Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1943 — Page 12

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FOOD SHORTAGE |

HITS TRIPOLI

Civilians’ Stocks Taken From Warehouses by Fleeing Germans.

: By RICHARD MOWRER Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

CAIRO, Feb. 19.—A severe food shortage for the civilian population of Tripoli exists as a result of the

removal by the retreating axis army|

of great stocks of foods from the city’s warehouses. and the confiscation of Arab livestock, it is learned here. The enemy's intent in so doing was to burden the 3 British, eighth ®% army with fhei problema of feeding Tripoli’s 125,000 inhabitants in the hopes that much of the army’s transport would have to be diverted from military duty to that of bringing food from Egypt. The British, however, are yo helping any and it is improbable that the military preparations for the] next big attack , against the axis in _ Tunisia will be delayed by the axis’ scorched earth policy of which the - chief victims are Tripoli’s 90,000 Italians and almost’ 100,000 out of the 500,000 Arabs in Tripolitania province.

Mr. Mowrer

Await Harvest

The British have made it clear . to Tripoli’s Italian population that they are not to expect special food facilities’ before two and one-half

months, when the new harvest will be in, and that they must go easy on their stocks. This stern attitude is said to have already resulted in the coming out of concealment of hidden stocks of food. ~On the other hand, the British . have turned over four of their .trucks to the American Red Cross for transporting nine tons of powdered milk to Tripcli, which is enough to care for the babies, nursing mothers and invalids of .the city and environs for the next six weeks. . The biggest shortages in Tripoli * are fuel with which to keep ‘the public services going, flour and milk. The Arabs—with whom the Ger-

point to be on particularly good terms—were relieved of 90 per cent of their livestock by the military authorities when it became evident to the axis that it no longer served their purpose to treat the Arabs well. “Many of the Arabs living on the coast are normally fishermen but the Germans and Italians took: their fishing boats away from them before pulling out. The only things the axis troops left behind in the Italian colonizers white houses, say observers just back from Tripolitania, were

[ Ghost Stuff

Rankin Ribs G. O. P. Cause Willkie Won’t Play ‘Dead.’

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. — Rep. John Rankin (D. Miss.) delights in taking sly digs at his G. O. P. colleagues regarding their 1940 presidential candidate—Wendell L. Willkie. His latest short speech in the house on this subject follows: “I rise to extend my sympathy to the Republican party. “While a majority of them contend that Wendell Willkie is dead— some of them that he is now merely the oscilating ‘somnambulist of a

vanishing dream,” others that he is tHe galloping ghost of a Republican nightmare—yet news now comes out of Indiana to the effect that the same group that forced his nomination before is going to attempt to nominate him for them again. “I|believe it was Dryden who said: ‘O,| ’tis a fearful thing to be no more, Or if to be, to wander after death and when the darkness comes To glide in paths that lead to graves; And in the silent vault where lies your own pale shroud To hover o'er it, striving to enter your forbidden corpse.’ »

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temple. Mrs. Minnie Jones and William 8S. Ervin, worthy matron and patron will preside. Those who. will fill offices, their chapter affiliation and the post they will take for the evening include: Mrs. Helen Reddick, Brightwood, worthy matron; Christian Schrock, Speedway, worthy patron; Mrs. Charlotte Hodson, Brightwood; associate matron; _ Lester Hoppes, Prospect, associate patron; Mrs. Mellie M. Young, Daylight, secretary; Mrs. Marie J. Johnson, Speedway, treasurer; Mrs. Dorothy E. Pogue, Speedway, con=ductress; Mrs. Emma Lepparf, Prospect, as.sociate conductress; Mrs. Ethel M. Thompson, Daylight, chaplain; Mrs. Faye Nelson, Bridgeport, marshall, and Mrs, Cecil Kiser, Brightwood, organist. Miss Kathryn Pavey, Englewood, Adah; Mrs. Laura Barber, Englewood, Ruth; Mrs. Belle Doak, Englewood, Esther; Mrs. Martha Cozad, New Augusta, Martha; Mrs. Goldie Hoover, Bridgeport, Electa; Mrs. Kathryn Davison, Lynhurst, warder; Mrs. Sula Gaines, Brightwood, sentinel; Mrs. Minnie Boemler, Golden Rule, soloist; William C. Ludeman, Indianapolis, stereopticon; Mrs. Margaret Westenbarger, Bridgeport, lights, and "Mrs. Lucille Rhodes, Prospect, prompter.

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