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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1043.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Vargas ‘Agree on ‘Unconditional ~~ Surrender’ Policy. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U. P.).—
President Roosevelt, in an hour-!.
- Jong special press conference review of his trip to Africa and South America, hinted today that he may
. later meet Russian Premier Josef
. Stalin, but gave no indication that such a conférence was in definite prospect. : : « “Meeting reporters for the first time since he returned from his talks with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Brazilian Presidént - Getulio Vargas, Mr. Roosevelt: 1 Eephasized that it was agreed in both the Churchill and Vargas talks that there would be no negotiated * armistice to end this war. - .
)—The war will end only with
unconditional surrender of the
_ axis ‘power, - —The Casablanca _ conference made | plans to hit Germany with blow after blow until the stirrender is achieved.
A he thought : the French North African politi] situa-
: tan - do. By oni
¢ not represented at
the Casabls nea conference. A Feport er asked Mr. Roosevelt if ee did” ~any plans to meet Stalin pe; y later.
Hope wi ings eternal, he replied,
Reads Jan. 7 Paragraph
» Emph sizing repeatedly that the Casablanca meeting was primarily to:plan the blows to force uncondi-' tional surrender of the axis, Mr. Roosevelt read to reporters a paragraph fr OX his Jan. 1 state of the "union ge to Congress. That paragraph ‘promised that the United States, Great Britain and the ‘Sovie would strike ard strike again at ‘German power. That message jalso promised that ‘blows wo 1d be rained ‘against Japan ‘and that the cause of the ted nations in the Pacific would be prosecuted with the fullest vigor, Including ) II possible aid‘to China. ; Meet: Chiefly Military
It was in fuilent of this statement, the president said, that he and: Churehill and their respective tary and naval commanders ed at Casablanca and reached : nimous ‘agreement aimed at > conditional surrender” of the axis power: : Mr, sevelt stressed ‘repeatedly ; tna tae mepting at Casablanca was] essentially a military, naval and air conferenc and that everything else under ‘consideration was thought of in this ight. y i . Mr. Rogsevelt’s discussion of the -decisio ed at his conferences : (Con nued: on Page Two) »
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FDR , in Sidestory About Trip,| Bare s Birthday Party in Clouds
WASH HIN IGTON, Feb. 2.—President velt today took White House re] porters on a verbal Cook’s taur of three continents. ; ‘Sun-te nned and looking more like # man vho had returned. from a seaside n than one who had gust trove led: nearly 17,000 miles .by
T I IES FEATURES
Bob Is Killed
Ensi gn Fleetwood, Crash Victim, Left Obit With Times.
ENSIGN ROBERT L. FLEETWOOD, who wrote sports for The Indianapolis Times, was killed yester: on one of his last training flights\ before going on active duty as a dive bomber pilot with the U. S. fleet. The accident, which occurred at Norfolk, Va., was on the first anniversary of his navy .service. He was the second man in Indian-
Ensign Roberti L. Fleetwood
apolis’ Own squadron to receive his commission last fall. : Ensign Fleetwood enrolled in the squadron a few days after he saw the movie, “Flight Surgeon,” which showed the important part dive y| Pombing: played in modern. warfare. Ma Or A A
honor of the ‘squadron. Bob and Jim (Continued on Page Two) .
— BILL DIES IN HOUSE
Rep,” Downey Assails MecHale and Wright in Futile Plea for Measure.
House Republicans today killed the Democratic bill which would
hgve placed nominations for all state offices and U. S. senator under direct primary election. In an impassioned plea to sve his bill, the author, Rep. Martin Downey (D. Hammond), charged that under the present convention system of nominating state candidates, two politicians who. “sleep in the same political bed” were controlling nominations of both parties. “I refer to the man who claims to be a Democrat, Frank McHale, and the man who cliams to be a Republican, Burrell Wright,” Mr. Downey said. ‘““These men were in the driver's seat when the Democrats were in power. Now, when Republicans are; in power, they are still in the driver’s seat.” These two men, Mr. Downey charged, have even gone so far as to create their own “gestapo”. which : {Continued on Page Two)
air and train, the president de-
blanéa, Brazil and Trinidad. For the first 20 minutes of his first press conferences since returning to the White House, the president delivered a virtual monologue
its kind for any president.
exeCutive office. It was perhaps the biggest turnout of corr ts since Mr. Roosevelt and Winston ‘Churchill co-starred at,a press conference 13 months ago when the
Brith, prime minister. made his
scribed in detail his visits to Casa-|.
on his 32-day journey, the first offfadopts a ‘suggestion by Postmaster Some 200 reporters jammed his
(proxision spires Syne 0. er ighiehts of astistony on il oon | bill made public today fn-| :
STATE BUDGET
ESTIMATE CUT |
BY 5 MILLIONS
$79,892,281 Biennium; Pay Raises Provided for. By ROBERT BLOEM
The general assembly today re-
ceived budget recommendations calling for the appropriation of $%9,892,281 for the next two years, $5,-| 237,784 less than the appropriations; for the current _{wo-year fiscal period. But the cost of operating state departments and institutions will be a lot higher than it was during the last two years and before June 30, 1945 rolls around, according to budget committee estimates, Indiana will have taken a $4,000,000 bite out of her cherished treasury surplus. In arriving at the final budget recommendation, the state budget committee had to slash more than $40,000,000 from departmental and institutional requests. They had to cut 18 divisions of state government ‘below what they received from the 1941 general assembly and even then were unable. to trim hard enough to offset anticipated losses of revenue during the coming months.
Colleges Get Increase Despite cutting of appropriations,
increasing wartime ‘costs required]
that ‘many’ budget. allotments be
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Forecasts Schickeluruber; Will Be in the Hole Soon
By JOE GROUNDHOG
Times Special Writer
Just thought I would come down to The Times office this year to-do my. forecasting for the next six weeks.
Kinda felt: maybe I could help
out a bit on this war situation that
everybody ‘seems pretty concerned about right now. ” Understand ‘the government doesn’t like to let out: weather forecasts
health, all will receive additional funds it the legislature follows the committee’s ' recommendations. Because of the increasing cost of food and because employees of institutions need higher wages to live, ‘the budget committee recommended a total increase of $1,471,044 for the twdkyear institutional operating expenses. The total fig-
ure for 21 penal and benevolent]
institutions was rset at $14,744,330. Colleges ' and. universities, too, came in for recommended increases totaling. more than $1,000,000 while the total biennial allotment for public welfare of $17,070,000 represented $816,126 more than was budgeted for 1941-43. The present budget allows $13,151,000 for the state universities and colleges.
Highway Funds Cut
The butiget proposed by the committee ealls for an increase of 14.8 per cent in the appropriations for personal services in the state institutions, ranging from an increase of seven per cent for Muscatatuk ‘state school to' 23 per: cent for the state boys’ school. Institutional operating budgets, which correspond roughly to the average family budget for food, clothing, coal, etc., were upped 16.7 pdr cent, Hardest hit of all departments for which cuts were recommended will be the highway department which literally is slated to “go home in a barrel.” Anticipating drastic reduction of highwas, revenues because - of rationing and cuts in operation because of priorities, the budget group’ clipped the highway (Continued on Page Two)
3 1-2 CENT POSTAGE URGED BY WALKER
Says Free Mail by Service Men Runs Heavy.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U. P). —It may cost 3% cents to mail a letter after June 30 if ‘congress
General Frank C. Walker. Walker told the house appropriations committee during hearings on the postoffice appropriations bill that a half cent increase in the three classifications - of first class
mail would about balance the de-| '| partment’s budget for fiscal 1944.)
‘The current 3-cent postage rate}
. appropria-
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Continual Bickering- Among “Powerless ‘Csars’ Cited By : Sponsors. By E_A_EVANS
WASHINGTON, Feb.: 2.—President Roosevelt, returning. to this
capital: of confusion, found even|
more than the usual number of conflicts raging among the 15 ci-
vilian . “csars” and ‘sub-csars” who are supposed to be running the war
program on the home front. He discovered, also, a growing demand for some method of putting a stop to all these conflicts and preventing new ones. This demand today seemed to :be crystallizing
around the . idea that there must|’
be. a real ‘war cabinet, holding weekly: meetings—something like the one that functioned well in 1919 un-
der ‘Woodrow Wilson.
The 15 presen #gsars” and “sub—they ‘are: widely referred to [by those. actually . inappropriate titles: because the public has been given:to:-understahd that they wield practically unlimited powers—are: Nelson:of war production, Byrnes) of ‘economi¢ stabilization, McNutt of manpower ° and draft, Brown of
prices and rationing, ‘Wickard of|
food and farm labor, Jeffers of rubber, W.-H. Davis of wages and war labor, Morgenthau of money, Jones of Joans, Stettinius of lend-lease, Wallace of economic warfare, Ickes of ‘fuel, Eastman of transportation, Land of shipping, and Elmer Davis of war information. : The fact is’that not one of them is able to do any real csaring without’ stepping on the ‘toes of one or many of the others or: bumping . (Continued on: Page Three) ;
Affidavits Filed Against Duty Concern
hole up “somewhere. in: the “Woods”
location u milita y- secret).
to me on. the. ground in: the: bright sunshine was:g& black ‘ghost. Scared me so:much I jumped right back in,
Made Nazis Squirm /
Well, you know for the rest of February the temperature ran two and ¢ half degrees below normal. f /it made it kinda cold round 5 ut I: understand my cousin Stalino Groundhogsky, who. lives near -Moscow, did the * same ’ thing. Made it mighty uncomfortable for those Nazis. Just looked out the window from the editorial room and: it. s€ems as though the sun: is. going to shine pretty bright. ‘Hope it’s doing the same. over: -there in Russia. If that black ghost shows up again we're going to jump right back in that hole for six weeks and let the world freeze,
but the company you find - down there isn’t so nice nowadays. There’s a fat guy by the name of Benito down there now and-the way it looks there’s going ‘to be another jerk in the hole pretty soon. Fellow by the name’ “of Schikelgruber. Excuse me, gotta . call ‘Mr. Armington at the weather bureau.
SENATE 0K GIVEN "STATE RULE BILL
A bill. designed to ‘return. to : the state after the war POWers : taken | away from it by the federal governiment was - passed unanimously by the state senate today. . The bill would authorize: the at-|.
federal acts encroaching upon state rights and make 2 report on these to the governor and to the ‘United
States senajors.
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Course I don’t ‘mind : going back,
torney general: to make a survey of |
CHURCHILL AND
TURKISH CHIEF SET AXIS AGOG
Reported Fearful ‘Invasion of Balkans Will Follow.
(War Moves Today, Page Nine)
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor LONDON, Feb. 2.—Private advices
‘|which reached London today after
the news of Prime Minister Church-
-1ill’s conference with high ‘Turkish | {officials said: the axis was moving
heavy reinforcements into the Balkans and speeding up fortifications of the Greek coast.
Churchill’s conference with Turk-
lish President Ismet Inonu was in-
terpreted here as part of the allied grand strategy, and some observers believe the British prime minister and President Roosevelt agreed at Casablanca on plans calling for invasion of Europe through the Balkans, through Norway and through France. : The axis appeared to be increas-
ingly’ apprehensive about the tights
ening of the allied ring around Europe. ‘Reports: from Ankara said German diplomats. and newspaper correspondents were making frantic attempts fo find out what com-
mitments, ‘if any, were made at}
the Churchill-Inonu conference. Makes Fighting Speech Mr. Churchill stopped "off at Cyprus on his way back from Turke
it was revealed toda and
forward from strength to strength, he said, “untfl unconditional surrender is extorted from those who ‘have laid the world in havoc and
“ruins.”
The visit to Cyprus was. regarded as particularly significant in view of the fact that the British island would make an excellent pase of operations for an allied attack on Greece and Crete. Flew in U. S.-Made Plane It was ‘revealed last night that Churchill -had gone: to Egypt after the Casablanca conference. From Egypt, after conferences with allied military and political authorities and talks with Premier
Nahas Pasha ‘of Egypt, Churchill
held a dramatic two-day conference in a railroad train, on a siding at the Turkish frontier station of Yenidje, with Turkish leaders. Churchill and the military and political aides who accompanied him ‘(Continued on Page Two)
SUB RESCUES 29
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AUCKLAND, Feb. 2 (U. P).—An American submarine brought 29 persons to New Zealand today after their rescue from a South Pacific island where they had escaped from the Japanese. Those rescued included 17 Catholic missionary sisters, three children and nine others who had been summoned to a secret coastal rendezvous and got away three hours before the enemy. arrived. One middle-aged couple’ had
crawled for 20 hours. through a]
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sodden mountainous jungle to reach the, ‘submarine. : -
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Charging Sale of Adulterated Milk
‘Three affidavits charging four officials of Golden Guernsey. Farms, Ine, with the sale of “adulterated” milk fo Sunnyside tuberculosis hospital and to. a state board of health
that the Chaiaraiys firm sold in mi. gonlaning “12 per; cent added water® al All three’ affidavits changed that the: ‘milk was adulterated “with: n=
‘ Penalties under’ the food adler): | tion law - provide, -
upon cunvifsion, bi from op fs grade A milk in In-
int charged that the
vestigating charges that inferior meat was delivered to Sunnyside by ‘Kuhn market at prices said by OPA officials to be in violation of federal regulations.
| tent to defrag and mislead” the| Meanwhile, the Guernsey company Regn filed 3 _complaint in circuit court,
board which barred the firm
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~ Fronts
(Feb. 2, 1943)
NORTH AFRICA—Sened, near Maknassy in Tunisia, captured by allied troops; allied bombers blast Tunis,
RUSSIA—Red army continues “mopping up” at Stalingrad; close on Kursh, Kharkov and Rostov.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC—Two airdromes at Rabaul, on New Britain ‘island, hit hard by flying fortesses.
NAZIS MAY LOSE ALL 1942 GAINS
Hitler's 3 Mest Important Bases in South Russia In Danger. MOSCOW, Feb. 2 (U. P.).—Soviet
their three chief objectives—Kursk, Kharkov and Rostov—capture of which would restore last spring's line and nullify the German gains of the summer campaign. ‘At least four main forces were
advancing on parallel lines on the long battle front from Voronezh to the north: Caucasus: They converged rapidly on ‘Adolf Hitler's most im= ‘portant bases in central and south Russia; threaténed to cut off the Fic} pnts basin. from, the rear
soul psn 2 were hin 60 alles of the German anchor point. They! took: several more inhabited points yesterday, wiped: out’ ski-equipped German tommy gunners and annihilated specially trained enemy mo‘Several small enemy pockets clinging to small sections of the railroads were liquidated.
91 Miles From Kharkov
Cof-Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin’s forces severed the Kupyansk-Lisch-ichiansk railroad 91 ‘miles southeast of Kharkov, where they captured the rail station of -Svatovo.” The Soviets also drove on Kharkov.from the Valuiki and Urazovo areas. Swiftly mopping up the Kuban valley of the Caucasus, Red army forces closed .in on Krasnodar—next to Rostov largest city in the northern Caucasus. A great agricultural and rail center, Krasnodar has Ger-
On the War,
armies drove steadily today toward |
and advanced to within 42 miles of |.
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McNutt Says Services Call 10 Out of Every 14 Able-Bodied Men,
WASHINGTON, . Feb, (U. P.).~~The selective serv ice bureau partially lifted t ban on drafting fathers toda, by abolishing deferments: ‘April 1 “regardless of pendents” -for men engag in 29 occupations or emplo in 19 industries, eight wh sale and retail trades, a nine service activities. The order ‘was the first move draft married men with ch d into the armed services. War Manpower .Commi Chairman Paul V.' McNutt nounced that the list’ of non-de able occupations and industries be extended and ‘amended % time to time. - Services Beckon 10 of 1" 5
He told the house military affi committee in an 6pen hearing fi “by the end of this year 10 out every 14 able-bodied men bel 18 and 38 will be in the ‘ar services.” i These men will be combaténi Nut
Only the physiéally and those over 37 years of a the jobs listed in today’s order local draft boards will be deferrabi after April 1. ‘But thousands of men: affec will be given until May 1 to shif an occupation essential to th effort—occupations previously» by the WMC in directives afle 24 industries. - “Work-or-Fight’
The edict amounts to a “workin the-right-industry-or-fight” although McNutt,” in an: explan: tory conference, declined to ¢ that. McNutt said that most de ments have been on grounds of pendency and added: “Dependency is an important £ tor, but, to. justify its accep as.a ground for deferment, a wo er must also be making a con
many’s largest air base in the Caucasus.-. It was threatened from the north, east and south, the closest Russian approach being at Ust Labinsk, 36 miles to the northeast. Other Russian forces drove along Salsk-Rostov railroad and reached the famous state farm of Verblud, 42 miles southeast of the Caucasus gateway city. At Stalingrad, Soviet artillery opened a merciless bombardment at dawn on the ragged, starving German remnants holding out and assault. parties destroyed German fortifications and : took still more prisoners, ?
10 ACRES OF LORIENT
Recent: Raids Aneiier: Naz _ Total U-Boat War,
LONDON, Feb. 2 (. P.) .—United States and British bombing planes devastated 10 acres of = the “naval arsenal at Lorient, on the French occupied, coast, ‘in “recent ‘raids ‘in addition “to damaging = other vital areas severely, the air ministry anpounced today. = - ‘ Harbor installations, repair shops, foundries, . store sheds and power |
maintenance of ‘submarines at ‘one of Germany’s most important Uboat yards as well as the - arsenal
stations, al’ ‘connected with - the hy
tion on the home front.” A That is a major change fr Selective Service Director Tews | Hershey’s statement last summ that “the bona fide family 1 ship of registrants would : be tected as long as - Hershey, in his directive to boards today, said “there is a tinuing need for men for the & forces and the supply of phys qualified men is definitely li and must, to a large degree, be & served for the armed forces.” :
Exception Defined
The only’ exception, Hershey must be where the demands of production, agriculture and essential activities require the cupational deferment of such trants. Both Hershey and McNutt stre S| that. there. was need for. greater phasis” on ‘occupation than on ¢ pendency. if manpower demands ¢ (Continued on. Page Two),
NEW YORK, Feb. 2
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