Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1941 — Page 3
SATURDAY, AUG. 9, 1941
Joan Stavridi, Greece's No. 1 Heroine
(Last of a series of uncensored articles on Greece in Axis Chains.)
By GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. ATHENS (Delayed) —Hospital 7 has given Greece its greatest heroine of the war, an Englishwoman of Greek lineage in her early 30's who went through, on the island of Crete, 10 days of the fanciest kind of hell the Blitzkrieg can provide. She is Joan Stavridi, daughter of the London banker, Sir John Stavridi, a tall, attractive woman who looks like a champion tennis player. Taken prisoner at first by the Germans, who were astonished | that a woman could go through alive and unruffled © what she has experienced, she was immediately re- : leased and is now living here unmolested. Although the Axis-controlled government of Gen. George Tsolakoglou does not dare recognize her heroism, the Germans who were tended by her join her allies in admitting that her spirit is the kind which has left Greece, though defeated and starving, still uncrushed and defiant. Hospital 7 was located, for the inscrutzble reascns which governed many things in the British campaign in Greece, in the perilous no-man’s-land between the island's two chief strategical objects, Ss that is, on the northern seashore nine miles from Mr. Weller Malemi, principal airdrome of western Crete, and four miles from Suda Bay, where British warships were protecting the harbor movements off Canea. Grouped around a two-story central building with a 40-foot Red Cross painted
C10 URGES U. S. SEIZE SHIPYARD
Government Acts to Take Over Strike-Bound Jersey Plant.
By UNITED PRESS Striking shipyard workers urged! the Federal Government today to] commandeer the Federal Ship-| building and Drydock Co. plant at Kearny, N. J. A statement issued by the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America (C. I. 0.) charged the company had failed to fulfill its responsibilities and said the Government should taks over the plant. The company holds! william Storen . . . named on
nearly $500.000000 in Navy and] state Alcoholice Beverages ComMaritime Commission contracts. mission.. (Story on Page One.)
At Washington authoritative de-| fense officials disclosed that = HIT NAZIS FROM
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Government is prepared to take| over the Kearny works unless work is resumed without delay.
Propeller Workers Strike |
Well-informed officials predicted | that the yards would be under com- | plete Government supervision be-
fore the end of next week unless the
company accepts the National Me- British, Russians Strike at
diation Board's recommendation for 8 “maintenance of union eer ship” clause in a new contract—the| sole issue still in dispute. | Government action to reopen the|
Return to Berlin. plant over the week-end appeared |
: babies debi 4 £ LONDON. Aug. 9 (U. P) —Britmpn spit SS ‘ : : : ; re De hy Ralph a {ish and Russian fliers hit Germany
Bard that work must be resumed|from west and east again last night, on the six destroyers, three tankers
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on its roof, there were 45 tents, 15 being wards for wounded and the rest shelters for personnel, the tents being unmarked by Red Crosses.
2 8 2 2 2 2 SO THOROUGHLY AND REPEATEDLY was Hospital 7 bombed after the blitz began—the Germans flew over it repeatedly during the photographic reconnoitering trips before the dive-bombing of Suda Bay—that Joan Stavridi decided it had to be moved. Attired in the brown-trousered battle costume which was her protective uniform, and wearing above it only her white nurse's cap as insignia, she ordered the transfer. The only place to go was a chain of caves under the shelf-like Aegean seashore. Hospital 7 lost all its own regular doctors a few seconds after the blitz struck. They had been having a swim off the beach. They were machine-gunned to death in the water by a passing plane. When the first 800 German parachutists came down upon Malemi they were wiped out by Australian sharpshooters. “I've just spent an hour of the best duck-shooting I ever had,” said one of the Australians. This was before the bombing of Hospital ? began. The wounded Germans were placed in the tents beside the wounded imperials. Then came the heavy bombing of Hospital 7. “They may have thought we were an army camp with a hospital in the middle,” said Joan Stavridi, “but they had photographed us so many times I don't see how they could have faileq to know that we were undefended and had wounded.” For 23% hours of the intensest raid she lay in a slit trench beside an Irish Catholic priest with her tin helmet over her eyes. It was impossible to move the patients until night, when darkness fell, but they began carrying them, bombed Britons and bombed Germans, down to their cave hospitals. The next day the Stukas and Dorniers started to work upon the warships in Suda Bay. It required almost two days of dive-bomb-
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ing to reduce the cruiser York to helplessness, but on the first day 50 sailors were wounded by a single hit. Hospital 7 now had blue jackets as well as Australians, New Zealanders and Germans. Then the Germans came hard at Malemi again, having lost the intervening sea battle when about 50 small Greek schooners were sunk. The Luftwaffe pilots pancaked down the big, slow Junkers-52’s wherever they found an opening. This time, having bombed the antiaircraft thoroughly beforehand, they got a force on the ground. They moved fast along the shore, and soon captured Hospital 7. They sent back toward Malemi all the British and Germans able to walk. ‘Then the Australians attacked along the road and won back Hospital 7. “By this time we had pretty well broken all the rules of war for both sides,” says Joan Stavridi. “I don’t think either the British or the German hospital manuals approve of a nurse trying to operate a hospital pegmanently in advance of the front line, do they?”
Ed 2 2 ” ” ” ONCE THE MAORIS made a surprise attack on Malemi with fixed bayonets, and when it was over there were dark-skinned islanders as well as Nazis on the beds. Hospital 7, for the last nine days of the siege, consisted of five caves along a fireswept, tiny shingle of beach. It was a 10-minute walk—a ' walk of death—from the westernmost cave to the easternmost. It was always under either German or British fire, ° Hospital 7 was badly in need of food and there was no way to get it from Canea. Then a bright New Zealander took a captured Nazi battle flag and spread it out upon the ground for the Luftwaffe to see. Then food began to parachute down in abundance. After the Nazis took Malemi things got really difficult for Hospital 7. Almost all the hospital supplies had been destroyed in the first bomb-
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The British although dive-bombed by clouds of Stukas, refused to take the fleet out of Suda Bay as long as Malemi could be bombarded from there and there was a big battleship gun to do it. All day and most of the night a continuous yowling archway of shells passed over Hospital 7, big 14-inchers that landed among the encamped parachutists. Once again they started for Canea and took back Hospital 7. But that did not end activities in the no-man’s-land around the hospital. The Australians had, meantime, occupied a height behind Joan Stavridi's Hospital, a place called Galata. From there they ; commanded the road, both ways, to Malemi and Canea, and were able to enfilade with machine gun fire the German advance. \ Nobody in the cave hospital by the beach dared to raise his head above the shelf of rocks. But Joan Stavridi had to find a way to get operations done, because wounded were still being brought in by scurrying stretcher bearers. Finally, she spread the last sheets of Hospital 7 upon a slab of rock outside the cave mouth and kept on saving, and sometimes losing, the lives of the patients. When the German staff officers found that there was a woman at Hospital 7, who had been caring for all who fell for the past 10 days, they could not believe their senses. “A woman here?” they said. They put her on a plane taking wounded back to Athens, and there she is today. : There are many Greek women who served the British and Greeks well without having opportunity for such heroism—52 nurses were killed in the three weeks fighting and all five of Greece's hospital - ships were sunk—but the place of Joan Stavridi is the highest among those whose courage is known.
the British concentrating on the] | to the front, at concentrations of |
and two cargo vessels under construction. The walkout of 16.000 workmen was ordered at midnight Wednesday. Contract negotiations were deadlocked over a union demang for a modified union shop recommended by the National Defense Mediation Board. The company charged the union had violated a no-strike agreement, End Walkouts in West
NDMB efforts to settle the dispute have failed. The board was preparing a statement of facts which might form the basis for a
Presidential order for Government!
seizure of the shipyard.
More than 300 workers were on
Strike at the Curtiss-Wright Corp. Propeller Plant at Caldwell, N. J. Workmen who staged a walkout Yesterday voted last night to strike and establish picket lines.
ynaval base at Kiel and northwest Germany while the Russians re-
portedly sent their giant, fourmotored planes all the way to Berlin. The British Air Ministry said the docks and shipyards at Kiel were subjected to an “accurate and sustained” bombing and that “enormous fires were left burning.” The attack was carried out in brilliant moonlight, and was extended south {to Hamburg and other places, the {Air Ministry said. It reported four British planes missing. News that Soviet planes, following their initial attack on Thursday night, again had “bombed military objectives in the vicinity of Berlin,” first reached here in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from i Moscow.
Clear Up Mystery (At Berlin, where a raid last
Some members of the A. F. of L.| machinists’ union said the strike night was admitted, the official Gerwas called to enforce wage demands! man news agency said German but others said it was a protest bombers last night attacked several against recent National Labor Re-|air fields in east and southeast lations Board election in which an | England, scoring numerous hits on independent union won bargaining landing fields and crews’ living recognition. The strikers included quarters and causing fires and exscme members of the independent plosions. The agency said other union, Propeller-Craft, whose offi- German formations raided importcials said the walkout was unau-|ant east coast and southeast coast thorized. ports; that German night fighters PE shot down three “enemy” planes GREEN ASKS UNIONS jand that naval artillery brought {down a fourth. T0 FIGHT DICTATORS (Russia cleared up the mystery {of Thursday night's raid on BerCHICAGO, Aug. 9 (U. P)—Wwil- [lin a IONS might : : :_ {Germany had admi e liam Green, president of the Ameri land Britain had Qenieq making it. can Federation of Labor. called ON The Russian communique said © trade unionists last night to enlist group of our pianes carried out a in “a struggle against the effort|reconnoitering flight over Germany being made to foist totalitarianism [and Srobed gon Bo : 3 - {incendiary an ig explosive bo) al Be five pebbles of the | ombs on military objectives in the Aas pith : to .|Berlin area. The bombing caused iressing th t nnivers: : fee ir Re 2 a By (fires. Explosions were observed. All of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer-|0Ur planes returned to their air-
LINES INTACT, RUSSIANS SAY
Declare Captured Papers Show German Losses Up to 40 Per Cent.
MOSCOW, Aug. 9 (U..P.)—The Soviet High Command indicated tody that strong German offensives in the Ukraine and Smolensk sectors have failed to make notable gains and that some German tank and infantry divisions were reported to have lost 30 and 40 per cent of their effectiveness on the basis
of reportedly captured Nazi statistics. The figures on Nazi losses were said to have been found in captured documents belonging to the German army medical corps. The High Command said all night battles were fought in the Korosten and Belaya Tserkov sectors of the Ukraine front. (The German High Command tojday claimed the capture of Kor|osten), The communique reported that heavy battles also were fought around Kakisalmi on the Finnish front and in Estonia. Elsewhere on the front, it was said, engagements were limited to scouting and “combat of local significance.” Claim Night Raids The Red air fleet was said to have carried on its customary tactics of smashing night attacks at
German infantry forces moving up
armored vehicles and artillery batteries. _ Soviet airplanes continued bombIng German armored and infantry units, as well ‘as German airplanes and airports, the communique said. It claimed that 21 German ang 14 Russian planes were lost Thursday. A Russian naval unit forced a landing on the Rumanian coast of the Black Sea and took 600 prisoners and a large quantity of guns and ammunition, the Soviet Information Bureau said today. Numerous victories over German tank units by Russian regulars and guerillas were claimed in dispatches circulated by Tass, the official news agency. Guerillas Active Among exploits of guerillas, Tass said, were ambushing and annihilatIng a party of 50 Cerman bicycle
troops: and burning fields in which
ica, Green reafiirmed AFL opposition to involvement in foreign wars but added that “when our safety and peace are threatened it is no longer foreign war.” The address was carried over the NBC Blue radio network.
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U. S. CRUISERS SAIL BRISBANE, Australia, Aug. 9 (U. |P.).—The United States cruisers | visiting Australia sailed today for an “unknown destination.”
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German troops were hiding, killing them, by fire and explosions; raidIng an airport and capturing six planes, burning fuel tanks and buildings. A submarine of the northern fleet
{commanded by Senior Lieut. Stensov
penetrated a German harbor and destroyed a 6000-ton ship with two torpedoes, Tass said. An official denial was issued of a report credited to the Swedish newspaper Tidninger that Russia and Britain had signed a secret treaty establishing Russian control over the Dardanelles and Bosphorus.
FRENCH CONSIDER 'MOMENTOUS' STAND
VICHY, Aug. 9 (U. P.) —Consultations on matters said to involve “momentous” decisions concerning France's relations with Germany and the United States were held today. Marshal Henri Philippe Petain met with Vice Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, Gen. Maxime Weygand, pro-consul for Africa, and Gen. Charles Huntziger, war minister, throughout the day. A scheduled session of the Council of Ministers was postponed. No time was announced for the meeting.
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1940 .... PA icici 43
—Aug. 8— Accidents ... 17 | Injured Arrests .... FRIDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid $327 9
Violations
Reckless driving. . 10 Failure to stop at
through street.. 7 9
14 37 $434
18 0 40 109 MARRIAGE LICENS=S These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses. Jeremiah J. n, 29, of 5124 E. Washington; Lillian . Pierle, 24, of 2102 SB. Meridian.
E. James Hayth. 32, of 315 Graham; Mary a Ruark, 27, of 34 Audubon. v
4 N. L. Davidson. 21, of 1228 Shepard; Janis IL. Hawhee, 21. of 1238 E. Ohio
Wii L. Jones, 26, : Jett Frseman Se 1906 Westview - 3 a Be nde 22, of 1004 S.
ing. Although by some miracle there were no deaths.
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Happy birthday to you, and you, and you, too!
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picture have birthdays tomorrow, and all three are fhembers of the same family. They are Mrs. Mary Conrad, who will be 41; her daugh-
ter, Mary, who will be 9, and brother, Frank, 6.
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They live at 6104 E.
The Borer, an Enemy From Europe, Attacks State Corn
By JOE COLLIER Add to the enemies arrayed against Hoosier corn this year a vastly increased army of the European corn borer, which last year caused a money loss in the crop estimated by Purdue University experts at $500,000. Drought and heat have cut the yield in some sections by 20 pe rcent or more, and now, from early reports, it appears that the corn borer will destroy a considerably larger portion of the crop than it did last year. Paul Ulman, Acting State Entomologist, said that farmers’ reports to him indicated that the increase in borer population this year is the heaviest of any year since it was discovered here in 1926. Moreover, early indications are that the borer migration has made greater strides this year than any other. He said it is so bad in Marion County, for instance, that farmers readily notice it in the fields without hunting for it, particularly in sweet corn. And, Mr. Ulman says, it is going to be a long, slow job for farmers to clean it out, even if there is 100 per cent co-operation among them. Without 100 per cent co-operation, the job is all but impossible, he said. The corn borer entered Indiana fields from Ohio in Steuben County in 1926. Its population increase and migration southwestward state were moderate a first did not alarm farmers. By 1930 there was noticeable evidence of a second generation tendency and five years ago there was a definite second generation, with moths flying from the middle of June to early in September. The moth is able to fly about 20 miles, then stops on a stalk of corn and lays its eggs. The eggs turn into worms which do the damage, feeding on stalks and the ears. The moths are partial to sweet corn, because it usually matures earlier.
and
ers are finding heavy invasions this ¥
year in some sections.
Heaviest infestations of all arelb
in Adams, Wells, Blackford and Allen Counties. The formal borer
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census has not been made this year.
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Quincy. Morris G. Kaiser, 21, Central State Hospial nyse! L. Leaser, 21, Central State ospital. ohn F. Greer, 68, of 2539 S. California; Ethel N. Cameron. 49. of 2309 S. Meridian. Harold E. ier, Lillian F. Claycomb, Clement E. Anni
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. . 18, o J. Barnhill, 22, o WwW. walnut, Bloomington, Ind.; Phyllis G. Landis, 22, of 4808 N. Capitol. Earl L. Lawhead Jr, R. R. 12, Box 522; Dorothy Biltimier, 20, of 2633 N. y. Robert P. Grant, 20, of 410 N. Alsace-Lorraine Mpydland, 18, of 302 Dorman. Ormand W. Patterson, 21, of 629 Eugene; Donna L. Turner, 18, of 2934 Northwestern Daniel L. Smith, 24, of 334 Blake; Katherine M. Judd, 24 of 343 Hanson. r E. Sh 20, of 1427 Holmes; . of 650 Alton. tter, 21, of Ft. Harrison; . Fann, 19, of 636 N. Illinois. Rollyn Hawkins, 23, of 2909 N. Capitol; Marjorie A, Schisler, 23, of 2734 N. Illinois. Jane L. Strashun, 23, of 4501 N. Meridian; Maurel Roshbaum, 28, Chicago, Iil.
MEETINGS TODAY
Indianapolis Pressman’s Union No. :30 E m., Severin Hotel, adh ographers’ Union, 8 p. m. Severin e -
otel. National Skeet Shoot Dinner, 8 p. m, Severin Hotel.
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Indiana Fraternal Congress, committee meeting, 2:30 p. m., Severin Hotel.
BIRTHS Girls William, Helen Pringle, at Coleman.
Ernest, Mary King, Flovd, Dortha Mc!
Keers, at St. Vincent's.
ook, 18,
Henry, LaVonne Athey, at St. Vincent's. Thomas, Irene Birod, at Methodist. _
It will be started soon, and the inspectors hope to get in 42 counties. Last year it showed that 728 per cent of corn plants in Adams county were infested; 65.5 per cent in Allen County; 65 per cent in Blackford, and 80.1 per cent in Wells. Of the less heavily infested counties, it showed that Fulton had a 1053.3 per cent increase in population over the year before; Marshall a 14909 per cent increase; Wayne a 3180.6 per cent increase, to name the worst.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. S. Weather Bureau INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair to
in the|w
Marion County truck farm- |¥
partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature: temperature about 87 this afternoon.
(Central Standard Time) 4:51 | Sunset
TEMPERATURE —Aug. 9, 1940— Besse 67 | 1p mi ...0..
BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m. ... 29.98
Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 a. m. .05 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 ....14.79 Deficiency since Jan. 1 10.2
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; little temperature change. Ilinois—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; little temperature change. Lower Michigan—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; little temperature change. Ohio—Generally fair and slightly cooler in north, mostly cloudy with a few scattered ‘showers in south portion tonight; tomorrow generally fair and not quite so
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arm, Kentucky—Considerable cloudinsss and continued warm with few scattered showers in north portion tonight: tomorrow mostly cloudy with scattered showers in afternoon.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.
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Jill. Winifred Townsend, at Methodis
Thomas, Allane Nicholes, at 1020 N. a
23, of 1408 Carrollton; | Ty ub
Robert, Elizabeth Jones, at 1607 North-
' | western.
Lonnie, Bernice Massey, at 915 Fayette. Carroll, Irene Perry, at 702 Weghorst. Glen, Lucille Warren, at 1238 E. Minnesota. * Boys Dwight, Elizabeth Rogers, at St. Francis. Jack, Marian Heald, at St. Francis. Amos, Lois Pollard, at City. Paul, Ruth Densford, at City. Arthur, Ruth Queisser, ai St. Vincent's. John, Marian Beswick, at St. Vincent's. Roi Louise Gribble, at Methodist. William, Ruth Ellen Millholland, at
Methodist, James, Geraldine Halex, at Methodist. chison, at Meth-
Shdrew, Patricia Hu odist. Harold, Mary Powell, at 309 N. Davidson. Joseph, Vania Terry, at 2626 Burton. Lloyd, Ruth White, at 524 S. Alabama. Edwin, Elsie Jaynes, at 330%; yrgnls: Wilbur, Tressie Kesler, at 2221 E. 44th. HO, Fountain House, at 2328 MarNorman, Elizabeth Brinker, at 1234 Kel-
Ys Maurice, Aurora Parker, at 230 N. Beville.
DEATHS Leo R. Bentz, 58, at 3760 W. Washington, cerebral hemorrhage. Murry Manford, 61, at Long, pneumonia. Mary Harlan, 30, at City, uremia. Loren L. Disinger, 41, at Veterans, arteriosclerosis. Michael Kirsch, 74, at 2620 N. Capitol, chronic nephritis. Alva Such, 35. at Long, mitral stenosis. John E. White, 49, at 1317 Wallace, coronary thrombosis. ’ GEL Ties Gallaway, 72, at City, myocars.
ry D. Cox, 77, at 2001 N. Pennsylva-
Ma nia. carcinoma. Flora. Catherine Ayers, 59, at Central, onic myocarditis. :
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WILLKIE SOUGHT FOR RALLY HERE
Delegation Will Extend Speaking Bid Tomorrow At Rushville.
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will be composed of Carl Vestal, Roy Creasey, Courtney Hammond and Charles Lahrman. Among others who will take part in the motorcade are Mrs. Felix Vonnegut, chairman, Women’s Division, Indiana Committee for National Defense, and Mr. Vonnegut, and Mrs. Walter O. Lewis, head of the speakers’ bureau of the Committee, with Mr. Lewis. A special committee representing the Indiana State Federation of Labor includes Adolph J. Fritz, chairman; Mabel Lowe, Louis C. Schwartz, Charles W. Kern, Charles Lutz and Charles Hayman. Others are Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Sherk, Mr. and Mrs, John I. Kautz, Col. Robert L. Moorhead, Dr. Frederick D. Kershner, John K. Ruckelshaus, Alvin Owsley, Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, Dr. Amelia Keller, Mrs. Fern Norris, J. Perry Meek, Dr. A. C. Corcoran, Rabbi M. M. Feuerlicht, Dr. and Mrs. Forest K. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Skabo, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Birge. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Barker, Dr. Harry Nagle, Dr. Robert I. Blakeman, Denzil C. Barnhill, Fred Kinnan, Mrs. J. Francis Huffman, Mrs. Ernest Fullenwider, Mrs. Charles Smith, Mrs. Frank E. Weimer, Mrs. Guy O. Bird, Dr. and Mrs. D. M. Milholland. Dr. A. D. Beeler, Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Josey, Mr. and Mrs, Jean S. Boyle, Mrs. Leo Gardner, Mrs. R. M. Loomis, Mrs. Clayton H. Ridge, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Showalter, Dr. and Mrs. Henry S. Leonard, Mr. and Mrs. Asa Hoy, Mrs. Woods Caperton, Mrs. H. K. Metcalf. Dr. and Mrs. Lehman Dunning, Dr. and Mrs. William Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Noon, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lenox, Mrs. William Allen Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Tracy D. Caudel, Mrs. Jane Schmutte, Dr. and Mrs. Paul R. Oldham, Mrs, Gordon Batman, Mrs. H. A. Bordner, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon PF. Briggs, Miss Charlotte Carter, Mrs. Alice Cuddy, Mrs. Harry L. Foreman. Mrs. Paul W. Gilbreath, Mrs. Mrs. William V. Lawler, Mrs. C. O. McCormick, Mrs. S. W. Ruch, Mrs. Wallace C.
Wadsworth, Mrs. John T. Wheeler, Mrs. Stuart Wilson, Miss Jessie Henderson and Dr. B. D. Rosenake. Executive committee members who will head delegations from other cities are: W. M. Toner, Anderson; J. R. Maloney, Kokomo; Clifford Payne, New Castle; Haydén C. Hancock, Muncie; Arthur Sapp. Huntington; Harry McLain, Shelby-
7| ville; Dr. Roy V. Peel, Bloomington;
the Rev. A. C. BE. Gillander, Greensburg; John F. Mitchell Jr., Greenfield, and Prof. George V. Kendall, Crawfordsville.
‘Fight for Freedom’
Meanwhile, national officers of Fight for Freedom, Inc., announced they would complete the organization of the Indiana chapter at a meetirg at the Claypool Hotel some time next week. Phil Lewis, Indianapolis, American Legion leader, has been serving as temporary chairman of the Indiana chapter. The aims and purpose of Fight for Freedom, according to George Gilliespie, of Galax, Va., who came here to organize the local chapter, are: 1. Shooting by the U. S. Navy of any Axis boats menacing the shipment of supplies to England. 2. Repeal of the Neutrality Act. 3. Occupation of all Atlantic islands strategic to the defense of the United States. 4. Severance of diplomatic relations with the Axis powers. 5. Extension of the selective service period for the duration of the emergency. 6. Arousing patriotic fervor for national unity and for support of the Administration. Fight for Freedonr, Inc. was organized first last April in the east-
‘lern states with Senator Carter
Glass serving as the honorary chairman,
DUKE INSPECTS BOEING VICTORIA, British Columbia, Aug. 9 (U. P.).—The Duke of Kent today concludes his visit to. western Canada with an inspection of the Boeing Aircraft of Canada, Ltd., plant at Vancouver, which soon will be turning out naval patrol bomb-
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Oregon Attorney Named Chairman of Board of American United.
Leslie E. Crouch, Portland, Ore., attorney, today was elected chairman of the board of American United Life Insurance Co., whose home office is at 30 W. Fall Creek Parkway. He succeeds the late Senator Alva Lumpkin. Senator Lumpkin died in Washington last week, only 10 days after he had been named to the unexpired term of James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, now a U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Mr. Crouch is a past supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. American United Life Insurance Co. was formed through the merger of United Mutual Life Co., once the insurance department of the Knights of Pythias lodge, and the American Central Life Insurance Co. Mr. Crouch has been a director since the founding of American United in 1937.
MINORS ARE SOUGHT IN RAID ON TAVERN
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paign to enforce the law against sale of alcoholic beverages to minors. Meanwhile, Prosecutor Blue announced that a new affidavit will be filed against the Brookville Road tavern owner whose case, involving sale of beer to minors, was dismissed in Municipal Court two weeks ago. Action to reopen the case started after Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw demanded investigation of circumstances surrounding the dismissal of the case. A 16-year-old boy testified in Juvenile Court Thursday that he bought beer at the tavern before becoming involved in a traffic accident and that when he appeared in Municipal Court to testify against the tavern owner he said he was told that the case had been dismissed. Arthur Sullivan, sitting as judge pro tem in the case, said it was dismissed when a deputy prosecutor, Gerald Orhn, said he couldn't make a case. Prosecutor Blue said Mr. Ohrn “apparently didn’t have all the facts in the case at that time and another affidavit will be filed.” Judge Bradshaw said “selling liquor to minors is an inexcusable law violation.” He warned all tavern owners that it was their responsibility to determine whether their customers were more than 21 years of age.
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BLITZ RESUMED,
GERMANS CLAIM
Korosten Falls in Ukraine, 3 Armies Destroyed, Nazis Say.
BERLIN, Aug. 9 (U. P.), — The German High Command indicated today that its attack upon the Rus#‘an Ukraine is moving at blitzkrieg pace with the capture of Korosten,; 85 miles northwest of Kiev, and the smashing of the Russians’ 6th, 12th and 18th armies. It said another great Soviet force has been destroyedd 60 miles southeast of Smolensk. In these new operations the High Command estimated that the Rus sians have lost a minimum of 351,= 000 troops, including 141,000 prisoners. This is in addition to the 895,000 prisoners reported by the High Command in its special com= muniques Wednesday and raises the gross total of claimed Soviet prise oners to over 1,000,000. The High Command said Korosten, a major railroad junction just southeast of the lower corner of the Pripet marches, was taken after several days of heavy fighting.
Location Not Revealed
It did not specify the exact loca= tion of the destruction of the 6th, 12th and 18th Russian armies in
which 103,000 prisoners and 200,000 Russian casualties were claimed, but it was indicated that the action occurred in the region of Uman, southeast of Kiev, and that a major portion of the forces massed by Marshal Semyon Budenny for the defense of the Ukraine hac been shattered. The High Command reported that its latest victory in the Smolensk sector was won in the vicinity of Roslavl, 70 miles southeast of Smolensk. In this battle of encirclement, said the communique, 38,000 Rus-
Alabama at Vermont St.
sian prisoners were taken. Germans claimed that in the past week, submarine and air= planes together had sunk 340,000
. tons of British shipping, including
the 140,000 tons sunk from one convoy a week ago. and that since May 17, long range hombers had
{made 40 attacks on the Suez Canal
area, 13 of them on Alexandria, six on Port Said and six on Port Suez. Claim Docks Struck
The official news agency said that in Thursday night's raid on Alexandria German bombers hit floating docks with heavy bombs and wrecked a destroyer. The news agency said a German bomber sank a Soviet outpost boat
in the eastern Baltic yesterday.
ABBIE BECKER DIES; PIONEER IN IRVINGTON
Mrs. Abbie Becker, a pioneer resident of Irvington, died last night in her home, 31 Woodland Drive, after a six months’ illness, She was 85, Born in Boggstown, Ind. Mrs. Becker had been a resident here 50 years, spending nearly all of that time in the Irvington community, She was a member of the Fletcher Place Methodist Church. Survivors are two sons, Charles and Samuel E. Becker, both of Ine dianapolis; three daughters, Mrs. Orville Plasters of Cincinnati, Os and Mrs. Walter Vincent and Mrs, Florence Kirkman, both of Indian apolis, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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