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% Here is N.E. A. Artist Ed Gunder's conception x he Roosevelt-Churchill meeting in the rear garden of a beautiful white villa in Casablanca—the "North African white house.” With Mr. Churchill at his left, President Roosevelt is explaining to war correEpendante huriedly summoned from Tunisia the purpose of the histotic meeting.
ony HALL BOYS Committee Approves Flynn; | STAGE RETREAT _VorNuys Casts Protest Vote TUNIIN PASS
rey Write -a Bill Raising Their Pay Then Yank It Out of Senate.
BY WILLIAM CRABB
The boys: at the city hall wrote - a bill the sother day—a bill that
‘ paign, progr This little idea of theirs was to
raise their own salaries from 25 to 100 per cent. They wrote it over at “the hall” and gave it directly to the jegisla-| tive reference bureau at the state
They asked Senator Harry Cham-
berlain- (R. Indianapoli$) to intro-|,
duce it for them. He said he would. Today - the reference bureau handed the bill to the senator and he promptly introduced: it. The senate went about its other business and just before the close Senator Chamberlin got a telephone call—from Corporation Counsel Sidney Miller. (He had wanted his salary increased] frpm $4500 to $6000.) “After further consultation with - (Continued on Page Four)
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HOURLY TEMPERATURES a.m ...14 10a. m ....19 a.m ...14 11am 23 8am ... 14 12 (noon) .. 27 . §am -.. 14 “.
. Relief from the cold weather ‘was forecast by the weather bureau day. Temperatures may rise to
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (U, P..; —Thé senate foreign relations committee today approved the nomination. of Edward J. Flynn to be minister to Australia by a 13 to 10 vote. Closeness of the vote presaged a more heated battle on the senate.
Democrats against (3): VanNuys, George and Gillette. Following the vote, Senator VanNuys) chairman of the judiciary committee, said:
“My vote against Mr. Flynn's
nomination was not directed at Mr.: It was a vote of!
Flynn personally.
floor Monday than had been antici-| Protest against this growing prac-| former Democratic national’ com- DBations in the lap of the senate. mittee chairman.
Indiana, Guy M.! | fidence of the people in our Gillette, Iowa, and Walter F. tional leadership. George, Georgia, joined with the' “Irrespective of Mr. Flynn's comsolid Republican minority in OPpos- | ,petency to fill the diplomatic post ing Flynn's confirmation. in question, it was well understood Senator Robert M. La Folleite that. his nomination would - cause (Prog. Wis.) joined with the major- dissension and bitter controversy not ity of the Democratic committee= only in the senate but in the counmen in approving the appointment. try as a whole. Here is how the committee voted:! “This nomination was particularly Democrats for (12): Connally; | unfortunate at this time when Wagner, Thomas of Utah, Murray. Washington is full of trained and Pepper, Green, Barkley, Reynolds,|experienced diplomats who would be Guffey. Clark of Missouri, Glass and |delighted to serve their country in Tunnell. this important post and whose Progressives for (1): La Follette. nomination would have been acRepublicans against (7p: John- claimed without a single protest. son: of : California, Capper, Vanden- | “I sincerely hope this incident may berg, White, Shipstead, Ne, and lead to a more considerate selecDavis. tion of future nominees.”
erick VanNuys,
pated over confirmation of the, tice of dumping controversal nomi- American tanks and infantry have
| We are in war and pleading for the! regained domination of a vital pass
“Three Democrats, Senators Fred-! unity and co-operation and con-|in northeastern Tunisia, and axis ra-
Indiana's for penal institutions were left in| ther merit system fold today as backers of the jcontroversial Andrew bill yielded & growing pressure from merit system supporters. Democratic efforts to save the! state clemency commission from the |
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ji put the power of parole back in
provisions of the measure, designed ;
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As it now stands, the Andrew bill leaves appointment of prison em-
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Society ...14, 15.merit system is to be kept in any
ployees undef the merit system, bul abolishes the clemency co ission. The amendment: to preseive the merit system in the four institutions was offered by Rep. Matthew Welsh (D. Vincennes). The bill}; originally proposed to permit super-1 intendents of the institutions to appoint their own employees. In’ offering the amendment Rep, Welsh said: “This is not offered as a partisan measure but rather to raise the question of whether the
of the state’s 21 institutions. “Logically if the employment of
employees is to be given to the di-
rectors im the cases of the penal in-
4 State Penal Institutions ‘Remain Under Merit System
stitutions heads of other institutions also should be given the same privilege.” Rep. Jess C. Andrew (R. West Point). author of the measure, pointed out that -although only 29 prospective employees ‘had been recommended to the penal institutions by the state personnel board in the past two years and that only 15 had proven satisfactory, he was willing to yield on the matter of appointments. Since the institutions had been assessed $3000 as their share of the personnel board’s expense, Rep. Andrew pointed out, it had cost them $200 a man to obtain satisfactory Help. “\
“However,” mo Andrew said, Et is so important to me to t the
parole system out of the hands of]
the welfare department, the newspapers and the League of Women Voters, and back into the hands of the people where it belongs, that I am willing to accept this amendment.” Democrats expressed surprise at the ease with which the attack on the merit. system was blocked.
YANKS REGAIN
Axis Reports Seas “Plan Drive to Cut Off Rommel.
LONDON, Jan. 27 (U. P)—
radios expressed fear today that U. S. troops were about to start a
treating Afrika Korps. An allied North African headquarters communique reported that axis troops had been driven from positions they captured” in the Ousseltia valley and in the mountains east of there. _The American attack was made south of the Kairouan road and resulted in recapture of Djebel Rihana, just south of the Ousseltia pass. Four enemy planes were destroyed over Tunisia and two allied aircraft are missing. Radio Dakar broadcast reports that the main body of Marshall Erwin Rommel’s retreating Afrika Korps had reached the Mareth line. a series of fortifications about 58 - (Continued on Page Four)
OFFER BILL TO GUT
{bomber crews who have’ “impatiently for weeks to drcp bombs |
drive designed to wipe out the re-|
PLEDGE GIVEN BY ROOSEVELT
Target a sel but A { Believed to Be Major ~ Naval Port.
LONDON, Jan. 27 (U. P).! — American® bombs from American planes crashed on:
{German soil today for the first
time in this war, carrying into action the promise of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to tional the axis into unconditional surrender. | The raid was made against Ger-! man naval installations .by Flying Fortresses and Liberator bomb-| ers—big four-motored planes bristling with .50-caliber machine guns.
‘| The target still was a secret, al-
though most speculation here centered on one of Germany's northwestern ports — Hamburg, Kiel, Bremen, Flensburg, Rostock and] Luebeck. - : Great Day for Yanks | It was a great day for American, awaited
on German soil. Fortresses and| Liberators have been over occupied France several times, but heroine; fore their deepest penetration into} enemy territory was a raid on Dec. 20 against Romilly-sur-Seine, 0! miles east of Paris There was no immediate tion tion how deep into enemy territory, the big bombers penetrated. The, authoritative statement merel y| said: & “United States army air force. Flying Fortresses and Liberators at-| | tacked naval installations in Ger-! Pmany today.” Several times in the last few weeks newspaper men have been| told, “something big is coming off.” But until today weather or other considerations always have pre-| vented an extension of the U. S. daylight attacks to Germany proper.
Strike at. U-Boats
Today's attack apparently is ws) other step in the assault of the royal ‘air force and the United! States army air force on German | submarine bases. There has been much emphasis | jon the anti-submarine bombing] I since the first of the year because | of the growing allied concern about the U-boat campaign against united nations supply lines. No figures were available immediately on the losses, if any, suffered by the Americans in today’s raid, butt was believed possible they might be low compared with the fairly heavy losses of Fortresses and Liberators on recent raids. Ome source told the United Press recently: “The German fighters found our weak spot all right, but they are going to find things have changed since then.” He presumably meant that the Fortresses and Liberators had been! equipped with additional or heavier armament.
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RAD BACKS P ALLIED STRATEGY CALLS
‘UNCONDITIONAL * NDER’ OF ENEMY
‘Many Dramatic Events and Decisions Believed Impending; First Step Taken In Clearing Up French Muddle.
“1 stories and photos, Pages 3, 4.5 and 17; editorial, Page 12.) * By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent : The world today heard the story of ten days at Casablanca in which President. Roosevelt and Prime Minister i Churchill placed their stamp upon 1943 offensive plans to ‘bring about the “unconditional surrender” of the axis. But indications grew that the dramatic announcement
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many dramatic events and important decisions unrevealed. Strategic decisions, it was certain, would not be revealed until their reality is brought home tothe axis by the crunch of bombs, the blast of shells and the scramble of landing
First Officer Louise Anderson of |
the WAAC's is one of the proudest members of the United States forces in Africa. She was chosen as secretary of the historic Roose-velt-Churchill meeting:
RUMORS FLEW IN CASABLANCA
Some Had It Th It That Italian, Spanish and Turkish Dele-
gates Were Present.
By C. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent ALGIERS, Jan, 27. — Conviction | grew today that the “unconditional surrender” pronouncement of President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill tells only a part—and possibly not the most exciting part—| of the story of their 10-day meeting at Casablanca. Correspondents believe that the | official communique did not cover all the activity of those 10 days in the sun-drenched Moroccan port.
Rumors of what occurred at Casa-|
bianca have run a gamut to end all zamuts and none, thus far, has!
ness. These rumors had it that Italian, Spanish and even Finnish and Turkish delegates had representatives at the meeting. : The rumors were that these representatives were invited not necessarily to join the united nations but to become conviced of the might of the allies. Then they could make their own choice. (Walter Logan, United Press staff correspondent, also present at Casablanca during the meeting, reported (Continued on Page Four)
KUHN INJUNGTION MADE PERMANENT
WAGE EARNER TAX
Affect Income Levy.
A bill to cut the gross income tax paid by the wage earner from one to three-fourths of one per cent was introduced in the house today by Rep. Earl Teckemeyer (R. Indianapolis). “Ever since the’ gross income tax latv has been in effect, everyone has been pecking away at it with the result that practically all businesses have wormed out of the stiffer tax i rates, leaving the little fellow, whose sole income is his salary, paying as much as ever. I want to help him through this bill,” Rep. Teckemeyer iy ? } Te retailers at the last session of the legislature won their fight to cut their gross {(ncome tax from one to one-half of" une per cent. Rep. Teckemeyer’s bill, if passed, would
“I was sfunned,” Rep. Walsh said.| {Ganunued on Page. Pour)
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CASABLANCA, Jan. 24 (De- | layed) (U. P.).—Although President Roosevelt was on the other side of the Atlantic from Washington for his conference with Prime Minister Churchill, he still ‘was in a white house. “Villa No. 2,” as the residence in which Mr. Roosevelt stayed is known, is entirely white. The word Casablanca means “white .house.”
U. S. PLANES OVER WAKE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (U. P.) .— American aircraft on a reconnaissance mission over Japanese-held Wake island are believed to have shot down two of eight intercepting zero fighters, the navy announced today. All of our planes returned safely. The action occurred Monday and was the first reported over Wake since American airmen dumped 75,000 pounds of bombs on the island during the njght of: Dec. 33-3.
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County Grand Jury Given
Evidence on Milk.
By a consent decree, Kuhn’s Market, 401 W. Michigan st., today was permanently enjoined in federal court from selling meat to Sunnyside sanatorium at prices above OPA ceiling prices.
A temporary injunction had heen ;
granted: Saturday by Federal Judge Robert Baltzell upon the complaint and petition of W. H. Snyder, enforcement officer of the OPA. The government attorneys had instigated the investigation against Kuhn’s Market, which was charged with selling meat to the tuberculosis sanitorium at excessive prices, in addition to delivering a grade of (Continued on Page Four)
KILLED BY JEEP EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 27 (U. P.). — George Phirrmann, 74, was killed here Tuesday when he stepped into the street in front of a jeep driven by. Coastguard Seaman 2d Olags .
troops on the European continent anywhere from Norway 1 to Italy or the Balkans. - However, suggestions appeared in dispatches of United Press correspondents from North Africa that diplomatic ‘maneuvers of unrevealed scope may have accompanied the military discussions. Hint Finland May Quit War There was no authoritative basis for these sug stions and there was no statement from allied quarters touching on the possibility of moves designed to wean axis satellites or sympathizers away from Adolf Hitler. Finland was hinted as one possible subject of an allied, get-out-of-the-war-while-the-getting-is-good drive. Italy was another and there were rumors as to eye-opening and cards-: on-the-table maneuvers involving Spain, Turkey and Sweden. The ten-lay session of the president and prime min|ister, ending Sunday, overshadowed all other news from the far flung fighting fronts of the war. The news of fresh Russian successes, of deepening: gloom in Germany's satellite states, of ever grimmer warnings by Nazi propagandists to the German public of the seriousness of the reverses in the east provided a dramatic background for the Casablanca announcement. Foremost in the conclusions drawn at Washington and { London was a conviction that the big news of Casablanca is yet to be told. : Grand Scale Offensives i in Making Thus far, these results of the conference have been made known: 1. Allied strategic plans for 1943, calling for blows from
taken any form of authoritative- the west against Hitler's citadel timed to coincide most effec-
tively with Russian blows from the east, have been started toward execution. 2. Specific details for the liquidation of the axis foothold in Tunisia are presumably settled and should quickly be clarified with announcements of a new Anglo-American command in the Mediterranean. 8. The initial step toward bringing together the dissident French groups represented by Gen. Charles, De Gaulle and Gen. Henri Honore Giraud has been taken, but full collaboration and agreement is still distant. Ar attempt was being made in London to bring the two leaders together
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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
LONDON, Jan. 27.—The 10-day meeting of President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Casablanca was believed today to have laid the basis of a master war plan for 1943 designed to bring about the “unconditional surrender“ of axis forces in Europe. Despite huge obstacles—particularly the constantly intensifying Nazi submarine warfare — it appeared obvious today that allied plans were blue-printed at Casablanca for the Purpose of bringing
Allied Chiottains Asren on | Master War Plan for 1943
4. No apparent progress sw establishment of a unified allied high command, with Russia and China represented, appears to have been made. However, Josef Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek ‘were closely advised o Anglo-Amer-
Some observers believed the language of the Casablanca communique, particularly in passages in which’ Mr. Roose- - (Continued on Page Four)
Hitler and his allies to a climax within 10 months. It seemed equally obvious that official communique and reports have told only a small fraction of the decisions and events at Casa * blanca which some 'quarters believed may produce “tremendous = events” in the near future. th
~The Casablanca news broke on thesaxis with the violence and sud-
denness of a bombshell, exploding at the darkest moment of the war —thus far—for Germany and Italy. There was confidence in allied quarters here that Casablanca was only the beginning of. an Nii _ (Continued om :