Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1943 — Page 1

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FOOD SUBSIDY

Wells Retailers Price Control

Won't Work Without Use of U. S. Cash.

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 15 (U.P.). ~Members of the house agricultural committee said today after conferring with President RooseAvelt that congress apparently - * would have to enact legislation to provide for an all-powerful 100d administrator.

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WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. PJ). =~Prentiss M. Brown, who became head of the office of price administration with the avowed inten-

tion of easing upon restrictions and making OPA more popular, served notice today that he no longer is in a yielding mood and that he will continue the subsidy program despite congressional opposition. He told a group of wholesale and retail food industry representatives -that price control is im--possible unless governmnet 'subsidies are paid to hold down eonsumer prices. “The emergency price contrel act provides for the use of government funds and we cannot keep primary (farm) prices at parity and at the same time hold food prices to the September, 1942, level without the use of subsidies,” Brown said.

Confer With FDR

While Brown was speaking a oup of congressmen were: at the ite House conferring with Presine dent Roosevelt and War Mobiliza-

tion Director James TF. Byrnes, |

apparently in an effort to convince Mr. Roosevelt that Food Administrator Chester Davis should be given complete supervision over * food production, rationing and perhaps even control over farm prices.

“A similar conference; attended by):

both Democratic and Republican the i

Sonterénge. ‘to - complete au-| ~iaoetty ‘over foad problems to a sin-|

Cy “rationing and price-fixing]

under one government agency: Returns From Vacation

Browns speech before the indus-|

try representatives was his first appearance in Washington in two weeks. He has been resting at his Homme in Michigan. "He, said the new program of food price control “must work” or the country will suffer a “major defeat” on the home front. He said that where price and cost increases are unavoidable, “the administration is determined to protect the cost of living and the wage structure through the judicious use of govsmment subsidies.” ‘The food administration, meanwhile, was preparing a new survey of .the national food situation ex- . ‘pected to be the most. pessimistic Jet issued. Flood Damage Cited

: The report due to be released in & few days was reliably understood to reflect the “considerable dam-

age” caused by floods in the Middle|

West and northeast as well as by dry weather over much of the great ins. Meat slaughter and dairy production have not been up io previous * forecasts and crop prospects are the poorest in three years. Officials said there had been no general improvément in crop prospects sitice the unfavorable June 1 report. by the agriculture department. “The way it begins to look now,” ene food official said, “by next winter the question consumers are goitig to ask most often is not “What is the price? but ‘Can I

pet it?’ »

WomAN INJURED ‘BY BACKING TRAIN

Mug, Linda. May Laplante, 1445 ‘Pletcher ave. received possible. in- ~ ternal ‘injuries when her auto was| struck by a locomotive tender at the - railroa crossing on; /Leota st. this - moms.

The engineer, Arthur Dukes, 1520. o _ Sturm ave, was backing away from & 'water-tower. The auto was spun . mroun ‘and one side was wrecked.

- VOLUME 54—NUMBER 82

Bloons Empire Duce’s

Favorites Were

- ITALIAN participation

himself,

Italy was feeling its strength, and

an impressive memorandum which well into Mussolini's plan for Italian supremacy in the Mediterranean that was being developed at that very moment under the slogan of Mare Nostrum., Thus Mussolini was committed to take an active part in the Spanish revolution even before it started. The story in Rome was that his willingness to help was

revolutionaries were wary of-him from the very beginning. Mussolini had intended to send regular Italian army infantry, but Badoglio opposed the idea. The hero of Ethiopia feared such a move might precipitate a general European war—a war in which he felt Italy was not prepared to defend. herself. ‘Ciano ‘solved: the dilemma by opening. .the- enlistment of sixty thousand men to go to Spain as

the Fascists collected from all over

Frans e « «+ WAS wary of Italians.

stock persons and, last but not least,

JUDGE INSISTS NEW COURT SITE NEEDED

Present Quarters Dirty and Crowded, Rhoads Says.

By NOBLE REED A demand for immediate action for new ‘quarters to house. the juvenile court and its allied agencies was made today by Judge Mark Rhoads in a letter to county commissioners. Reminding ' commissioners that they have been negotiating for new quarters to house the court and juvenile detention home for more than three years, Judge Rhoads said that “it is tinie for all of us to get busy and act.” “The work -of the court due to war conditions is increasing and it is not reasonable for the public to expect the kind of work from our. staff to which it is entitled when we are forced to work in (Continued on Page Four)

JULIETTA CONTRACT MAY. BE LET SOON

“A contract to complete the five-

d year-old construction project at

under grand jury investigation foray - than three months, is expected) ty to be awarded by county comimis-|A" . 12|sioners sometime in July. ©

. ‘Commissioners ' have authorized)

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Julietta infirmary, ‘which has: been],

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Loyalists Trounced

Even Franco and His Staff Chuckled When the Fascist

Enemy Planes and Infantry.

so apparent that the Spanish

riod of military training. Naturally, troops, and a few veteran Black Shirt militiamen, including officers had to be sent along to strengthen them.

Black Shirts

Slaughtered by

By REYNOLDS AND ELEANOR PACKARD

II — INTERVENTION IN SPAIN in the Franco revolt was a’ Ciano brainchild which Mussolini immediately took unto

-Ciano had been approached by Spanish Rebel representatives soon after he returned from Ethiopia. It was the very moment that Fascist

Ciano was looking for some inter-

national coup with which to inaugurate his career as foreign minister. He grabbed at this opportunity and within a few days had drawn up

he submitted to Il Duce, It fitted

Ciano « « . Spain was his idea.

“voluriteers.” They were for the most part unemployed men whom

Italy. They were given a short pethey were inferior to regular

Press Banned

‘NO FOREIGN correspondents were ‘permitted to make a trip to Southern Spain until the last of January, 1937, when an excursion was organized by the official Oficina de la Prensa to the Malaga front for the impending Victory

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of the southern army.

“No wonder - we jeoudn's come

Spanish omelets. At least: ‘half of the rebel. Tore es were Italians. After encounter ing only ‘slight resistance, the insurgents. paraded into Malaga on | February 7. But the Italians, on’ reaching the city limits, carefully marched around the town in order not to give the population of the

. fallen city the impression that for-

eign troops had won the battle. (Continued on Page 1, 2d Section) .

Last-Minute Rush for Shoes Here Is a Headache to All,

The shoe situation today was ‘termed “gy mess” by salespersons, buyers,

the. customers. It was. the last day

for ration stamp 17 and everyone in town seemed desperate for shoes. Some’ customers gave up in disgust and decided to go barefooted if necessary while others, more persistent, waited: as long as.three hours in line. On the whole the attitude of the customers was laudable. One]

store reported a face slapping incident - when’ one irate customer seated herself on the lap of another | Who beat her to a seat, . There were no major calamities. Most agitated were the persons who called by telephene to ask questions. Some shoe departments were refusing cails. Stores, generally, had not hired extra employees to meet the lastminute rush. Managers pointed out that it takes a trained person. to fit shoes correctly and that trained persons were not available. Everyone from the buyer down to the stock clerks were out fing shoes, though. To facilitate sales, some stores had lanes roped off for waiting customers and demanded that the customers show their 17 stamp be(Continued on Page Four)

TUNISIA ‘BATTLE’ T0 FEATURE SHOW

Army. Relief to Benefit by

Fair Grounds Event.

The battle of Tunisia in fireworks, a show featuring new music by

a three-day holiday program for army emergency relief at the state fair grounds starting July 3. Half-price general ‘admission

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J Italian and 4last night following a two-ton| i| block buster. raid by Wellington “| bombers gn the Messina harbor and

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FORECAST: Continued warm tonight and COULTON forenoon.

TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1943

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R. A. F. RAIDS [TALY, SICILY FOR 2 NIGHTS

Messina, Toe of ‘Boot’ Are Targets of Wellingtons,

Mosquitoes.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, June 15 (U.P)—R. A. F. speedy Mosqui bombers pasted targets again

railroad terminal Sunday night. The Mosquitos strafed the island and the toe of the Italian boot, hitting railroad stations, freight yards and sidings at Licata in southern Sicily, and scoring hits on a factory, a power plant and a railroad station in the toe of the Italian boot. The Sunday night attacks started two large fires and hit a big target area on the Italian island outpost. British Wellington bombers carried out the raid, a communique said today, It reported that mod-

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erate flak was encountered and that; enemy searchlights vainly searched the sky for the attackers. Meanwhile, it was disclosed by aerial photographs that one Italian battleship of the 35,000-ton Littorio class suffered a direct hit on the forward deck during the U, 8. flying fortress raid on June 5 on Spezia naval base, when three battleships were . attacked.

Deck Platings Buckled The pictures showed the deck

platings - had buckled under the | blast and it

ously. Both incendiary and high explo-|

sive bombs were used in the night

attack by the R. A. F. on Messina. Messina is the terminus of the Drisicipal ferry line from the Itahan mainland to Sicily. The communique said four additional enemy aircraft now were known to have been destroyed last|f Friday, boosting the day’s bag to 18. Most were shot down during raids that led to the capitulation of Pantelleria.

TODAY IS DEADLINE FOR TAX PAYMENT

Mail Remittances to Avoid

Jam, Smith Advises. (Photo, Page Four)

The greatest June 15 in the history of the Indiana office of the collector of internal revenue is expected today as thousands of lastminute taxpayers will rush to beat the quarterly deadline. Will H. Smith, collector of internal revenue for the state, urged Jaspayets to mail their remittances by check or money order to avoid a long wait at a clerk’s window. Envelopes postmarked before midnight will be accepted as received on time. Yesterday an estimatéd 500 persons paid their taxes in the Federal building, and Adolph Seidensticker, postmaster, said the main postoffice issued 1500 money orders with most of them payable to the collector's office. :

Heat Wave fo

It’s going to continue warm tonight and tomorrow forenoon, the weatherman says, which means the weather won't be much better today than it was yesterday, when it ap-

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RAF HAMMERS

Oberhausen Is Added to Allies Non-Stop Air LONDON, June 15 (U. P.)—A

engined. . bombers . hammered the arms city: of Oberhausen and other targets - in - the. battered western Ruhr last ‘night. . “Large fires ‘were: seen, but clouds made it - difficult .to .observe results fully; ” an air ministry corgmunique

Be ion planes were lost in the attack, .the fourth on Germany in as many. . nights .in the. .renewed British . pre-invasion aerial offensive. .... Putting. . the a Jacks on . Adolf Hitler's. European fortress back on an around-the-clock schedule after a’ lull. in. .daylight . operations yesterday,. . British . Spitfire fighters lashed out .across the Fecamp area of Northern France on an offensive sweep . early today and destroyed three ..German - Focke-Wulf 190 fighters... Other enemy fighters were damaged. ; A German broadcast acknowledged heavy damage at Oberhausen (Continued on Page Four)

STILWELL ARRIVES IN. CHINESE CAPITAL

CHUNGKING, June 15 (U. P.).— Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of American forces in China, Burma and India, arrived in Chungking today, presumably bearing plans for an air offensive aimed directly against Japan. He promised that allied‘ leaders were “determined. to get to. Tokyo.” The American general, who once remarked that “we took a hell of a beating” in Burma, hinted that the Far East might receive more

supplies in the future.

Continue;

Storm Damage Is Heavy

stores and streets where wires were a hazard. One of the calls was to a transformer, struck by lightning at 3337 E. Michigan st., which stopped the war work of employees at the RCAVictor division plant. The damage was repaired in’ time for workers to begin production this morning. Other fires were at the store room of Jones'& Maley, auto dealers, 12 N, Forest ave.; a Power & Light Co. substation, . 3015 English ave.; frame residence of Hazel Longtree,

homes,

13085 S. Arlington ave, where a

radio was struck by lightning;

$500 Bond Pledge Thrills Betty May

Betty May Johnston, 31 W. §t. Joséph st., couldn't believe her eyes or ears when she received a $500 bond pledge from Bernard Cohen, proprietor of the Cohen drug store, 9th and Illinois sts. Betty, who belongs to troop 59 of the Girl Scouts, is out working in the Boy Scout-Girl Scout-Campfire Girls

Asks Judge for . “IF YOU'VE GOT guts enough to lock me up, I've gots guts enough’ to ask the judge to give

me the lipiit, » Walter Johnson, 29, ty told Patrolman ht,

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son wa drtifk and was fighting with his wife, promptly locked Johnson up. ‘ This morning Johnson appeared in municipal court 4 before Judge Pro Tem George Rinier. “I'm guilty,” Johnson said. - “If you're the man who can give me the limit, I'm the man who can take it.” “I'm the man who can give it,” the judge said. “The limit is $100 and costs and 180 days on the Indiana State Farm.” “I'm ‘the man who can take it,” Johnson repeated. “You've got it,” said the judge. “You're on your way.”

GREYHOUND PLANS HELICOPTER SERVICE

Bus Terminals Would . Be

Used as Airports.

CHICAGO, June 15 (U. P.).—The Greyhound Corp. announced today that it ‘has. applied to the civil aeronautics board for permission to operate helicopters over preesnt bus routes covering some 60,000 miles of highway, using’ present bus terminals as landing ports. Under the plan helicopters would follow established bus routes to provide air busi service to some 70,000,000 persons in cities and towns not served by existing airlines, said C. E. Wickman, president. The proposed -lines also would serve as feeders to preesnt air lines. While lack of of aavilable equipment - may hake the Greyhound plan a post-war project, company officials said there is a possibility that several helicopters of the type needed may be available for experimental: use in the near future.

Whether Inidanapolis would be one of the cities on a proopsed helicopter Greyhound route could not be learned today from the regional manager’s office here.

On the War Fronts

(June 15, 1943)

EUROPE—Strong: forces of British bombers raid Oberhausen, German arms city, and other targets in the Ruhr.

MEDITERRANEAN — Allied ‘bombers pound railway yards and harbor areas of Messina in northeastern Sicily.

‘| RUSSIA—Red army captures vil-|

lages northwest of Kharkov, beats off counter-attacks against newly ‘won positions northeast of Orel.

PACIFIC—Raiders hit Japanese ship and destroy or damage 1! barges in attaches on shipping off

NO GAS CUT FOR RATIONING SAKE

Ickes Tells Midwestern Senators Facts Are “For Public. fe {eyrian WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. P.. —Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes’ today promised a group of Midwestern senators and representatives that tightened .gasoline restrictions ‘ now in effect in the East will not be spread to the Midwest “merely for the sake of rationing.” “I don't - believe in rationing mefely for the sake of rationing,” Ickes told “the group when they voiced fears that the eastern restrictions would be spread to the Midwest without regard for its actual implementation: of the war effort. ! “1 also don't hold much brief for the idea of rationing on the theory that ‘misery loves company,’ ” he

added.’ Will Present 'Facis

“I. have no axes to grind and no secret. schemes to.invoke rationing to satisfy some .quaint. philosophy of demanding public sacrifices on the altar of war,” Ickes assured the Midwestern group. He promised them that if further driving restrictions in the Midwest or any other part of the country became necessary, however, because of crude oil shortage, lack of refinery facilities or inadequate transportation facilities, he would lay all the facts before congress and the public. Meanwhile, Ickes said, the present gasoline rationing program “appears to be very ineffective.” He recalled his request that gasoline rationing authority be transferred from the office of price administration to his petroleum administration for war. The present rationing program has ‘been “widely abused and evaded,” he said, but it has reduced non-essential use of gasoline to some extent.

Fascist Italy Fe

CLOSE TURKISH-SYRIAN BORDER 70 GUARD PLANS FOR INVASION

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ENEMY SPIES FRANTIC FOR INFORMATION

Jugoslav Guerrillas, Greek Patriots Unite - for

Bommon Action.

LONDON, June 15 (U, P. % —British authorities sealed. the frontier between Syria ° and Turkey te guard allied invasion plans today, Jugoslav : guerrillas were believed uniting for common action against the axis and the Ger-

evacuation of cviilians from outlaying Greek and Nor-. i wegian islands. These developments, linked with the allied aerial offensive against Sicily and the Nazi Rhineland, ins tensified axis fears — repeatedly voiced by the Berlin and Rome radios — that a major assault was being prepared against some one

| point or several points which they

obviously could only guess. : £3 Both Rome and Berlin in the last . week repeatedly have sought to reassure their people that axis forces, would be able to turn back any, in

vasion but at the same time the enemy high ‘command appeared ‘to be trying desperately to find a. ous; to allied plans.

‘Linked to Axis Efforts The a ih act action tn closing the

froritier Ne a, Sg be. 1 link these axis efforts and presuma was designed to prevent leakage information. bi (The eastern end of the Mediterranean, where there are American forces as well as the British 9th and 10th armies, has often been. mentioned as a potential invasion area.) Todays Italian communique claimed’ the sinking of a ship from a “strong” allied convoy in the eastern Mediterranean, a Dispatches from Ankara said the frontier was closed at 6 p. m. ahd the Turkish government was _- cially notified of the action later.. It was believed German spies in Turkey had been getting informé-. tion from Arabs crossing the frontier, according to a dispatch from Eleanor Packard, United Press correspondent an Ankara, but it was also noted that closing of the tier might be connected with “ portant troop movements.”

Plan Working Out

The eastern Mediterranean wa$ not the only point of tension. The allied general plan of threatening and striking—from ‘a number "of points in order to spread the enemy defenses appeared to be working out. Axis forces also appeared to Tid concerned about the threat guerilla aid to invasion forces on the outlying Greek and Norwegian islands and ni Jugoslavia. Yi Civilians were reported orden removed from the Greek and from Norway's Lofoten'isles: Swiss reports said tension was higher in Greece than in any of occupied country since the fall to the allies of the Italian Mediter+ ranean islands of Pantelleria, Lampeduss and Linosa. ; Meantime, in Jugoslavia, there were reports of intensified efforts t oend bickering among pr elements and concentrate ral operations against the Germans;

ars Morale

Of Home Front Is Cra

dispatches ’ indicated today that Italy's Fascist party has been forced to take emergency steps to prevent

a crack-up in the Italian home|

front. Carlo Scorza, party secretary, was reported to have sent Premier Benito Mussolini a long message from. the party grand council urging strong measures to avoid “weaken-

ing of the morale” of the Italian