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BUYING SPREE ‘SWEEPS NEAT * STORES IN CITY
M Fresh Stocks Ar Are Picked Up Early; Police Keep Order at Market.
. An early morning buying surge which started as the stores were : Opened today left the city’s meat counters bare by mid-afternoon. Although meat has been hard to obtain on Saturdays for the last few weeks because of the’ limited supply ‘and closing, of ‘several slaughter house and wholesalers, the rush was even -greater this morning. ‘ As on the preceding few Satur“days, only lunch meats and several similar items were available by afternoon. ‘ Police were called to the city marke} to prevent possible disturbances after crowds lined up two and three deep around the meat counters. The customers arrived as the market opened at 6 a. m,
5 Grocers Also Busy
Likewise the ' grocers reported brisk sales in canned goods and vegetables, Many housewives had exhausted their store of canned goods for the first time since stocking up before point rationing went ihto effect.
The additional police were sent a ; the big city market after a cus. ¥ :
Th crowd was up 25 per cent © over normal, said Officer Joseph es Semis, whose post Is, at the ‘market, 7 “THe demand for meat is up 25 per cent and the supply is down 50 per cent,” Erwin Miller of the Cook Brothers stall, said. The usual closing hour today is 9 p. m., but the stall was out of meat before mid“afternoon.
Poultry Sales Up
"The Aldag stall had “nothing but a few pieces” of fresh meat. Fred
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, March 6.—United nations can possibly still knock out Hitler and Mussolini in 1943. This comes from a source with excellent pipe-lines: into. Germany and Italy. Dope is that the two countries are more desperate than is generally supposed; that Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop’s trip to Rome was to
complete Nazi domination not only of the Italian war effort,
but of Italian life. Germany has one Sunday punch left.. This can be as dangerous as Germany's final push in 1918 , Which came near succeeding. If it fails, and if our side can throw the axis out of Africa, and invade: Europe via the Balkans or elsewhere, Hitler may blow up with a bang. But in addition to all these “ifs,” fhere’d still be Japan. 2 Ww ® ” ” » WICKARD HAS BEEN given one more chance. He'll improve the outlook for growing enough food this year, or else. Big question new is whether the change=if it has to be made~will come in time. When planting. season’s gone it’s gone. er J i ”.
Incentive Payments Gain Favor.
SWING TOWARD incentive payments—or subsidies—as against higher living costs is under way in congress -and among farmers, though farm bloc leaders still blast them. ; STRAW IN THE WIND: President and secretary of Shelby county (Indiana) farm bureau, with 38 other farmers, urged Indiana con-
. gressmen this week to vote for incentive payments for war crops, while state farm bureau president was in Washington fighting them.
NOTE: . Indiana. farmers estimate food “crop. production in that
: area will be 10 to 20 per cent below 1942.
» » » » * ” IT WILL BE TOUCH-AND- GO next winter on heating the East coast, officials say, even with completion. of pipelines, Choice must
| fue Sten States si 8 i . Stalin’s failure to indorse . the Cusablants
render” pact is regarded here as no accident. a oondltioua) it
of any mention of aid from his allies. Sepa Teta pe (Continued on Page Two)
Paper Claims Tons of Food
For Nome Spoil on Beach:
SEATTLE, March 6 (U. P.)—The Seattle’ Post- Intelligencer said to-
day that enough coffee and butter to give each of the 400 residents ‘of Nome, Alaska, thousands of pounds apiece was landed there last October
by the civilian reserve food supply office.
The coffee and butter, the paper. said, were part of an unexpected
and unneeded shipload of foodstuffs for which there was no storage
Ryne, a butcher, said, “Practically all we have are some ears, tails kidneys and similar pieces.” ; Poultry counters were rushed, too. - “This ie the first breathing spell Ive had in three hours,” Fletcher Smiser said at 10 a. m. “Our busi‘is up 25 per cent and the supy is down about 40 per cent.” He : said the lowered supply is partially due to a seasonal decline but attributed it mainly to farmers and others selling to home town stores, rather than bringing their poultry - to Indianapolis.
Other Stalls Helped
the early surge to the meat counters. ya ‘ The A. C. Balfour cheese market ‘reported they were “covered up” by business. They said they had a good supply of cheese on hand. Other counters gaining were the| © fruit, baked goods, fish and fresh vegetables.
Paul Jardina, Who Operates a| oy ~~ fresh vegetable booth, said his busi-|
ness was up more than 20 per cent. id sowing, every sewn hel
WARN OF NEW BOMB ~ . LONDON, March 6 x. PJ. . Lorne tr warned today that ~ German raiders have been drop-
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place in the community. Much of the shipment, the article ‘said, already has spoiled on the beach. “Alaskans charged the stuff was purchased and ordered sent by Washington, D. C. and Chicago
N RAPID DRIVE
133 Villages Recaptured in Day. and Half on Road To Smolensk.
By UNITED PRESS Moscow announced: today that the Red army has captured “133 towns and villages in the past 36 hours— an average of nearly four an hour in its breath-taking drive for Smolensk, Germany's key base on} the central front. Most important of these captures was the railroad town of Osuga, 16 miles south of Rzhev. It is also 54 miles ‘north of Vyafima, southeastern anchor of . the German salient before Moscow, and 30-miles northwest of Ggzhatsk, easternmost point now held by the axis on he central front. . The other captured towns were south . and - southwest of -Rzhev, which is 140 miles northeast of Smolensk, where Hitler once had his headquarters,
10 Towns Seized West of Kursk
A second: important Russian advance in the area west and northwest of Kursk was anounced, Ten)
snow in the: a
drying of the ground. Soviet victories in ‘the north threaten ‘the whole German left
these losses before" Smolensk as “g.planned shortening ‘of the line” jis called absurd bythe observers, because the Jugege shortens the
flank: The German explanation of |. you ‘might have expected an in-
: wasn't talking.
BF Ketcherside, who outranks
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Sunday.
Raids Krupp Plant; |
Stout F low
| ‘Serat. ' Tug Ketcher: side, Aged 3, Pride Of Local Field.
Technical Sergt. Robert ‘Lewis Eetchersiae: veteran: of the I carrier command, stepped oh out of .the smallest
plane in the world, pushed back his goggles, promptly tripped
INAPLES ALSO GETS PASTING DURING NIGHT
Germans Begin to Show Signs of Strain From’ 10 Nights’ Raids.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Pres: Staff Correspondent
LONDON; March 6.—The royal air force climaxec! 10 days and nights of ‘| shattering Anglo-American raids on | Hitler's Europe last night with a “very heavy and concentrated” af{tack on Germany’s Krupp armament ‘| works at Essen. © Berlin admitted that the 40-mir-ute thunderbolt saturation raid caused “great damage” and many | casualties. The: Nazis said, of courss, that the damage was confined to residential quarters and public buildings. é { Although the immediate military | effects of the air offensive may not : {equal the crushing blows delivered ‘I by Russia on the eastern front, there is little doubt that ther air war has {assumed an ominous shape for: | Hitler. “For. 10 days allied aircraft have raked Naziland from the channel _feoast of Franc: and the lowlands of Halland far Injand to Berlin, Hamm,
Sova as soon Clas Matter at Postottice,
. PRICE FOUR CEN
Evansville Gets
‘Horse Taxicabs
‘EVANSVILLE, Ind. March 6 (U. P.).~The Evansville board of public works and safety yesterday approved a franchise for operations: of “horse-drawn taxicabs.” The request for the franchise, filed by H. R. Tilford, declared the horse-drawn taxicab line would include four one-horse, two-seated surreys. Tilford explained the line was being started - because of restrictions of ‘gasoline-powered taxicabs. : Under terms of the franchise, the Evansville chief of police will be charged with periodic inspection of the horses used to. pull the cabs.
AMERICAN UNITS CAPTURE P PICHON
New Advance in in Tunisia Threatens to Split Axis
‘Forces.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, March 6. -— Allied armored forces have captured the important town of Pichon in central Tunisia in a drive eastward that now threatens Kairouan and the vital axis reinforcement port
PEY 2 4.00 the heurt ot, Gor Es nies,
; {atonal or'the aste-ava a
,: thistory last June '1,. when 1086 | bombers attacired it. 3 3 Tt shouldn't lie a hard task for the the distinction of being the: {Nazis to calculate from ‘the weight youngest technical ‘sergeant in of the present allied air attack what America (he’s three years: old), !the situation is bound to be like when a few more: months have passed and the allied air’ am really Warms. up. i “See my press agent,” he - said, {The trip-haniner ‘effects of the in effect. ’ =. A. P’s heavy ¥' attacks night after The “press agent.” fortunately ‘follower in the daytime by turned out ‘to be Msster Sergt. sharpshooting American flying fortresses and stinging low~ievel forays by: ever-growing British: medium ‘bombers, alrerdy is showing up in
terview. -But ‘the sergeant uit
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Five of Seven Nipponess Torpedo Planes Downed
By Convoy.
WASHINGTON, March 6 (U. P.).—American warships sank two large Japanese di stroyers during a night bom bardment of enemy bases: the Solomons and, in an ears lier action, shot down five of seven Japanese torpedo pla which tried unsuccessfully to attack a U. S. convoy, navy reported today. The battle between surface ships, first of its kind in the Solomons since Nov. 30, brought to 62 the
' inumber of Japanese ships ‘sunk
since the island campaign started last Aug. 7, against 30 U. S. ships lost. Destruction of the ped planes lifted to 882 the total of enemy air losses in the Solomons. On the night of March 5-6 land time), the navy said, an A ican task force composed of surface units bombarded ; and Vila in’ the central Solom: ‘The enemy destroyers were. # when they tried to drive Americans. off No U. S. ship
Sousse, heavily battered by allied - attacks in recent weeks; is the port. which Marshal Erwin Rommei has been using to feed troops and supplies to his forces in central Tunisia which rolled through the Kasserine pass and threatened to break the entire allied Tne a few weeks ago:
30 Tanks Destroyed
Tunisian front died down, and allied patrols seized the initiative and made local gains, a headquarters communique said. A total of 30 enemy tanks have
Enemy activity on the northern|
T0 EMPLOYMENT JOB
Name Withdrawn for Area
government als to. whom Nome
civilian population: numbers ‘only about" 400 ns,” the paper said. | Included in the alleged shipment,
WMC Post.
was ‘only a'place dn the map, and. who do not realize that its present.
Affested in Ditret|-
RS MoNTGOMERY GIVEN
PROMOTION BY NAVY
ADVANCE U. 8 ‘BASE, Sonewhere in the South Pacific, Marck 5
Nazi propagarda frying to explain to the Nazi populace why the Luft‘waffe is in no position to retaliate.
LAUDS FLYING FORTS
been destroyed since Rommel’s forces started their attack in the north. Front dispatches said that British forces, after driving the Germans from Sed Jenane in a bitter street
; enemy lost six ‘destroyers, two »| transports and a cargo ship.
fost the cruiser Narthamton suffered damage to other ships.
‘tack on the American convoy
place Feb. 17. The navy said St
“No damage to U. S. vessels was suffered,” the navy said. The Japs anese had claimed sinking of American destroyers and a transport. Hy The navy also reported tha American airmen had bombed Mus. da: r the 84th time .and ca ¢ out an attack on Buin on the south east coast of Bougainville island.
House Petition
On Taxes ‘Los:
THREE COPIES of a resolution memorializing congress fo place a 25 per cent limit on re ine come taxes have mysteriously appeared from their files in state house it was learned tdoay,
Chicago confirmed today. the report that J. Bradley Haight will net bes Jcome Indianapolis area ‘director for the war manpower commission.
the paper said, were 350 tons of butter, 173 tons of coffee, 78 tons of salad oil, 59 tons of soap, 508 tons of canned milk, 70 tons of canned. pears, 78 tons of toilet tissue and 78 tons of dried eggs. - Canned Pears Burst -| ‘The shipment was purchased, the article sald, under the direction of Harold Snell,’ Alaskan railway ‘official authorized by the U. S. depart|C| ment of the interior to serve as ter | ritorial food administrator. ‘The paper said lack of a warm || storage space ‘caused the brine in
Regional manpower officials in
Mr. Haight, who is Indiana di-
boss he utter Yas Packed fo},
1 the article said, and the rest of
Zero fo 5 Above Ison the Way dave.
“The paper said Alaskans had ex- :
ate with the arrival of - spring
sess Tillett ...,.. 20} @
which the butter was packed tol
| wasting much of the shipment. Can- fin _|ned peats also burst ‘their contain- |
‘Black Market’ Drive. ;
Fifty-four slaughter houses in ‘the 74 counties served by the:
bootleg meat operations, W. H. ny der, chief OPA enforcement attor-
AU. PY ‘| Montgomery, .former movie : actor, ‘has been given rotitine adv@ncement Indianap-| to the rank of" eutensikeonnolis OPA have been closed by OPA|; administrative orders for ed
WASHINGTON, March 6 (U, P).
(Delayed) —Lieut. Robert| he. nt of. Cor
hounced today.
‘shipment is expected to deter- |i
ney for ‘the Indianapolis ass, anf
old cond: whenever. they cas gt 1, escent hi ao : s
fight, had evacuated the town after
tions ering Tamera, eight miles west of Sed Jenane. At 8:30 a. m. yesterday the Germans still had not established. any, contact. With the
“mes INURES
os Says We Seek No
Permanent Holds. . WASHINGTON, March § (U. P).
| Acting Secretary of State Sumner
Welles said today that the United States has no intention of estabUshing permanent military bases in western . hemisphere = which
aid a apete, | Which [tory or sovereignty of atty of the {American republics.
Mr. Mr. Welles, at a préss conference, tempted to give the Rh m=
[immed toe Oe a She tn. 18 g germane Sootholds: nl
dark Thursday and taken up posi-|
The resolution was adopted by the house last week and the dig .. appearance of the copies was diss covered when the G. O. P.
checked to see what. action been taken by the senate. found the resolution had never reached the upper house. 'A carbon copy is to be subst tuted for the original. pri
‘ALL-OUT GERMAN NAVAL EFFORT SEE
| LONDON, March 6 (U. P.):
4 Siany is PIEPGEING to Iv Bes
gest: warships into an all-out ¢ paign: to disrupt allied sea 0 and knock ' the impending 4 American invasion of Europe schedule, advices from the conti said today. . Surface raiders are cxpented d used to augment the greatest of U-boats yet sent into the
lantic in preying on allied
carrying men and supplies to
| ain and tanks, planes and mun tion