Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1943 — Page 1

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No Stump in Civilian Diet;

~ Shown in Report to Government.

* WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P).~ Farmers are filling the 1944 larder ‘with record supplies of food in what the war food administration said

Rody was ane of the mos: remarks ‘able production achievements of the

war. Accurate food production reports and estimates for 1943 now are ‘available and they assure civilians & diet in 1944 about equal to this year ‘and better than in any year except 1041 and 1942, the WFA said. The agriculture department and the WFA, summing up the 1944 ¢ivillan food outlook in a report on the national food situation, said: “An abundant supply of cereals; 8s many chickens, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables, potatoes, beans and “peas as this year; food fats and oils to maintain present ration alJowances; fewer canned fruits and yegetables in the first half of 1944 ‘but more in the second; less red meats and dairy products.”

* Despite Shortages

The larder is being filled with 24.,000,000,000 pounds of meat, 120, 000,000 pounds of milk, 5,000,000,000 dozen eggs, 4,000,000,000 pounds of poultry meat, 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn, 835,000,000 bushels of wheat, more potatoes, rice, beans, peas and peanuts than ever before. That achievement, WFA officials pointed out, was made despite labor shortages, fewer new machines, a cold spring and floods, delayed plantings, and large areas hard-hit by a late-summer drought. But to the favorable outlook, WPA added this note of caution: Civilians are not going to get all the food they would like to buy, Purchasing power in excess of sup“Piles wil; be at least a8 high as this

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AFTER BLIMPS CRASH

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 (U. P.). «The navy searched the Atlantic off Barnegat Light, N. J., today for bodies o

LOUISVILLE BLAST LOUISVILLE, Ky. Oct. 18 (U.P).

Explosions of lacquer in a varnish

BASS Infuse six PerSona severely

and first aid was given to 47)

Entered as Second-Class Matler ai. Postoffice

Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except

Robert E. Hannegan (eft), newly appointed commissioner of in-

Will H. Smith (right) on his way to

make frequent trips to the field public:

fernal reventis; siohned hiiefly taday. af

‘Mr. Hannegan formerly was colleclor diction now come the 24,000 employees of the bureai, and he plans to | to maintain contact with the taxed

the local collector's office of Washington. Swern in Oct. 11, al St, Louis. Under his juris-

said here today.

at a luncheon at the Indianapolis Since Pearl Harbor the U. 8. casualty toll has been 112,000, and 20,500 of these were killed. During that same pesiod, workers killed off and on the job totaled 80,000 while 7,000,000 were hurt, thus seriously hampering the war effort, Mr. Jones declared.

: Campaigns Bring | Results

make people safety-conscious have brought results, he stated. A JeRait ul of the national council

ebinpa £100 first 3iv month a with 1041, showed that al

accidental deaths were down 7 per cent; deaths to workers on the job have been completely halted in the face of a 17 percent increase in the number of man hours worked; and traffic deaths are down 41 per cent,

which may be attributed largely to

wartime restrictions. : Terrific Post-War Job”

Mr, Jones warned that the postwar safety problem will be even more tremendous than the present

“When 10,000,000 men come back who have been trained to be contemptuous of danger, who haven't driven cars or worked at routine jobs, and when millions of drivers who haven't had gas find themselves with a full gas tank, we'll have a terrific post-war problem.” he said. He lauded the “vigorous” campaign of the local safety council and the efforts. of local industries in instilling in workers a sense of safety which remains after they leave : the plant.

IRETURN TO MINES

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Workers Trickle Back, but

Home Front More Deadly Than War, Says Safety Head

Accidents to home front warriors are still running four to one ahead of the casualties to American soldiers on the battlefronts, Paul Jones, director of public information for the National Safety council,

Mr. Jones spoke to the safety council of the Chamber of Commerce

Athletic club,

SEEK T0 REMEDY

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Proposal | on Probe Of Restaurants.

health inspection code in order to remedy the low rating given Indianapolis in a recent public health service survey, will be included in an ordinance to be introduced in city council tonight. Calculated to remove operation of the restaurant inspection division from political influence, the ordinance established a system of ‘merit examinations for selection of health officers. It also: 1. Provides for employment of a director of field inspection at a salary of $3600 a year.

Demands: Posting

2. Mandates posting of an inspection record on all restaurant premises, but not necessarily within the view of the public. 3. Requires that all restaurant employees receive physical examina-

veneral disease tests once a year, 4. Sets forth rigid qualifications for all inspection division personnel, to be increased from six to 12 persons. Also slated at tonight's

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tions twice a year and undergo.

Innocent Farm Folk In Italy.

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN

Army, Oct. -18 (Delayed). —In an outburst of barbarity rivaling their wildest performances in eastern. Europe, German soldiers retreating

Calazzo village, north of the Volturno river, last Wednesday noon massacred 23 Italian civilians, including 10 children and a woman of 77, whom they found in a group of farm buildings collectively known as San Giovanni Paolo. They were murdered coldbloodedly and without trace of provocation and it is unfortunate for the murderers that they can be traced down to the last man through documents they or their comrades left behind,

+1 was the first allied citizen to investigate the incident and this afternoon personally arranged for collection of the bodies that had lying in farm bulldings three days. It was the worst experience of a lifetime to supervise their being placed in _colfing and to drive with |

German soldiers in the neighborhood ‘at ‘the moment are in possession of the allied military authorities. The Germans slaughtered all eyewitnesses but it is obvious from clues which remain that they collected all the members of the four families they found in front of their miserable homes and executed them with revolvers, There had been no open trouble between these families and the Germans and the only explanation

~t{or the erime is that the Germans,

having failed in’ the battle, just wanted to vent their hate on these defenseless people. Details Substantiated

There have been rthany stories of citizens

the first fully substantiated in all its foul details, For the last 18 hours, Calazzo has been just one great big chaisso, (Italian word for noise), part of the racket being provided by the Germans down the road with their machine guns and 150-mms., but most of it by our Jittery, jabbering local allies. : Caiazzo seemed peaceful enough when we got here yesterday noon. The inhabitants were Srickiusg back

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PRESSES FIGHT FOR REDUCTION I IN FARES

Batman Files les Contention of

P. S. C. Legality. Another step in his fight to bring

Sheriffs’ H ead EAE

be’ charge a i

before the American advance on|’

six| States to Great Britain;

of Tor feet A minute to the | “4

How Nazis Executed 2 y

CAIAZZO, Italy, With the Pith Ny

Pui. Robert L. Mendenhall . . . Killed in action in the MediterTANCANn WAr zone.

New Motor Con Lift Destroyer

SCHENECTADY, N. ¥Y, Oct, 18 «(U. P)). — Completion of a 7000-horsepower moter, powerful enough to lift a destroyer to the height of a 15-story building, was announced today by General Electric Co. officials. Engineers said the motor, built for the defense plant corpora= tion's steel mill in Geneva, Utah, will be used to produce steel plates for. shipyards and war industries.

They added. Io rope could be

Si tons; 1 approximately ibe: Bors of one of the four-stack destroyers traded by the United ‘At the

MARIGNY DENIES OAKES MURDER

Crowded Bahamas

Courtroom,

NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct. 18. (U. P.).~One of the most dramatic murder trials of the century began today on this coral island outpost of the British empire when Count Alfred de Marigny arose in an unpretentious little courtroom and denied that he murdeged his wife's father, Sir Harry Oakes, A capacity crowd of 105 spectators leaned forward in their seats when the supreme court clerk turned to the wooden cage in which the defendant sat and said: “Alfred de Marigny, you are charged with the following offense —that" you during the night of July 9th and 8th murdered Sir Harry Oakes. Are you guilty or not guilty?” “I am not guilty,” the boyishlooking prisoner replied in a loud, clear voice. Court Justice Sir Oscar Daly, wearing a long black robe and white wig, peered over horned-rim spectacles at the defendant as he made his formal ples of innocence. Outside the colonial-style building, hundreds of of. persons who were

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CITY TO HIRE HELP IN FIRE COST SURVEY

Trial of Count Opens in

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Burma—

Mountbatten Reveals New Moves on India Border.

NEW DELHI, Oct. 18 (U. P.) .— British ground and air| forces have launched a strong|

{held town of Maungdaw,

attack against the Japanese-| 601 miles north of the important (Burmese supply port of| |Akyab, a communique dis-

{closed today.

— quarters retealed-that British troops |

Fireman 3-c Robert Earl Schenk killed on board ship near Guadalcanal,

| | Hoosier Heroes—

ROBERT SCHENK, SEAMAN, IS LOST

Crewman of Transport Dies As Ship Sinks During Guadalcanal Raid.

Killed

ROBERT EARL SCHENK, fe. Loman 3-c Aboard the U. 8 8 --Cearga Fr. Elliott, wax killed in ae=.. tion Aug. 8, 1943, when an enemy

ported missing Aug. 8, the day of the crash, is the son of Mr, and Mrs. William Gustave Schenk, 630 8. Worth st. He was reported dead last month. A student at Ben Davis high school, the 19-year-old sailor received his training at Navy Pler in Chicago. Later he was trans ferred to sea duty, Memorial services were held Aug. 8 at the Zion Evangelical

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NAVY TASK FORGE SEEKS JAP FLEET

Challenge to Nipponese Is Not Answered.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U.P). —A powerful American task force has been sailing the Pacific seeking to lure the Japanese fleet out for a real fight. This has been going on since last

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LONDON, Oc 18 w, P)~U. of State Cordell Hull

‘Islan forces cutting in behind Dnebegan

A terse communique from Adm. | Lord Louis Mountbatten's head- |

{struck across the Indian border | {Saturday night under cover of di|versionary patrol raids and “suc {cessfully attacked” Maungdaw with mortar fire. There was no immediate indica {tion as to the size of the British {force involved, but the communique {announced that R A, P. dive bomb[ers and fighters joined the attack: ¥| Sunday morning, pounding enemy troop concentrations throughout the area. : Bombers Attack Akyadb

Medium bombers followed up the {daylight raids with a series of attacks against Akyab and the Sagaing rallway station south of Maungdaw, setting large fires in both target areas. Other British raiders ranged along the Irrawaddy and Chindwin rivers, damaging three river steamers and two oil barges One R. A. F. plane was lost In ARROMOSTae tO -the- British ate] tick on Maungdaw came amid 4ncreasing specuation. that Mount

China last week in an effort to

“|parry a possibie allied thrust from that direction

There had been reports that the new allied drive might by-pass northern Burma entirely and strike Sireelly at the great Singapore na

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Alglers, Oct. 18 (U, P.).~Allled armies in Italy hacked through Nazi rear. guards today, moving slowly toward Rome as fresh forces poured across thé Volturno river to prepare for heavier offensives. The Germans punched back with continual counter-attacks to stall for time while the bulk of their troops moved into new defense lines. : Three more towns were captured by American and British forces of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s 5th army,

ground past the Volturno valley, Merrone, three miles north of the Volturno and 20 miles inland, fel

MOSCOW, Oct, 18 (U. P.).—~Russhelling the

Escape Path on Dnieper. #

Bombers—

Plan Two-Way Blows At Naazis to Bolster Air Offensive.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—The allies are massing supplies for a long-range bombing campaign against Germany from Italian bases, which. will be launched : as

‘soon as possible, it was an-

‘nounced officially today. An announcement by the North« west African alr force sald preparas«

tiohs were going forward swiltly for

the “offensive which the alr forces will carry out against Germany and military targets in German-held Europe.”

Munich in Range

“Within a short time the allies will be in position to hit vital military objectives in Germany either

vantage of the most favorable weather,” the statement sald, Thus it. was made evident that crushing raids on Cermany the American and British bomber fleets operating from British bases were to have their counterpart from this theater in a synchronized offensive bringing all of the Reich within bombing range, Already, the announcement pointed out, Liberators and Fore tresses flying from Italian bases made available with daily advance Of the Sti and Biv Armies eafh rebel

ANAT Frenktort- Dn “Dresden” xn Letpaig.

after three Nasal counter-thrusts were beaten off. and Cancello and Ruviano also were seized. ‘On the British 8th army front in. eastern Italy, allied , patuols

LONDON, Oct. 18 (U. P.) ~The

LF SEER

Also withini range wers Regenss

from England or Italy, taking ad=

Allies Seize 3 Key Italy Towns i ~~ Despite Fierce Resistance