Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1943 — Page 1

FORECAST: Occasional ight snow " today, much colder sonight and tomorrow forenoon.

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i 20 Birds: dip and viwaep. in A x auditors : : ‘3. Sherlie Deming, vice. president of: the county council, stands Beside ar Ralf completed ‘wall. Work on the wing has been stopped because’ council members refuse to ‘appropriate money until he: commissioners. figure up onetly, how much more money is ‘needed. to finish the e job.

A Weekly : ‘Sizeup., by: the - Washington. Staff of the. SeripPs Flaward Novarspus

; | WASHINGTON, Feb, ‘6. — "This" war. capital is betting’ that— “Hitler. wil ie through’ before the end of 1948; he'll be ns purged, and the military will take over. ; ‘One of many rumors: That Stalin took Hitler prisoner ‘when Hitler made his recent flight to encourage, Stalingrad troops. :

. # x » : 8 Also— : That Turkey will be in the war .on our side, in six ons ® 2.” 2 ”

‘That Japan including Tokai be bombed regularly from spring on.

“That the ial cortiitional surrender” phrase ved by Roosevelt and Churchill will be elaborated to reassure Axis masses that they will not be punished their dictators’ doings. (The axis tells its people hey: will be individually “doomed if united nations win.) 4 8 mica 2 x 8 That Prime Minister Churchill will visit Moscow before spring ~ flowers fade. : x = ££ 8 =» 4 ; That Finland will dropout of war if given half-way decent terms— and ‘some tova- : Fo

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Inflation Clouds. Building Up ig |

: - INFLATION STORM clouds build up faster than: ever as John L. Lewis, C..1. O, A. F. of L. and railroad brotherhoods all start “bigher-wage drives, and farm bloc and food industries ammer - at OPA ceilings. No visible signs here that the. administration has a the push. 5 ke ei ‘When show-down comes on the bill to include labor osts in the Jaye prive parity formula, look for Economic Stabilizer New and ‘his deputy, Marvin Jones, to compromise—perhaps, by accepting inclusion of of hired labor costs only. But oPA ‘Boss Prentiss Brown will. fight it with all he's got— a 1 ; ' {Continued on Page Two) !

sen to halt

Surprive Dimout a Success; Next Comes March Blackout

With last night's surprise dimont/. Mr. ‘Munk said that violations of

. Capital Opinions Say Halt

1 York, March 14,

jweeks plus a few days can be used

WAGE DEMANDS. MAY HALT MINES

“In Bituminous Supply Might ‘Lose War.

By FRED PERKINS Times Special Writer : * WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—This is a “scare story,” Trankly intended to be. such. : + After joking it in all the places where informed opinion would be expected, the writer is still scared. The situation. produced by John L. Lewis’ demand for a $2 raise in the basic daily -pay.of bituminous coal miners, if it is allowed to drag on, contains the threat of a mine shutdown which would delay the winning of the war. | It might lose the war. "The question is whether the government will see that the situation does not drag on—whether the government will move in at once to see that the coal operators and the United Mine workers advance by several ~ weeks their wage -conferences, scheduled to open in New

Avoids Word “Strike”

‘The ‘bituminous wage agreement expires March 31. Thus only two

for negotiations which in past years have continued for months, and in several cases have been brought to an end only by governmental intervention. Mr. Lewis has refrained from use of the word “strike” as a means of enforcing the $2 demand (which figures out to -a million dollars a (Continued on Page Two)

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Deplorable; Deming Says: ‘Council Buttons Up Purse

By EDWIN

C. HEINKE

‘Marion county has spent nearly $500, 000 on a.$263,300 addition to: Julietta infirmary —still uncompletéd and _occu-

pied only by. birds.

Back in the lush days of - 1987, the Fohnity somimiagiondrs: ‘of. ‘Marion county entered into the ‘contract to erect the new: wing to the infirmary. Of the original cost, the. county issued 3145, 300 in bonds, and’ WPA ‘wes

to provide $115,000' for labor. Today, a iste more than five

BAN: ON BONDSMEN

Property Affidavits to Be - Required Monday.

Jack Tilso! n, Marion county clerk, today . notified professional bondsmen and bondswomen that : they could sign bonds over the week-end. They were banned from the procedure several weeks ago. In issuing the notificatiorr, Mr. Tilson said, “I ‘have no desire to keep anyone from making a living, and we are giving them the chance to sign bonds over the week-end.” On Monday all professional bondsmen and bondswomen will be required to sign affidavits as to the amount of property they own in Marion county and all future bond forfeitures must be made: good before ‘they can sign bonds again. Mr. Tilson announced - that his office has been checking back over records of the last 10 years and are still checking to find the names of

any professional bondsmen who" | nave forfeited bonds and not taken

care of the forfeitures during that time. He pointed out that the bondsmen must make good on those e bonds before signing their names to any new

MONDAY. DEADLINE

FOR. SENATE. BILLS]

years from the day that contract was signed— A “luxurious tile-walled strictire has been built at a ‘cost’ so far of nearly half a million" dollars. The.work is still not finished. Construction has been stopped by indignant members of the county council. It will not be resumed until the county commissioners, who have been abruptly turned down on further appropriations, tell the council in ‘business-like form just how much money is needed to complete the job.

Believe $50,000 Adequate County council members ® believe

the job may be completed for.

approximately $50,000. But commissioners have told the council that it is impossible to tell how much money is needed. The Julietta episode is only another of -the clashes that have ensued between the council and commissioners since the council of businessmen took . office after the November election.’ Steadfastly, the council has refused to appropriate a cent to the commissioners unless the requests have beeny accompanied by an itemized - accqunt -of ‘the proposed expenditures and a convincing picture of their necessity. Then the: council members themselves usually investigate. ;

‘Deplorable,’ Says Deming The Sunnyside Sanatorium investigation into the sale of meat and milk to the institution primarily grew out of this iron-clad policy of the couneil. The contract covering the work

at Julietta is one of those which|

‘la sdparate peace by his son-in-law,

{that Mussolini withdraw from ac-

3 RUSSIA—Four Soviet columns

Entéred as Second-Class Matter at Postotfice, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.

263.000 Birdh

REPORT CIANO FIRED IN PLOT T0 ASK PEACE

Swedish Reports Say He "And Colleagues Urged . Duce to Step Aside. LONDON, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—Diplomatic sources in Sweden said today

that Premier Mussolini shook up the Italian cabinet to nip a plan for

Count Galeazzo Ciano, and two other prominent Italians. Ciano, whom Mussolini removed as foreign minister; Count Dino Grandi, discharged as justice minister, and Marshal Pietro Badoglio, former chief of the general staff, were reported to have demanded

tive politics to enable them to “pave the way to peace,” a Stockholm dispatch said. “The Germans, however, intervened and: threatened immediate military. occupation,” the dispatch said. “Yesterday's shake-up thus was believed the result of German interference.”

Badoglio Fascist Foe

i ig Teef of the Italian genstafl in December, 1940, and o. taken no further part in world war II. He is known as Italy's ablest soldier and was responsible for the Italian conquest of Ethi-| opia. Besides Ciano and Grandi, the latter a veteran fascist, Mussolini discharged seven other cabinet members yesterday in a shake-up So sweeping it startled Europe, apparently even Germany, and touched off a wide range of speculation. A Swedish: telegraph bureau dispatch from Rome interpreted Grandi’s dismissal as a move against the “monarchist influence” in the government. It was believed here that more startling moves were to come, but well-informed: quarters warned that Mussolini was so: thoroughly in the clutches of. Adolf Hitler that any (Continued on Page Two)

BIG SEA" AIR BATTLE "LIKELY, KNOX SAYS

U. S. Planes Pound Foe in

Solomons. and Aleutians.

by WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U. P)— Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that continuing air-sea. engagements between U. 8S. and Japanese forces in the Solomons had. not yet produced a major clash, but that “there is every indication that they're geiting ready to do something.” - He asid both sides have suffered “moderate losses” in nearly a week of sporadic operations ‘but that there is “nothing significant—nothing of a major character” in damage inflicted thus far. At the same time, a navy communigue reported three more U. S. air attacks on Japanese bases in the Solomons. A bombing assault also was made on the enemy’s Aleutian island base at Kiska in apparent retaliation for a said on American positions in the western Aleutians.

On the War Fronts

. (Feb. 6; 1943)

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC—MacArthurs heavy bombers attack Japanese bases in Australian zone; further gains reported on Sad aleanal air-sea clashes conue. i.

Eidson-DFC

Local Man Is Cited for Courage in African Photo Missions.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U. P.). —The war department announced today that the distinguished flying cross and the air medal have been awarded to Lieut. Col. Hay T. Eidson of the army air forces for his “courage and skill” in accomplishing a # series of photo. missions over WN enemy territory } in North Africa. Col. Eidson, a ij graduate of Shortridge high school, Indianapolis was awarded the flying. cross for an aerial photo mission at a “treetop” level over 2500 square miles of enemy territory on Dec, 27, 1942, during which his plane was at- - tacked by fighter planes. The air .medal was awarded for his participation in five similar missions over North Africa. “Due to this mission, extremely valuable information .was obtained,” the citation said, referring to the Dec. 27 feat.

- ROSTOV FALLING Populace Expects News of Great Victory; 4 Armies

Push on Kharkov.

MOSCOW, Feb. 6 (U. P).—The Red army, breaking = across the Donetz river, rolled into flat country less than 70 miles southeast of Kharkov today, and here in Moscow

the public was primed for the im-}

minent announcement of a great

new victory—perhaps, the fall of the Caucasian gateway city of Rostov. (There were unconfirmed reports in London that Bataisk, 10 miles south of Rostov, already had fallen and that the Red army was moving on the big axis base itself, Regardless of whether Bataisk has fallen, the plight of thes German forces around Rostov appeared to be desperate. At least three.Soviet columns were converging on the city.) ; ? Kharkov, Russia's fourth city, was menaced by four Soviet armies. The break across the Donetz put the Russians info flat terrain which seemed to offer no possibility of a defensive . position ‘for the axis troops. Front reports said German morale was sinking daily. Lieut. Gen. R. Y. Maliknowski, field commander of one of the armies menacing Ros~ tov, reported a “faltering quality of German generalship and indecision in the Nazi high command” in their attempts to ‘parry the Russian blows. The Red army recaptured all but

a corner of the North Caucasus re-{.

gion.

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CONGRESS ACTS SLOW DOWN THERS' DRAF

Farm State Representatives Urge Release of Men For Food Program.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—Congress, stirred by warnings that married men with children soon will be i ducted into the armed ser ices, today 'was expected to act quickly to assure delay in drafting fathers at least uns til all single men and married men . without children in a state are in uniform. 5 Closely allied with that move, however, will be one by farm state congressmen to obtain release of virtually all farm workers from military duty for history's greatest farm program in 1943. § Those two drives may head con~ gress into a showdown battle wi administration agencies on stable ies. | Theer is a “bloc in congress “that this manpower policies constitute serious threat {0 ‘American fan life and to the food produc program. In any such showdown, the s ject of the ultimate size of armefl services will figure - proms inently with strong new efforts by some congressmen to put a ceiling on the number of men to go into uniform.

Hearings Promised

Chairman Andrew J. May of Ky.) of the house military ¢ commiitee has promised short ings next week on a bill by Paul J. Kilday (D. Tex.), which would set up a uniform “priority” i system of men in each state ant require their induction—if not de= ferred for essential industries—i the following order: 1. Single men without finagicia dependents. 2. Single men with financial de pendents. 3. Married men with no chil if marriage occurred before. (Continued on ‘Page Two)

COLDER WEATHER

Snow flurries and a strong blew into town today indicating winter is not. yet over for. Ind apolis. Temperatures dropped about degrees an hour early this morn ing, bringing an abrupt end to vo days of spring weather. The w erman predicted considerably. weather and more snow this a noon and tonight.

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Brereton, 'Flying Goneral, To Command Middle Eo

CAIRO, Feb.. 6 (U. P.).—Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton of the U. S. army air forces was appointed commanding general of all U. S. army forces in the Middle East today. He succeeds Lieut. Gen, Frank j

'|M. Andrews, an=

other air officer,

whose appointment as com-= mander of the U. 8. forces in the § Byropeah theater

Gen. Brereton Gen. Brereton

previous April. He was credited w scoring two bomb hits on an cruiser despite intensive an craft fire and intercepting fig Brereton, born in Pittsburgh, 52 years ago, graduated from naval academy at Annapolis 1911, but that same year he sh to the army and was commissic a second lieutenant. Bins

‘He began his flying t

11912 and served overseas with

AEF in world war I, rising to the rank of lieutenant §| He became chief of staff of | service group of armies and 1U. 8, army of occupation | many. His, decorations