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THE MUNCIE MORNING STAR Warmer FORECAST Yesterday's High 38, Low 25. Dial 6631-First In News, Circulation And Advertising Dial 6631 VOL. 66 NO. 286. MUNCIE, INDIANA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8.

1943. PRICE THREE CENTS. SOVIETS 1,400 FEET FROM The Day In Indiana By MAURICE EARLY Hospital Bill Up. Non-Profit Insurance. Child Care Measure.

No Riley Waiting List. Healthier Children. INDIANA'S hospitals are again asking the legislature to permit them to establish the SOcalled non-profit hospital insurance plan-a system that has been generally accepted throughout the nation in the last six years. ADMINISTRATORS of hospitals find that a large roportion of the population is unprepared for the heavy costs of hospitalization when illness or accident strikes. Therefore propose to sell hospital service to groups of employes or to families.

HOSPITALS insist that this is not an insurance scheme and therefore ask that they be permitted to operate under the non-profit corporation plan and the laws governing insurance companies. IN BACKING the legislation the American Hospital Association says that Indiana and Florida are the only states which do not now permit their hospitals to organize for this low cost service. FOUR YEARS ago the legislature passed a measure of this kind, but it was rejected by the governor on the theory that the bill had a defective title. Because of strong opposition by private insurance interests the hospital bill is being held in the house insurance committee. ONE OF THE measures given little notice in the jam of legislation provides for a 25 per cent increase in maximum allowances for children assigned to boarding homes.

Orphan home populations have dwindled because of the practice of placing children in homes. There are 10,000 Hoosier children in these homes. Existing law permits welfare departments to pay at high as 75 cents a day for the maintenance of children in homes. Because of higher costs it is proposed in the measure to increase the maximum allowance to $1 a day. THERE IS NO longer a waiting list for admission of crippled children to the Riley State Hospital in Indianapolis.

Earlier in the history of the hospital patients had to wait their turn for the services of this specialized institution. THIS CONDITION is being called to the attention of the assembly in a current issue of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce bulletin in connection with the proposal to establish a new state hospital for children in northern Indiana. SEVERAL REASONS are advanced to explain why the Riley Hospital is no longer crowded. Important among them is the fact that the "backlog" of crippled children has been eliminatduring the years the institu-10 tion has been in operation. Better economic conditions also relieves this institution, which does not accept patients from families able to pay for the hospital treatment.

POSSIBLY MORE important these reasons is the fact that children are now given a better chance to be healthy. Improvements in diet and medical care of children has resulted. in marked progress in disease prevention. "CERTAINLY no one would oppose the establishment of hospital for children if it is needed," the chamber's bulletin savs. "The need for action now.

however, should be closely ana-' lyzed by the house ways and means committee, especially since a very large investment would be required before the institution could become wholly effective." RILEY HOSPITAL represents a cost of $2,500,000, most of which was donated. An endowment fund is being established by private gifts to reduce the public cost of this institution. SENATOR CHARLES A. PHELPS of Fort Wayne, sponsor tal the northern informs Indiana the hospimeasure, Turn to Page 7, Column 8. The Temperature Last 24 Hours.

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I Shoes To Be Rationed Starting Tuesday RAF Bombers Plaster Nazi Diesel Works You're looking down on the ing and Diesel Engine Works land, as RAF Mosquito bombers siles during a daring daylight SEE NEW CRISIS IN LIVING COSTS Government Experts Express Their Views. Washington, Feb. 7 (P)-Some goy ernment economists expressed belief today that the nation faces a new crisis in the fight to hold down the cost of living. These experts, whose views might not necessarily jibe with those of superiors who actually administer the anti-inflation programs and who prefer to remain anonymous, make these points: 1. Labor is actively demanding higher wages.

Want Policy Tightened. 2. Farm groups are organizing to demand higher prices for farm products. 3. Enforcement of price controls has not been fully effective.

4. Tax and savings legislation is being delayed. Those who cite these claims want a general tightening up of administration policy, preferably by intervention of President Roosevelt who, they said, has been too busy with military and international affairs to give much time to the problem. Labor's demands were voiced recently when CIO President Phillip Murray and AFL President William Green said at the White House that their men needed higher wages because the cost of living was rising. About the same time, John L.

Lewis demanded $2 a day increases for his miners, and the railroad unions spoke up for more pay. Smaller labor groups have petitioned for increases from the War Labor Board and in some cases obtained them. As for the farmers, after a bitter fight in Congress the Office of Price Administration got authority to put ceilings on farm prices at parity levels. There then arose a controversy about the meaning of parity. The administration insists that the amount of government benefit payments must be deducted in figuring parity.

Farm and moreover there should be somegroups say that st should not be done thing extra for the unusually high cost of farm labor. Questions over subsidy also are involved. Enforcement of price control is a present major problem. There are Turn to Page 7. Column 4 Nominations For Hollywood "Oscar" Awards Announced Hollywood, Feb.

7 -Nominations tion in Hollywood--the annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts night by President Walter Wanger. Ten films, five actor and five actress performances, five supporting actor and actress performances, five directing jobs, fifteen writing achievements and numerous other efforts were presented for consideration to the 10,000 members of the industry who will start voting for their favorites February 13. "Mrs. Miniver" Best Film. "Mrs.

Miniver," a Metro- GoldwynMayer picture, was the only one of the ten films selected as the outstanding of 1942 also to contain nomnations for the best performances by an actor, best by an actress, by actor and actress in a supporting role and for best achievement in directing. Results -of the voting will be announced at the 15th annual awards dinner March 4. The nominations were made by ONLY DON RIVER BETWEEN REDS AND VITAL BASE ALL WEARERS ALLOWED THREE PAIRS PER YEAR Can Pool Coupons So Some May Buy More If Others Purchase Less. Washington, Feb. 7 (P)-The government today suddenly prohibited sales of shoes and rationing will start Tuesday.

The ration is three pairs a year for every man, woman and child, but members of a family may pool their coupons so that some may buy more if others buy less. Shoe Repair Work Exempted. The rationing covers all shoes containing any leather and all rubbersoled shoes, but not slippers, softsoled baby shoes or storm wear, such as rubbers and arctics. Shoe repair work and secondhand shoes are not rationed. At the same time announcement was made that manufacturers will be ordered to stop making evening slippers, men's patent-leather shoes, twotone shoes and many types of special sports wear in order to make the best of the leather supply.

In contrast advance publicity on shoe White previous order House, rationine, without promulgated undertakings, advance from warn- the the ing either to the public or businessmen, at 1:30 p. Central War Time, today and went into effect a half hour later. When rationed sales start Tuesday, the 17 stamp of sugar-coffee ration books will be used. Every such stamp will be good for one pair of shoes until June when a new stamp will be designated. Officials said that the nation still has a large stock of shoes and rationing was instituted to prevent hoarding and to provide as liberal a ration as possible.

Predicts No Hardship. In New York, Harold W. Volk, Dallas, president of the National Shoe Retailers' Association, said in an interview that rationing of footwear was necessary because of the heaviest civilian buying in history, coupled with demands of the various branches of the service. He predicted there would be no hardship, since a survey for the past five years showed that the per capita shoe purchases in this country were pairs per year. He advised, however, that averages do not hold good everywhere and that it might run from one pair to six pairs.

Several meetings of both retailers and manufacturers with government officials in Washington were held recently, Volk said. Production in 1943, he added, will be 25 per cent less than in 1942. First announcement was made by James F. Byrnes, director of economic stabilization, who said that shoe rationing was inevitable because the submarine menace limits imports of hides and because the armed forces are taking about of the available supply of sole leather. One hundred soldiers, he explained, wear out 17 pairs of shoes a month.

Besides rationing, he said, the supply of leather will be conserved by limiting manufacturers "to the most essential types of shoes;" by ating all. colors. except white, tow brown, and army russet; elimnating decorative straps and other wasteful leather styles; limiting the use of heavy duty leather to work shoes; limiting ladies' heels to not more than inches in height, and prohibiting civilian boots more than inches high. In addition, the industry will be urged to seek a new model using little Burn to Page 7, Column 8. GILLETTE CONDEMNS U.

S. POSTWAR AIMS Charges Waste Through Unnecessary Agencies. Des Moines, Feb. 7 Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa, last night made a sweeping denouncement of "unnecessary government agencies" and inferentially took issue with the administration's postwar aims.

Speaking with a bluntness that stunned 700 fellow Democrats as they digested a $25 a plate Jackson Day dinner, Gillette declared "we have to clean house," during acrid arraig- ment of some war agencies. Must Look to Home Needs. "We can't do it," he asserted, "by refusing admit our mistakes, without eliminating some of the hordes of locusts living off the people through agencies that aren't necessary." The senior Iowa senator, who has frequently announced he will retire after his present term, said our nation must consider her own necessities: before taking into her lap the burdens of the whole world. "Let us first set our own house in order," he urged, "and prepare first to recover powers and authorities belonging to the people which we have surrendered during the stress and need of war. "I do not suggest that this can be done through national economic isolationism, but I do mean that after we have placed America first, not in point of time, but first in our planand thinking, then there will be ampl.

time to take up our obligations to the world in which our nation will I have to live." Duce Ousts Ciano Count Ciano. It was reported in a Rome broadcast that Count Galeazzo Ciano, sonin-law of Mussolini, had been ousted as Italy's foreign minister, a post he had held since 1936. The duce himself took over the foreign ministry. Other changes were a also made in the Italian cabinet. Axis reverses in Russia and the loss of Italy's African empire were said to be responsible for the housecleaning.

TAX BILL BEFORE HOUSE THIS WEEK Committee To Ponder Plan Eliminating Returns. Feb. 7 (P)-When the actual writing of pay-as-you-go tax legislation begins, probably late this week, the House ways and means! committee will consider a proposal to remove the necessity for millions of taxpayers ever again, after this year, to file federal income tax returns. Their remittances would be made through current earnings deductions representing their exact tax obligations with no involved calculations on their part. Favor Some Abatement.

Arguments on the Huml plan A to cancel 1942 tax obligations overshadowed other phases of pay-asyou-go during the first week of public hearings. A majority of the twenty-five committeemen indicated opposition to all-out cancellation but definitely indicated a willingness to compromise by granting some abatement on last year's obligations in arriving at a current payment principle. No witness got a more cordial reception before the committee than a young, tall, black-haired lawyer from Philadelphia, Clement J. Clarke, Jr. Clarke, who said he represented no organization, proposed a plan "which will make it possible for approximately 20,000,000 taxpayers not to bother with filing an income tax return after the return for the taxable year 1942." Urges Pay Deductions.

This could be done, he explained, by weekly, semi-monthly or monthly deductions from earnings under a "lump-sum allowances" system which every taxpayer would be given a $240 minimum deduction in lieu of deductions for taxes, interest, charitable contributions and other items. The $240 flat allowance plus exemptions for dependents would make it possible to collect a person's exact income tax liability. through earnings deductions. Clarke said. The taxpayer would not make a return unless he wanted to show that his deductions actually were more than $240 for a given year.

Then, if he offered sufficient proof, he could get. a refund of the overpayment which had been collected from his earnings. present time we have as deductions for taxes the gasoline taxes. amusement taxes, sales taxes, and one kind of tax and another, Clarke commented. Practically no one knows exactly how much he has paid in the form of deductable taxes.

The same guessing goes on as to contributions." The committee liked Clarke's suggestions sO well it asked him to submit a written elaboration as quickly as he could prepare it. Clarke told the committee the proposal was largely based on studies by John K. Hulse, another Philadelphian. HALLECK CONDEMNS RULE BY BUREAUS Cleveland, Feb. 7 (AP) -The average citizen is "thoroughly fed up on longhaired and dingy-nailed Washington dreamers running the nation through government Rep.

Halleck Ind.) told a Republican meethere today. Halleck said the average citizen hears that most of these men are "impractical experimenters who have gotten their economic ideas in classrooms and never had any practical business experience in their lives." The common people, he said, are awaiting another opportunity to assert their rights to freedom. The principle question, he declared, is whether the leaders of the Republican party have sufficient ability to carry out the need for constructive leadership. The average citizen, Halleck said, would cheerfully give a quart of milk to every person in the world. "but he would like to know first that his neighbor's children are not hungry." ALLIES DELIVER CRUSHING BLOW TO JAP AIRFORCE Forty- One Planes Shot Down In Attempted Raid On Wau Airdrome.

Somewhere in New Guinea, Feb. (Delayed) (P) The Japanese attempted to raid the Wau airdrome with a large force of planes in daylight today and suffered one of the most crushing air defeats yet inflicted in this area. Of the attacking force, forty-one Japanese bombers and fighters were shot down or seriously damaged. The Americans destroyed five bombers and twenty-one fighters and possibly destroyed three more bombers and twelve fighters. Destruction of two of the bombers was officially credited to anti-aircraft gun crews.

Fliers accounted for the rest. Sink Two Jap Cargo Ships. Of the large defending force of P-38's, P-39's and P-40's, not one was lost and not a crewman was injured. Only a few Allied planes were damaged during the two-hour series of battles over the forbidding mountains between Wau and the sea. The size of the Japanese raiding force suggests a desperate effort to impede the concentration of Allied fighting men in the sector of Wau, 35 miles southwest of Salamaua, which would menace invasion holdings at both Salamaua and the sister port of Lae.

In view of the use of Allied air transports for the movement of men and supplies in the Papuan campaign, the full weight of available aircraft probably is being used to mobilize forces for a drive against Salamaua and Lae. Topping off the success over Wau, 3 B-24 bomber on armed reconnaissance probably sank two small Japanese cargo vessels off New Guinea and New Britain and shot up two motor barges. Another feature of the battle was the success of the Airasobra P-39's which have been virtually unheard of since the faster Lightning P-38's took the New Guinea limelight. Airacobras destroyed one bomber and eleven Zeros and possibly destroyed five other Zeros. A small force of P-38's accounted for one Zero for certain and probably destroyed another.

The Curtiss P-40's destroyed two bombers and nine Zeros possibly destroyed three bombers and two Zeros. (This tabulation indicates that, in addition to destroying two bombers, the antiaircraft crews damaged four raiders.) Lieut. Victor Yuska, Chicago transport pilot, with co-pilot Lieut. Kenneth Glassbon of Kansas City, witnessed the sky battle from an uncomfortable, grandstand Wau seat- airdrome. right on the "Our planes hit the Japs almost the moment they reached Wau," Yuska said.

"I saw two Japanese Zeros go streaming down in flames during the few minutes they were over Wan. I also saw our fighters trap a big Japanese bomber in War valley. The bomber tried to dodge the attack by flying up the valley, but he came to a mountain wall and had to turn back right into our planes again. "The bombs landed on the field, but luckily they missed us and the damage was slight." CIANO APPOINTED AS AMBASSADOR TO THE HOLY SEE By the Associated Press. The Rome radio said last night that Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Benito Mussolini, had been appointed ambassador to the Holy See.

Ciano will be accredited to the Vatican after six years as Italy's foreign m'nister, a post which he lost when Il Duce shook up his cabinet last week. The broadcast was heard in London by Reuters. Ciano apparently will succeed Prof. Bernardo D. Attolico, who died in office February 9, 1942, less than two years after presenting his credentials to Pope Pius.

Report Suburbs Of City Already Stormed; Fatezh Seized In North. Stork Engineer- center, one of at Hengelo, Holget. Smoke drop their misattack. At left of the factory. the bombs falls toward the tarrolls skyward from the south end Look To Hoover's Support To Limit Armed Forces Former President To Testify On Problem Today Before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee.

Washington, Feb. 7. (P)- Senators determined to keep the size of the fighting forces in scale with the 1 nation's ability to feed and supply them looked hopefully today for support from Herbert Hoover, The former President is to testify on the problem tomorrow before a Senate appropriations subcommittee. "I think that whatever Mr. Hoover says will carry a great deal of weight throughout the country," said Senator Thomas Okla.) of the subcommittee.

"He studied the problem of, supplies very thoroughly when he was food administrator in the last war: And he's not involved with the government now. Most of the testimony we have received so far has been from men who are taking orders from the government." Point to Civilian Economy, Senators Thomas, Bankhead Ala.) and others, especially those from farm states, have been discussing the advisibility of limiting appropriations to hold down the size of the army and navy. They contend it would be dangerous to put more men in uniform than the country could supply, and point to the necessity of maintaining at least some of the country's civilian economy. The House military committee likewise is considering a bill limiting the size of the army, along with another measure which would establish a rigid: system of precedence for inducting men into the armed services- -all single men first, then married with no dependents, followed by those with dependents. Hoover heads a star-studded bill which Congress presents tomorrow.

Secretary of Agriculture Wickard is to give his views on the manpower Turn to Page 7, Column 8. DRUG COMPANY HEAD DIES AT INDIANAPOLIS John A. Hook, 62, Founder Of Large Chain. Indianapolis, Feb. 7 (P) -John A.

Hook, 62, founder and president of the Hook Drug Company, one of the largest drug store chains in the midWest, died in a hospital today after an illness of several months. He founded the company which bears his name in 1912, a few years after, he had entered the drug business with single store in Indianapolis. Native of Cincinnati. The company at present operates fifty-three stores, twenty-six in Indianapolis and twenty-seven in eighteen other cities in Indiana. At one time the company operated several stores in Louisville, Ky.

He was born in Cincinnati, but came to Indianapolis with his parents when a youth. He attended schools in Indianapolis and was graduated from the Cincinnati School of Pharmacy in 1900. Funeral services will be held in Indianapolis Wednesday morning. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Florence V.

Hook; two sons, August F. Hook and Ralph W. Hook, both of Indianapolis; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Carlisle, of Louisville, two sisters, Mrs. Henry Langsenkamp and Mrs.

Katherine Crush, both of Indianapolis, and a brother, Fred J. Hook of Miami, Fla. I By the Associated Press. The climactic battle for Rostov started last night after the Russians cleared the south bank of the Don of all enemy resistance and had only the foot river--normally frozen in February--between them and the major German base. Far to the north, the Russians nounced in a triumphant special communique that they had captured Fatezh, effectively outflanking Kursk and menacing Orel, both major German hedgehog positions between Kharkov and Moscow.

Fatezh is 35 miles northwest of Kursk and 55 miles southwest of Orel. The Russians said it fell after a "violent offensive" in which the main highway between Orel and Kursk was cut. Street Fighting in Rostov. Stockholm reports said the Red army already had stormed the suburbs of Rostov, a beautiful old city of half a million, and that violent street fighting was in progress. This was quite plausible if the river was frozen over.

The magnificent Red army had stormed up 400 miles from the depths of the Caucasus and driven 260 miles across the fertile Don valley to reach one of their major winter goals. The others are Kharkov and Kursk and the Russians were only 39 and 22 miles respectively short of those cities. Other forces had reached a point north of stoutly defended Belgorod. capturing Goshtisheva and cutting the trunk line between Belgorod and Kursk, a section of the railway between Moscow and Crimea. The Donets army of Col.

Gen. N. F. Vatutin pressed 125 miles deep in the Ukraine, capturing Kramatorskaya and further increasing the threat to encircle the whole Donets basin. About All Caucasus Liberated, Virtually all the Caucasus was liberated.

The remaining Germans were clustered around Novorossisk, where the Germans said Russian marines had landed, and the Kuban capital of Krasnodar. Those Nazis faced the same fate as their 330,000 comrades who died or surrendered at Stalingrad. (The German radio, seeking to imply that no large German forces had been trapped in the Caucasus by the Soviet sweep upon Rostov from the south and to the Sea of Azov, aeclared "the evacuation of the Kuban region between the Rostov and Taman peninsula bridgeheads was carried out without enemy pressure" and that all war material and military installations had been removed or destroyed.) Other Russians who had struck farther south widened their hold on the Sea of Azov and deepened the plight of the Germans trapped in the Caucasus. Dispatches indicated the whole Russian offensive in the south was crushing forward at a pace unequaled in the Russian-German war, and that nowhere had the Germans been able to arrest the momentum despite the dispatch of large amounts of materiel and new thousands of reserves. The Germans were reported in a desperate plight in the few remaining places they hold in the west Caucasus.

Escape is possible only oversea from Novorossisk or across the Kerch Strait and either avenue is hazardous because the Russian navy still controls the waters. Black Sea storms also are prevalent at this season. Krasnodar, the Kuban capital, is almost completely surrounded and Turn to Page 7. Column 2. SOLONS TO OPEN DEBATE ON BILLS Busy Week Faced With Most: Measures In Hopper.

Indianapolis, Feb. 7 (P)-With nearly all bills for the session in the hopper, members of the Indiana General Assembly will settle down this week to debate and discussion of the measures pending before the houses. An avalanche of bills is expected in the senate tomorrow, 1 the last day in which members can introduce new measures without the consent of twothirds of the senators. A resolution shutting off the flow of new bills was introduced at the first Saturday session of the current assembly by Thurman A. Biddinger Marion), majority leader, and was adopted by the senate.

Early Closing Possible. Today, Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson asserted the session could.

be ended March 1, one week ahead of the constitutional 61-day limit, "if the members want to co-operate." Passage of the resolution fixing the deadline for introduction of bills will speed up the legislative machinery so that it will be possible to have the first "short session" in the history of the state, Dawson said. At the same time, Speaker of the House Hobart Creighton said it "depends on the committees' whether the session ends early. Both Creighton and Dawson said the legislative calendars are "up to date." Sixty-three New Bills. The upper house thus followed the lead of the representatives in setting a deadline for the introduction, of bills. Friday, the last day for the presentation of bills in the house, brought a total of sixty-three bills and two resolutions there.

Members of the senate were caught short by the resolution Saturday and brought in only six new bills. Consequently, a large number is expected tomorrow when senate convenes at 11 a. m. With the introduction of bills over, committee work is expected to move into high gear with many of the portant bills of the session still under consideration. The house ways and means committee is expected to go into action Turn to Page 7, Column 3.

BODY OF SOLDIER FOUND ON RAILROAD NEAR WINCHESTER Winchester, Feb. 7 (P) -The body of Henry E. Kwiecien, 21, a soldier stationed at Camp Atterbury, was found today on the York Central Railroad tracks Winchester by members of a train crew. Dr. Lowell Painter, Randolph County coroner, said Kwiecien apparently fell from a train last night while on the way to Cleveland, O.

The name of his mother, Mrs. Josephine Kwiecien, of Cleveland, and the stub of a round-trip ticket from Indianapolis to Cleveland were found in his pocket. Camp Atterbury officials were investigating. FRANK POLK DIES AT EASTERN HOME Was Acting Secretary Of State Under Wilson. for the most popular awards made by the and Sciences- were disclosed to- members of the Screen Actors, Directors and Writers Guilds.

The principal nominations: For the outstanding picture of the year: The Invaders. (British) Ortus. Columbia. Kings Row. Warner Bros.

The Magnificient Ambersons, Mercury, RKO Radio. Mrs. Miniver, Metro Goldwyn Mayer. The Pied Piper, 20th The Pride of the Yankees, Samuel Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Random Harvest, Metro-GoldwynMayer.

The Talk of the Town, Columbia. Wake Island. Paramount. Yankee Doodle Dandy, Warner Bros. Best performance by an actor: James Cagney in "Yankee Doodle Dandy," Ronald Colman in "Random Turn to Page 7, Column 4.

-New York, Feb. 7 (A)-Frank Lyon Polk, 71, who was acting secretary of State during the Wilson administration, died today after a short illness. Polk, who was Undersecretary of State from 1915 to 1920 and was active in his law firm until last week, died at home. Conducted Mexican Question. After the last war the diplomat, a native of New York city, headed the American delegation to the Paris peace conference when President Wilson and then Secretary of State Lansing returned home.

Polk conducted the American side of the Mexican question before and after the 1916 raid by Pancho Villa on Columbus, N. M. He also proclaimed the ratification of the prohibition amendment in 1919; signed the peace treaty of St. Germain, which formally ended the war with Austria, and fixed the boundary lines of that country. During the Spanish-American War, he was a captain with the first brigade of the first army corps, which he accompanied to Puerto Rico.

He remained in the army until 1898. After hearing of Polk's death, Secretary of State Hull sent the following telegram from Washington to Mrs. Polk: "Mr. Polk served his government well and faithfully for many years and his memory will be cherished those in the department who were associated with him. It was my good fortune to count him a personal friend over a period of many years.".