Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1943 — Page 4
ENSLAVE ORI DIE, J PEOPLES TOLD
Norse, Dutch and and Slavs to Be Conscripted or Slain, Germans Say.
By UNITED PRESS The Germans abandoned “per-
E ore methods of recruiting _ slave labor for their war industries "in Norway, Holland and Jugoslavia today, and gave men and women of
those nations the choice of being
conscripted or executed as-‘“sabo-teurs.” Broadcasts recorded by the United Press, federal monitors and the Netherlands news agency in London emphasized the failure of threats short of death and the desperation of the Germans in their manpower problem. The office of war information said the new labor conscription programs imposed on Norway, Holland and Jugoslavia largely duplicated the harsh measure instituted within Germany itself on Jan. 27. Traitors Take the Burden ~The Germans let the most outstanding traitors in Norway and _ Jugoslavia announce the program. Vidkun Quisling, puppet premier of Norway, told Norwegians that all men between 18 and 55 and all women between 21 and 40 were affected, Quoting the Soviet Tass agency, the OWI said all persons in Jugoglavia between 18 and 35 would be drafted. Gen. Milan Neditch, puppet premier of Jugoslavia, announced the decree there, and Tass said 70 per cent of those drafted would be sent to Germany. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi over- _ Jord of the Netherlands, told the Dutch that they would be conscripted and warned them that refusal to co-operate with Germany ‘would be considered sabotage—punishable by death. It’s to ‘Defend Europe’ German and puppet propagandists fried to salt their threats with radio speeches that the new measures were necessary to “defend Europe” against the Russians. : . “Every Norwegian must realize the situation facing his country,” Quisling said. “The menace now threatening Norway and the north is so serious and imminent that no sacrifice can be too great. “If Germany should suffer a simiJar reverse on the northern sector of the eastern front as during the last weeks in south Russia and with 8 similar loss of territory, then this would mean the Red armies would occupy the: whole of northern Finland, northern Sweden and northern Norway, all the way down as far as Trondheim.” Josef Terboven, Nazi overlord in Norway, addressed Germans in Norway on the same theme. He slipped when he said that the program was necessary in the interests of the “German . . . (and correcting him- * self quickly) the Norwegian people.”
This is 1943. This is a year of great Allied offemnsives—
erushing blows ‘at the enemies of our way of life.
Wobay, onthe threshold of all-out attack; America needs every able-bodied fighting man for combat duty. The full strength of our Army can be used decisively only when the places of many thousands of soldiers now at work behind the lines
are taken by women.
When the Army called for men to volute, even before Pearl Harbor, the instant response broke all previous enlistment récords. Now the Pe authorized 150,000 volunteers for the Women’s Army Auxili diately. The sooner these women are trained, the sooner the men they replace can help to win
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Tens of thousands of WAAC auxiliaries and
By LOUIS'F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst Premier Josef Stalin’s reference to the Soviet army bearing the whole brunt of the war “in the absence of a second front in Europe” is less a reproach than a broad hint to the allies to strike now while the striking is good. Time, says Stalin, is working against Germany. By that he apparently means that if Germany is not given time to recover from her losses in the Russian campaign, the allies
may be able to deliver the finishing blow- by striking now.
He cited
staggering figures of Gz2rman losses to emphasize his point.
The same idea was expressed by|~ Undersecretaary of War Robert Patterson when he said: “We have no-time to lose. If the Nazis are given time to recover from the blows the Russians have given them, and if the Japanese are given time to develop the vast resources they have seized, -we will not win a decisive victory.”
It is probable that Hitler realizes this and expeets the allies to make good on the implied promise of Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt of an offensive in 1943. | In that case, Hitler has the choice of digging in for a last-ditch defense of Europe or attacking first in a final desperate bid for victory. A passive defense of [Europe would not be Hitler's Tiel choice. He has the conqueror’s mania and ’'is more likely to commit national suicide than to admit that his dream of conquest is over. | Besides, his resources are ‘strained and it is doubtful if they could withstand a long siege. Hitler has drained the subjugated nations to the utmost and there is little more to be gained from a starving Europe. Moreover, he has not gained, and cannot now gain, the natural riches and industrial production which he boasted he would find in Russia.
U. S. MAY LICENSE SLAUGHTER HOUSES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P.).— Plans for combatting meat black markets through a system of federal licensing of slaughter houses await-
ed only Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard’s approval today. The plans are expected to be approved and issued later this week. They are the most drastic steps the government has yet contemplated to stamp out black market traffic in meats. Wickard has warned that unless meat slaughtering is brought under federal control, consumer rationing may be at less than two pounds per person each week when it begins April 1. Present plans provide for rationing at about two and onequarter pounds. Under the licensing system as now drafted, Wickard would require all slaughterers—except farmers butchering for home consumption—to obtain a federal permit. It would apply to small butcher markets as well
as large packing houses.
U.S. ACCUSED OF WASTING PAPER
Disgraceful, Willis Says, When Publishers Are Asked to Cut.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P.). —Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) of the joint congressional committee on printing, revealed today that the federal government “disgracefully and shamefully” consumed in the first three weeks of the year 115,545,00 of the 350,000,000 pounds of paper under contract for 1943. Terming this “startling” and “disgraceful at a time when the very freedom of the entire American press is threatened by government curtailment” of paper, Willis figured that at this rate the government would consume more than 2,000,000,000 pounds of paper in 1943 or 9.6 times as much as in 1941.
Quotes Figures He quoted in a statement the following figures for the government printing office in Washington, exclusive of paper consumed by the
‘federal government in the field:
Pounds Consumed 208,900,000 226,000,000
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Pounds Contracted for 1941 .... 117,173,000 1942 .... 187,850,000 1943 .... 350,000,000 Willis said that the government has contracted for 60 per cent more paper this year than it actually consumed in 1941, “the year which American newspapers and magazines are asked to use as an even-then-scaled-down base period for determining their consumption in 1943.”
Freedom of Expression
- Paper in process of being stored since the first of the year in five “huge” warehouses rented by the federal government in Baltimore, New York City, Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco, he said, “should more than guarantee freedom of expression to the New Deal even if newspapers and magazines are reduced to the size of government
questionnaires.”
Today's War Moves|FINNS MAY BID
FOR RUSS PEACE
Stockholm Sources Say Plea to Be Made to Mos-
cow by New Cabinet.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 23 (U. P.)— The new Finnish government will
ask Russia for a separate peace as soon as it takes office, probably about March 1, reliable reports from official Finnish circles said today. Informants said the Finns would seek to open direct negotiations with Moscow. Meanwhile, the Finns were said to hope that the Germans voluntarily would withdraw their troops from Finland since under present conditions they would have better use for thém elsewhere.
WASHINGTON, Feb, 23 (U.P.). —Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles said today that this government hopes Finland soon will discontinue its policy of cooperation with our Nazi enemies.
(The Finnish Lahti radio hinted at a Finnish desire for a separate peace in a broadcast reported to the office of war information Monday. It quoted an editorial in the Karelian newspaper Xarjala complaining that not even the Soviet radio has said anything about the terms of the peace that it has recommended to Finland.)
May Retain Premier
The new Finnish government is not expected to differ much from the present one. It even was possible that the premier, Johan Wilhelm Rangell, will remain in office. The new government is expected to be ready to be sworn in on March 1, when Risto Ryti will be re-in-stalled as president. Meantime, the Finns were keeping close watch on developments in the German-occupied Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. (A Stockholm dispatch to the ‘Daily Express said the Germans were preparing to evacuate Estonia and that trains already were moving westward with war supplies. The dispatch said the German preparations were being carried out in the utmost secrecy to avoid alarming the Finns, whose southern flank would be left exposed by any evacution.) Reports from Berlin said Adolf Hitler had announced that all private property confiscated by the
tries would be restored to the former owners immediately.
APPRAISERS TO DINE Residential appraisers will have a dinner meeting at 6 p. m. tomarrow at the Columbia club. Noble C. Hilgenberg is president and Wen-
dell M. Hicks, vice president.
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Days are passing— days vital to American victory. If you have been the WAAC; the time to do it is at once. If you are a healthy United States citizen, age 21 to 44, inclusive, any race, color or creed, go to the nearest U. S. Army Recruiting and Induction Senin today, and get full information on the ope
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‘Almost Lost Unit |
PVT. CHESTER CRITNEY of Indianapolis was a member of the group which almost became the “lost - battalion” in Tunisia but which fought its way out from surrounding Germans.
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RCA Worker Here Praised | For Saving Time on Control. Panels.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — Two Indiana war industry workers received honorable mention today in the WPB war production drive, Woodrow Williams, supervisor of production control expeditors at the Indianapolis plant of the RCA Vietor division in Indianapolis and Mario Pecci, South Bend, were the two cited. The citations follow: “Mr. Williams suggested that a die. be made for the stamping of characters on control panels and amplifier bases, instead of engraving them as had been the practice. The new method does the work in from one-fifth to one-fortieth of the previous time, amounting to a total saving of 5000 man-hours per year. “Mr. Williams, who is 28, came to RCA in 1937 as a machine operator and has served as a material expediter and a supervisor.”
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