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Nazis Hint at Use of Gas|

“To Force England to. “Beg! for Mercy.

LONDON, March 5 (U. P.).~Brit-. : ish bombers struck at Germany last]

“night for the. ninth consecutive night of their -pre-invasion offensive while a Nazi spokesman promised that the axis would retaliate “next * with ‘an’ assault that} will make “England “beg for mercy.”

~The air ministry identified last] _ night's royal air force targets only| |

as in “western Germany” and ine

. dicated that the attack was on al} smaller scale than the Previous :

jo eight night raids.

‘One plane failed to return’ from. 3 the raid and from subsidiary mine-} the communique

laying operations, said.

The German spokesman’s thréat against Britain was reported in a Berlin dispatch published in Stock-

.. holm, which said Swedish observers] t that the}

saw in his words al Nazis intend to begin gas warfare.

Lay Blame on British = Ji

$m mi RN A

declares Corp,

Summoning neutral correspondents to his office in Berlin, the dispatch said, the spokesman . showed them a collection of documents which he insisted proved that{ Britain began and was responsible}™ for the “terror” bombing of women and children and cultural and sanitary buildings. Ignoring the fact that Germany herself introduced the technique of bombing cities with terror attacks on Warsaw and Rotterdam, the spokesman said:

“Next. spring, with new weapons;|

Germany will give such an v that England will beg for mercy.”

Yanks Bomb a sn 1

fortresses on the Germah-ocoupied “port of Rotterdam in Holland and} the big railroad yards at Hamm in western Germany. and a smaller scale British attack on railroad centers in north France. The Swedish telegraph bureau, meantime, reported from Paris that one town on the coast of western France—apparently near the German U-boat base of Lorient—had been totally destroyed. Not a single building remained undamaged, the - dispatch said, and’ 35,000 of the $0,000 inhabitants have been evacuated. Many of those. who remained behind were killed by - ‘bombs.

On the War Fronts

(March 5, 1943)

AIR WAR—British bombers raid}!

Germany for ninth straight night, attacking unidentified targets in|30 the western Reich.

RUSSIA—Soviet forces capture 53s towns and villages below Rzhev in drive toward Smolensk.

TUNISIA—Allies check heavy axis attack on Sed Jenane in north Tunisia after street fighting in 1 Fhtne town. Activity increases in ~ Mareth line area as British patrols feel for weak points.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — Allied < planes mop up last remnants of Japanese convoy after destruction

‘of 22 ships and 15,000 troops head-| #

ed for New. Guinea.

(War Moves Today, Page 19; U. S. Communiques, Page Six)

‘SENATE PASSES BILL FOR RELIGIOUS STUDY

: tend a religious school during publie school for a maximum of two ~ Eours in any one week. Children attending a religious ‘school would. receive the same attendance eredit as ‘at the public school.

- ‘vocaL TEMPERATURES Sam... 2 10am... 21 ‘Jam....2 1lam.,. 88, Sam.....23 12 Hoon). 3am... 20 Tp...

“We Americans are tough babies,”

~The hospital train «with its 298

RETAIL CEILINGS =

PLAGED ON PORK

Brown Seéks to sire A In Nation ‘a Fair Share ‘At ‘a ‘Fair Price.’

“WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P.).

|—The administration today

launched a new program designed to assure every meat-eating American “a fair share at a fair price” and at the same time drive meat black markets out of existence.

Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown announced specific dollars-and-cents retail price ceilings for pork products, to become effective April :1, at approximately the same time general meat rationing is expected to start. Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard, who is to make an im-~

tonight, established a permit system ‘for livestock: slaughterers, also effective April 1. “Mr. Wickard’s program’ was embraced in tiree orders providing: +1. All livestock slaughterers who sell meat, including farmers and focal ‘butchers, must operate under a /slaughter permit - system’ and stamp their permit number at least

‘fonce on. each wholesale cut. :

2. All livestock dealers must: obtain. permits to buy and: sell livestock, and keep complete records of their operations. 3. All slaughterers operating under. federal inspection must set aside for war uses certain desig- * ~ (Continued on Page Four)

RUSSIANS SEIZE 53 TOWNS NEAR RZHEV” Soviets on Offensive Along|

Whole Front.

MOSCOW, March 5 (U. P)— Soviet tanks and infantry raced on

“TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

ems | through 53 more towns and villages

south and southwest of Rzhev to-

l opposition in a]

Amusements. 14 Tg fi Comics hues 27 Crossword ... 27 ‘Editorials sev 18

Kidney ...... 17 Men in Serv.. 7 Millett Nichol rensnas 28 Movies ...... 14 Obituaries

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Inside Indpls; 17/00 22° Jane Jordan. 21}...

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portant radio talk on CBS at 9:45}

Saw Plenty

Seen ation? “Why, theres authing ‘but action in Guadalcanal,”

James Cooper.

FRIDAY,» MARCH 5, 1043

La vot us scent Cis Miter at Postotfies; nd i avels Ind. Issued dilly except: Sunday.

PRICE FOUR CEN

Failing to Support Institution : Reforms.

Governor Schricker ‘today yocuived a letter signed by three of the four members of the ousted state merit board who linked him to “the reactionary element of the Republican party” and who re

SATE

| “personal support of the: board has

= | been tragically:

points out Pvf. Kenneth Bishop.

+. has a bent bullet. to pEsve it.

298 Pacific War Heroes Received at Fort Hospital

By ROSEMARY REDDING wounded and hospitalized ‘veterans

The ge arrivals, some; only & little over a month away from front-line fighting, were displaying souvenirs and swapping stories’ with other ‘Billings patients. There was the man who fingered the bullet taken from his hip and the young Chicagoan with his Australian bride’s picture. Most can hardly believe the rapidity with: which they have been moved from fhe far off southwest Pacific to home’ territory. Most of them, too, are anxious to get back into. the scrap. Some are looking forward to visitors. :

Sticks ‘Around for Action.

Like James T. Cooper who hasn’t seen his mother in four and a half years. She's been waiting in Indian< apolis this week for him to arrive. We've seen him, we ‘can now tell you, - Mrs. Katherine Jacoby, and he’s’ feeling fine. Cheerful, too, as are a lot of the boys who rolled in on the hospital train, Corp. Cooper hails from Middletown, O.; and was just completing a hitch in the army when Pearl Harbor came along and he decided he

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AT ALL-TIME LOW

WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P.). —Census bureau figures published today show that coffee stocks ‘in the United States are scraping bottom -but. importers hope the situation will improve this summer. Official * statistics reveal that stocks available for civilian use are at an all-time low—1,103,752 bags of 132 pounds each. This compares with 1,474,180 bags on Dec. 31, 1942, and with the previous low of 1,363,990 on Nov. 21, 19432. Importers saw no prospect that coffee rations might be raised, but said on the other hand’ there is no reason now. to anticipate a decrease.

Two; of the eo signed the report are Democrats, Chairman William C. Birthright, international president of the barbers’ union and chairman of draft board 14, and Rowland Allen, personnel director at I. 8. Ayres & Co. Also signing the letter was Eatl | Beck, personnel director at Eli Lilly \& Co., ‘Republican.

. Claim Frustration “We have bean frustrated,” said

{the ‘letter; “and stopped . ‘continu-

ously by your budget direetor . . . in ‘our to betier-these wages

© |and working conditions per which rg he’ mployees. worked.

“Dear Gover: ; 1 “Last week we read in the newspapers that: we, whom you had persuaded two years: ago to help | establish: the merit law of the state of Indiana, had been eliminated by the Republican legisla tive device of wiping out and promptly re-enacting the state law under which we operated. “Through our chairman we immediately requested you, governor, the courtesy of an audience. Today we read in the newspapers of your appointment. of an entirely new board, our’ first notice of your acjion, “Our reluctance to accept this responsibility two years ago ‘was overcome by your assurance that you would support us in our coming responsibilities. Your strange silence these last few weeks, your (Continued on Page Nine)

RECESS IN LEE CASE UNTIL MONDAY. SEEN

-| Quiz * by Blue May Take u. S. COFFEE STOCKS|

Rest of Afternoon.

By HELEN RUEGAMER Cross-examination of John W.ihe Lee probably will require the remainder of today’s session and closing arguments in his trial on manslaughter and reckless homicide will be delayed uns Monday, it was indicated. SLi Prosecutor Shérwood Blue went into the minutes detail in ques tioning Lee regarding his actions before, during and after his car killed three persons af Meridian and Washington sts. last July 20. As the prosecutor interrogated him regarding his work, home life, drinking and driving, the defendant repeated answers given during

(Continued on Page Four)

Greer Garson,

HOLLYWOOD, March 5—A

Place among Hollywood’

James Cagney

Win the Academy Oscars

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood

Correspondent pine Greer. Gamer, ur

umphant on her fourth try, walked off early today with the Motion. Pleture Atadeliys tumiiation gold. Oscar symbolic. of hee ise fo, frst ‘movie actresses. 2

the farflung activities ot the: office of war information—ineluding publication of a: book” about President Roosevelt— appeared imminent today. + ..- Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.), ranking member. of the House appropria« tions committee, expresséd a desire to “look into a lot of OWI activities! —and ‘to find qut why Hey; 1 need 3800 employes.” “

Cannon Would O. K. Pile

Chairman Clarence Cannon: o. Mo.) said he would approve any formal request by Rep. Taber for an OWI investigation. Rep. Taber described as “fourth term propaganda” an: owt ‘picture pamphlet onthe life of the presi-

distributed . in this country, despite OWI insistence that it was for foreign consumption only. ¢I have received information that it was distributed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison "in Indiana for example,” he said. Is

“No Reference to War”

He said a copy of the booklet | which is headed “The Life of} Frapklin D. Roosevelt’ and which.

soldier in North Africa “who. was indignant about such a waste of money.” OWI Director ‘Elmer. Davis, «he! said, told him the: ‘booklet, was par’;

campaign. But Rep. Taber insistec| that there “is nothing. in it with reference to war.” “It is purely political propagand;i designed entirely: to promote 4 fourth term and a dictatorship,” he| charged.

Name a symbol, Says Davis :

Rep. Taber, it is. ‘anderstood, hatl not read an atory letter from Mr. ‘Davis before he spoke on ths: house floor. In his letter, Mr. Davis

cal propaganda in the booklet. “It is a fact, however, that ai

hie 4s Solis mY repre 5 10a

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picture

dent; and! charged that it had been:

as a “Parzan-style pic: BE nk goog Trg glo :

of the agency's foreign propagand::|

reiterated that there was no politi-|

Here are some » sketches from the pamphlet, “Phe Life of Franklin D. Rader

issued by OWI which ik

Sandars Offers Prop For Operation of Farms By Counties. WASHINGTON, March (U. P.) .—The senate milits

affairs committee reported day’ that the prospect for

| food crop this y4ar as large

1942's “is almost hopeless realization 55 : . In a report urging passage of Bankhead bill to defer farm wor ers. from military service, the mittee said that Secretary of culture Claude R. Wickard * creasingly alarmed about the ir

Merging of small farms urged. See Page 22

” TE ——

& lity to get enough farm labor {reach goals established for {

luction “is year.” It's Getting Late

: Wie ard etsphries

ers of the selective service:

~ {who warned that:

1. The time has come to. agriculiure to. the same wir duction basis as ‘industry to

{hunger . at home and unne

2. Talk about labor she food riots and starvation un

supplanted with action a gh

mm little has been done and it.

“This isa ‘yeproduction of the cover of the pamphlet waved on the ‘house floor by: Rep. Taber in his aitack on the publication. :

House.”

[BRITISH VAN STREET ATILE: IN TUNISIA

Activity | in Mareth Sector

Ino, asing.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY 1 United. Press § aft Correspondent ; © ALLIED HEAT QUARTERS, ‘North Africa, ¥ica, March {iA heavy enemy

‘of our mand Davis EE head of our ‘government his

thrust at Sed ‘Jenane in the north-

| No Barriers to Fourth Term,

Says Guffey, Louding | FDR

By LYLE C. WILSON altos Press Staff Correspondent

; : WASHINGTO IN, March 5—Senator Joseph F. Guffey. ‘©. Pa); selfs ‘professed 100 per cent New Dealer, tock the budding fourth term issue ‘to congress today by telling the senate ‘there is no’ ‘American tradition which says. that in: good President cannot serve. four terms in the White

“Today, : 10 Years after Roosevelt's first Iaigural”. he’ said. ina

specch : extolling: the chief ‘exec tive’s record, “there ‘are ‘countless Americans, rich and’ poor, of every race, creed and color, ankers: in-

eluded, who say: Thank God form

‘Roosevelt!”’ 2» Ciutfey’s speech fitted in with the belie? : of © some ‘ obsérvers who ‘see fourth term ‘possibilities in the. forthcoming pulse - feeling swing

{around the country planned by Postmaster General Frank C. Sa s {ker Democratic national committee

chairman.

Americans, Gutfey told the senate; § =

<udge our presidents by what they | do snd what they are, keep them} and get rid of them to suit ourselves, | not to suit the convenience ‘of party |

! a mniion or politics as usual”

{ings amendment to the ;

service act, granting exemy essential form workers, “so circumscribed by red t its adminisiration that “it dia accomplish the: desired result.” “Draft boards throughout country,” the report contin not administer ‘it with unders ing sympathy and for Bie many farmers -who were ent to. deferment , were given: Hide: fio consideration!”

Plants Lure Farmers

At the seme time, the declared, “farm workers ‘were

omn

from the farms by the wages and short hours and

4: is evident that if som is. not. done soon. to restrain movement away .from farms, result may be tragic,” the ep concluded. “iF Six members of the Say ‘| opposed passage ‘of the Bs bill on ground that it is a deferment of agricultural without taking int accon ‘whether the person deferred is

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