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patients from the fire-demol-ished hospital to other state

institutions was under way. The war uction board al-

lowed. the state budget commit-|:

tee 30 days to and plans tor which Budget son Ketchum

prepare estimates| the new Director C. Scare d would be a “mod- |

Estimates on $he cost of the new building have not been made, but Mr. Ketchum said he believed it] would be more than $2000 a patient for the 1200 patients—a total of $2,-

Hold Special Meeting = | To get the Pesessary Sppeopds tion for the new hospital

e 418 patients on. the |

five-coach a which pulled into

Union station | here at 11 a. m.}

today. None of. the patients had had and

Is; Given Budget Needs |

hmittee as the evacuation of more than 1000

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: bewildered, ‘hungry, dazed, ‘simply:

waiting to be ordered to move: Sev=

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: dering ‘about the countryside ‘after | [the fire. They had “been, fed

_* On'"their way to a'new home?" It. may be only temporary. At least, this group of homeless mental patients ‘will. be housed for the {ime being ah Richmond State hospital. Aa

out ‘at’2:30 o'clock ‘yesterday ‘morning. ‘when fire ‘broke ‘out ansville State Hospital, they, had been on their way to a few home-—knowing not where—for: more: than’ 30 hours. - :

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Evansville at 6:0’clock last night and ; Tet ‘morning ‘were crying

food'like children. “Rain beat in’ through the open : ‘ot the Unian stafien. Toor. and f. windows,

THREE:WEEK: FAST IS'BEGUN BY GANDHI

NEW | Dita, Feb. ‘10 (U..P.).~

JK. Gandhi, "emaciated, |

. spiritual ‘leader of Instarted a three-

| Neutral Sources Forecast

‘| cially that ; American | flying for-

| British commander in the Middle

by lig! warhawks, plates. of the , —y

| shot down. ‘Not a single allied

-| slower progress on the coastal séc-

CLAIM BRITISH ENTER TUNISIA ON 2 SECTORS

‘Big Battle; U. S. Planes Blast Kairouan.

LONDON, Feb. 10 (U. P.).—Neutral dispatches said today that the British eighth army had crossed the Tunisian frontier in force on two sectors and it was announced offi-

tresses had bombed the airdrome again at Kairouan. There was no official confirmation of Algerian reports reaching Madrid that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s imperials had crossed into Tunisia from Tripolitania on the central and southern sectors and that a major battle was expected east of the French-built Mareth line.

CAIRO, Feb. 10 (U. P) ~The - axis’ Mareth line in Tunisia can be turned and the battle to drive the enemy off the last African bridge-head is imminent with “all the dice loaded in our:favor,” Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander,

East, said today.

Lafayette escadrille, and royal air force spitfires were active over a wide ‘séction of the front yesterday, however.

< Blast Kairouan At least three enemy fighters were

plane was Jost. The flying fortresses , dropped bombs among 20 to 25 eneRly planes dispersed on the Kairouan air ane and ‘scored hits on a nearby railroad. The lighter planes attacked enemy positions in the Gafsa-Mak-nassy, Faid and Ousseltia-Pichon areas. Spanish reports said the bulk of the eighth army was pouring into

The eighth army was making

tor, the dispatches said, because it was heavily mined and defended by rear guards and some artillery.

Axis Planes Raid Tripoli The Middle Eastern command and royal ‘air force's commumique revealed that axis planes had tried to raid Tripoli Monday night for the first time since it fell to the eighth army. Both axis bombers sent on the raid were shot down by allied fighter planes. Allied bombers from the Middle East blasted ‘Palermo, Sicily, again Monday night and started fires.

STORY OF INDIANA'S INSTITUTIONS, 7 P.M.

Employees Give Dinner for Legislators, Officials. tions—Riley Room—7 That's what it says |

‘|hotel.- \ Xt refers 0 the dinner beltig given

“The Stoty of Indiana's Insti

{bulletin board . ‘at the Claypoolt- x :

Henry I. Metz Jr. . . . the search ‘has ended.

CANAL GIVES UP HENRY METZ JR.

Friend of Father Finds Boy After Seven-Week Search.

body of 9-year-old Henry I. Metz|;

- Jr., which attracted the sympathies

: ‘day-to-day Interest of the. ens

. After leaving work. yesterday’ father, Henry 1. Metz Sr., 1503 W. 20th st., and a friend, John Turk, of 3129 W. 10th st, went to the banks of the canal with grappling hooks, under-water lamps and all the other equipment the father had been using . almost every day and night for seven: weeks. They started the grim task that the father had repeated scores of times without ever giving up hope of finding his son. .

Hooks Snag’ Shoe

About 7:30 p. m. Mr. Turk’s hooks caught the boy’s shoe and the body was pulled to the bank with the aid of Mr. Metz and Charles Muzzy, 3742 Hillside ave, who were in a boat: using- underwater searchlights. The father immediately identified it as that of his son, : “I guess I acted like baby,” said Mr, Metz in describing his emotions upon finding the body. : : The body. was near the Roache st. bridge over the canal between 26th and 27th sts, about 3000 feet south: of ‘where ‘it was believed the (Continued on Page Two) *

Here's Reaction Of Labor Leaders

By UNITED PRESS

Here is. the reaction of organ"ized “labor leaders to President Roosevelt's 48-hour week order: William ‘Green, president of the A. PF. of L~Spokesmen. for Mr.

week but opposed a longer work ‘week unless it was absolutely ‘ necessary. R. J. Thomas, president of me, United + Automobile Workers I. 0)—“The es beer put into effect long ago.”

mi eo cmp a state institutions for the legislators:

| IAP FLEET MAY, TALLY 7 SHIPS

| 1ayed)—American planes Wave sunk

The unprecedented search for the!

Green said he favored a 48-hour |

: : . On the War Fronts

YANK TOLL OF

Two Known Sunk by Planes In Cat-and-Mouse Battle

At Guadalcanal.

By WILLIAM TYREE _ United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH THE U. S. FLEET (De-

at least two Japanese destroyers and possibly five others in a: cat-and-mouse battle revolving around the strategic island of Guadalcanal. Our fleet is out here—as Secretary of Navy Frank Knox puts it— and’ airpower already has scored the first blow. Here is as much as can be told about the naval Situation ‘at this moment: Twenty Japanese destroyers started toward Guadalcahal from the area of Buin and were met by American air striking groups. The American planes attacked and sank 6ne Japanese destroyer and left three others burning fiercely. Reinforce Guadalcanal . That ended the first Japanese threat. : - Yesterday a second group of enemy: destifyers started south ahd was caught by: ieong range Amer‘jean bombers. | ‘This time one désfroyer was sunk

ee Guadalcanal for a

grand cleanup.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. (U. P.). —American ground forces on Guadalcanal advanced : without A opposition on Tuesday (island time) fo within one mile of Cape Esperance, key Japanese base on the island, the navy announced today:

8 LIVES IMPERILED IN DRUGSTORE FIRE

$6000 Damage Reported in

College Avenue Blaze.

Fire today threatened the lives of eight persons when it swept through a drug store and its basement located in a three-story brick building at College ave. and 20th st. Firemen aroused the families and ‘aided two 75-year-old women down the fire escape. The others also were forced to go down the fire escape. The fire was discovered about 8:15 a. m. by a passerby. All residents of the building were asleep and the drug store had not opened. ‘| #remen roused Mrs. Emma J. Glenn, 75, the owner of the building who: lived in the front apartment on the second floor. They also awakened Mrs. Nellie Cairn, 75, who

‘carried his 3-year-old daughter. Judith, to. safety. His wife, Helen, is visiting in Mooresville. “The: crying of: a two-weeks-old baby in the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Frink Harriman on the second floor awoke Mrs. ‘Harriman’s mother; Mrs. Homer Stewart, who roused) * (Continued on Page Two)

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MNUTT GIVEN WIDE POWERS

Refuses to Comment on|

48-Hour Week During

Stopover Here.

| Paul V. McNutt, head of the war manpower commission, stopped off this morning at the Union station. He was en route to Chicago for conferences on President Roosevelt’s grder for a 48-hour minimum

sary. The manpower director said his visit here was “unofficial” and that he could not comment on the work week order, He spent last night in Martinsville. ? : Mr. McNutt has had” his ups and downs. in the present administration, but President Roosevelt’s designation of him fo administer the new 48-hour work week policy makes the 51-year-old Hoosier one of the administration's most powerful officials. Appeared on Way Out If was only a few months ago | that Mr. McNutt appeared to The on his: way out as a leader of the war effort at home. Last fall the president nearly “promoted” him to be secretary of the interior. The plan, which fell through, would have stripped him of his position as war manpower commissioner and his subsequent supervision - over selective service and the new work-week policy. . Today, Mr. McNutt emerges as the man with almost unprecedented powers, He has' the authority to regulate the work week in all industry and business throughout the nation. He also has these powers: The right to . freeze workers in their jobs to prevent migration. Final authority to determine the mechanics of the selective service system.

WIFE OF DRAFT BOARD MEMBER IS SLAIN

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (U. P.).—A well-dressed man was sought today for beating the wife of an appeal agent of a local draft board to death. The victim, Mrs. Nehammah Baranow, 35, died in Kings county hospital last night, several hours after her battered bYody was found in the automatic elevator of her

known to have left the apartment house by the stairway a few minutes. before Mrs. Baranow was found. Police were unable to. learn a

JOB FREEZING IS INPOSED TO SPEED OUTPU

WLB Refuses tb Relax Little Steel Formula for

Packing Employees.

BULLETIN Se - WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.)« —High officials predicted foday that the government will be ab) to induce employers to make a 48-hour week effective in the 2 labor shortage areas listed by War Manpower Chairman Paul V. McNutt without getting tongh. “But the government can .be tough if it needs to and is forced to in order to get’ maximum war production,” a .responsible official said.

Text of Roosevelt order, Page 3; text of Byrnes speech, Page 11; other stories, Pages 3 and 6.

By LYLE CO. WILSON United Piess Staff. Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 The ‘administration has o dered a minimum. 48-hot work week: for: “all emple ment” in 32 critical areas and proposes further to solve. manpower problem. by fr ing essential workers in the

s +" commission deems it neces- 068 “and “BY forcing form

agricultural labor to ret to the farms. :

Agricultural workers who fled | 0 the fattories should be given the choice, {said Economic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes, re turning to the farm or going into the armed services — at less either way. He said those on the farms shonld stay there. : Mr. Byrnes revealed also in radio adress last night that the department “was considering

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.) ~The war labor board toda;

granted a general wage ‘increase of four cents an hour for 10,000 employees of the Philadelphia Transportation Co.

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practicality of using army men on the farms” by issue of peak season furloughs. But he said no rian had been agreed upon. "Critical Areas Named

The 48-hour work week, ordered into effect in 32 areas, was estab= lished by Mr. Roosevelt as: a tional policy. It was left to Chairs man Paul V. McNutt of the manpower commission to: decide how widely it should prevail. He nam the 32 critical areas. (Indianapolis is not included the list.) ; The work-week order protected

rights of labor under contract under the, wage-hours act. The order followed the signific: action yesterday afternoon of: war labor board in refusing to lax its [little steel” wage stab tion formula and in denying a eral wage increase fo I ployees of the “big four” meat ing companies. By a vote of 7 to 4, the board. affirmed its determination to bilize general wage rates. under formula in order to prevent other tragic race between and wages.” Labor members solidly against the decision. “It has become increasingly e dent that the stabilization of ¢

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= Job-to-Job Shift of Workers