Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1943 — Page 5

£2 ors. Investigators Report Supply Will Last | Y Several Years.

- WASHINGTON, Feb, 8 (U. P.).— The director of the office of civilian

supply, Joseph L. Weiner, reports that stocks of liquor in the United _§States are sufficient for several years’ n consumption and there is no indication that liquer sales will have to be cut to a “bed rock” basis at any time in the discernable future. His office has made a study for Economic Stabilization Direct James F. Byrnes to determine * . rock” civilian needs of essential commodities consistent with the fullest war production, This study placed absolute minimum liquor needs for medicinal purposes at 1 per cent of the total 1941 consumption of liquor. But Weiner said this did not mean that his office had recommended such a cut in production or distribution of liquor.

Medicinal Needs 1 Per Cent

“In working out p: tentative studies of the quantities

of civilian supplies necessary. to,

maintain the economy,” he said, #this office undertook to estimate the quantity of alcoholic liquor which this country would need to produce if no stocks of liquor existed in any warehouse or store or | dealer's shelves—if, in other there were no liquor what- . ever in the country. Our best estimate was that, in ‘such case, it would be necessary to manufacture annually at least 1 per cent of the volume of liquor consumed in 1941. This represents solely the quantity needed for medicinal purposes, “Large stocks of liquor exist in America today; there is no indication whatever that we shall at any time in the discernable future get down to rock bottom and be compelled to distribute liquor on a bedrock basis. On the contrary, there is on hand today sufficient liquor to provide normal consumption for several years.” Civilian Economy Firm

Weiner told reporters he doubted the federal government ever would bring back nation-wide prohibition or even ration liquor sales to consumers. “If the federal government stepped in at all,” he said, “it would probably be at the distributor's level and not the consumer's level. If individual states want to enforce local prohibition that is entirely ir own affair, but our policy is -avoid in every way acting as censors of public taste and habit.” In the report to Byrnes, Weiner estimated approxinfately $56,000,000,000 worth of goods and services of all kinds would be required annually to maintain the country’s civilian economy on a minimum

basis.

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preliminary and

Call to battle—real or practice comes to U. S, seamen as coxswain aboard a battleship pipes the crew to attention over loudspeaker ' system. Then general quarters call summons sailors to battle stations and the big guns go into action,

FLEET'S ‘BABY WINS SLUGFEST

Destroyer Sinks Cruiser, Battleship and One Its Own Size.

BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8 (U.P). —Crewmen from “Baby,” the Amer-

“eliminate or be eliminated,” today expanded the saga of its slugging match in the Solomons in which it sank a Jap battleship, a cruiser and a destroyer,

This figure is some 32 per cent| Torpedoman John Edwin Sollo-

less than the value of goods and services: for civilians in 1941, and about 23 per cent less than the . volume of goods and services civilians actually will receive in 1943, the report estimated.”

All Figures Tentative

Weiner emphasized that the entire report constituted a study and not a recommendation. ““It was an attempt ta find out what the country would have to have in the way of goods and serve Ices if it were pared down to the absolute minimum,” he said. “No - figures in the report represent anyone’s estimate of levels the country must get down to; on the contrary, they are estimates of levels below which the economy must not be allowed to go. It should also be emphasized that all the figures were preliminary and tentative, and in no sense represent a final judg- - ment.”

FREEZE LIQUOR LICENSES

FRANKFORT, Ky, Feb. 8 (U. P.)—The state alcoholic beverage control board today froze all retail liquor licenses. In a move to progot. dealers in whisky,

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way told shipyard workers how “Baby,” which cannot be otherwise identified, sailed into ships many times her fighting strength. “I was on the bridge,” he said. “We fired to starboard first at a big one—a cruiser. : It later sank. Then we were ordered to fire torpedoes at a Jap battleship which was handing out terrific punishment. - Our five-inch guns started a blaze on the battleship, so we trained our torpedoes on that blaze.” So They ‘Eliminated’

Solloway said four torpedoes were launched and shortly there were “two big explosions on the Jap battlewagon.” The crippled battleship also sank. Then “baby” was attacked by a Jap destroyer which steamed in close. “We got two torpedoes off,” golloway said. “Both hit just as two gun salvoes struck home. The destroyer went a hundred feet in the air. It was just about that time we were hit and couldn't fire any more torpedoes.” Owen Plecher, machinist’s mate,

-|another “baby” crewman, said that

on the day previous to the surface engagement, their ship was at-

"- |tacked by 21 Jap torpedo

planes and eight zero fighters. Eight torpedo carriers were shot down by surface craft and American fighters “got the rest of them—wiped them out.” “The crew of ‘baby’ carried out its- orders,” Plecher concluded. “The orders ‘were ‘Eliminate or be elimina dr” “

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Top man on a battleship is the

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several directions, speaking to the men below over the microphone,

By Science Service PALO ALTO, - Cal, Feb. ‘8. — Vague correlations between sunspots and the weather probably exist, but the weather is affected so

much by other factors that the influence of sunspots is insignificant. This is a conclusion reached by Dr. Seth B. Nicholson of the Mt. Wilson observatory after a quarter of a century devoted primarily to solar research concerning the much-discussed question of whether the weather can be predicted from sunspot: activity. He . announced this finding in a lecture at Stanford university here last night. Ever since the great astronomer, Sir William Herschel, in 1800 tried

Hoosiers Honored * For Gallantry

Two Hoosiers are among 34 offlecers and men who have been awarded the silver star for gallantry in action near Buna village; New Guinea. They are Maj. Oliver D. Dixon of Bedford and Corp. Lawrence A; Rowe of Angola:

CIVILIAN WAR ROLE

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| Americans Round Up Foe

In V-Shaped Area Near Cape.

Guadalcanal in a “V” shaped pocket after a difficult flanking movement through dense jungles and mountains. Lo Sa Lop The navy revealed yesterday that the Americans have established a strong position at Titi, one-half mile west of Marovuvo and five miles west of Cape Esperance on the northwest tip of Guadalcanal. The communique did not reveal

ii |how the Americans got to Titi,

The captain of a U. S. dreadnaught’s gun turret crew sights his target through a periscope, then gives the order to fire the 16-inchers. Even when on 3 training cruise the navy rung its crews through all the motions of actual battle,

Bejween battle and target practice, navy seamen swab—pardon, shovel—the battleship’s decks clear of snow and ice.

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Influence of Sunspots on ‘Weather Held Insignificant

to correlate the price of wheat with the number of sunspots, not only astronomers, but meteorologists, botanists and bankers, both professional and amateur, have heen trying to find such correlations without much success. Invariably they arrive ai the same conclusion as Herschel—more data are needed in order to prove them. With regard to the possibility of making shorf-range predictions for particular regions from individual sunspots, Dr. Nicholson was. even more emphatic, “Certainly ‘it is foolish to think that an individual sunspot can in any way produce definite changes in the weather at any particular locality on the earth,” he stated.

STOUT FIELD BUS ROUTE TO CHANGE

‘Rerouting of the Stout field branch of the Mars Hill bus line was authorized toddy by the works S

which is 26 air miles from Henderson field, but a naval spokesman

their way through the jungles and over mountains some of which rise as high as 3000 feet. In that case their march probably was 40 or 50 miles, : Silent on Sea Baitle

There were no details of the march in the communique, but when

.{ the reports and eye-witness accounts

of it are available the story will form an important chapter in the already heroic record of the Guadalcanal campaign. The last naval communique did not mention the series of air-naval engagements which have been reported in the southern Solomons for more than a week. Navy Secretary Frank Knox said last Saturday that the “sporadic engagements” were continuing and that both sides had suffered “moderate” losses. The communique did report that American bombers raided Kolombangara island and Munda in the New Georgia group Saturday (island time), No details were given, except that all planes returned,

URGES COUNCIL RULE OF WELFARE FUNDS

A.hill fo give county council full power over county welfare department budget was introduced in the state senate today by Senator John VanNess (R. Valparaiso). ; Senator VanNess, who authored the resolution creating the committee to investigate the state and county council's power over the welfare departments, said that the county council's power over the welfare department budget was now very limited and that his bill would give the council the same power over the welfare budget as it has over the budget of any other county governmental unit. Among 20 other bills introduced in the state senate today, the last day for introduction in the upper house, were measures to raise the salaries of state highway commissioners from $5200 to $6000 annually and to provide a $100 exemption on household property and personal property tax payments. Senator Floyd I. Garrot (R. Battle Ground) said he felt that the highway commissioners should have a salary of $6000 annually if the state tax board members are to receive that much. A bill to raise the tax board members from $4500 to $6000 annually already is before the upper house,

IRVINGTON G. 0. P. TO HEAR SENATORS

Thurman “A. Biddinger, president pro-tem of the state senate, and James E, Armstrong, the state's youngest senator, will speak at a meeting of the Irvington Republican club at 8 p. m. today at 5446% E. Washington st. ‘Mr. Biddinger, a Marion attorney and veteran legislator, will discuss “Pending Legislation.” Mr. Arm strong will review his reasons for advocating a change in the administration of the Indiana High School Athletic association. He is the author of the bill which, if passed, would put the I. H. 8, A, A, under the control -of the state board of education. The measure was defeated in the senate. Glenn W. Fuuk, club president, will preside. The public is invited.

Local Pump Firm Wins Second 'E'

gineering Co. here that it has been awarded the army-navy “BE” for the second time. . The company was the first in the country to receive the combined award. The firm manufactures vacuum

U. 5; Suis m PROMOTED

WASHINGTON, Feb, 8 (U. PJ] American troops have trapped the| remaining Japanese forces on|

said he believed that they had cut]

Hardy members of a Soviet tank crew wash up in that nice cold snow before going out to clean up on Germans in central Russia.

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heating pumps for air bases, can~ | ' tonments, etc.

FT. MONMOUTH, N. J, Feb. 8 (U. P.).—Commercial radio manufacturers used to ask the army signal corps why it didn’t just adapt commercial sets for army use’ “We had a bunch of them sign waivers for injuries and took them for a tank ride” Col. R, V. D. Corput Jr. director of the signal corps ground signal service, told reporters today. “They never raised the question again.

“An ordinary commercial radio set would be shaken to pieces in about a mile by a jolting ta

Doughboys Break Anything Col.. Corput said that if a knob

& soldier will do so. “Therefore, we make it so he can't,” Col. Corput said. All sensitive parts and tubes for army radios are mounted in rubber shock absorbers, But design is only one phase of the problem, Supply is another.

quartz crystals. Similar to the crystals used for crystal receiver sets in the early days of wireless, they have been used commercially in recent years mainly for frequency control on radio transmitters.. They formerly were obtained largely from Brazil, and cost $25 to $50 each. Then came the war, when every plane had a radio transmission set. The demand for crystals skyrocketed, As many crystals are now being produced in a single day as were produced in the entire year of 1940, Crystals are now being obtained at home, from such states as Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, North Carolina and California. High altitude flying and activities in such areas as Alaska presented

Army Radios Must Deliver Despite Rough Treatment

Corput cited. the instance of ;

tures a good ordinary dry battery may suddenly freeze up and quit functioning until it thaws out. Fortunately the solution in a wellcharged storage battery wil] stand temperatures down to 75 degrees

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P.).—One of the first airfields used by the U. 8 army air forces in

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equipment of an airborne aviation engineer company flown in. over 1000 miles by transport plane. Brig. Gen, Edwin H. Marks, com= manding general at Ft. Belvoir, said the first battalion of airborne aviation engineers was formed last August, Units accompanied the allied occupational forces tQ north Africa in November, taking their equipment by transport. This new specialty’ of the army engineers exemplifies the emphasis now being made on mobility. Each engineering outfit is motorized, and transports itself and its equipment compactly. Bridge pontoons and pneumatic boats of synthetic rubber are being . increasingly used because they oc~cupy relatively little space before being inflated. One truck and trailer will carry 30 feet of bridge. The boats will bear 12 tons. Folded up, such a float measures just over three by two by two feet. It can be inflated in six minutes and becomes’ a float 25 feet long and 10 separate compartments. Some compartments can be punctured and the float will‘ still function. The engineers’ new donnie: mine detector, complete with gadgets, goes inside a box wilh

looks like a big suitcase.

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