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COMMINOLE SAYS OFFICERS, MEN INJURED

Nipponese Use Poison Gas to Cover Retreat, Chiang Kai-shek Declares.

CHUNGKING, March 22 (U. P.).—The Japanese have

used poison gas twice against]

Chinese troops during the fighting south of the Yangtze

river in Hupeh province, aj{

Chinese war communique

charged tonight. "The communique from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s headquarters gave this version of the gas attacks: “On the morning of March 11 and the evening of March 13, a contingent of our forces counter-at-tacked the enemy at Mitoushih. The ‘retaliating Japanese resorted to gas attacks. More than 100 * Chinese officers and men were affected, suffering skin blisters, sobre throat, vomiting, suffocation and stomach pains, Those seriously ‘affected fainted. + “Use of these mean tactics by the! enemy to camouflage their defeat ; has been reported on many previous

+ Umsed city real estate as’ been’ released for war food production. =

Leasing of city-owned lots to pros-' pective victory gardeners for nom-| inal ‘rentals’ was approved hy the works’ baard today. Persons desiring to rent cityowned property for victory garden purposes are asked by the works board to contact its secretary, Otto " Abshier. Mr. Abshier has been empowered to negotiate “victory garden leases.”

“THIEVES FIND PIGS, FLEE WITH SAUSAGE

These two little piggies have gone =but not to market. When Weaver Russell went to his pig pen at Bethel ave. and 7th st. at the north edge of Beech

Grove yesterday, his two 40-pound

porkers were gone ‘.- And there was every sign that they had been slaughtered by the thieves before they made away with them. :

TYNDALL TO INSPECT x ATTERBURY TRAINING

An inspection of commando training and artillery firing tactics at Camp Atterbury will be made by Mayor Tyndall tomorrow. The mayor, retired army general, was invited on the inspection tour by Gen. Frank Milburn, camp com-

The 275 v. A. W.-C. 1. O. shop stewards who arrived by special train at Camp Atechury tor three days P raining with the soldiers grinped as they hosan army life. 3

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“Nomal dlestric: "power: was .re-| stored to downtown Indianapolis today after a blast in a manhole Saturday night disrupted service to commercial users in the mile square. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. officials, however, still had not determined the cause of the explosion in front, of 39 Kentucky ave. which shattered windows in nearby

: buildings and ‘interrupted all power

except for street: lights. While ‘the’ blast at 8:30 p. m., when “Saturday night crowds were at. a peak, attracted thousands of curious, there was a minimum of excitement and alarm because of quiek action by police and firemen, aided by soldiers; sailors and civilian defense volunteers. ~~ Windows ‘Are Shattered The: explosion shattered 29 windows in ‘the Central Parking garage, 39 Kentucky ave., and several in the Fairway Furniture Co. across the: street at 34 Kentucky ave. There were 14 cables in the manhole and eight of them, all carrying alternating current were damaged. They serviced hotels, theaters, night clubs, stores and office buildings, all of which were thrown into darkness until about two hours later when Power and Light Company crews, which numbered as high as 75 men, had ‘made temporary: repairs. ‘Elevator service in several hotels

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Rovers Bivas Up Coffee

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For Milk, Mts, R. Reveals;

~ ‘WASHINGTON, March 22 (U.P). President Roosevelt has quit drinking coffee in favor of milk, even for breakfast. Mrs. Roosevelt revealed that fact at her press conference today, and it immediately raised the question whether the president had decided that his pet theory about using the same coffee grounds twice was 2 failure. “No, he just decided he liked milk better,” Mrs. Roosevelt said. “He is very proud of himself, and he says he is feeling much better.” ~ She said she was also "taking

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more and more hot milk with coffee in the morning. "I. am sure. we could drink cold milk all the time. We did it as children.” Although the president has become a confirmed milk drinker, he has .not changed his ideas about other food. “We have funny buying habits at the White House,” Mrs. Roosevelt laughed. “We buy anything wi think the president will eat. It is awfully hard to find different types of vegetables that he will eat, and yet he gets tired of eating the same ones day after day. I believe he doesn’t like vegetables much, anyway,” she concluded. A The White House housekeeper, Mrs. “Henrietta Nesbit, has conferred with Mrs. Roosevelt recently about buying vegetables that have

-_| gone up rapidly in price. “My ad9! vice to her is just not to buy them,”

Mrs. Roosevelt said. The White House : dinner table this ‘summer may have a few vege-| tables grown in a tiny victory gar- } the grounds. Diana Hopnall daughter of Lend-Lease ) Harry Hopkins, who

aes atthe White House, hopes toe

from tour : — om Fvarirs a three-day hitch: in ithe army.

stewards, ‘the’ men who carry ‘a worker's’ grievance ‘to ‘the boss. They are from Indiana, ‘Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. ? The visit was arranged by Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson ‘as a method of “improving relations and creating :a better understanding between "labor and _the army.” Artiving’ ‘by. special ‘train from Detroit last night,. the men ate suppeér in a mess hall, then were greeted by Maj. ‘Gen. Frank W. Milburn and :Col.. A.. R. Ginsburgh, who, represented Mr. Patterson, They. were: issued. . army fatigue clothes and ; ‘then, ~in groups of

‘They aré U. A. W.-C. L."O. shop

from Indiana plants; three of them

from the Chevrolet Body" division of General-Motors Cofp;, hefe.’ The 1ocal mien ‘are ClaTenes’ Lyons, -Iven ‘Strange ‘and Robert: E. Evans. The others were from the Delco-Remy plant at Anderson and the Chevrolet division at Muncie. The training began at 5:30 a. m. today when the men were awakened at reveille. During their stay here, the men will be treated as soldiers and ‘will participate in the soldiers’ work. Included in the plans for the men were marching, extended order drill, squad tactics, patrolling, creeping, firing and workouts on the “blitz” obstacle . course with live ammunition firing over. their heads: Tomorrow. night, many of the

Speaking: to the men’ “Bek: “night, General Milburn, the commanding officer of the 83d, told the men bluntly they were here “to live and train and ‘work.” “Every drill .and- maneuver and activity you go through will be the same: as those troops of the 83d have been going through for: ‘months to. get. ready for. battle,” he said. Heading the U. A. W. workers were Walter P. Reuther, vice president in charge of ‘the General Motors division; Ben G. Blackwood, assistant - director of the skilled trades .departmenlf, and Thomas A. Johnstone apd Rudy J. Ilic of the General Motors division,

{BUTTER AND FATS

- FROZEN FOR WEEK|

OPA. Acts to. Protect 5% Dwindling Supplies.

‘WASHINGTON, March 22 (U.P). —Retail sales of butter, lard, margarine, shortening and cooking salad oils—everything in the new rationing program except meat and cheese—were suspended today for the rest of the week. It. will not be: possible to buy any

lof those items until the meats-fats

rationing program begins next Monday,: The individual consumer then will * be limited to the following pr weekly ration: meat, two pounds; butter, not more than four ounces; cheese, ‘about two ounces. “There - will be no freeze of sales of mayonnaise or other salad oils not included in the rationing program, but sales of canned fish and jcanned meats—frozen since Feb. 18 —will continue suspended until next Monday, too. ‘Meat Values Awaited

The “freeze” of butter ang fats sales was announced yesterday afternoon and became effective last midnight. ministration - said the suspension was necessary “hecaiise retail stocks of those foods were not sufficient to support the ‘anticipated heavy buying during the one - week remaining before rationing. The week-long freeze: will enable

Churchill Asks To Map Post-War Peace

LONDON, March _ i (U. P)— The United States ois ‘Britain—| and possibly also Russia—were be-

“| lieved today to be ‘discussing in

broad outline a world organization

envisioned by Prime Minister Winston Churchill ‘as a buffer against future wars. Churchill’ hinted that such “tentative discussions” already were under way in his nation-wide radio broadcast last night ‘and thus placed the visit of Foreign Secretary Eden to Washington in a new light, The ‘new world ganization should be set up by Britain, the United States and Russia immediately when Germany and Italy are. defeated, = which might be “sometime next year, but . . . may well be the year after,” Churchill said. Mr. Churchill was emphatic in saying that the immediate and su-

Talks Now

Speaking’ of the cbriteniplated: attack on Japan after Hitler is defeated, the prime minister said: “That will be our first’ and :supreme task and nothing must lure vs from it, \

“ «+ Let us get back to our, Joi, I must warn everyone who : hears me of a certain, shall I say unseemliness, .and also of a ‘danger of it appearing to the world that we here in Britain are diverting our "attention to. a peace which is: still remote and to the fruits of a victory which have yet to be won. while-all.the| time our Russian ‘allies are fighting for. dear life ‘and dearer honor in a dire, deadly, daily struggle against all the might of the German military. machine,

and with our American and French comrades now engaged in decisive battle in Tunisia. Allied observers here believed

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At Long Last! ‘May Be

Indianapolis Water Co. officials today considered the suitability of land around the company’ S new reservoir on Fall creek near Oaklandon for building sites for summer cottages or recreational purposes. The seven billion-gallon impounding reservoir, when filled to

|capacity, will be the third largest

body of water in the state, exceeded only by Lakes Wawasee and Max-

als | inkuckee. The water company owns Sn Ls approximately 5750 acres surround-s ' ling and including the 1800 acres | comprising - | portion.

the flooded - reservoir|s

H. 8. Moise, ompany vice presi-

Indianapolis a 'Lake Resort’

desirability of a residence or summer cottage on the reservoir is open to ‘question,” Mr. Morse said. “The reservoir differs from lakes with a fairly constant: water level in that

- [the water level of the reservoir will

fluctuate according to. the season of the year and the demands made upon it. ~The, shoreline will be at a high peint when "the reservoir is as at the present time, but

heavy demand for meso the water level will drop of aT the

‘and while our thoughts-should be with our armies|

The: three ‘major streams ih ins diang—tlie Ohib, “Wabash ard White rivers—coniinued: their Tite today causing increased suffering . and damage, chiefly. in Southern: Indiana. Crests may not be reached at some points until the later half ‘of|, the week, the weather bureau said here. Red Cross. workers: were on duty at areas where damage is heaviest. Today's weather forecast for the next 24 hours did not include an-

ticipation ‘of any more rain which|

might ‘bring more than expected rises. The forecast said not much change in temperature today or tonight. . Trapped in Homie ‘The heaviest flood damage was at “picturesque, old Corydon, the state’s first capital far downstate— and Corydon is not ‘on any. river. Flash floods on Big Indiana creeks, caused by backwater from the Ohio, killed two men, forced 100 families from their

homes, poured tons of mud ‘into

the. streets and buildings and sent water . into’ the . original capitol building. - About ‘three feet. of water covered the. -postoffice: floors: There was heavy damage to the Keller Manu-

facturing Co. plant. which ‘makes

military furniture and etrigerator units for blood plasma. Clarence" Centerman,’ 40, and ROY (Bontigued on Page Two) :

2 JUVENILE HOMES: ARE QUARANTINED

Scarlet Fever Brings Crises,

Eden went to the United States not| preme - task was to win the war.| -

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Two of Marion county’s juvenile institutions, Detention home and the Chil 's Guardians’ home, were quarant today : following ah outbreak of soariet fover among inmates. ‘This created a serious. emergency in juvenile: court because of - the problem arising over: what to do with the gontinuous flow of new cases. Judge : Mark Rhoads. of Jivenile

court said He will have to make} emergency arrangements. of some| kind to take éare of new children} 2iwho must be cared for either inf the Juvenile Detention heme or the|

Children’s Guardians’ home.

S| Judge Rhoads said” he will ay »|peal to county commissioners for| permission to make emergency ar-

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| Four- Motored Bombers Blast Mareth. Line

Forts; Americans Seize Sened, More to.

‘Within Sight’

of Maknassy.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, March 22. —The axis was fighting for its life in Tunisia today against the allies’ grand pincer assault. . The British eighth army was battering the Mareth line for the second successive day and an American force in the south-central sector was advancing toward the coast with more than 1000 prisoners already in its bag. ‘Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's desert veterans of the eighth army started their attack Saturday night and today’s allied headquarters communique said ‘fierce fight-

ing” was in progress.

A terrific aerial assault in which

even big. Liberator and Halifax bombers were used to pound. the Mareth positions preceded the attack. : “Operations are continuing satisfactorily,” the i : musique said in describing’ the eighth army’s PIYTess:

Strike Up Highway and Railway

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| Hamran, eight miles: east of El Guettar. The northern column, after seizing Sened, continued a up the railway line toward Maknassy and appeared to be strik-

ing toward the big axis reinforcement port of Sfax.

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(The British radio said American forces were “in sight

of Maknassy. 0

.. A dispatch from United Press Correspondent Phil Ault in the field with the American army, said U. S. forces had

captured 1400 Italians, but it was not clear immediately

whether this group was the same one referred to by today’s communique which put the number of prisoners at 1000.

Ault’s dispatch indicated

Nazis Have Initiative ih. North

that Rommel was pulling his

German veterans out of danger and, as usual, leaving the Italians to fight losing rear guard actions. Lo Col. Gen, Jurgen von Arnim, charged with the de fens of the northern sector of the axis’ Tunisian bridge-hé:

continued to jab at the lines of the British first army. The communique said there was “slight enemy activity and our troops have been in contact; fighting continues.” (William .H. Stoneman, = North African correspondent of The Indianapolis Times and the Chicago Daily News, reported that axis troops had occupied Nefsa station, two miles northwest of the import-

ant Gjebel Aboid crossroads.

Rommel apparently has ‘decided to ‘try to blunt the edge of the eighth army’s attack rather than make a stand against the Americans, The U. 8S. columns were encountering ‘only slight resistance ‘in their. march toward the sea, but they were proceeding cautiously, aware that Rommel, the désert, fox, might have one more trick in his bag in the form of a trap. - There was nothing subtle about the fighting along the Mareth line.

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It was an out-and-out slugging

match with those two old adver saries—the eighth army and the Afrika Korps—throwing their. ‘best. punches. : Allied pilots controlled the. air

along the Mareth. line, and Mon gomery sent them in on one of his famous _ “shuttle. attacks” on axis positions. It ‘was the first time that four-engined bombers such ¢ Liberators and ‘Halifaxes had been used in the Mareth aerial assault. The eighth army’s aerial afi was beautifully co-ordinated wit bombings -as far north as Almost every type of plane in t allied -arsenal’ joined in the as British - Bisley - bombers plastere the Tebaga air base, CONSISHIEg 0 oné main field - and four. ones, five times in 24 hours. big American flying fo