Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1943 — Page 4

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RABAUL 3D “STRAIGHT DAY

‘Blasted; Two Others Barely Missed.

MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Feb. 25 (U. P.)— Flying fortresses raiding Rabaul, on New Britain island, for the third

blasted a 10,000-ton enemy cargo ship, scoring near-misses on two small warships, and chased a larger warship aground near Cape Gazelle, southeast of the harbor, Gen. Doug-

* Despite searchlights land heavy _ anti- aircraft fire, all planes returned.

: A B-24 Liberator, flying over Open bay on the north coast of New

nese fighter planes, downed four while - two other Liberators, each choosing a town, raided Babo and | Kaukenau,

Guinea, but the pilots were unable Jt observe results.

One Plane Against Three

Also yesterday a Japanese destroyer and merchantman, off Cape St. George, New Ireland, were attacked by a B-24, while another Liberator bombed ga small enemy cargo ship off Powell Point, on the northwest New Britain |coast, and fought three Japanese interceptors =shooting down one. A Liberator, flying “alone, raided Madang airdrome in Northeast New Guinea on Wednesday, while earlier B-25 Mitchell mediums hammered the Lae area, on New Guinea's Huon gulf, with 500 and 1000- -pounders. Angarli and Yanga villages were damaged, and fires were started in Lae itself. Machine | - gunners sprayed the airfield and village at

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U. S. Hero Gets His Citizenship

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (U. P.). —Anthony Hollub, 38, first enlist-

receive the distinguished service cross and gun-ner-master sergeant with the famed 19th bomber group, yesterday was admitted to U. 8. citzenship after a wait of 15 years. Hollub has been cited for bravery four times since this country entered the war. When Japaneses planes appeared over the Philippines Dec. 8, Hollub rushed to his grounded flying fortress and fired a machine gun at the invaders. When his ammunition was exhausted, he raced across

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the airfield for more, under strafing by enemy planes, and continued shooting until the skies were clear. Hollub came to this country from Czechoslovakia in 1929 and joined the army.

MEXICAN VOLCANO ERUPTS MEXICO CITY, Feb. 25 (U. P.). —Tancitario volcano continued last night to spew cinders and steaming

plava over a deserted countryside as government geologists were reported speeding to the area to determine

whether a full eruption is imminent.

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RACKETS TAMED

Gas Rationing and Rigid Transportation Control Curb Black Market.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

C ight, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times pyre d The Chicago Daily Sapo Inc.

LONDON, Feb. 25.—Gas rationing and rigid control of all transportation have proved to be among the most effective deterrents to the black market in food, which began to spring up during the early days of food rationing in Britain, Even after farmers, wholesalers and retailers were licensed and operating under strict controls, the black market continued to thrive, though on a greatly reduced scale. It still exists today but on such a small scale as to be virtually nonexistent. Meat—one of . the principal commodities of interest to all—was

- | easier to obtain on the black mar-

ket before the days of the strictest gas rationing than it is now.

Farmers Bribed

Then, the farmer who was prepared to violate regulations could be induced, for higher than the fixed price, to slaughter cattle, sheep and pigs at night along the roadside and to hand them over to the gang of operators who were Walling with trucks. Today, it is virtually impossible for anyone to obtain a truck, or tires or gas for it, unless his business is legitimate. Each commercial truck ‘must furnish a log of trips made. Faking would be. bound to show up fairly soon. At the other end, if a bufcher shop or a hotel were seen to be receiving quantities. of meat over *normal rations, it would soon be investigated.

- Fines Imposed

In the days when black-mar-keteering still thrived, ministry-of-food inspectors did considerable sleuthing. The result was a number of interesting cases and a series of impressive fines and. sentences.

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One of the most interesting cases

conspiracy”—a plain, straightforward racket. Two gang leaders broke into a government storehouse where ‘thousands of cans of corned beef were stored as invasion emergency stores. The cans were stacked in rectangular piles. The gang removed all the cans from the center, working from the top, carefully replacing the top layer over planks. Thus, it was sometime before the inspectors discovered that the piles were hollow. Two gangsters were tried last year at Old Bailey and got four years each at hard labor. Another casé, prosecuted in Leicester, in February, 1942, concerned five men, one of whom was a farmer charged with the illegal slaughter of 240 sheep and two beasts,

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| Rubs Lye in Eyes

DENVER, Colo., Feb. 25 (U.P.), —Sergt. Frederick Scheel, 23, Nutley, N. J., said yesterday that he rubbed Ive into his eyes and face in an attempt to obtain a furlough to’ marry his sweetheart back home. A taxi driver found Scheel ‘crawling on his hands and knees An ‘emergency operation saved his eyesight. Scheel at first told an incoherent story that indicated foul play. Finally, he told police he bought the lye solution at a grocery store and rubbed it into his eyes. He did not disclose the girl’s name. ‘Lowry field physicians said he would Suffer permanent SCars.

FERRIED PLANES 60 TO INDIA NOW

Middle East Con Command Is Reinforced, So Big Craft Fly Farther. By LEON KAY

United Press Staff Correspondent CAIRO, Feb. ,23 (Delayed) —

With the changing scene in West

Africa and the Middle East, the allied ferry command is turning i energies in a hew direction—India. The reinforcement of the Middle East command’s air strength during the trying days of the. last six months was achieved by a ferry run from the Takoradi Gold Coast, when fighters and bombers were flown to Khartoum and turned northward. : Today they are continuing east-| ward to the India command which is feeling out the Japanese in Burma—traveling over 6000 miles of swezping plains, dense ‘jungles and burning . deserts. The ferry command route spans one continent and almost encoms= passes another, and is the allies’ longest air route over which a stream of aerial reinforcements are making themselves felt: as planes begin hitting the Japanese in the Far East, 2 Extend Route 3000 Miles . A single seated fighter, assembled in West Africa only a few hours after it was unpacked, as well as bombers and transports which only a few days before left some airfield in Great Britain or the United States, fly this route which is now extended another 3000 miles beyond Khartoum. The story ‘could never before be told of how these ferry pilots have steadily been flying from West Africa to Whartoum through some of the world’s most changeable weather and over country where a forced landing means they are likely to never be heard from again, Flying eastward from Khartoum, they are flying to one of the highest airdromes in the world acrcss wild, jagged mountain peaks and deep ravines.

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MILK FAMINE

Shuts Down Supply in Pine Bluff, Ark.

By WALTER SORRELLS Editor, The Pine Bluff Commercial PINE BLUFF, Ark. Feb. 25.—A plea for “milk at any price” has become almost a fervent prayer in Pine. Bluff, ‘Where a series of swiftdeveloping incidents, beginning with a reduction of wholesale and retail

iprices by the OPA, has eased a

milk famine, With the .prices of dairy feed frozen at levels from 30 per ‘cent to 200 per cent higher than in pre-war ‘days, and labor practically unobtainable, local dairymen were anticipating the necessity of adding a few cents to the price of milk when the OPA, as an admitted experi-

‘ment, reduced the wholesale price

of milk from 12 cents to 11% and the retail price from 15 cents to 13.

Dairymen Give Warning This occurred on Jan. 16. Since

: then things have happened fast.

Dairymen promptly served notice on the OPA that they had no alternative, unless the order was rescinded, except to sell their herds as beef cattle and retire from business. After a long delay the OPA decided to hold public hearings. Some three weeks after the hearings the OPA announced that valuable information, on production cost had been obtained. Thus far the OPA has not demonstrated any practical application of such “valuable information.” - Cadets at the Pine Bluff school of aviation were the first to feel the effects of the lowered price ceiling. The government, not being able to pay more than the 11%; cent ceiling price for wholesale milk turned to St. Louis for its supply. So now the army is paying 19 cents a quart, including cost of shipping.

Two Simple Facts

" The contention that the reduction in milk prices is a part of the over-all anti-inflation program is refuted by two simple facts. One is that the price of milk has been

wholesale in Pine Bluff for the last six years. The other is that all milk produced in this community is: consumed locally and milk produced in other areas has never been diverted to Pine Bluff because of the attractive prices—importation being prohibited, except in the case of the army. The conclusion is strong that the people in this community are being used as guinea pigs in a war of psychology on the home front:

PLAN FOUNDATION DAY

Honor Rebekah lodge will have a foundation day program at its meeting at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the hall, Howard st. and Blaine ave,

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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 25 (U. |

: . __ P)—Lieut. R. C. Ul OPA ‘Experiment’ on Prices poe tis comm oh soe i

was beyond his power to explain how his four-motored Liberator

- cargo plane could have flown 2000

miles after everybody aboard had bailed out, fearing it was going to crash momentarily. “It must have been the gremlins, but whatever it was, it beats all hell ,” he said. Lieut. Ulmer of Atlanta, Ga, the pilot, and Lieut. C. W. Hauth of Baltimore were in a hotel here. “Baby Dumpling sure put one

-over on us,” Lieut. Hauth said.

“It’s the most fantastic thing I have ever heard of.” They named their plane Baby Dumpling” one night after a party. They - first heard. of “Baby Dumpling’s” trip to Mexico from the war department three days ago. On Feb. 9, the crew of six and two passengers bailed out near Florida. ; How it got to Mexico is a matter of conjecture. Six of tHe occupants were rescued. One person was apparently drowned and the eighth occupant is unaccounted for. Pvt. Stanley Gutowski, radio operator, Bayonne, N. J, lost his life preserver and disappeared after about four hours in the water,

Second Lieut. Bernard A. Brannon, Chattanooga, Tenn., assistant navigator, is also missing. The other six occupants were rescued by the coast guard after floating several hours at sea.

” ” » THE PLANE TOOK off from southern Florida shortly after midnight Feb. 9 for South America. About 80 miles out Lieut.

‘C. K. Knutson of Des Moines

and Lieut. A. E. Lloyd of San Diego, who were passengers, noted a bad tail flutter. The plane lost altitude rapidly, dropping from 9000 to 5300 feet, and the occupants began jettisoning the cargo. ~ Lieut Ulmer turned the plane around, fighting to keep its nose up, and headed for Florida. He ordered his companions to prepare to bail out, since a safe landing seemed impossible. The plane continued at about 150 miles an hour, vibrating from the tail flutter. Thinking he was over the Florida coast, Lieut. Ul-

mer ordered his companions to

jump. Then he turned the plane back toward the sea, set the automatic pilot for level flight to keep the plane from becoming a menace ashore, and jumped also. “On the way down, after my ‘chute opened,” Lieut. Ulmer said “someone above me—who turned out to be Lieut. R. H. Digby, the navigator, yelled: ‘Geronimo! I'm learning to be a parachutist!’” It turned out that Lieut. Ulmer had mistaken shallow coastal waters for land and the eight oc-

cupants landed in the water.

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Plane on Flight

EACH HAD “Mae West” life preservers. Pvt. Gutowski lost, his in detaching his parachute. For about three hours he clung to, Lieut. Lloyd, both floating on the latter's preserver. Pvt. Gutowski became ill from swallowing sea water and could swim no longer. Lieut. Lloyd held him for another hour until he was seized by a cramp and lost his hold. Pvt. Gutowski disappeared. Three or four hours later the: six survivors were rescued, but no trace of Lieut, Brannon was. found. - Lightened by the loss of cargo : and personnel, the plane flew on into the night. - In some unknown manner its course became reversed. After a flight of 10 or. 12 hours without the aid of human hands it crashed with its fuel tanks empty on a Sine] mountain 2000 miles distant. Mex- | ican authorities reported the crash shortly after noon, Feb. 9 but were mystified by the absence of survivors or victims. U. S. .army officers finally established the identity of the derelict of the: skies. 2.8 8 < LIEUT HAUTH wasted no time in going to church when he reached land, and said he and Lieut. Ulmer called their girls and “got engaged.” Lieut. Hauth expects to marry Rita Schuster of Baltimore, early in March. Lieut. Ulmer is engaged to Elizabeth Scott of Scranton, Pa. They will be married: after the current engagement of a Broadway show, “Skin of Your Teeth.” Miss Scott is understudy to the star, Tallulah Bankhead, ¥

WOMEN OF MOOSE ‘AID NURSES’ STUDY

Scholarships for nurse’s training are being given by the Indianapolis chapter of the Women of the Moose as funds hecome available, Mrs. Phyllis Doyle, hospital guild chairman of the organization; announced today. Contributions given at the down-

town Wishing Wells are used: to

help sponsor the movement. ° Mrs. Doyle says applicants must be between 18 and 35 years of age, in good health with minor defects corrected before admission and have a high school education with a high scholastic standing.

NEGRO CHOIR TO SING IN CADLE TOMORROW.

Southland Echoes, Negro choir, will give their second annual citywide concert at 8 p. m., tomorrow in Cadle tabernacle. The choir is composed of singers from 20 Negro churches and is directed by Floyd Jones. Tomorrow's program is sponsored by and: for the New Bethel Baptist church which burned last August. . Participating will. be the Soot. Sisters quartet, the Angelic Four and the Camp Atterbury male quartet. Governor Schricker and

Meyer Tyna will attend.

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costs, plus a month’s imprisonment’ at hard labor. . Each of the other,

four got a month’s hard labor and: $600 fine, Last February, the United Kosher Poultry Co. and the Kosher Butchers’ Buying Assn. were convicted on

seven charges of selling poultry above the fixed price. The company was fined $5000 and eight of its directors $1200 each, while four members of the butchers’ association were fined $2000 and costs. The moral for most citizens? Black marketeering does not pay,

'Loving’ a Crime * In Old Kentucky

FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 25 (U. P.).—An old pastime became a ‘new offense here today after the ‘alcoholic beverage control board recognized “loving” as disorderly conduct.

dealer, Gregory Yancey, investifoundation, testified:

some beer, which he drank in the

feet, 10 inches ta]l and who looked about 1X7 years old. They were: loving in the booth.” “I object!” shouted Cleon Calvert, counsel for the accused beer dealer. “Loving is not disorderly conduct.” : “Objection overruled” the board said.

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