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

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Among Enlisted Men Pass. -. Ing Exams for Entrance “To Naval Academy.

William L. Harritt; son of Mr. and ~ #Mrs. Frank M. Harritt, 1353 Olney St., is one of 86 enlisted men in the ; U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to pass examinations ‘for ‘entrance to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Mr. Harritt, who is a graqu‘ate of Technical High School, entered Indiana ‘Central College in 1938 to study for the ministry, but enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman in May of : 1939. During. the euiiis past six months “Mr, Harrit¢ = De has been enrolled in the ‘Naval Academy Preparatory School, .U.:8. Naval Training Station, Nor“folk, Va. ~ Mr. Harritt was serving on the YU. 8. S. California and was the only man from the Indiana area to be -appoin a Midshipman in . the Naval Academy by the Secretary of ‘Navy. 2 f J 8 ” ~Fwo Indiana -men have been “named as acting assistant surgeons in the U. S. Navy with the rank of ‘lieutenant, junior grade: They "are Richard K. Parrish, Decatur, and Russell J. Morrical, Logansport. 2 8 =

Recruiter to Make Tour -

. The U. 8S. Navy's “recruiting cruiser”. will begin .a tour of Indiana cities to recruit personnel for the Navy service beginning next -week, ; . The “cruiser” is a mobile unit, tractor-trailer, equipped with an office, public address system and facilities for motion pictures. Physical

examinations will be given appii-|

cants in the mobile office. EJ » [

Naval Reserves Open

" The ranks of the U. S. Naval Reserve have been opened to general ‘enlistment and Selective Service registrants ‘may enlist for the duration of the emergency, Lieut. Comm. D. McWhorter, Indiana naval recruiting officer, announced here today. "" Heretofore dralt registrants who _ desired to volunteer for Naval Service have been limited to six-year enlistments in the regular Navy. Volunteers for service with the Naval Reserve are enrolled for a four-year period but provision is made by law whereby they are released from active duty when the

Ex-Salesman in Rusia Bets Nazis Won't Win Quickly|

By EARL RICHERT

A DAY OR TWO after Germany began its invasion of Ruyssia, a luncheon companion leaned across the table and said to Col. Everett L. Gardner: “You know, colonel, I'll just bet you that Hitler licks the Russian Army in three weeks.” |

(The friend knew that Col. Gardner, head of the Employment Security Division Review Board, had been in Russia from 1933 to early 1838 selling White Motor Co. trucks and busses to the Russian Government and that he likely would be willing to wager on Russia.) The smiled. “0. ‘K.” he ‘said. “you're on, /and I'll just make it two to one

colonel leaned back and

that the Russian Army isn't licked _ (The amount of

in three weeks.” the wager is a dark secret.) The three weeks will be up at dawn Sunday and Col. Gardner, barring some great calasirophs, will collect. : Col. Gardner (he was an officer in the A. E. F. in France) had considerable opportunity during his five years in Russia to learn

about the Red Army and, the Rus- .

sian people. - When not on the road Araveling

from one town to another, he .

lived at the National Hotel, within one block of the Kremlin and Red.

Square in Moscow. He frequently |

met Red. Army officers and foreign newspaper correspondents. He found out enough about Russia to convince him now that the German invasion of Russia is “the beginning of the end for Hitler.”

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. HE SAYS he thinks the Russian affair will rebound on Hitler just as the attack on Russia made Waterloo inevitable for Napoleon. He thinks that Hitler will have to expend 50 many men in his attack on Russia that the English,

perhaps with our help, will be able .

to “polish Hitler off.” And he is not sure that Hitler will be able to defeat the Russians. “There is no doubt in my mind,” Col. Gardner said, “but that one German can lick two Russians. “But. that won’t do much good in this case. The Russians have three or four men on. the front

lines now for every attacking

German.”

The morale of the Red Army, .

despite all rumors to the contrary, is much better than was the morale of the old Czarist Army, which was defeated repeatedly in World War 1, he said. “For the past 15 years, the soldiers in the Red Army have been given every consideration. They have better food, clothing and shelter than other Russians and even the parents of soldiers in the army are given special privileges that other people don’t get. The soldiers in the old Czarist army

were treated: like serfs, he added."

As to the. equipment of the Red Army, Col. Gardner said that

. side the Kremlin itself.

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FROM ICELAND

Mysterious Source Cancels

Visit and Washington: Is Suspected.

By. wisn H. STONEMAN Cl ao Dally News 3 ines “LONDON; oy 10. — For some faysterious reason which remains to losed, somebody, somewhere,

v re decided that Iceland does not {bear inspection - at the present

moment. Yesterday, after 18 hours of fran-

formation, it was finally decided that ‘American ' correspondents in London might go to the northern

L |isle to greet, the. American troops

\ Col. Everett L. Gardner it was fair, but poor in comparison with German equipment and that which the United States has. 2 ” =

“HOWEVER, . THE - RUSSIANS have great quantities to make up

“for their lack of quality,” he said.

Shortly after ne. went to Russia in 1933, Col. Gardner had occasion to visit some tank factories and he saw tanks of all sizes being rolled off the production ‘lines

then.

He visited several so-called cultural parks in 1933 and in every park he saw high towers where young men were practicing parachute jumping. The repeated purges of the Army personnel has had comparatively little effect on the efficiency of the Army itself, the colonel believes. Most of the officers purged, he said, were those who were acquiring sufficient political power in the army to make them dangerous to. the Soviet Party leaders. Russian Army officers, are trained ina school conducted inThey are given a good education and are even taught to speak the English language. All physically fit young men are

. compelled to spend two, years,

from 19 to 21, in the army, and after they get out they are placed in the reserves. Russia now has a reserve force of between 16,000,000 and 18,000,000 men who have had two years’ military training and their standing army of between 5,000,000 and 7,000,000 men is the largest in the world, the colonel said.

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HE BELIEVES :that the invasion will have the effect of uniting the people more than ever before just as the Japanese invasion has united the Chinese. Most of the White Russians, ‘those who favor the old regime, have either been killed or are ‘in exile.

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who were allegedly arriving there. Such eminent organizations as the War Office, the Air Ministry, and apparently, even.the Foreign Office, were persuaded that yes, the Americans might be entitled to an independent, first-hand picture of the show up there. So the first consignment of three American reporters climbed aboard a frain and headed north. Late in the afternoon something happened. While other correspondents were rushing around town cursing because they had not been allowed to go, word got out that everything had changed and that nobody could go. Nobody seemed to know why, but there was a deep suspicion that for once the trouble did not “emanate from London. American correspondents openly accused Washington of sticking in its oar. Nobody denied that this might be so. All anybody knew was that the three early birds who had left London were being hauled off the train somewhere in Scotland ané sent back. We still don’t know the explanation today, but still think that Washington has the answer and we would very much like to know it. It may be perfectly adequate; there may be something tremendously important going on -that must be kept secret. What “we heartily suspect is that there is mothing up there that American newspapermen could not be allowed to see and, in due course of time, to report. You know the truth as well as we do. ;

Roosevelt Imposes Own Iceland Ban

temporary prohibition against American. newspapermen proceeding: to Iceland where American naval forces are consolidating their occupation. The prohibition was announced by White House Secretary Stephen T. Early, who said, however, that representatives of American news agencies, already in Iceland will be allowed to continue their functions

“|there and that American press

agency newsmen and syndicate photographers will be allowed to go to Jcelanid after the occupation is comp koe

Ste Deaths

ANDERSON — Ashford H. Pugsley 72. Survivors: Daughters, 5 Archie Stewart, Mrs. Irvin Miss Agnes Pugsley: sons, Arlie, Jack, Nirother, illiam. Frank A. Sto 88. Survivors: Wife, Mary; sons, Saab, Roy; brothers, George, Frea; sister, Mrs. Nellie Booram.,

ATLANTA—Mrs. Amos Murray, vivors: Sisters, Mrs. Cecelia Kate Rietzel.

CHANDLER—Mrs. Ida M. Murphey, 77.

84. Suroyer, Mrs.

‘| Survivors: Husband, Patrick; sons, Charles,

George, Walter, Floyd, Chester, daughters, Mrs. Rose Hargrave, ‘ ward Kuehn; brother, Charles Barclay; sisters, Mrs. Enos Miles, Mrs. -Henry Fisher. . CORTLAND—John Otte, 65. Survivors: Sons, Stanley, Clarence; sisters, Mrs, Cari . Gerkensmeyer, Mrs. Fred Ault. EDINBURG Mrs, Pearl Hook b. 33; Sap. e; er Ruth Hook; mother, re, 1 Lyd a Dillman.

two brothers 'VANSVILLE—Cham Willoughby, 82. Survivor: Brother, H ny. BhbY, FRANKFORT—Thomas N. Ryan, - Mors: He rtha; a: Ma Mary Re Word. Miss Martha Ryan; sons,

sh - Alice Swain 3: Survivors; Daughter, Mrs. Dars Samual Phare Mr: Mary Fair; ait- -brother,

ills A. Bush, 71. Survive wie Core. sisters, Mrs. Maude King, “Mrs. LAFONTAINE—Mrs. Ben Smith, 80. Burvivors: Husband; sons, Harry, Roy, Joe. MARION—-Mrs. - Daisy D. Deeren, n, 88. Survivors: Daughter, Mrs. rothy sons, William I, Clarence; Drother Yaeivert Ferguson; sister, Mrs. Della Wa tson.

MOUNT VERNON—OCharles Johnson, 81. Survivors: Son, Raymond; daughters, Mrs. Martha McFadén, Mrs. Ben Allen, Mrs. Chris Kingery: P orother, Morton; sister, Mrs. Jane Walls, NEW CASTLE—Gordon W. Marshall, 4 Survivors: Wife, Maxine; stepson, I Turber: sister, Mrs. Luther Davis. Mal Soe Tasvivors: Harold Hosthler. ®s les, Mm.

RICHMOND —- Clarence Redd) t Survivors: Wife, Blanche; eight 8 ne: mother, Mrs. Flora Reddington: three sis< ters; brother, Howard Red ington. RUSSELLVILLE—Mrs. Billa May Sewell, atl "Pao Charles; "daughters, Mrs. goa, Jester, Misses yirginia, Rose. ‘Wands er arles Proc Mrs. Dan Scott, ‘Mrs. Sadie on, Een SHELBYVILLE—Mrs. Hattie ters, 54. Survivors: Husband, ters, Mrs. Elsie Wood, Mrs. Anna Whipple. TENDAL Morita Risenbeck, 83. Sure vivors: Parents, Mr. and Mrs. ton Risenbeck; brother, Billy: sisters, Mis Nora May, Dorothy Fay Risenbeck. SWAYZEE Miz. Amanda Zirkle, 70. Survivors: Daughters, Misses Mable and Winifred Zirkle; reir Garl, Claude, = Paul, Vaughn; sisters, ‘Mrs. :Ella.- Gowin, Mrs.

rene Winank; sis-

: | Pearl Pence.

WASHINGTON—MTrs. Zella May Sithonas, e Survivors: Husband, ‘Abram; daughtwo brothers; two halt -brothérs; half-

WHITEST OWN—Alya | E. esse 61. vivo, Wife. Flor ald; brother, Adelbert: sisters, "Mrs. 8 By "Earhart, Mrs. Edgar Bowers. ;

‘CYCBIST KILLED

ANGOLA, Ind., July 10 (U.P).— Bliss Stayner, 21, Orland, was in-

i | jured fatally last night when the

motorcycle he was riding crashed into a truck on Indiana 327 near the south edge of Orland.

WASHINGTON, July 10 (U.P.).— |} 4 President Roosevelt today placed a

Husband, Milton; -sons,

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