Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1942 — Page 5

RUSSIANS NEAR STARAYA RUSSA

Nazis Fight Desperately to Break Trap; Hint Khar-

kov Entered.

By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, March 25.—Dispatches

Star reported today that the encircled 16th German army at Staraya Russa has launched s, desperate attempt to fight its way westward out of the Russian trap. The reports said that the Rus-

Raymond Davis

that the Germans were trying to break through toward Lake Peipus. On the southern front, reports said, Soviet forces have driven into the outskirts of a “great locality,” possibly Kharkov or Stalino.

Attack on Central Front

The Russians have been reported trying to take Kharkov for weeks,

HEAD CUSTODIAN Reymond L. Davis By He enlisted custodians for the public schools in May of that Mr. Kepner, who lived at 209 N.|In8 the Dec. 7 attack. He is a graduAn emplovee of the School City Park Christian church, and corre- Burial will Be in Illinois;

OF SCHOOLS DIES) 220m: Corser {in the army air and past commander of Wayne Year. He is staMount st, was 47 and a lifelong ate of Southport high school and is for 15 years, Mr. Kepner was a sponding secretary of the Indian-

to the Soviet army newspaper Red!

O. E. S. to Install ‘Heads Saturday

MRS. BENITA KAYE will be installed as worthy matron of the Irvington chapter, 364, O. E. S. at 8 p. m. Saturday in the Irvington Masonic temple. Others to be installed are: R. C. Mahrling, worthy patron; Mrs. Charlotte Hasbrook, associate matron; Edgar J. Renhoe, associate patron; Mrs. Edna E. Pauley, secre= tary Mrs Christabel Carey, treasurer; Mr s. Pearl Buchholz,

sians were now within a short dis- |} tance of Staraya Russa itself and

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942 RAYMOND L. DAVIS, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Davis, R. R. 4, Box 776, {has been proThomas P. Kepner Ill Only motea to corpoA Few Hours; Veteran jcorps in SepOf World War I. | tember, 1940, and {graduated from Thomas P. Kepner, supervisor of Chanute Field s : |tioned in Hawaii. post, ican Legion, died Ves-| Davis has been terday at Veterans hospital after commended for an illness of only a few hours. his bravery dur19 years old. resident of Indianapolis. He was a veteran of World war 1 and had been active In Legion = RITES SET FOR Masonic work. member of the Masonic lodge at HATTIE MORRILL Eminence; a member of the Scottish Rite and Shrine at Balboa, Canal Zone: a member of the West | apolis Public School Mutual Benefit association. He is Flossie; a

survived by his wife,

daugnter, Sue; fve

Did Evangelistic Work With Late Husband.

to force the Germans out of another springboard for their spring offensive and regain their fourth largest city.

¢ o n ductress; Benita Raye “mils Lavwton, associate conductress; Mrs. Besse E. Randall, chaplain; Mrs. Roberta Montgomery, marshal; Mrs. Nell M. Walker, organist; Mrs. Doris E. Oster, Adah; Mrs. Dessie Mae Franks, Ruth; Mrs. Beulah Goode, Esther; Miss Nova May Cox, Martha; Mrs. Gertrude Guthrie, Electa; Mrs, Harriet Holman, warder; Harry J. Buchholz, sentinel; James C. Durbin, stereopticon. The Rev. Mitchell S. Marble will pronounce bene-

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YANKEES SMASH 40 JAP PLANES

Flying Tigers Lose Leader In Daring Raid on Thai

Air Base.

CHUNGKING, March 25 (U. P.). —The wreckage of at least 40 aircraft littered the Thai airport of Chiengmai today, warning the Japanese that America’s volunteer pilots, the “Flying Tigers” of the Orient, will match any bid for command of Burma's skies. Attacking without warning, the American fliers dropped from the skies at dawn yesterday and riddled grounded enemy planes and personnel, It was the American volunteer groups’ reply to Japan's new aerial offensive over south central Burma, but the attack proved costly,

Seven Craft Set Afire

The lone American casualty was Squadron Leader Jack Newkirk of Scardale, N. Y., whose daring won

Defense against fires caused by the war emergency will be taught to persons of Indianapolis and Marion county by a specially trained section of the Marion county civilian defense council. Thirty men and women have received their training from the Indianapolis fire department’s defense training schools and have been given special manuals dealing with fire defense training. Housewives are urged to call at the county defense council’s office in the war memorial for fire defense information and to enroll in the fire training classes, which will be held at 9 a. m. Wednesdays and at 1 p. m, Thursdays. Fifteen hours’

the course.

L. Solmer will have charge of book ing speakers for the classes.

registration,

the fire defense classes are: Mrs. J. M. Gaston, Robert Moyna

Experts Will Give Civilians Training in Fire Fighting

instruction are needed to complete]: Mrs. Chauncey Eno and Mrs. L.|:

Miss |: Ethel Klingel will have charge of}

The speakers who will conduct:

county defense director, and Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, head of the community and volunteer participation division, will speak.

MUSICIANS INVITED

Musicians who have registered for service civilian defense council, have been invited by Mrs. Joseph Miner, recreation chairman of the councils’ civilian mobilization division, to a meeting at the Brookside community house tomorrow at 1:30 p. m. Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs and Mrs.

in the Marion county |

SLOGAN WITH BACKFIRE KANKAKEE, Ill, March 25 (U, P.).—What’s in a slogan? Hearing started in circuit court yesterday on state action against a Kankakee fi=

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citations from Britain and China, (han, Bessie Twietmeyer, Mrs. Hor-

Newkirk’s plane apparently was hit by a stray bullet from Japanese|Mrs. Walter Anderson, Harold De-

ground defenses and crashed neas vine, Mrs. Walter McClure, Mrs

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o Services for Mrs. Hattie E. MorLeah Wilhite, Hall, .j)) wife of the late Rev. Herbert S.

Ind Mrs. Nellie Kirk, Martins- | norrill will be held at 8 o'cl % ville, Mrs. Amy Leonard, Ft.| : Qfinck to

] night at the Moore & Kirk morLauderdale, Fla, Mrs. Edna Patten|tyary 5342 E. Washington st. Burand Mrs. Helen Bright, both of r

ial will be in Aurora, Ili, tomorrow. Indianapolis, and two brothers) ays Morrill died Monday night Edward and Charles, both of In-|,¢ City hospital, following a fall dianapolis. March 10 in which she fractured her Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.[hip A native of Aurora, Mrs. MorFriday in the Conkle funeral home yj) lived there until her marriage. with past commanders of Wayne he Rev. Mr. Morrill was a former post as pallbearers. Burial will be evangelist for the Indiana Baptist in Washington Park cemetery. convention.

Stalino, an important and industrial center, also great importance. The Russians now hold more than 150 of the 300 towns and villages in the Staraya Russa region, Red Star said. Soviet partisans operating within the German lines were said to have blown up the police headquarters at Staraya Russa, killing 40 persons. On the central front, Red Star said. Soviet troops were engaged in attacks on a continuous line of Ger-

railway

is of the Chiegmai airdrome. Seward A, Baker, Mary Louise

Dispatches and reports from the Keach, Mrs. W. D. Keenan, Ethel pilots described the raid as among Klingel, Mrs. Robert H. Tyndall, the “most damaging” of the war. Mrs. Anthony M. Ackerman, Mrs. |. In their first dive, the Americans|C. R. Gutermuth, Mrs, Howard Nyset fire to seven Japanese planes,|hart, Miss Janice Berlin, Mrs. Scot probably killing their pilots, Thirty- | Clifford. three others were machine-gunned| Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, Mrs. R. F.|. during a subsequent swoop over the|Crosskopf, Mrs, Dudley Taylor, Mrs field. Sophie Dannin, Mrs. E. O. Noggle, The Chiengmai airdrome, about Mrs, Paul McNamara, Mrs. Law90 miles east of the Thai-Burma rence Earle, Mrs. Rosemond Hill border, has been one of the princi- | Mrs. Helen Coffey, Paul Coen, Mrs pal enemy bases for enemy aerial Robert Hamilton, Mrs, Ruth A.

diction.

MRS. IDA FOX DIES; MOTHER OF DEPUTY

Mrs. Ida Mae Fox, mother of Deputy Prosecutor Albert F. Fox,

died today in her home, 1514 Prospect st. She was 59. Mrs. Fox was born at Walton,

sisters, Mrs.

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; Mrs. Morrill was associated with Clara Kiplinger her husband in evangelistic work {for several years and the couple

Mrs. Clara Kiplinger, a resident |, qq t4 this city in 1922. She was of this city for 15 years, will be|_ member of the Binerson Avenue buried in Rushville tomorrow fol- | 5 past church. The Rev. Mr. Morlowing services at 10 a. m. in the died in 1028. Harry W. Moore Peace chapel. The Rev. George T. King, pastor Mrs. Kiplinger died Monday atf.; the Emerson Avenue church, wiil her home in the Winston apart-}, ..e charge of the services, assisted ments, 217'2 N. Illinois st., follow-| the Rev. William Houghton, reing a month's illness. She was 69 tired. and was born at Willow Hill, Ill. She was married to Henry Kip- : linger in 1895, ‘Mrs. Octavia Young Surviving, besides her husband, | Mrs. Octavia K. Young, a resiare two sons, Raymond of Ottumwa. | dent of Indianapolis for 50 years, Ia, and Glenn of Indianapolis; al died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Denny of|daughter, Mrs. Ruth Turpin, near Westfield; a brother, John Glass|Brownsburg. She was 86 and had of Miami, Fla, and six grand-|been ill two weeks. children The Rev. Harold W.| Mrs. Young was born in Ohio Ranes, pastor of North Baptistiand was a past president of the church, will have charge of the|Indianapolis Woman's Foreign Misservices { sionary society. She was a charter member of the East 10th Street Methodist church. Surviving, besides Mrs. Turpin, MECHANIC DEAD | another daughter, Miss Ethel ’ | Young of Brooklyn; two sons, Owen Thomas McManis, an automobile; D. of Sayre, Pa, and Blaine G. of mechanic, died yesterday at City|Chicago, and a sister, Mrs. Maude hospital following an illness of three| Field of Indianapolis. He was 55 and lived at 1538! Services will be held at 2 p.m | tomorrow at the Conkle Funeral Burial will be in Crown

man fortifications erected to protect important communications centers through a series of villages and the outskirts of a forest.

Report Heavy Air Battles It was the first time that continuous German defense lines had been encountered in this region of the front. Large German bomber and fighter formations were said to be back on the Kalinin front, where heavy air battles were reported. The Germans were said to nave launched counter-attacks on ths Bryansk front. The newspaper Pravda reported that the Germans were terrorizing the populace in the Smolensk area, burning down villages and killing recalcitrant peasants, but the Soviet army pushed steadily ahead

EARLHAM ADDS TERM RICHMOND, March 25 (U. P.).— Earlham college officials revealed today that plans have been made to conduct a regular semester this summer in keeping with the institution’s wartime program. The new term will place Earlham on a yeararound basis.

THOMAS M’MANIS,

weeks. Shelby st. A native of St. Pierre, Mr. Mc-| home. Manis had lived in Indianapolis for Hill 30 vears. surviving are five sisters, Mrs. Joseph W. Grammer Harley McGuire of Indianapolis; | Funeral services for Joseph Mrs, Frank Trinoshy 5 LaCrosse. Walker Grammer, employee of the Mrs. B. H, Bailes of Los Angeles; city school system 16 years, will be Mrs. John Rnowles of Independs|p.i4 o¢ § o'clock tonight at the ence, Mo, and Mrs. Anna Surfacg ;o.4an funeral home. Burial will of Ft. Wayne, and three brothers, be in Weldon, IIL George, Daniel and Joseph, all of pp. Grammer died Sunday at the Indianapolis. ‘home of a brother, Robert, R. R. 9. Services will be held at 8:30 a. m.| yo was 53 lived at 1229 N. State tomorrow in the Robert W. Stirling ave, and was a member of the chapel, 1420 Prospect st, and at 9 yeldon Methodist church. oclock in St. Patrick's church.| gyrviving, besides the brother, Burial will be in St. Joseph's ceme-' 4,4 his wife, Stella; a daughter, tery. Neilorne; three other brothers.

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Jesse of Kentucky, Ben of Illinois and Columbus of Columbus, and 0 u n four sisters, Mrs. Janie Hasch, Mrs. | ‘Mattie Poltson and Mrs. Josie! Sanders, all of Indianapolis, and the way fo Mrs. Emma Satterfield of Illinois, » | amazing new RESIDENT OF CITY it lit | 30 YEARS DIES AT 64 pep aEwm Vi a ! y. ® 8 Sam Simo Alexander, native of | Macedonia who had lived here for bett | k / |30 years, «died yesterday at City hoser 00 & e¢ |bital. He was 64 and had no im- | mediate survivors. A truly marvelous change can | The funeral will be held at 1:30 be brought about by over- |p: m. tomorrow at the Stevens & coming miserable digestive Sons funeral ROME ant 5; We Bulcomplaints, under-weight, 50 Orthodox om luggishness, loss of tit | Burial will be at Floral park. siugg . appetite | A resident of 544 Pearl st. Mr —all by two important steps— | Alexander was a member of the Restore vital digestive juices in the Bulgarian chiffon and formerly had energize your body Deen employed at Kingan's for 20 | vears. { ———————————————— ny ’ ne ‘MRS. SKAGG’S RITES tunates who PE { have worked WILL BE TOMORROW inder strain, Talied to eat tne Services for Mrs. Wallace Skagg, proper foods, who died Monday at St. Vincent's have b rexec By avert hospital, will be held at 10 a. m. worries, hav re i - hin Lar Badly tomorrow at the Woodside Method colds, the fiu, or {ist church. Burial will be in Memorial park. Mrs. Skagg, who was 21, lived at 431 S. Oakland ave. Survivors include her husband; an infant; a daughter, Lynda Jean; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Martin, and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Pearson land Mrs. Mildred McMann.

Ind., May 2, 1881 and was a member of the Methodist church there. She was married here in 1902 to John T. Fox, who died in 1914. Besides her son, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Fox Mendenhall of Indianapolis; four sisters, Mrs. Iva Bell and Mrs. Lillie Widner of Walton, and Mrs. Amanda Smith and Mrs. Imogene Warrick of Kokomo, Ind.; one brother. John Phillips of Walton. and two grandchildren. Phillip and Joseph Mendenhall. both of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at 8 p. m. Friday in the home here and Saturday afternoon in the home of Mrs. Bell at Walton. Burial will be in the Odd Fellows cemetery there

OFFERS SAFETY AWARD HOLLYWOOD. March 25 (U. P.). —Screen Actor Edward G. Robinson announced today he would present a traffic safety award to the city with the best traffic safety record among those whose population exceeds 250,000. The award will be based on national safety council records.

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CARD PARTY ARRANGED

The Past Noble Grands club offense will be explained tonight at

Southeastern Rebekah lodge will hold a card party at 8 o'clock tonight in the home of Mrs. Helen Nitchman, 910 N. Drexel ave.

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and Mrs. William Johnson. The students’ part in civilian de-

{a mass meeting at the Indiana university extension, 122 E. Michi~ gan st.

Maj. Gen. Robert H, Tyndall,!

STATE DEATHS

CADIZ~—Mrs. Hulda Jackson, &. Survivors. Son, Vaughn, brother, Harry Morris; sister, Mrs. Susan Hiatt. DALE-—Paul W. Fuller, 78. EVANSVILLE—Mrs., Kate Ottman, 77 Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. Kelso Alexander, Mrs. John Spindler, Mrs. Frank Scott: sons, Philmore, Pete, Henry; brothers, Pete, Frank Berg. FAIRMOUNT—Artus Survivor: Daughter,

Sylvester SmithMrs. Ola

Carter, 35 daughter, Clarence; brothers,

BRANCH—James R Survivors: Wife, Geraldine; Revilla Mav; sons, Charles, mother, Mrs. Martha Carter; Lowell, Glen, John GREENFIELD—Willis T, Learv, 96 Survivors: Sister, Mrs. Saarh Moraska, broth-

er, Bud Leary, GREENTOWN-—-Marinn Kimmel vivors: Wife: sons, Orris, Russell, rence, Theodore; daughter, Mrs. Povnter. HARTFORD CITY-—-Mrs. Mary Moore, 53. Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. Thomas Butcher, Mrs. Raymond Peters, Mrs. Fred Pliizinger: sons, Carl and Raymond rkle.

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MARION—Otto David Merriman, 66, Lewis C. Leverich, 60. Survivors: Wife; sons, Clarence, Roy: daughter, Mrs. Mary Bean; brothers, S, C., Earl.

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