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THURSDAY, SAREE 22, 1048

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

-U. S. Boosts Subsidy, Tries MEN AT FRONT

To Ease Shortage of Meat]

“The shortage would not be relieved in any degree by higher res turns to meat packers,” he said, “OPA will not be .stampeded into giving price increases.” Either the OPA will have to raise the price of meat, Taft said, or the government will have to renegotiate

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charged that OPA price policies aid not allow packers a “fair margin of profit” and confronted them with little alternative but bankruptcy. At the same time, officidls revealed that ctvillan food supplies will take another drop during-the next three its meat purchases from July 1 months, but there will be an In-ito assure packers enough money to crease’ in the allocations to Ameri-| cover their costs and provide them can fighting men. “a fair margin of profit.” It also was revealed that the gov-| Economic Stabilization Director | ernment soon. will raise price ceil-| William H. Davis is expected to auings on poultry to encourage pro- thorize the increase of poultry in| duction and relieve. the current the very near future, perhaps beshortage fore the end of the week. How Supply Stacks Up Poultry Famine Near War’ food administration officials| Farmers will be offered a price gavé the following picture of the incentive, reportedly a little more allocation of the total American|than 1-cent-a-pound, to produce food supply during April, May and broilers, friers and pther meat June: chickens. There now 'ls a virtual

; famine of this kind of food in American Civilians—T73 per cent of the total store, compared with 75| metropolitan markets throughout

in recent months. the nation.

: The ‘higher price will affect all U. 8. Armed Forces—17 per cent. | pjovens (except those termed compared with 14 per cent for the

“fowl” by the trade) marketed first quarter of 1945 and about 13

after July 1. per cent before thal. Officials hope the action will lead Lend-Lease—Eight per cent.

farmers to buy chicks in sufficient United Nations Relief and Re- | time to put them on the market at! habilitation Administration, R e d the end d 6% the | the summer.

Cross and Shipments to U, 8. Territories—Two per cent. TWO COL COLONELS ACT AS NONCOMS IN ASI

For Payoff Smash,

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climb ahoard that thing right now and start getting it over with.” The man with three stars on his helmet whose tanks are eating

—can't be quoted for reasons of | censorship—also because this is | written for family newspapers,

the subject, Reasons for Confidence

There are three pr incipal reasons for the surge of optimism: First—Eisenhower in the last few weeks has had what he has never had since D-day-—good fighting weather, SECOND—Patton's armored breakthrough upset ail previous calculations and may have shortened the war by as much as 30 days and saved thousands of lives when it comes to the final mop-up. THIRD, attrition of German|P manpower is believed to have been | much greater than previously estimated. It now is believed they may have no more than 390,000 men on the west front, That means that once thedhard crust is broken, the tanks can boil

More than half of all lend-leased food goes to Great Britain, onethird to Russia and the rest to about

a dozen other friendly;nations. FORCES, Southeast Asia (U, P.).— | In the face of charges that the

: Mass of Material administration is shipping too much | It Col. George Laughlin of Akron { saw the assaults. or’ Beveland food overseas for foreign relief, offi-|O., and Lt. Col. Loren Pegg of West ;

. { . and Walchern, the 7th army's atcials pointed out that UNRRA dur- | Point, N. Y, became acting sergeant {a.k on the Siegfried line last De-

ing the next three months will share \anq corporal, respectively, during 8 cember and the 1st army's battle 2 per cent of the U, 8. food SUPPIY | recent operation of the Mars task against the bulge. with the Red Cross and U. 8S. terri- force in Burma. Never before have I seen the tories. The two officers went along as oh-| number of tanks, big guns and ve|servers with three platoons designated to take an important objective, When the platoon leader and platoon sergeant were wounded,

trucks.

Lend-Lease Figured UNRRA Director General Herbert H. Lehman said his agency's alloca- | tion for the period would amount to

battle to end the war.

drawn up and are hurling steel

395,000 tons—or one pound for eVery ihe Jieytenant colonels took their into Germany in preparation for 60 saved for American civilians. places and advanced to take the the Rhine crossing. Led by Senator Robert A. Taft objective, [ The ambphibious fighter-jeep, the (R.. 0), the Republicans charged | little tractored weasel built in South

in the senate that OPA price poli- | cies did not allow meat packers a “fair margin of profit” and con- |

| Bend, is ready to-hop off.

RIDES FIRE FIRE E ENGINE | Say ay Set for Revenge fronted them with little alternative | T0 BLAZE IN HOME Most of all we have the man-

but. bankruptcy. GREENVILLE, §, H(t, ‘Py... |PoWer=lindiens of iholsnis of Price Chief Chester Bowles was Cylde Eaton of Greenville discov. |e ne mal this the in 5 jr back before the senate banking com-|ered a chimney fire at his home | ** nee 0 make tiy the final 60 days mittee again today to defend his|recently, and rushed out to ring in| agency and answer accusations that [an alarm. Finding the box wouldn’ t| Those hoys proved in the Ar. . : Farel {dennes they could take it on the he- was violating both the price | Work, he rushed to the fire station, | hi q back bett 1di control act and the Constitution. took the engine to his home and | (c ED rome iia ve er soidlere. The committee is considering legis- [had the blaze under control before | y are lo get revenge.

It seems safe to lation to extend the price act, | volt inteer Bremen arrived, {now is about to hind Je funaly

The examination of the meat | price situation was merely one | STEVE EARLY RETURNS {2% [0 Yin 8 War-Weary world! phase of the congressional inquiry, WASHINGTON, March 22 (U.| 2

P.).—Presidential Secretary Stephen DENOUNCES FRANCO T. Early returned today from a ZURICH, March. 22 (U. two-month assignment as public, Don Juan, pretender to the Spanish

into the over-all food supply. Bowles told the senate committee vesterday that the American Meat Packers institute was causing “newspaper headlines of famine” and that the facts did. not justify them

headquarters in Europe. be back in his White House about. Monday

job | today and called on him to resign in favor of a monarchy.

Ri PRN SE

Generals and G. Ls Eager

up German divisions—Gen, Patton |

But he Is equally expressive on |

right through | HEADQUARTERS ALLIED LAND with infantry following rapidly on|

{hicles that now are massed for the

Our great eight-ton: guns now are |

relations adviser to supreme allied throne, denounced the government | : : 3 | Early will | of Generalissimo Francisco Franco |

12000 Planes Pace 1st Army

ARE OPTIMISTIC! ~tm-Power Brive to-Take Ruhr

(Continued From Page One) mile ‘southeast of Seabury, entered before dawn. Other 1st army troops wheeled [two miles east of the highway to-{ward-Hennef, three miles southeast of Siegburg, ramming to within 11; miles of the Cologne-Limburg high-

was

army troops, ‘mesnwniiE burst out-of (the center of the Siegfried line from |the south and wheeled eastward to join in the drive for the RBine be- | | tween Ludwigshafen and Karlsxuhe. | | Hundreds of fighter-bombers “of Way. [the U, 8, 1st ard 9th tactical ah’ . | forces swarmed over the 3d and Thiew Shells Across Sieg | 7th army fronts to pound the Ger- | man forces west of the Rhine. Preliminary : reports from | Saar-Palatinate front said 3d army

troops alone had counted 350 Ger[man tanks, 200 big guns and 5000| The bridgehead now measured

motor vehicles wrecked by the | 2Dout 26 miles in width along the | blistering grotind and air oflen-| Rhine bank and about eight miles | sive of the past week. inland from the river, United Press fo Staff Correspondent phn McDerHit Communications | mott reported that the“collapse of The attack opened late yester-| the Ludendorf bridge at Remagen day in the wake of a tremendous | already had been compensated for |

aerial - bombardment that spread| or ency bridges, bl t fire and ruin across a vast chain] 2 £ brie rapable of

| carrying up to 42 tons. of German road and railway com-| Ludwigshafen, Germany's Seite)

munications linking the imperiled | chemical producing center and her Ruhr with central Germany. uns Mang port, 1 The blazing air blow yesterday in- merican hands - before nightfa

| yesterday, ‘although scattered revolving upwards of 6200 allied war- sistance was still continuing early planes, electrified the entire allied]

battle line drawn up against the | t00aY Rhine from the Swiss border to the Units of an unidentified American North sea. armored division rammed into the

2 clty yest 8 Today more than 1300 American | = 50 feragy Jfemoon ng ace heavy bombers dropped knockout mo cai alin Ble-track quantities of bombs upon nine Ger- | ni Piife the Coude : railway and highways bridge into man command stations in the Ruhr a i ” valley and five hire Fiver airfizlds Mannheim. The bridge already had t A th an altatl desired t ta: been destroyed by Nazi demolition jlogay ve i "crews before the Americans arrived. moralize the German command al-

ready jittery over an allied Ruhr Mainz Holds Out offensive. & The 3d army's 90th infantry diviThe attack was aimed squarely at Sion was meeting unexpectedly bitter the nerve centers of the German resistance from the German gararmy at the north end of the front rison in Mainz, 34 miles northwest and came after days of repeated Of Ludwigshafen. ‘bombing attacks which already had| In sharp contrast to the German the Nazi command groggy. stand in Mainz, enemy troops al-

| hint the Sieg poured a barrage | the! | acrossthe river into the German lines in< support of the ground | attack. X

| Flew 10.000 Sorties most everywhere else on the 3d { It rod that the allicd “air army front were surrendering in appeared that ine allied alr groves, An estimated 2200 Germans

forces were out to mitch or wp if possible yesterday's figure of 10,000

were taken almost without a fight in the capture of Worms yesterday sorties. and front reports said white flags re .. (were waving from German houses Targets of allacks M1 on the east bank of the Rhine. cluded some of the crack German| gaiserslautern, former kingpin of jet-plane fields just back of the the enemy defenses 28 miles west Ruhr-Rhine front, Among the of Ludwigshafen, was cleared by points struck were German army = encampment and military centers near. Bottrop, Gladbeck;- Barmingholte, Dorsten, Westerholt, Mulheim, Hinsbeck, Hattingen and Geresheim—all in the Ruhr. These points are in the ‘heart of the area where the Nazis most fear attack. Observers speculated freely that | the final round of the war was on. | Berlin said all German troops had { been alerted against an airborne assault on the Rhine in conjunction wifi a general offensive hy the American 9th and 15th and

today’s

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obstacle. . ‘Unidentified ~ American armored | | forces. on the 78th’s right flank] | picked up the attack during the { night. They raced ahead almost fthree miles along the six-lane Nazi | military highway linking the south- | | ern Rhipeland to the Ruhr and Ber- == | lin, and -reached the Sieg directly | apposite Siegburg. Buisdorf, one

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