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PLANE FIGHTS

- Millions Homeless in Reich,

British Air Minister Tells Parliament.

a t LONDON, March 11 (U. P.).—Air

Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair told

' commons today that the royal air

force has destroyeds or damaged seriously about 2000 factories and industrial works in Germany and rendered more than 1,000,000 per= sons homeless. In addition to those left homeless, the intensity of the R. A. F's aerial offensive has caused the evacuation

.. of many more persons, resulting in

overcrowding of towns in eastern Germany, Sinclair said. © Sinclair sald that allied pilots hold about a three-to-one advantage over the axis in the number of planes destroyed during the past year in the European-African air war—1737 allied planes lost to 2244 for the axis. February Record May Be Broken The air secretary spoke after bad weather again interrupted the R. A. F’s aerial offensive. The Ger-|' man radio reported that British planes made sporadic incursions into Germany during the night at

i the cost of four ‘planes, but the

activity was so slight that the British | air ministry did not bother. to issue a communique. x. * During the first :

VOLUME 53—NUMBER 313

Absenteeism in

By VICTOR

ts of this. R. A. F. has |

| at the Nosed of bombs unloaded

on ope during February totalled

. 10,000—half again as large as in any previous month of the war.

He reported that the R. A. F.

: raid on Essen, home of the great

Krupp arms works, the night of March 5 was “probably the heaviest] . « . struck at German war industry in the whole bomber offensive,” with at least 53 buildings destroyed or damaged over an area of 136,000 square yards.

600 Acres in Cologne Ruined

Damaged sections in other German cities, he said, included 118

, acres in Wilhelmshaven, 600 acres

in Cologne, 130 acres in Rostock, 135 ‘acres in Madinz, 200 acres in Lubeck, 260 acres in Karlsruhe and

380 acres in Dusseldorf. Damage in the great raid on Berlin the night of March 1 has not yet n assessed, he said.

lying to a question, Capt. Harold Balfour, undersecretary for air, said he could give assurance that “we are not bombing women and children wantonly.” “Our objectives,” he. added, “are always, industry, transport and e war potential of the enemy. If in pursuit of our objectives the German civilian population has to suffer it is not our fault. The remedy lies in the hands of the Gertian people themselves.”

FREEZING WEATHER FORECAST TONIGHT

Continued cold tonight and slightly warmer tomorrow is forecast by the weather bureau after the mercury ‘went to a high of 47 degrees yesterday, the warmest in nearly -a week. Yesterday's all-day drizzle measured /.82 of an inch.. No more rain was tte for {today

URLY TEMPERATURES

6am ,..2 10a m 7am. ...2 1am ...3 Sam ...2 12 (Noon). 31 9am ...30 1pm... 33 NAME DIDN'T HELP ANGELES, March 11 (U. P.).—Mrs.: Victory American Szy-

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ent out of a $50 monthly pens i}

doski] 23, was held today on a : re attempting to defraud the

TIMES FEATURES ON. INSIDE PAGES.

Inside “apis, 1 Jane Jordan..

Millett Seder

on the Indianapolis market and a

ean’ meet the demands! of house-

{i P.) —American casualties in Tu-

lof the allied retreat and initial counter-attack—totalled 2242, War

ph ric - These 25| Movies .....;. 13|said.

a 7. i : Capt. Eddie Rickenhacker today | lauded Hoosier war ite as navi

PROBE POULTRY BLACK MARKET

OPA Officials - Here Blame Illegal Transactions For Shortage.

By ROSEMARY : REDDING There is a shortage of poultry

good part of it can be attributed to black market operations. The local office of the OPA said today that it was making | “every effort” to correct the situation and that it expected “definite results in the not too distant future.” Meanwhile, local poultry dealers

'| wives trying to cope with the current meat shortage through ‘the use of poultry. and fish. ’ While the dealers are extremly vocal about ‘black marketeers” ruining = their = business, ' Charles Johnson, OPA retail merchandising specialist, said that some dealers in

ernment’s price ceilings; in order to get supplies. ° i : Situatien Is General

“The situation ‘is worse than we like to think,” he said, “but I can’t tell in figures or percentages just how much is going on,” he said. “We:-know it is happening but it is a hard job getting facts in shape for prosecution. It is really one of the toughest things I've tried to solve in my life.” He sald that similar ‘reports of (Continued on pase Five)

2242 GASUALTIES IN TUNISIA ANNOUNCED

WASHINGTON, March 11 (U.

nisia from Feb. 14 to 20—the period

Secretary Henry L. Stimson dls-

“Rick Lauds Foose

Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and Col. A. W. Herrington, chairman of the board of Marmon-Herrington Co., Inc, (left to right) pause between buildings in an inspection of the plant today.

Less Than Average. Says Ace

country studying and denouncing absenteeism stony war ‘workers, Tonight he will challenge Indianapolis citizens to get “fighting mad”

|ican: Citizenship. The dinner will} begin at 6 p. m. and ticket holders

| Indiana were disregarding the gov-|"

Stimson Says only 59 Are | Known Dead in Retreat. |

o # 5 8

Plants Here

PETERSON

and help win the war when he speaks at a Sine honoring him at the Scottish Rite cathedral. 'The address will be ans from 7:45 to 8:30 p. m. over local stations.

Dinner at 6 P. M.

A capacity crowd of 1000 persons will attend the informal dinner and reception sponsored by the National Foundation for Education in Amer-

will use the Meridian st, entrance to the Cathedral. While visiting: but two plants here, Marmon-Herrington and Allison’s, Capt. Rickenbacker said he had made a survey study of - plants within the state. “The greatest amount of absenteeism I have found to be on the West ‘coast in aircraft factories,” he said. “But there are plenty .more areas that are bad. The Jarge industrial centers such -as on, Dayton and Detroit are high in absenteeism. “The matter is serious and alarming,” he/sdid ‘with emphasis. According to Capt. Rickenbacker the tendency does not center in any particular, union. “Union and non“(Continued on Page Five)

JAPS TAKE 1ST GOAL IN YANGTZE DRIVE CHUNGKING, March 11.(U, P.). —Heavily reinforced Japanese troops Streaming across the ‘Yangtze river toward | Tung Ting lake have achieved the first major. ‘objective

continue. to shove the enemy. back toward the Burma border in Yunnan province, A Chinese war: communique announced ‘tonight that the Japanese had taken Hwayung, 50 miles northwest of Yochow on the south bank of the Yangtze. A Japanese unit of some 3000 men had advanced ' 22

{Lake TIlmen. In the northwest

of their drive, but Chinese forces |

THURSDAY, MARCH 1 1948

= —— FIGHT NOW AT KHARKOV EDGE

Vyazma; Moscow Renews

Cry for Second Front.

By UNITED PRESS The crucial battle for Kharkov in-

press renewed its emphasis on the lack of a second front in western Europe. The German high command reported that fighting at Kharkov now is going on in the northern and western outskirts of the “Russian Pittsburgh.” Moscow reports from the front simply said that Red army forces fighting against heavy odds were repulsing powerful German attacks. On the central front, however, it was the Soviet drive toward Vyazma and Smolensk which gathered momentum, and there was no _ sign that the Russians had been forced to move troops south, The Russian noon communique announced the capture of Isakova, only 12 miles from Vyazma on the railroad from Kaluga. Novodugino, miles from Vyazma on the railroad to Rzhev, also was captured. Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s armies were credited with capture of several additional towns in their drive toward Staraya Russa, below

Caucasus the Russians pushed the Azov and the ‘Black sea with the : ~ naval base. of

nor , of Novorossisk.

their cue from Premier Josef Stalin’s recent assertion that the Rus-. sians are facing the full weight of the German - war machine alone. They carried practically identical editorials declaring that “the Red army alone, owing to the lack of a second front, is bearing the whole weight of the struggle.” The clamor for a second front, however, had not reached last summer's Proportions.

REVEAL INCREASE IN COFFEE RATION

Next Pound Must Last Only Five Weeks.

cent increase in the coffee ration in the next period beginning March 22. Stamp 26 in war ration book 1} will be good for one pound of coffee during the five weeks from March 22 to April 25. The present ration is one pound for six weeks ending March 21. Mr. Brown said the increase exemplifies, one of the basic principles of office of price administration policy—to relax . restrictions whenever ' circumstances permit. Government agencies and the army, he said, have used their com‘bined resources to. ring more coffee into the country. : :

HITLER'S DOCTOR CALLED?

STOCKHOLM, March 11 (U. P.). mn Ferdinand .Sauerbruch, Adolf} Hitler's personal physician, was reported today to have been summoned urgently to Berchtesgaden, Hitler's Bavarian home. There have been persistent rumors recently that Hitler has been taken ill, even

miles ster; crossing this iver ‘two days ago. :

placed yunder restraint ‘for mental a : : oA Fog

"Sabotage Suspected. "no

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‘Sabotage,’ Best Seller Book, Starts Monday in The Times|

_. This headline has ‘been frequent. since » Pearl Harker; : startles us into the realization that while no enemy #roops a invaded . our: shores, enemy. agents: have: Sante. our ahtior: :

2 Sabettae. the. “ovation! | be seller 90¢

Russ Twelve Miles From

creased in fury today as the Soviet} § ;

German armies closer to the Sea of}

The Russian newspapers took |

"funder the plan proposed by the

Brown today announced a 16 per],

‘| mittee, hds indorsed the ‘commit

{25 cents, respectively, ‘were

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FORECAST: Continued cold this afternoon and evening, followed by slightly higher temperatures ate to oni and t

Arthur J. Altmeyer

GOP SUPPORTS RUML TAX PLAN

House Steering Unit Against Pay Levy Propesalls . Yesterday. WASHINGTON, March fig @. PB. 1.

~The + = Pas, committee today. voted to support

pay-as-you-go basis. Ar Meeting with: Republican Leader

Joseph 'W. Martin of Massachusetts, the committee decided to oppose the plan adopted * yesterday by the house ways and means committee to retain the present collection system and levy a 20 per cent with-

holding tax on July 1. “Unless everybody in. the country is going to pay more than one year’s taxes in one year,” Martin said, “we can’t ‘possibly get current

house ways and means committee.”

."Wanit Year Cancelled

The Republicans plan to back the version of the Ruml proposal em-

braced in g bill by Rep. Frank Carl-|

son (R.-Kas.) which could combine 2 20 per cent paycheck withholding with a plan to cancel a full year's taxes for all income taxpayers. “The Carlson plan not only would make the taxpayers current,” Martin stated, “but it also’ would. bring in $3,000, 000,000 - more in: revenue to the treasury.” . "Martin predicted that the Carlson bill Avil. gain enough ‘Democratic support; when the issue is forced in ne house to assure its approval. The steering : committee's ‘action does not necessarily mean that all Republicans will * back. the Ruml plan.. For example, Rep. Bertrand,

of ‘the house ways and means comtee's -withholding" plan.

HAIRCUTS TO GOST 65 CENTS MONDAY

36- Cent Shaves.

Effective Monday ‘union ‘prices for shaves will cost 35 cents. = The increases from 50, cents and

nounced today by George R. nl. secretary-treasurer of local 247° ‘of | the Barbers’ union. Members voted

‘|the increase at a meeting Feb. 23,| RS

go-to Higher costs of sperstion and |

‘more than $1.36,000,000 a year

<| the social security board, responsible

il is not png oF vee Be state RL

ihe, Rug. “ekip-apyets” Blan’ fer | Sa : tax. collbction: on. + "0" Gor eltveater - Distribution

W.: Gearhart, (R. Cal) a member;

Union Barbers Also Vote v

hairouts here will be 65. cents and %

sp them from taking] i ts

‘Entered as Sosond-Clazs Matter at Pos loftice, Indianapolis, Ind. I:sued daily except fiunday.

U. S Bord Slowly Tiros State’s Rights in Welfare

I Three Persons Scareely Known to Americans Dominate Handling of $136,000,000 Yearly,

And Rule Lives of 1

By NORMAN E. ISAACS The blueprints for the ‘thost extensive security system in history yesterday wer: placed before the people of the United States by President Roosevelt. What most American don’t’ know is that the social security board is already one of the most powerful agencies

in the land. ‘ Three persons most Americans never heard of today dominate the handling of

in Indiana alone and they supervise the private lives of one Hoosier out of every 10. These three are the members of

to no one but the president of the United States, a board which has quietly and steadily been expanding its already vast powers toward complete control of every detail of state and county aud city welfare, relief, public charity, unemployment compensation and old-age pensions, The new. blueprint envisages sven broader fields! - a What Probers Will Find £<The: ‘Indians legislature this year appointed a committee to maite a two-year investigation of public welfare. Anais legislative com- + that it

Darn o0 Hanne

its own tulis and philosophies through its control of the pursestrings, its “share” of welfare mene —enough money to cripple pre | pletely any stite program. - Federal money—which - comes, neverthe less from Indiana's taxpayers, i Indiana’s investigators will And themselves in the area bf the groatest struggle in all of America’s domestic affairs—the battle of the states to retain some semblance of their sovereignty in the face of constantly increasing federal power. The Indianapolis Times has conducted a long-time survey of the entire’ social security program. It discloses these facts and trends: +1, Constanfly increasing control (Continued on Page Five)

ITALY MAKES BIG cLamvs/ By UNITED PRESS The Italian air force has sunk 1,000,000 tons of allied shipping since beginning of the war, Radio Rome said - today, claiming a 15,000-ton steamer has keen destroyed, ano her large-sized merchantman and a destroyer heavily damaged, in a raid on an allied convoy between Bogle

anes :

Out of 10 Hoosiers.

» » Editor's Note: One of the great post-war issues in America will be social security—its ~ extent, its administration, its financing. Here, in the first of a searching series which is the product of long investigation, Norman E. lsaacs reveals the tense under-cover struggle that already is raging between state and local governments on the one hand, and the federal _ government on the other, for control of this vast program. \

of Industry to Inland Points Suggested.

WASHINGTON, March 11 (U.P). Lu for a post-war social revolution involving government partnership in many private industries 1and a voice for labor in the managetheht - of industry were before congress today with the enthusiastic sanction of President Roosevelt, Transmitting a series of herefofore unequaled recommendations for government-controlled economy, Mr. Roosevelt sent congress two reports from the national resources planning board for those “high purposes” he asked “full consideration” at this session of congress. : One ' concerned post-war plans, the other an expanded social security system. 5

post-war economy dealt almost entirely with domestic affairs on the theme of “jobs for all,” the board reported that it looked forward to establishment of “an effective jural order of the world outlawing violence and imperialism” to permit “energizing the fullest development

land Algiers.

(Continued on Page Five)

expanded sccial security:

systems. Provide express highways and

; ment.”

“taxes.

| Planning Board's Chart of U. S. Post-War Economy

WASHINGTON, March 11 (U. P.) Principal points of the national resources planning board's’ chart of post-war economy and |.

°F ‘ost-war

Extension of Joint private and governmental partnership, parHeulasly in such flelds as aluminum, magnesium, shipbuilding and

Consolic! ation of railroads into .& limited number of Teglona)

Expanded and integrated air transport,

' Assure labor its “essential safeguards of demoeragy?e-callottive bargaining, fair wages and hours; healthy and effective working con“ditions, and “responsibility in organization and’ sharing im manage-

he Autre jobs. at decent pay tu all those able to work, a Give all. youth. equal Sooess » education.

off-street parking in urban areas.

Jrevolutionary post-war economic

13 ONE OF GOALS =

While the recommendations for aj

& pincers drive. again In the reconversion of war plants, those piotucing basic netals ¥ | and materivls, particularly, “should be distributed among numerous Operators ta encourage healthfu. business competition.” 8

Retain a progressively grad uated tax structure and » broadened _ bombis {ax base, “vith major emphasis’on the individual income tax and less reliance ‘on ‘the. ‘corporate tax;” a shatp, eduction n- sonsumption

| ——

WE WS ne RETURN TO

Medicine and Education = Rights for A. = WASHINGTON, March I

tional opportunities for all ranging from federalized summer youth camps through college, and a “medical pro= gram just short of socialized medicine was before congress today. Congressmen were overwhelmed by the 500,000 word report of the national resources planning Most of them declined comment un= til they could read a digest. But past experience indicates that any ate tempt to legislate such & program will meet rough sledding. ' Some congressmen complimented the high purposes of the program but ‘many expressed opposition, 3 The social security educationale’' health program was only half of the report which also coveréd a broad,

plan. But immediate action was recommended on the social security ‘t aspects in contrast to later action on the over-all program. "The social security proposals a to fulfill what ides Roosevelt characterized as a mand by the present generation for “cradle to the grave” protection} against economic fears. a ; Delano Heads Board The board which prepared plan is headed by Frederick A. lano, an uncle of the president. Vice chairman of the board Pi b Charles E. Merriam, famed political | scientist of the University of | cago. George F. Yantis, a lawyer from Olympia, Wash, and former

{member of the northwest

planning commission, is the thir member. ue Advisers - are Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the federal reserve bank of New York and author of the Ruml pay-as-you-go tax plan, and Henry S. Dennison, & Massa~ chusetts industrialist who served on President Wilson's industrial cone = ference, President Harding's unems ployment conference and in the NRA. ; The house already has cut off the board without a penny for next year, Wants Jobs Guaranteed

In cubmitting its report, the board said the government's declared policy should be: : “To underwrite full employment for the employables; ** “To guarantee-a job for every man released from the armed forces and the war industries at the close of the war, with fair pay and work= ing conditions: “To guarantee and, when neces~ sary, underwrite: “Equal access to security. ; “Equal access to education for. all, “Equal access to health and “nutrition for all, and. i “Wholesome housing conditio v for all.” 5 The social security aspects of th v plan outdo Great Britain's Be eridge plan in that benefits wor be more liberal and based on |

|earningse of the recipient’

ob nA gains

On the War Fro “(March 11, 1943) AIR ‘WAR—Germans press

south of Lake

Assure farmers a fair share in the benets or an. expanding 5

Social Security