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a Abend, Town Hall Lecturer, Says Record Is Against Them.

“I would consider it a grave error

for cities like Indianapolis to admit

- Japanese. into their war plants. - I

“certainly - ‘don’t: think ® the - record Justifies it,” declared Hallett Abend,

it spondent before Town ‘Hall's luncheon audience at the Columbia club

"Mr. Abend, for 15 years chief Far Eastern correspondent for the New York Times, said that he could see no. “yery . happy prospect” for the Japanese in this country for many

estimated that the’ war in the would last possibly two years than the European conflict. Asked if the war would not be materially shortened by the use of Soviet. Russia's Siberian airfields ‘and trans-European shipments of materiel, Mr.; Abend agreed, but warned his listeners not to take that Basumption, for granted.

., Russia May Not Help

“Russta,” he said, “may be ‘warweary and exhausted. She may not able to assist us in any way In 1¢ Pacific. “And even if she is able, “she may not be disposed to do so. re is no way of answering that Question point blank. One guess is “as good. as another.” “Discussing atrocity ‘stories, Mr Abend leaned heavily on the table. “I shall,” he said, “be very explicit

“He related one Japanese atrocity|

after another, some of them from

selves,

eye-witness experience, others from Japanese diplomats, who, themwere shocked. into nearhysteria by the reckless brutality

and bestiality of their troops.

+ He said that in his trips across

the country, he had found the

‘American public anything. busjeam. “placent. * : o Cites U.’ 8. Difficulties

“They are ready for anything,”

he sald. “They: are. willing to do

~ “whatever is necessary, to give up whatever they must: They ‘ask ‘only ‘for honest direction and leadership. " $ : - Prior to the luncheon, he gave a one-hour lecture at English’s theater, in which he confined himself to a factual presentation of the Far Eastern situation, pointing out the ‘difficulties facing American and allied forces in that area of war. - Norman E. Isaacs, managing edi-

tor of The Indianapolis Times, was

chairman at both the lecture and

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BAR VOLUNTEERING

FROM 18-38 CLASS

Beginning today alk future members of the armed’ forces from 18 to 38 will be taken through the selective service system. According to Comm. R. H. G. ‘Mathews, who had been promoted to inspector of navy recruiting and induction for the fifth joint service . induction area, Columbus, O., preference indicated for a branch of service will be considered as far as possible. If a man is assigned to one of the naval branches he will return to the ‘main -recruiting station, which will be maintained for.swearing in and the completion of all papers. Men under 18 and 38 and over thay still enlist." Comm. Mathews said that a man

assigned to the navy has three

choice. He may remain a navy inductee, enlist in ‘the regular navy for six years or enlist in the naval reserve for the duration. Lieut. James Weber will assume Comm. Mathews’ ition as head of recruiting for ‘the Indianapolis area. - ¢ » x

By SEXSON E. Italy's proud African empire is

that of the Caesars.

KNOX ESCAPED TWO AIR RAIDS

Returns From Inspection of All U. S. Naval Bases in South Pacific.

(Continued from Page One)

that within 30 days all organized resistance on the island will have ended.” Asked about the prospects of

more alr attacks on Tokyo, Col. Knox said he could not comment as to how and when they would be made, but that “the prospects are darn good and you can tell the Japs to get ready.” Col. Knox and Admiral Nimitz met correspondents in the admiral’s office at Pacific headquarters, following their return from a journey which will have covered 20,000 miles when Col. Knox gets back to. Washington. They inspected every major United States naval base in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, including stops at Midway, Canton and Johnson islands, the Fiji islands, Samoa, New Caledonia and New Hebrides. “My major impression,” Col. Knox said, “is one, of tremendous pride in the offensive spirit of our officers and men and the skill in administration of bases at great distances and co-operation of our armed services. There is a blazing spirit of offensive everywhere.”

Kept Awake by Bombs He said the war situation through-

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out the world was “petter than it was 90 days ago. “But we are just starting to fight,” he added. “We now are ready to strike hard blows and we hope and expect to retain the initiative in our hands.” At Espiritu Santo, in the New Hebridés, where the party met Admiral William F. Halsey'Jr., commander of U. S. naval forces in the South Pacific, the group was welcomed by the first air raid the {island has experienced. The raid did no damage “except that it kept us awake.”

an aerial bombardment at 8:30 Dp. m., which lasted until 3:40 a. m. Col. ox described it as similar to ones he experienced during the

first world war and added that “the|

safest place is on the target.”

Col. Knox reported that American|

forces dominate Guadalcanal, occupying about 2 per cent of the 2% per cent: of the island which is in the area of operations. He said the army has trapped Japanese forces in jungle defiles and is reducing them by ‘starvation.

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| The night of their arrival at Guadalcanal, the Japanese started

~ day. battle,

ak Loses African Empire

“SLONS PLANTS

" Reduce Evil.

| (Continued from Page One)

|are to be met on’ time it will be

necessary for war plants to produce

4 | to their utmost.

This is the empire that is no longer Italy's. 8 s . # » »

Fascists Once Ruled an Area

Half the Size of United States

HUMPHREYS no more.

. The British eighth army over the week-end completed the conquest of Libya and crossed into French Tunisia. That was the final coup de grace to the émpire which Benito Mussolini once proudly compared to

Actually it was never anything so wonderful as that, but it did in-

clude an area almost half as large as the whole United States and with a population larger than that of Pennsylvania. Italy's “African empire, in fact, had a greater population than the whole continent of Australia. Most of the area, of course, was the world’s most desolate desert and 1t always cost the Italian homeland more than it paid. But it did much to inflate the Italian ego—and now it is gonea

Tardy in Race for Spoils’

Italy was tardy in the race for African empire and had to take the “leavings.” = Italy did not become a united nation until 1871. Just 10 years later, it established its first| African colony in Eritrea. In 1889, Italian Somaliland was added. From the very first it .seemed logical to the Italians to take over|. Ethiopia, which lay between their two colonies. += The Abyssinians, however, defeated Italian armies in 1889 and again—most disastrously— in 1896. So Italy turned to territory that was easier to conquer. Turkey was the “sick man of Europe,” but neither Britain (which had seized. Egypt), nor France (which took Algeria and Tunisia from’ the Ottoman - empire) had bothered with arid Libya. So in 1911, Italy seized those four provinces. By the time they were overrun by allied forces, they had begun to pay a small profit—the only profit Italy’s: empire ever. showed.

Still Has Some Empire

In 1936, Mussolini felt Italy was strong enough to tackle Ethiopia again and modern planes and tanks made the conquest possible. It was the most populous portion of the empire, but the Fascist tenure was brief. By May 5, 1941, Haile Selassie was back in Addis ‘Ababa. Eritrea and Somaliland also fell to the British that year, and Libya was twice invaded to the border of Tripolitania. But always — until this week-end—1Italy had some foothold in Africa. - Mussolini still rules a Mediterranean empire,” however-the Dodecanese .islands off Asia Minor seized from Turkey in 1912; Albania, a 1930 conquest; Dalmatia, spoils granted by Hitler in the division of Jugoslavia-in 1941, and Nice, Corsica and Savoy, crumbs of France granted to the axis junior partner last year. . The sailies are- confident. that this empire will be even more shortlived than the African one. Parts of it may soon share with the homeland an. American - British ‘second front” invasion.

JAPANESE CLAIMING “VICTORY AS USUAL

TOKYO, Feb. 1. (Japanese broadcas} recorded by U. P. at San Fran¢isco) —A Japanese naval air squadron engaged an allied fleet off the Solomons and sank two: battleships and three cruisers and damaged one battleship and one cruiser in a two-

said today. . (The U. S. naly declined comment -on the Japanese reports.) Imperial ‘headquarters said Japanese. sir units sighted the allied

surface fleet off Renal island. Despite |:

unfavorable ‘weather, the Japanese Friday, the communique said. Saturday.

Three allied planes were shot down durin

4 | time.”

force attdckeéd just before evening

‘| ‘The allied fleet, it said, attempt-| ed: to flee; but ‘was. attacked ‘again|

the -action, the coms

Here are summarized viewpoints of plant officials: Absenteeism at one tank subcontractor has gone up from 2{un per cent of total man-hours a year ago to 5 per cent today. “Absenteeism is the worst problem with which we are confronfed at the present

A big plant that makes shells and rate of § per cent. “It is dis-

| | turbing” to production planning.”

A manufacturer of vital equip-

' iment reported an absentee rate of

7.2 per cent of the fotal man-hours worked. “The situation is getting

| | worse and worse. There is a good

deal of sickness but it has been

il overdone.”

A large food packer said last year

|its absenteeism amounted to 75|uas iman-days a week out of a total of i | 7500 man-days worked.

“But since we started making absentees report to the employment office be-

| | fore returning to work, absenteeism ' |has dropped to about half what it

was.” t A war plant which manufactures

tank parts loses 5 per cent of the

man-hours. “Very definitely, absenteeism is a significant detriment

' | to our production, in view of present i labor markets and the type of

workers available,” Drivers Take War Jobs

A large trucking concern reported that at one time it had 28 trucks idle, although there was material ‘for them to haul, because it couldn’t get drivers. It has had cases where drivers telephoned from some other ' |city, saying they had taken a war job there and that “you will find the truck parked” at suchand-such an address. h A manufacturer of commuRiestions equipment has an absenteeism rate of 4.68 per cent. At one of the military reservations near the city absenteeism among civilian employees is around 9 per cent. A big meat-packing .concefn reports the “problem is certainly a serious one” and that it is trying to find a solution. A manufacturer of aircraft parts says absenteeisth is particularly damaging in certain departments where close co-ordination depends on the continuous work of highlyexperienced workers. : One utility said progress on a construction project was greatly slowed during the Christmas-New Year's holidays because of much absenteeism,

There Are Exceptions

But there are Exceptions to these experiences. “A concern: that makes incendiary ‘bombs and iaireraft parts took the problem in hand and began sending someone from the personnel office to the home of each absentee to find out why he didn’t show up for work, Workers were made to realize what their absence meant.| Chronic absentees were suspended for a few days. These policies not only had a good psychological effect on the offending workers but on the others also, it reported. When one plant cut its work-week from 56 hours to 48 hours, absenteeism declined considerably. Those who have made investigations into the causes of absenteeism said it is not just a simple problem, traceable only to the oad wages war workers make. A number who have tried campaignp . through posters and employée magazines, who have worked to impress their employees with the importance of their work, reported improvements. But they added that such basic difficulties as transportation, housing, necessary: recreation and other personal factors had to be solved also before the wasting of precious time can be reduced,

OFFICERS TO TESTIFY IN PUCKETT TRIAL

LAFAYETTE. Ind., Feb. 1 (U. P.). ~The first degree murder trial of

painting contractor: charged with killing his 67-year-old bride of seven months, resumed today with} the prosecution expected to call police officers to the stand. Prosecutor Charles Kemmer said he. would question state police officers about the investigations they made following the shooting of Puckett’s wife, Ella Mae, last Nov. 6. Mrs. Puckett was shot to death on a road near Lafayette as she and Puckett traveled from Chicago to visit, relatives at Lafayette.

shot ‘his wife to get her estate.

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Will R Pockett, 64, retired Chicago

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the. valley. and the Sas of a Waria fiver, strafing targets of onpastuntiy: . NEW BRITAIN—Rabaul: Our heavy bombers atacked shipping and harbor installations before dawn, dropping bombs docks and among anchored . vessels. searchlights prevented observa ts.

aa: One of our neavy reconnaissance a Datubed and strafed an enemy cargo pi *off Pil o island. CAPB pions Ts One o of our units bombed the runway and a strafed the areas at low altitude. 2

NORTHWESTERN, SECTOR:

TIMOR~—~Koepang: Our long-range fighters Mle attacked the altdrame non machine-guns

r damaging ho and one fighter caught on the he ground. H and buildings were afire, inel an apparent Di warehouse nae exploded violently. re miles away a motor pool containing 20 vehicles was strafed. All our planes Years Viguegque (South Coast of Eastern Timor): Our medium bombers attacked enemy installations. : Ambon: Our heavy bombers attacked enemy shipping with unobserved resuits. Pour enemy fighters attempted interception without suceess.” Tenimbar Isiand—One of our units bombed a jetty on Selaru

BATTLE ENDING AT STALINGRAD

heavy island.

‘Resistance Criminal;

Says Nazi General. (Continued from Page One)

“hundreds rather than thousands” left there. Including the reserves and reinforcements which the German used at Stalingrad, their losses in killed, wounded and captured are estimated from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000. Since Jan. 10 the Russians have have captured enough German equipment in the fighting in and around Stalingrad to outfit a major army. The totals were .744 airplanes, 1517 tanks, 6523 guns, 1421 trench mortars, 6,887 rifles and

21 60,454 trucks.

The German defeat at Stalingrad appeared to be only part of the axis’ troubles on the eastern front. West of Voronezh thousands of axis troops were cut off and it appeared doubtful whether they could break through the Russian encirclement. The avenue of escape for a German army of between 150,000 and 300,000 was threatened in the Caucasus where the Red army had seized the key strategic cities of Tikhoretsk and Kropotin and recaptured the Maikop oil fields.

GRAND JURY HEARS HEAD OF SUNNYSIDE

Dr. Frank Jennings, head of

‘Sunnyside sanatorium, and several ‘employees of the institution, testi-

fled for more than an hour this morning before the Marion county grand jury. The witnesses were the first to testify in .the .jury’s’ investigation

‘of all county contracts, particularly

those involving Sunnyside. Reports that inferior meat, milk, eggs and other ‘foods were Sold to-Sunnyside at exorbitant prices are being ‘investigated by.the prosecutor's office. The food contracts were signed by

county commissioners with the food

dealers. Chief Deputy Saul Rabb said that more witnesses would be summoned for testimony before the Sn all week.

BIRTH CONTROL LAW LEFT UNDISTURBED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P.)— The supreme court dekided today that it had no jurisdiction to pass on the validity of Connecticut's antibirth control device law, which provides jail sentences for doctors giving birth control advice and articles even to married women. The case was dismissed without the court going into the merits of the law. The action left undisturbed a Connecticut supreme court decision which found the 1879 statute valid.

1000 JAP CASUALTIES CHUNGKING, Feb. 1 (U. P).— Chinese forces killed or wounded 1000 Japanese in repulsing a heavy ground and air attack on Chinese positions near Tamenglung on the Burma border Thursday, an official Chinese communique said today.

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ol TEST IN SENATE.

“Vote. Due on “Amendments

To Bill Abolishing LH.S.A.A. Setup,

The first test of strength on the controversial bill to abolish the Indiana High School Athletic association was scheduled today in the state senate when the measure came up for amendment. Proponents had a number of

| amendments ready for submission

which would tenfper somewhat the more drastic provisions of the original bill and. which they hoped would win more support for the These amendments would leave the election of the 25-man I. H. 8S. A. A. council to the school principals throughout the state as at present but would require the state superintendent of public instruction to pick from the 25 the fiveman board of control.

Curbs Principals’ Power

Now, the 25 members name the board of control and this board in turn appoints the commissioner. Thus, the net effect of the amendments would be to leave uttimate control of the association in the hands of the high school principals but take from their hands the naming of the board of control and the commissioner. Senator Elgar I. Higgs (R. Connersville), chief opponent of the bill, was expected to fight most of the amendments. He contends that nothing has been proved wrong with the present setup and that no changes should be made. Senators Clyde Black (R. Logansport) and James Armstrong (R. Springville), chief proponents of the bill, assert that Arthur L. Trester, present commissioner, “has too much power” and say that the amendments would “correct this situation” by providing for the appointment of the board of control by the superintendent of public instruction. Among other items. on the legislative agenda today was a public hearing before the house agricultural committee on the bill to give the state fair board complete control of the state fair. Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson is opposed to the bill on the grounds that it would give control of state property “to a closed . corporation.” Fair board members contend the bill should be passed to take the fair “out of the hands of politicians.”

Probers Seek More Time

The five-man commission investigating the public welfare department was expected to ask the legislature for a 10-day extension of time in which to complete the investigation. The legislature in its resolution provided that the investigation should be completed by Feb. 1, but Rep. Roy Harrison (R. Attica), committee chairman, says that more time is needed to check into reports submitted by several witnesses that have appeared before the committee, :

dent also will meet with: Underseeretary of State Sumner Welles and Rear Admiral Harold R. Stark, former chief of naval operations who has been in command of American naval forces in European waters recently. Mr. Roosevelt probably will make a report to the nation on his meetings with Churchill and Vargas in the near future.

May Hold Fireside Chat

His report may be through a press conference or a radio fireside chat—or possibly both. If he plans a radio address, it probably will be postponed until he catches up on ‘the accumulation of foreign and

domestic matters which piled up:

during his trip to Africa.

Mr. Roosevelt made the last leg of his trip from Miami by special train. The White House announced his return shortly before 8 p. m. The last public stop made by the president was at Trinidad, one of the West Indies islands which became an American base in the destroyer-for-bases deal with Great Britain before the United States entered the war. The White House had announced that the president called specifically for that stop and that he had been enthusiastically received by the populace. : Trinidad was the third official stop on the trip home from Casablanca. Earlier in the week, Mr. Roosevelt conferred with Vargas aboard an American destroyer anchored off Natal, Brazil. Before leaving Africa he inspected American Negro troops at Monrovia, Liberia. Tomorrow is the day for the pres-

President Calls Leaders fo White House for Parley

(Continued from Page One)

ident’s ‘regular press conference. There was no indication whether he would have time for that. : The chief executive probably will go to work right away on plans developed for “unconditional sur-

render” of the axis as soon as pos-

sible. Official quarters here believed that he and Churchill and their military advisors ‘decided when and where to start a victory -offensive against the axis.

U.S, WARSHIPS BLAST JAP SUPPLY BASE

WITH THE UNITED STATES FLEET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Jan. 24 (U. P.)—(Delayed). —Ships of the United States fleet blasted the Japanese supply base and airfield on Kolombangara island, in the New Georgia group about 450 miles northeast of New Guinea early today with 250 high explosive shells, The fleet, running they risk of being trapped in the deep Kulu gulf, started roaring fires ashore, exchanged fire with land batteries, blasted away at two Japanese destroyers and one cargo ship, and then ran a gantlet of Japanese planes 100 miles down the gulf to escape. The bombardment took place ubder the noses of the Japanese fleet and air force, concentrated in Waters north of the Solomons. A number of Jap planes, uncertain of the identity of the task force, “escorted” the American ships to their ares the U. 8. commander

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