Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1941 — Page 10

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BRITISH PILOTS TOTRAININU. S.

3000 Yearly Set as Goal; Army Will Provide Planes, Supplies.

WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P). ~Arrangements have been oompleted under the Lease-Lend Act to train 3000 British pilots annually in the United States for the Royal Air Force, informed sources said today One official said that arrangement is but one phase of a broad program to bolster R. A. F re sonnel. He declined to reveal other details Ihe present plan is to have pilotcandidates come to the United States from all parts of the British Empire to take 20-week and intermediate training. Actual combat training would be received in Britain Approximately 1200 men would be in training here at one time

Army fo Provide Planes

The arrangement, officials said, tould require the U. 8 Army to provide training planes and other supplies, Materials would be provided by the U. S for constructing dormitories but British would pay i construction work and enter info contracts with American flying schools

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schools were reported to have been | the British air-|

selected to train men, Training centers will be located at two fields in the Los Ange-les-San Diego area; one near Miami, and three others in Texas, Oklahoma and Georgia The present major Empire pilottraining program is being carried { 1 Canada, although much primary and heing

intermediate training is given in Britain. Officials that American trainA. F. flying personnel numerous British air r combat operations Some British pilots have been ained here recently, but only in heavy bomber operations :

INSISTS ON END OF ‘STRIKE FUMBLING'

FT. WAYNE, Ind, May 14 (U P Calling upon the Government to “stop fumbling the strike issue.” Ralph C. Coxhead, New York. chairthe National Association of Manufacturers’ sub-committee on iefense production, last night ded that “it is time . to adopt policy which will aid defense.” In tl three months of this

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Two Hoosier newspapervomen yesterday were selected for jours nalism awards at a meeting of the Woman's Press Club of Indiana at the Claypool Hotel, Miss Rosemary Redding, The Indianapolis Times women's page | editor, won the award for the best news article, Mrs, Nell L.. Brown, assistant editor, the New Albany Tribune, won the award for the feature story. The prizes were awarded in the first annual contest conducted by the organization Mrs. Thomas B. Wadelton, trade journal writer and mother of a 14-vear-old author, was the speaker. Mrs. Wadelton's son, Thomas | Jr. a Shortridge High School pupil, wrote “My Mother Is a Violent Woman,” and “My Father Is a Quiet Man.” Mrs. John E. Kleinhenz presided at the meeting

GREEK WAR RELIEF FUNDS GO TO CRETE

unds and supplies raised by the Greek War Relief Association, Ine. are being sent to refugees on the Island of Crete since the German

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provided modern Garand rifles for 1.420.480 of the recruits drafted into the U. 8S. Army.” he said

TURNER SPEAKS AT Y. M. TOMORROW

: Col. Roscoe Turner will speak at| the annual dinner of the health and recreation department of the Y. M. C. A tomorrow noon at the Y. M. 3A Awards for outstanding leadership in Y. M. C. A activities, including hletics, will be presented at the 1g, which is open to all men, dless of Y. M. C. A. member-

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Indianapolis chapter of the association has been informed. No funds or supplies are being sent to the occupied portion of Greece, William Zilson, secretary of the local association, reported. “We are reliably informed,” Mr. Zilson said, “that more than a million refugees were evacuateq from the Grecian mainland to the Island of Crete and that these refugees; are absolutely poverty stricken | Mr. Zilson added that the association will carry on its fund raising campaign with renewed vigor| yom its office at 550 Consolidated Building

J. C. LEWIS TO HEAD PACKING WORKERS

WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P) | —J. C. Lewis of Des Moines, Iowa, has succeeded Murray Van Bittner as chairman of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee (0. 1 DJ) Mr. Bittner requested that he be relieved of the office to permit him to devote his full time to the campaign of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee in organizing Bethiehem Steel employees Mr. Lewis is a close friend of John L. Lewis, but is not a relative He is a former president of the Towa Federation of Labor, and was) a member of the Bituminous Coal| Commission from 1937 to 1939. He recently was a member of the! priorities board of the Office of} Production Management. |

S, BEND WELCOMES | CHURCH DELEGATES

SOUTH BEND, Ind. May 14 (U. P.).—Delegates to the 33d quad-! rennial session of the General Con. ference of the First United! Brethren Church opens the second | session of a nine-day meeting today after welcoming ceremonies by | civic and religious leaders last night i Governor Roscoe W. host church, the Rey son, South Bend, the Rev. H. B. Cain, Warsaw, and Mayor Jessie I Pavey extended a welcome. Yesterday, Bishop G. D. Batdorf, Harrisurg, Pa., denounced war as “an idle futility diametrically opposed to the spirit of everything for which the church stands” and called for a peace, rather than another conflict to end war.

NAVY ACQUIRES 26 AUXILIARY VESSELS

WASHINGTON, Mav 14 (U. P). —The Navy disclosed today that it| acquired 26 auxiliary vessels during | | the last month at a cost of $11.-|

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URGES SUPPORT FOR YOUTH CHURCH DAY

Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht, of| the Indianapolis Hebrew Congre-| gation, today urged the “full and unreserved support of all religious | forces of the community” as con-| gregation members prepared to attend synagog services to observe) “Young American's Church Day.” The day has been set aside by the Junior Chamber of Commerce as a day for the youth of Ainerics to attend church services, It will be observed here Sunday. | Members of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation will attend serv-| | fees Friday night. Rabbi Feuerlicht said that the school and the home | should join the religious forces in | observing this day. | “A generation of Americans | which, like that of the last quarter) of a century, has enjoyed the fruit- | ful blessings of American democracy and without challenge tan very well

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Aid Movement Hard on Tibbett

KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 14 (U. P) Lawrence Tibbett, the singer, said here that the “all-aid-to-Britain movement” should be short of giving him laryngitis. Mr. Tibbett arrived in Kansas City on the same train with Lord and Lady Halifax. His manager, Johnny Evans, said the singer could not sleep well on the Pull man car because members of the Halifax party kept moving around. Again at a hotel, Mr. Tibbett could not rest, Mr. Evans said, because motorcycle escorts of the British diplomat created a terrible As a result, Mr. Tibbett contracted laryngitis and cancelled a concert,

BOMBS RUIN KINGAN PLANT IN BELFAST

When Belfast was bombed early this month, a subsidiary of Kingan & Co. Indianapolis meat packers,

was almost wholly destroyed by fire OH! HOW I HATE TO GET UP | WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P.).

in the air raid.

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RAMONA GROVE 63 | T0 SPONSOR PARTY

A pillowcase card party sponsored by the officers and drill team of Ramona Grove 63, Supreme Forest Woodman's Circle, will be given at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Citizens | Gas & Coke Utility Co. Mrs. Alvina Duvall end Mrs. Fern Wright are co-chairmen. The drum corps of the Circle, Tau Phi Lambda Cadets, will hold a skating party at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Starlite Rink, 2335 Station St. Miss Lillian Woods and Miss Jean Altum are co-chairmen The drum corps will meet at 7 p. m. Friday in the Trainmen's Hall, 1002': E.. Washington St., for practice and drill. The corps recently gave an exhibition at the | Plainfield Boys School. | Practice for inspection will be a| | part of the organization's meeting lat 8 p. m. Monday in Ft. Friendly. Illinois St. Mrs. Evelyn

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Schoolmen Meet And Whirlaway

THE INDIANAPOLIS School Board set a ne wrecord for brevity last night. When reports were called for, Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan said he had none. So did Librarian L. L. Dickerson and Buildings and Grounds Superintendent J. E. McGaughey, attending his first regular board meeting. The minutes had been approved without reading and there were no communications for the Board. Finally, A. B. Good, business director, said he had a report. Mr, Good announced awarding of contracts of $369 for a Washington High School movie projec

tor, a tank car of gasoline at 11.33 cents per gallon, $334.58 for Broad Ripple High School library books, $382 worth of chairs for Wash=ington High School and a similar award of $573 for School 57. When Board President Evans Woollen Jr. rapped his gavel, closing the public meeting, he looked at the clock. The meeting had taken exactly six minutes.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 041

MISSION INSTITUTE

Missionary Education Institute opened the last of a three-day session at the Third Christian Church, 17th St. and Broadway.

More than 175 delegates from six central states are attending the Institute which is being held to train leaders in missionary education. Dr. William K. Anderson, educational director of the Commission on Courses of Study of the Methodist Church, spoke at a general assembly at 10:50 a. m. Missionaries who are in the city attending the Institute were introduced during today’s luncheon.

SATURDAY IS SERVICE DAY AT WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P), —President Roosevelt today gave service men in ‘uniform exclusive “sight-seeing” rights at the White House on Saturdays. The order, excluding non-service tourists from the White House on Saturday mornings becomes effec- | tive May 31.

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