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HITS AT SOURCE OF WAR ACIDS

Waste to Be Disposed of In Sludge Lagoons; City May Buy Grinder.

By SHERLEY UHL . ‘Operation of the city’s garbage reduction plant was suspended today following condemnation of its 32 cooker tanks by state boiler and insurance inspectors. The plant, one of five of its kind in the United States, is the chief source in this area of fatty acids and glycerine ‘used in war indus-

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tries. It probably will remain in-

operative for several months, Don Bloodgood, reduction plant super-

‘intendant, said.

Replacement of all 32 tanks, in which garbage is reduced to byproducts, would cost the city an estimated $50,000, he added.

Old Tanks Condemned

Mr. Bloodgood said that even if the city should manage to obtain new cooker tanks in the face of priority difficulties, ‘their installation at' the plant would require at least six months. The old tanks had corroded and

nsafe, Garbage Reduction

were condemned as a safety haz-| -:

ard ‘after inspectors judged them

| unable to withstand the 100-pound

pressure used; yin. cooking the garbage.. Fs pared ot in ates aléostion Jasoons tthe sewage treatment plant.

“works: board today author-|

ized Mr. Bloodgood to investigate possible purchase of a garbage grinder at Chicago which might be installed for temporary use.

Eliminates Recovery

‘Use of the grinder, however, merely would facilitate decomposition of. the garbage and would not enable the plant to continue recovering of glycerine, acids, grease, stock feed and other by-products. Mr. Bloodgood declared that approximately $125,000 a year had been gained by the city from sale of garbage reduction materials.

CONSIDER JAPANESE ON ELKHART FARMS

ELKHART, Ind. Feb. 3 (U. P.).— Elkhart county farmers today considered hiring relocated Japanese from the west coast to overcome the agricultural manpower shortage. ‘At a meeting last night, farmers ‘heard Edson Sower of Ashland, O., representative of the Fellowship’ of Reconciliation, “report -on a survey he conducted in which he reported farmers; dairymen and householders were anxious to hire Japanese. gil Chicago office of the war relocation ‘authority, which has trans-

ferred workers from relocation cen-

ters in the West to employment in other parts of the country, would

. act as the procurement agent to fill

the jobs available.

“CHURCHILL IN EGYPT CAIRO, Feb. 3 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill was received at the Abdin palace today by King Farouk I, 22-year-old ruler of 16,000,000 Egyptians.

GETS’ 10. YEARS IN THEFT ‘CLEARWATER, Fla., Feb. 3 (U. .P.).—Joseph Damico, Brooklyn, N. Y., victed last week of a $135,000

* fewel robbery in St. Petersburg last

March, today was en route to Raiprison fo begin a p-vear

posed a tentative plan for stepping up output of wool fabrics dur1 .1943 to meet essential civilian

needs. to members . of; the woolen

PROWLERS PREY ON NORTH SIDE HOMES

Area South of Creek Is Hardest Hit.

By VICTOR PETERSON Striking consistently, burglars have buily up & working area which readily can be termed the city’s “burglary belt.” From July 1 to Dec. 31 of last year the area shown in the map has been a burglar’s paradise, And again early today several near North side homes were entered by a mysterious prowler whom police believe to be the same man who has operated in the neighborhood for many months. About 2 a. m. he attempted to get in the back door of the home of } Mrs. Bernice Kiste, 34,2910 Guilford ave,, but was frightened away. At 3:45, Mrs. Dorothy M. Worth, 35, 1932 N. Delaware st., was awakened by the screams of her daughter, Dorothy Jane!

Intruder: Flees

The man had entered the child's bedroom, flashed a flashlight with

her to keep still and he wouldn't harm her. He ran when Mrs, Worth} came to her daughter's aid. At 4:15, Miss Byrl McClure, 48, 2110 N. New Jersey st, awakened

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Jew PURCHASING | AGENT BILL SCANNED

a small beam in her face and told|

Coins Eo Field Marshal Hermann {Goering and Propaganda Minister| | Paul Joseph Goebbels were about to].¢

Here's the City's ’ Burglary Belt’

1.5. AND JAPS | TRADE BLOWS

Skirmishes May B May Be Prelude To Major Solomons Battle,

Knox Says. BULLETIN

council reported today after a

Minister Winston Churchill had “pretty well settled” the question of where to strike} against the axis in Europe this’ year.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P).— Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox

ican airplanes and surface craft are

in the Solomons islands area that

- | battle yet in the south Pacific.

‘today ‘in belt" shown in the map and entered five homes. |i Dots ‘indicate burglaries in the six-month period from y bk to Dec. 31 of. last

en the hardest

logne during the night.

It was the 112th raid on Cologne and all the tons of explosives were dropped in less than 20: minutes.

Five of the big force of Britain's crack bomber planes failed to return. Gernlany, in its first reports of the attack admitted casualties, damage and some fires in “western Germany.” Air authorities, explaining the return to Cologne, the first city to experience a 1000-plane raid, said that since that gigantic attack of last May 30, in which 250 factories were damaged or destroyed, the

| Germans had made urgent attempts

to do repair work in one industrial center.

Rush Repair Work

Repair work. at Cologne, it was said, had been more intense than anywhere else in Semmany, even in submarine yards. However, many “of the Cologne factories were engaged in one way or another in submarine output. It was the first night raid on ‘Germany of the new month. un ‘was raided twice Saturday daylight when rocket-like Mosdropped their mis-

{make speeches at a lugubrious obthe Nazi accession to power.

northwestern also were

pilFaided then, and a raid was made.

Fire Bombs Rain on Cologne

As RAF Stages 112th Raid

LONDON, Feb. 3 (U. P.).—British four-motored bombers dropped many thousands of incendiary bombs and a great weight of explosives, including 100 two-ton block busters, on the shattered German city of Co-

“Today the R. A. F. returned to northern France in the non-stop offensive against Germany and its occupied territories.

“| ards set by the Indiana state board

- |servance of the 10th anniversary of| Emden and other targets inp,

Chief targets at Cologne include vat

EXPLAIN AFFIDAVITS AGAINST MILK FIRM

Figures on Percentages of ~ Water Supplied by Blue.

Affidavits charging Golden Guernsey Farms, Inc, and four officers

of the corporation with sale of adulterated milk, filed yesterday by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue, did state, as reported, the. percen of water alleged to have béen added to the milk. The affidavits, of which there were three, did state ‘the percentages of “solids other than fats” alleged to be contained in milk sold to Sunnyside sanatorium. and elsewhere by the company, and charged that these were below the stand-

of health, and that the company and its officials had sold “milk , , | witieh bad been added water

the city's |P* : air activities around the Solomons|

ever, that “any assumption ., . .

communigqiie that the Japanese were control

area I Knox dlso reviewed briefly his im-

f the entire ‘Solomons

_|pressions of a 32,000-mile trip he| ,

as “feelers,” and said that “no really pitched baktle has developed yet.” “But no one knows what the fu-. ture will hold out,” he added.

“Fishing Expedition”

that both sides had suffered losses in a series of ace and air actions. Asked why "the navy waited so long to announce anything after the Japanese had begun talking about

3 the battle, Knox cut his interrogator

short, saying: “You'll have to be satisfied with what I have said. We know the Japanese are on a fishing ex- "| pedition.” fi He added that there had been increased air activity by both the Americans and Japanese in the last few days and “we can assume that the American commanders are very much on the alert.” When a reporter told Knox that the Australians feel that he is more optomistic than the situation in the South Pacifis warrants, Knox grinned and remarked: “Sorry to disappoint them. “I think that my estimate of the

than that of some anonymous Australians.” Foresees Long Struggle

He reiterated that it would be a “long, tough, hard fight,” that the Japanese apparently had given up attempts to reinforce Guadalcanal and that American forces now “completely dominate the Guadalcanal area.” The outcome of the new South Pacific battle still is in doubt. X After weeks of preparation, dyying which they greatly reinforced t| their air strength in the islands, | the Japanese struck with mighty force in what the navy described at a “major effort to regain control of the entire Solomons area.” There was evidence that the tempo of battle had not yet reached its peak. Planes were engaging ships and surface craft were trading blows in a séries of scattered engagements over a wide area that already is the

IN SEA FIGHT,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P.). || ‘== Members of the Pacific war |

White House conference that |. President Roosevelt and Prime |

said today that Japanese and Amer-| engaged in “reconnaissance in force”| may be the prelude to the biggest]. He told a press conference, how-| that a tremendous battle is in prog-| ress at the moment is incorrect.” || The navy reported last night in al

making a “major effort to regain}

Last night's communique also said|

situation on Guadalcanal is better|

death ‘did not come soon.

A plane crash in the desolate mountains in Alaska, a gangrene| infection in his left leg, eating canned rations with a broken Jaw until the supplies were gone, and lying for 21 days in the smashed plane which the 100-mile-an-hout wind momentarily threatened to} push into a 200-foot abyss. Lieut. Donaldson, whose homé is Rosebud, Tex., is at Billings General hospital at Ft. Harrison now, almost recovered. It was on June 1 when the bomber in which he and three other men were riding crashed

of the army air force there, they had been flying supplies to American troops in jihe Aleutian islands, “We were on the return. trip to Anchorage, Alaska,” Lieut. Donald(Continued on Page Six)

3 RUSSIAN: COLUMNS GLOSE IN ON ROSTOV

London Says Heavy Guns Are Shelling City. (Stalingrad Story, Page Five)

MOSCOW, Feu. 3 (U. P) ~—Three Russian columns closed in today on , the gateway to the Caucasus, driving forward steadily in an offensive that rivaled ip. im-

portance their triumph al: Stalin.

grad. (London advices said Russian big

only 30 miles away and that Soviet units were “advancing on Bataisk, 10 miles from Rostov’s outskirts. (Military observers in London (Continued on Page Six)

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: Hungry Japs Violate Code, [m= ; ~ Surre nder ¢ on Guadalcanallz’

JB le wi aay grup of ra), ] ‘shaken |

From Alaska to Billings

Here are some of the things through which he lived:

in the mountains in Alaska. Part}

guns were shelling Rostov from} : Seek Repeal on Ban Im-

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: Sboond Lieut. Joe. Donaldson . thinks’ Te’ “ought not. be ave today

pot aftér going through everything he. did, He felt so close to death he “talked with the Nie round Ror And, praying for death, he grasped his ‘revolver to take his own if

SEE RATIONING OF ALL FOODS

OPA to Nsiie ou Coupon Book ~ To U.S. Consumers In 3 Weeks.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. B)— Office of .price ‘administration’ officials today predicted progressive | tightening ‘of rationing" controls during 1943 until virtually every item of daily consumption. is restricted by year-end. War ration book two will be issued during the last week of this month. It was understood that the OPA already is preparing books three, four and five to cover goods to be rationed later in the year. | ‘Canned. goods, meat, butter, cheese, cooking fats and oils, jam

tioning list, officials indicated. Reliable informants regarded nationwide liquor rationing ‘as probable later in the year. There was no indication that rationing of clothing and shoes is contemplated yet, but (Continued on Page Six) A

GROCERS REOPEN

posed in 1941,

Indiana grocers opened ‘a second

and preserves are next on the ra-|

IGED BEER. FIGHT|

WASHINGTON, Feb. P.).—The nation’s two labor leaders protested President Roosevelt

{that the cost of living i

ting out of bounds” and ask he him to do something it. President William Green

the C. 1 O. were the two Ww called on Mr. Roosevelt.: 7 They said they told him of

| dissatisfaction with the.

situation which they said: has veloped from steadily rising: costs and stabilized wages.” Green and Murray said the dent “manifested deep interest

|the matter but made no

comments of any kind.” Claims Formula Rigid

Green said the “little formula by which ‘the war board determines ‘action

“You can’t stabilize wages you stabilize the cost of Green said. He added that p had continued to rise despl existing controls, with resultan fering for many workers.

“Universal Ceilings”

Murray said he and Green urged adoption of “universal ceilings” and “universal rati all essential commodities,” clothing and food. Murray said all goods and modities which “the people ne keep going, and going adequs should be rationed. : The labor leaders said they invited to the White House

.| about the whole labor situation,

ticularly events which oc during Mr. Roosevelt's shane £

‘manpower situation, but “con their conference substantially the problem of living costs inflexibility. of the little steel mula Which the labor ‘board: always follow

dn “effective” control of a more flexible wage: ~ Showdown Likely manpower commission ‘and quently a White House. labor’

ference.

thracite miners, The U. - now an independent union,

(Feb. 3, 1043)

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