Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1943 — Page 2

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' wartime drinking prospects is anythng. but bright.’ ‘Members of the Indiana Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ association said they already had: set up rationing plans to reduce the flow to taverns “and ‘that the whole situation depended entirely upon how long the war lasts. ' They said if liquor were consumed at the same rate of last year’s sales,

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middle of next year. “But we're going to do our best to spread the reserve supply two and a half years and hope that the war will be over by that time,” an official of the association said. “If we reduce the sales by half, I think the supply will last out the war”

It’s Not So Much

-Association officials said a recent survey revealed there is 351,000,000 gallons of whisky in warehouses. It sounds like g lot of whisky, but they said it wouldn't last long under normal consumption. Most of the whisky you'll see on the shelves from now on will bear unknown labels with the notation: “This whisky is less than one month old” or “less than two months old.”

* Dealers explained that the unknown labels were being put on the cheaper “green” whisky by the distillery firms to protect the reputation of their better labels in which millions of dollars in advertising have been invested. "The supply of your favorite brands has not been exhausted, merely conserved and held back for future distribution® to keep the labels “alive” over: a longer period, dealers explained; -

Still a Huge Supply

In fact they said there still is a huge supply of popular brands in warehouses but the distribution is being rationed. Meanwhile, the unknown labels are filling the demand. Up to the last of 1942, most of the liquor law violations were found in licensed taverns where the owners merely were cheating on closing

“But during the last few months we have found an increasing number of violations in private homes and so-called ‘private clubs’ and homes where illegal liquor was being sold by the drink through back doors,” Police Chief Clifford Beeker said. It appears to be a trend back to speakeasies of prohibition days, with all the trimmings. -

Taverns Conserve

Retail taverns here several weeks ago stopped selling their stocks by the bottle, preserving their supplies for the more highly profitable, by-the-drink trade at prices ranging as high as 45 cents a throw. : Just how the“taVern 'éwners are planning to ration ‘drinks to their customers has not been made clear

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policy until their stocks for that day are exhausted.

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WASHINGTON, April 27 (U.P.). —American airmen knifed through dirty weather in the Aleutians on Sunday to deliver :15 more attacks on Kiska and another on nearby Attu island, where the Japanese are developing an air base, the navy announced today. In the Solomons our fliers attacked the Japanese bomber base at Kahili on the southeast coast of

Kiska raised to 129 the total of attacks on that base so far this month. Formations of four-engined Liberator bombers, = two-engined Mitchell bombers and P-40 and P-38 fighters participated in the attacks, which were carried out in poor visibility. Bomb hits were made on enemy positions - on Kiska but the bad

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and Flying Portresses ranged 400 miles north of Bizerte, attacking the Italian airfield at Grosseto. The allied gains on main fronts included: North—American hietly. supported by artillery, pushed across rocky hills a dozen miles from Mateur, forced the enemy from Sidi N’Sir, reached the approaches to Jeffna, and were within nine miles of Lake Garaet Acrkel, south of Bizerte. French native troops on the American coastal flank have gained 27 miles in the last 10 days as the Germans retired so hastily that they left ammunition and supply dumps undestroyed. Resistance was increasing, however,

Key Hill Taken

West Central—British 1st army troops captured Longstop hill and pushed northeast beyond Heidous village to within eight airline miles of important Tebourba junction, attacking a hill called Nou Aouka. They also captured the eastern part of Sidi Medien in a good advance east and south of Merjez El Bab, and are within about 23 miles of Tunis.

Allied forces drove down the plains approaching Tunis today.

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map shows how the Nazi forces are hemmed in by the triple push.

Nazi Stone Wall' Defense Slows Yanks in One Sector

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Southwestern — British armor in a week of hard fighting has knocked out ‘87 enemy tanks and worn down the main Nazi mechanized strength in engagements around Sebkret El Kourzia, a salt lake northwest -of the key junction of Pont du Fahs. Their main purpose is ‘to cut the Pont du FahsTunis road, and they are ‘within four miles of their goal.

Pont du Fahs Menaced

South Front—The junction of Pont du Fahs was menaced from two directions ag well as from the northeast. On the south, the French had advanced to hills within five miles of the town and within easy artillery range. On the east, the British 8th army—slowed down in its advance up the coast toward Tunis—had swung its weight westward toward Pont du Fahs and made substantial gains. A spokesman described Monday's fighting as “bloody, stubborn, fierce, savage combat over very difficult terrain. Our troops are fighting an enemy who gives every indication of continuing until he is completely exhausted.”

a boy with a long criminal record against that of a detective whose reputation has been unimpeachable.” Will H. Remy, board president, said “since the hoy, a self-confessed burglar and automobile thief, has offered “no corroborating evidence to support his .accusation, we: find no charge .sustained- ~REaMst Mr. Naumsek.” . wav

Says Freedom Promised Replying curtly and defiantly to

Yuestions put to him by Safety

Board Attorney Henry Krug and Mr. Remy, the youth testified that

Naumsek had approached him at city detective headquarters with the proposition that a South side barber

shop robbery be planned in a maneuver to trap members of a gang in that district. He stated that Naumsek gave him a card containing a telephone number which he was to call in order to give the “tip-off” after the robpbery had been arranged. “The cops were supposed tc be waiting for us right there on the spot,” said the boy. “Naumsek had promised that after the gang had been caught in the act, I was to be freed.” Refutes Youth’s Version

Instead of proceeding with the alleged entrapment tactics, - the youth, now under circuit court custody, said he had “torn up” Naumsek’s card and summoned City Detective Chester Kleifgen who, he alleged, warned him not to take part in the enterprise. Deteetive Kleifgen later told the board that he recalled no such incident.” Instead, he related, the

weather prevented a more thorough observation of results. .

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Board Clears City Detective Of Charge Made by Youth

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possible gang “frame-up” as if it were his own idea. Testifying in his own behalf, Detective Naumsek gave this version of the incident: “I happened to walk into detective headquarters

and Bobby (the boy's first name).

was sitting there. It occurred to me that ‘he might: know somethirig about?somié trouble? wé'd béém having ‘'on the South side.

- Naumsek on Stand

“With other detectives standing around, I asked him to let me know if he heard anything ahout the burglaries out in that neighborhood. I even game him my card so he could telephone me some information if he wanted to. I never made any ‘frame-up’ proposition.” Other detectives, present during their conversation, sustained Naumsek’s contention. They reported that it appeared to be no more than a casual request by Naumsek for any information which might assist him in clearing up criminal .cases. The youth, however, insisted that Naumsek had taken him aside and proffered the entrapment plan “in a low tone of voice” and beyond the hearing distance of others in the room. : Record Is Praised Visibly shaken, Naumsek remarked to the board: “I want you to know that this business has hurt my feelings very much.” Naumsek’s record was described as “highly commendable” by his superiors, fellow detectives and F. B. I. authorities whom he has assisted. "The youth first made the “entrapment” charges in a habeas corpus hearing before Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox, who asked the safety board to make an investigation. Attorney Michael Abrams, who represented ' Naumsek, said the youth’s accusations “probably -are the product of an over-fertile imagination.”

M'NAIR IMPROVED, JOKES OF WOUNDS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, April 27 tu. P.).—Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, commander in chief of U. S. army ground forces, felt good enough today to joke about the wourltls suffered on the northern Tunisian front last Friday. ; McNair was walking around at headquarters this morning with his

{left arm in a sling and a two-inch

square bandage on the back of his head. : Accompanied by Nurse Lt. Bernice Moore of Boston and his aide, h had just returned from a hospital at the front.

shrapnel wound. A steel fighting helmet he was wearing while watch~ ing American troops in action from

The patch on his head covered a

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U. S., Britain Hasten “to . Heal First Breach in Allied Front.

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macy if for no other reason than it will comfort the axis. It came at a moment when Washington apparently was moving further to appease the Soviet Union with a major diplomatic rebuff to Finland—a state with which Russia is at war and the United States is at peace. There are unconfirmed rumors that the United States is about to break relations with the Finns. The abrupt Moscow . announcement that relations with the Polish government-in-exile in London had been broken came. without an ad-|~ vance hint to Washington or to London. That loffe-handed maneuver is in the pattern of recent Moscow actions which have jarred this. capital from time to time. +

Terms It ‘Tragic’

Tt might be interpreted as a hurry-up prod from Moscow for establishment of a second front and for Washington and London to recognize Moscow’s post-war territorial . claims as being exempt from the no-aggrandizement. provisions of the Atlantic charter. . While the state department: “regretted” the Polish-Russian break, some others thought it was grounds for even more emphatic expres sions of diplomatic sorrow. Senator Theodore F. Green (D. R, I.) considered. it “tragic” and other congressional = commentators expressed misgivings. But there seemed to be no immediate tendency to reproach the Russians. In general there was uneasiness over a break in the united nations front and -a tendency ‘to’ charge the Germans with having smartly fostered PolishRussian friction. - “1 am -inclined to take Russivs side in this matter,” Senator Arthur Capper (R. Kas), a member of the foreign relations committee, told the ' United Press. “Russia has done a good job and I am very sorry to see this break.” -

Claims Listed

The Polish- Russian break may lead to establishment of a new | exiled Polish government, this time in Moscow. If so, Stalin easily could negotiate with it a settlement of one of his major post-war territorial claims involving eastern Poland.

These claims have been set out in detail by the Communist "press. They embrace an undisclosed but not necessarily large part of Finland; all of the three Baltic states which are Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; eastern Poland, comprising Redrly half of that nation; and all of the Rumanian province of Bessarabia and: part of the province of Bukowina. : That would considerably expand Russian borders beyond their limits of Sept. 1, 1939. The Russian thesis is that those areas would be absorbed without the ' territorial aggrandizement which is proscribed by the Atlantic - charter, and Moscow is bidding for Washington's agreement that the charter terms do not cover the special circumstances involved. The . Russians assert that those areas owe allegiance to Moscow because they were parts of czarist Russia or, briefly, of the new-born Soviet Union in 1918-19-20, or voted to become Soviet republics after they were invaded by the Red armies in 1939-40, Formal’ Russian announcement that Eastern Poland would be taken over after the war would rajse difficult problems for Washington since it would involve an interpretation of the Atlantic charter which the Roosevelt administration might be reluctant to make. And the issue is further complicated by the fact that there are considerable numbers of Americans of Polish extraction in the United States—a minority which would be heard and which, in some areas, would be potent at election time. :

Snubbed Conference

Moscow eased off briefly last winter in its second front demands, apparently accepting the invasion of North Africa as fairly satisfactory. But the clamor is rising again despite anxious American and British appeasement efforts. Stalin has avoided personal discussion with either Mr. Roosevelt or Churchill if it involved leaving the borders of the Soviet Union. His public statements have been brutally frank and full of protest in contrast with the praise by Mr. Roosevelt and other administration spokesmen for the spectacular Russian war effort. Stalin refused to meet Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill at the time of the Casablanca conference," asserting that he could not leave Russia during the. winter, offensive which he was conducting. o

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men were idle and a general strike of 21,000 miners is threatened, for Friday night. . Walkouts in Harlan county; Ken tucky, have affected 3700 men already and more are expected to ep their pilks. atin one jnine after another went _— in western Pennsylvania, the district's coal production was cut]

being lost daily.” With reserve supplies of some steel companies at an all-time low, it was believed that steel operations would be affected soon: should. the strikes continue, - KC. Adams, Lewis press ‘spokes- | man, said the policy committee] would not call for a strike vote and that no gtrike preparations were being made.

y Sees Work Refusal

Fifteen thousand of the miners already have .walked out, but K. C. Adams, Lewis’ press spokesman, said the group would not call’ for a strike vote and that no strike preparations : were. being made. J

He indicated “that the committee would formally record the fact| that the industry will be without a contract when the present extension agreement expires May 1, leaving the matter of strike action up to the union locals. Lewis, however, has stated ethat his’ miners will refuse to enter the pits if not covered by a contract.

The meeting in New York this afternoon should indicate whether Mr. Lewis thinks he still has the best cards. The U. M. W. policy committee is gathering there to take account of the fact that the union’s wage dispute with bituminous coal operators has ‘been taken over by the national war labor board. This policy committee has about 150 members, all district or local leaders of the miners. If there is

as of sharply, and it was estimated that| : 100,000 tons of coal and coke ‘were|

: Whe Blutfo— tewis or Us S.? The Answer’ Will Decide Coal Mine Peace or Strike

“policy: makers” the fact has never

Conceivably, the policy committee

| might’. make fan extreme patriotic gesture and instruct the union pres-

ident to bow to the government's will in wartime. Immediately, foes

of ‘Mr. Lewis would charge that he

had dictated- this committee action & means of getting himself out a ‘corner. Send Plea. to Lewis If the committee backs up its president without qualification, the issue . will be squarely up to the government. The’ outlook will be for an attempt. at a general walkout May 1 or even: sooner.

Then the ° ‘question will be how;

long half a million miners will fol=

low John Lewis against the govern=| |ment, and what measures ‘the gov-

deter the war labor board from naming a three-man panel to begin a fact-finding examination of the controversy tomorrow. Mr. Lewis continued to ignore NWLB by neglecting to submit, as

a United Mine Workers defender could be chosen for the panel.

» ., Rabéttson Named

So ‘the board named its own labor selection—David B. Robertson of Cleveland, president of the Brotherhood af Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. !

The management, members of NWLB chose as the management member - on the tripartite panel Walter ‘White, an assistant chief ‘of the non-official business advisory council of the department of commerce. ‘The public member of the panel, and its chairman, is Morris Llew-

requested, three names from which|

IN STATE MINES |

Hoosiers Too Patriotic to Walk Out Now, Hutson says.

State Labor Commissioner Thom= as Hutton satd today that he bee lieved Indiana’s 5000 soft coal mine ers were “too patriotic” to leave the mines in the current nation-wide dispute over a $2 a day wage ine crease for miners. The 30-day extension of the present contract expires Friday and Louis Austin, Terre Haute, president of District 11 of the United Mine Workers, has notified the Indiana Coal Operators’ association and two other operators’ associations that the miners would not work unless an agreement was

ernment will. take to protect such miners as may respond to‘a patriotic appeal from President Roose-

ellyn Cooke of Chestnut Hill, Pa. Mr. Cooke, a “management engi-

reached. The Coal Operators’ association sought another contract negotiate

an anti-Lewis man among the 150

velt and defy .the: picket lines and disturbances to be expected in min-

ing towns..

“The WLB in Washington last night sent Lewis,” U. M. W. Secre-tary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy and three district leaders the: fol-

lowing appeal: Panel Appointed

4We call. upon you as a leader of {your union to urge the workers to return to their jobs immediately under the plan. as suggested by the president (for peaceful settlement of disputes) and ordered by the board so that a nation at war may have maximum production not only in the coal fields but in countless related war industries which are

so vitally dependent on their con-

tinued operation. We feel sure the workers are in full agreement with us that all the people of our country are filled with a grim determination to supply the men at the fighting front. with all materials that are

needed to win the war.” The scattered

neer,” is expected to have the deciding vote in any recommendations that the fact-finding panel might make to the full membership of NWLB. : 4 During early .New Deal years in Washington, he was. the first. head of the rural. electrification administration, visited England to bring back a - report advocating adoption here of the bits-and-piece program for - spreading war production among small industries, served for

of the oil-expropriation quarrel with Mexico, and recently headed a technical mission to Brazil.

SPONSOR CARD PARTIES The Altar society of St. Philip Neri ' church = will sponsor card parties at 2 and 8 p. m. tomorrow in the school auditorium. Mrs, Emma Vaughn heads the commit. tee in charge.

DIDN'T BURN WITCHES No witches were ever burned at

the state department in settlement!

ing conference with District 11 leaders yesterday, pointing out that the Indiana operators were denied the right to participate in the Appalachian conference.

Committee to Meet

Mr. Austin did not answer the operators’ request for a conference, the United Press reported, and left for New York to participate in the U. M. W. international policy com= mittee meeting there today. The committee is to decide what the miners “will do when the 30-day truce expires Friday. Mr. Hutson said that if the U, M. W. leaders should decide upon a walk-out that he would issue a direct appeal for the Indiana miners to stay on the job as a pa« triotic duty to their country. '

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