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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 275

‘TUESDAY, JANUARY, 26, 1943

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102 AXIS DIVISIONS BROKEN, RUSS SAY

Momentous Allied War Decision Expected

publication tomorrow.

Dispatches of Great Importance Now Being Received at Times

The Indianapolis Times now is receiving from United Press correspondents a series of dispatches of transcendent importance which will be released for

Watch for these dispatches. They will appear in all editions of this paper tomorrow.

DE GAULLE-GIRAUD

~ Honore Giraud, high commissioner of French North and - West Afica, had reached an agreement.

ACCORD REPORTED

North Afriean Council and Free French Committee to Co-operate, but Won't Be Combined, Chicago Sun Declares.

CHICAGO, Jan. 26 U. P.).—The Chicago Sun said to-| day in a copyrighted dispatch from London that Gen. Charles de Gaulle, head of the Fighting French, and Gen. Henri

United States and British mediation aided in the agreement, the Sun said. “The political difficulties in North Africa appear to have been smoothed out,” the

! full effectiveness in terms of a fully

LONDON SAYS NEWS T0 STIR WHOLE WORLD

United Nations War Council Under Study, Eden Tells

Parliament.

LONDON, Jan. 26 (U. P.).—Today’s newspapers, anticipating an important announcement on united nations strategy and policy, displayed such headlines as these over dispatches from their Washington and New York correspondents: “Biggest talks of war.” “United States awaits news on tiptoe.” ‘Momentous decisions by allies. » “Grand strategy in 1943." ‘United States expects news to stir world.” | 4 Wars at Once

Two newspapers published editorials on the general war situation. ' “The united nations are waging at least four wars which in no sensé are subject to common stra-

icle, Liberal party organ, said. “The vast resources of the allies can only be brought to bear with

tegic direction,” the News Chron- =

* fighting the axis with all that im-

dispatch said, “though arrangements fall short of a

definite solution. The: im-|-pression prevails that the fighting French under de Gaulle and most of the French African empire under Giraud remain separate organiza tions, regardless of any attempt to merge them. “But intensive conversations are said to have resulted in agreement consecrating them to teamwork in

plies respecting military collaboration.” Gen, de Gaulle met today with the French national committee in London.

Wait OPA Ruling On Extra Food

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (U.P.). =—An OPA spokesman said today no decision has been reached yet on the number of cans of foodstuffs which will be allowed to . consumers when “point” rationing of canned goods goes into effect— probably early in. March. . ‘When canned foodstuffs rationing was announced some week ago consumers were warned tk must declare the number of cans they, have on hand. ‘These, it was said, would be taken into account in determining the number of points allotted to each consumer, and a certain “free” allowance of cans would be made. " OPA spokesmen categorically denied reports that this “free” allowance probably would be. 10 cans. They refused to estimate what the allowance might be, however.”

On the War Fronts

(Jan. 26, 1943)’

OCCUPIED EUROPE—German occupation forces threaten destruction of old harbor district of Marseilles unless Frenchmen, registing eviction from their homes, cease firing. Luxembourg iron workers strike. :

AFRICA—Radio Rome roports impending American offensive in southern Tunisia; axis retreat continues.

* RUSSIA—Red army ; follows up cap- | ture of Voronezh by moving west- ' ward for assault on Kursk; Stalin | hails “great victory”; military . men estimate 40.per cent of axis “divisions in Russia have been . smashed.

JURORS. TO TAKE

SUNNYSIDE TRIP

Rabb Cor aiite: Witness List; Bill Proposes Sep-

arate Purchasing Unit.

The Marion county grand jury will visit Sunnyside sanatorium tomorrow in its investigation of meat and milk sold to the institution, Prosecutor Shefwood Blue an-

nounced today. Meanwhile, Dr. Herman Morgan, secretary of the city board of health, said today he would degrade milk from Golden Guernsey Farms, Inc, from “A” to “C.” This would prohibit Golden Guefnsey from selling “A” or “B” milk within the city. Dr. Morgan said the action was taken because of the huge bacteria“ count found in the company’s milk recently by inspectors of the city board of health. Dr. Morgan pointed out that the company had been warned once before to lower the bacteria content of its milk. . Chief Deputy Prosecutor Saul Rabb went to Sunnyside this afternoon to compile a list of witnesses who will testify before the jury which started its investigation Monday at the request of Mr. Blue. The only witness in the investigation this morning was County Auditor Ralph Moore, who brought with him into the jury room records of (Continued on Page Two)

2 SOLDIERS KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION

SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Jan. 26 (U. P.) ~The Grand Canyon Limited of the Santa Fe railroad] re-{crashed into the rear of a freight train at the approach vo Cajon pass last night, killing ,two soldiers and

The caboose of the freight was demolished and five of its cars were thrown from the track. Both east and west travel on|arms. Santa Fe and Union Pacific lines was blocked for several hours. The dead were Daniel J. Aiello, Brooklyn, N. Y., and rank M. DI

supreme war. council would be

said the Daily Mail, Conservative.

achieved until such a body has been

held on Eden’s motion.

concerted plan. . . . Individual interests must be subordinated to the supreme interest of winning the war as“rapidly as possible.” [- “Formation of anything like a

warmly welcoined by allied peoples.”

“We have always taken the view that complete unity can not be

set up. However, there is much to be done yet and co-ordinated policy would be but the first step toward doing it.”

Eden Says Little

Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. replying in commons to a question

tive, said he understood suggestions for formation of a united nations war coun¢ll had been canvassed in the United States as well as in Great Britain but that he had nothing to add to them in the public session. A secret session was then

Axis radio ‘stations continued broadcasting reports that Prime Minister Winston Churchill had left London to confer with President Roosevelt and that one topic. of their conference was “the project of setting up a council of war which would include Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek.”

Britain Embarrassed, Nazis Claim

The Berlin radio reported that “it was hinted today in the Wilhelmstrasse that Prime Minister Winston Churchill might go to Moscow after conclusion of his Washington talks.” Today's Voelkischer Beobachter, official newspaper of the Nazi party quoted by the Berlin radio, said that “the meeting” was a sign of British embarrassment. : “It can no longer pass unnoticed in London and Washington,” Voelkischer Beobachter said, “that Stalin makes no statements regarding post-war problems which are being : ceaselessly discussed in his allies’ camp. He merely contentedly acknowledges the fact that Britain is ‘ready to deliver Europe to the Soviets, in which he sees welcome support of bolshevism for a world revolution which it is Moscow’s aim to break loose, spread by power of vim “The British premier is always forced to travel to Moscow or Wash-

Mattao, Trenton, N. J.

(U. 8. Communiques, Page Two)

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| Gets 45-Minute Latics

It took this soldier at Camp Atterbury 45 minutes to read the letter draped about him. He .is Pvt. John E. Kirk, member of the quartermaster company, - 83d infantry division. received at Camp Atterbury, it was written on adding machine roll

Daper. and. measured. 25 fogt, Jot Birk answered he

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83d division photo.

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Cuts Pay

By NOBLE REED - The salaries of 12° juvenile court probation officers, who are merit

system workers, were cut g total of

who are political appointees,” was raised a total of $1200 today in a court order issued by Juvenile Court. Judge Mark W. Rhoads. The new payroll schedule was approved by the county council after tabulations showed that the total salary expenditures stayed within the

budget limits fixed by the council last year for 1943. Judge Rhoads explained ta_the council that the referees, George House, Florence Thacker Bradley

and Will H. Porter, were. attorneys

and that their legal experience will improve operation of. the court. “All the salary adjustments were made with the view toward -improving the general administration of the court operations,’’ Judge Rhoads told the council., Addison Parry, council president; said, “Council members - could not be concerned with questions of administration and that so long as the total salary schedule does not exceed the budget set up for 1943, the council was- obligated to approve it.” . The salary of Charles Boswell chief probation officer, was cut from $3640 a year to $3000 and the assistant chief officer's pay was cut $100. Reductions made in saldries of 10 other officers totaled- $600. All probation officers must be appointed. from eligible lists provided from the state social workers’ merit list. The wages of the court bailiff " {Continued on Page Two)

BILL HITS MARRIAGE LICENSE ‘RACKET

Pastors Ask Law Barring

Fancy-Folder Sales. The state pastors conference has

when 38 were advanced and 24 de-

‘| pacity. This was done to enable

of Merit Staff

$1300 and payroll for three referees

PROMOTE 9 POLICE OFFIGERS, REDUCE 7|~

RSE Shakeup Started 2 Weeks

Ago Continues.

The new administration's poli department ‘shake-up continued today with the promotion of nine officers and the reduction of seven. As was the case two weeks ago

moted, all those promoted today were appointed in an acting ca-

seven of them to later qualify in a

permanent status by passing merit examinations. Chief. Clifford Beeker said the police promotion school, to be attended by almost all 45. men who have been advanced within the past two weeks, will be set up “within the next few days.”

In today’s department changes,|

| Deputy Inspector Lewis L. Johnson, Democrat, was demoted to act-

ing lieutenant of police. He ‘was|

succeeded by Jack Small, Republican, who only two weeks ago was advanced to the rank of acting lieutenant from that of patrolman. Another major shift saw Capt. L. M. Troutman, head of the traffic department, replaced by Audrey Jacobs, who was promoted from the rank of acting lieutenant. Trout(Continued on Page Two) ,

NAZI GUNS SEEK

| French Fight for Two Days!

{had been killed.

-{centration camp at Frejus.. -

Rhoads Gives Referees Raise,

liable informants reported today

“ membership on the agriculture,

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stat Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan.: 26. - — army air

T0 END REVOLT IN MARSEILLES

In City Streets; Degth Toll Believed High.

LONDON, Jan. 26 (U. P.).—German army authorities, massing tanks, field guns and infantry against Frenchmen defending their barricaded homes in the old harbor district of Marseilles, were reported | today to have threatened to devastate the entire area unless resistance ceased. The Germans ostensibly were clearing the harbor area because of the traffic in war materials and men to Africa and Italy. The residents were battling Nazi attempts to uproot 45,000 of them and move them elsewhere. Fear Heavy Loss of Life Fighting French headquarters heard that fighting had been going on since yesterday morning and that many Frenchmen and women

The Fighting French expressed fear that loss of life in the old, crowded district might be appalling but said they did not expect. definite news through their sepret channels for 48 hours. Madrid reported “many deaths” had occurred. Among these were “numerous suicides among elderly people "reluctant to leave their Other collapsed from exhaustion and malnutrition while trudging some 70 miles to the con-

homes.”

- Whole streets of tumble-down houses in the -old ‘harbor district were réported to have been converted into forts by householders and that residents including the famous apache toughs were firing at the Nazis with rifles and pistols. Unconfirmed reports were received that German machine guns now surrounded the area,

Nazis Plagued by Largest Strike 7

MADRID, Jan. 26 (U. P.).—Re-

that the greatest strike since the war started had broken out in the big steel and iron works ‘in the Nazi-occupied former grand duchy of Luxembourg. These works have been of enormous value to German war industry. It was said that workers struck suddenly Saturday morning and left the factories. The Germans imssed others into service but the substitutes sat down before their machines in a sit-down strike. Hundreds of workers were arrested, but the strike continued.

‘He'll Take Rest ‘Until Needed’

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (U. P.j. —“Striking” Congressman James .H. Morrison, who tossed five committee resignations on Speaker Sam Rayburn’s desk yesterday, settled - back today and awaited the day when “the Democratic party needs my vote.” . The - freshman legislator from the Louisiana. strawberry belt, who revolted against “this poppycock about seniority,” declared that he “had better things to dc for my district than mess around with that chicken feed.” Morrison, who had requested

appropriations, or “at least judiciary,” committee had been. appointed to coinage weights and measures, invalid pensions, public lands, war claims, and mines and mining. He quit all of them.

\Eidson, Local Photographer, Wins Fame ~ For ‘Strato’ Pictures of Enemy's Lines

flying. His

father is William ~ Eidson, 5786 N. Delaware st., InSinapos, an Illinois Central

wring his - new: headquarters in the huge Pentagon building, just

. cellent maps and reconnaissance

_ Col. Eidson said. “They went out

Honored by Fund

—Red Star,

Germans Report New Soviet

Reinforcements South Qf Voronezh.

MOSCOW, Jan. 26 (U. P.). Soviet army

FOR Sh ACTS

Lauded as Great Citizen by Harold B. West at 23d

The annual Indianapolis community Fund award for outstanding public welfare service was pre-

sented to Thomas D. Sheerin, civic| and business leader, 23d annual dinner at the Indian-

at the fund’s

| officers; - diredtors* and campaign] munity Fund.

B. West, a director of the fund,

been particularly characterized by a high sense of honor and inherent |kindliness in all his relationships, which undoubtedly accounts for the uniform respect with which he is regarded by the community large.

bring together divergent points of view and for this reason he is the most desirable man to have working in any group endeavor. He has the gift for understanding and interprefing conflicting points in such a judicial and kindly . way that it seems that when he has spoken and summed up a situation, everyone has reached a fair basis for agreement. That only springs from character and genius.”

of Indianapolis, was graduated from

Zero Weather Reported in

in many areas around Indiana, Indianapolis escaped the 5-above temperature forecast for the city.today.

mercury here last night was 14, degrees. The weather bureau forecast continued: cold today and tonight.

apolis Athletic club last night. The citation was - conferred on

Mr. ‘Sheerin in ‘behalf of the executive committee of the ComIn presenting the award, Harold

said the honor “represents the sincere thanks-of a great city to a great citizen.”

Lauds Sense of Honor “Mr. Sheerin’s business life has

at

“He has the unusual ability to

Mr.” Sheerin, a life-long resident

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CONTINUED COLD IS FORECAST HERE

Some Parts of State.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. ...14 10 a.m. ,.. 16 Tam:..15 lam ..18 8§a m. ... 15 12 (noom) .. 9am ..15 1pm... 18

Although zero weather prevailed

The "lowest point reached by the

is to duck and dodge, wheel and spin as best you can. “Sometimes you get fair protection from a passing cloud,” Col. Eidson explained.

The great cameras are perfectly timed and when the pilot returns with them the result is both ex-

pictures. “I would like to have our new young fliers think of this service as something like that of the army scout of the Western »

alone and brought back the data and information upon whieh the

the Barents sea; transports and a patrol ship total capacity of 51,000 tons.

last Nov. 7 estimated axis s on the Russian front at 240 sions. The 102 axis divisions ro or knocked out of action since time included more than ‘half the total of about 60 satellite divisions estimated to be operating in east, it said,

newspaper, today estimated

|| that 102 divisions, more than

40 per cent of the axis’ effece tive strength on the eastern front, had been knocked out or badly smashed in the tw month Russian: winter offe sive. The drive today rolled forward ward Kursk, Kharkov and Ro

with apparently increasing -. mentum. (A German communique that the Russians had begun a ne attack ‘south of Voronezh, recently arrived reinforcements.) The estimate was accom : by word from diplomatic quarters of a dramatic improvement in allied supply deliveries along the German plane and submarine infestea Tous to the Russian Arctic ports.”

102 Divisions Routed

These quarters said that losse from American: and British convoys to the Soviet had been reduced. sharply. A large American eo it was revealed, arrived ‘without the Toss “8%: ship, ; The growing allied-Russian trol of the northern supply was emphasized by a Soviet re that R dive-bombers and pedo planes had smashed an important German naval convoy im © sinking nine

Red Star noted that Josef Ste

Hungary, Rumania Pay Heavily 4 The military paper reported that

Italy had 10 divisions in the Don area—the same number which was provided for Marshal Erwin | Rommel’s forces. Six of these di= visions were reported smashed.

The Hungarians at Voronezh w

said to have lost nine of the ti of 13 divisions they had in the gion—about one-half the total ‘of. fectives of the Hungarian-army." the past two months, Red Star said, 18 out g Russia were reported knocked

f 22 Rumanian divisions fr

Lieut. | | Col. Nikolai Denisov,

Star military observer in the Caucas man a heavy blows that it no

, reported that the .G force had sustained such

able to hamper the movement of

Soviet troops in that area.

11,000 Prisoners The Communist party n

Pravda described 11,000 axis prise oners marching to the East t blazing streets at Voronezh, s over piles of frozen corpises,

The ‘Red army, following up

capture of | Voronezh, moved westward to attack Kursk on Kharkov-Moscow railroad. Southe and north Caucasus armies pre on toward the railroad junctions Tikhoretsk and Kropotkin . in attemp to trap all of the axis troops below Rostov.

Premier Josef Stalin, in an ¢

of the day celebrating new: cesses, troops have achieved an impo: victory. The offensive of our tre continues. . . . Forward for the of the German invaders. and expulsion from the regions of motherland.”

URGES CREATION OF

said to his forces:

AIR COMMI

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (U.

—House Republican Leader J