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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 295
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By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Indianapolis housewives and
Feb. 18.—More than 20,000 other women not now in local
war industries will be needed to keep the wheels turning by November, a war manpower commission survey dis-
closed today.
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The survey was made by the WMC bureau of program
planning and review. It shows that 48,250 persons will be needed.in Indianapolis by November to meet requirements
of the armed services and war. industries. Plants included in the survey were Allison’ 8, Yiakas.
BILL TO SLOW * FATHER DRAFT MOVED AHEAD
House Military Co Committee’s 0. K. Is Givewby 23-to-2 Vote.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.) —
* The house military affairs commit-
tee today approved a bill by Rep. Paul J. Kilday (D. Tex.) to grant t deferment priorities to fathers. The vote was 23 to 2. The bill would nullify War Man-1 power Commissioner Paul V. McNutt’s order placing deferment par-, tially on an occupational basis. The bill would require. registrants to be drafted in the following order: 1. Single men with no dependents. 2. Single men with collateral dependents. 3. Married men with no children. . 4, Married men with children. The committee voted down an amendment by Rep. Paul Stewart (D. Okla.) that would have ordered immediate placement of striking war industry workers in class 1-A, regardless of their dependency status.
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Before approving. ‘the he the aay pted an ent offered .b
sign: trial and agricultural deferments. The bill as -approved, however, would affect War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt’s policy of making employment in essential war occupations the chief basis of future deferment. The Kilday bill was vigorously opposed by the army, whose spokesmen asserted that fathers already are being deferred as long as possible under the present selective service
Expect Debate Next Week
The hard and fast language of the bill, army spokesmen said, would greatly complicate procurement of manpower for the various services and would force the army to accept “undesirables” = before inducting men with dependents, Chairman Andrew J. May OD. Ky.) of the committee said he believed the bill would be brought up in the house next week. It must now go: before the rules committee which will find a place for it on the crowded legislative calendar. Committee members said those who voted against the measure were Rep. Walter G. Andrews (R. N. Y)), ranking ‘Republican member, and Rep. John Edward Sheridan (D. Pa). |
MERCHANT MARINE SEAMAN IS MISSING
Listed as missing in the latest ‘release from the U. S. merchant _marine ‘is James Edward Humes, brother of Mrs. William R. Sharp, 638 Home | place. * Humes, had followed the sea for 23 years and served aboard various steamship lines. Only 17 during world war I, he enlisted in the
Russian army and served 18 months
in Siberia. "The list also includes. Peter Frank Kirsig, Dephew of Mrs. Eva Klein of Knox.
“NO TIME FOR QUESTIONS” The German transocean news agency today broadcast a message from Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, which said “This is not the moment for asking questions how it happened. There is
no time for useless discussion. We
must act, immediately, quickly and “thoroughly.”
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NO BREAKDOWN is permitted by the OWI as tothe division between selective service and industrial needs,
WMC officials said.
They estimate that 48,6560 persons will be available in the area, provided 22,200 women can be obtained for work
in war industries. ever, that this estimate of “very optimistic.”
WMC officials are frank to admit, how-
possible women workers is
Other sources of manpower supply are estimated as
follows:
SENATOR WARNS
OF UNSAFE DIET
Many Face Malnutrition ~ Unless Crisis Is Solved,
Reynolds Says. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.).=
, | Chatrman ‘Robert R. Reynolds ®. TIN. C) of the senate military af-| pommittee es. that. ai growing food shortage: confronts thet
United States not only with hunger but with a greater tragedy—ruined health thréugh malnutrition. He said that unless bold, scien~ tific steps were taken soon to ine sure an adequate supply of vitamins for the home front, the American war effort would be sharply restricted. Reynolds issued a formal statement last night as:the food indus-
{try war council, representing processors and distributors of foodstuffs,|-
told government officials that thousands on the home front will “go hungry” this year unless steps are taken to solve manpower shortages. Reynolds said his committee, which has been studying manpower
“subsist on deficient diets” because of the growing scarcity of food. The armed services, he said, are doing a fine job in providing scientific diets for men in uniform, but “the home folks have been so neglected that the possibility of a balanced diet for them in the future is rapidly disappearing.” “The shelves in our grocery stores,” he said, “are entirely too empty of essential foods containing the necessary vitamins and minerals. Government agencies should take immediate steps to make more of them, as well as synthetic yitamins, available through grocery outlets.”
MORE. GASOLINE FOR WORKERS ORDERED
Is Inadequate. .
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.). ~The office of price administration today relaxed gasoline rdtioning re-
_|strictions to enable motorists to.ob-
fain as much gasoline as necessary
jobs regardless of the distance. Under the new order, workers are permitted to obtain ¢“C” ration books -— previously restricted to essential workers. physicians, ete.—
there is no other means of trans-
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portation to their place of employ- | ment. OPA emphasized that the new regulation applies only fo those who
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‘PUCKETT SENTENCING SET’
Cities Face Hunger
Acute Shortage of Meat and Dairy Products Certain Because of Short-Sighted Price Policies, | Bromfield
This is the second of four articles by Louis Bromfield, novelist, farmer and for many years an ardent supporter of the New Deal, who’ believes that administration failute to solve the food-production problem threatens hunger for the American people and disaster for American hopes of winning the peace by feeding starving millions in Europe.
_ still he is being
problems, has discovered that white | collar and war industry workers)
Get ‘C’ Cards if ‘B’ Ration;
to carry them to and from their! if a “B” book is inadequate and.
suffer “unreasonable hardship” un-.
Charges.
By LOUIS BROMFIELD MALABAR FARM, LUCAS, O., Feb. 18.—All the responsibility for the existing, and worsening, food crisis cannot be fixed upon the secretary of agriculture. of it belongs to the war production board and the late ‘muddled and unlamented methods of Leon Hendesson and
the office of price administration. The WPB cut farm-machinery production to 23 per cent of the normal agtput and took over the big farm-machinery factories. Lately, under stress of the crisis, an inadequate increase field of war. sftors juss as vital as the army, the n
Much
s allowed—for a navy or the heavy industries. The total steel required for normal production of farm machinery would be so small a fraction of “that used in war industries that it would hardly be noticed. Yet the farmer, stripped of labor by industry and the draft, is also : being stripped | of machinery and even of re~
asked to pro= duce more! J er The OPA is pre the. way to cut the A ln preparing 1 ‘from 2% pounds per. Perso: ! less than 2 pounds a week. Wash. ington shows all the signs of try= ing to do this as imperceptibly as possible, so as to ease the indignation of the public. Throughout the country there is a shortage of all meats. In some cities most people can buy no meat at ali: for long pericds, and they are forced to pay high prices for lowgrade meat if any is available. All this traces back to. the erratic price-ceiling policy. Ceilings were placed on processed meat, but none on live cattle. Cattle prices leaped out of sight and. small packing houses all over the country, squeezed between -processed-meat ceilings and unlimited prices for beef on the hoof, were forced to close. #2 8 = Boosted Beef Price
UNLIMITED prices on live beef led to thousands of cattle being turned on the market direct from range and pasture because it was unprofitable to feed thém out on corn at $1.20 a bushel, The result is the poor-quality beef you are now buying at high prices, and - the loss of millions of pounds of : meat ‘which would, have been available if cattle had been fed out an extra 200 or 300 pounds. Then a price ceiling: was placed on hogs, but not on the corn and the food supplements that were fed to hogs, with the result that « the farmer was squeezed between these two and began dumping underweight hogs on the market. This has been corrected since but, (Continued on. Page Four)
AMERICANS ATTACK 2 SOLOMONS BASES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P). ~—American dive-bombers, in their 68th air raid on Munda, started fires at the Japanese air base there while other airmen made a night attack on nearby Kolobangara, island, the nayy- announced today. "The Munda attack occurred on Wednesday (island time). The Kolobangara raid was made: that night. i -
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Sixty-five ‘hundred ‘unemployed ; 4650 new entrants into the labor field, such as school children who reach work-
ing age; 300 transfers from “non-essential
? industries;
10,800 from trades and services, and 1500 construction workers who can shift to war work. . These groups form
a total estimate of 26,450.
Adding the 22,200 women gives the 48,650 gure.
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~ WMC OFFICIALS pointed out that no outside workers can be brought into the area because “there is not now nor will there be any available housing for them.” Meanwhile, a majority of a senate appropriations sub-
legislation to discharge thousands of skilled workers farmers from the armed services, it was learned today. Senator John H. Bankhead (D. Ala.), chairman of subcommittee which has been examining the manpoy
seeking the aid of a large drafting the bill.
group of other senato:
He was said to have made up his mi
to call for labor reinforcements from the army and and a majority of his group were said to be in ag
HEALTH BOARD JOINS FIGHT ON BLACK MARKET
State Meat Inspector Is Assigned to Check on
Sales in County.
State health board authorities today joined hands with local OPA forces in .a thorough investigation of meat “black market” activities here. Participation of the health board
{in "the meat probe set a “doubletrap”
for suspected illicit meat Sa in;
investigation duty is Roy Huggins, | - state meat inspéctor, who recently concluded a cleanup of South Bend “black market” - transactions by closing down three slaughter houses there and Proseruiing the owner of another.
Two Dealers Suspected
Already two suspected provision dealers supplying beef and pork to Indianapolis butchers have been referred to the state health board as probable violators of sanitary laws. One of these is located in the outskirts of Marion county, and the other slaughters in Connersville, Mr. Huggins said. He said the joint OPA-state health board drive would be conducted in this manner: OPA investigators will check retail butchers, note the nanies of all meat suppliers on buieher shop vouchers. » These names will be: checked {Continued on Page Seven)
PATMAN COMMITTEE ORDERS MEAT PROBE
Hopes to Get to Bottom of Black Market.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.). —The house small business committee moved today toward what Chairman Wright Patman (D. Tex.) termed “a complete and thoroughgoing: investigation” of government policy toward the meat packing industry. Committee members said the investigation would be designed toexpose the “black market” among meat processors and to go to the heart of the meat shortage problem. The committee decided on theinvestigation at a closed session yesterday after two days of hearings. “We are determined to go right to the bottom of a mighty crucial problem,” Patman said. .
Women Workers Don't Need Pampering, Bosses Told Here
By ROSEMARY REDDING The nation’s women war workers
for the “C” book must
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Feb. 18 (U[0f ® P.)—Judge Lynn W. Ww. Parkinson to-
Miss Southall should know where-
“here for health Somrd |
MME. CHIANG IN CREATING WORLD
Winchell on ‘Inactive’ List
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Secretary of Navy Knox told the house naval affairs committee today that Walter Winchell, columnist and broadcaster, was placed on inactive status yesterday and “I have no intention to call him back to active duty.” Knox’ decision was disclosed by Chairman Carl Vin-' son (D. Ga.), after a closed meeting. Vinson said that “this closes our hearings on the ' Winchell matter and as far as we are concerned settles the whole. controversy.” Winchell, a lieutenant commander of the naval reserve, had been criticized recently by Rep. Clare Hoffman (R. Mich.) and other members of. cons gress for comments in his !
ASKS U.S. AID
Ul. S. LOSSES IN 4-DAY TUNISIAN
‘BATTLE HEAVY|
Say Offensive
Germans Is Ended, Apparently by 8th Army Threat.
(War Moves Today, Page 21)
By UNITED PRESS
The Berlin radio today announced that the German high copmand
:|considers its Tunisian offensive} :[énded, but War Secretary Henry L. Stimson - said that outnumbered] : American forces had lost consider-|
losses in’ the ‘figh
Today's communique trom the
FROZEN B BY OPA
Suspension’ Will | Will Remain in!
Effect Until Rationing Is Imposed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.).— Canned meat and fish stocks, the latest’ objective of hoarders, were “frozen” on grocery store shelves today. All sales were ordered suspended without warning at 12:01 a. m. until rationing of meat goes into effect, probably about March’ 28, or for a maximum of 60 days. The : emergency crack-down on “panic buying” was ordered by the office of price administration at the request of Food Administrator Claude R. Wickard. Officials said sales of . canned meat and fish had skyrocketed in the last few weeks until there was danger that none of those items would be left by the time meat rationing : 0 : - Civilian supplies of canned meat and fish are very small and OPA officials said the “freeze” was designed to prevent hoarders from getting more than’ their share. Under rationing. all persons will (Continued on Page Four)
INSIST ON REPEAL
OF $25,000 PAY TOP|
House Comittee Takes No|
Action on FDR Plan. -
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P). —Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) of the house ways and means committee, announced that
legislation to repeal the president's} $25,000 net limitation on salaries
will be sent to the house with a unanimous recommendation that it be passed. “It’s all over as far as the committee is concerned,” Rep. Doughton said, adding that the measure will not be considered in light of President Roosévelt’s offer yesterday to} rescind his $25,000 salary limitation
order in return for “super” taxes to
~—Kasserine, Feriana and Sbeitla, This represented .a gain of from 35 to 50 miles for the Germans in their four-day offensive.
Aim Was to Widen Corridor
First reaction at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters to the Berlin = announcement was that Marshal Erwin Rommel was unwilling to risk a further advance in the face of the threat of the British eighth army which is rolling up toward his flank from the south. This was also Mr. Stimson’s feeling, although he said that so far as ke knew, “the fighting is continued.” Purpose of the attack, according to Secretary Stimson, was apparently to expand the German corridor between the Tunis-Bizerte region of northern Tunisia and the Mareth line, before which the British eighth army is now moving. “We have suffered a serious local setback in Tunisia,” Mr. Stimson said. “The importance should not (Continued on Page Four) # ” #
On the War Fronts
Feb. 18, 1943
TUNISIA—Germans capture Kasserine, Feriana and Sbeitla but announce offensive is ended as British eighth army threatens Mareth line. American losses are “substantial.”
RUSSIA-2Soviet advances continue on whole Ukraine front; offengives aimed at Orel and Poltava.
AIR WAR—American planes bomb . Cagliari; . British ‘raid western Germany.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — Japanese
in New Guinea, Sixth U. S. army set up in Australia under command of Lieut. Krueger.
In Delay of
LONDON, Feb, 18 (U. P).—The house of commons gave the government a vote of confidence today on the government's. policy of delaying action ‘on the Beveridge social
security plan in view of the cost of putting it into effect and the un-
continue withdrawal toward Mubo}
Applauded
Madame: Chiang Kai-shek . ‘made a ‘hit in ‘dramatic. ples to
‘lican troops. ws ed three more fowns|
Make New Gains on All Sectors of Southern Front.
armies blasted new gains all along the vast 400-miles southern front} today.
Poltava ‘and Konotop, twin Naziheld citadels guarding the northeastern approaches to the Dnieper.
up to the German “Hedgehog” bases at Orel and Bryansk. The day’s biggest battle was raging less than 50 miles from Orel, toward which the Russians are smashing up the railroad from Kursk. Orel is the junction point of four railroads and would restore
.| direct rail connection between north
Russia and the central Ukraine. ; Retreat Not Slowed
* Most of the areas now being retaken by the Russians have been held by the Germans since 1941. There was no sign whatever that
the Germans were slowing their re-
treat, but every indication they were making ‘a fighting withdrawal to the Dnieper line -and possibly - even farther. : Radio ‘Berlin, . broadcasting the {high command’s communique, finally admitted today that Kharkov has been evacuated by German troops “after ' destruction, according to plan, of war-important installations.”
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Commons Vored Confidence
Beveridge Plan
ious cost of putting the. security|.
plan ‘nin effect, definiie action must await the end of the war. He said the government had “no wish to do a double-cross on this at all.” The government's victory did not entirely eliminate the critical situation affecting the. coalition cabinet.| The question arose as to whether
the 22 Laborite members of the gov-|, : ; srment—sneluding (hiss was oab- | withdraw by
Offensives were developing against J
Other: grave threats. were building:
SEES JAP EVIL THE EQUAL € NAZI GER
Calls on Congress to Sa Future Generations Fro ‘Blood Orgies. WASHINGTON, Feb. (U. P.).—Mme. Chiang shek told an intently ing congress today | ‘that.
united nations must \Japan high on the tim
of vie tory and then,
Her voice rose to a hi and her red-painted Anger dug into ‘her fist as she that Japan is potentially f than Germany and holds a “ sword of Damocles, ready to ot a ‘moment's notice. »?
MOSCOW, ‘Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Red}
democratic side. . ; The stateswoman wife of k nese generalissimo. received enth iastic ovations pot only in the . but in the senate. ~ : Clad in a long Chinese d shimmering black. silk, split. bottom, she "first spoke bri the senate. Then she went
tices and cabinet members her in one chamber or the othe Her presence attracted the larg crowd 'sden. in the ca congress declared _ war Japan Dec. 8 1941, wl Every precy tion
Today marked Mme. ; first dramatic appeal to the
?iican people for more aid
“which ‘has bled and borne ung ingly the burden of war for than five and a half years,” She praised: Ametios- as the cauldron of der
She hoped ‘that ¢ 0 help make a post-war
one to plunge future :g “into another orgy of’
‘The ‘address of the fs ican-educated wife of:
tant She ‘concluded ' with | . (Continued on ore
‘GANDHI IS “IN HEART AND