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T0 DOUBLE IN 1943-KN0X
Worst of War Still Ahead, He Tells Cadle Rally;
Lauds Hoosiers. (Continued from Page One) ~ greater than the total number of all destroyers in service on Dec. 31, 1942,” he said. On naval aircraft production, the ~ navy chief said that combat planes will more than treble in number ~ this year; naval fighter planes will multiply by five, bombers by four and other combat: types, principally ~ observation planes, will decline. Referring to the landing barges ‘which play & major role in in- . vasions, Mr. Knox said that thou-
Early Victory Talk silly—inos
Navy Secretary Frank Knox. and Admiral William Halsey, commanding officer in. the Southwest Pacific, don’t see eye-to-eye on the question of when the war will be over. « At a press conference here yesterday, the navy secretary said: “1 want to caution on this silly business that the war is won. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are just { getting away to a good ‘start now. “I do not predict any early .victory, but I do predict a sure victory.” Asked by a reporter about Admiral Halsey’s repeated pre1 dictions of victory this year, Mr. Knox. said: “You've heard what I think about it. I suppose Admiral Halsey had some military purpose in mind when he 'made that statement.”
sands more of these would be produced this year than were produced _. in the preceding ‘year and one-half. _ Mr. Knox said that the growth of the fleet’s striking power is qualitative as well as quantitative. He paid tribute to Hoosiers for ' buying more than $23,000,000 in war bonds last month to pay for the new cruiser Vincennes and declared that the new cruiser will set a course ' “which swill again take the fleet into Yedo: Bay and into Yoko- - hama harbor. Yen “The original ship made history. She was among the first United States ships to enter a Japanese ‘harbor—and her successor will not
audience. in appreciation of the Hoosiers’ contribution to the building of the new Vincennes, the navy presented its biggest show, “Meet Your Navy,” to the, tabernacle audience.
Pulliam Forecasts Success
Eugene C. Pilla, state executive - chairman of the war “finance committee, told the ' Cadle tabernacle audience that he was hopeful that the state of Indiana would be the first to go over the top in its drive "to get $125,000,000—its assignment in the second war loan drive. “We've got $60,000,000 of that $125,000,000 already in the bag,” he announced. The audience cheered. At & dinner for Mr. Knox, naval officers and campaign workers preceding the Cadle tabernacle rally, A. Leroy Portteus, president of the Association of Legal Reserve Life / Insurance companies of Indiana, announced that $21,000,000 already had been pledged in the war loan drive by the insurance companies,
: Union Buys $200,000 Worth
. It also was announced that the Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators had sent in a check for the purchase of $200,000 worth. Discussing the submarine menace at a press conference earlier in the day yesterday, Secretary Knox asserted that “we ultimately will overcome the su “The submarines are a most difficult foe,” he said. “It’s like finding a needle in a haystack to find ‘them and then when you find them t's hard to site fhem. ”
“THIS WILL BE YOUR NAVY AT END OF "43
+ Here’s what our naval construction program will do for our navy in 1043, as revealed by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox here Inst night: ! All combatant vessels—to be more than doubled.’ Airplane carriers—to be multiplied many times the total carrier force at the end of 1942. ~~ Destroyer escorts designed for submarine warfare—to be greater
JUNTINGTON SAILORS LISTED AS MISSING.
“navy today announced that Pavia Sink and Eugene E. Ay th. of Huntington; nd, in action. y were the only. Hoosiers in‘in two navy casualty lists re-
» catting.
Knox and Downes Confer
The Claypool housed a lot of gold braid last night, including a secretary of the navy and a rear admiral. Left is Secretary Frank Knox, with Rear Admiral John Downes, commandant of the ninth naval district. The picture was taken just before Secretary Knox spoke at Cadle Tabernacle.
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington _ Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers ¢
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ration boards, probably on last year’s formula—one pound of sugar to each four quarts of home-canned fruits.) » » ” ® ® n OPA GRADE-LABELING program will likely be explored by house interstate and foreign commerce committee. Rep. Halleck (R. Ind.) pushes inquiry. » » 8
Pay-as-Go Showdown Imminent
HOUSE SHOWDOWN on Ruml-Carlson bill will come next week; maybe Monday. Ways and means committee meets Monday to hear Hull on reciprocal-trade-agreements extension. Republican members are ®Xpected to use the opportunity (after Hull testimony) to measure committee sentiment on another pay-as<you-go bill. Prima-donna ways and means majority, used to own sweet way on taxes, got a resounding kick in the slats for their finagling with
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. pay-as-you-go, and- they don’t like it. But house is seething with de-
mands for Ruml-Carlscy or some other hill waiving at least part of tax on'’42 incomes—to clear decks for levying on current, instead of spent, income. . (One group wants committee to report out only a withholding tax, put it through house, and let senate insert pay-as-you-go formula. But Ruml-Carlson backers balk at this). » ® 8
Fourth Term Gossip
; REPUBLICANS SAY they've been tipped off on fourth- term strategists’ slogan: “Don’t go back on the commander in chief.” ® 8 » ain STRAW IN WIND? A marine in the Pacific writes a Southern senator urging re-election of F. D. R. and giving SONETEss hell. ” » 8 os » ” G. 0. P. OPTIMISM about 1944 is tempered among some astute Midwesterners, who think F. D. R.’s cradle-to-grave social security program will be a major and effective issue. i i # ® ” 2.2 2 MAYOR; ED KELLY of Chicago, ithizdsterm promojer, i has been silent about, fourth, “A possible, reason® Chicago Poles are’said’ to have been cooling toward Roosevelt because of Russia's purported designs on Polish lands. But— ~ Mayor Kelly has now been re- .cletted, Fourth-termers watch to see if he’ll board bandwagon. » ® ”
Landon to Reveal Stand Soon
ALF LANDON plans major foreign-affairs speech in East soon. Will urge go-slow on post-war plans, oppose “international WPA” sponsored by U. S. His stance will be middle-of-the-road, between extreme internationalists and extreme isolationists. (Landon is counted among stop-Willkie bloc in G. o. P. He may even be hoping for nomination himself.) 8 8 =» 2 = = DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS, still mindful of 1942 defeats and worried about ’44, are getting advice from some of their colleagues on how to spend the Easter recess: “Don’t take your wife to New York to see the shows. Go home, see the peuple; find out what they’ re thinking.” » ” » ” ” » PRENTISS BROWN is proparini to cull Republicans from key jobs.in OPA state and regional offices. After looking over some of these appointees, Brown conceded to Democratic congressmen that they “had a kick coming.” ” 2 = E ” » » HOUSE PETITION to force anti-poll tax bill to the floor again has 156 names; 62 more needed. A bipartisan group rounding up signatures says it will get enough. ” » 2
Puerto Rico Junket Needed FIGHT MAY BE STARTED by decision of house insular affairs
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committee to make an on-the-scene study of Puerto Rico. A senate
committee is just back from the island after taking much testimony, and its bulky record will be available soon. Some house members say another trip would be expensive duplication. * (House committeemen deny reports that their inquiry might be aimed at offsetting a possibly critical senate Teport; say their study would go beyond senate’s in seobe.) » » ” » 8 8 REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN will travel soon on “food studies.”
' Landis (R. Ind.) subcommittee of Republican congressional food study
committee will seek to learn first-hand the production problems of fruit and vegetable growers. 4 . 2 ” Farmers complain ‘to some senators that local tire-ration boards decline to approve tires for their truck trailers, despite approval here. » : ”» # 1 os 2 ” P. D. R's new order against price increases puts kibosh on oilindustry fight for a general 25-cent-a-barre]l increase in crude oil. Industry may now seek increases in particular fields. - Oil men say that unless price goes up, country’s petroleum supply will be imperiled. Industry has hitherto shunned congressional proposals to subsidize wildcatting, but, on heels of price order, Loan Administrator Jesse Jones wrote Senator O'Mahoney he was ready to lend money for wild(Security, however, would be other than prospect of strik-
ing oil.)
BYRNES 1S FOR'S G00D RIGHT HAND’
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zation. He and Mr. Roosevelt lunch together occasionally and Byrnes ducks into the chief executive's office on short notice. He and the president also carry on many of their dealings by telephone. - Byrnes can be very tough and
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work, thus giving the president a opportunity to concentrate on his job as commander-in-chief and to pass on only matters involving fundamental policy Byrnes and the De adent work together closely, conferring at frequent intervals—sometimes several
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times a day. - Byrnes makes his own decisions on most economic steps of a mechanical nature buf; talks to
the Jessie het before making a ma-
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hard-fisted, but invappearance and in conversation he is soft-spoken and has ‘a heavy, slow South Carolina accent. ‘He works with a staff that for Washington is microsopically small. He explains this by saying that his work is policy and that the actual mechanics are handled by other agencies. Byrnes, who stepped down from the court at the president’s request last fall‘to handle inflation, is well regarded in congress. He was one of the New Deal strong men in the senate before he went to the court in 1941 and his contin
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PARLEY ON FOOD OPENS MAY 18 Press to Be Admitted Only To Formal Sessions at Hot Springs.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent . WASHINGTON, April 10—The state department announced today that the united mations food conference would begin May 18 at Hot Springs, Va., coincident with au, thentic information from other sources that the press will be barred from the conference hotel except for ‘a couple of formal, open meetings, This is. in conformity with Presi-
{dent Roosevelt's “hope” that the
representatives of the United States and 37 other nations might pursue their food negotiations without in terruptions by reporters.
Press Office to be Set Up
It is in marked contrast to the assurances given questioners last week by Elmer Davis, director of the office of war information, that he expected newspaper reporters to have access to the conference hotel. Today's announcement postponed from April 27 to May 18 the confers
| ence meeting with an explanation
that the transportation of delegates to the United States made the delay necessary. The state department announcement said that newspaper reporters would be admitted merely to the opening and closing conference sessions. . Michael J. McDermott, veteran and able chief of the department’s division of current information, has been designated conference press relations officer.
U. S. to Have 5 Delegates
Mr. McDermott will establish press headquarters in Hot Springs but the conferees will be housed: and the meetings will take place in the Homestead, a nearby hotel, from which newspaper and radio
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 U.| 'P.).—One murky night off the Solomon islands, an outnumbered squadron of 11 U. SB. torpedo boats encountered a fleet of 20 Japanese destroyers and sent the enemy reeling in retreat with three of his warships blazing. : _ The story was told today by three veterans of the small, hard-hitting P. T.-boats who tame here on leave after six months of successful forays against the Japs in which their squadron sank six. enemy destroyers, one cruiser, one submarine and unofficially scored a total of 21 hits on Jap vessels. The Pro were Charles Tufts, 3 chiéf boatswain’s ‘mate, Bates Ind.; Arthur Stuffert, 30, chief oe - chinist’s mate, Plainfield, ‘N. J., and John D, Legg, 39, chief quartermaster, San Antonio, Tex. Suffering from the effects of malaria, all three were anxious to return to the wars, and none. considered ‘himself “expendable. ” : The encounter with the Jap destroyers, they said, was at such close quarters that one of the P. T.-boats zoomed to within 20 feet of a Jap
Batesville Hero's s P. T. -E Torpedoed a Jap. Cruiser
warship—so close it was unable to fire its torpedoes. =,
Legg received the silver star award for bringing back his boat single-handed from another battle with five destroyers after all the other crewmen topside had been knocked unconscious by shelj-fire. Once Tuffs’ boat darted into the midst of .a Jap formation and scored a torpedo hit on a cruiser. A pack of destroyers set out in pursult of the tormenting little PT and the chase lasted 20 miles with Tufts and other crewmen throwing overboard everything they could pry loose in order to get more speed.
"The PT wound up high and dry on a Tulagi beach while the Japs , | turned back. They fought by night and tried to sleep in foxholes under .shellfire by day. After dusk, under the mand of Lieut. Lester Gamble of Oakland, Cal, they would slip out of their hiding places and patrol the waters off a Japanese beachhead waiting for enemy ships. The methodical Japs unwittingly supplied them with their navigation methods inthe blackness—the gunflashes of “pistol pete,” an enemy artillery piece that fired at regular intervals from a fixed location.
WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. BP). —The girls at Peggy Keshlear’s' boarding house thought something ought to be done about if and the girls at her office thought something ought to be done about it. “So,” Peggy said today, “we're going to do sgmething about it.” “It” is the shortage of boy friends
for government girls in the capital, and “we” are Miss Keshlear and her pals—Jerry Klancke and Bernice Sevy. They are going to organize. “the eight girls for every man club.” The club motto will be “No more lonely nights.” Miss Keshlear—who
representatives will be barred except on the first and last conference days. Judge Marvin Jones, of the United! States court of claims, who also is an assistant to the director of economic . stabilization, will be chairman of the United States delega-, tion which has been designated by President Roosevelt. _ Other members will be Undersecretary of Agriculture Paul H. Appleby, Assistant Secretary of Com-
5 merce W. L. Clayton, Surgeon Gen-
eral Thomas Parran and Murray D. Lincoln, executive secretary of the Ohio farm bureau federation. “1t is anticipated,” the state department announcement said, “that the conference will be as informal as possible, and in view of the fact that it will be. primarily a meeting of technical experts, most of the discussions will take place in technical sections or tommittees. Plans are being made for opening and closing plenary sessions to which press and radio representatives will be accredited.”
F. D. R. Liked Casablanca Setting
Mr. Roosevelt revealed secrecy plans at a recent press conference, indicating the opinion that conditions prevailing at this year’s Casablanca conferance were more suited to the purposes of the food conference than an open gathering where reporters would ‘have free access to the site of the meeting and to the adjacent grounds. Both Mr. Davis and White House Secretary Stephen T. Early are understood to have urged Mr. Roosevelt to permit reporters the customary freedom to live among and to meet freely with conference delegates except during cxecutive sessions and closed committee meetings. Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) criticized the decision, declaring “The administration is ignoring the right of the people to know what is hapening to their most precious commodity — food. Once again, the rulers of our destinies are proceeding on the assumption
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people and allow them crumbs of information after decisions have been made and the whole matter is cut and dried.”
SFAX IS CAPTURED; ROMMEL NEAR TRAP
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Tunisia and by American forces pushing out from the Maknassy zone, south of Fondouk, in an effort to cut through the last enemy mountain defenses and strike Rommel’s flank on the coastal plains south of Sousse. The. sudden acceleration of allied advances meant that Rommel was speeding up his flight to the strong positions around Tunis and Bizerte in the north, where he hopes to hold out for a long time. But Montgomery, in a message to his troops, said that if the collection of prisoners at the present rate continued the enemy “will soon have no infantry left to hold his ‘positions” in the north. -
‘Altogether, allied communiques
lissued sin the last three weeks have
enumerated the capture of 21,550 prisoners in addition to referring vaguely to scattered groups of “many prisoners.” munique reported that a Gen. Mannerini and the headquarters of the Saharan group were captured Thursdey. “Let us make the enemy fice up to and endure a first-class Dunkirk on the beaches of Tunis,” Montgomery said. “The triumphant cry now is: Forward to Tunis, Drive the enemy into the sea!”
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thought up the name—will be president. : Although the club will function only in Washington, it will have a ‘national atmosphere because its members, Miss. Keshlear explained, come from all over the country. Peggy is an Osceola, Iowa, girl herself. She works for the army quartermaster corps. Miss Klancke came here from Glencoe, Minn., Miss Sevy from Salt Lake City. Both work for the office of censorship. “The Eight Girls for Every Man club will be open to all government
girls, most of whom are betweeng
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18 and 27 and are pretty,” Miss 'Keshlear said. ‘Its purpose will be boost . the morale of government girls and help them meet nice boys in the services so there won't be any more lonely nights.”
VANDALS CONTINUE WINDOW SMASHING
Vandals continued to smash windows and doors of "Indianapolis business houses today. The plate glass window at Charley's restaurant, 144 E. Ohio st., was smashed. Its value was $100. The plate glass in the door at Vanoff’s tavern, 1400 N. Senate ave., also was wrecked.
CATROUX IN LONDON TO SEE DE "GAULLE
LONDON, April 10 (U, P.) —Gen. Georges Catroux, who has been conferring with Gen. Henri Honore Giraud at Algiers, arrived in London today. Gen. Catroux represented Gen. Charles de Gaulle at a series of preliminary conferences looking toward a union of de Gaulle’s Fighting French with Giraud’s North African government.
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BS PREDICTS SPEEDY ACTION
Bill Passed in House By 270-107 Vote.
WASHINGTON; April 10 (U. P). —Rep. .Sam Hobbs (D. Ala.) today
predicted speedy senate action on
his anti-labor-racketeering bill, following house passage of the measure by a vote of 270 to 107. Proponents saw indication of strong senate support from the trend in the: house where, after hours of debate, all modifying|P amendments were beaten down, The house | warnings that the measure would endanger _|1abor’s rights of collective bargaining and to strike. An amendment written originally by American Federation of Labor attorneys was defeated in favor of one written by Haopbs which he said “amply protects labor's rights.” The bill, Hobbs said, was specifically designed to eliminate collection of union “fees” from produce truck operators before they are permitted to drive into markets.
. BLUEBERRIES IMPORTANT Blueberries harvested in Maine each year produce an income equal to its apple crop—about a million
|COURSE TEES OFF"
TO PUTT AXIS DOWN
COLUMBUS, Ind, April 10 (Uy P) —The Driftwood golf course Io= cated north of Columbus today be= came a total victim of the war, Harry Hartman, owner of * the nine-hole course, said the ground would be plowed up and soon would be prod uging a victory crop of corn. . “Therd now are things more ime portant than golf, and we decided to use the course for crops this year,” Mrs. Hartman, operator of the course, said. :
FT. WAYNE AUDITOR SERVICES MONDAY
FT. WAYNE, Ind. April 10 (U, P.) —Funeral services will be held Monday for James P. Haefling, 76, auditor of Ft. Wayne city utilities since 1928, who died yesterday of a heart ailment. - Haefling served for 10 years with the state board of accounts and also as Adams county clerk at De catur before coming here 25 years ago. He was a mative of Tiffin, O,
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credible speed . . . and in an amazing number of ways the Electric Infra-Red process for drying, baking, dehydrating and preheating is being used not only to reduce processing time from hours to minutes, but also to improve quality. x A trip through the tunnel of Infra-Red lights (shown above) completely dries the paint on one ‘of Uncle Sam’s war machines in only a few minutes, where it formerly required 24 hours—a distinct contribution by Electricity to the saving of critical hours on the production front. Here in Indianapolis, war and other industries have installed the Infra-Red process to make production bottlenecks disappear. : What is this modern miracle? It’s radiant energy—the same as comes from the
sun—only it is emitted from Fnfra-Red Electric lamps. The radiant energy travels ‘through the atmosphere in the form of electro-magnetic waves and these waves
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when directed upon some material substance are quickly absorbed and transformed + into heat . . . and the heat works the wonders, The process, in addition to baking paints, enamels, Nicquats and siilde indus. trial finishes, is used i in many other ways, as to cure rubber, to harden glue, and ol BY drive out moisture from Ta miteridle like paper, fabric and leather. i ia Until victory, Infra will speed the uction of war enipment fre ne ie i :