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44 ESTIMATE NOT YET FINAL, PRESS IS TOLD

Roosevelt Congerned About Farm Jobs but Says Pupils May Help.

* WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U.P) .— President Roosevelt said today that the goal of 7,500,000 enlisted men in

‘the U. S. army by the end of 1943 f

would. not be changed, and he indicated a new goal might be set for 1944, He said the army figure for 1943 was decided on last August and that it never has been changed. He said the goal for 1944 probably would be decided this fall, but that he could not even guess now what

This year’s army goal also calls for 700,000 officers, making a total of 8,200,000. The other services would bring the total of all our armed forces to nearly 11,000,000 by the end of 1943.

‘Some Wanted 13 Million

Many members of congress are questioning the ability of the country to support an armed force of that size and still produce suffici~ ent food and material for ourselves and our allies.

Rebellious have

congressmen

list. Discussing the 1943 army goal of 7,500,000 men, Mr. Roosevelt said a lot of people wanted 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 and some even 13,000,000 in the army alone this’ year, but that it was finally decided that military necessity called for 7,500,000.

* Thinks Youths Can Help

He was asked for comment on the house military affairs committee approval of the Kilday bill which would grant deferment to fathers. He said he did not know anything about it. Then he added that the problem is to get physically fit men for the armed services and said that most men over 35 are not very good for combat service. (The services have stopped drafting men over 37.) A reporter asked if the president was concerned over farm bloc opposition to an army of the projected size. He said he was. Then he told a story about how the Russians at Moscow utilized some 300,000 school children during 1942 to produce food and cut wood for fuel for the city. He said he thought the young people in villages in this country could help the farmers with their crops.

POPE PIUS MAY QUIT VATICAN, PAPER SAYS

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (U. P.).—| The Brooklyn Eagle said today. that Archbishop Francis J. Spellman has

evacuation of Pope Pius XII from the Vatican and his safe conduct to a temporary headquarters in Latin America, possibly Brazil. The purpose ‘of the archbishop’s trip was given in a dispatch written by Michael Williams, member of the Eagle’s editorial staq, author and publicist specializing in religious news events. The removal of the pontiff of the world-wide catholic church,'in the first stages probably would be accomplished by airplanes and submarines, Mr. Williams wrote.

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PRICE TGP DUE ON VEGETABLES

Action to Be Taken on Garden Produce Soon, OPA Says.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U. PJ). —The office of price administration announced today that price control will be extended within the next two or three mont is most fresh vegetables—one of ti: ] ing foodstuffs in th Jiverage family diet not yet Irolgnt under price control. =~ ol v= 2» Fresh vegetables were ryt included in the gengral maximum price regulation which”set ceiling prices on more than 60 per cent of the nation’s foodstuffs in April, 1942. The action on fresh vegetables, which will be taken prior to new crop harvests, will leave fresh fish as the only important group in the uncontrolled price ~ category, OPA said. Price control of 3 <retables will be discussed at open 1Leetings in New York City and Kansas City shortly, OPA said.

RUSS NEAR POLTAVA, OREL AND TAGANROG

Nazis Strive Hard to Slow

Thrust Toward Dnieper.

MOSCOW, Feb. 19 (U. P.).—The Red army today rounded out the third month of its victorious winter campaign with a thrust through the Ukraine carrying within 40 miles of Poltava, half-way from Kharkov to Kremmenchug on the Dnieper river. The Russians also were closing in on Orel, last bastion of the shattered German 1942-43 line, and on

defense line. Heavy German = counter-attacks indicated the Nazis are making greater efforts to stop the drive toward the Dnieper than to hold Orel and Taganrog. Today's Russian communiques reported the capture of 10 moré towns in the pincers push on Orel and of 70 villages around Taganrog, At the latter city, on the Sea of Azov, the Germans have par-

tially evacuated the air field and taken up new positions north of the

town. Russian forces around Orel are from 33 to 45 miles from the

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Helps Make Plane Wings While Husband's in Africa

The real Rosie the Riveter doesn't have a Charley in the marines.

But in other ways, Rosalie Travers of Evansville, a productioneer at the Servel plant there, fits the role of R<sie the Riveter better than the heroine the song writers dreamed up.

She waf in Indianapolis yesterday-

'to attend the womanpower confer-

ence at the Claypool hotel and appeared in a “parade” of uniformed workers to illustrate for industrialists the diversification of jobs women now handle.

Rosalie Travers is actually called Rosie the Riveter by her coworkers on the assembly line who “all day long, whether rain or shine, make history, working for victory.” She doesn’t know anything about Charley, the marine, which the Dotiipus Rosie protects by working overtime on the riveting machine, but she’s doing the sa thing for her husband, Elwood, an air force mechanic now in North Africa.

Hopes to Retire

While he’s away, the blond-haired, blue-eyed young woman keeps busy bucking rivets at the Servel plant.| They make airplane wings there and it is conceivable that & wing on which Rosie. works may some day wind up over in Africa on a plane on which Elwood will work. At least, Rosie would like to think $0. i

The Travers have a 10-month-old son which Mrs. Travers’ mother cares for while she works.

Rosalie likes her work but she’s looking forward to the day when Elwood and other soldiers come home so she can retire as “Rosie the Riveter” and become just plain Mrs. Travers.

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ROMMEL UNITS UNDER ATTACK BY U. 5. PLANES

Americans Fortify Hills in Chilly Rain; Place Guns in Position.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Feb. 19 (U. P.).— Britain’s eighth army is fanning out before the Mareth line after capturing its southern outpost of Foum Tatahouine and allied planes are bombing German positions taken from the Americans around Feriana, Tunisian reports said today. : Marshal Erwin Rommel’s offen-

had run its course, and his United States adversaries were regrouping in the rugged terrain west of the lost Feriana-Sbeitla line. Signs mounted that Rommel was dissuaded from further undertakings on that front by the gathering threat to his rear in southern Tunisia. There the British veterans, after occupying Foum Tatahouine yesterday, swung northward some miles to a point about half way to

DETROIT, Feb. 19 (U. P.).— Lieut. Gen. J. L. Devers, who returned recently from seven “weeks with American forces. in Tunisia, said today he was not concerned over recent setbacks there and that the Germans were bound to lose “unless they knock out five of our tanks for every one of their own that is lost.”

Medenine, near the center of the Mareth forts, where an artillery duel is under way. The Germans still were putting up some resistance within Medenine, the “Verdun of the Mareth line,” which the British had entered a day earlier. Although the eighth army strategy shaped up as a possible frontal assault against the center of 'the line in concert with a flanking maneuver, military observers here warned against expectations of an immediate onslaught.. : The fighting in central Tunisia was said to have cost the Germans heavily. A hard fought battle for Sbeitla was reported, and the Ger-

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On the War Fronts

(Feb. 19, 1943) NORTH AFRICA—American troops

forces and British eighth army prepares for assault on Mareth line.

RUSSIA—Red Army takes 10 towns south of Orel and 70 villages around Taganrog on Sea of Azov.

AIR WAR—British bombers raid Wilhelmshaven, blasting German docks and shipyards with two and four-ton blockbusters.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — MacArthur planes raise 500-foot flames in raid on Kahili airport at Buin

in north Solomons.

FDR Promises to Strike at Jap Homeland From China

(Another story and photo, Page 4)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today publicly promised Mme. Chiang Kai-shek that American military plans call for hitting directly at the Japanese homeland and for doing a lot of the hitting from bases in China. Speaking at a press conference which the magnetic wife of China’s generalissimo participated, the president said American aid to her desperately fighting country will be stepped up—as he put it—just as soon as the Lord will let us. When it was her turn to be questioned, Mme. Chiang, her liquid brown eyes twinkling, observed that the Lord helps those who “help themselves. That remark evoked a roar of laughter in the crowded room in which Mr. Roosevelt heartily joined.

Dressed in a flowery blue griental

Chiang listened gravely while the president spoke. She answered questions forthrightly, displaying the same poise and charm St captivated congress yesterday. | She said Mr. Roosevelt hac solved sO many serious crises at she felt the problem of meeting China’s urgent need could be safely left with him. The president reiterated the intention of army and navy (leaders to cut Japan’s tongthartrt) supply | line near the top, using C increasingly as a base of o tions. This means, he added, hitting Japan in the Japanese |islands themselves. As to when—he joi with Chinese government officials in asking how soon these blows may be struck, Explaining why it was. necesss to cut Japan's lines near the top, Mr. Roosevelt said that: by taking

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LING DRIVE

(Another photo, Page Three.)

A raid at 1121 N. ‘Pennsylvania st., halted Gdperations which cupposelly would have converted this huge pile of paper into baseball tickets: on the two printing presses at the left. (left), sergeant of police assigned to Prosecutor Blue's office, and Edwin K. Steers, Marion county deputy prosecutor, look over the printing room.’

Charles J. Russell

DEMOCRATS RAP

WELFARE PROBE

‘Political Inquisition,’ Charge During Heated Senate Debate.

The Democrats today branded the legislature’s proposed -investigation of the state welfare department as a “political inquisition” during the senate’s most violent debate of the session.

The welfare issue was raised this week by the abbreviated report of a committee which spent a month investigating charges ranging from “communism” to “immorality” in the activities of the state welfare department.

This report was followed by a resolution which would set up a commission to continue the investigation for the next two years and report to the 1945 session of the legislature. The Democratic floor leader, Senator Walter Vermillion of Anderson, introduced an amendment to the resolution which would have required the commission to hold all its meetings and records open to the public, press and other members of the legislature. “You of the majority have a responsibility to the people of Indiana,” Senator Vermillion said. “This investigation is not secret. Even the Dies committee is not secret. “If you vote down this amendment, you will show that your purpose is to cast suspicion on the state

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BLOCKBUSTERS RAIN ON WILHELMSHAVEN

RAF’s Biggest Planes Make

‘Saturation Raid.’

LONDON, Feb. 19 (U. £) ~—Britain’s biggest bombers smashed at the German naval base of Wilhelmshaven last night in their campaign to cripple axis U-boat nests. Two and. four-ton block-buster demolition bombs and thousands of incendiaries were rained on the di and shipyards of the great thwest port in a thunderbolt saturation raid. The attack was the second in eight nights on Wilhelmshaven .and the 72d since the war began. The official air - communique on last night's attack said it was “heavy” and four bombers were missing. Good weather enabled the bom

y|bardiers to pin-point their targets.

Wilhelmshaven not only manufactures submarines, but has repair facilities and is one of the main

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House Overrides Schricker

Veto of Emmert Measure

In his first such act of the legislative session Governor Schricker today vetoed the G. O. P. measure to give Republican Attorney General

James Emmert power to appoint all ment.

lawyers needed in the state govern-

The house of representatives immediately passed the bill over the

governor's veto by a straight party vote, 65 to 14.

scheduled to act later and it was expected that it, too, would pass the bill over the veto. The governor, in his message to the house, which was read by his secretary, Ray E. Smith, said: “In my opinion this act will cause departmental friction, will create budgetary confusion and serious hardship to some departments of government and may even entangle

the state in a quarrel with the federal government over the adminis-

tration of our social security pro-

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gram. These objectionable featurés overshadow entirely any merit the act may have.” The attorney-general bill, indorsed by the Republican steering committee, was the first G. O. P. patronage measure to reach the governor's desk this session. In the

1941 G. O. P.-controlled session the

governor vetoed numerous Repuplcan patronage bills. So far this session. the governor has signed 39 bills and two resolu-

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Merit Association Fights ‘Proposed Slash in Budget

As the house ways and means committee prepared to curtail the funds of the state personnel board, the Indiana Merit System association today warned the legislature not to take a “backward step in this employment crisis.” The ways and means committee is considering limiting the funds of the personnel board where it applies to the state’s 20 penal and benevolent institutions, charging that

there has been “inefficient applica-

tion of the merit system in the institutions.” The Merit System association, composed of several state civic and voters’ groups, replied that their survey shows that employment has been 20 per cent.more stable in the institutions than it is in private business despite the war conditions. “Because of the low salaries and poor working conditions in the institutions. it is only fair to assume (Continued on Page 14)

|Bromfield Sees Food Peril In Help Shortage, Red Tape

Here is the third of four articles by Louis Bromfield, novelist, farmer and for many years an ardent supporter of the New Deal, who

believes that administration failure

to solve the food production prob-

lem threatens hunger for the American people and disaster for American hopes of winning the peace by feeding starving millions in Europe.

By LOUIS BROMFIELD

MALABAR FARM, LUCAS, O,,

Feb. 18.—I know of no better way

to illustrate what government muddling of the food problem has done than to cite the experience of my own 1000-acre farm which produces

beef, dairy products, eggs, broilers, wool. On Pearl Harbor day the farm was well equipped for production. The labor consisted of a farm manager with three children, a1} five unmarried g 3 men, four of them youn g, and all of them skilled and utterly irreplaceable by semi- : skilled or amateur workers. C h ickens,

capons, hogs, lambs, mutton and

only greatly reduced production, but disease or death for much val-

_ uable stock.

One of the young skilled workers went off to a war factory at wages three times as great as any farm can pay and keep its head above water. Two were drafted into the army. :

» » o Loses His Dairyman - THE FOURTH, an expert dairyman in charge of a herd of 20 cows with heifer calves growing into the state of milk producers, was. Seared into volunteering by

‘BLUE STRIKES

AT SYNDICATE NERVE CENTER

Claims Owner and Ex= Manager Split $104,000 In 1941.

Prosecutor Sherwood Blue today raided plants and offices of four firms he said were supplying equipment and cap-

{ital for Indianapolis’ milion ;

and a half dollar gambling syndicates. Twenty-two per sons were arrested, oe Emil K. Rahke, president and owner of two of the raided firms, and Charles’ (Buck) Sumner, for mer Marion county sheriff und ex’

manager of the two other raided concerns, will be charged with op- & erating lottery schemes and gift enterprises, Prosecutor Blue announced. : : The raids .were made at 122 E. North st, where the main offices of the Silent Salesman Co. Ine. the Specialty Sales Co, the State Sales Co, and the No-Mean-City Sales Co. are located, and at 1121 N. Pennsylvania st. where the printing and manufac allegedly supplying the concerns are operated.

Order Employees Arrest

All employees of all concerns were ordered arrested, following the = raids. 3 Prosecutor Blue charged that the : companies have been furnishing the equipinent for gambling syndicates with gross collections totalling more than $1,500,000 a year in Indianapolis alone. “We have information and evidence that $104,000 net profits from the firms in 1941 were divided half and half between Rahke and Sum= ner,” Mr. Blue said. The prosecutor said Rahke was president and treasurer of the Silent Salesman Co. and the Spe-: cialty Sales Co. and that Sumner was ex-manager of the other two firms, operating directly under Rahke. :

Claims Written Agreement

“The Silent Salesman Co. manu=factured lottery and pool tickets, sold them to the Specialty Sales Co. which operated as a wholesale firm and then the equipment was sold to the Sumner ‘branch of the

to small operators over the city, Mr. Blue charged. The prosecutor said he has in formation that there was a written agreement under which Rahke got “royalties” amounting to 50 per cent of the net proceeds of the No-Mean-City Sales Co. and the State Sales Co. “However, our investigation has revealed that Sumner was forced out of the firms last Jan. 1,” Mr Blue said.

Called ‘Biggest Blow’

“This is the biggest blow that hes been delivered at the source of In dianapolis gambling rackets in many years. We are e the source of supply for a million and a half dollars in gambling) here.” The prosecutor pointed out that the big operators are put out of business the hundreds of small tims lottery racket men will be forced ta

The raids were systematically

advance. All investigators and Sep uty prosecutors were assigned to specific duties during the raids. On entering the estab

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HOW FBI WARS ON SABOTAGE—

How many sabota ; has the FBI been upon handle? ‘Peter Edson, Washington umnist, re

figures in the fist of two

ticles.

outfit, who in turn distributed them