of Tripoli, almost

“certainly is in British hands, Radio}

Cairo said. Official allied sources were reticent on the position of the eighth army but there appeared to be no slackening in the retrént of the Afrika Korps from Tripoli to Tunisia along “the hundred miles of hell.”

By-Pass Attempt Hinted

Death Above

Military observers here said there|

were strong indications that the

British eighth army had sent out a}

column to by-pass Tripoli on the south and attempt to cut the retreat of the Afrika Korps toward Tunisia. The Germans in Tunisia were developing a local offensive southwest

EE ne parallel “valleys ~ held by the French. had. been halted

he French. Ons of F

22 miles southwest of Pont Du a > the French said, but the other}

A RUHR RAID

column was menacing Ousseltia. A communique from the U. 8. ninth air force in Cairo said American medium bombers and fighters were taking an active part in harassing the axis retreat. Amerjcan Liberator bombers attacked shipping in the harbor of Tripoli itself. Although today’s British communique was reticent about the immediate position of British forces pressing in from east and south, press dispatches from Madrid said they were five miles away last night. The communique revealed htat ‘some of the Afrika Korps had got into Tunisia. It sald large forces of American and British planes were pounding the withdrawing enemy as far west as Ben Gardane, 20 miles inside the Tunisian border. Ben Gardane is protected by a circle of defenses. Another Ship Sunk Cutting sea supply lines to axis forces both in Tunisia and Tripolitania, an allied torpedo boat sank another axis merchantman off the Tunisian coast, and a tanker was “successfully attacked.” The British have announced the sinking or damaging of at least 20 axis ships in the African area.in the last three days. All but a few were sunk. The admiralty revealed that light British coastal naval forces had entered Tripoli harbor on Tuesday night, sinking an Italian submarine, beaching a tug and attacking the harbor works. ; Dispatches from Algiers and from ‘the desert said Tripoli was a flaming city, and even the main axis had evacuated it and was

well on its way to Tunisia.

In this remarkable news photo, - snapped by an army cameraman, musicians of a Camp Lee band roll out. the tempo for a battalion review, unconscious of the fact that a pilot is rearing to his death above, and behind them (plane,

SETS BIG FIRES

Up to 100 Planes Believed To Have Participated In New Attack.

LONDON, Jan. 22 (U. P.).—British heavy bombers returning to the attack on the heart of German war industry, bombed objectives in the Ruhr during the night, starting big fires. Announcement that four bombers were missing indicated:that a force of up to 100 planes took part. Heavy clouds prevented observation of full damage, the. air ministry said in its communique. A small force of German planes bombed towns mear the southeast coast of England early last night and, a communique .said, caused slight damage but ‘no casualties. The death toll in the daylight bombing Wednesday of a children’s school was officially placed at 48.

VIRGINIA TO RATION LIQUOR

+ RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 22 (U. P.). —All Virginia liquor stores were closed today under a surprise order issued last night by the alcohol beverage control board, which announced registration would be held next week for coupon books to be used in a unit rationing system for future liquor sales beginning Feb. 1.

'A Born Reporter,’ Kidney Werites of Capt. Gallagher

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY | Times SIAN Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—This task that

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reporter—writing the obituary of his best friend. His name was Capi Basil D. Gallagher. : an Indianapolis Times reet in the early 1930's, he was

the 35 killed in far away Dutch

Guiana in the ‘worst. transport

} plane crash of American aviation |

came ‘to Washington from York Clty to receive his tight ders. He stayed at :

Units Concentrate on 10 Republics.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. 22 (U. P.).—Thirty axis espionage

| agents are operating in Argentina ‘ |and their activities affect at least

10 American republics, the com-

| mittee for the political defense of the Western hemisphere revealed : | today.

The agents form four groups, each with its own illegal shortwave radio transmitter, it was re-

ported. Many of the agents went to Argentina from Chile, which broke

(| off diplomatic relations with the : axis Tuesday,

and from Brazil, which declared war on Germany and Italy Aug. 22, to establish headquarters for axis espionage in the Western hemisphere.

U. 8. 2*2%closes Ring

+ Argentina now is the only one of the 21 American republics maintaining relations with the axis, The information was based on three memoranda on espionage furnished to the Argentine government by the United States in November, and the committee was meeting today to decide whether

German ¢ e Uiah, Mable ihe memoranda. shall. be made pub: Ba ny i

Report wu. 8. Production i

rich Niebuhr, German naval and air attache, in espionage activities, and he “was recently recalled by Germany at Argentina's demand, after his government refused to waive his diplomatic immunities, so that he might possibly stand trial for espionage in the Argentine courts. : The memoranda said that the axis spy organizations in Argentina reported movements of allied merchant ships and war vessels, and furnished data on United States war production. They also pro-

. posed plans to sabotage a number

of ships. Axis diplomatic representatives, including Niebuhr directed the espionage activities and provided funds for the spies, the memoranda said, according to a reliable source.

JAPS BOMB YANKS NEW HEBRIDES BASE

First Air Attack Is Far

From Jap Fields.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U. P.). —A Japanese warplane has bombed Espiritu Santo island, important American base on-the supply line from the United States to Australig, the navy announced today. Although the bombs caused no casualties and did no damage to military installations, according to the navy, the attack was significant in that it was carried out 535 nautical miles southeast of Guadal-

the nearest known Japanese air-

‘| base: at. Munda: in the Solomons.

It took place yesterday. Twice before enemy. warships, believed to have been submarines, shelled Espiritu Santo, which is in the New "Hebrides, but this was the first reported air attack on the island. ‘The navy did not describe the raiding plane, but it would have had to be a heavy bomber to fly from any land base. It was conceivable that the plane was from an aircraft carrier or from a plane-

: | carrying submarine.

STRICKLAND . ATTENDS OHIO. OPA MEETING

John: Jacob ‘Napp, one of the in+|dicted men, implicated Capt. Diet-

canal and more than 700 miles from|:

Bills for Mea Sent to Sunnyside DECL 92

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This is a bill submitted to the county for meat delivered to Sunnyside Sanatorium on the last day of 1942. The price charged for chucks is 25 cents a pound. For beef rounds the price is 25/4 cents a pound. These prions violate OPA ceiling prices, investigators charge.

IN -7 1943

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

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THE EWELSY 1AEEN0OR 00, awaLay, owe A478-C

Here is the bill for the first meat delivered in 1943. The prices go even higher, with chuck now selling for 27 cents a pound. This price also violates the OPA ceiling prices; according to investigators,

SALARY RULING BOARD IS URGED

Its 9 Members Would Have Power to Set Pay of

All Employees.

+ (Additional Legislative News, Pages 3 and 4)

A bill was introduced in the house of representatives today to set up a state administrative board with

power to fix salaries of all state employees and pass on the rules and regulations of all state departments, The board, according to Rep. Glenn Slenker (R. Monticello), who introduced the bill, would consist of nine members—the members of the state board of finance, the state budget committee, and the| attorney general. The governor would act as chairman. ; The primary purpose of the proposal would be to exercise control over rules and regulations promulgated by state departments and having: the force of law. All such. departmental actions would require board approval before taking effect. The board also would have the power to equalize salaries in various departments and smooth. out inequalities in the pay of employees doing the same type of work. No appointive power would be given the board, and ‘sponsors of ‘the measure pointed out: that it was (Continued on Page Six)

(em. 2, 1943).

enter Tripoli; part of retreating Afrika Korps now well . inside Tunisian border, we :

slightly, but Red army continues So advance, :

On: the ‘War: Fronts)

NORTH SURICA —Bitich troops

|Siren Blast at 9:30 Tonight to

Signal County-Wide Dimout

Indianapolis homes, non-essen-tial business firms and amusements and dining places’ will be darkened between 9:30 and 10 p. m. tonight in the second county-wide dimout. "Designed primarily to rekindle the: civil defense spirit which, according to authorities, has been on the wane here the past few. months, the dimout will be supervised by Marion county's well-knit organization of some 15,000 raid wardens, auxiliary police, firemen and messengers. Tonight's mock raid is expected to be made more realistic by a number of “incidents” planned by

the fire department, William E. Munk, Marion county civil defense director, said. Exempt from dimout regulations will be the city’s street lighting system, traffic and auto lights and essential war plants. Mobilization of wardens and auxiliaries will be signalled by the air raid sirens. At 10 p. m. whistles will give the all-clear blast. Tonight's dimout is to be followed on Feb. 6 by a surptise alert and dimout “sometime between 8 and 11 p. m.” Both practice sessions are intended as preparations for Marion county’s first total blackout, to

be called sometime before March 15.

Germans Reported Fearful

“Russians Will

Invade Norway

(War Moves Today, Page Nine)

LONDON, Jan. 22 (U. P.) —Germany is heavily reinforcing its army

in far northern Norway .in fear of an early Russian Arctic offensive,

through Finland, Swedish advices said today. ‘At the same time usually well informed unofficial sources in Sweden

said that if Norway became a war theatér again Sweden would stop “leave troops” across. its territory.}.

immediately the flow of German The German high. command for the first time revealed to the home front the grave reverses in Russia. y's broadcast communique flatly stated that German troops at Stalingrad were. “closely encircled” and that strong Russian forces had broken through their defenses to a depth of several kilometers in the west. Show Serions Anxiety

RUSSIA—German sisifane stiffens y

GATES DENIES 6. 0. P. FIGHTS HOME RULE

Legislators Free to Vote as They Desire, He Says.

Rumors that the Republican party

: would, fight the home rule constitu- |:

amendment: now ‘pending in

| the state legislature were ended to-

487 by Republican. State. Chairman

MEAT, WATE MILK DELIVE

State and County Agencies Join in Investig tion of Supplies Furnished to Patients at Local Tuberculosis Saniteriura.

~ By EDWIN C. HEINKE Federal, state and county agencies today l:unched an investigation into the sale of meat and milk provided 0. patients at Sunnyside Sanatorium. Evidence in their hands revealed: : : THAT grades of meat specified in th2 contract wet ignored and inferior grades delivered at the ‘higher eontragh

CLAIM INFERI

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prices.

losis patients.

‘leounty agencies, it was learned.

RUSSIANS KILL, CAPTURE 5000

Make Progress in Leningrad Corridor and on Five

Other Fronts.

MOSCOW, Jan. 22 (U. P.).—Russta’s winter offensive swept forward with growing momentum. on six fronts today with official reports of another 5000 Germans killed or captured and indications that the drive. to widen ‘the siege-lifting corridor to Lenigrad was making new progress. The official Soviet communique said that the Russians again were attacking southeast of Leningrad,

driving the Germans farther south of the Neva river and ousting them from the thick network of concrete pillboxes and fortifications which they had sowed along the railroad network leading out of Leningrad. Reports of German troops killed or captured on the active fronts from Leningrad scuth to the Caucasus totaled about 5000 men, almost equally divided between troops killed and those taken prisoner. Voroshilovsk Falls Steadily ‘gaining "momentum, the Russians «closed in, attacking frontally or in pincers, on Kharkov, Ukraine industrial capital; Voroshilovgrad, Donets river industrial center; Rostov, gateway to the Cau-

presumably with the purpose of}

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THAT “watered” milk was supplied to :he 20 £

THAT 1943 contracts had been signed! grating e ew: higher prices than OPA ceilings and the priess in (942, wh the county was overcharged thousands of dollars. . The meat contract is held by Kuhn's Markat, 407 Michigan st., and the milk contract is held bi; Golden Gue sey Farms; Inc., S. Emerson ave,

Operators of Dairy Summoned.

has been added to the milk,” John Taylor, chicf of the: h of dairy products. of the state board of health :nnow “Some tests showed the milk was all right.” 3 Mr. Taylor added that operators. of the Jebey have be

“We believe the regularities eolistitute a , violation the state food, drug and cosmetics laws anc. we helieve ‘have evidence with which to With the milk investigation being conducted by state, the deliveries of meat have been checked by OPA

go into court,” he said.

Action by the county grand jury was seen passible.

Addison J. Parry, pr ssident 4 the county council, said matter would be brought up Monday’s regular meeting What action the OPA may take was not cisclosed by: Wi H. Snyder, chief enfo: officer of Indiana OPA,

has been working with oth government officiels nm 1naking the investigation. On the meat sit pation, the coun ty has been payiiig prices for. top brands of beef, bu’ recel only the cheapest cuts. : . Thanks Investigaiors : Dr. Frank L. Jennings, head Sunnyside, who reported the enti investigation to the trustees of tt institution yesterday, pointed however, that the mea; was spoiled or unfit for consumption. “It was simply a matte: of rec ing inferior meat and naying perior prices,” he cleclared. ; “On behalf of the patients Sunnyside, I wan: to thank investigators for the splendid that has been done,” Di. Jenn said. ’ : The irregularitics, ithott @ ol agreed, havé occurred %itheut § knowledge of anyone in’ the tution. : Rather, the opersting staff: saratorium has noi beer. on the food contracts. These been handled direcily by thee

CON:

|commissioners.

Under the direction ‘of Dr. nings, Sunnyside is looked one of the finest tuberculosis tutions in the' United Ste tes. Says Charges Are Un “The charges are absclutely true,” said Louis Seyffert, he was the owner of Kuhii's Mi “We have a delivery of right ‘here for Sunuyside and good meat,” he said. An official of the Gueinsey