Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1942 — Page 2

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LYNCH FAMILY

Nazis Off to Prisonl|

TELLS OF RAIDS

Children Saw Jap Planes; Heard Bombs Scream At Pearl Harbor.

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shredded wheat with the milk I brought in,” volunteered Tommy,

“and all the time we could hear the|} bombs and the pop of machine?

“I had to go to my station on the hangar line,” Col. Lynch inte: d

“Mrs. Lynch had left’ the islands to] visit her mother in Texas, but we" had an elderly Texan lady taking). care of the house. Unfortunately, it| was her day off, so I took the chil-

dren to a neighbor and told them to ‘stay there until I got back.” * “But from what I hear now they didn’t quite obey orders,” he con- . tinued. : “You see, there was a lull in the raid and I went home to get the portable radio that Dad had fixed the day before,” said Mary Frances. “I wanted to hear any news there might be.”

Eyes Twinkled

“But the two boys pulled the prize one. And I would have skinned . them alive if I had been there,” said .the colonel, but his eyes twinkled. “Fred and Tommy followed me to “the house for something to read, but stayed longer than I did,” said Mary Frances.

A boatload of German panzer troops, captured in the current Libya-Egypt warfare, are shown being transferred to a line at a middle eastern port for transportation to a prison camp in one of the

British dominions.

“We were just leaving when the| ...

Japs came back,” Tommy said, taking up the story. “Boy, did we hurry. We just dove under Mother and Dad’s big bed and stayed there,” * “The bombs came pretty close, too. One of them landed about 500 feet away and seven of them ruined our ball field down the block,” put in Fred. For the first time Mrs. Lynch spoke.” “By the way, Mary Frances, where is that paper you wrote during the actual raid?”

Shortridge Junior

She hesitated, went to get it, and returned, saying, “If I had known how dangerous a raid was I wouldn’t have done this. I know I wouldn't sit and write a second time. » Now 16 and a junior at Shortridge, she wrote on the day of our plunge into the Nipponazi conflict: “War! A word that never really strikes you until you know the perils that come of it; the scream of bombs, the pop-pop-pop of machine guns and the sharp crack of antiaircraft; soldiers running with guns, gas masks and packs strapped to their backs; frightened civilians staring with wide-eyed wonder— then with fear-stricken hearts running to their loved ones to protect or to shelter.

Dec. 7, 1941

“All this I saw: on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a date to become famous in all the history books of the world.” And when the raid ended, she wrote: “Now only the aftermath of war remains—the sorrow it causes from loss of lives and property and the great experience which not one of us will forget.” Today in a happier yet equally as stern setting, the family is reunited at the fair grounds and Mary Frances is doing her bit to entertain the soldiers with Hawaiian dances learned in the islands.

“They're nothing like you see in|:

“the movies. They are nice. Every movement has a meaning, but you hardly move from the spot you start your dance on.” And then she danced twice as her brothers played their guitars and Col. and Mrs. Lynch smiled approvingly.

CHINA'S ALLIES RAID JAP HEADQUARTERS

CHUNGKING, July 11 (U. P).— Allied planes bombed Japanese headquarters at Linchwan, in Kiangsi province, with “satisfactory results” yesterday, but two of the planes failed to return to their base, & war communique said today. Linchwan, 50 miles southeast of Nanchang, is in the heart of the area where Chinese have been counter-attacking with good results this week. Earlier the Chinese central news agency reported that allied planes, attacking at Nanchang yesterday, destroyed 10 grounded Japanese planes and sank an enemy gunboat ‘in the Kan river. All planes in that flight returned safely.

AUXILIARY SPONSORS PARTY ~The auxiliary of the Burns-West Streibeck post, Veterans of Foreign * Wars will sponsor a card party at 8:15 p. m. today at Denny and E. Washington sts.

TOWNSEND CLUB TO MEET Townsend Club No. 14 will hold a business meeting at 8 p. m. Monday night in 302 Holliday bldg. Pred Dietz, president, will preside. Refreshments will be served.

TOY TIRES DONATED HUTCHINSON, Kas., July 11 (U. P.)~A local motorist today contributed 14,000 rubber tires—the kind you find on dime store autoTabiles 0 the scrap rubber drive.

A Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard

Washington Newspapers

6 NAT AZ DRIVES

Four Make e Progress, but Moscow Denies Fall of Voronezh.

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were reported pressing day and night attacks. ;

Many Prisoners Taken

‘Allied air squadrons blasted enemy ground forces and gun positions in some of the most furious raids of the war to offset the German artillery superiority in some sectors while British, New Zealand, South African and Indian ground units hit fhe axis’ lines. Many prisoners were taken, a number of enemy tanks were knocked out and 10 enemy planes destroyed in the first stage of fighting. After nine days of skirmishing, Gen. Auchinleck apparently had decided that the time had come to at-| tempt to knock out the Rommel concentrations before axis reinforcements which have been moving across the Mediterranean could get into action. The British attack in the north and the axis blow in the south seemed to be independent, but as a result of the actions, the L-shaped line which extended down from EI Alamein had been partly straightened out. The British were advance ing toward the axis airdrome at ElDaba, 30 miles west of El Alamein, and the axis was moving toward the Qattara depression. The British had hit the point of the axis line which Rommel originally had left largely to the’ Italians to defend. But reports indi-|pe cated that Rommel had shifted many of his German tanks northward within the last 48 hours. It was made known officially last

b | night that fierce fighting had started % | on the northern end of the line, but

: | it was at first believed that Rom- . |[mel had attacked, after receiving

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power over gasoline from Henderson's OPA; specifically wants to annul 2%-cent increase he granted recently in gas-rationed east. (Increase was ordered by Henderson, reluctantly, after senate refusal to vote funds for oil subsidy to meet extraordinary costs of -

transporting gas by rail. shouldn’t be saddled on eastern

He had argued this was a national expense,

consumers. Senate committee is

against both’ alternatives, so far hasn't produced solution of extra

transportation cost problem.) ' 2. Senate commerce committee

that only.one oil well may be drilled in each 40 acres.

wants to annul WPB-OPC ruling Purpose of

ruling was to save steel, conserve oil. Opposition will ask: “What. if congress takes next logical step and orders that troops, ships, airplanes be disposed at places selected by congressmen?”; will argue that interference with executive branch now

endangers entire war effort.

" RUBBER RESERVE CORP. is stockpiles.

” ” 2 taking over storage of all rubber

Joint committee from rubber industry formerly handled

all stockpile details for RRC. Now that rubber has ceased to be a

20-cents a pound commodity, and

has become priceless, RRC itself

will manage all storage places, add guards, check on fire equipment.

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PRIVATE HOUSING already under way in war production areas will be given go-ahead signal by WPB. It had been halted by a ban on utility extensions. This will be lifted so half-finished houses can

be made ready for workers. ” » ”

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'RAW-MATERIAL SHORTAGE—AnNd it’s shorter than you think— may force WPB to take over half-finished civilian products, semifabricated parts, from factories, convert them to war use. It’s already

discussing prices.

Shortage also may force WPB to rule which plants

may run at full capacity, which must limp along.

ELECTION-YEAR NOTE: Civil service commission is printing circulars reminding federal employees and those paid partly by federal funds that Hatch act forbids them to engage in politics. Civil service’ \has no policing staff to watch for violations but will ts

accept complain

from any source -<if accompanied by proof. No complaints in yet from Kentucky, but newspapers there carry

charge that a 2 per cent levy has been made on state employees for

Senator Chandler’s primary ‘campaign.

Hatch act covers them if

part of their pay comes from federal grants.

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DESPITE A WEEK'S parade of politics to see FDR over Demo-

cratic nomination for New York.

governor, real issue remains un-

changed: Will the president decide he has the strength to beat James A. Farley and the Farley candidate, Attorney General John

Bennett?

Senator James M. Mead is the Roosevelt favorite. Some leaders expect the president to indorse him openly.

Back of today’s fight:

Will Roosevelt or Farley control the big

New York delegation at 1944's Democratic convention?

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ARMY AND NAVY want 3000 nurses every month; don’t know

where they'll get them. unmarried, let them know. ” 2 »

If “you're professionally qualified, under 40,

TWO LIBERTY SHIPS among many to be launched Labor day will be named the Samuel Gompers and the Andrew Furuseth, mari-

{ime commission says. : 8 8 =

Mrs. Furuseth founded sailors’ ‘union.

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WPB kept control supplies, allocation of scarce materials, In recent reorganization. But despite this Nelson victory, WPB influence in some contract and procurement phases of war and navy de-

partments is relatively minor.

WPB officials take many a brush-off

from the admirals, seem able to do little about it. Many officers continue to resent WPB “interference” with the military establishment,

show it plainly. , » ” ”

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' ECONOMY NOTE: Office of education has abandoned its slick-.

paper monthly, “School Life.”

Successor will be “Education for Vic-

tory,” a bi-monthly pulp. But to get it you'll pay $1 a year.

MAYORS WANT their cut from the war program for city treasuries; are getting ready to demand that government-built war pro-

duction plants be made taxable.

It’s the same fight the federal gov-

ernment’s been through with states and their sales and use taxes on

war production. » 2 on

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT is working on a plan to grow kok-saghyz (Russian rubber-producing weed) in‘ sugar beet areas, process it in sugar beet plants. Company officials like the idea; it

might keep their plants busy the

PATROLMAN SHOT, DIES

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 11 (U. P)—Jim Long, 38, an Oklahoma highway patrolman, was shot and killed early today when he surprised two men attempting to attack a waitress in a RE Nae 8 Tas

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HAWAIIAN OFFICIAL TALKS HERE MONDAY

Charles J. Pietsch, government

{official from Hawaii, will speak at

7:30 p. m. Monday in the Cadle tabernacle on the theme, “Why

these reinforcements. This morning's joint communique of the Middle Eastern command and the R. A. F. revealed that it was the British who had struck at dawn yesterday, along the railway.

Tobruk Power-House Fired’

Fighter-bombers ranged over the enemy line and over an area many miles to the rear, attacking tanks, troops and truck columns. Navy planes joined in the offensive, flying in over the coast to attack enemy tanks and motor transport in the main battle area. * Dispatches reported: that medium bombers, in a successful attack Thursday night, started fires among tank repair and workshops and a power-house at Tobruk, the axis base on the Libyan coast, Plane crews reported they could see the flames for 70 miles. A dispatch from Richard D. McMillan, United Press correspondent with the British eighth army in the front line at El Alamein, reported yesterday before the real fighting was resumed that artillery and patrols were active and that the R. A. P. kept up the pace of its attacks.

Strike at ‘Dog’s Nose’

McMillan described the Nazi front line, newly stabilized, as forming a salient shaped something like a dog’s nose. ; McMillan reported that morale was high along the British. line and that most of the troops in the British line “were fresh from rest areas, after having fought the Germans in previous battles. McMillan said that the taking of numerous prisoners had enabled the imperials to fix the positions of enemy units along the front. He added that the Germans appeared to expect heavy reinforce ments by air and sea from Italy.

Charge This to

Civilian Defense

PASADENA, Cal, July 11 (U. P.).—The patrolman who saw it called the state highway patrol. The patrol called the county control board. The board called a civilian defense officer. The officer called a sheriff’s substation. The substation called an army bomb disposal squad. The squad went to the Angelus Crest highway and removed a lethal looking soda water charger.

WASHINGTON, July 11 (U. P). —The distraught mother of accused “sniper” slayer John E. Eklund, who escaped from a U. S. marshal outside the district jail last night and fled hand-cuffed into a dense

to surrender and obtain his “full freedom.” | Her frantic plea went out as

widened their search for the slight-ly-built Eklund who is charged with the ambush slaying of a Negro.

of several other Negroes, Convinced that a jury deliberating her son’s fate will acquit him, Mrs. Sadie Eklund said in her ap-

Pearl Harbor Had to Happen.” The|peal:

meeting is under the auspices of the local camp of , Gideons International. As co-ordinator of the Gideon International Service Testament program, Mr. Pietsch has ‘been touring the East and Pacific coast areas speaking at mass meetings. A resident of Hawaii for the 25 years, he was associated with the Hawaii Trust Co. Ltd., and the

Charles J. Pietsch, Lid. Ww. H

1 krow hat Uh oa 2 as long trial and your long days in jail have made you feel desperate for freedom. I feel that your full freedom will not be far away, so please surrender yourself to police.” Eklund, 25, pug-nosed and a graduate of an Indianapolis high school, made his break by jumping

past|from a closed van returning him

to the jail from district court where his trial had just concluded.

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pool hotel, who introduced thy for the 5th cprps area with Atterbury.

C. S. MAXWELL 1S DEAD AT £3

Associated With With ether Trust Co. 36 Years!

Expert Appraiser. 1 (Continued from Page One)

club and in April, 1941, he received a merit pin for 35 years’ service. Two-War Veteran | |

A veteran of two wars, he | vas president of Co. H., Maj. Haroll Ic. Megrew camp, Spanish-Amerizan War Veterans. He served in he Spanish war. During the first world war he was with the finance division under the Y. M. C. A. overseas, received his training in Paris @n had charge of the division’s binks at Barleduc and Verdun, Frang:.

Indiana Society of Pioneers and ‘vas one of the few members of the s0ciety one generation remeved fi the first settlers of Indianapel His grandfather, Williamson Din Maxwell, came here in 1820. . | His mother was Alexina Steuzrt of the old W. RX. Stewart al ly here, hi

Realty Company President) |

Mr. Maxwell was a charter mg ne ber of the Riviera club and vas president of the Spring Mill Regity Co., an organization associated Te the club. He also was a member of the Elk’s lodge. Hill With his brother, the late Brice W. Maxwell, he operated the Miiiwell Gravel Co. here and was prisident of the organization until it k as dissolved in 1929. Born in Grand Gulf, Miss., | Ine came to Indiznapolis with his ppients when he was but a few montis old and had lived here since. Wh he was 18, he became associgic

with the Big Four railroad and

in the statistical department th} 1 for 14 years. He was married to Miss Maud Box in 1900. Funeral Monday

Survivors are his wife; three sons, John W. and Richard A Maxvifil, both of Indianapolis, and Rober I Maxwell, Chicago; a brother, J. A. Maxwell, Indianapolis; es grandchildren, Susan Marie aid Marilyn Maxwell, both of Indias apolis, and three : nephews, gol. Warren A. Maxwell, Tindal fig ec Panama City, Fla.; Maj. Howard ic Maxwell, Newfoundland, and Cat, Allison Maxwell, Savannah, A all members of the U. S. army pe force. Funeral services will be held al 1 p. m. Monday in the Hisey & Tith mortuary. Cremation will follo® if Dr, Sidney Blair Harry of the ridian Heights Presbyterian husk: and Spanish-American war eters: will be in charge of the services. |

GIRL DIES OF INJURIES i PLYMOUTH, Ind. July 11 ( P.).—Rowena Bowman, 17, Ply outh high school junior, died ea today of internal injuries recei last midnight when the auto ir which she was riding crashed i

driver, is in critical condition:

1 TOWNSEND CLUB-TO MEET Townsend club 9 will meet at|3 p. m. Monday in the I O. O. hall, . Hamilton and E. Wash ton sts.

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‘Give Up,’ Mother Pleads

Washington police annals and rais: the possibility that the jury w return its verdict while the def ahts’ whereabouts are unknow Unable to agree late yesterday, t jury was locked up for the nigh

Eklund was convicted of fr:

woods, today appealed to her son|degree murder of Hyland G. M

Laine in. a previous trial. But

was retried as a result of a couft

of appeals reversal son the groun

Washington, Maryland and Virginia |that a prosecution witness had pet: | police and a detail of 50 soldiers|jured himself. ih During the second trial a fell

prisoner testified that Eklund h asked him to dig up the mur

He is suspected in the snipe killing|8un and use it on someone else

while Eklund was still in jail,*thi

“confusing” the police. Eklund sait

the prisoner was “lying.” Advertisement

Is Your Liver Asleep

Don’t be that way! is you need Haag’s Liver Pills to put right back on top. It is very importa that everyone has sufficient bile flow keep intestinal waste moving. If this not done you become bloated, yous 8 stomai is sour. and life in general looks pret:

tee of the Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon at the Claypool hotel Millikin, who will command the 83d army division soon to be stationed at Capt. Robert M. Eichelsdoerfer (retired), assis guests; Gen. Millikin; Maj. Gen, Fred C. Wallace, new army commander dquarters at Fs. Hayes, O., and. Col. W. B. Bradford, chief of staff at Camp

Letter Yransiaied Here Gives Key to Soviet Spirit

A letter, graphically describing the attitude of the Russian civilian, has been translated here for the relatives of the letter-writer. It tells of German brutality and of

‘| the Russian spirit of resistance.

Written by. Nicholas Slavin to his sister, Mrs. Sarah Fréeman, a resident of Cleveland, the letter was sent to Mrs. Freeman's daughter here, Miss Molly Cohen, 3606 Guilford, for translation. It was translated by Mrs. H. Joseph Hyman, who is completely conversant with the Russian tongue. The letter reads, in part: “Dearest sister: “I am writing you this third letter because I am very eager to get an answer from you, telling me that you are all well and everything is all right with you. “I am also begging of your children, my nieces and nephews, to write to me and I hope that we shall see each other soon and I (with my wife and daughter) shall visit you. Dear sister, you no doubt

-|know that our country is at war

port it for collection. If the person with scrap metal wishes to donate it, the committee will see that it is collected by a volunteer or WPA truck. However, if he wishes to sell it, the committee

will refer him to a dealer who will purchase it.

Ceilings Set on Scrap

Bach type of scrap metal has a ceiling price, but salvage headquarters here have. found that many dealers are not willing to pay the ceiling price. There is a need for “cellar” prices on the metal, according to Dudley Smith, state salvage director. ~The steel industry has asked the

\.|'scrap industry to set a flat per-ton

g|rate, but scrap men say it’s impossible. Mr, Smith said this second phase of the Indiana scrap drive will be to cleanup all the scrap metal on farms and in rural communities which haye not yet been canvassed. He predicted that another 80,000 tons can be collected in the next six months. In the scrap rubber campaign which ended last midnight, Indiana 3|reached its self-imposed quota of 342,000 000 pounds, J. G. Sinclair, | state chairman, said. Complete reports will not be available before Monday but 25 counties already aré known to have gone over their quotas, he said. Phil T. Williams, Marion county chairman,

7 |predicted the county goal of 5,400,-

000 pounds will be

doubled. Collect Cans Next Week

In- the entire nation, last weekend’s report showed a collection of 668 million pounds, indicating a final accounting of more than 800

more than

i' || million pounds.

The tin can collection campaign is scheduled to begin sometime next week with the details to be an-

The only trouli: |

assistant manager of the Clay-

with, the d—— fascism. This is a war not for life but for death. . . . “It is not enough that the war is on the front, but their treatment of the civilian population is brutally animal-like. . . . The aged and the old invalids they do not spare—they rob and steal clothing, they shoot down infants, absolutely innocent children. eo In general, it is un-heard-of brutality. . .. “In their course, they have destroyed the best monuments, palaces, museums and libraries. They have burned down hospitals with

| the sick. I am sure that they will | soon have to account for all of this,

as their hour of reckoning is near —the red army is driving them like dogs off our Russian soil. . . . “When I want to smoke I have to go'to the red army soldiers and they

| never refuse, regardless of whether

they are a private or an officer— they never refuse... . . “If you can, please send a package of cheap tobacco, as much as permitted, and for the child some food. Best of health, write about

yourself.”

State Over Top on Rubber, Bounces Into Scrap Hunt

‘(Continued from Page One) persons with scrap metal can re-nounced at that time.

This drive is to be confined to wel-populated areas with Indianapolis, Lake county and Dearborn county-Cincinnati area scheduled already as collection headquarters.

VANDALS DESTROY NEW TRAFFIC SIGNS

The vandalism at city parks and playgrounds has subsided but the police department reported today that traffic signs at several outlying intersections are being destroyed as fast as they can be replaced. During the last several months preferential street, no parking and time limit markers have been damaged, torn down and defaced on Washington st. at Gray st. and Oakland ave.; on 10th st. at Gray and Jefferson ave.; on Henry st. near Harding st., and. on Harding between Washington and Oliver sts. The vandalism on Washington was done by adults and on 10th st. by boys 16 to 21 years old, police have learned. Capt. Leo Troutman said the vandals will be charged with malicious destruction of property, a serious offense. Besides being expensive to the city, the destruction of the signs constitutes a serious traffic hazard which might easily result in injuries and deaths, Capt. Troutman declared.

POSSE SLAYS SOLDIER PLAGSTAFF, Ariz, July 11 (U. P.) .—A posse of special deputies and police officers shot and killed one Negro soldier and ‘arrested five others early today after a group of 12 soldiers, armed with two submachine guns and 2 shotgun, created a disturbance in the business

A TURDSY, |

6 NAZI DRIVES PUSH INTO USSR

Germans 120 Miles From Gateway to Caucasus; Crisis Grows. (Continted from Page One)

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two bridgeheads had been estab-

lished and” dispatches today said

that heavy fighting was in progress outside Voronezh. It appeared that,

after a period in which the isolated

German spearhead fought close to Voronezh, the Nazis had now succeeded in getting much stronger

forces across the river and Berlin -

again today asserted that the Ger=mans had “held” Voronezh since Tuesday. The Russians said they still were outside the city proper.

Rossosh, Kantemirovka Fall

The fight for Voronezh, however, °

was to a certain extent designed merely to protect the German north flank, where the Red army has made repeated counter-attacks from Voronezh to Orel, but without much success as yet. . Meanwhile, the German forces in great strength had veered southeastward below the big bend of the Don and taken Rossosh,: cutting the Rostov-Voronezh railroad, and pushed into Lisichansk and Kantemirovka, both of which are important points in the railroad network leading to Rostov. These towns, however, are on the Khar-kov-Rostov lines rather than on the Moscow-Voronezh-Rostov line.

Rostov May Be Flanked

By capture of Kantemirovka, the farthest point of advance, the Germans were within 120 miles of Rostov, had straightened out their offensive front to the southeast and made unmistakably clear that their main drive is designed to flank Ros= tov and push on across the vast, level countryside toward Astrakhan on the Caspian sea, in an effort to cut off the entire Caucasus. . This purpose was also illustrated by today’s special comungunique from Hitler's headquarters, saying that the Red army except for isolated groups had been broken in a huge area from Kharkov and Kursk on the west to the Don river on the east. This area, it was added, gave the Germans a new 217-mile front extending southward from Voronezh.

Nearly All of Ukraine Lost

-The Germans claimed that they had taken 89,000 prisoners, destroyed or captured 1007 tanks and 1688 guns and 540 Russian planes in this area, in addition to 390 Russian tanks knocked out in repulsing Red army counter-attacks in the Orel sector. . The result of these operations was that the Germans were in control of most of the eastern end of the Ukraine and were pushing close to its western borders .in their new

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advance toward the Russian war ’

centers of Voroshilovgrad and Rostov. At the same time they were in a position to attempt to clean up the easternmost bend- of the Don river, which swings westward almost to the industrial city of Stalingrad and the Volga river if they can still muster superior mechanized forces on the plains.

HOSPITAL WORKER'S CONDITION SERIOUS

While police were seeking her assailant today, Miss Helen Wagoner, 35, resident librarian at City hospital, remained in a “serious” con-

"dition at the hospital with head in-

juries received early yesterday when she was beaten and robbed by a Negro intruder. The attack occurred in Miss Wagoner’s room on the third floor of the service building. The assailant, apparently familiar with the build« ing, struck and choked her and robbed her of $15.

NIMITZ BACK IN HAWAII

PEARL HARBOR, July 10 (U. P.) (Delayed). — Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is back at his headquarters here, nohe the worse for a plane crash in which he suffered slight injuries, a spokesman said today.

PLAN CARD PARTY

St. Patrick’s Social club will hold a card party at 8 p. m. Sunday a the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edwar Jekel, 874 Fletcher ave. Mrs, Jekel,

district.

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