Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1943 — Page 1
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WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington ‘Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Look for an important announcement soon affecting North Africa and the whole united nations war plan. We said it last week &nd we repeat it. Announcement has been delayed, but it's still 3 coming. : g ; ‘ » : EE ANOTHER TIP: Watch for some sensational move by Hitler. Best bet is a drive through Spain to cut allied communications across Morocco. Hitler still has plenty of seasoned divisions. Great question is whether he can transport them. British and American “fliers - have been hitting his railroads: ‘Note: Axis difficulties of one kind or another in Rumania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece have finally killed Hitler's hope of ‘apinging Turkey in on his side.
~ More Help for China
ANOTHER PROBABILITY: More help for China, intensification of the war in Pacific and Far East. Those who urge that it's imperative are gaining strength. Their argument: Many years of bloody, difficult 4 war are ahead if Japan gets entrenched. And they use Solomon islands campaign to point it up. 3 J ® ” 8 » 8 Long, hot-contested senate debate coming on Ed Flynn's confirmation, administration first assumed it would have little trouble, Out‘come now in doubt. » Ho
Soaring Prices Feared
FROM HERE on it’s going to be tougher than ever to.keep prices from getting out of bounds. “Tip-off was Price Administrator Brown's aduission that price rises are “inevitable,” that he'll. worry most about making war palatable to consumers, Growing cockiness of the farm bloc, lag in siphoning off loose Economic Stabilizer Byrnes is still in there fighting, but he’s carrying the whole load. ® a =»
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‘Jones y Marvin Jones. Lisagsisaure defects, Tice 16:-Niope 5 SY Yinteron-: Plan calls for cash bonus payments to farmers whe top their quotds in ‘scarce food crops; may be extended to all food and feed crops. Another possibility: Farmer-labor feud, mounting throughout country, may turn up in congress, prevent either bloc from making substantial legislative
Major farm organizations: ars up in Arm against proposed unionization of farm labor; labor has started drive in some states to tax ‘farmers 50 per cent on income received from federal benefit payments. . [ SJ # » ” # ' MANPOWER. CONTROVERSY is heading up to & full-scale row * (Continued on Page Two)
New Guinea Eyewitness Story—
Montana Boy's Arm Signals
Wholesale Death to Japs
The following disaptch is the first eyewitness account of the fighting that broke of Japanese resistance on Papuan New Guinea. "The author is in ¢ of the Pacific area of United Press.
By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW (Copyright, 1943, by United Press) - : WITH THE ALLIED FORCES ON THE SANANANDA FRONT, Jan, " 21 (Delayed). ~If you have never seen American and Australian troops in close co-operation really belting hell out of the Japanese, I would like to take you with me through the fight at Huggins today which started when a lad from Montana stood in a jungle road and dropped
his ‘arm in a start fifing’ signal ang ended when the coun; of
dead Japanese stood at 475. You are called at. 5 ‘o'clock on a black.and heavy morning. You are
fell last night, a good portion
TWO NAVAL PLANES MISSING WITH 25
One Carried ed Officers From “| Pearl Harbor. | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 23 (U.
FORECAST: Continued mid this s afternoon; much colder — light, drizale.
ripoli Taken, Bri tis ) “Miracles” Ahead
Production ‘Discoveries to “dring. Greatest - Prosperity Ever After War, Herrington Tells Stevens Alumni in N.Y,
WEST OF CITY
Britain’ S War Mini Minister Hails Victory as Turning
Point in War.
BULLETIN LONDON, Jan. 23 (U. P.).~The admiralty announced today that a British light naval unit bombarded Zuara, 70. miles west of Tripoli, this morning.
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 23.—The British eighth army marched into Tripoli} and hoisted the union jack at 5 a. m. today and then sent striking forces racing west of Benito Mussolini’s last African capital in an attempt to encircle and annihilate axis forces straggling into, Tunisia. ‘An Italian high command communique admitted the fall of Tripoli,
sion that axis forces had retired from the city voluntarily. The smashing blow. to Mussolini’s| dreams of African empire was hailed here by War Minister Sir James Griss as having been an action that firmly turned the tide of war for the British and Russian armies.
Report Battle Raging
> A terrific battle was. believed to be raging between encircled axis| forces, presumably west of Tripoli om the road to. and ad¥anced elements
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Lake Chad region were reported to| have turned toward Tunisia and the Mareth line, along the border, where Marshal Erwin Rommel was believed to be hoping to hole up for]: a while and give his Afrika Korps a
& narrow, desolate corridor. Taken in Three Months
He pos start of his smashing offensive at El Alamein, more than 1300 miles to the east, Lieut. Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery's desert-hardened empire troops were swinging down the narrow, twisted streets of Tripoli and under the marble triumphal arch that the Caesars built. - Tripoli, besides being a great sym- |: fibolic victory, was of great potential benefit to the allies. It has a magnificent harbor, presently clogged with wrecked ships sunk by American and British bombers. Great Castel ‘Benito airdrome, 10 miles south of Tripoli, will give the allies a nearby base for operations against the axis in Tunis. Yank Help French American troops, coming fo the aid of the hard-pressed French southwest of the Tunisian town of ‘Pont du Fahs, checked the attempt of the Germans to open a wide
| corridor through which the Afrika Korps could retreat to Tunis and|h
French ‘Readquarters in North Africa announced that the Germans * ‘| had ‘been driven back several miles in -the Wadi Kebi® which runs
of Pont du Fahs.
twin German offensive, and the
thrown back four miles
a point six miles north of Robaa. :
but attempted to convey the impres-| \
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ica’s “production miracles” higher standard of peaceful
rington Co., of Indianapolis,
‘said that “in this. new world we
The Indianapolis manufacturer, speaking before the Alumni association of the Stevens Institute of Technology, pictured a new world of technical advances so great that the changes in living will exceed those experienced from the radio, “airplane and the _automobile. “Our dominant aircraft industry is the production medium whi will guarantee to us “the L necessary to make our voice heard in this world to come,” he said.
Keep Friends Armed
“LET US put the mailed fist of this might at the disposal of those friendly forces’ determined to make this world a better place for all good men to live in. ! “Our refusal to accept the duty and responsibility of our international obligations may easily bring about the end of our civilization, » he said. ©. Mr. Herrington outlined in detail the “production miracles” of the last 18 months...
“of es heresy “48 not a too far distant Possibility,” he said. ‘These developments ‘will bring greater to ‘our every- - day - post-war life than did the coming of the radio.” He reviewed the amazing advances in motor fuels,’ declaring that test engines are being studied properly to evaluate the energy content of new chemical creations. # » 8 Value of Synthetics “HORMONES and vitamins are being regimented to meet the many’ problems of overcoming utrition and fighting disease {Continued on Page Two) settee
‘T00 MANY’ DIMOUT VIOLATIONS FOUND
Last Night's Test Shows Need for Practice.
Indianapolis and Marion county need another practice dimout “soon,” William Munk. county civilian defense director, learned in last night’s test. “Generally speaking, the dimout was successful,” he said, “but therefg were too many. violations, nearly as many as we had in the first dimout, Oct. 16.” ‘While many sections gave whole-
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He said ‘the
Special
NEW. YORK, Jan. 23.—A new world in which Amer-
must lead all peoples to a. living, was pictured graphi-
cally by Arthur W. Herrington, head of the Marmon-Her-
in a speech here last night.
Declaring that any attempt to return to a narrow isolationist | point of view will be a step towward national suicide, Mr. Herrington
will be forced to take our Proper
position in the family of world nations.”
6 Reported Injured Accidents, Two Go To Hospital.
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Indianapolis sat through a wartime dimout. last night and stumbled through an “blackout” this morning. ‘The weather bureau’ attributed the “worst fog we can remember” to the sudden rise in temperatures.
Motorman Hurt
Abe Brodey, 65, of Maywood, was injured in a two-car crash on road '67, one-half mile west of Maywood about 5:30 a. m.
Five persons were tre when an automobile struck-a streetcar operator at E. Washington st. and Sheridan ave. automobile were admitted to Methodist hospital. The streetcar operator, John ‘Browning, 3523 Carrollton, received leg injury when ‘the automobile hit him as he was replacing the {rolley of his, car. .
Transportation Snarled
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COUNTY
ECONOMIES IN FOOD DELIVERY
Milk Order Only only Beginning Of Extensive Program, Wickard Says.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U. P.)— Food officials disclosed today that extensive reforms are planned in the nation’s food distribution system to force economies and retard rises’ in prices to consumers. Administrator Claude R. Wickard said, his order last, night for drastic revisions of milk marketing practices was but the “first step” in a program to conserve manpower, fuel,
Allows Higher Prices Wickard said the milk order which becomes effective Feb. 1, would allow higher prices to farmers while minimizing increases to consumers. Restaurants and hotels may continue to purchase milk in pints and half pints for consumption on their premises. They must confine their purchases to not more ‘than two handlers unless each delivers more than 300 quarts. They cannot return: unsold ‘milk. Save on Distribution
Food officials said they were working on “all practicable” distribution ..economies. Steps already have been taken to save on distri-
delivery routes. ‘It those are not made voluntarily, an order may be forthcoming either from the food administrator or the office of deSonss transportation.
- He's Ouf, She's In
CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (U. P)— Mrs. Frederic Amour, 23, had kissed her husband goodby, as he
Sensors Guild Seeks to Remove
HX, * Aka ¢ DE pe we’ r
IY A GRAND ] JURY TAKES UP DATA MONDAY
chases from Commissioners’ Hands; ‘Bosson Offers Inquiry Aid.
: By EDWIN C. HEINKE The Sunnyside meat and milk ifivestigation moved. int
the spotlight of federal court today.
An immediate temporary: injunction was asked by
office of price administration against Kuhn's Market, 407 W Michigan st., to restrain the firm from delivering any. mea to the tuberculosis sanatorium at prices Violating the OF
ceilings.
The action was filed by W. H. Snyder, chief enfo
officers of the Indiana OPA in behalf of Prentisd M. B national OPA director.
Later, Mr. Snyder conferred with Federal Judge ¥
ert Baltzell in asking for an immediate: oral injunction.
d Jury te Study Charges : Other developments in the investigation that produc
charges of excessive, prices for meat sold the samatc and watering of certain mill@supplied by Golden Gue Farms, Inc., were:
1. Prosecutor Sherwood Blue announced that the count
grand jury will convene Monday to take up not’ “only
“but to embrace a
the omy aoutiell, ‘which governs.
lee of funds in the county, were called into s at 8 p. m. today in the directors’ room at the Fletcher bs to turn the spotlight on. $100,000 worth of expendi a asked mostly by the county commissioners. 2
3. Representatives of Sunnyside guild met this afte
noon to draft legislation which would take purchasing supplies entirely out of hands of the county commissione and permit a purchasing director to be named by the hoa) of trustees of the sanatorium.
4. Statement by William Bosson, president of the cour on
$y commissioners, offering their co-operation in the inv
left to take his. army examination. f “Be a good soldier, dear!” she said. “I'll carry on!” She wept a bit. Then took a long look at his pitcure on the mantel. “I'm going to help you, Freddie. The sooner we all get into this, - the sooner it will he over and we can be together again.” An hour later, she enlisted in the WAAC. Then she returned home, expecting an empty house, a Solitary dinner—with no Freddie.’ Instead there ' was a pleasant bustle. It was Freddie bedecked
up an omelet. “Surprise, dear! I haven't been
- She replied: “Surprise, dear!
RATIFY HOOSIERS FOR COMMITTEE POSTS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U. P.). Hoosier congressmen foday | ratified by Republican house members for commi'‘tee assignments. They were: Rep. Charles M. La Follette,
I have”
pensions; Rep. Gerald Landis, Linton, election No. 2, and Robert Grant, Marion, naval affairs. s
‘MRS. LOUIS IS WAITS BANY CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (U. P.).—Mrs. Joe Louis entered Provident hospital last night to await the arrival of her first child. Dr. William Gibbs, her physician, said it was
| not. expected antl Tuesday.
RUSS OPEN SHELLING
| important Donets City May
GUADALCANAL es
Remnants Face Extinction,
gation. 5. State board of hes authorities prepared to me Monday at 11 o'clock, with officials of the Golden Guerns concern summoned to “explain w action against them in court shou not be taken.” The government went into ¢ this morning with evidence that hi meat prices were considerably h er than permitted under the
OF VOROSHILOVGRAD
Be Regained Soon.
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent
REDUCED TO 4000
Marine Officer Says.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. (U. P).[®