Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1942 — Page 2

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in me he: corps today. He is William a Kepner, . of g was born in mi,- Ind., Jan. 8, 1893, and bei a - -gan- his-military

uf an enmarine corps n 1 -11913, rising in rom private tp corporal. He then. accepted a commission in the | 8 infantry, II N. G, and |.served -on:the Mexican border with the Indiana troops:| | ‘Daring the World, war he transferred: to! the regular.army with | the: ; ;rank of captain and served with ‘the: Fourth infantry in all o ~ battles in France. He was ded. the | Distinguisted Servoo for cle out-an enemy machine gun nest in| hand-to-hand combat-and also the Purple Heart for being wounded. Other World war decorations won were the French! Legion qf Honor and Croix de Guerre! and *citations American and | French army juarters. After| the war he transferred to the air corps and engaged in the wid of as all the

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“For extraordinary ° achievement while participating’. in ‘an aerial flight. Maj. Kepner was pilot and

graphic Society~-Army Corps Stratosphere Ballgon ‘Flight, which took

off from the vicinity of Rapid City,

8. D., July 28, 1934, and landed near

| Loomis, Neb, that same date.

He assisted in piloting the balloon into the.stratosphere to an al1 | Hitude of 60,613 feet, ‘and in making t| continuous ‘scientific pbservations en route, and when the balloon became disabled .thrqugh cir¢umstances beyond human control, did attempt, under most adverse and hazardous conditions, to successfully land the

‘| disabled aircraft in order to pre-

serve the scientific records that has ’:| been obtained. “By the exercise of cool judgment and foresight under] these conditions, certain scientific records were saved and the disabled aircraft was abandoned only when it was clearly evident that, not to do so, would prove disasterous to human life.” Gen. Kepner had won first place in the international ' balloon race back in 1928. He is rated as a command pilot, combat obsejver, sénior balloon pilot and balldon obsel observer.

U. S. BARS GIFTS OF OLD WAR TROPHIES

WASHINGTON, Masch 2 (U. P). —The war department said “No, thanks,” today to offers of civic groups to return cannpn and other world war I trophies ito the army for use in the present war. The army ordnance department said the trophies adorning hundreds of parks and public | squares are valuable only as scrap metal ‘and ‘suggested that civic gHoups contact

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ing development of.the action,” the high command communique said. But the air force was able to announce a slashing and damaging attack by the allied fighter planes, which yesterday attacked a’ fleet of upwards of 20 Japanese transports and invasion sloops: Most of the sloops were landing tanks and machine guns, which the invasion forces needed urgently to consolidate their positions and continue inland. “The landing sloops . . .. were machine gunned and sunk with few exceptions,” the communique said. : The censor declines to permit me to discuss the battle for air superiority in detail, but I am permitted to say that the Americans and other allied pilots are fighting againgt great obstacles and that along the road that I followed today I was surprised by the lack of Japanese fighter planes.

Japanese Tanks Landed

But as I write this at dusk tonight a Japanese bomber force protected by fighters is attacking a nearby airdrome and American and Dutch planes are striking back. The Japanese are using infiltering tactics in their invasions areas, avoiding the main highways and attempting to slip through the jungles in flanking operations. There is little that I am permitted to say in regard to the allied defense methods, except that it is a great show and that strong blows are being struck the enemy motorcyclists and other units. Armored cars, bicycles and motorcycles have been landed and put into.operation by the enemy. There are reliable reports that Japanese tanks also have been landed. Unofficial reports said that in all ‘three, invasion zones the Dutch troops gave no inch of ground they could hold against any odds and that they were leaving nothing but

'|ruins for the enemy to take.

40: Miles From Batavia

It was admitted that the Japanese had reached Coebang, 40 miles north of Bandoeng on' the eastern front. The savage ‘Japanese drives, behind an advance screen of bicycle

|troops and light armored forces,

‘were reported te have put the enemy within 40 miles of Batavia, the Netherlands East Indies capital, and

of Bandoeng.

Japanese troops were pouring across the 20-mile Sunda strait from Sumatra: in the start of a pincers

' drive against Batavia, at the west-

ern end of Java, .

ROAD EXPENDITURES

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charged a contract let by commis-Sioners-last ‘December for more than $30,000 worth of ‘road materials was illegal. . “The bids were advertised setting up specifications but the contract was let .on some additional specifications that were not in the original advertisement and there happened to be only one bidder qualified un-

+ |der the revised specifications,” Mr.

Sadlier charged. “Furthermore, the contract was let before any money was appropriated to pay for it.” Commissioner Ayres, defending the commissioners’ request for appropriations, charged that when Republican commissioners took control of the highway department Jan. 1, “there were practically no tools out there to work with.” “There were no_shovels, no crow bars and the equipment that was there was in too bad a condition to use, so we are forced to buy new equipment,” Mr. Ayres said. Council President Sadlier further charged that there is a duplication of money being spent in the highway department. “We set up a budget to pay salaries of full-time workers in the|___ highway department and now commissioners are requesting additional money to do the work that we assumed was being taken care of by the regular budget money,” Mr. Sadlier charged. Councilmen told the commissioners to revise their appropriation requests and break it down into detailed account of what they're going to use the money for.

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ter co-operation . between various component units. To the army ground forces were the operational functions hitherto handled by the chiefs-of infantry, cavalry, field artillery ‘and coast artillery. Each of these has been a separate division in the war department. 7 The .new air force command -wijl take over the duties of the chief of the present combat command and chief of air corps.

Unifics ¢ Control

Effect of the order, according to military experts, is that the general staff now will deal only with the three major groups whereas under the old set-up it dealt with several. It was said this will tend to unify control and make for greater efficiency The order also delegated to War Secretary Henry L. Stimson broad authority to create other units which he deems “necessary for the national security, such as task forces, overseas departments and special commands for individual theaters of operations. There was no official word on who will be placed in command of the three new units, There was belief that Maj Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, now assistant chief of staff in charge of supply and former ‘WPA administrtaor for New York, might be placed in command .of the supply service.

_ Arnold Mentioned

Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, present. chief of the army air forces, was mentioned in unofficial speculation as the likely commander of the new air force: Mentioned as possible members of the new ground force were Maj. Gen. Courtney Hodges, now chief of infantry, and Lieut. Gen. Leslie J. McNair, now GHQ commander. Mr, Roosevelt provided that the

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f| week, Mr. Nelson’s program, as de-

Gen. George C. Marshall

changes should become effective March 9, 1942, remaining in force for six months after the war, Meantime in another executive order, the chief executive transferred all functions of the bureau of marine inspection and navigation, now in the department of

commerce, to the coast guard and

the bureau of customs. The order made the coast guard responsible henceforth for the safety inspections of every American merchant vessel.

NURSING HOME GONTROL URGED

clubvamen: Cll Claim Survey Shows Fourth of Private Places Sub-Standard.

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woman, was confined to a nursing home which was “dirty and crowded and where food was inadequate and proper care negligible.” This particular nursing home, the clubwomen point out, had been

closed several times by the board of public health but reopens in other locations. The women said Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board, told them that such regulation was badly needed but that the problem of proper housing for aged pensioners would remain if nursing homes were closed. There is no law, he told them, which provides for adequate supervision.

Need for Legislation Cited

The federation department sought the co-operation of the state board of public welfare. Thurman Gottschalk, state administrator, advised them that legislation authorizing supervision and regulation of the homes was needed and that a bill which would have empowered the state board of public welfare to do this was introduced in the 1939 legislature but was lost in committee -although favorably reported for passage. Some Homes Visited Twice

The report of the _clubwomen states that the issuance of pensions to- aged persons has aggravated the nursing home situations in as much as many of the homes take pensioners only. The pensions are small and naturally care and service are commensurate to the amount paid, the report said. In many cases homes of families of aged pensioners are not adequate for their care and consequently pens

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SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 (U. P.).—Pvt. Harley Beehler, 33, of Gary, Ind., is convinced he has found his mother, whose funeral he thought he attended seven years ago. Buf his aversion for publicity prompted him to slip away for a quiet reunion without revealing. how he and Mrs. Harry Schultz

confirmed the mother-son relationship. They met at a hotel yesterday, shunning their pre-arranged meeting place at the San Francisco Y. M. C. A, and Pvt. Beehler sent a note to the press spurning any publicity. Pvt. Beehler, a cook at Camp Roberts, Cal, was separated from his parents and placed in an orphanage at Mishawaka, Ind, at the age of 2 when his parents were divorced. In 1935, he and his half-sister, Mrs. Helen McNight of Indianapolis were notified their mother had been killed in an automobile accident. They received the body and arranged for the funeral without opening the casket. Working at Sacramento three years ago, Pvt. Beehler confided to his employer that he was not convinced his mother was dead. The employer remembered one of his superintendents, Harry Schultz, married a Loretta Beehler. He investigated until he became convinced Mrs. Schultz was Pvt. Beehler’s mother.

sioners are unsupervised in nursing homes, it said. When the survey was completed, another meeting of the department was called and reports read. Several of the nursing homes received two visits by different women in order to get a more complete picture of the situation. Changes were noted, apparently for the better. However, the clubwomen said, reports continue to be received that surface appearances were often better than conditions which existed in reality.

MIAMI, Fla, March 2 © PY) Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York financier and sportsman, died last evening of a | cerebral hemorrhage aboard his yacht, Ambassadress, moored at e City Yacht basin in Biscayne Bay. He was 68. He was. the great-grandson of the first Cornelius Vanderbilt, the “commodore” who founded the family’s fortune and developed the New York Central railroad.

He had heart: disease for many,

years. His ‘son, Cornelius Jr., | socialite writer and adventurer, was at his bedside as were two of his sisters, Mrs. ‘Harry Payne Whitney and Countess Laszlo Szechenyl. His wife, Mrs. Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, and daughfer, Mrs, Robert Stevens, were en route here when he died. He was graduated from Yale in 1895 and took a $100-a-month job

to|in a New York Central roundhouse.

His engagement to Grace Wilson led ‘to a society dispute in which the Vanderbilts opposed the marriage and the Astors and Wilsons supported it, In’ 1806 they were married, ‘His father died in 1899, leaving

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$1,500,000 to Cornelius. Alfred later settled $6,500,000 on Cornelius to équalize his share of the estate. In later years, his business interests included the New York Central and other railroads, several banks

All America cables. He resigned his directorships in 1939. He was a colonel of the 22d engineers in the first world war and was in command when this outfit— reorganized as the 102d engineers— went overseas. He was made a brigadier general in 1918 and placed in command of the 25th infantry brigade. Unlike other members of his tamily, he preferred yacht racing to horse racing.

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: —Production Chief Donald Nelson i | delivers what promises to’ be a

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SUGGEST “STUDY OF

P) prs, Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested last night that changes be made in the seléctive service

system to give greater consideration to the ability of selectees and their fpost-war occupational aims.

public officials are too busy in their

work on draft boards’ to aid with regard to the, individual u she said in her ‘broadcast, _ 3 “If that is the case, we had better : change our system, because this war can produce for the future bet ter citizens and more helpful ones; or break them completely and give us groups of people who have been ruined for any type of constructive advancement ; in a democratic oo ciety. ”

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WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P.).

“tough” speech tonight to outline aj

The speegh will be short—from 8:45 to 9 p. m. Indianapolis war “For America We Sing” program. But associates hinted that it would be packed with a “wallop.” The industrial blueprint for vic-

hour, seven-day production — and “soldiers of production” to accelerate the manufacture

Awards Are Planned

The keynote of the address Swill ‘urgency of tomorrow,” which President Roosevelt cited in a letter to Mr. Nelson in demanding increased productive capacity to meet the requirements of total war. In addition to the full production

vised by his war production board,

agement for outstanding achievements and joint labor-management plant committees to consider suggestions for increased output. Mr. Nelson wants every laborer and manager to feel a personal responsibility for attaining the 1942 goals of 60,000 airplanes, 45,000 tanks and 8,000,000 tons of merchant ships.

Won't Disclose Figures

Importance of the 168-hour week, especially in those industries needing machine tools, will be emphasized. The schedule of new machine tool deliveries already extends into 1943 and all of them are allocated to the most urgent needs. Mr. Nelson believes that if one shift is now at work with existing tools, then two and, if possible, three shifts are as important as the manufacture of that much new equipment. Mr. Nelson will not disclose specific figures because WPB executives are having difficulties establishing a satisfactory base for comparisons.

SHOT AGGIDENTALLY WHILE PURSUING CAB

A man who was shot accidentally by a policeman during the pursuit of three auto theft suspects was in critical condition today at City hospital. He Was Everet White, 54, of 1501

N. New Jersey st. He was wounded in the back while riding with Marshall Hogue, 33, 940 Daly st., dispatcher for the Red Cab Co. Saturday. The gun was in the hands of patrolman Osa Woodall, seated in the back seat.

The officer was called into the car after Mr. Hogue had sighted a cab that had been reported stolen. He fired twice at the pursued cab, which was forced to stop at the dead end of Vermont st. The three occupants jumped out, were captured later. One of them contended he had hired the cab, but could not explain

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