Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1943 — Page 1
FORBOAST: Ligh rain tonight and tomorrow forenoon with little dae. in temp
THURSDAY, MARCH 18 1943
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x Magor Tyndall and Henry Ostromb {left to right) coifer on post-war planning for the city. Said Mix, stron to. the mayor and press: "These &s ne palities in this. I am here as Henry Ostrom. Isn't
that right, mayor?” Le ee.
May “pyndall Bvite Mr. os} trom to serve as chairman of & post= war. ‘planning committee designed to draw up-the Bivepring for the project, © Béth men. prefaced - the confer‘ence with statements to the effect] ‘that post-war planning is entirely ‘removed from politics, and in no way; iwill reflect partisan or factional Anterests, £4 vf Forecasts Pressure.
: Mr. Ostrom, at ‘the conclusion of ‘the ‘session, remarked “If I didn’t ‘believe this works program to ‘be very: important, I certainly. wouldn't ‘consent to serve on this committee, ‘because there'll be. plenty of pres“gure on me from. certain sources” To this the mayor jokingly replied, “We'll all ‘have ‘to, bear. the pressure, but ‘we might as well be doing something at the same, time,” ¥" The ‘committee, said the : mayor, will be entirely non-partisan nd will draw. upon the best pronal and business ‘talent availSable in.the community. i step toward insuring the ‘continuance of a “healthy” community growth after the war was to ‘be taken ‘when Mayor Tyndall and ‘Mr. . Ostrom Speed .c on appointees "to the board
Alm at Post-War Jobs
Chief goal of the body, Mayor Tyndall said, will be to circumvent ‘widespread post-war employment by launching . public improvement ‘projects to absorb returning soldiers ‘and war workers as laborers. b “We don’t want to see our boys raking leaves and selling apples when this.war is over,” the Mayor remarked.
gf ating meeting marks the first officonference between the local & Se
P. leaders since precipitation Toni over og early last mont] over c patronage "policy. At’ ‘that time the mayor removed the political job’ distribution privi- : from the hands of Mr. Ostrom
"the Republican county com‘mittee and placed it under a special
{ P.).—The treasury today reported
a Spl mont throng March 18
od & 3 v y aab ts ¥ h : 4 : Miotgénthan, Jr. told a press con- : of ference that neither ‘the treasury
i Jap Al tians Base Hit 17
\ Loerday Was Big
Income Tax Day
w GTON, March 18 (U.
“income tax receipts of $514,606,~ 492 for Tuesday, more than twice the returns reported for March 15. Income tax payments deposited
FORM POST-WAR ADVISORY GROUP
Holl Heads Committee to Confer With FDR
«Each Week. ‘March 18. aon
j of. P). — President ' Roosevelt, Ras
‘por the internal revenue ‘bureau was ‘worried about income tax colJections ultimately reaching expected goals.
KISKA BOMBED 3 TIMES MORE
This Month; Two Planes Downed. - WASHINGTON, March 18 (U.P.). —American fliers: have delivered three more blistering ' attacks on Kiska in the Aleutians, hitting the Japanese submarine base there and shooting down two enemy planes in a dog-fight, the navy announced toThe new raids occurred on Tues‘day. It was. the second successive day that Kiska upderwent a severe aerial drubbing,; as the American airmen followed up the six heavy reldg made on that -base Monday. Meanwhile, Liberator heavy bonibefs made minor attacks on four Japanese bases in the Solomons; including’ Munda, which was hit from the air for the 95th time.
More Than a Raid a Day
The first two of Tuesday's attacks on Kiska were carried out by Liberators and by Mitchell medium bombers, escorted by Lightning fighters. They: bombed the main amp area and the submarine base and hits were seen in both target areas. Only the Mitchells participated in the third and last assault of the day, but ‘they scored bomb hits on the submarine base, ’ “These forays raised to 17 the total number of raids on Kiska in the first 18 days of this month, or better than an average of one a
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A formed what appears to be a per- © {manent post-war advisory committee to meet regularly at the White
House, it ‘was disclosed today. Called ih for: & conference with Mr. Roosevelt for the second “time within the past few weeks. were Secretary of State Cordell. Hull; Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles; Red Cross Chairman Norman Davis; Dr. Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins uniyersity; Dr. Leo- Pasvolsky, political adviser to Hull, and Myron C. Taylor, Mr. Roosevelt's special envoy to the Vatican. White House ‘Press Secretary Stephen T. Early sald this group “from now on” would confer with Mr. Roosevelt about once a week,
| probably on Thursdays.
The purpose of these weekly visits, Early said, will be to discuss with the ‘president “certain phases. of post-war development. » He said the group had been meeting regularly at the state department, but he declined to define the “certain phases of - post-war development.” Mr. Roosevelt at a recent press conference described. the discussions of his advisory committee as exploratory and said the group.had gone into the calling of a united nations’ conference on post-war food production and supplies.
PATTERSON BACKS NATIONAL SERVICE
WASHINGTON, March 18 (U. P.). —Undersecretary of War Robert P.
| Patterson today indorsed the Austin-
Wadsworth civilian national service bill ‘and said its prompt passage by congress’ “will mitigate the loss of life on the fighting front.” He testified before the senate’ military affairs committee. Chairman Robert R. Reynolds (D.{ N. C.) also read a letter to the com-| ‘mittee from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, which said: a “The war department strongly dorses S. 666 (Austin-Wadsworth bill). “A total mobilization of manpower and womanpoWwer is necessary to win the war, and legislation of this type is necessary for total
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% Sommittse appointed by himself,
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[Few Price Complaints Heard
Among Farmers af Camden
Shik Is the second of a exits of acticles by The Times’ Washington correspondent, who is on * Mur of faruaing afeas - By DANIEL M, KIDNEY
Times Staff Writer
| DELPEL, Ind, ‘March 18~Plenty.
fine for farming with machinery. Carroll. county had bumper crops in 1942. But some of those crops—
boys gone: to the army, and hired pay and bright lights of war-indus-
y|try centers, those left behind just t Ee + coi he eraps, 1 lash i ol is about gov
hands attracted away by the high}
& ¥ ED BY Te A
SEEDLING TAGS
ARE PLACED ON
TABLE STOCKS
Leaves Dealers Helpless to Co-operate With Legal | Maximums.
By ROBERT BLOEM Hoosier OPA officials today were
{in the throes of what appeared to
be a losing fight to maintain their cantrol over the price of that basic commodity, the lowly potato, Commission men and other deal-
|lers who handle potatoes complain ‘| that they are helpless in their ef-
forts to co te with the_price ceilings because of a glaring loophole in the potato price structure which permits the sale of any stocks tagged as “seed” without price re-] striction. Reports from Washington indicate that something will be ‘done soon to plug the loophole, but until OPA headquarters figures a solution, Mr, and Mrs. Average Consumer might
‘just as well resign themselves to
buying “seed” potatoes for food and paying “seed” them. ! They Find a Loophole When OPA originally set up its price ceiling for potatoes—a ing which varies somewhat to cope with seasonal and other market
-fconditions—it regulated only so-
called table potatoes. It didn’t take long for some growand shippers to realize that if they ‘didn’t want $0 accept the ceiling prices which thé“dealers could pay for eating spuds, they could Just christen them “Seed” and name their. own price. = - : For some time: now, commission operators have had to step up their purchases of these so-called “seed” stocks in order to have anything to sell the grocers. Wholesale prices range from $1 to $1.50 a hundred pounds higher than on the controlled food stocks. And here’s what it means to the housewife who goes to the store only to find that her grocer, try as he might, could obtain nothing but “seed” potatoes,
Up Goes the Price
It means that she must buy spuds which cost the grocer himself as much as $5 and $550 a hundred pounds. Assuming that the merchant holds hir'self to the margin of profit prescribed by the OPA, he still may have to charge her 6% cents a’pound. Had the grocer been able to obtain price-controlled eating -potatoes, he could have obtained certain white varieties, for instance, at a wholesale price of around $3.40 or $3.50 a hundred pounds. His maxi: mum price to the shopper then would be around a nickel a pound. Commission men and food experts estimated ° variously that from 50 to as much as 80 per cent-of all the Dotaices coming into the Indianapolis area are tagged * >’ One shipper was reported reliably to have printed up 20,000 “seed” labels to. stick on his shipments. Dealers emphasized, however, that some of ‘the seed stock is legitimate
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ceilings. The planting season is on, and (Continued on Page Eight)
29% OF NEW LWS BOOST TAX BURDEN
Legislature Passed Only “Five Reductions.
Of the 314 new laws passed by the 83a rout po Sat ead er either locally or generally, accordan analysis of the new legislation ‘made by the Indiana Tax-
yers association,
never will be harvested. With farm|of
potato prices for}
and not designed to duck price|
On the War Fronts
(March 18; 1943)
TUNISIA—American forces capture [ Gafsa in 30-mile advance.
RUSSIA—Red army recaptures several villages southeast of Kharkov, two strong points farther southeast, 60 communities before Smolensk, and 10 fortified towns below Lake Ilmen. .
ATLANTIC—Germans appear to have loosed gr t submarine offensive in effort to delay alli invasion of Europe.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — Flying fortresses bomb Japanese airdrome at Rabaul, New Britain.
CHINA—Japanese open stiff offen«sive west of Salween river.
RUSS GAINING ON SMOLENSK ROAD
Now Only 40 Miles From Huge Base, Retake Towns Near Kharkov. MOSCOW, March 18 (U. P). —
Red armies, back in counter attacks, have hurled the
| Germans out of ‘several more vil-
iages only 18 miles southeast of fal-
strong points farther to the southeast, front dispatches said today. Farthet ofth, 1he Rustins ver.
northwestern front. below Jake Imen. (The Tondon radio said Russias armies were within 40 miles of Smolensk.) The Germans sent scores of Stu-kas+-Junkers 87 and 77 dive-bomb-ers—against the Russian positions on the south bank of the northern Donets river below Kharkov after their tank hordes had failed to blast a pathway to the river, but the Soviets still were holding firm and at places even advancing, field reports said. Red air force fighters and deadly Stormovik assault planes were tearing into the German bomber formations and sending many bombers hurtling to the ground in flames, Other Soviet planes raked German 2{tank and infantry columns. > The fighting closest to Kharkov was in the area just above Chuguev, 22 miles southeast of the Ukrainian metropolis. Only 12 hours earlier, the Soviet midnight communique reported the slaying of upward of 2000 German officers and men and the wrecking of 19 tanks, 90 trucks and four guns in the repulse of six axis counterattacks in the Chuguev area yesterday.
MORE RAIN IS DUE; SOME ROADS CLOSED
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ,.. 35 10a m. ... 36 Ta m...32 11am... 3 8am ... 3 12 (noon).. 9am ,.. 35 1pm. ..
Dismal times , ahead! The weather bureau said there will be light rain tonight and tomorrow forenoon. The temperature will remain unchanged.
the cl of sections of five roads. They are Indiana 1 south of 28; east of Medora; 350 east of Dudleyfown;: (358 Nes of Seppo wu
near Tampico.
The Farm |
~ WASHINGTON, ‘Match 18 (U.P), —Price Administrator Prentiss ‘M. iE farm ye
ky an attouIE iva.
mlent tg what they ould be amie on
len Kharkov and seized two more]:
NAZIS’ U-BOAT DRIVE LIKENED TOFURY OF "17
(Story of cutter’s battle with U-boat, age 17) LONDON, March 18 (U. P)— Indications multiplied today that Germany is now pushing her greatest submarine offensive since the
the impending Anglo-American invasion of Europe until her armies car. make a final attem pt to crush ‘Russia. London and ‘Washington released, almost simultaneously, vjvid descriptions of two past battles. between allied warships ¢nd German submarine “wolf packs,’ possibly to prepare the public for
must win, most cbservors believed, European fortress.
sighted on the surface and many others were known tc have been beneath the surface during a threeday running attack en an allied convay in the North Atlantic last month, - ihe. British admiralty re-!
Convoy Suffers Loss
Three of the U-bozts were destroyed and many others damaged seriously by allied warships and
bes. |pisnes, the admiralty said, but it} e | akon gd taat the. .sonvoy| He venout the baitle suffere
Another Wolf-piek ¢I a least six}
submarines was regoried by the u. S. navy department in Washington to have been lying in wait for another allied convoy in the North Atlantic last month. The 2216-ton coast guard cutter Campbell drove off five of the submarines and rammed and sank the sixth, the navy said. It did not reveal ‘whether the ‘convey Which the Campbell was escorting suffered loss. Other developments indicating the increased tempo of Germany's submarine offensive were; 1. A statement by Director Elmer Davis of the U. §. offce of war information that March looks like a had month from the aspect of ship sinkings. Atlantic Gets ]'riority
2 Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s announcernent in commons that the battle of the Atlantic nas been given “firs} priority” in allied plans. 3. An unconfirined and ohvisusly exaggerated, Germail cla axis submarines have sunk 79 ships totalling 500,000 tors during the first half of March. Allied authorities also were giving their attention to a Swedish report that Germany is massing her entire high seas fleet, including at leas} three capital ships and two air-
| dicated that the Germans
streams downstate caused |
carriers, in northern Norway for attacks on the allied supply route to Russia and Anglo-American convoys to Britain .and North
Africa.
Sketchy information available inwere con{centrating most of their submarines —estimated at nupwerds of 500—in the North Atlantic while the Italjans shared the burden of attacks in the South Atlantic. : Only Monday tho Italian high. command claimed that an Italian
235 | submarine had torpedoed the: 21.-
517-ton British troop transport Empress of Canada in the Atlantic.
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Food Ration C hief Puts ‘olk ‘On Honor
honor program would result in a | serious loophole in the entire ra-
1} tioning system. If ‘very member of at;|a farm family ste, for example, two ly ondon er | ounces of butter a week more | {the average sacion of four ounces smut. 11| the loss to the nation, | | mated, would run 0 ab. i’ 000,000 |
esti
ds a (rear, an extra half-pount, of meat a week ‘over’ the ration of 2% pounds, it
| sumption of &n xtra 624,000,000
spring of 1917 in an effort to delay |
the bitter}: battles to c¢ome which the allies}:
before they car attack Hitler's
At least 14 submarines were:
; 168,- | Similarly, {i
was estimated, ‘wculd mean con- |f
Silent Puet
Visiting Pianist Talks Portuguese, Lewis Doesn't, So— By RICHARD LEWIS ARNALDO ESTRELLA, « the Brazilian pianist and music emissary from South America, speaks no English. I speak no Portuguese. So we had an interview yesterday.
The foremost pianist of his land, Mr. Estrella is touring the
| U. § as Columbia concerts prize-
winner. ‘Tonight hé appears as ‘soloist ‘with Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapglis : symphony orchestra,
So we sat dowit at & table in
have around in “situations like this. s * ss 8 J All Kinds of Accents
MR. ESTRELLA speaks French with a Portuguese accent. Mrs. Sevitaky speaks it’ with ‘a Russian accent.” I speak gibberish . with | a slight French accent: ’ ; It ‘must have been. like old home ‘week for Mr. Estrella, only: different. Since January, when somebody in New York told him prune. juice was' a sure cure for g-cold in case he caught one, the an ar-. tist has roamed the United States in a futile search for this remedy. He hasn't found any prune juice yet, ‘but he has caught a dandy cold in the hedd. 4 - He. WE HAD a jolly conversation ‘and sometimes Mr. Estrella stared at me doubtfully as though he (Continued on Page Four)
BRITISH READJUST BURMA POSITIONS
Take Up Defense Along : Arakan Front.
NEW DELHI, March 18 . P). ~-The British have been forced to take up new ‘positions along the Arakan front in western ‘because of continuing Japanese pressure east of the-Mayu river, a joint allied communique announced to-
day. The “further adjustment” of the British lines ‘was necessary to prevent ‘isolation of. units fighting north of Rathedaung. The British have been
objective.
BEAVERBROOK ASKS PLEDGE ON 2D FRONT Times Special |
Gen. Patton, No. 1 U.S. Tank Expert, Commands
Advancing Yanks.
(Profile of Gen. Patton, Page 0 War Moves Today, Page 6). :
‘By VIRGIL PINKLEY © United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, March 18.—American forces ha advanced 30 miles to cap ‘Gafsa, axis base in south cen~ tral Tunisia, and are plshing on eastward in what appears to be an attempt to pork th bottleneck at Gabes and téap thousands of axis troops. « Meanwhile, less than 100 miiles the south, concentrations of bombing planes are: ceaseless blasting of = the Atri, Korps in the Mareth line. ia Bottleneck 12 Miles wid (There was no! (ahisd conrmation . of the axis reports that the | eighth army’s attempt to storm Mateth line had been launched: tommand
on. the Bay of Bengal as their main
man attack on the positions’ of British first army im the Tat area of northern Tunisia, but | no details.) . A successful American drive Ol Gabes would cut off - the Korps in the Mareth line from the axis forces in northern Tunisia, - “One arm of Chott Djerid«(S Lake) thrusts out toward the above Gabes, leaving a narrow; mile bottleneck through which axis troops must pass if they attempt to retreat ‘northward from the Mareth line.
> All Rommel's Gains Wiped Ou :
Thus Marshal Erwin Rommel’s forces would be caught in the paws of a nut-cracker with the Amer. icans holding them on the. north and the British pressing them from the south. Gafsa is the base to which Roms mel withdrew most of his for after an allied counter-attack had ‘hurled him back through. the serine pass a few weeks ago. With the loss of Gafsa, Rommel's gains in his thrust toward Thala in attempt to smash the allied lines have been completely nullified. French mobile units, assisting the
and booby (raps behind them.Patton Takes Command Just a few hours earlier,
BY 'SUBCOMMIT
WASHINGTON, March 18 ¢