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. “is one of seeing that no money is ‘spent unless it is necessary.”

- gioners’ president, declared:

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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 274

} lack Day For Axis—Rad ie : 3

LONDON, Jan. 25 (U.

played Chopin’s funeral march and newspapers carried -gloomy headlines, the German high command revealed that German troops had abandoned Voronezh. : Moscow has never ‘admitted German capture of Voronezh, which was used by the Russians as the speat‘head for the present offensive. Berlin said the city was given up “without enemy pressure, according to plan in

shortening the front.”

At the same time the high command asserted that the German sixth army and two Rumanian divisions, now surrounded at Stalingrad, was gaining “immortal glory” against overwhelming superiority.

The dirge on the radio

headlines were preparing the German public for an early Admission that the 22 German divisions trapped at Stalingd were no more and that the situation elsewhere in Russig was none too favorable.

Patients Who ‘Were Given

: ‘Sunnyside. Sanatorium, recognized as one of the titutions of its kind in the U. S. has been receiving some “watered” milk and inferior meat at } superior prices, it was charged last week by investiHere is one ‘of the little patients.

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County Council's uncil's Crackdown

Inks Commissioners; Grand Jury Meets.

: between the county a and county commissioners, the 'latter irked by the council's “crackdown” on commissioners’ spending, flared at a meeting of the two groups at the courthouse today. The council had convened to listen to a request for $100,000 appropriations, among them new expenditures for Sunnyside sanatorium, and to plan for creation of a purchasing department for Sunnyside. | The Sunnyside situation exploded last week when federal, state and county investigators disclosed the county was paying excessive prices for meat furnished to the institution, and that milk sold the sanatorium allegedly was “watered.” Grand Jury Investigates As the council and commissioners met in one part of the building, the Marion | ounty grand jury opened its inve stigation of the Sunnyside situation. The council members, pursuing their policy of not allowing any expenditures by the commissioners unless knowing exactly how. the money is to be spent, queried the commissioners on ‘building expend{tures. William Bosson, commis-

“I want to say here and now that we must get together ard formulate a ‘general policy on everything so we will know what to do .in the ‘future. “This situation in the past has been very bad, with the commissioners pulling one way and the council members another, with taxpayers’ groups pulling - another. We've got to have a meeting of the

Addison Parry, council president, retorted that the: council's position

“Before we appropriate any

FORECAST: Considerably colder tonight with lowest temperature around zefo. Continued cold, tomorzow Sorsnoon .

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year. But another said the porary because the axis was offensive in Tunisia, From Marseilles, France,

where 18 Germans including and the bluntly pessimistic a new repressive campaign.

MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1943

SWISS DISPATCHES said Italian newspapers after trying to minimize the importance of the loss of ‘Tripoli, said Saturday, when the British eighth army captured it, must be observed as a day of national mourning. One newspaper was quoted that the march of the eighth army into Tripoli made Saturday the blackest day in the history of the Italian empire, now dead in its sixth

loss of Libya was only op getting ready for a counter-

where 40,000 persons in the

. harbor area were sent to concentration camps, to Norway

both army men and civilians

were executed on charges of sabotage, the Germans started

The Belgium government in

exile here announced that 26 persons had been executed in Belgium, 20 because patriots killed one German and

wounded another, six as railroad saboteurs.

ALLIES PLAN

Inferior Food

The sanatorium has 250 patients, many of them youngsters like this tot, Many of the patients complained of the taste of the milk and some refused * to drink it, according to Dr. Frank Jennings, head of

the institution, \

With meat now being supplied by Kingan’ s, Storekeeper Roscoe Mason butchers some of it for today’s meal at the sanatorium. Watching him is Mrs. Bertha Losch, dietitian.

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2 Grilled in Mystery Death Of Navy Wife in Lower 13

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Jan. 25 (U. P.).—The man in upper 13 was| "held as a material witness today while police pressed thelr search for

the murderer of the lLeautiful bride in lower 13. Police were without a substantial clue to the wierdly improbable murder mystery that had its inception early Saturday morning. The passengers in a Pullman car, part of ‘a train speeding southward

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scream. They parted the curtains and.saw in the aisle the body of the Sharpest . Drop ‘in‘ Years Is Forecast Here. :

bride in ‘lower 13, blood pouring from a wound in her throat. Private Harold R. Wilson of the marines ‘was in upper 13 and was to be taken to ‘Albany, Ore. today for further questioning. He told ‘police: . “I am not implicated in this crime in any manner” / ' Wilson said that when he was awakened by the scream, he parted

Sutired aa SecondeCiosadd Tntisnapolls. Ind. Jstued de y exe Sunday.

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¥ broadeasts claimed that the: arrests

at Marseiles resulted from the activity of “many sate enemies” in the harbor district and said only persons engaged in medical or railway work could remain in the district. The whole harbor quarter, except for its “arche- face*a defeat of some magnitude,” the: Berlin newspaper

ological ‘and historical sights” is to be

Tazed and replaced

by a “cleaner district,” Paris said.

. Adolf Hitler's accession to power, and diplomatic sources

reported that many Germans speech in which he would b:

feared Hitler would make a lame his reverses on every-

thing and everybody but himself.

Alfred Rosenberg, the ruthless Nazi political philoso- said.

pher, said in a speech-at Berlin yesterday: —— fateful Hours kischer Beobachter, official Nazi

day lives through the, most. of its history.” = The hewspapers Wider

todecisive and

big headlines described the

bitter cold and privations of the men at the front.

THEY ADMITTED that before Stalingrad the Russians had broken through the German positions and into the city—where they had been. all along. + :

“For the first time in the Boersen-Zeitung said.

war the German people mist,

It said hopefully that nobody should be discouraged It was only five days before the 10th anniversary of because the Romans, when threatened by Hannibal, fought ‘on to victory while “Britain in this war refused = ‘

beaten by any catastrophe.”

“Everything in the German reich is at stake in nel . the existence of every German,” the Allgemeine om

“The right to a peaceful

~ “Annihiliation threatens from the east.”

life has vanished,” the Voel-. newspaper, warned.

It said British women had replaced men in many jobs and the American and Russian people also were waging. total war. ‘Germans had to to wage the same kind. 13

TILSON HALTS ALL BUSINESS

“BY BONDSMEN

| Temporary Suspension Is|

Ordered During Probe of

Financial Status.

All professional bondsmen in Indianapolis were temporarily suspended from doing business today by County Clerk Jack Tilson. Letters were sent. wo municipal

+f oourts, criminal court and: tt police de-| partment by Mr.

instructing them not to accept ‘bonds signed by professional bondsmen until the clerk’s office investigates - their property ‘holdings and financial status. Mr. Tilson said “records in his office revealed that seven professional bondsmen had failed to pay forfeitures = during the last few months. Meanwhile, the profes» sional bondsmen, if they post any

bonds, will have to. produce cash.

Mr. Tilson said”he will release the suspension order as soon as he has checked the financial status of the bondsmen,

4 Suspended Saturday

Four well-known bondsmen ' had been suspended Saturday from signing surety -bonds, under order of Clerk Tilson. They “were Abe Greenspan, Albert Reeder, Harry Campbell and Marty Frankfort. Recently Judge W. D. Bain of criminal court issued an edict stating that in the “future any bondsman who fails to bring in a’ prisoner within a reasonable time after subpoenas have been issued will be suspended from posting bonds for 30 days and those who fail to bring defendants in at all will be barred from posting bonds permanently.

3,500,000 NEEDED INU. . FARM JOBS

Wickard;, McNutt to Call

Housewives, Clerks.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P). —Food Administrator Claude R. Wickard and War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt warned today that 3,500,000: persons now . engaged in non-essential -aciivities must be placed on farms this summer. The two Hoosiers warnad that unless these manpower needs are filled, agriculture in general faces a breakdown. They expect to get most of the needed workers from volunteers in urban areas. “The situation is extremely serious,” Mr, McNutt said. ~

-iman said. i| personnel board drafted a ten dollar

On the War

Fronts (Jan. 25, 1943)

NORTH AFRICA—Allied planes develop two-way attack on retreating Afrika Korps; Americans aid French in checking German at-|: . tack in Tunisia.

RUSSIA—Red army threatens to trap German troops in Caucasus Kuban region; reach point 128 miles southeast of Kharkov. Germans abandon Varonize without

a fight.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC—American heavy bombers raid Rabaul; Liberator bomber shoots down two zero fighters; Kokumbona captured by. sane on Guadal-

HINTS NEW BLOW AT MERIT LAW

Garrott Would Eliminate Group Earning Under $150 a Month.

If the Andrew bill, under attack as a “merit ripper,” passes the house of representatives, Senator I. Floyd Garrott, chairman of the state budget commtitee, will attempt to amend it to remove all institution employees earning less than $150 a month from the merit system. : This would place the hiring and firing of about 75 per cent of the institutions employees in the hands of the superintendents. Senator Garrott, who is acting Republican floor leader, charged that “most of the trouble” which the budget committee has had with the personnel board followed the committee’s refusal to raise Personnel Director W. Leonard Johnson's salary $500 annually.

Women Voters Opposed

The bill introduced by Rep. Jess C. Andrew (R. West Point) and approved by the house penal and reformatory institutions’ committee would take the penal institution employees from the merit system and return parole powers to the boards of trustees of: the institutions. This measure is obposed by the Indiana League of Women Voters and the Indiana Merit System association. Senator Garrott said : that ‘the budget committee adopted the per= sonnel board’s salary recommendation for the institutions last Febru-

ary. Two months later, he said, the |

budget committee turned down the request to increase Johnson's salary from $5000 to $5500 ually. “We said at-that time that he hadn’t earned his spurs and his

salary was higher than a lot of of-|

ficials with equally work,” the budget committee chalr-

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likely that scouting parties already

lionth-ton of axis shipping in the

land, in daylight today, the air ministry announced.

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NAZI DARE FOR TUNISIAN RAID

Make Bold d Attack Toward

Coast as 8th Army

Nears Border. LONDON, Jan. 25 (U. PJ).—A

daring American: raid’ toward the| coast below Sfax and the possibility |

that advance patrols of the British lready have crossed

forces from ‘east snd west would join hands for the final assault against the axis in North Africa. The” Ameriean raid, which ‘was made in response _to a written challenge from the Germans to “come out and fight,” carried the Americans to within ' 33° miles of the southeastern Tunisian coast.

Take 80 Prisoners

The manner in which the German challenge was delivered to the Americans was not stated in dis patches from Africa, but 'it was clear that the United States forces accepted the issue promptly. They moved forward 22 miles from Semed and dashed into Maknassy, only -33 miles from the coast below S8fax. There they took 80 prisoners and retired without atempting to fight through to the sea. Official quarters here had no positive confirmation: that the eighth army had crossed the Tunisian. frontier, but the pace of the advance westw from Tripoli was 's0 rapid that it was regarded as

were over the border.’ ‘Madrid dispatches said that the bulk of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s force had reached a point north .of Gabes but’ still showed no indications of halting for a fight.

Air Attack Pressed

American bombers: raided: the German airdrome at Mendenine twice within a few minutes. Between 25 and 30 enemy planes were believed to have been destroyed. Flying fortresses .attacked Sousse and hit a large merchant. ship. British planes on Saturday night

os fires at Palermo, chief port

Allied ‘resistance stiffened against the German efforts to widen Rommel’: corridor of retreat into Tunisia. U. S. tank men hurled back several German attacks, but the French were forced to withdraw from the Bou Dabous hill. British Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood announced that the milto

Mediterranean credited sub-,

FLUSHING RAIDED BY DAY

- LONDON, Jan. 25 (U. P.) —Amer-ican-built A-20

. | Berlin said today that United States| ters, troops : had landed at Karachi, on | the west coast of India, and at Aden,

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All: Without Losing Initiative.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25 (U. P). —Vice president Wallace * pictured today a ‘postwar United States “where all can become members of the middle class—where all can share in the benefits which that class has enjoyed in the past.” “We can have full employment in this country without destroying private initiative, private - capital, or! private enterprise,” he said. “Government can and must accept the major responsibilities for filling in whatever gaps business leaves.” This statement from Washington was written ‘at the reguest of the Committee ‘on Camp and Church Activities of the Presbyterian Church . of the United States of America, by whom it was released today. It is to be circulated in booklet form among Presbyterian ‘men of the armed forces. Mr. Wallace assured the armed forces that they are not fighting for another treaty of Versailles or for a peace that will last only until “our sons are grown.” On the contrary, he said, “we are fighting for a peace that will endure because it is just and charitable.” He said that “Horatio Alger is not dead in America and neyer|™May will die,” and stressed that “individual initiative and enterprise, and

government responsibility . for * the |

general - welfare, will continue to pull in double harness for a better life for our people.”

REPORT U. S. LANDINGS _ LONDON, Jan. 25 (U. P.).—Radio

in Arabia on the gulf of Aden, Ex-

change Telegraph said.

ould Bring Back Parole ~~ | : | System Condemned i in Federal | Reports

| Censorship Rules on U

Nations Strategy Talks 4

Suddenly Loosen. By LYLE C, WILSON | United Press Staff Cortespondent

VASHINGTON, Jan. 2

wae reveled $035 a sel |'ship. restrictions in and Washington . were su denly relaxed.

Cav : fe or | ‘| allied discussi d that allWallace Foresees Jobs for er

victory plan agreements have: he

any of these reports. LONDON, Jan, 25 (U. P.).~Tk Berlin radio reported from Lis! today that Prime Minister ¥ ston Churchill left London s days ago for ‘a meeting wi President Roosevelt. An earlier Berlin broadcast today claimed Churchill had gone to Washington to ask for aaditional Ameri (ican aid.

‘

Newsmen have been “w around” . these: developments | some days. of course, remains to be told:

Great Britain and the United § —something in the nature of a council.

Diplomat May Take Over |

There are reports that . George Catroux, French J

come a major factor in the ‘3 : African situation, possibly as gow ernor of Tunisia after the axis ha been driven out. i

: There are other reports: that

complaints against Vichymen ing dominant in the French | ganization in French North A may finally be disposed of by nomi. nation of a high-ranking merican diplomat as administrative ¢ ecto for the territory. 2 s There seems to be ¢ feeling that North African pi must be. adjusted quickly for - (Continued on Page Two)

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