Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1943 — Page 1

; re AOR - VOLUME 54—NUMBER 140

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By EARL RICHERT Indianapolis eating and drinking establishments 4 collectively were given a - grade of only 41.6 per cent ~-T5 per cent is said to be —by the U. S. public h&alth service and the state board of health in a 200-page sanitary survey

_ report released today. The U. S. public health service code regulating eating and drinks ing establishments was used as the basis in the rating of each

place of business. The report declared that “it is obvious that immediate ‘and rather drastic steps should be taken to improye restaurant sanitation in Indianapolis.” Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board secretary who received a copy of the survey re- . port, said that the local restaurants had improved since the survey was started on June 17, until the collective grade now would be around 50 per cent. ‘ He pointed out that practically all of the establishments are haying "extreme difficulty maintaining personnel standards during these times and that the difficulty in gettin 1 also is complicatYA ing matic

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“better able to 4 ‘maintain a closer check gver san-

“the city couneil in providing suf- { funds to increase the food yection staff from three to six. A grade A restaurant ordinance will be submitted to city council, sceording to. Dr. Morgan. { He said that he had discussed 4 the possibility of adopting the Grade A restaurant program with : ; restaurant and hotel men some time ago and that it had been decided it was too expensive to adopt during this period. - “The report,” he said, “is beneficial because it showed where the defects were.” Purpose of the ‘survey, typical of many being made throughout the state and nation, was to gain (Continued on Page. Two)

“NAZI CHIEF DIES OF “INSIDIOUS ILLNESS’

LONDON, Aug. 21 (U, P.)—Col. Gen. Hans Jeschonnek, chief of the general staff of the German air force, died Thursday of an. “insidious illness,” Berlin radio announced last night, His death deprived the luftwaife of one of its major leaders. Jeschonnek was only 44, and had started army service in the last “War before he was 16. Berlin gave no details of his illness. 4 rhe broadeast described him as * ® “most intimate and faithful colJaborator” of Reichsmarshal Her- : man Goering, chief of the luftwaffe.

“JULY INCOME TAX

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. P.). _ Individual income tax collections “in July were $541037,288 compared

“largely to the fact that the tax collecting machinery was swamped with ork, so that internal revenue

1 been unable to Fp of the.June tax pay-. ts until last month.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a. m..

Three Recommendations

Three recommendations are set out in the sanitary survey report conducted by the U. S. public health service and the Indiana state board of health, issued today. These recommendations are:

ONE: Adopt and adequately enforce the most recent U. S. public health service ordinance and code regulating eating and drinking establishments.

TWO: Obtain the services of a public health sanitarian or a sanitary engineer trained in food sanitation to administer the restaurant program under this code and to supervise the field personne] making inspéctions.

THREE: Initiate and maintain a well-rounded atucavioral program to teach operators and food handlers the principles of sanitation and to instruct them in recommended restaurant practices.

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Washington waits, like every other city, for news from Quebec; stalls on decisions; watches, hourly, for sensational developments. # 8 = ® = = BEAR IN MIND: We haven't yet secured complete air superiority in Europe. : Best information indicates Germans still ;produce . more"

fighters. each month than we. destroy: some * estimate’ figure at 200

a month in ~of; attrition. We've: got to reverse this before we can assure invading ground forces of the kind of air-gover they had But: Informed officials Eheot: Ee i has a | Biden osce. of ‘Wig’ humbers swap Tora Nifta i Bug NG: we're off guard. ¢ . . % 8 ® =» ® ONE IDEA under discussion here for curisig lagging prodiiction: Assure war workers of post-war priorities on jobs. - Workers in aircraft and other war plants begin to’ Wore “about war's end, start thinking about a move to plants that will produce peacetime goods. A workers’ priority, like those given fighting men, might keep them content, working at top speed. - Producers, touched with the same feeling, may be promised priorities on materials for peacetime goods, to keep them from thinking too much, now, about conversion. It’s all in the debate stage, still. ». 8 8 : » # Ld

“Subsidies Get New Support

ADMINISTRATION GETS unexpected support for subsidies, and any other price-control program it may.decide on, from three strong

* Midwest organizations of dairymen. Their spokesmen, here this week,

have broken with C. W. Holman’s Co-operative Milk Producers; say its insistence on puncturing cellings will hurt the farmer more in the end than help him. » s. tJ » » RATION POINTS on butter may go up from 10 to 12. WFA and OPA are considering it. ‘Big government stockpile built up for winter military needs accounts for current shortages. Outlook for civilian supplies is not rosy; increased consumption of fluid milk is expected to cut butter production during last half of ’43. 8 8 =» ® = = HOUSE PASSAGE of Fulbright resolution calling for “machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a just and lasting peace” is expected soon after congress reconvenes. Senate foreign relations committee - will modify this language, perhaps adopting portions of Vandenberg resolution calling for world co-operation to prevent “by any necessary means” the recurrence of aggression; pefMaps adopting portions of the more specific Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill measure. If latter resolution is ignored, its sponsors will attempt to add amendments on the floor, including declaration for international police force. But they'll try to make sure whatever passes has at least two-thirds majority on the final vote. » ” » ® » »

Gas Cut Story Not Told :

INSIDERS THINK two reasons for recent Midwest gasoline cut” haven't been told yet. One is the rapid wearing out of care-and tires,

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(LETTER ASKS

Government Also Considers Formula: for Ending Hostilities. | STOCKHOLM, ‘Aug. 21 (U. P.).— A delegation representing a number of political ‘groups called on President Risto Ryti of Finland yester-

day and demanded that the government take definite steps to investigate the possibility of a separate peace with Russia, a Helsinki dispatch said today.

in a letter signed by 50 prominent Finns and delivered to Ryti by the delegation, the dispatch, published in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, reported. The letter also suggested that a separate peace could be facilitated by ‘a ‘change of government with J. K. Paasikivi succeeding Prof. Edwin Linkomier as premier. Paasikivi, a former premier, is president of the Finnish section of the international chamber of commerce and chairman of the Finnish’ Export association.

: Seek Peace Formula : “The delivery of the letter to Ryti

Qtineided wiih conferences among

Finnish officials and military leadors on Pinldnd's status In the war renewed speculation’ that the Sovetiument, was seeking a formula that would permit pe

The demands were incorporated |!

several days of conferences government leaders, but he is expected to go back to Helsinki shortly. At Stockholm, "he could make contact with American, British or Soviet diplomatic offiétals.

Government Hesitates

Evidence of German uneasiness over ‘the Finnish trend has seen in the hurried return to Helsinki of Dr. Wipert Von Blucher, German ‘minister, after an absence of

believed that Finland ‘would welSome hor, 4 Pease initiative from| ou uding suggestions directly from ey. but it was doubtful that she was prepared to make the move herself. Finnish hesitation was attributed {to fears of German reaction and. the possibility that Russia would interpret any direct approach as the equivalent of capitulation, leading to Soviet dictation rather |’

' |than’ negotiations of peace terms.

Emphasize ‘Difficulties’

Nevertheless, observers believe the government must take a sincere, hold step if it wishes to convince the people at home and ahroad of its desire to withdraw from the war. Discussions under way may be leading to such a step, but best informed Pinnish and Swedish sources | : insisted” that so far there is more smoke than fire,

worsening the civilian outlook for synthetics anytime’ soon. Big Bill ery

Jeffers turned his thumb down on telling this story, despite pressure,’

Another possibility: That the Midwest this’ time, not the Eat, |

will furnish supplies for nextJsi§*offensive operation overseas.

LOOK FOR returning congressmen from the West to rub it in about cutbacks of guayule rubber plantings, to point to recent disclosure that synthetic, alone, makes inferior tires. Guayule sponsors urged from the start that their rubber was needed for mixing with synthetic; took it hard when their part in the rubber program was cut to insignificance. : » s ” . » » FRIENDS OF CHURCHILL say he'd like to go out to the Pacific (Continued on Page Two) Ya

Sabie theather, revealed today that 7400}

Informed sources in. Stockholm|

. With the arrival in Quebec of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the allied parley took on a political hue which may indicate that Churchill, Roosevelt and the chiefs of staff- have already settled military questions. Left to right, Hull, Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Ray Atherton, U. S. Min

ister to .Canada.

YANKEE LOSSES IN SICILY 7400

38- Day’ List Includés ‘the |

+ MRS. ROSE MARIE MILLER

otal Killed, Nelo:

American soldiers. . were killed, wounded ‘or captured in, the conquest. of . Sicily, ‘which .he said clinched . the - ‘ultimate defeat of Germany. : The 38-day campaign pubs the Germans in the worst predicament; they have . yet faced, Alexander told Anglo-American war _correspondents at a press conference. “The Germans are in a jam,” he said. “We are closing in on them now. We are bound to win now ahd the Gernians must be thinking they gre bound to lose. We've got them all right, but ib will take time.”

British: Suffered Most

The British suffered the heaviest casualties in the Sicilian Salpaign, losing +11,835 "dead, wounded ‘and missing, he reported, while Canadian casualties totaled 2388 for a grand total ‘for ‘all ‘allied "forces of 21,623." The figures covered’ the period up to last Tuesday, when the campaign ended with the cap-{ ture of’ Messina. ~ * : (An official statement. issued at allied headquarters in Norih Africa last + Wednesday : estimated allied casualties at 25,000, but this figure presumably included air force and naval casualties while’ Alexander's report covered’ only ground forces. The headquarters statement also

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estimated ‘axis dead and ‘wi at not fewer than “32,000 and prisoners at more than De och | Alexander said the ‘Germans’ lost,

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Acid Victim

Unidentified Youth Sears Mrs. Rose Marie Miller.

who once was wounded in a faked holdup for: wheih' ber ‘estranged husband ‘and ‘a: companion - were . prison, today was in a hE ARS ysterious

“The ‘solution. Burned her critIeallyon the face, shoulders and arms; She is in St. Prancls hospital. _ Mrs, Miller, her. “mother, Ms. Dora Hicks with. she makes . her. home at 1339 Wade st., and | “Mrs. Miller's 68-year-old son, | James, parked in Laurel st. near Prospect - last night . ‘and = Mrs. Miller and her son went. into a nearby drug store to make pur- - chases, ,

Mrs. Miller Accosted

As Mrs. Miller started to re‘enter the auot, she was accosted by -a man or .youth ‘and as she turned he threw the acid into her face. She was given first aid in the ~drugstore . by Henry Walz, 339 : Harlan: st., and later. removed to . the hospital. Her . mother was ‘burned slightly on the arms.

NAVY 1S MUM ON MOVES IN ALEUTIANS

Talk Spreads Tha That Kiska Is About to Be Invaded.

By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. P.). —The fourth week of official siience -about military operations in the Aleutians began teday with renewed speculation that the invasion of Kiska has begun or is about to begin.

Three months ago yesterday the

American warships shelled Japa-

nese installations on the island but |~ {got no reply from the short bat-

JAPS RETREAT AT SALAMAUA

Allies’ Drive Enemy Back To Main Defenses on New Guinea.

ores, Breaking | through four strong

Australians closed’ to within three miles of the Salamaua airdrome. On their right, the Yanks, coming up the coast, occupied Roosevelt ridge? five miles south of the base. The advances followed a steady aerial offensive in which hundreds of ‘tons of bombs had been poured into the approaches to Salamaub and the base itself and came as bombers .and fighters scored a new victory at Wewak, 340 miles northwest of Salamaua, to blast: enemy hopes of rising from this week’s aerial ‘ disaster. - The new Wewak attack cost’ the enemy from 24 to 30 planes destroyed and three damaged. It brought Japanese losses this week in that area alone to at least 245 planes at a cost of eight aircraft. Spotting reinforcements moving intb Borum airdrome, Liberators. escorted by Lightnings struck yesterday with 66 tons of bombs, destroying- five planes on the ground. (Continued on Page Two)

AMERICANS AGAIN SHELL GIOIA PORTS

Battleships Bombard Axis Gulf Positions.

By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,|, North Africa, Aug. 21 (U. P.).— American warships have bom axis positions in the gulf of Gioia in southern Italy for the second time: in 36 hours, a communique announced today,” and 4 British naval force has sunk seven enemy landing craft off Scalea only, 110 miles southeast of Naples."

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Points for a 2%-mile’ advance thé|g

Large fires sprang up insthe wake |’ of the American naval Houbatd.

Moving Toward Show-

down in East. QUEBEC, Quebec, Aug. 21 (U. Py

| | Heavy naval and air attacks o

Japan's fleet and major cities and an- autumn offensive to recaptur® Burma were believed today to among the major military dec reached at the conferences betweehl President. Roosevelt, Prime Churchill and their staff chiefs.

This did not mean there wou be any relaxation of the Ang

‘| American effort in Europe, but

was becoming increasingly evidel that the Pacific was near, if not the top, of the agenda at the citaw del where the president and Church ill are meeting. ’ i Russian demands to the contrafy, the conferees were believed to hay decided that the situation in Pacific is such that it will not pe: mit an all-out concentration again the Germans in Europe to the e tire exclusion of Japan.

Plan Burma Campaign

The allies were expected to hit twice—in western Europe and, about the same time, in the cific. The fall campaign in E was. decided at .the Roos Churchill conference jn Washin last - May. Coincident with

f the British empire. ; Naturally he is not a master military logistics, but his ‘cow is being received by the two: ‘ figures in the ‘conferences \ with that of Eden and Secretary State Cordell Hull.

Hint Stilwell Present :

The strongest Pacific indic today was the widely circulated unconfirmed report that Maj. Ny Joseph E. Stilwell, commander § allied forces in China, had joi the discussions. Stilwell, along Maj. Gen. Claire Chenault, manding the American air force China, and Field Marshal Sir Are ibald Wavell, new viceroy of I were key figures in the May ¢ encés with the president and prime minister. kL If the reports about Stitwell 1 true, they mean one thing: plans for Burma have been gives a final touch and a new pattern of allied combat against the Japan is being horn. . Meantime from the citadel

" .lcame no information but matiy

-| dications. Among: highly mof reports were: 1. The allies move against G many by autumn, this op timed with a body blow ag

» with Anglo-American forces

to beat the Russians whe made far more tangible Br this direction, 3. Great Britain and the

complish the “ruthless” of Japan without the | h Russian bases in order to | a better advantage at : table. Such bases, however, )

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William: Lyon Phelps of Yale, i | Noted Editor and Critic, Dies,

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NEW HAVEN, Conn, Aug. 21 (U. P.).—Dr. William Lyon Phelps, | Er nationally-known author, editor, | hi {|literary critic. and : teacher, died} ||early today at his home here after |!