Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1943 — Page 5

minimized and still less should be exaggerated. It is one of losses which must be expected battle as extensive as the ocon of North Africa.

3 British, 1st. ‘Army Mud-Bound :

The defeat, he said, was not an pected development, Because British eighth army. had not: reached the Mareth line on ay and because - the British ‘army in northern Tunisia was bound, Rommel was able ‘to entrate two armored divisions’ the Americans in the cen-| ‘of the Tunisian line.

This is considerably greater than

“Many of our tanks -were deiroyed -by : German dive, bombers,” ‘said, “and considerable losses in nnel and equipment were suf-

American troops ,evacuating the

of Kasserine, Feriana and]

la, retired to strong defensive tions in the 4000-foot hills west ‘the triangle formed by, the three m munities,

" wo S Regrouping Fores e: ‘Germans have only a short,

‘The U. S. k ‘air’ force, menaced by the apidity ‘of the axis advance, abanpned three airfields in the Ferianaerine section yesterday.

Some American troops already ve reached the hills west of Ferit was said, and now are busy ouping their forces for a deterd stand on the high ground, It was said that the Americans e little, if any, attempt to dend Feriana, Kasserine and Sbeitla. ather, it was an evacuation deed to get the U. S. troops into a tter defensive position. The three lie at the foot of hills which rise to more than 4000 feet in some es.

50 Miles in Two Days

~~ © In southern Tunisia the Brits - eighth army raced over ; approaches to the Mareth with gathering momentum, apA tly attempting to force Romlel to call off his offensive in cenal Tunisia and turn around fora battle with his veteran British 5 Bpponents ~ = Lieut. Gen. Bernard L. Montry’s crack army swept from Gardane to Medenine—a disince of 50 miles by highway—in 2 than 48 hours. / when it was under , ‘was the stronggota on the Mareth line.

f chiropractic examiners separate m the state medical board gained floor of the house today for the

a time in the 15 years which

= €hiropractors have devoted to seekdng passage of the measure. ~The house overruled the opinion if a majority of the state medicine ind public health committee that he bill should be killed and adopted # minority report recommending its

hiropractors have been seeking Pecognition for similar bills since . The measure would set up an lependent board to regulate: the tices of chiropractors in the te without “interference” from medical board, which proents of the bill charge is nopolized by the medical doctors if the tsate.”

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| GANNED MEAT SALES FROZEN

‘Sudden Action’ Taken to _ Halt Hoarding, Con-

serve Supplies. (Continued from Page One)

have an equal opportunity to ‘share in the limited supply. Relatively small amounts of canned meat and fish will be avail- | able for civilians even under rationing. Military and’ lend-lease orders will take 75 per cent of fhe canned meat, 80 per cent of the canned sardines .and mackerel and 60 per cent of the canned salmon in 1943. The “freeze” was slammed down with the same suddenness as that which marked introduction of shoe rationing two| weeks ago. Price Adminfstrator - Prentiss M. Brown warned then that the same technique would be used whenever possible in the future. Emergency conferences were held at (OPA, and |a decision taken late ‘yesterday to | impose a freeze at 12:01 a. m. today. The announce‘ment was held secret until 10 o'clock (Indianapolis | time) last night to

|prévent a last-minute panic rush

before ' groceries and delicatessen stores closed.

Pigs Feet Exempted All meat, fish and shellfish packed in hermetically sealed containers of any type and sterilized by use of heat, are covered by the “freeze” order. Pig’s feet, pig's foot tidbits, dried beef in glass and other items which are not sealed and heat-treated are not included. . = ‘Pharmaceutical products als 5 are exempted, along with products containing some meat or fish, such as pork-and-beans and clam and fish chowders, which are to be rationed under the regular canned goods ra-

tioning scheme.

"Types of meat chiefly affected are

Brains, ‘chili ‘con carne, .meat loaf, 1 meat spreads, vienna sausage, bulk

sausage, chopped luncheon meats, {tongue and patted meats. The principal fish items affected are canned salmon, sardines, tuna, ‘tuna-like fishes and’ mackerel. ® Sales are #frozen” at all levels, ex-

‘cept that wholesalers may acquire

stocks of canted ‘fish. Wholesalers must, within 15 days, report to the OPA for each wholesale establishment their ‘inventories of canned meat and fish held on Feb. 17, 1943.

Includes Red Meat

Both canned meat ‘and canned fish will be included in the general meat rationing program, officials indicated. The size of the meat ration has not yet been announced, but informed sources believed it might be set at 1% or two pounds weekly. That figure—more than double the meat ration in either Great Britain or Germany—would include not only the usual “red” meats, but liver, kidneys, brains and sweetbreads as well as canned meats and canned fish. Some sources believed it might also include cheese. Today’s “freeze” will be followed at midnight Saturday by a general “freeze” on sales of canned foodstuffs, preparatory to introduction of point rationing on March 1. That will cover all commercially canned, bottled and frozen fruits and. vegetables, including juices, all soups and dried fruits. Registration of the entire civilian ‘population: for war ration book two, which will be used for point rationing, will bé conducted next week.

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Manufacturers Told Women| Can Take - It -Along With the Men. (Continued from Pagé One)

the girls ‘had beautiful rest rooms with: carpets on the floor and fine lamps; reading material .and radios, that they would be content: to stay indefinitely in those firms regardless of whether their pay envelopes at the end of the week were.as good as the company around. the corner which did, not have fancy ~oquiipment.” Women Unimpressed

She doesn’t believe that women are ‘to impressed with “supercolossal” ‘working conditions ‘ and |that as ‘more and more of them

they are going from a purely patriotic standpoint. She believes, too, that the morale of ‘women does not pace itself in direct ratio to the working conditions. “Naturally, women want a quiet place in’ which to lie down if they are temporarily ill. They want decent locker rooms, and if possible, a separate. place to get out of the work rocm where they can eat their lunch quietly. But I don’t believe we have "to worry about American women not being dble to put up with a minimum: of decent ‘policies and working conditions. . . . You will have to agree that there is a variation among human beings.

Urges Realism

“There are perhaps certain variation in some of the problems of industrial management in developing certain policies in relation to women but our central thinking should be that the problems are personal problems. If we get our minds to thinking in the direction that a job {that is inherently dangerous for a woman is inherently dangerous for a man, I think we will face the socalled policies for women a bit more realistically.” She feels one of the biggest problems that employers of ‘women face is in adequate supervision. “We must always be conscicus that the great difference today in women workers is not that women have not traditionally worked for years in many differgnt kinds of occupations but that the driving force has been that of necessity or a desire to have a career.

Lauds Sacrifices

“Today, we will be urging women to comé in, in order to help with the war effort and we cannot afford to have faulty, untrained supervisors handling these women who have this reason for going to work.”

new workers’ motives and that of men accustomed to working Just to earn a living. In discussing the morale of women workers, she said that in cer-

ket is acute, she had talked with women who had taken jobs at a great sacrifice in their homes. “Many of these plants are- not well organized to use all the labor they have recruited to the maximum degree and these workers are not kept fully busy. This is difficult for them to understand and they begin to feel that they had better be home doing the washing, and morale drops. After the plant is well organized, the morale begins to rise.”.

Honor Local Women

Fowler Harper, deputy chairman of the WMC, will speak tonight at a banquet on controls over womanpower. A panel discussion on the utilization of manpower was scheduled this afternoon. More than 500 industralists from Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Tennessee are attending. Mrs. Evelyn Jorgensen from Allison’s is among the 12 women war workers to be honored for outstanding achievement at the conference. Mrs. Mary Holsapple of the U.S. Rubber Co. plant here and Bettie Miller of Allison’s are among the women selected for a parade of women war workers to illustrate the diversification of jobs now being handled by women.

HOUSE, IN BUSIEST ‘DAY, OK’S 21 BILLS

The house passed 21 bills and one resolution and defeated two more measures yesterday to set a record

in a single day by the house so far in the legislative session, Among the bills passed was a measure to permit the appointment of a business manager or purchase ing agent for Sunnyside tub®rculosis hospital. The bill, introduced by Rep. Lloyd D. Claycombe (R. Indianapolis) was. the outgrowth of recent charges that Sunnyside had been receiving inferior meat and watered milk in violation of OPA price reguldtions and health board

- | regulations.

.The measure was a companion

_| bill to one passed recently and now pending in the senate which would

permit such a. purchasing agent to Buy food and other essentials in the open market where bids were not offered. House members detested by 8 vote of 66 to 22 a bill which would have ' repealed the indeterminate sentence act ind required judges to jmake, specific sentences where per- } sons ‘were convicted of felonies. Principal opponent of the meas~ ure was Rep. Jess Andrew (R. West

| Point), who charged it would “de:

stroy everything we have done to

| build up the morale of prisoners and

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to permit the release of prisoners who are believed to have reformed before the expiration of the maxi~ mum sentence.” . The resolution passed proposes an amendment to the state constitution

'years instead of two years as pro

go into industry, employers will find|

She cited the difference in these; .

tain sections where the labor mar-|

for the number of bills acted upon

to make terms for prosecutors four | J

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uation this year. -

/has come lately from dairy cows sold to the butcher by thousands when’ the price of beef went so ~high that any cow was worth very ‘nearly its weight in gold, Many farmers, unable to get labor and proper dairy forage, simply sold their dairy cows to the bce. ‘® (RTE

Boon for Auctioneers

IN MOST COUNTIES of the Middle West auctioneers have to be, engaged weeks ahead for farm sales, because of the great number of food-producing units forced out of. existence by labor shortage or high industrial wages.

means that much less milk, butter," cream and cheese for people in the cities. It also means loss of the heifer calves these cows might have produced and which would have become milk-produc-ing cows. for next year and the year after. These unborn cows are gone forever. So far as I know, there is no ceiling on the price of veal, and heifer calves which might one day be producing cows are being killed and sold , into the meat market for quick’ profits.

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as usual, 100 late to save the sit- |

Each cow sold to a butcher:

‘Much of the poor-quality beef, | The and most of the -meat used in’ “hot dogs” and other sausages,’

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thing about this situation.” The farmer is at the end of his tether. , And, my friends in the sy, you are going to go without Certainly -you are going to os oe butter, eggs, cream and meat ‘because your government in

lems. At this moment farmers’ sons and young farmers—authentic, vital, skilled labor are still being drafted into an army already too big to feed except at the expense of civilians on the home front. Much of the ‘confusion is due to the igngrance of city people about farming and farm problems. The city dweller thinks, and some-

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‘maybe Washington fe ¢ | maybe W will 45 somes job. They were drafted indis-

tion of tals ot by a man who has persistently evaded direct responsibility and shown neither foresight nor understanding of ‘this war’s scope, hag not helped ‘to overcome the deficiencies of the act itself. I predict that before we have finished with the food crisis skilled farm labor will be called back to the farms, not on furlough but permanently, as a bitter necessity. Again because there was neither foresight nor planning.

INDIANAPOLIS MAN KILLED IN ACTION

Daniel G. Weinbrecht Sr., 1049 S. State ave., last night received word from the navy department that his son, Pvt. Daniel G. Weinbrecht, 21, of the marines, had been killed in action while serving in the Pacific area. ! - Pvt, Weinbrecht attended grade school- here and was a student at Washington high school. He was a Link-Belt productioneer at the Ewart plant, where his father also is employed, before joining the service in June. He received his training at the San Diego base. The survivors include the father, four. sisters, Mrs. Hazel Rist, Mrs. Helen Leggett and Norma and Shirley Weinbrecht and one brother, Allen, Pvt. Weinbrecht’s mother died

ay fruits and all Hve-' stock—the degree of skill . and experi is essential. It:is easier to ir a good lawyer or

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Draft Takes Heavy Toll SKILLED MEN are absolutely “vital to: food production, as. producers themselves and: as teach‘ers of unskilled labor. Without them there can be only confusion and near-famine. Yet until very lately the -administration has made no effort ‘to keep skilled men on the farm

criminately,” and are still being: drafted, because the selective service has never had any consistent plan to protect their vital services, but only ineffective “di- - yectives” to local draft boards and countless contradictory speeches _by Gen, Hershey and Mr. McNutt. | No two draft boards in the United | States have an identical policy on farm labor. The original selective service is an inadequate scheme based upon experience in the last war, not upon the total global war we are fighting, in’ which food production is as fundamentally important as production of arms and

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UAW Charges Conditions ‘Chaotic’ at Bomber Plant.

DETROIT, Feb. 18 (U. P)~—A large turnover of labor at the Ford Motor Cos Willow Run bomber plant and inability to recruit new workers in sufficient numbers were disclosed today on the eve of a sene ate committee's investigation of lagging production at the giant war factory Officials of the United -Automoe bile Workers (C. I. O.) charged that working conditions at the plant were “chaotic.” They said they would “no longer try to persuade wofkers” to remain on the job there, Although Ford officials refused to comment on the unipn’s charges immediately, it was learned they will outline at least three important reasons why present production schedules at Willow Run cannot be stepped up quickly. These are: 1. Tremendous turnover of labor at the plant. 2. High rate of absenteeism, chiefly because of abnormal wgather conditions. 3. Countless design changes. The senate committee headed by Senator Harry S. Truman (D. Mo.) will learn that the big problem harassing Willow Run today is the

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