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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 26
« War Costs
SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1043
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(An Editorial) T costs a lot of money to win a war. It will cost a lot more to lose this one.
They know that, now,
men and women are slaves and their children are hungry, and money wouldn't buy them much, even if they had any money. They know it too well in Poland, where their only law is the whim of an arrogant power-drunk hoodlum with a swastika on his arm and a whip in his
hand.
No price would be too much to pay today. But today it is too late—for them.
It isn’t too late for us.
The tide of this war has begun to turn. A’ hundred thousand cornered Nazi rats face sure destruction in Tunisia—if we don’t let down our own men fighting there.
in France where
won.
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HE day of doom is coming for the Jap hordes in Asia—if we send the ships and the guns .and the men to carry on the job our vanguard has started. The thunder of bombs over Europe is only the beginning of the storm that will sweep Europe’s strutting dictators to oblivion— if we go on sending the bombs. Yes, the tide has turned—but the war isn’t
From every battlefield and every jungle outpost in the world comes the cry for “More— More—More.” More guns. More planes. More
ships. More bombs. More men.
We send more—or those men die in vain. This month America must raise’ thirteen billion dollars for war. Don’t let the figures alarm you.
PRICE FOUR CENTS
R EMEMBER those thousand plane raids that y Re Cologne and Essen off the map? = They cost $12,500,000 each. Indiana is asked to . pay for just 10 raids like that, $125,000,000, About $35 apiece for every one of us in Indiana. * Not a figure to frighten anybody. A low enough price to pay for a guarantee we'll never have to bow to a buck-toothed Jap with a bayonet, or take a slap in the face because we can’t understand his commands. Low enough even if we GAVE the money, though nobody asks us to give it. All we do is lend it, on the best security on earth. ‘ Buy War Bonds Now. Buy all you planned you could afford, and. then double that order. Money is the cheapest thing we can give
for VICTORY. Some Americans are giving their. lives.
For Better Balance; Meat
WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P); —Food Administrator. Chester OC. Davis today. announced a program|. _ .designed: to bring about a more between livestock, meat and feed prices without increasing present meat prices to consumers, The program provides for: 1. An immediate 5 cents a bushel increase in corn ceiling prices’ in surplus producing areas:
2. An increase inthe government's S|
hog support: prices from .$13.25 to $13.75 a hundred pounds (hogs re-
3. Importation of feed from
Canada and Australia. Better Balance Sought
It is intended, Davis said, to as-|-
sure a better halance between live~| stock and feed prices, without changes in consumer prices, and to combat black markets by eliminating the “squeeze” between live animal and wholesale meat prices. Davis said no immediate ceiling price on live hogs is conte ited, | but that ‘procedures ate beihg worked out for live hog ceilings: if}: present control measures do not re: sult in a downward adjustment in rices “in a reasonable time.”
7 The policy was determined with|
the “full concurrence” of the office| of price administration, Davis said. He said that in conformity. with]. President Roosevelt's “hold-the-line” anti-inflation order, it will cause no increase in living costs.
‘meanwhile, was preparing to roll back some retail commodity prices which officials said would save housewives “a tidy sum.” No indication was -given, however, as to where the first cuts would be made. Experts said it would not be possiible to roll back all’ prices which now are above those ‘prevailing on Sept. 15, 1942—the price stabilization goal. As for reports that Soi prices!
might be reduced, it was said at]
OPA. that little consideration: had been given to that, but there had been some talk of increases prior tg the president’s new order.’
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“A Waskly' Sitsup by the
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beat: Rommel in Tunisia? Dessinits, six, 2 J B. x i a
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on Spain.)
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LAVAL PROBABLY will be hanged. Frenchmen consider guillotine or firing squad too good for him. His only ‘escape would seem to be suicide.’ (t is believed no country would accept him as refugee.)
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UNDERGROUND REPORTS from France say Hitler wants no
more Frenchmen in German factories. He fears sabotage. He prefers
. to work them on fortifications along French coast, even along Pyrenees.
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3: BRAZIL. MAY SEND foken expeditionary force to North Africa.
Psychological effect 'on Spain and Portugal would be considerable.
(Brazil was settled by Portuguese.) ® ” ”
Hull to Repay Eden Visit
Dealers.
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_gssential y work—but army continues
) “to take new ones, SE : (Soldiers: past 38 agree, betore: yelase by army, to:work in essen- « thal indusisies; dre otherwise “subject to immediate recall to active S “Note: ‘Army says “subject to” recall, doesn’t say they will
dled) * “an 2 Here’s News for 3- B Men MEANTIME. CLASS 3-B is on
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HULL WILL ACCEPT mvitation to repay Eden’s visit by going to London—health permitting. He enjoys tremendous prestige abroad —much more there than among some of Washington's sinall-fry New
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MANPOWER COMMISSION and; selective service continue to mutter threats of drafting’ men 38 to 45; to. rele se men past 38 and refuses
less they get farm or other
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way out—and with it the special
» status afforded workers in 35 occupations named as essential to war effort. The order ending class 3-B will divide occupations into three
At top will be class 2 men, deferred as necessary and irreplaceable, At bottom, the small number in specified’ non-deferrable work— bartenders, bus boys, dancing teachers, etc.
in “useful” work. (But with class
3B gone, there will be no apparerit incentive for a man with dependents to shift from his job as real-estate salesman, say, intc an airplane factory. One job will offer same draft status as the other.)
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ARMY WILL SOON lengthen post-induction furloughs from one (With more married men being called up, it is believed average draftee will need more time to wind up affairs at home.)
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Ruling by OPA Boss Brown-that home canners can get extra sugar
a defeat for two OPA professors—
Harold Rowe and Paul O'Leary. They wanted to deduct blue coupons at 12 points for each pound of sugar-for-canning. (Home canners must, however, get special- sugar permits from (Continued on Page Two)
Cincinnati sold a total of $7,500,000 worth of war bonds last week in connection with Ralph Edwards’ “Truth or Consequences” show, record that most Buckeyes thought would hold up for the remainder of the show’s tour. But Indianapolis will surpass the} record before night, war bond officials confidently predicted today, with local sales so far zooming over the $7,000,000 mark, to the amazement of Mr. Edwards and his
The popular radio: will
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Radio Show War Bond Sales May Pass $7,500,000 Record
The first show will be’ broadcast to the middlewest and the east while the second is for Pacific coast
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“lI am amazed at Indianapolis’ spirit in this bond campaign. It's a spirit that means the city knows there is a war and is out to win,” Mr, Edwards said. Elmore F. C. Weber, president ot the Marion county League of Savings and Loan associations, whe said the sales were upwards-of 7
million so far, was making a l.st
minute effort to sell the 250 seats Zenjaining for the two shows, These
sors | seats are
“Worst of War Still Ahead,’ “He Says 2 at Cade Ral;
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phe: U. 8. warfieet, including all types of combatant vessels, will be more than doubled in size this year, Navy Secretary Frank Knox revealed in an address here last night —his first public speech since his return from a tour. through the Southwest Pacific theater. The navy secretary tempered his encouraging report on naval construction, however, by telling the thousands who gathered at Cadle tabernacle for the gigantic rally opening the second war loan drive that the striking power of the navy at the end of 1943 “will be no more than we need.”
“Worst Is Still Ahead” “The worst of the war is still
fahead of us,” he declared, “and Ger-
man under-sea power is an ever increasing peril. We will make fur-
' | ther additions in 1944 to insure the
obliteration of Japanese sea power and to sweep the German and Italian U-boats and surface ships from the seas.” Secretary Knox, who spoke over a nation-wide radio hookup, reported that the tonhage of the new warships completed this year will equal two-thirds of the total tonnage of combatant ships in service at the end of 1942 and that the number of aircraft carriers completed in 1943 will be many times greater than our total carrier [force at the end of 1942. “As for desioyer escorts, designed for submarine warfare, the number to be completed in. 1943 will be (Continued on Page Two)
{SCOTT AND STAAB
FOUND NOT GULTY
Trial Frees Former Credit Union Officials.
A criminal court jury has acquitted Cecil F. Scott and John A. Staab of charges that they embezzled $50,000 from the Indianapolis. Firemen’s Credit Union after the fourth of the case in two years. The jury handed dows the not guilty verdict yesterday after less than two hours’ deliberation. : The fisst trial more than a year ago was interrupted by the illness of a jury; the second trial ended with a jury disagreement and the third trial two weeks ago was stopped” following disclosure that a woman approached one of the jurors in behalf of Scott.
officials of the credit union which tution for the benefit of city firemen, 5 : union became defunct and a
EL resulted in the
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investigation | TIMING Jf a in:
Sausage Points
WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.).~An office of price admin- |. istration spokesman said today ] that point values on sausage and scrapple, now being boycotted by housewives in many sections of the country, probably will be reduced soon. Officials have had the sub-
they Ege the point i too. high’ in .to other meats. .OPA officials. said this: was especially true in New England and the Midwest. The spokesman advised dealers to apply for permission to hold special sales, with both point values and prices cut, if sausage is piling up on the counters. Most popular sausage products are valued at seven to nine points 4 pound.
R. A, F. BOMBERS ‘RAID DUISBURG
Many 2-Ton Blockbusters Among Missiles Dropped On River Port.
LONDON, April 10 (U. P.).—British bombers, raiding Germany for the third time in a little more than 24 hours, bombarded the steel city and river port of Duisburg with tons of demolition and fire bombs last night. Eight planes were lost in the ate tack and subsidiary raids on other objectives in Germany’s industrial Ruhr valley, where lie most of the plane, tank and munitions factories supplying axis armiec. Coastal command torpedo planes joined in the offensive with an evening attack on enemy shipping off the Norwegian coast. A tanker was hit by several torpedoes, but two aircraft were lost. Duisburg, one of the largest inland ports in Europe and site of the coke ovens of the German steel trust, now has been raided 58 times, the last the night of March 26. Many two-ton block-buster bombs were among the cargoes of destruction dumped on Duisburg last night. Only a few hours earlier, swift British Mosquito bombers at dusk attacked industrial objectives near Cologne, site of some of Germany’s
LONDON, April 10 (U. P).—A
~ Btaab and Scott were executive|h
navy announcement that a medi-
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Sink Medium-Sized Vessel Near Shore Early This Month.
-|~Enemy submarines ae tt at
an absence of more than seven months, the navy revealed today. The disclosure was made in a
um-sized U. 8S. merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat early this month off the U. S. East coast. landed at Miami.This was the first merchant ship sinking in U. S. coastal waters since last August, when the axis abandoned its submarine campaign on the East coast. .The submarine menace off the American coast was placed under control late last summer through the emyployment of the convoy system and greatly augmented antisubmarine surface and air patrols.
Some Recent Caribbean Sinkings
Last month there were a few instances when enemy submarines ventured into the Caribbean area to sink some ships. That area had been a hot spot until the convoy system was instituted. Survivors of the sunken ship, who were rescued by U. S. warships, said that the vessel’s captain, James W. Harrel of Houston, Tex., ordered his men to abandon ship while he returned to his cabin and went down with the blazing vessel. The sinking also claimed the lives of 42 other men. There were 18 survivors. »
On the War Fronts
(April 10, 1943) ,
TUNISIA—AXis lines collapse in south; allies occupy Mahares and Sfax; drive enemy from Fondouk and Pichon on central front in new threat to cut off retreating Afrika Korps.
AIR WAR—R. A. PF. bombers again hit Ruhr arsenal; Duisburg main target.
RUSSIA—Red army repulses strong new German thrust at Donets line.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC—U. 8S. bombers make heaviest raid of war on enemy Bast at Madang.
British planes ‘on raids have re-
His. Hands.:Fill
Lon fo’ Tunis’ Is Cry of
Survivors of that ship were!’
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a ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North ‘Africa, April 10 (U. Pj _ ‘Twenty-seven enemy airplanes, ‘including 18 Ju-52 air transports, were shot down today by United States Lightning fighters between Sicily and Tunisia. On Monday Lightnings shot down 18 similar axis air transports. The British 8th army alone has taken more than 10,000 prisoners since April 6 in its speedy drive up the Tunisian coast, it was dis= = closed today. Vi
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUAR~
RIGHT HAND’ TERS, North Africa, April 10, —Axis defenses in south Tue
He’s the Working Boss of |nisia crumbled today and in : the central sector an all-out President’s Battle on
allied offensive again threats Inflation.
ened to cut off the fleeing Afs rika Korps of Marshal Erwin WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.). Rommel. —Economic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes faces the toughest| I" the south, the allied f collection of problems probably ever | 00K the important coastal cities handed to any government official Sfax and Mahares, while the cens beneath the rank of president. tral column drove the enemy from. Byrnes, veteran of 25 years in its mountain strongholds of Pichon congress and former supreme court | 8nd Fondouk. justice, is the working boss of the| SPurTed on by an order from Gen. administration’s battle against in-|SI¥ Bernard L. Montgomery to flation. President Roosevelt, de- [Smash on to Tunis and “drive the spite the unprecedented authority |6P€mY into the sea,” the British he has delegated to Byrnes, remains (3'My surged up the coastal the top boss on the home as well as toward Sousse at the rate of the ‘war front. than 15 miles a day to seize Mr. Roosevelt's latest executive|Mahares and Sfax and pursue order tightening the present eco-|Peaten enemy on toward the north. nomic controls means some increase| Enter Sfax Early This Morning in Byrnes’ powers. Particularly| The British spearhead enter does the order add to Byrnes’ head- |Sfax—which had been f aches because now. he, instead of bombed by the allied air force the president, will decide border-|8:15 a. m. today after covering the line and hardship cases in which |22 miles from Mahares in approxis the office of price administration or [mately 19 hours, the war labor board are involved. (A Moroccan broadcast said that The effect of Byrnes’ new powers [British aircraft carriers were stands (Continued on Page Two) . [ing off the Tunisian coast, acting as
HOOSIER MAY HAVE 5 mm os FARMERS’ ANSWE
mering axis columns in retreat.) Wickard Lauds Ds Delphi Plant
At the same time, American and British armored forces and infane Owner on Labor Plan. DELPHI, Ind., April 10 (U. P.) —
I. on the seniral scelor made'd of Agriculture Claude R.
attack Thursday m Jelnt the north on the village : Fondouk and' a nearby mountain position held by the enemy. : noon they had schieved their o jective, having driven the Wickard last night notified Fred Welch, owner of the Globe Valve Co., here, that he may have conceived a program for alleviating the farm labor shortage which would be applicable “on a national scale.”
Direstor- Byrnes
from both Fondoyk and. Pichon, At Pichon, the American-E column ‘was only 33 mallee. Tron @ holy city of Kairouan, second .on to Mecca in the eyes of Moslems. The offensive operations continued today in conjunction an advance of 10 miles by. British 1st army in nort : (Continued on Page Two)
ur BATAAN HERO'S WIFE | TO ENLIST AS NURS
DETROIT, April 10 (U. P) ~ wife of Capt.