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FORECAST: Little change in temperaturé tonight; not quite so cold tomorrow forenoon. °

VOLUME 54—NUMBER 5

_rr lm cant a WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1943

"Entered as Seccnd-Class Matter at Postoffice, i ‘Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday. i

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[Wickard, Tio No. 1 Farmer. Relies on Hired Hands at Camden.

» By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Correspondent

CAMDEN, Ind., March 17.—Those in charge of Fairacre farms here are intensely eager to beat last year’s record

production of food crops—but,

‘as they see it now, they’ll do

- well tp grow as much in 1943 as they did in 1942, In addition to the patriotic incentive, they want to do their utmost through pride in and loyalty to Fairacre farms’ distinguished son, Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, the wartime food administrator. It was Mr. ,Wickard who set the the nation's: 1943 food production

“once

goals, calling for an over-all increase During the first world war he helped his father farm the place. Now the senior. Wickard is ill, the son is busy in Washington—he has found time to visit his home only since President Roosevelt named him food administrator— and most of the farm work leans

. heavily on “hired hands.”

They are doing pretty well,” as

.shown. by the fact that a crop of

- Claude Wikard

FARM PARLEY

WORTH WHILE

~ Schricker Home From lowa;. . Says Some States Worse | Off Than Indiana.

Governor. Schricker, back from the Corn 1 States Governors’. confer1gric ire. Ain Des Moines,

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cerned, * the governor said, “Indiana is about as bad off as the next fellow but I don’t believe the shortage of necessary farm machinery is quite as severe here as in’ most of the other corn-belt states.” : The governor said he came away

from the conference with a feeling|

that it had been ‘very worth while.” Representatives of the 12 states which produce two-thirds of ‘the nation’s food supply the threat which the farm problem 4mplies to the war effort, he said. - : Crops for Victory— , “Everybody had the feeling that the 1943 crop can win or lose the war. If this crop should be a failure or even a near failure it might postpone victory for a long time. “Of ‘course we never know what weather conditions are going to be,” Governor - Schricker pointed out, “but if we fall down now: because of any lack of interest, the result would be as discouraging as if ‘we suddenly were to! fall’down in the ‘production of planes: and tanks.” ; Expressing satisfaction at the outome of the conference, the Hoosier governor said the resolutions finally ddopted embodied tc a large extent the three main points which "he himself emphasized: Yo iy wy 1. That the federal government should recognize - agriculture | as an essential industry along with war manufacturing and should be rated| ‘as such for _the allocation of man-

~~ power and equipment. a That gll essential farm labor be

deferred eight or nine months until the present crop can_be laid by— not necessarily a blanket deferment ‘but one which would, be in: keeping with the importance of the crop, 3. That frozen farm machinery— Be ehould parm now lies-idle in stock —should ately. Governor, Schricker said the conferees were unanimously disappointed that no representatives from Washington ‘attended the conference but said the resolutions would be sent to government officials.

ASKS EDEN TO TESTIFY ‘WASHINGTON, Mafch 17 (u. P). _~Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers (R. Mass.) revé ‘today that: she has ‘suggested that _ ister. Anthony - Eden be | ‘invifed to Seakity- ~before ‘the house foreign af-

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sensed keenly |

‘made available immedi-| :

tish Foreign Min-|-

500 or more young pigs is coming along right now, with new litters appearing daily. The 380-acre Wickard homestead is quite a pork factory. ‘Long, Hard Winter’

There is a broad lawn dotted with fir trees along the drive, but just across a fence and sloping down to

| the highway are the electric heated

sheds where the baby pigs are born. Later they are transferred to a long,

until they weather. “This has been quite a long, hard winter in northern Indiana,” réports the secretary’s mother. Building a

can stand outdoor

|pig crop in such weather reqylres

WHAT'S HAPP ON THE FARMS?

That question holds ‘unusual interest for ‘city folks this year, for there are disturbing reports of : -agricultural trouble: that may mean. more severe wartime food shortages. The Times’ Washington correspondent, Daniel M. Kidney, | has started on a tour of farm ‘areas, assigned: to talk with farmers and report the 1943 crop prospects as they see them. Today he writes from Camden, Ind. after visiting the old home place of Amerfca’s No. 1 farmer.

Mr. Wickard’s alma mater; Purdue university, reporting on the 1943 Indiana farm outlook, says pig raising will remain profitable: “Hog prices are expected to con-

to costs for the next 12 months, especially for those producers who have or can lay in their feed supplies at present prices. Price ceilings are expected to be such that they will permit hog prices to fluctuate in the general area of those prevailing in 1942.” ‘Mr. Wickard has: plenty of feed| for his hogs. However, as on many

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25 POLICEWOMEN. 10 BE JE APPOINTED

{ They wil | Guard Juveniles

: At’ Taverns, Dances.

Twenty-five additional policewomen will be employed by the po-|. lice juvenile aid division to patrol loosely-operated taverns .and other places frequented by juveniles.’ ‘There are three policewomen on duty in the division now. Police Chief Clifford Beeker said .the new appointees, yet to be chosen, 'will be assigned to dance halls, night spots and other meeting ‘places. Others are to “act as advisers to mothers of teen age offenders and several will be posted at the health 4 board veneral clinic. a As soon as enough applications

are approved a policewoman class

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will be established by the police merit commission. LE

FIGHTS “BILL FOR | “NATIONAL SERVICE}

| WASHINGTON, March 17 (UBD: T nt William Green: of the,

today the Austin-Wadsworth na-{

| tional sérvice bill would lead to slave labor conditions comparable to‘ those * 9}in axis count

before the senate mili-|

ary ae

stove heated shed, where they live|

tinue on a favorable basis relativel

American Federation of Labor said] :

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of 8 per cent above last year’s peaks. # » ®

Daughter Amn

HENRY CHOSEN |.

Since Jan. 17; Frazier’ Is Assistant. Mayor Tyndall today appointed

Arthur B. Henry as chief city engineer and named. W. H. Frazier

assistant engineer,

Mr. Henry had been ‘serving as

|acting chief engineer since Jan. 17. Mr. Frazier, formerly consulting]

engineer with the Russell’ B. Moore Co., has been engaged in naval airport construction work at Peru, Ind, and in Iowa. A practicing engineer for 20 years, he has had wide experience in sanitation projects. Before coming to Indianapolis 10 years ago he was with Guggenheim Bros. of New York. He lives at 2830 Guilford ave. Mr. Henry succeeds M. J. Johnson who resigned in January.

COLD SPELL TO EASE; REPORT HIGH WATER

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ... 3 10a. m. ...B 40 7a m ...35 -11 a. m. re 4% 8am... 3 12 (neon) . 9am ...3" 1p m

The weather will continue about as it is tonight, but it won’t be quite so cold tomorrow, the weather. bureau said. .Rains the first two days of the week. have caused a steady rise in the Wabash and White: rivers, the bureau said. It added that rainfall in the Wabash-White valley ranged from one and one-half to three

-|inches. .

\ While moderate flooding of some

‘lowlands has resulted, there will

be no serious overflow. The rise is reaching a crest in the upper Wabash and upper portions of its tributaries, but will ‘continue for several days in the.lower channels with the crest about Saturday or Sunday im the lower Wabash,

WALLACE BEGINS TOUR MIAMI, Fla., March 17 (U. P.)— Vice ent Henry Wallace left here today by. Pan American clipper jor a.. visi 40: South, and, Central America, -

By NORMAN E. ISAACS | . ‘One board of three persons:

portunities of every. In chisrgo of his compensation if he falls out of ‘work; - .- In charge of his benefits. it he]: ped oz ; in charge of very aged seciplent}

‘In charge of ‘oe smpagiaet 9 social

SOVIET FORCES

NEAR PETSAMO, SWEDEN HEARS

Moscow Claims Capture of Key Railroad Town in Smolensk Drive.

By UNITED PRESS

| “Russian armies were reported ad- (2 | vancing today on all fronts stretch-

:| © In Stockholm the newspaper Af-|- | tontidningen reported that Russian | forces had reached a point seven

and one-half miles from Petsamo, port of northern Finland, indicating the Red army had opened a drive on the long dormant Arctic

In the Ukraine the Red army

: | seized the initiative in several secf| tions of the Kharkov-Donets front Eland in heavy attacks, according to

word from Moscow, drove the Germans from a range of ‘hills in the region of Izyum, 75 miles southeast

i of Kharkov.

On the central front Soviet col-

:|umns pressing converging drives

toward Smolensk scored new tri-

: lumphs, cutting the Nikitinka spur

railroad at a point 65 miles north- ; |east of the big central front base.

on : Tank ‘Units’ Hurled Back

~ positions

nea bl li _|after the n kp. which cost them

{Had Been in pot Post

Kharkov: and eight other’ major bases. ‘The first definite reports that the Red army had the German counter-

. | offensive on the southern front well

in “hand said the Russians had loosed attacks at a number of points along the Donets line angling southeastward from Kharkov and were expanding their positions on the south bank of the river. ‘The fighting was especially wiolent in the Izyum area, where German armored forces were thrown back from ‘a ‘series of heights commanding approaches to the Donets. 32 Towns Recaptured The capture of the railroad town of Igoryevskaya, announced in the Soviet ‘mid-day communique, isolated Nikitinka, five miles to the north, -and opened the way for a Russian advance on Durovo junction, 25 miles to the south, where the spur line joins the main Vyaz-ma-Smolensk’ railroad, From Igoryevskaya, the ‘Russians also may. slash southwestward to- .| ward: Yartsevo, 10 miles away, in a drive to outflank Durovo and German forces still resisting farther cast. Yartsevo is the most important German base guarding the approaches to Smolensk. Thirty-two’ inhabited towns were seized by. Russian .forces .driving southward from Bely, north = of Nikitinka. Marshal Semyon - Timoshenko’s northwestern forces knocked:out 86 enemy pillboxes . and - blockhouses, killed 1000 German troops and captured a number of villages and towns in a continuing advance on the stronghold of Staraya Russa below Lake Ilmen. -

0. K’S MANUFACTURE OF ALARM CLOCKS|

"WASHINGTON, March 17 (U.P). —THe war production board has fp} proved a resumpfion .of the facture of ala clocks, it Bel learned today. It hopes to boost war production by’ getting workers

designs - or 5s Shula

but ne Lrg i 10000 new Sloss by She end of) 1043

No, that e “Blue the future” ed to a few days ago. It is

Red Cross Aid

dames Stewart

TELLS OF WORK IN NEW GUINEA

Recreation Keeps Soldiers Level-Headed, Stewart © Tells Meeting. :

James Stewart, for the Red Cross who spoke today before a combined meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Lions’ club and Red Cross workers, is anxious to get back to New

their sanity or losing it,” he said. “I have seen hundreds of them’ sit in a torrential rain that was so ‘hard the light of the motion picture projector barely reached’ the screen—and the troops sat through a double feature.”

Recovering From Fever

A 38-year-old former owner of an ice company at Oneonta, N. Y., Mr.

worker to reach New Guinea. He arrived there in June, 1942. Now the staff has been augmented to 18] workers. ‘He is back on leave from the Sydney, Australia, office to recover from malaria fever. The Red Cross is the only agency to work among the troops in forward zones, he said. Its workers furnish aid tothe sick and wounded, supply athletic equipment, games, books, cards, stationery and com-

families in emergencies. Wife Doing Fine

One example of the latter, he said, ‘was a soldier who told him de ¢had been advised that his wife was not picking up her allotment, checks. The soldier was worried about his family. Mr. Stewart got word through to Weshirgion head: quarters. It “was: discovered the wife was working and had forgotten to pick up the checks. : The facts were referred to Mr. Stewart, who advised the soldier his wife and family were getting. along fine.

On the ‘War Fronts| #7. 1% (Maroh 17, 1943)

AFRICA—Fiill scale’ ailied offensive appears imminent. Allied planes] pound Mareth line, axis coastal Positions and sea communica- . tions; . :

RUSSIA—Russians. at yallroad 65| miles northéast of Smolensk; reported to have: opened new drive In Arctic. :

SEA WAR Battle of the seas picks up. intensity with new - Nazi| claims of sinking. allied ships and | . Stockkolm reports: that are massing = battle fleet. off Northern ‘Norway. HELL

(War Moves and and Communidues, . Pagel] 3 a

George Washington H od a Word for It But He Lived in Horsesnd Siggy.

(Editor's Note: This is the last

| Tremendous

4 ‘Germany

a field direitor|

difference betweerr soldiers’ “keeping 8

Stewart was the first Red Crosss|

municate between soldiers and their ' | veloped to cope with submarines, it

was learned that U. 8. British and {Canadian conferees

REPORT LARGE

NAD FLEET IN 'NORSE WATERS

Sea - Battles ‘May Precede Allied Invasion of Europe.

By UNITED PRESS Evidence was mounting today that United States, Great Britain and

naval engazements of tremendous

|the time and place of the allied invasion of Europe. Principal developments were: (1) A Stockholm dispatch to London said that the entire German ‘high ' seas fleet, including three capital ships and two aircraft carriers, is assembling in northern Norway. (2) The allies, in preparation for supplying European invasion forces, have begun to effectuate new antisubmarine plans adopted at a United States-Grealt Britair-Canadian conference in Washingion. (3)-Prime Minister Churchill told commons today thaf the task of exterminating U-boats has been given Priority © in all American. -British ‘plans 4, ChureRiIPs’ statement: Souched off a verbal’ blast against the admiralty cliniaxed’ by a virtual de-

{mand for resignation of its fest

lord, A.V, Alexander, Surfaci: ‘Raiding. ‘Foreseen The. Stock holt dispatch, crediting the report. o:' ;Germin’s. fleet concentration off Norway. io the naval correspondent of the stockholm news-

| paper Nya. Daglight Allehanda, re-|

vived speculation that Germeny was about to coraplement her intensified submarine cffensive in the Atlantic with large-s:ale surface raids on the allies’ 1 sea lanes. Germany’s super-battleship, the 35,000 tons-plus Tirpitz, ic being joined ‘in ‘Norwegisn waters by the battleships 3charn! 10rst and. Gneisenau. ‘In’ addition, it seid, two German aircraft .cerriers: have left for northern Norway. Though the dispatch did rot identify the carriers, they were presumed to be the new sister . ships, the 19,250-ton Graf Zeppelin and Deutschland. Revise Convoy System

In addition to new tactics de-

ggreed in Washington jon a reallocation of ‘responsibilities in the various areas of .convoy operation. This, it was felt, will provide for more efficient use -of the anti-submarine equipment now available to ali three nations. The new tactics are military se-

that aircra’t — toth ‘planes and blimps—will play a vital: part. Furthermore, the new destroyerescort type of anti-submarine vessel which the United States is now building soon will be available in ever-increasing numbers. . Mr. Churchill told commons: * “The destruction of U-boai bases is an essential part of this strategy,” he said, in answer fo a question regarding allied attacks on: French ports. . “The heaviest. blows. already ‘have been d:livered by the RAF and the USAAF against U-boat bases in both Germady and “rance

‘IAPS RST STRING: GONE, KENNEY SAYS)

Germans | Ours Just ‘Beginning to}

Function, He Adds.

were squaring off for]

importance which will vitally affect|

crets. But here is every indication |

_wasHmNGTON, March 17 (U. P). a

‘Save the South"

Governor Sam Jones

THAT'S THE AIM. OF GOV. JONES

If It Can't Be Done Under Democratic Banner, He Hints Bolt.

By EARL RICHERT Governor Sam Houston Jones of Louisiana, the man who wiped. out the last vestige of.the Huey Long regime and who looms today as the potential No. 1 rebel in the Democratic party, says that a new era in political thinking is dawning in the so-called Solid South. More independent thinking’ is going on among than at any time since the Civil War, |

erners: today |

Aerial . Offensive Believed ~ Start of All-Out Effort = To Crush Rommel.

| BULLETIN © © © NEW YORK, March 17 (U. P.). - .==The British Broadcasting Cov "said today that German irans-’ ocean news service had broadcast that the British eighth armiy had attacked the coastal end ‘of - the Mareth line after a prolonged ar~ tillery barrage. The BBC broadcast was recorded by the United 2% Press listening post here.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, March 17 (U. P.) —Allied planes are blasting away at axis positions along the Mareth line:in : an attempt to soften up: the" enemy for what appears to be an imminent push to drive Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps into the sea. =. German artillery, apparently. attempting to delay Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's attack, shelled the eighth army: west “of Médenine Royal air force planes’. by

continuing their systematic bombing’ of Mareth line strong. pointe; :

he says, and no longer are they in. | Port

clined’ to follow anything bearing the Democratic label.

Wants Problems Solved

The Louisiana governor was here today with a New Orleans trade delegation to discuss export-import trade with Indianapolis businessmen. He addressed a joint luncheon of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and Kiwanis club on post-war opportunities in Latin America. Commenting on “the recent Saturday Evening Post article in which he discussed the possibilities of the Solid South bolting the New Dealdominated Democratic party, the Louisiana governor said he was not so much interested in creating a (Continued on Page Five)

BOMBARD JAP. BASE IN MiD- SOLOMONS

Kiska Blasted Six Times in Single. Day.

WASHINGTON, March 17 wl P,)—In an apparent attempt to knock out important enemy. bases at both ends of the Pacific battle line, an American naval task force has bombarded Vila in the central Solomons with “good results,” while our airmen heavily bombed Kiska in the Aleutians six times ina single day. A havy communique today said that in addition, American fliers

carried out five harrassing Taids on

Villa and four other Japanese bases)

for’ the 94th fime. hy The intensification of Amerledn

activity in thie Pacific was believed

new and: important ac~

to presage. tion in that general hattle area.

North of ‘the eighth army tiors: allied patrols penetra

axis base in the south central tor, and were in position to me

and closing the: bottleneck at ¢ The air attack on Gabes

Roads, railroad line were. the MH xa | gets. British Bisley bombers ranger in and out:of the Gabes area: an

highway installations. ; 5 Fortis Attack Shipping

American flying fortresses and P-38 Lightnings flew out over the waters between Tunisia’ and Sicily to strike at Rommel’s sea communi= cations. They spotted a half dozen motor and the fortre went in fast to the attack, Thite barges ‘were set afire. 7 . The

‘patrols. were made up entirely of cans. They ‘encountered tanks about three miles north of t tows: but. the result of whatever " headquarters. West of Medenine, near Mareth. line, axis artillery an apparent attempt to slow M oo gomery’s preparations for an offers

royal ait force replied to

ROOSEVELTS. WED 38 YEARS TODAY