Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1943 — Page 1
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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 68
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ous OF FOOD PRICES IS POSTPONED
Chance Seen That Program May Be Junked Because Of Opposition.
WASHINGTON, May 29 (U.P).—
The office of price administration’s program to roll back retail prices of meat, butter and coffee by at least 10 per cent through subsidies has been postponed beyond the ariginal starting date of June 1, it was learned today.
_ hostility toward subsidies as a means of stabilizing food prices at lower levels, and from the job of setting the $425,000,000 in motion. There is considerable speculation that the whole rollback program may be junked pending a review of its necessity by the newly created office of war mobilization. How‘ever, Price Administrator - Prentiss M. Brown, admitting that living costs have “gotten away from us,” repeated his pledge yesterday to regain the lost ground. ». President Roosevelt first prom“2d to roll back prices that had risen above the Sept. 15, 1942, levels in his April 8 “hold-the-line” order. He said then that all out-of-line - prices could not be rolled back, “but some of these can ahd should be rolled back.”
Promised Miners
It was nearly a month later— during the coal crisis—before Mr. Brown announced that the prices of meats, coffee and butter would be rolled back 10 per cent through subsidies to processors—the program to start June 1. He promised the coal miners then that the prices of fresh -and canned vegetables would be rolled back. . Almost immediately farm congressmen, vigorously opposed to subsidies, grumbled about the program. When it was revealed that the Reconstruction Finance corporation would finance the program with money already appropriated, congressional opponents sought other methods of stopping it. 1 Developments Listed There were these other developments in the situation it heared decision: 1. Chairman Ellison D. Smith (D. 8. C) of the Senate agriculture committee and two other members of the group introduced legislation to prevent payment of subsidies to - processors of agricultural goods, including livestock, for the purpose of stabilizing prices. 2. Food - Administrator Chester C. Davis told a Senate agriculture - subcommittee yesterday that a subsidy program to hold prices in line - would be “dangerous and would rot solve the food price program.” 3. Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins (R. 0.) predicted early passage of his bill to take food out of OPA and put it under the jurisdiction of the war food administration.
Threaten Subsidy Fund
4. Two members of the House agricultural committee, Rep. Hampton Fulmer (D. S. C) and Rep. Clifford Hope (R. Kan.) threatened to seek to withhold all funds for administration of the food program if subsidies were put into effect uve the disapproval of Congress. Spokesman in the imported fois section of OPA said that “so far no work has been done in this division on subsidizing coffee.” 6. A spokesman in OPA’s meat division said that “it will be safe to say that the program has been postponed.” He gave as one reason - the “astronomical amount of money it would take to put over such a program compared with the inconsequential result.”
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TODAY 1S poppy day in Indianapolis.
Both the American Legion auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars organizations are selling poppies in the downtown | area. The Ametican Legion poppy above, ¥ made of tissue paper by 206 veterans of world war I and II now in the hospital at Marion. Proceeds from the sale will be used for child welfare and rehabilitation of ne war veterans. Mrs. Merrill Woods has charge of the local Silk “Buddy” poppies made oy isabled veterans in various hospital are being sold by the V. F. W. members under the direction of Martin M. Lannan, department junior vice commander. The money will be used for assistance to disabled war veterans and their families and orphans of world war ‘IT ‘and former wars.
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WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Wadkingion. Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, May 29. — A Stalin - Roosevelt - Churchill conference is now unanimously agreed on, according to best available information. Probably in Russia.
Apparently only the date remains to be fixed. Chiang Kai-shek probably will meet with Roosevelt and Churchill, perhaps in the Middlg East, before or after the Stalin meeting. But there will hardly be a foursome. (China is at war with Japan; Russia is not. Russia and Japan have a treaty of non-aggression. Japan would almost certainly take umbrage if Stalin and the generalissimo met at a war council) » 2 o # 2 ” CREATION OF office of war mobilization seems to confirm that F. D. R. will travel, have less time than ever for domestic affairs, as a result of strategy-conference decisions. + OWM was created hurriedly; apparently was known only to Roosevelt, Hopkins, Byrnes until a few hours before it was announced. And the new order is the first in which Roosevelt has delegated so much power. ¢ ” 2 2 2 2 2 ABOUT THAT strategy conference:. ‘No international gathering has ever been less concerned with protocol, more concerned with hard work. General atmosphere was of rolled-up shirtsleeves. Some critical ' sessions went all night, with high military men being called from bed to help form history-making policy. Luncheons were usually served over desk tops, dinners were only brief breathing spaces. | ” ®8 2 tJ # 2 y
Germany on the Downgrade
CONFIDENTIAL reports from European capitals say Germany's position is worse than outsiders suppose. Not that she’s about to crack up. But she’s on downgrade. The Nazi war machine is short of gas. Rumanian wells aren't adequate. Polish and other available fields are negligible. Synthetic plants fail to close the gap. Allied bombers have further reduced output just when it was needed to stave off allied invasion.
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Italy's plight is even worse. Some call it desperate. She is de(Continued on Page Two)
Ernie Pyle Gets Two More Feathers In His War Bonnet
Pyle is quite concerned about the fact that he's receiving the National g| Headliner’s club award today for Deaths. Brite best Jeatars ai Spend. Syerviiony Kiows-eslisied men | ence of the “d that this
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SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1943
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ITALY ROCKS UNDER YANKS BIG BOMBERS
Islands of Mediterranean Also Receive Their Daily | Ration of Bombs.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 29 (U. P.).—American fourengined bombers loosed a powerful double-barrelled assault on Italy yesterday, inflicting “great damage” on the oil refinery and shipyards at her third largest port, Leghorn, and blasting the airdrome at Foggia, it was announced today.
Leghorn, also known as Livorno, is on the Ligurian sea 165 miles up the coast of Italy from Rome and is 4dp miles from. Biserte, Dearest allied base. Smoke columns rose so high over the wrecked oil refinery that they could be seen by crewmen when the fortresses were 100 miles from Leghorn, en route home after shooting down one of 10 axis fighters that attacked them. No American planes were lost on the flight which encountered little serious opposition as a result of steady blasting of Italian aerial defenses in re-
t days. “Fires and explosions broke out
“There was so much smoke followed by flame and explosions that I think even the folks back in Arizona must have heard the noise,” remarked Staff Sgt. Woodrow Whitecotten of Mesa, Ariz. “I was busy shooting at fighters most of the time.” “Flame and explosions spread over the target 10,000 feet below us,” said Lt. Norman C. Garcin of 2433 N. Center ave, Terre Haute, Ind. Another ‘ Hoosier, Flight Officer Bruce Cunningham of Hammond, Ind, reported shooting down an enemy plane in a raid on Milo airdrome. The crewmen reported numerous hits on the railroad yards and sheds and oil tanks in what they described as the most successful long distance raid—about 1000 miles round trip— yet made in this theater. Other American planes renewed attacks on four axis airfields in Sicily and gave Pantelleria island its usual daily plastering, while U. S. Liberators from the Middle East attacked Foggia airdrome in southern Italy. Direct Hits Made (A Cairo communique said photographs showed direct hits on several hangars and destruction of three enemy bombers and damage to at least 10 others on the ground at Foggia. Large fires were started. All the bombers returned safely. In Sicily, U. S. medium bombers and fighter bombers attacked airfields at Sciacca, Castelvetrano, Milo and Borizzo, shooting down 15 German and Italian fighter planes. The bombers accounted for 11 of them, boosting the 10-day ‘total of enemy planes destroyed to 398.
WHEW! LOST $50 BILL NESTLES IN LEAVES
Wasson’s Delivery Driver Recovers Greenback. Kermit Harris, a driver of an H.
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7 Yes Johnny-This ls the Speedway
Al Rickenbacker, brother of the famous Eddie and custodian of the Speedway, looks over the desolate oval where in years past at this season 100,000 spectators gathered to watch the daredevils speed their way to nowhere in the annual Memorial day 500-mile auto classic. Grass now grows through the cracks
in the track.
RULING ON LABOR RIOT ASSAILED
13 Richmond Defendants File Rehearing Petition With Supreme Court.
‘By NOBLE REED A recent opinion of the Indiana supreme court which upheld the conviction of 13 defendants in connection with a labor riot at Richmond two years ago, was assailed in a petition for rehearing filed with the high court today. Andrew Jacobs, attorney for the defendants, charged in his petition that the supreme court “based its decision upon a misstatement of the record” and that the court's opinion “misquoted” the constitution. The defendants were convicted by a jury at Winchester, Ind., on charges of resisting arrest during a strike riot at the International Harvester Co. plant at Richmond March 27, 1941.
Films Are Issue
The petition for a rehearing stated that the supreme court upheld Judge John W. Macey of the lower court in the latter's refusal to permit the defendants to show the jury a motion picture of the riot. “The defendants were deprived of the most reliable evidence ever offered in a court of law,” the petition charged. “The ruling condones arbitrary and capricious repression of the truth . . . it obstructs due process of law in that it turns a deaf ear (Continued on Page Two)
Hoosier Heroes —— Seaman Dies
When Motor Craft Sinks
Killed
SEAMAN 1-c Herman Phillip Billerman, a graduate of Tech high school, was killed last Dec. 31, the navy department has notified his father, Herman J. Billerman, 121 N. State ave. Mr. Billerman said that his son, who was 26, lost his life when the motor launch he was riding capsized. Seaman Billerman was on his third convoy trip across
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Pits Ghostly. Grass Grows On the '500'
DEAR PVT. JOHNNY JONES: Tomorrow being Memorial day, I thought that wherever you are or whatever you are doing, your thoughts will somehow shift back to Indianapolis and what that day means to Hoosiers and speedminded persons throughout the world. ; I'm writing of but one thing, Johnny, and you know what it is. It’s the 500-mile Speedway race. Before you joined the fight for freedom, Johnny, you spent your last Memorial day in Indianapolis, roaming the infield with some 150,000 other speed-mad folks, watching how Mauri Rose came from behind to be what may be the last winner of the great classic. Yes, Johnny, you munched hot dogs, drank cold beer and perspired in the blazing hot sun. You liked it.
May Have Been Last
I SAY IT may have been the last race forever, Johnny, because that is what a lot of people back ‘home here are thinking. I had heard of the talk so I decided to go out to the track myself, look around and maybe talk to Al Rickenbacker, Eddie's brother, who: has charge of the course and is “in the know” (Continued on Page Two)
KEEP REAR LICENSE, DONATE THE FRONT
Six 1943 Plates Already
Erroneously Given. The state civilian defense com-
USE HOUNDS IN HUNT FOR EASTERN KILLER
NEW YORK, May 29 (U. P.).— were sent into the wooded section around East Farmingdale foday as state police
Invasion, London Paper Claims FRENCH COAST
IS PROBABLE '
British Navy Is Reported Ready for Great Moment In History.
CL [today that a great force of
| Flying Fortresses were ate
tacking axis ‘Europe—probe ably concentrating on the
ing destruction of six enemy gunboats and the hitting of three others off the Cher-
t |bourg peninsula.
At one point in South England
} where a wave of allied planes was
(Parade and - Services at
.|anapolis, the Knights of Columbus
CITY TO HONOR ITS WAR DEAD
Local Cemeteries on
Memorial Program.
Services at local cemeteries and monuments and a downtown parade tomorrow will honor the dead heroes of world war II and former
wars. : Under the sponsorship of the General Memorial association, the cemetery services will be held throughout the day, and the parade will begin at 9:30 a. m. at Pennsylvania and North sts. Marching in the parade will be four divisions of military and civilian units. The parade will form near the World War memorial plaza, move south on Pennsylvania st., west on Washington st. and north on Meridian st. to the Monument Circle where it will disband. One of the two surviving Civil war veterans in Marion county will march in the parade. He is Oscar (Continued on Page Two)
ILLNESS IS FATAL TO EDWIN MANOUGE
Rites Monday for Retired Credit Agency Head.
Edwin Manouge, district manager for Dun & Bradstreet until his retirement May 1, died at his home, 5816 N. Delaware st. today after a brief illness. Mr. Banouge had been with*R. G. Dun & Co. and Dun & Bradstreet practically all his life and had been connected with the Indianapolis office 29 years. He was born in Cincinnati Sept. 20, 1876, and became an employee of Dun in 1890. Before coming to Indianapolis as assistant manager in 1914, he was stationed in Anderson. He came manager of Dun & Bradstreet here in 1931. He was a member of the Columbia club, the Rotary club of Indi-
and St. Joan of Arc church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Octavia S. Manouge, a daughter,
Mrs. M. J. De Vietien; a son, Edwin|"
sighted it was said that more than 25 per cent were four-engined bombers. They were heading in the general direction of Lorient and st Nazaire. Less than an hour later otheg ’
planes, flying very high, were
watchers said they were Fortresses without escort.
Haze Over Channel
nel but visibility was fairly good. Earlier, 'a communique told of the attack on enemy gunboats by fleet air arm Albacore planes. :
attack by American planes leading the air onslaught from North Africas kept Italy’s defi off balance today and a London newspaper said
imminent opening of a second fron§ in ‘Europe. Almost 100 Flying Fortresses struck at Leghorn, Italy’s third largest sea
Foggia airdrome, 125 miles north east of Naples. resses deepest raid into Italy. The action yesterday indicated allied hitting power was ng and the Italian Mediterranean is lands were struck again along with the mainland objectives.
“Every Detail Worked Out®
The London News-Chroniclé said every detail had been worked ou for the invasion, with British ware ships prepared for one of history's great naval operations. It made no
be. The dispatch followed axis ree ports that the alljes have concenw trated invasion barges in Tunisian
Sicily, Sardinia, Pantelleria (Continue on Page Two) | s
(May 29, 1943)
EUROPE: ward France on raiding
gunboats in channel; .London
forces set to go.
AIR WAR: American planes in long-range attacks hit Leghorn. and Foggia while continuous: bombardment of Italian islands. keeps on; 21 more axis destroyed for 10-day total
RUSSIA: Soviets shoot down Of more Nazi aircraft, staving Luftwaffe attacks on ground
new Russ army attacks fail.
PACIFIC: Japanese planes near Chungking in advance westward drive ' while airforce retaliates; Southwest P cific fliers hit Wewak with _ tons of bombs; enemy loses bombers in Australian raid mop-up goes on as‘ raid;
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claim gains.
Italian yesterday was figuratively still in the hair of city fathers who spent some time investigating a petition charging that bothersome
unabated because Police Chief Beeker ate there. After probing the - incident all
Chief Calls Spaghetti Issue 3 A "Political Stab-in-Bac
had been ‘shown ‘police d favoritism. i 2. That the concerted pr
goings-on in a South|nearby ‘|side tavern were allowed to proceed
!| LONDON, May 29 (U.P). | —Coastal watchers believed
There was a haze over the chale
allied forces were in position for the
port, and other bombers raided
News-Chronicle says invasion
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WAVES OF FORTS RAID EUROPE
ALLIED TARGET |
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sighted from the same area, wheres
It was the Forts
guess where the second front would
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Allied planes sweep to= missionsy a British navy air arm destroys six
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On the ‘War Fronts 1