Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1943 — Page 2

Allies Con Defeat Japan y Short Time,’ Chennault Says

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* While an undisclosable number ~ ofiarmy transports thundered over=head with supplies for China, Chent pondered the situation and then said the prospects “are definitely brighter” for carrying the

He said the promises by Presi- |!

~ dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill of aid to China are “the

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is reason to believe the American

§ air force will be strengthened here.”

~~ The optimism, he said, rose not : from .actual operations and victories, but from “strategic plans” laid down at the Casablanca. conference. He refused to discuss the recent Chungking conferences of British and American military leaders with Generalisimo Chiang Kai-shek, in which he took part, but shifted instead to his view of the outlook for possible victory when the united " nations are ready to pay the price.

" Japs Use Propaganda

Chennault warned that the Japanese ‘are doing their utmost to drive a wedge between China and the United States. He showed propaganda leaflets dropped by Japanese planes aimed at fomenting Chinese distrust of America. More American activity in China is ‘necessary, he said, since “we must maintain Chinese morale and future co-operation. We are a long way from home, and China must take a major part in driving the Japanese out—this can never be solely an American operation.” Chennault believed the Japanese now are impeded by two bottle- ~ ne¢ks—pilot training and plane production, He said the Japanese apparently had used up their plane reserve and now are throwing in planes direct from the factory, inferior to their previous models.

‘DEFERMENT STRIKE’ IS EXPECTED TO END

PITTSBURGH, March 1 (U. P.). —Union officials expected 700 coal miners to end today a five-day strike over the draft deferment of one worker. A mass meeting was scheduled at which John P. Busarello, presidentelect of District 5, United Mine Workers, said he believed the strikers. would agree to return to work

Brig. Gen Claire L. Chennault

SENATE KILLS TAX BOARD STAFF BILL

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2 Policemen Tell en Tell of Quizzing Driver Soon After Crash.

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June 10. He said he had known Lee as a soap salesman for some time, having bought from him at various intervals.

Recovers in Hospital

Mr. Cravens said that when he saw Lee in his car before the Ayres store he seemed dazed and his eyes were glassy and stary. Lee told him, while sitting in the emergency car, that he (Lee) “hated it awfully bad and wanted his wife notified.” The former police officer said that Lee appeared to be fully composed and normal about an hour later at the hospital. “I asked him if he had ever had a spell like that before. He said, ‘IT had an attack in a grocery store about six weeks ago. I was taken to the City Hospital, where doctors told me it was a nervous heart attack,’” Mr. Gravens said.

Describes Accident Scene

When Mr. Cravens asked Lee if he remembered anything about the crash, Lee is reported to have said, “The last I knew I crossed Kentucky ave. at Illinois st. I don’t remember a thing until being taken from the car.” Sergt. Hague described the scene upon the arrival of the emergency squad. “Two women were lying in the broken window of Ayres. One was in front of the store and a small boy was lying on the sidewalk,” he said. He said he also talked to Lee at City hospital, where Lee also told him of the attack in the grocery store and said that he remembered nothing after he drove onto Washington st.

Tire Marks Measured :

Measurements taken by police of tire marks in front of Ayres extended 96 feet from the point where the car hurtled the curb to where it stopped against a fire hydrant, and 45 feet from the curb to the broken window. The curb at the point of impact measures six and & half inches in height. Both Mr. Cravens and Sergt. Hague were present when Lee took a drunk-o-meter test at police headquarters after being examined at City hospital. They stated the test showed negative.

DEATH CLIMAX TO SERIES OF TROUBLES

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elder daughter became frightened and ran out the front door in her night gown. Though seriously ill with pneumonia she ran half a block until a neighbor caught her. Moving to the home of Mrs. Etter’s parents, 1218 St. Peter st., the child finally recovered from pneumonia but a few days later became ill with measles. About that time the other daughter was stricken with pneumonia and was near death. Before she recovered fully, Mrs. Etter herself became seriously ill and was taken to Methodist hospital where she underwent a major operation. She was still in the hospital seriously ill yesterday when. informed of her husband’s death, $s 2 '» ‘MR. ETTER’S body was found by Grant Campbell, 1036 S. Gale st., while passing in a taxicab on his way home. Police said the body probably had lain in the street an hour or more before it was discovered. Born in Boone county, Mr. Etter had lived in Indianapolis 12 years and had been working for the Pennsylvania railroad since last September. He was a member of St. Mark's United Lutheran church. Funeral services will be at 1 p. m. tomorrow at the Sterling funeral home. Burial will be in Washing ton Park cemtery. Surviving besides the widow and the two daughters are his patents, Mr. and Mrs, Earl Etter, of College Corner, O., and a sister, Miss Margaret Etter, of Calumet City, Ill

MME. CHIANG ‘NEAR COLLAPSE” IN N. Y.

NEW YORK, March 1 (U. P.).— Mme Chiang Kai-shek almost collapsed at city hall today after making a speech to a throng of 10,000 persons in response to the city’s official welcome, China's first lady was shaking hands in a reception line in Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia’s chambers when she was seen to shiver and almost faint. A physician in the group threw open windows and administered smelling salts. He said she was in a state of “near collapse.” Mme. Chiang, scheduled to remain in New York for four days, told the crowd outside city hall that although the Chinese have “undergone untold sufferings we have been able to carry on because we knew America was with us—your sympathy and your good will.”

KEEP CHURCHILL IN BED LONDON, March 1 (U. P.).— Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s doctors are satisfied with the progress of his recovery from pneumonia but have cautioned him against resuming all his duties immediately, it was learned today.

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way,” she confided n the clerk. At another store, a housewife wanted apricots. i “Two large cans,” she told the clerk. The point price quoted her was something near the entire 48 points from her book. She walked back and put them up on the shelf. The grocery clerks are a bit concerned at the recklessness with which some customers spend their points. They expect quite a few women to come in next week and cry on their shoulders. And they've got troubles enough without that. Most of the women shopping this morning seemed so confused that they would just trust the grocer to help them out. They would lay down their purchases and trust the

ENEMY CARGO SHIP SUNK IN SOLOMONS

WASHINGTON, March 1 (U.P). —American airmen have sunk an enemy cargo ship and raided Japanese bases in the Solomons three times and at Kiska in the Aleutians twice. A communique said that the cargo ship exploded after being hit, indicating that it might have been carrying ‘ammunition. The new raid in the Solomons brought to at least 195 the number of attacks on Japanese bases and ships in that area since Aug. 7. The actual total is undoubtedly higher, since some communiques have not specified the exact number of raids made on certain days. This also does not include the large number of raids made in the area by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's fliers.

Points Is Wives’ Dilemma |

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clerk to remove the proper number of points. Grocery clerks reported that tow, if any, really showed evidence of having figured out menus for a week and apportioned their canned goods so that it would “extend” over a week’s time. The stores are displaying large tables of the point values and several figured the point values in columns right along side the price columns.

One heartening note was in the requests of some housewives to have the bills, no matter how poor the scribbling, so that they could take them home and study them. And one harried grocerymen didn’t even want to comment. All we could get out of him was a paraphrase of a hackneyed adage: “They don’t seem to understand that they can’t have their points and eat them too.”

BEN BERNIE FIGHTS DEATH; IS WINNING

BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, March 1 (U. P.).—Ben Bernie, band leader seriously ill with pleurisy, was described today as “considerably improved.” Bernie was stricken three weeks ago in a Beverly Hills hotel and since that time, has been too ill to be moved. Last night was the best night the “old maestro” spent since he was near death last week, his physician reported.

ITALY HEAVILY DAMAGED

ZURICH, March 1 (U. P.). — A Swiss newspaper correspondent said today following a tour of Ifaly that allied bombing planes had caused widespread damage and a majority of residents had evacuated large cities.

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1100- Hour Air Air Offensive by Allies May Foretell

Invasion Soon.

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month alone exceeded the 6600 tons of bombs dropped by German planes during the three months of September, October and November of 1940, the period of hesviest raids on this country. The sustained offensive begun Thursday night with the R., A. F.s

| shattering attack on Nurnberg,

southern Germany industrial center, was carried forward with an American daylight raid on Wilhelmshaven Friday, an R. A, F. attack on Cologne Friday night, an American raid Saturday on Brest, German U-boat base on the French Atlantic coast; a British attack the same day on Dunkirk, another occupied French port; an R. A. F. assault on western Germany Saturday night, and R. A. F. attacks yesterday on the German airfield at Maupertus, near Cherbourg, France, and factories at Hengelo, Holland ang Liege, Belgium. Lieut. Gen. Bernard C, T. Paget, commander of Britain's home forces, said the troops under his command “sincerely. hope that we shall not have much longer to wait for the stimulus of battle.

“It is our ambition that we may

to strike the enemy a knockout blow,” he said. War Secretary Sir James Grigg, who introduced Paget and other British army chieftains in the broadcast, said Britain now was “in sight of being able to say that the army is properly trained and ade-

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Urge Spreading of Spen

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official chart of more than 200 point values displayed in grocery stores for OPA has ruled that grocers must place a card, siminar to a price tag, on rationed foods or near the shelves where they are kept. The monthly number of points available to each customer is 48. During March the blue “A,” “B” and “C” coupons will be valid. The April coupons will become valid March 23 but the March coupons cannot be used after the end of this month.

Spread Your Spending

OPA cautioned housewives to spread their point “spending” as evenly as possible over the full month. Dividing the month into four point-spending periods was suggested by OPA, with point shopping weeks” beginning today, March 9, March 17 and March 24. During each of these periods the housewife should spend .12 points for each member of her family, OPA recommended. Acting State OPA Price Executive G. E. Warren today warned Hoosier merchants that “tying agreements” —wherein a customer must buy one

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violation of price regulations. Dr. Warren explained that it is definitely against the OPA regulations for a merchant to insist that a customer buy slow-moving, highpoint merchandise in order to buy scarce or fast-moving items. Few Fail to Register “All cases where a seller demands that a buyer take something he doesn’t want in order-to get a commodity he does want should be promptly reported to the enforcement division of the Indiana OPA,” Dr. Warren said. There is one exception to the rule banning “tying agreements,” he

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ion county residents failed to ter for war ration book 2 last week's registration. F lack books must now waif, ul March 15 to obtain them. © OPA officials in Washington mated, on the basis of in returns, that 125,000,000 books issued throughout the nation: 2,000,000 more than for war book 1.

Seek ‘New Deal’ ~ For Local Dogs

FIRST STEP in carrying out a proposed “new deal” for Indian. apolis dogdom will be taken to ‘night in city council. : An ordnance is to be introduced providing for establishment of a downtown municipal pet shop and employment of an accredited veterinarian at the city pound.

The measure also would ems power the keeper to accept gifts for the pound, and creates an “emergency dog fund” to defray expenses of pound improvements. An accompanying appropriation ordinance would allot an initial $1100 to the emergency i Pound i fund.

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MINERS END 5-DAY STRIKE i PITTSBURGH, March 1 (U. PJ, —In response to appeals from dis+ trict leaders, 650 coal miners wh have been on strike for five days in protest to the draft deferment of a fellow worker agreed at a mass meeting. today to return oo work to= MOrrow.

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