Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1943 — Page 17

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Lost Ration Books

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— Wartime Living ’ ; | ao : : More Sugar, ‘ 4 I ‘Not Much, lt By BETTY MacDONALD - Times Special Writer . Aug. 5.—Despite the President's cheery pre-

diction that “within a short time we shall get greatly increased price administration experts are

Here's the dark side of the sugar picture: Beet production is off ahout 40 per cent; Hawaiian imports are ten per cent below normal; grain is now needed to feed cattle, and alcohol must now come, in greater quantities from sugar; the extra sugar supplies hoarded by householders in anticipation of rationing are dwindling; industrial users of corn syrup are now using beet and cane; the million-ton quota we once got from the Philippines is gone for the duration; boys in the service are requiring sugar for energy giving foods; much of the country’s spare money is

NOW BEING discussed at OPA is a plan to waive the waiting’ period for lost war ration books in cases where “extreme hardships” might be caused. to the person who lost his book. Local boards will decide the case and if ‘no inconvenience is caused, the person will be required to wait the usual length of time.

+ THE WAR production board has taken steps to assure house"holders of sufficient supplies for worn parts of domestic heating furnaces, stoves, ranges and water heaters . . . According to gasoline tax collectijpn records, automobile drivers “consumed about 20 billion gallons of gasoline during 1942, a decrease of 17 per cent from 1941 . . . Fresh California freestone peaches

cording to OPA and the war food administration approved allocation of materials for the construction of storage facilities sufficient to take care of 15 million bushels of potatoes.

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Says FDR; Asserfs OPA

.going into soft drinks, sweets. Offsetting this picture is the fact that we are importing record amounts of sugar from offshore areas, especially from Cuba. Ships are stopping in on their way home from the African ‘run, loaded up with sugar. The sub menace in those parts is coming under control. Department of Agriculture officials predict that - if imports keep piling up, we may have a surplus in about . two months that will be felt throughout the country. But how much goes to lend-lease, to alcohol, to industrial users, is still unpredictable.

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Blue stamps N, P and Q good through Saturday.

Meat |

Red Stamp T and U are good through Aug. 31. V becomes valid Sunday, and W, Aug. 15. All expire Aug. 31.

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Stamp 18 good for one pair through Oct. 31. :

ity Sugar : 4 ‘Stamp 13 is good for five pounds through Aug. 15. Applications may be made now for canning sugar. Allotments are one pound of sugar for every four uarts of fruit canned with a maximum allotment of 25 pounds per person which includes five pounds for jellies, jams, preserves, etc. Stamps 15 and 16 are each good for five’ pounds through Oct. 31. As fryit ripens, application may be made at local boards for additional allotments up to 15 pounds per person if needed.

'RATIONING DATES

Coffee No ration stamp needed. ~ Gasoline Stamp 7 in A book is good. Tires Second Inspection Deadline: A

book vehicles by Sept. 30; commercial vehicles every six months or

45000 miles, whichever is first.

Fuel Oil Stamp 5 expires Sept. 30. Period one coupons for 1943-44 season are good until Jan. 4.

MEDICAL CADETS TO GET AWARDS

The army cadet corps at the Indiana university medical school will pass 1n review at the parade grounds behind Riléy hospital at 2 p. m. Saturday before receiving awards for inilitary proficiency. Col. R, L. Shoemaker, commandant of the main detachment at Bloomington, will review the parade and make the awards.

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Robert Kingery of Chicago Planning - Group Visits City.

years has wielded the greatest influence in public and industrial planning in the Chicago area belfeves post-war rehabilitation should

help” basis.

federal aid which, he says, smbst planners are willing to sacrifice to

ing conversion to peace-time public works and industry. He is Robert Kifigery, general manager of the Chicage Regional Planning association, who is in Indianapolis today and tomorrow to confer with municipal, county and state plan officials.” } Word Distasteful

“post-war” is distasteful because’ of

is one thing and actual materializa--tion of plans—another. - Plan materialization, he agrees, costs considerably more. So far, too much emphasis has been placed on the post-war significance of public works to the detri-| ment of private industry's future course in many loedlities, he thinks. If you're worried about the prospect of high taxes to be collected to finance post-war projects, just remeniber, Mr. Kingery says, that “95 per cent: of all post-war -enterprises will have to be motivated: by private industry.” . ‘a Much of the employment slack will be taken up when industry strikes out for new fields to conquer, he reminds. . In. view: of this, he thinks local post-war ‘units should pay greater heed to its business and manufacturing interests. ‘Andustrialists should be assisted to enable them to convert to peace-

‘| time production within from 60 to

90 days,” declares Mr. Kingery. “Any lag longer than that is likely to be accumulative and perhaps fatal.” . The citizenry should also be comforted by the realization that regular tax funds will be channelled into post-war use, he pointed out. Specialized planners, he asserted, aren't going to spend public money on useless governmental ventures. No One Knows “Practically all new manufacturing units are now government controlled,” Mr. Kingery said. “Whether these. will convert back to private industrialists remains to be seen. Nobody knows what Washington plans at present.” To Should local governments take th lead in post-war financing, however, Mr. Kingery doesn’t see any greater proportionate rise in taxation. Instead, he points out, “the larger the governmental unit, the greater the costs. And home rule will be more likely to satisfy the citizens who will benefit directly.” Tonight he will address members of the Indianapolis post-war planning committee, the city plan commission, the county plan commission and business and professional groups at the Columbia club, In the meantime he hopes to survey the city and county with a view

toward post-war development.

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be charted on a community “self-|

He minimizes the futuyre role of |

local independence in the forthcom- |

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its overuse, realizes that planning

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nspect Canned Fruit

Three 4-H club members are inspecting canned fruits and vegetables entered in the city 4-H club con- | test at Ayres auditorium today. Left to right are Margaret Miller, a visitor from Williamsport; Norma Dean Sparks, 1935 Holloway ave., and Barbara Rusie, 1926 Bloyd ave. Approximately 940 city 4-H members from 67 clubs participated in the contest. :

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DAYS ARE LISTED FOR SEABEE INTERVIEWS

Indianapolis tradesmen and construction workers wanting to enter the Seabees, the “work and fight” branch of the navy, will be interviewed here each Monday through August, beginning next Monday. The ‘100th Seabee battalion, com-

.| posed of many Indiana men, will

soon be ready to leave for the fighting front, and Lt. W.' A. Chapman Jr., Indiana’s navy recruiting officer, said today that Seabee procurement for Indiana will be increased. Skilled and semi-skilled tradesmery and others who wish to join the Seabees must appear at their nearest navy recruiting station before they have received their regular call for induction. They then will be “screened” before date of engineering officer’s interview with them. At the time of interview, the applicant should bring three letters of work reference in order to be qualified for a rating commensurate with his ability. If found qualified both physically and mentally, the applicant will be given a letter to take to his draft board, if he is within selective service requirements, which asks that he be voluntarily inducted into the navy’s Seabees.

Services Need 6000 Physicians

CHICAGO, Aug. 5 (U. P).— The armed forces must have 6000 more doctors by the first of next year, the American Medical asso=ciation Journal said today. With the addition of the 6000, roughly one-third 6 the licensed practicing physicians in the U. 8. will be serving in the medical branches of the armed services, a Journal spokesman said. There are 186,000 licensed physicians in the country. The Journal said a directive has already gone to generals of the various service commands authorizing them to induct 38 to 45-year-old physicians who have been declared available by the directing board of the medical

profession’s procurement and assignment service. ,

NAVY ADMIRAL RETIRED

WASHINGTON, Avg. 5 (U. P.).— The navy announced yesterday that Rear Admiral Charles P. Snyder, naval inspector grnepal, has been placed on the 1etired list.as of Aug. 1 and advanced to the rank of admiral. Snyder will continue in his present post. He reached the retirement age of 64 on July 10.

the anemias due to pregnancy. It is the rule that the blood count and hemoglobin levels fall during pregnancy. For a long tim e, o ss goon

figures for: these two constituents of the blood is due to an increase in the plasma or fluid portion of the blood. It is .-nothing more than dilution of the blood cells that accounts for the apparent anemia regularly encountered during pregnancy.

Normal Blood Count

There are normally in the nonpregnant women about 14 gm. of hemoglobin in 100 cc. of blood. Because. of the physiologic increase in the blood volume during pregnancy, this figure may fall to 10 gm. without indicating any loss in the total volume of hemoglobin. By the same token, the red-blood-cell count does not indicate blood loss when it shifts from 4,500,000 in non-pregnant state to 3,500,000 during pregnancy. Levels for hemoglobin and red blood cells" lower than the standards for normal pregnancy indicate a true anemia. “The vomiting of pregnancy and the gastro-intestinal disturbances associated with that state may interfere with the dietary factors necessary for the stimulation of the blood cell formation. Further.more, pregnancy exerts ‘an increased dietary demand on the mother which is not, always met by a proper selection of: foods. Besides these factors, the ictus constantly -demands' the substances out of which blood is produced, and takes them at the expense of the mother.

to be born-anemic, an observation which means that its supply is assured, regardless of the intake on the part of the mother. If the mother is anemic, the infant may also become anemic somé months after birth because of deficient storage of iron by the fetus. The “administration: of iron to the mother during pregnancy or to the infant after birth will prevent

"It is rare, indeed, of an infant

Your Health in Wartime Simple Blood-Building Diet Stops Pre-Natal Anemia

By Dr. THOMAS D. MASTERS : Anemia is one of the most frequent complications of pregnancy. | One of the reasons for regular pre-natal examinations is to detect anemia as early as possible, when it is easy to treat and before it can participate in the development of any other complication. Fortunately, there are satisfactory and usually simple means of correcting

anemia due to pregnancy is more infrequent in women whose dietary history is known to be satisfactory. The increased demands exerted by ‘pregnancy may result in anemia if there is not a simultaneous increase in the supply of blood building materials. Additional iron-containing foods such as Mver, green, leafy vegetables and forotein foods such as meat, fowl, d dairy products will balance e stepped-up need and prevent anemia. The periodic pre-natal examination will verify the result and detect the onset of any other complication.

DESTROY 100 ENGINES

LONDON, Aug. 5 (U. P.).—One hundred locomotives were destroyed or damaged during July by allied fighter attacks on railway communications in axis occupied western Europe, the air ministry news service reported today. The figure is exclusive of locomotives knocked out of action in attacks on railway

A A. F. POUNDS NAZI TARGETS

And Three Destroyers Are Sunk. Ns

LONDON, Aug. 5 (U.P.).—Swift British Mosquito bombers took, over the allied aerial offensive against

war factories and other objectives in the Ruhr and Rhineland, = While tHe twin-engined plywood bombers stabbed into the heart of western Germany’s industrial area, naval planes sank three enemy torpedo boats and seriously damaged a fourth off Calais in northwest France. : The night attacks, from which all planes returned, followed an American daylight raid yesterday in which medium bombers wrecked a French shipyard.

Fight Eight Destroyers

The naval aircraft, operating under the Royal air force fighter command, pounced on two lines of four torpedo boats each and pressed home their attacks despite heavy anti-aircraft fire. One pilot alone blew up two boats with bombs. All planes returned. The R. A. F.’s four-engined bombers were believed to have been idle for the second straight night. Except possibly for routine mine-lay-ing operations. Inclement weather was believed responsible for lull in attacks on Germany. American medium bombers were credited in an American -communique with scoring bomb hits on a power house, a boiler shop, an en-gine-erecting shed and a landing slip at Le Trait, on the Seine river a few miles west of Rouen, late yes-

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James B. Clements of the Ine diana employment security divie ! sion has been appointed to direct ! the promotion of all salvage ef= forts in Marion county and the educational phases in connection with salvage, Fred Phillips, gene eral chairman of the committee, | said today. Mr. Clements repree | sents the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce.

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INVASION OF KISKA | APPEARS IMMINENT!

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (U. P.)~= The invasion of Kiska, isolated buf heavily defended Japanese base in the Aleutians, appeared imminent today in the opinion of military obe Servers. Although the end of comparative= ly moderate weather in the Aleus tians is but a matter of weeks away, military analysts noted a number of signs which they believe indicate that American forces will shortly attempt to gain beachheads on that island. a

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