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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1943

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LS. Planes Make Strong’ Daylight Attack On Reich

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"LONDON, Feb. 26 (U. P.). —American bombers, in “strong force,” have made "their third daylight attack of the war on Germany, it was announced today by U. S. army headquarters. ‘The attack came a few hours after big British planes had loosed on Nurnberg in southern Germany perhaps twice as great a weight of bombs ‘as the Germans dropped in ‘the heaviest raid on Coventry—250

tons. Ln was ‘also Sevealad today that “" American bombers from Africa - blasted Naples in a shatlering raid Wednesday night on Italy's second port dnd, also attacked Crotone on the “sole” of the Italian boot. Not a single plane was lost in the blows at Italy.

Subp ‘Base Believed Target

_ The precise target of the Amer- ‘ {can raid today was not announced immediately, but army headquar{ters said the planes were over ‘northwest Germany, and it was presumed they were continuing the attack on U-boat bases which the royal air force has been hammering by night. The first ali-American raid on Germany occurred Jan.- 27 when s struck at Wilhelmshaven. American plaines were lost then, but 22 German fighter. planes were shot down. fhe next esis ries

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i ‘The Nurnberg raid was the fifth and heaviest of the war on the Nazi party's favorite meeting town. One of the most distant targets in ‘ Germany, the raid required a round trip of 1300 miles. Nurmberg is one of the Reich's most important railway junctions and a vital strategic point ‘in electrical connections. It builds Diesel submarine engines as " well as tanks and aircraft parts. The air ministry said nine bombers were lost. The planes which made the attack took an hour to ‘ cross “ England’s southeast coast.

BILLS TO INCREASE FARM CEILING 0. K.'D

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.). ~The house banking committee today approved legislation which would greatly liberalize the parity formula’ upon which farm price ceilings are based. In ‘a surprise meeting, the committee reported bills that would tend to increase farm prices in these ways: 1. Prohibit the deduction of gov- | ~ ernment benefits in fixing price ceilings on farm products. This pill was passed by the senate yesterday, 78 to 2. .2. Include the cost of farm labor

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AFRICAN INTERNEES FREED LONDON, Feb. 26 (U. P.)~—All ' persons interned in North Africa for favoring the allies have been rean official ‘announcement broadcast by the Morocco radio sal

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John Lee Goes Jury Hears

today.

BEECH GROVE, "HOWE ADVANCE

Deaf School Rally Falls Short; Decatur Bows To East Siders.

THE SCHEDULE 2 P.M.—Manual vs. Sacred Heart. 3 P. M.—Technical vs. Southport. 4 P.M.—Lawrence Central vs, Ben Davis. 7 P. M.—Shortridge vs. Grove.

Washington pulled away from Cathedral in the. final period of its: first round game in sectional play today to eliminate the Irish, 33-17. The Continentals led ‘at the half, 15-10, but the Irish remained in striking distance until the last quarter.

Howe and Beech Grove joined. Lawrence Central, Ben Davis and Shortridge in the second round of the Inidanapolis sectional tournament today by turning back’ Deca(Continued on Page 25)

ROOSEVELT BETTER, STILL HAS A FEVER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U.P.).— White House Secretary William D. Hassett said “the president is somewhat “better today, but still has a little temperature, less than a degree.” Mr. Roosevelt’s illness was described as a slight intestinal upset. He was unable to hold his regular

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Friday morning press conference.

Movie Stars Disagree Over

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN Hollywood Correspondent eh OOD, Feb. 26.—Paulette ' Goddard’ and Gene Tierney were ‘the only ‘movie stars in Hollywood afrening today with the dean of

.# "Slacks Only for Slim’ Issue

women of Louisiana State university, who decreed that girls with fat backs couldn't wear slacks. The rest of the picture beauties, whose wearing of pants these many years have made slacks what they

{are today, agreed that Dean Nora

Neill Power had made. too broad a ruling when she held that narrow coeds, only, could wear bifurcated

| garments on her campus.

the dean,” exclaimed

“Good La Go , who'd look fine in pants, - ut ‘never has owned a pair. “Slacks are an abomination. Shorts are - all’ right, but skirts are better. Women jus, weren't built for wearMiss Fierney. who who’s been wearing sarongs mostly in pictures but who never has been seen in pants on the! street, said the problem involved ithe cut of the slacks, as much as how well they are filled.

“Both are important,” she said.|

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Defense Attorneys Robert Carrico (center) and Edwin J. Kyan (right) confer with John W. Lee (left), whose trial on a traffic manslaughter charge formally opened today.

Sherwood Blue, prosecuting atiorney, confers with some of the Left to right are Mr. Blue, Mrs. Julian Hall, whose

crash; Nidis Hall, the boy’s grand-

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on Trial:

Crash Witness

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By HELEN RUEGAMER : A graphic description of the wild dash of John W. Lee's automobile into a crowd at Meridian and Washington’s sts., killing three persons, was given by an eye-witness at Lee’s trial on manslaughter charges in criginal court. " Previotisly the prosecution had read $6 the jury Lee's statement in which he admitted suffering convulsion before the tragdy, but in which

he did not say he was subject to epileptic seigures, as the state contends. Carl M. Lindberg, Toledo, O., executive, who was standing in the safety zone at the southwest intersection, was the’ first state witness called to the stand. . He told the jury of eight men and four women that on the afternoon of last July 20 he saw a car approaching him, weaving from side to side. The face of the driver was gray, his eyes were bulging and the veins of his head and neck were enlarged, Mr. Lindberg, personnel manager of United Aircraft Training, Inc. related.

‘Stop That Car!’

The witness said the driver was lurched in his seat and that both hands were on top of the steering wheel. He said the car hurtled the sidewalk, struck the L. S. Ayres & Co. building and seemed to gain momentum as 'it continued along the “sidewalk toward the corner, where it crashed into a fire hydrant. Mr. Lindberg testified that he helped to form a human chain to keep spectators away from. persons who were lying on the sidewalk. On cross-examination by Edward J. Ryan, defense attorney, the witness said that he did not believe the driver was aware at any time

{of what was taking place.

He described seeing a man running after the car shouting “Stop (Continued on Page Four)

SENATE ‘COMPLETES MERIT BILL ACTION

Present Law Abolished And Re-enacted.

Without a flurry; the Republican controlled legislature today completed its action on the bill to remove the present state personnel ‘board and the personnel director from office.

The senate, by unanimous voice vote, concurred in the action of the

for the abolition of the present merit system law, and thus the personnel administrative setup, and for the re-enactment of the same law. The four members of the bipartisan board and personnel director, W. Leonard Johnson, will go

the measure carries an emergency clause.’ The senate discussion on the {matter was brief. Senator Thurman Biddinger (R. Marion), president pro tem, said, “We hope the relationship between the new board and

{the governor will be more cordial.”

. The action of the legislature gives

house yesterday in re-writing and| then passing a bill which provided | « « « Tighten our belts another notch—maybe two, three or even

out of office when, and if Governor} ‘Schricker affixes his signature since |

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MOST OF ZONE ROMMEL TOOK

Part of Axis Forces Are Believed Racing All the Way to Coast.

(War Moves Today, Page Nine)

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Feb. 26.—American and British forces, striking toward the flank of a German army retreating from the Kasserine pass, have gained between 10 and 15 miles in the Sbiba area, and it appeared today that part of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s troops were racing for Sfax on the east Tunisian coast. The gain in the Shiba section was made by allied patrols which apparently were’ trying to get astride the road to Sfax in a bid to cut off axis forces before Rommel could extricate them from their predicament.

Phil Ault, DePauw-educated United Press correspondent with American forces in.the Kasserine pass, reported today:

watched doughboys sitting in a jeep 50 yards behind an advanced outpost reading the “Superman” comic strip.

A dispatch by Phil Ault, United Press correspondent with American forces in the Kasserine pass, said it was believed by front line officers that Rommel had chosen two main lines—of 'retreat—eastward toward Sfax and southward toward Gafsa. The squeeze on the German-Italian forces may force them to abandon

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firmly in allied hands and a headquarters communique said American and . British. forces now: held high ground ‘northwest and southeast of the gap.

" Nazis Concede Withdrawal

(DNB, official German news agency, admitted the Tunisian defeat in a back-handed manner. It said in a broadcast ‘that offensive operations in the central Tunisian mountains "had “been concluded” and claimed that the axis forces had taken almost 4000 prisoners and captured or destroyed 235 tanks.) In one week, the entire picture has changed in Tunisia. Rommel, who a few days ago seemed to be about to break through and roll up toward the northern Tunisian coast, now is caught between the allied army on the west and the British eighth army to. the south. British eighth army patrols were intensely active along the Mareth line—usually a sign that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery is ready to strike.

Feriana, Gafsa and Sbeitla, it was}

The vital Kasserine pass was!

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Fronts

(Feb, 26, 1943)

TUNISIA—Allies retake Kasserine pass and most of ground previously lost to Rommel, part of whose forces seem to be retreating all the way to Sfax.

AIR WAR — Americans make “strong” daylight air attack on Germany. R. A. F. makes 1300mile round trip to bomb Murnberg.

RUSSIA—Russians continue slow advances on most sectors, but Germans claim two importagt Donets bastions recaptured.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC—MacArs thur planes blast 8000-ton supply ship at Rabaul after receiving Roosevelt’s congratulations.

ARMITAGE CO, OFFIGES RAIDED

Pin Machines Are Seized; Firm's Head, GOP Leader, Faces Arrest. ; The offices and storage rooms of

years, were raided by police last night. Raiding squads seized 190 slot machines, several “pay-off” pinball machines and some “race horse” betting machines at 15 S. Senate ave., headquarters of the Hoosier Mint Co. Associated with Armitage in the mint firm is Rex Moonshower who was arrested following the raid on a charge of possession of slot machines.

Armitage Faces Arrest

Police: Chief Clifford Beeker said Armitage is ill in St. Vincent's Hospital and that he will be placed under arrest as soon as he recovers. The ‘raid was a continuation of mass attacks against the city’s $2,000,000 gambling rackets that have been flourishing unmolested for years. Armitage’s close association with men high in Republican politics adds another chapter to. the law enforcement feud between city hall Republicans and the regular G. O. P. organization faction. - Some ‘of the recent police raids bore earmarks of political revenge. They followed Prosecutor Sherwood Blue's arrest of Emil K. Rahke on charges of operating four firms as the headquarters of a million-dollar lottery syndicate.:

U. S. MAKES 4 PACIFIC RAIDS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U.P.).— American fliers, continuing their stepped up aerial offensive against the Japanese, again attacked Kiska in the Aleutians and'three enemy bases in the Solomons, the navy announced today. :

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FATHERS HERE FACING DRAFT CALL IN MAY

Here’s Survey of Status Reported by Fifteen

Local Boards.

By VICTOR PETERSON Fathers in Marion county within draft age limits face call into the armed forces by May or June unless

15 local boards and state selective service headquarters disclosed today. The heavy rate of calls on childless married men in the past few months has seriously dwindled their

numbers. Some boards are much nearer fathers than others, but Col. Robinson : Hitchcock, state director of selective service, said today that all boards will wind up their calls of single -and childless married men at as near a practicable time as possible.: ‘There will not be a discrepancy of more than 30 days. He said, “If some boards will be forced to call married men with

‘Republican polities Rete tor 2 50] mans

increased lo lars the scales. “That will delay the call of some and hasten the induction day of others unless further directives are issued on the status of fathers.”

No Need for Fathers

But based on past calls the local boards face the following situations today. ‘ ‘Board 1—Officials stated, “We have plenty of married men without children. There is nothing to be alarmed about for some time as far as fathers are concerned.” " Board . 2—An unusual supply of single men has delayed the induction of childless men but they will be called upon heavily in the March call. The 18 and 19-year-olds have been exhausted. = Board 3—The picture has changed rapidly. ° The March: and April quotas are" being filled with single men, 18 and 19-year-olds and childless married :men. At present the board is reclassifying married men without children. Their picture is complicated by the “leniency of the appeal board with employers asking deferments of single men in industry.” Single Men Exhausted

Board 4—Basically the supply of

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single men and youths are exhausted and childless men have been filling the quotas since Janu-

Board 5—Board members are now in the process of calling childless men who are classified in non(Continued on Page Five)

MUD IN SOUTH, SNOW

Red “Aimy wy Stil Pushing Gradually Forward.

y UNITED PRESS Spring. bP in the south, bliz-

zards to the north and desperate German resistance everywhere slowed down. the Russian offensive. But the Red army still. was reported edging forward in crucial sectors, and there was no authentic sign that it had given up the initiative anywhere. The main Soviet gains were scored in the steady reduction of the axis bridgehead in the northwest Caucasus, while to the north the Russians were plugging toward the Dnieper river and the big German base of Orel where the central and southern fronts. join. Nazi resistance in the rich and heavily ' fortified Donets basin

nuts the Soviets had to crack throughout their winter campaign. The Nazis claimed the recapture of

two of the basin’s strongest bastions, but the claim lacked responsible substantiation. .

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HARPER PLANS MNUTT ORDERS

Yet Former I. U. Professor isn’t Included by Critics of WMC.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer :

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Picking

portion of a national pastime during the last forthight—yet the man who initiated most of the “directives” which fanned up this fury so far has escaped the heat. He is Fowler Harper, deputy manpower chairman and former professor at Indiana university law school, where Mr. McNutt was one-lime

dean. Mr. Harper was the first of a long iist of Hoosier schoolmen Mr, Mc-} Nutt brought to Washington. The latest is President Frank H. Sparks of Wabash college, who joined the WMC staff this week as chief of the bureau of labor utilization. Others include Dr. Edward C. Elliott, president of Purdue, and Dean Bernard C. Gavit of I. U. law school. Gets $9000 Post

Professor Harper’s first assignment was as general counsel for the federal security agency. He took {hat position shostly after Mr. McNutt was made administrator. Later he returned to I. U., but made weekly trips here as one of the expert professional “consultants. » Like other New Deal and prolabor professors, he was nemed as a public representative on one of the war labor board panels. Finally he returned here for his present full-time job as WMC deputy chieftain, a $9000 post. In these various roles he has become well acquainted with in(Continued on Page Four)

GANDHI IS CHEERFUL, CALM ON 17TH DAY

POONA, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—Mohandas K. Gandhi was calm and cheerful on the: 17th day of his three-week fast today and friends said his rally from a crisis last Sunday had convinced them that “God intends for him to live.” “Gandhi’s condition shows no appreciable change,” a bulletin signed by his six doctors -said. “He is cheerful. ”

Ernie Finds His

150,000 WAR WORKERS HERE ABILIZED IN JOBS BY WMC

ALLIES REGAIN

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NINE COUNTIES PLACED UNDER U. S. CONTROL Ei

Action Is Taken to End Worker Migrations and

Labor Piracy. (List of Essential Jobs, Page 4)

By ROGER BUDROW ' The jobs of approximately 150,000 war and other essen~ tial workers in Indianapolis,

rounding counties were stabilized today by the Indianapolis war manpower committee, The action does not “freeze” workers in their present jobs, the committee emphasized, but attempts to stop the unnecessary labor turns over here resulting from: labor pirating on the part of employers and job shopping on the "part of workers. ~ The plan, which was drafted by management, labor and government representatives, is voluntary and is patterned along the lines of plans now in effect: in other war pre tion centers. <7 Other Counties Listed Included in the Indianapolis area, = in addition to that part of Marion county outside the city, are the

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cock, Hendricks, Johnson, Morgan, Putnam and Shelby. Not all workers in these counties = | are affected. The list includes “any | industry required in the war effort, any industry required in the maine tenance of activities required in the war effort and any activities or in-

of national safety, health or interest” as defined by the WMC. To transfer from one essential job to another, a worker must have a “certificate of availability” from = his former employer, those custom-

from the U. S. employment service . review unit. : If an employer refuses to release g worker, the worker may appeal to the USES review unit. If his appeal is denied by the review unit, ) he may carry it to the war manpower committee itself.

Reasons for Job Changing

There are five “acceptable” reasons > 1 for changing jobs. They are: Ls 1. When a worker is competent to

ployer is able or willing to provide. : 2. When a worker is given less than 40 hours a week “for-an unreasonable period.” The exception to this is where an existing union agreement specifies other than 40 hours a week. 3. “When a worker lives an “unreasonably great” distance from his

line, tires and the load on the trans~ portation system. 4. When a worker's hourly wages or working conditions are “substan= tially less favorable” than those pre= vailing in the: community for the kind of work he does. In this con= nection, employers who have wage cases pending before the war labor board shall be given consideration. 5. When a worker has personal reasons which the employer, those responsible for placement or the (Continued on Page Four) ;

Post Again;

Half of Comrades Missing |

By ERNIE PYLE THE TUNISIAN FRONT, Feb. 26— (By Wireless)—On the morning of the Germans’ surprise break-through out of Faid pass, I was up in the Ouselltia valley with another contingent of our troops. Word came to us about noon that the Germans were advancing upon Sheitla , from Faid. So I packed into my jeep and started alone on the familiar 85-mile drive south to Sbeitla. It was a bright day and everything seemed peaceful... I expected to see German planes as I neared Sbeitla, but there were none, and I drove

into my cactus-patcht destination hour - :

I hadn't been there 15 minutes when the dive-bombers came, but that’s another story, which will come later. I checked in at the intelligence tent to see what was going and found that things were : down with the coming of dus So 1 pitched my tent:and wen to bed right after supper. Next morning I, got up be daylight and caught a ride, after sunrise, with two going up to the new position our forward command post. drove very slowly, and a be kept keen eye on the sky. I have a gun, as ng not supposed to carry

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