Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1941 — Page 9

"FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1941

ARMY ‘COLD’ TO

DRAFTEE PILOTS

“Refuses to Let Them Fly Military Planes; McCarran Scores Stand. By THOMAS L. STOKES

p Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 11.—This is

the story of the “Flying M. P.’s,”|}

Retains Post

“who are getting dirt behind their $

tars but no cloud dust.

+ * It relates to several hundred men | |

“licensed as civilian pilots, some from "commercial lines, who got caught in the draft and are now at the three Army Air Corps training centers— ‘Maxwell Field, Ala.; Moffett Field, -“cal,, and Randolph Field, Tex. ‘3: Their gripe is that they are barred, * with rare exceptions, from flying or engaging in flying activity or train- ; _ ing, but are, instead, doing duty as military police, kitchen police, truck drivers, and so on. , -At ~Maxwell . Field, Montgomery, “Ala, where 200 of these men are ’ stationed, they call themselves with 2 , doughboy irony “The Flying M. P.’s.” Have 50 to 1000 Hours Their story has reached Senator Pat McCarran (D. Nev.), who is a specialist in civil aviation, and he is investigating to see what might be done. According to the story, flying experience of the men at Maxwell Field ranges from 50 to 1000 hours. #Some of them have been at the training center for six months—do> ing M.P., K.P. and the like. Others are coming in consfantly. Meanwhile, the pilot licenses of some of them are expiring, and they are getting Tusty. The Army Air Corps hay its side

of the story. Its spokesmen point out that if

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Thurman A. Gottschalk - Thurman ‘A, Gottschalk, a prominent Democratic figure in state affairs. for two decades, today was reappointed administrator of the State ‘Department of Public Welfare. His reappointment by the Welfare Board was a direct result of the recent Supreme Court “ripper” suit decision. A: “ripper” bill passed by the G. 0. P.-dominated ’41 Assembly provided specifically for the termination of Mr. Gottschalk’s tenure of office not later than July 15 and for Republican control of the department, But since the “ripper” suit decision ruled out Republican control,

the “ripper” bill which were not affected, by naming Mr. Gottschalk to serve as the new administrator.

FIND CREMATED BODY IN AUTO FIRE RUINS

SULLIVAN, Ind. July 11 (U.P.).

GOP REHEARING

PLEA ANSWERED!

Ruling Is Land-.

‘Ripper’ mark, Should Not Be Touched, Mems Say.

By VERN BOXELL The Supreme Court decision in-

validating the Republican decen-|

tralization laws “spells out the meaning of our organic law and should not be tampered with or changed,” Democratic attorneys said today in an answer fo the G. O. P. petition for a rehearing. Hailing the 4-to-1, 70-page opinion as “a landmark in the Consti- |. tutional history of this state and indeed’ of the nation,” Governor Henry P. Schricker’s attorneys said they were confident that the sweeping decision “will stand the test of time.” The Supreme Court, back from vacation iemporarily today to swear in new members of the bar, were expected to act on the rehearing petition later today. They originally declared the Republican Legislature’s governmental reorganization program unconstitutional because it took executive power away from the Governor. - Judge Frank N. Richman, only Republican member, Yissentett y Special Session AG. oF P charge in its rehearing petition that a special session of

“They (Republicans “seem to imply this would be a major calamity,” the Democrats: asserted. “We are in-

session of the present Legislature and also agree with them that such a session should be avoided if possible; but, however disastrous such a contingency might be, it can scarcely be urged as a reason for

these men want to become Army |--Sheriff Hubert Sevier today sought | permitting unconstitutional legisla-

aviators they can enlist in the Air

the identity of a body cremated in

tion to stand, or if we may be some-

Corps for a three-year hitch, asia blazing automobile on a lonely|what legalistic, such arguments can

some. of them have done. But these men, as draftees, are called ‘into service for only a year. (unless: the |

country road near Pleasantville late last’ night. The sre remains indicated the

scarcely: be. deemed proper in a judicial proceeding.” In answer to the G.O.P. claim

period is extended) and most of fhody was that of a man, Sevier said, {that the opinion denies to the peothem do not want to enlist for the |but a. burned pocketbook and a|ple the necessary power to control

three-year course.

Army Flying Different The civilian flier has certain

N handicaps, it 1s explained. Few, if "= any, of these draftee aviators, the

pocket knife were the only clues en which identify’ might be established.

“{lished.

The body had been saturated with kerosene, indicating the person might have been slain earlier. A

affairs of their own government through their representatives in the Legislature. the Democrats replied: “Apparently, they have forgotten that the Governor, too, is elected by the people and, as such, repre-

J Army Air Corps says, are qualified {five-gallon kerosene can was found |sents them in the management of

to fly any type of Army plane. Nor, says the Air Corps, do they have sufficient training to be used in the ferry service for Lend-Lease planes. The draftees suggest as one opéning the 16 primary fields. for train ing. If the draft period is extended, then some provision probably will be made for these civilian aviators to enter the primary training schools, .it is said.

As another alternative, it is sug-|

gested that these pilots might be used, ‘after 2 refresher course, instructors in flying, teaching the fundamentals. To this, the Air

Corps says that commercial flying |J. Horton

does not give them sufficient training to instruct in Army flying. : Meanwhile, it is reported, planes are sitting on the ground at Maxwell Field, with no one to fly them.

Need Air Command

“Here is a group .who have had preliminary training and certainly are well-fitted to start,” Senator McCarran said, me that they should be given an Soperiunity to go to a training

“I think it’s just a short-sighted policy that they are denjed the|m chance to develop this native bent. “All of which leads to the conclusion that we ought to have a unified air command and take care of such sags as this.”

Scalped

WASHINGTON, July 11 (U. P.).—~The towering 555-foot Washington Monument is about to be “scalped” for the sake of national defense. : The Office of Civilian Defense officials said that Director Fiorello H. La Guardia has found that there are five pounds of aluminum used as a lightning arrester at the mon-: ument’s peak. It was placed there in 1884. Mr. La Guardia is going to ask Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, it was said, for the metal. when the nation-wide aluminum serap pickup campaign begins soon. And Secretary Ickes is going fo give it up, Interior Department aids said.

“and it seems to|jTY

ROS Jvers, Wife, Dovie; mother, Mrs. va

5 Pauline Howson. 1. SOUTH 1 vores

a short distance’ Jrom the car.

State ‘Deaths

CARTHA GE—Bdyard D. Retherfords 82. Survivors: Sons, n, e; avg} hters, s. Marian Coin. Nis. Marjorie otis Mrs, Hallie Hopper; brothers, Jesse, Ferd; Sisters, Mrs. Laura Jones, Mrs. Nells R.

ELKHART als, Jenils E. Sinclair, Survivors: Dau Mrs. Nile on: sans, Paul, Lyle; ao Ly Albert Agard; sister, Mrs. Fred fark, Paul Edward Nelso 43. Survivors: as Daughter, Miss Mary E. Nelson; Tents, Mrs. Samuel | Nelson} er, Hubbard,

Mrs. e Probasco 62. Survivors: Husband. iam m; fas n, Miss Lun le

GAGSDEN — Survivors: Husband. Mori: eh Wa Tr, Johnson; stepsons, Rober oh! Eberwein: brothers, Charles, Harry, Ww.

GREENSBURG Ms. Jefferson Morris, 69. Survivors: Husband; Estell Cox, re, Has Hazel Tr, 5 George, Ghatles, homes. HOPE MIs. Naneéy Lorts, 69. Survivors: Husban Hagar; aughters, Mrs. Paul Over Sas. illiam Dalmbert, Mrs. Robert shel; brothers, Curtis, Arthur drews; sisters, Mrs. Sherman on. Mrs, a

HUNTIN Survivor: MARION—Alfred M. Curry. urvivors: Wife, ‘Susan; son Give: a ughters, Mrs. Charles Burcaw, ars. D oy; % " mmer-

ter, Mrs. Alice uta

Walter L. Jackson, 53. Sur-

MUNCIE vivors: Daughter; two brothers; sister. NI ALBANY — an n 0. Conklin Survivors: Wife,

AF tts Sons, . “Roscoe, John; haif-sister. Myo ettie STON—Buren Sutphin Dn

Sutphin; brother, Howard; sisters, er Artman, ; ‘Mrs. “Martha Cody;

BEND—Dudley ' M . Shively, 70: Wife; son ohn; sister,. Mrs.

A. Fulk. A ok iquale Simeri, 85. Sons,

Joseph, Louis, Rocco, Dominick; daughters, Me James Augustine, Mrs. Dominick:

TELL CITY—John Fox, 61.

Yo ‘Mrs.

“Survivors:

‘Survivors:

'[ Wife, Bertha; foster daughters, Mrs, Perry

Esarey, Mrs. Dow Shoemaker, TERRE Baus Bt a A ers, Mrs Edla. Webb; enneth; on Lucky Batman; toner Robert VINCENNES Dennis MrOlure, 3 it ather, D. Ray; sister, Mrs ere Williams; Brats, Keine th. Eiler Petgen,

WARSAW— ban Se 50. a Ae Husband erc ; daughters, Misses Rona Ellen, Myrtle, Frances Petgen. Cdlvina Hartsough. Nir Ota Pulliam, 78. Survivors: Mrs. Anna Jones.

NAMED INTERIM SENATOR COLUMBIA, S. C., July 11 (U. P.).—U..S. District Judge Alva M. Lumpkin, 55, today held an interim appointment as Senator from South Carolina pending a special election Aug. 26 to choose a successor to

Thompson. Rose, Mrs, Mrs.

Son, Samuel; daughter,

to the Supreme Court.

Our gift fo The Shar Salvation Army Penny lee Fund: 1% of All

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governmental affairs. . ‘The Supreme Court, in its opinion, said that if the sweeping powers granted the Governor are “autocratic and czar-like,” the remedy is to amend the Constitution. The G. O. P. contended that this “would unfairly place on the people the burden to. undo: hy . constitutional amendment - something which the

{| Supreme Court decisions up to now

as well as every other evidence of constitutional intention show conclusively the people never adopted as a part.or intention of their Constitution.” - The Democrats replied that - “it

g1.{ would appear that always the bur-

den is upon the people to amend

ti | their constitution under which they

‘Sing a Song * Of Freedom'

VICHY, July 11 (U. P,). —Twen-ty-one Communists, held in the emergency prison of the Plais de Justice on the City Island in Paris, annoyed their guards by singing Russian war songs all night. Before dawn the singing stopped. . When guards. investigated they found the Communists had escaped by sawing. the bars of ‘a ate. g The prisoners had ‘covered up

their rasping saws with their

rasping voices.

6. R DONALDSON, 23, IS DEAD HERE

George 'R. Donaldson, for several years an invalid, died yesterday in his home, 3020 N. Capitol Ave. He was 23 and had lived all his life in Indianapolis. Mr. Donaldson had attended School 36 and Potter Fresh School. He was a member of od University Park Christian Church. Survivors are his -mother, Mrs. Harry D. Winnie; his father, George W. Donaldson; three aunts, Mrs. Robert Foulks, Mrs. Bert Fuller and Mrs. Herbert H. Hitchens, and his grandpdrents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Middaw, and Mrs. G. W. Donaldson, all of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be conducted

Day, executive secretary of the Christian Church Union, and the

‘Rev. 8. Grundy Fisher, pastor of

the University Park Church. Burial will be in Mooresville ‘Cemetery.

MORTON E. LA MAR

Morton E. La Mar, who had lived in Indianapolis 50 years, died last night at his home, 1116 Olive St. He was 78. His birthplace was near Acton. Mr. La Mar had been a carpenter for Brandt Bros. Co. for 40 years. He retired 10 years ago. He was a member of the Central Christian Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Hattie La Mar; a daughter, Mrs. Hazel Retherford, Indianapolis; a son, Merle C. La Mar, Chicago, Ill; a sister, Mrs. Charles Toon, Acton; a brother, Landy La Mar, Indianapolis, and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday in the J. C. Wilson Funeral Home. Burial] will be in Acton.

11 MINERS KILLED IN ALABAMA BLAST

LEEDS, Ala. July 11 (U. P.).— The death toll from an explosion in the Acmar No. 6 coal mine of the Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. last night was placed at 11 today as workers sought two bodies in the wrecked diggings. Seven bodies were brought out before midnight. The explosion was caused by gas and occurred soon after the shift of nine Negroés and two whites had gone to No. 8 heading. The bodies were burned and

“flive and’ it’ is not seen how this Mre. | urden can be shifted.”

the men apparently died instantly.

“Due to the Death of

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THE ROSE TIRE Co: Will Be Closed

FRIDAY,

Joseph F. Byrnes, who was elevated

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‘| Earl - Parr,

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1S DEAD HERE AT 78|

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FARMER, 53, PLEADS. GUILTY IN SLAYING

ANGOLA, Ind, July 11 (U. P)— §3-year-old. Steuben County farmer, today faced a 1-to-

10-year term in State Prison after

- ago. Dr. Olsen had an offige for many years in the Hume Mansur:

he pleaded guilty to a charge growirig out of his’ first-degree murder

trial for-the fatal shooting of his} oy

mother-in-law. Last ‘month a Circuit Court jury

found that Parr killed Mrs. Nettie Hovarter during a family quarrel last February but was insane at the time of the shooting. He was acquitted of the murder charge. Yesterday Judge Clyde C. Carlin ruled that Parr now was sane and his insanity spells “not apt to reoccur” after hearing the testimony of physicians. The farmer, father of eight children, then pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery with intent to commit a felony in connection with the critical wounding of Mrs. Anne Chamberlain, Mrs. Air |Hovarter's companion when the shooting ‘occurred.

Dr. Olsen Dies; Retired Dentist

DR. CHRISTIAN OLSEN, retired Indianapolis dentist, . died yesterday at a private nursing “home, -3245 ‘N. Illinois St.; where" he had lived the past few months. Dr. Olsen’ had retired a year

He was born in In-

lege. ‘He was a member of the: Dental Society... He is survived by a son, Paul H., Clinton;“two brothers, Carl Olsen, Indianapolis, and Edward Olsen, Muncie, and two: BO sisters, Mrs. Olaf Jensen and Miss: Emilie : Olsen, “both of Chicago.

HOOSIER FARMER KILLED F

- RUSHVILLE, Ind, July 11: (Uf P)—Edward" D. Retherford, 82-year-old farmer of ‘near Carthage, late yesterday ile in which he ‘alone was struck by a freight train at a Care he e Ea Authorities said . the those | drowned or ‘choked to death.

was injured fa when “the auto ae giving

was hard of hegring. :

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diana and was a graduate of . . the ie Indlinapois Dental: Col

ROBERT J. NEELY'S

SERVICES TOMORROW

Funeral . services for . Rokert. J. Neely, who had ved, in_Indianapolis since 1876; will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow ‘in:.iSS. Peter, and Burlal will he in Holy Cross Cemetery. "Mr. Neely, who was 73, lived at 2235 Carrollton Ave. . He wds born in. Belfast, Ireland, and was for many years a Federal: ‘meat. inspector here, He was & member of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral and the Holy Name Society’ of “St. John's

‘| Catholic Church.’

Survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Teresa. Almond and’ Miss Kathryn ‘Neely, ‘both of Indianapolis, and two nieces, Miss Teresa Almond, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Luther Roberts, . Lauderdale, Fila. 3

GREED FATAL TO HUGE TROUT

“ALBANY, N.' Yi" (U.-P.) —Game protectors found a ‘dead trout 31% inches long ‘with -a: round stone caught in the fish’s mouth. Conserlvation - men ‘wonder’ if the trout

pa [icine «fe i habe dea

ROBERT CRAWFORD. STRICKEN ON STREET,

Robert Crawford, 58-year-old

{official of the: Eskimo Pie: Co, | Bloomfield, N.

J., died yesterday after he was stricken with a heart

attack while walking at Alabama's

and New York Sts. Mr, Crawford had lunched with Charles W. Field, secretary-treasurer of the Ballard Ice Cream Co. Mr. Crawford's body was sent to Highland Park, Ill, his home. Hea had been. associated ‘with the Eskimo Pie Co. many years, and was & frequent visitor to Indianapolis."

JAMES CLARK'S RITES ARE SET TOMORROW,

Funeral services for James Clark, retired construction worker, will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Wald Funeral Home, 1222 Union: St, Burial will be at Fairland. A Mr. Clark died Wednesday in the yard of his home, 1728 Olive St, of a heart attack. Survivors are his wife, Mrs.: Anna B. @lark, and four daughters, Mrs. Rosella May, Mrs. Alice Johnson, Mrs. Nancy Leitzman ang Mrs. Feletta Pardue.

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