Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1943 — Page 1
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Bymes Asks Support of _ Program in. Radio Broadcast.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P).~ The National Farmers Union and the United Automobile Workers (C. 1. 'O.) today backed the admin-| istration’s eleventh-hour fight to salvage some form of food subsidy, program. Walter Reuther, vice president of, the U. A. W. charged before the senate ‘banking committee that big food manufacturers are using false-| hood and misrepresentation in an effort to eliminate food subsidies and escape price controls on manufactured food products. He sald this fight was being led by General Foods Corp. and other food proGessors. : " “Russell Smith, legislative representative of the farmers union—only general farm organization supporting the administration's subsidy program—told the committee that abandonment of subsidies and the resultant inflationary spiral would be the ruination of small farmers but would progressively increase the incomes and land holdings of farmers “who ‘are already well of”
Byrnes Issues Plo
Smith's assertion" Was, similar to the warning voiced last night by War Mobilization Director James F. ‘Byrnes, who said in a radio address that farmers as well as other groups would suffer severe economic hardships if subsidies were killed, Rep. Thomas E. Scanlon (D. Pa, announced meanwhile that a consumers’ mass meeting would be held | at the Capitol tomorrow in favor of subsidies. Scanlon, chairman of an unofficial house group repreSeng consumers’ interests, said he expected several hundred per"sons to attend. ~ Reuther said “the unti-subsidies ; campaign operated through food “industry - war committee.
e's always
Attacks’ Wages or with a “To camouflage its inflation pur-igs 4 ‘i pose,” he asserted, “the committee rawsirings attacks the increased wages of in-
dustrial workers as the chief threat |. of inflation. To make good on-that charge, it falsifies the facts about workers’ income.” Going before the nation in a radio address, Byrnes issued a solemn ap to all groups wielding “political pistols” for special privileges—farnf bloc members asking higher farm prices and labor organizations demanding higher pay —to “lay that pistol down” or the nation will “lose the peace while our boys win the war.” “If we do not hold the line now,” he warned, “I confess I do not know "how or where we are going to hold back the flood gates of inflation. There are no prepared positions to which we can retreat.” A similar plea came from Price Administrator Chester Bowles who said in another radio speech that the nation's economy would blow “sky high” if business, agriculture and labor continued grabbing for “dollars and more dollars, for power and more power.” The two officials spoke as the ad-
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to solve unemployment,
Jolirkfor Gives
Formula Here
For Prosperity With Peace
By EARL
RICHERT
Indiana businessmen were told today by Eric A. Johnston, president | of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce, to expect a ‘hesitant period fol-
lowing the war.
“Then, however; he said, most experienced economists expect #
boom
period, ‘41e said the shortest estimate he had heard of: this period as
14wo years and the longest, eight. Mr. Johnston addresed’ the annual meeting of the State Chamber Commerce at the Claypool hotel. He said that the problem of mass unemployment must be solved if “we are to keep our form of exisience.” World Peace Visioned
A solid foundation for the solving of unemployment is peace at home and peace abroad, he sald. He'said that from the recent conferences of the allied powers it can be hoped that the U. 8. Russia, Britain and China will be the pillars of stability of the world of | tomorrow. “If* these countries can -draw around them all the other countries, then perhaps there will never be a third world war. This will provide security and give the backward countries opportunity to industrialize themselves and give jobs to millions.” Peace at home, he said, is dependent upon the co-operation of management, labor, agriculture and government.
Class Warfare
“We must explore areas of agreement between these groups,” He said. “And. we must acknowledge that]
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CITES SHORTAGE OF TRUCK TIRES
OPA Here : Reveals Supply 4
Only 65 Per Cent 0f Demand.
The number of truck tires available to Marion county is sufficient to meet only 65 per cent of eligible demands this month, OPA officials revealed today. Both state and county rationing | officials urged the highest degree | of conservation as they warned of an increasing shortage in the national rubber pile and the possibility that many truck operators may be forced to take carriers out of service, Alex I. Taggart, county rationing administrator, and Kenneth M. |Kunkel, acting OPA Indiana dis-
there are elements in all groupsitrict director, urged all truck oper-
warfare. They must be taught differently. “Management must understand that labor unions are here to stay,
that accept the principle of class]
that it must work for lower unit profits and higher total volume and
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h ' Stay Home' Plea WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—That sauce for the goose may be applesause for the gander was proven today by Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind.). In his weekly letter to constitu~ _ tents, the ninth district congress-
" BRITISH DESTROYER LOST
LONDON, Dec. 8 (U. P).=The destroyer Dulverton has been lost, the admiralty announced today. No defally, were given.
ators to a greater conservation program, to reduce loads and speed and
too late.
ing us the most headaches of anything,” Mr. Kunkel said. “Even if synthetic rubber is perfécted, it is largely for passenger cars at reduced speeds. It will not give trucks the same service as ¢rude rubber.”
Mr. Taggert warned operators,
man listed three contributions almost everyone can make during the Christmas season in wartime. They were: (1) Refease the long
Aristmias | distance lines for vital calls; (2) a? shop and mail early for Christunk Beds! mas; (3) avoid use of travel facil tot ities in these times. ny Room! The same letter, however, re-
ports: “Indiana is near enough thst 1° “hope to have about § Week 8} home.”
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care they must take of tires,
Gives $3 to
She wrote: ‘m passing a «+ in broth his life
a gift to of Vern, . . who a year
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laddies who are too ill too far away for their loved
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mas with them. “Missing (my brother) so much:
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2 Amusements. he Service # ” ASH. 20 Jan Soran » MRS ICES contribution, with Clapper ..... 17 idoey 5 i that of the other donors, will give
makes me want to help some
Knows What War Means-
Hospital Fund
MRS. GLADYS ICE knows what War means. A year ago today her brother, Vern, died in service. . He had wanted and counted on being homie for Christmas. He never realized that dream. Today Mrs. Ice; who lives in Westfield, sent a note and a contribution to The Times War Hospitals campaign. “1 firmly believe that one good turn deserves another
HT BULGARU
Russ Military Delegation
“reported a state of sion” in Turkey and said Bulgaria ‘was expected to
away from the axis, described as a ‘direct consequence of ‘conferences in Cairo,
1 Berlin and Ankara’
a swing away from Nazi domination.
1 defend her frontiers against any
recap tires in service before it is
“The truck tire situation is caus-
garagemen and drivers of the added.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1943
TURKS
“PREPARING TO ABANDON AXIS
Reported in Capital of Balkan Hot Spot.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 8 (U. P).~ Dispatches from the Balkans today “unbearable.ten-
break with the {axis at any time A new trend in Bulgarian policy
the allied was said to have resulted in the recall to Sofia {of Bulgaria’s ministers to Moscow, | A dispatch to the newspaper Nya | 'Dagligt Allehanda made the forth!
FORECAST: + Cloudy tonight and tomorrow with intermittent rain tom orrow; continued” mild.
This’ photo, radioed from Cairo upolis Pimes by way of New York,
Entered as esondogiate Matter of Postoffice Indianapolis. nd
FORTIFY DARDANELLES; FEVER MOUNTS IN BALKANS
Report Inonu Mobilizing Million -
. Issued ny except Sunday
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Acme Teiephota
and (ransmitied (a. The Indian- | shows President “Reosevelt and |considerable armed strength;
Among the security measures taken by the Turks in
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right prediction that developments| Jgmet Inonu, president of Turkey, chatting after one of their con- |
the purported Bulgarian plan to
Russ Delegation in Sofia
The German minister to Soda conferred last night with Premier Dobri Bojilov, the dispatches said, and a Russian nmiilitary delegation | {arrived in Sofia with a new military attache.
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The German colony at Ankara was described as extremely nervous, | and Ambassador Franz von Papen conferred . with Turkish Premier |Sukru Saracoglu regarding the cai | an Turkey was reported in an advanced state of arid in un) with army officers holding sealed | jovders to be executed in case of | ventualities. | Press reports by way of Sofia { quoted travelers from Istanbul as| | saving ‘that the Turks were con-|
| IRARA, Dec. 8 (U. P= | ungary would be receptive tv | bob developments allowing her to withdraw from the war, but will
invading force, Premier Nicolas von Kallay intimated in an address to parliament, dispatches from Budapest said today.
| vinced .the country -was on the brink of entering the war, with | Turkish reservists ‘being called, wo service,
inonu Gets Invasion Plan
The reports said allied leaders were believed to have informed President ‘Ismet Inonu of Turkey of a detailed plan for. invasion of the Balkans which. had been approved by Premier Josef Stalin at Tehran. They .added that Russia would co-operate in the invasion. Authoritative = Turkish sources were said to have admitted that “certain air and artillery reinforcements” had been sent to the Dardanelles and air raid precautions bad ‘been tightened .in all cities, especially Istanbul,
Eric A. Johnston . . must Save peace at- home ind pease abroad [could be expected momentarily in| ferences.
Doubts Turkey
By RICHARD
sources state that no ranki
no military. talks, they say,
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*A&%On the other hand, Turkish, pound to discuss the war and the
They got the answer and now it over.
Before Spring, If at All
Copyrigh. 1943. hy The Indianapolis Timea and The Chicago Daily News, Ine
CAIRO, Dec. 8. -—Both Turkis came to Cairo with the T rkish delegation. There were
honest in the sense of ‘military staff talks.
tietpation. It is likely that the Turks asked the democracies what | Turkey would get out of going into the war against Germany.
In the estimation of this correspondent, Turkish entry the war is unlikely before next spring- ~if then,
s Entry
MOWRER
and British official urkish military people
and “they were otabLY Bh
‘British and Americans were pres and cons of Turkish par-
they have gone home to think
nto
War Withi
Germany; the moment for Turkey to have arrived. The master plan having been’ made, the details must be filled in at once. If Turkey comes in, the drive from the South will take one direction; if she stays out, it will take another. In any event, Russia, | Britain and the United States must be told now in order to fit her into! the complicated war machine which will probably start rolling about April. |
Entry Might Be Decisive
Turkey's ‘entry. within 120 days| probably would be'decisive. It might shorten the war by months and | save countless lives’and treasure. If her entry is delayed, the
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‘FLU’ REPORTED ON INCREASE IN STATE
Many Schools Show Sharp Drop in Attendance.
As-the outbreak of colds and influenza spread throughout the state today, absenteeism increased in schools, war plants and business firms and Indianapolis school officials took over teaching duties in| classrooms. ' Superintendent DeWitt 8. Morgan ‘announced that all supervisors, rectors. and principals are on wall
ya to accept teaching assignments : Donors to the illness of approsisiately 300 ~ teachers in grade and high schools. : A The list of substitutes has been ex-CLOTHE-A-CHILD FUND hatsted. and “we will not ask the John Powell ..........:.o.. # 35.00 teachers who are on the job to Ayres’ Fourth Floor North. . 21.00 take on all the extra burdens,” he ten'y Sunaliine Club... 5.00| explained. si East ‘No Gossip Club 750 Prom 30 State Bourd of Public Peni- pupils are Aheent, but Attendance ! Saakrss san ene casnnansee. S00 Serie Don Allan Fowler........... 100 (Continued om 8 5
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the allies much good. Once! pond Rai, enter Rumania and | {reach the Danube, Turkish inter- | vention would be like Italy’s move a Prance in 1940. And the same might be said if it |came after an Anglo-American invasion of the Balkans via Italy and the Adriatic, or via the Aegean. Reports that Turkey. intends - to | postpone joining the allies until it will_be “safe” are regarded as slander. According to some, she fears she would be overrun by the axis. Nevertheless, she has approximately a million men under arms and her mountainous frontiers look-
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LT. JOHN M. WARDEN AMONG LISTED DEAD
First Reported Missing “Sinking of Preston,
‘LT. (3G). JOHN MARSHALL
Turkey Expected to Enter
ALIIFS SWARM
5th AY Resohes Fina
n Four Months
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seripps- Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Turkey is cxpected to be in the war within four months on the side of the allies. informed diplomatists here say, she will have missed the boat. Now that Marshal Stalin, Prime Minister Churchill and President {a opportunity to t day and Monday and apparently Roosevelt have fixed the time and place for the final assault against po ¥ 30 extricate hersell
If she isn't, some of the best
make up her mind is conceded to
TO ROME ROAD
| Triumphant Stage of
Mountain Push.
By C. R. CUNNINGHAM United "Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-
fehpnce are that it would do neither | giers, Dec. 8.~Anglo-American 5th
army troops drove down the western and northern slopes. of the Camino-Maggiore mountain peaks today in the final triumphant stage of a six-day battle to reach the main road to Rome, With the beaten Germans re-
the foot of the slopes, American infantrymen broke out cf the steep hills only a mile and a half from the Via Casilina, ancient gateway route toward the Italian capital.
Mop-Up Stage
Behind them British forces stormed and took the summit of Mt. Camino, recaptured Monastery hill and seized three villages. Official r to headquarters said practically all the highest peaks overlooking the Liri valley toward the key town of Cassino, five to six miles away, were in the hands of Clark's men, including positions from which the enemy's lowland positions could be shelled. The battle in the- rain-swept mountains which began last Friday with the support of an enormous weight of artillery and aircraft was moving into the mop-up stage after one of the bitterest struggles of the Italian campaign.’
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‘climaxed by a shift into the allied camp as a bhenevolefit - non-belligerent, reports said today, in presaging an explosion
day said Turkey was calling up 1,000,000 more men to double the country’s armed strength this month.) can-Turkish conference here said the zones three miles wide on both sides of the Dardanelles and put them under
AVIED-FRANGO
sibility “of a Roosevelt --Ohurchill slong the Dardaneites.- High- Turk=
| that any such negotiations migh
PRICE FOUR CENTS
Reserves to Double Army
Size in December.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
CAIRO, Dec. R.--Turkey has militarized the entire )ardanelles zone in an intensified program of warlike moves
n the tense Balkan situation, (A United Press dispatch filed from Ankara last Thurs-
‘Advices reaching Cairo in the wake of the Anglo=Ameri=- at Turks had laid out
strict military _ rule.
Turks Seize Espionage Suspects
* The historic Dardanelles gateway between the Mediterranean and Black seas lies helow the border of European: | Turkey, near which the Germans were reported massing
a
| rec ent weeks, according {o rewas the arrest of ‘many persons suspected of es-
[por ts here,
pionage for the Nazis, described as ” the upsweep recently, Turkish police also were keeping watch over [Italians with “ascist sympathies, especially in May ne Istanbul area where there are thout 75,000 Italians, All of them {were under close supervision and [their names were on police registers, | Since 1987 the Turks have built - la defense network of positions suit= ~The pos- shle for both defense and attack
PARLEY HINTED
FDR Sn Church I Settle Vexing Problem
_In_ Mediterranean. CAIRO, Dec. 8 (U.P
close
meeting with Generalissimo Fran. ‘sh ‘army officers have repeatedly rimwessed their confidence that any ttack would fall.
They're Good Fighters" Whiie foreign experts believe the
cisco Franco was speculated upon today as interest turned to the western Mediterranean * following
the epic’ allied conferences involving sulle China and ie furkish. army. 1s short of modern ' ’ equipment, they are unanimous in The western Mediterranean bris- {agreeing that the morale of Turkish ties with problems fust as thor, [troops is high and their discipline as those ironed out at Cairo and '® ®%¢ lien The Tk traditionally is a firel class warrior, Tefal, Vit: Was KNOWN | (Reports recsived in Stockholm whether President Roosevelt and jndicated that a break in relations Prime Minister Churchill propuse between Bulgaria and Germany to include Iberian, French and Ital. wre imminent) : ) ian affairs in their already crowded A communique revealed - today | schedule. that President Ismet Inonu of A meeting among the two alled trkey had conferred with Presichieftains and Franco at Tangier Aent Roosevelt and Prime Minister or (Casablanca would afford Spain Churchill here last Saturday, Sun-
not
pledged the allies all aid “short of war.” Inonu
further from the axis web
France Meeting Possible reportedly was: back in
Some sources suggested, however, Ankara today where he will pre- { side over a special session of the Turkish cabinet. Tantamount to a change. in Tur"ey's status from a strict neutral o a “benevolent non-belligerent,” {the communique was expected to {hasten a showdown in the Balkans, {where Germany already has betrayed uneasiness over forthcoming allied moves. Though an immediate Turkish
| be carried on by subordinates rather than by the principals : Though it must be emphasized ! that nothing definite can be re-| "vealed about the plans of Mr.| Roosevelt and Churchill, their presence in Africa obviously would en-| able them to make on-the-spot inquiries into the troubled: French
a ne Ilias MbueLins as well 22 10 declaration of war against Germany was not anticipated, barring a posThé Prench have felt lett out sible German attack, such a decla~
duced to small pockets in the heights and a makeshift line at
the Cairo and Tehran conferences velt and Churchill on Gen. Charles
committee —of national dberation, | might soothe their ruffled feelings.
CAIRO, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—Marshal Jan C. Bmuts, prime minister of South Africa and one of Prime Minister Churchill’s principal advisers, said today that the Cairo and Tehran conferences set the stage for victory and saw hope that it would come next year.
in the cold .by their exclusion from | rion may be only weeks. or months
but a. courtesy call by Mr. Roose- |
de Gaulle, president of the French | lany time that the allies were pre-
‘Stage Is “Sef Soils Says? Sees Hope for Victory in ‘44
‘away. Turkish sources suggested that {Turkey was ready to enter the war
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now are beginning to wonder whether they were wise.” :
“This may be the last war whichithe war would the world will ever see. All the] “Very heavy iid ideas of standing aside from|but we are uearer the war's the war are passing. Toe few lacy | inn the war's beginning. I ones who are still standing aside(next year will see the end Of it . ss ® » : 3