Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1943 — Page 3

NAZIS THROWN BACK IN DONETS

Large Scale Preparations For Offensive Noted

In Ukraine.

MOSCOW, April 10 (U. P.).—The Red army threw back a new Ger-| man attempt to break through Soviet defenses along the Donets river below Balakleya, 45 miles southeast of Kharkov, today as field dispatches reported large-scale Nazi preparations in the Ukraine for a summer offensive. “The latest German thrust, which cost 100 dead yand two tanks disabled, came less than 24 hours aftér the Nazis lost more than one-third are now turning out mosquito nets to combat Guadalcanal skeets of an attacking force of 3000 in the and African flies. same sector, Vil a Che The Germans, with tank support, Ceiling on Fish?

reached the Russian front lines yesRumors persist that fish may yet be rationed, by demand of

terday before being put to rout in hand-to-hand fighting by a Soviet the industry itself. The hitches: Fish is highly perishable; the supply is not always assured.

counter-attack. Some 1200 enemy officers and men were killed or 8m. » nn wounded and nine tanks disabled. Shorter Sheets

Same Bases as Used in 1942 Although there is no shortage of bed linen and cotton blankets, The sustained series of German WPB may yet rule on standard sizes for bedsheets and cotton attacks on the Donets were believed blankets, doing away with the oversize sheet, and cutting down on a prelude to an all-out German the “tuckage.” Most of the machines formerly used in this industry

summer offensive. Front reports are busy at work supplying bags for the enormous agriculture de-

told of the massing of German re-| | mands. ~ serves at the same Ukrainian bases from which the axis launched its 1942 offensive that carried east to Stalingrad and southeast into the Caucasus. (A Berlin dispatch to the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet said that the German army in Russia was being re-equipped with heavier weapons and other new equipment, including armored trucks for carrying infantry into battle. The biggest tank force ever concentrated under a single command was said to have been placed at the disposal of Col. Gen, Heinz Guderian for the

HOME FRONT FORECAST

By BETTY MacDONALD Times Special Writer’ WASHINGTON, April 10.—~Routine life for guards at war factory gates throughout America will be brightened a trifle with the | ° advent of the plastic lunchbox. The new lunchbox is transparent and so will not only sage the strict inspection required at all war plants, but it will reveal tempt~ ing sandwich displays, a piece of .pie or cake, several pieces of fruit. There is even space for a pint-size vacuum bottle. Tennis and badminton nets have gone to war, and the machines that once made them are producing nets for camouflage. However, a limited number of fishnets will be produced for commercial purposes, although the practical hand net for amateur amateur anglers is gone for the duration. Another item in the netting business is the fact that the looms that formerly turned out lingerie lace

MARTIN DEMANDS EARLY TAX ACTION

Republican Leader Threatens to Move. for Discharge of - Committee; Democrats Agree to Insist On Compromise.

‘WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.).—House Republicans ' today threatened a move to discharge the house ways and means committee from further consideration of the pay-as-You-go tax question unless immediate action is forthcoming. Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts said the minority would resort to whatever methods are necessary to get action. His assertion followed a tentative agreement by Democratic leaders not to reopen the pay-as-you-go. fight on the floor unless the Republicans agree to compromise for some-

finan. EA par 0 ENTORRE WAGE FREEZING

defeated Carlson-Ruml plan. WLB Orders we Bails to 0.K.

-“I insist the house has a right to decide this question in whatever Only ‘Little Steel’ Pay Raises.

manner it sees fit,” Martin said. “The leadership has no right to abridge that right.” WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P). —The war labor board made a “stop-gap” move yesterday to put

The Democratic decision was reached late yesterday at a conferPresident Roosevelt’s new anti-in-flation executive order into effect,

_ ence attended by Speaker Sam Raybut admitted that further clarifica-

burn (D. Tex.) and four Demotion is needed before the new re-

_ cratic members of the house ways d means committee. strictions on wage increases can be defined.

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Proxy Shoppers Still but a glimmer in the minds of civilian defense officials is a plan to have housewives, in war-plant areas, shop for the gals wha are wearing the overalls and manning the swing shifts. It’s a new absentee treatment. » » » » “

Odds 'N Ends Horses and mules are sporting new-type gas masks in the army, providing enough air for them to walk or gallop comfortably. . April's bicycle quota is 88,200 new ones, answering wartime needs of factory workers and school children. . . . Cutlery is get ting scarcer. . . . Bib overalls are restricted to one button on each side opening. . . . A 60-inch width poultry netting will be manufactured with WPB blessing. . . . Spanish moss, for upholstering, is being subject to price control at all sales levels.

It left the renewed drive for immediate action on the pay-as-you-go question deadlocked tighter than ever and threatened to dash all hope of a two-week recess of the house over Easter.

: ¥ Seek Compromise Bill

Martin has asked for immediate consideration of a new tax bill— “any tax bill”—under an open rule .which would permit amendments.

He served notice that the Republicans will oppose any attempt to recess April 17 unless this is done. The Democrats are seeking Republican support for consideration of a compromise bill under a closed rule which would preclude the possibility of another fight over th:

dered its regional boards to “approve no . further wage increases whatever except those that clearly come within the 15 per cent limitation of the Little Steel formula.”

That move appeared to be following the president’s statement to the

For the time being, the WLB or-

Memorial Boys’ club yesterday. half way to hand it down.

This kite took a nosedive into a tree during the annual kite flying contest sponsored by the Lauter William Montgomery reaches out for it as Clifford Edwards climbs up

impending offensive.)

WOMAN’S SCREAMS SCARE OFF BURGLAR

Another Friday night burglary was reported on the North side to-

FIRED BUILDINGS FOR THRILL, HOOSIER SAYS

BRAZIL, Ind. April 10 (U, P.).—

stroyed the foundry of the Crawford and McCrimmon plant and the factory building of the former Wood Turret Lathe Co. Dozier said he also admitted set fire to the R, L. Sodaker’s sto warehouse. Loss involved in the fires was

day. Mrs. Geneva Williams and her daughter, Gaynelle, sleeping together in their home at 1019 Carrollton ave., were awakened by a masked burglar waving a flashlight

Ruml plan. Ways and Means Chairman Rob- press: which was far more specific

ert L. Doughton D. N. C) i than the legal executive order on

Police said today that Paul Langley, 24, Monon, had admitted that he attempted to burn down the large three-story building of the Carnavar chemical works Thursday “just for the thrill.” Claude Dozier, state deputy fire

estimated at more than $300,000, Authorities said efforts would be made to have Langley confined iw a mental institution.

Times’ Garden Book Explains Vitamins Y our Family Needs

’ wages. attended Rayburn’s conference, said that his committee would go shead| Do’ ©Veh $0 he Ls (elegram to with open hearings on extension of Tesion Orcs ROL" emarace reciprocal trade agreements on Mon-| Substandard wages mentioned by

DENY ACCURACY OF U, S. BOMBS

PLAY CARD PARTY

day despite a demand by nine Republican members that the pay-as-you-go question be made the first

order of business.

Rationing Dates

Sugar

Coupon 12 good for five pounds through May 31.

Gasoline

A book—coupon 5 good through May 21.

4 good for 11 gallons through April 12. Coupon 5 must last until Sept 30. for heat and hot water.

Canned Goods Blue Stamps D, E and F good through April 30.

Shoes

Coupon 17 good for one pair through June 15. *

Meat

Red stamps A and B good; C becomes good April 11; D, April 18. These expire April 30. Red stamp E becomes good April 25, :

Coffee

Stamp 26 good for through April 25. "Tires Second inspection deadline: A book vehicles by Sept. 30; B’s by une 30; C's by May 31; commerXf vehicles every 60 days or 5000 miles, whichever is first.

FIRESTONE FORESEES MAJOR CRIME WAVE

WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.). Rubber manufacturer Harvey S. jirestone Jr. today prophesied a “crime wave of major proportions” when soldiers, schooled in the use of lethal weapons and accustomed to living intimately with death, return to civilian life. “Millions of men who never be.fore fired a gun are becoming proficient in the use of firearms,” he said. “They will not ‘be afraid of death: or pain for they have faced the one and suffered the other.” He told graduates of the federal bureau of investigation police acad‘emy: “If our experience after, the

1 pound

last war is any criterion, we face a|ployed at the downtown office building for two months, lived at 2206 N. New Jersey st.

futlre crime wave of major proportions.”

velt’s order was believed to be a vigorous “no” to: John L. Lewis’ British Liberal weeklies, in an at-|

demand for a $2-a-day wage increase for his United Mine Workers. But the substandard wage exception |that German propagandists, by might be a loophole through which |giving uncontradicted reports that some sort of a compromise could be|thousands of French and other ciagreed upon—probably upon the so-|vilians were - being killed, might be

called portal-to-portal issue where-|qceessful in - by miners would be paid for the Successiul turning people of oc

from the coal vein. their wages do not start until they Fuel 0il reach the vein and end when they 1

coincides with a | request - by the southern Appalachian bituminous coal operators forethe WLB to assume jurisdiction in the Lewisbituminous dispute because ‘the parties are in “complete and irreconcilaole disagreement.”

Roosevelt falls far short of explaining clearly just how much more stringent the government will be in the granting of whee rales. raises.

SURPRISE AIR RAID

TERS, Australia, April 10° (U. P.)— Allied planes heavily damaged Japanese installations in the Madang area of New Guinea, destroyed six grounded enemy planes and sank at least two barges off the coast, a communique said today.

yesterday the planes gave Madang possibly the heaviest pummeling of the war. | smoke billowing 3000 feet into the

the area with 63,000 rounds of cannon and machine gun dire.

the A. D. T. offices failed to show a response from the night watchman at the Lemcke building.

the crushed body of the watchman,

Williath E. Smith, 71, wedged in between the first floor of the building and the floor of the elevator.

tal accident was “unexplainable.”

Mr. Roosevelt. because, a spokesman said, the new definition of substandards has not been determined. The board promised further direction within a few days.

May Be a Loophole At first glance, President Roose-

ime they spend in going to and At present

eave it. The president's executive order

The executive order of President

DEVASTATES MADANG

MacARTHUR’'S HEADQUAR-

In a surprise attack before dawn

Bombs set fires that sent

air and long-range fighters strafed

ELEVATOR KILLS NIGHT WATCHMAN

At 3:15 a. m. today, the tape at

Officers sent to investigate found

Investigating officers said the fa-

Mr. Smith, who had been em-

cupied countries against the allies. altitude bombing of American for-

ily inaccurate because of the in-

‘can drop bombs from the 20,000-foot

British Journals A Assert: Our Daylight Raids Aid Axis :

Propaganda. LONDON, April 10 (U. P.).—Two

tack. on United States air force bombing policy, intimated this week

They took the view that the hightresses and Liberators was necessar-

evitable dispersal of bombs as they dropped many thousands of feet tGward their targets. This is in direct contradiction to the statements of American military experts, who have claimed that American four-motored bombers using the secret Norden bomb-sight

level with “pin-point” accuracy far exceeding the best records of lowflying British night bombers. The New Statesman. and the weekly Tribune, making the attacks, raised a delicate problem which, it was known, had already been given some consideration by allied strategists. U. 8. Officers Won’t Comment Officials of the U. S. 8th air force refused to ‘comment, saying that| they did not wish to become involved in a controversy which was more political than military. It also was pointed out that -targets for American planes are selected by a board, most of whom are from the R. A PF. “Recent (American) raids on Lorient, St. Nazaire, Rotterdam and Antwerp heavily hit the civilian population in addition to the target. It can be said the Germans are hammering this propaganda with a view to impressing public opinion in Britain to stir humanitarian feeling and to stop the raids. It is well known in professional circles that the dispersal of bombs dropped, particularly from a high altitude is very great and anything like accurate bombing is quite out of the question. Therefore the issue which ought to be discussed as a strategic question rather than a humanitarian question is: Are the raids against towns inhabited by friendly people really contributing to softening up the continent for invasion or merely hardening the people. against what must seem the] ruthless unconcern of an ally for the suffering people who are not a

real enemy.

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Expert Answers Questions

Which Bother Gardeners

By A. A. IRWIN Horticulturist, Agricultural Extension Service

Q—Will red flying ants along the sidewalk bother my garden? How can I get rid of them?

A—Ants do not feed on plants but become garden pests because of their nests and of their habit of fostering aphids. The aphids depend upon the ants for transportation. Control ants by pouring an ounce of carbon bisulphide in the nest.

Q—A treatment of molasses, bran and paris green is recommended for cutworms. I have found both molasses and bran hard to buy. Are there any subs.iutes? - A—Black-strap ' molasses, often used ' for feeding livestock, is the best for making poisen-bran bait. If you cannot purchase these then get the cheapest can molasses your grocery may have. Cornmeal or rolled oats may be substiuted for bran.

Q—What 5s a mulch and when is it used? A—A mulch may be straw, leaves, paper or other material spread on the surface of the ground to conserve moisture, keep the soil opoler and in the case of tomatoes or cucumber, it will keep the fruit cleaner.’ Mulching around tomatoes also will aid in the conirol of blossomend rot.

“IN INDIANA POLIS— VITAL STAT 187 ICS

HERE IS THE TRAFFIC RECORD

FATALITIES County City Total 13 38

1942 1943 ..

Edward S. Hadfield, 26, Orlando Air Base, Ma. xine Be

: esaeremitt, 4, of 2135 5 Wheeler.

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MARRIAGE LICENSES

These lists are from official records in the county court house. The Times, therefore, is net responsible for errors 36|in names and addresses.

J Cornelius Walker, 29, Camp Asterouty: Ind.; thryn Teresa Greene, 24, of 2855 Boulevard pl., 3. J. C. Alexander, 20, of 757 N.

i Elder; aldine E. Harris, 17, of 636 Blake,

anor Booth,

Orlando, Fla. 21, of 4937 Boulevard Robert Louis Noffke, on U. 8. army, Mitchel Ru LaVerne Lawrence Glenn Owens, 25, 5415 Re ne; Ina Louise Callis, Rn. of 811 E.

Sidney Howard Weingarten, 25, Har "ison, Syl Sy Ruth Brown, 21; 4) 4910

N. Claud Norris A Tieheci, 3, of 3911 E. Wash- | a: Betty Jane Beem, 25, of 2817

Robso Wendle outs Kerr, 25, Billings General Ft. Harrison; Mary Eleanor R. R. Néwton, Iowa. William Rankin Byer 35 of 33 w. - South Mooresville, Ind. of 1033 S.

Rebec N.| Rex Beach Allen; 25

a Ea Lou Drennan, 30, of 2161 Capito Th J. hia ared, 22, U. S. navy, Willlamsburg, Va.; Raith Waneta Jenkins, 20, of 443 N. Ford rd Robert Carlton Duddy, 27, Plaza Hotel, 209: daslen Lucille Morris, 37, of 209 E.

James Frank Ferguson, 29, of 1514 N. Senate; Roberta Lee Stokely, 25, of 19 8. Beville. David A. Forsyth, 43, of 1116 N. Capitol; Mary Doris Haslam, 28, of 415 Irving

place Bogus. Hunter Minnix, 46, of 425 B®. Wal- [; ‘Lillian Faust, 31, of 1601 Carroll-

n. Chester Pedi 38, of 229 E. 13th; Ma ca DeHaven, 46, of 1903 N. Tal , of N. Laym Juanita . Marian Vawier, 20, of 97 5 Graham, Bacon, 47, of

Arthur W. s W. 28th; Horiense Catherine. Giles, Er of 341 W.

‘- BIRTHS Girls

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Rare Sisrsated WarinorJuby

Boys

Ralph, Alice Woods, at St. Prancis. Edward, Beulah Lucas, at City. Prederick, Agatha Albertson, at St. Vincent’s. Hobert, Ruie Arnett, at St. Vincent's. Willis, Evelyn Smith, at Methodist. Gabriel, Sylvia Schuchman, at Methodist. Paul, Gladys Davis, at 920 Locke. Thomas, Nellie Clark, at 20 Kildare.

DEATHS tumor. Ma B. Cumming, 69, at Central, arterioLula *Mae Norris; 35, at 1827 W. Morris,

carcinoma. a Kirch, 37, at city,

tuberc | Raion Simmons, 57, at City,

DO aitys. 35, at Long, atrophic Lillie el Dixon, 73, at 5456 Kenwood, Dennis D. Da + Lat Long bemoi at 40 | w. Michigan,

Albert Ernest Pearce, 59, at Long, brain

ulosis. cerebral \ . Margaret. Hemmierle, 72, at St. Vincent's,

Q—My* plants are just beginning: to come up. Can I water them now?. How should I do-it?

A—Most of the newly prepared garden soils dried out last week to the extent that the seed would not: germinate. The rain over the week- | end helped the situation. You may water your garden whenever it’s’ dry. Apply the water in a fine spray or mist and water until the soil is wet for one or two inches. If it does not rain again within the next three or four days, you may have to water the garden. The newly prepared soil has not settled: down yet and there is very little capillary movement of the soil moist. .

Q—Is it advisable to “lime” ite soil?

A—Vegetables prefer a slightly acid soil and the control of petato scab is an acid soil. Therefore, do not apply lime on the garden.

Q—Would it be wise to plant watermelons, muskmelong and cantaloupe in city gardens? A—I would not recommend melons for city gardens. They re-. quire a lot of space, and prefer a sandy soil. It is very difficult to control the insects and diseases that attack them. FIRE CASE GOES TO JURY BOSTON, April 10 (U. P.).—The manslaughter case against three; men blamed for the Cocoanut Grove night club fire that cost 491 lives goes to the jury today after al’

month-long trial. i |

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau |

(All Data in Central War Time) Sunrise ..... 6:15 | Sunset .......7:18

TEMPERATURE -

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7:30 a. m, 45 Total precipitation since Jan, 1 6. 6 Deficiency since Jan. 1

The following fable shows the temtperature Ie 10 other cities

in their face.

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Police report that most burglaries on the North side happen on Friday nights.

They screamed, he

marshal, said Langley confessed one previous attempt to fire the factory, three attempts to fire the Libby-McNeill-Libby food factory buildings and caused fires that de-

Indiana old age pension group 11 will give a card party in the Odd Fellows’ hall, Hamilton ave, and E. Washington st., at 8 p. m, Monday.

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Vol. 1—No. 39

Saturday

April 10, 1943

Dear Fellows—

THE HOME FOLKS are digging deep into the old sock to buy ships and guns and tanks and planes to help you fellows win the war for us. . , . Last month Hoosiers subscribed $23,000,000 worth of war bonds to pay for the new cruiser Viacennes. vie ute Na: v.y Secretary Frank Knox came here and gave a speech last night at the “Meet Your Navy” program in Cadle Tabernacle. His talk marked tke opening of a new campaign in which Indianapolis and Marion county alone are going to raise 34 million dollars during April. . . . The campaign doesn’t start formally until Monday, but we're going to let you fellows in on a little secret: We've already, raised more than half of it. . . , How's that!

Ww OX Watch 'Er Wiggle—

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy created quite a stir when he appeared at school with an unadorned female figure tattooed on his forearm. . . . He entertained his schoolmates by flexing his muscle and making “her” wiggle. . The teachers didn’t think that was proper, so the lad was ordered into Juvenile court. . . . When he got there, it was found he'd had a brassiere and some tight-fitting panties tattooed on the figure, . That still didn’t satisfy the court, so the boy agreed, reluctantly, to add a dress. . . . The gendarmes tried to find the tattoo artist who did the original sketch, but he must have heard of the furor because he had packed up and left town.

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Free Classes in Mayhem— FRED FOSLER, the former state police detective, is conducting free classes in jujutsu at the Y. M. C. A. . . . One of .the classes includes 20 women from the P. R. Mallory plant, . +» « We'd hate to have those gals get mad at us now. . ., The West Morris Street Christian church had a fire the other night. =. . : bids, The only thing burned was $he mortgage on the church. « « + It was paid off. . , . Someone — - possibly an amateur gardener—stole a $1200 tractor and a plow from the Sarah Shank ' golf course. . Police found them later, . Hoosiers have turned in a total

o 83,468 pounds, of vollapsinie’s tn, tubes.

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That represents a lot of toothpaste, too, . . . The street railway did a landoffice business last year. million pasengers, a gain of 30 per cent.

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Tax Exemptions for You—— HERE'S GOOD NEWS for you.guys. . . . Attorney General James Emmert has ruled that service men are entitled to exemption on all income from service pay received after Dec. 31, 1941, . . . If you've paid G. I. tax on your service pay, youre entitled to a refund. . *. Service men have until six

months after the war to pay gross income gb

tax on income other than service pay. " % %

On the Gardening Front— : VICTORY GARDENERS got the “ge sign” this week from Hoface Abbott, county agricultural agent, for planting hardy vegetables. . . . The weather bureau has : been ‘ providing ideal weather. , . . The governor has appealed to Hoosier

farmers to grow

more canning crops this year. ., . . He = said it's possible the opening of school

next fall may be

wr ord deferred until after the crops are =

harvested to provide harvest hands. . , , 8

' Our, school kids are doing their part te

raise food. . Nineteen thousand now have enrolled in the victory garden program, « « » The most popular man of the hour is the fellow with a tractor, or team of horses, and a plow. . . . Most folks would rather pay a few dollars to get a vacant lo} plowed than to break their backs digging it up with a spade. ) J

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Who's Doing What—

STUART GANDOLF has succeeded Dr Charles W. Roller as president of the Indianapolis Aero club. . Duke E. Hanna is the new president of ‘the Central Indiana chapter of credit unions. . , . Rpane Waring, national commander of the Legion, is making an inspection tour of the fighting front in Africa, it was revealed “ Legion headquarters here, . . of the Butler faculty is the ‘new C. of C.

former secretary of state, “has Been counsel for Pan-American

Fillenwarth, Young Republicans’ : chairman, has been named deputy prosecuto for Superior court 4 . . . William Mell a : former manager ‘of the Lyrie, is the seaident mands; of Hsia; hi

. . . Carried nearly 08 i