Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1942 — Page 2
AN BEATEN, ILL-FED
Experiences.
By ROBERT BELLAIRE (Copyright, 1942, by United Press) ' LOURENCO MARQUES, Portu-
_ guese East Africa, July 32 (delayed) 3 ~This is a report of my personal
srience while imprisoned in
Japan on charges of espionage im-
pddately after the Japanese attack
Lon Pearl Harbor.
I was beaten and choked by Japanese police during that period, was at least one other American yspapermen, because I refused write a statement which I considered improper — a statement
"which, in my judgment, the Japa-
4
oner before I went to the concen"tration camp, and that I would be
intended to use for propa- ~ ganda. A home office official hit Joseph Dinan of the Associated Press in the face, and knocked out some bridgework, to force him to write a story on the “good treatment” he received. Boomeranging News Releases The same official first told me that unless I wrote propaganda I would be kept in my room at the Sanno hotel, where I was a pris-
denied food or sleep and would be
i beaten frequently with a rubber
i
hose. When I still refused he choked me by drawing my necktie tight. Those of us who were put under espionage charges because of arti- . cles we had written before the war
"in a difficult situation, without legal
a
defense. Some of the statements held against us had been ‘issued by the government's own propaganda agency—the board of information, but the police did not acknowledge
3 the agency’s responsibility.
Some of us lost property which
’ policemen demanded as presents
#for good treatment.” Two weeks before we were evacuated, those of the correspondents imprisoned as anti-Japanese were told that their sentences had been suspended. After the trials, the police apolozed for their treatment of. cor-
for them to take action against
“those responsible for the war” for
the sake of domestic morale. They
. made a sensational case of the
4 prosecution.
Sentences imposed on American
correspondents, but suspended when the evacuation: was arranged, were
as follows:
W. R. Wills, Columbia Broadcast-
ing, two years.
Max Hill, Associated Press; Percy Whiteing, International News Service; Otto Tolischus, New York Times; Ray Cromley, Wall Street Journal, and Richard Tenelly, Na-
_ tional Broadcasting, 18 months.
Then Concentration Camp
I was put in a concentration emp with numerous American and . British Protestant and Catholic
a missionaries.
The missionaries tried vainly for weeks, with the aid of the Swiss Jegation, to get permission to hold
| services
The Catholic priests ‘read mass secretly in darkened rooms at night. When the Protestants finally ‘were given permission to hold
services it was on condition that
ey did not use the bible. One of the sidelights of the war 48 that while Japan is seeking to improve relations with the Vatican it is becoming increasingly anti-
_ Christian, because it holds that
_ Christianity is part of the western
‘culture which Japan aims to drive
- Missionaires for Propaganda
Non-axis clergymen except the ill aged, most Protestant mission‘aries and some nuns were interned. Recently the Japanese compelled lI Protestant sects in Japan to ‘combine in a Single church under
; Theodore Walser, New York, detained at the Sanno hotel, was to write an article on the ptection given Christianity by Jan, I was told.
Grew’s Protests Vain During his internment Ambassa-
| dor Joseph Clark Grew frequently
tested to the Japanese, through Swiss legation which is handling erican and Japanese internees
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(Copyright, 1942, the Japanese informed the, United
‘ment at Washington. of the threat. During the raid excited Japanese anti - aircraft gunners frequently fired at their own planes. The American planes almost skimmed the rooftops in their attack with the result that the antiairéraft guns could get only fire bursts of a few seconds. I saw one American bomber caught in a burst of fire. It banked steeply and dived to within 100 feet of the ground. There it pulled out without apparent damage. Six Japanese pursuit planes attempted to dive on the army bomber but it outran them. According to the best estimates I could obtain, about 10 planes attacked varicus parts of Japan almost simultaneously, three or four
Japan Threatened Envoy If Raid Was Repeated
By ROBERT T. BELLAIRE
by United Press)
LOURENCO MARQUES, Portugese East Africa, July 23 (delayed)— Immediately after the United tSates ermy’s air raid on Tokyo April 18
States embassy that if Tokyo were
bombed again shops would refuse to supply it with food. Us S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew informed the state depart-
of them concentrating on Toyko. Right after the raid the Japanese army emplaced many new antiaircraft guns on Tokyo rooftops. Contsruction of air raid shelters was intensified. Fires which the raiders started were put under control quickly with the aid of Tokyo's large, well trained volunteer fire fighting organization. However, it was reported that at the Nagoya aircraft factories fires burned for two days. Several Japanese girl students reported that the American airmen leaned from their bombers and waved as they flew over the girls’ university.
Tokyo, against what he considered maltreatment of American diplomatic and consular personnel. The Japanese rejected all protests. Latin American diplomats said that they also repeatedly had protested against conditions under which they were interned. Alfredo Lertora, Peruvian consul at Yokohama, as an example, said he had been in close confinement for six weeks in a small room in the Grand hotel and that the windows were closed and blinds drawn. Lertora said when he told police he feared a nervous breakdown he was permitted outside for an hour’s walk daily with a uniformed guard. American war prisoners from Guam and Wake islands were compelled by the Japanese army to write statements which the Japanese broadcast, I have been informed.
Embassy Food Shared
Mr. Grew, at the sacrifice of the embassy’s and his own supplies, organized relief bundles of food, medicines, clothing and books for American war prisoners. The Swiss legation forwarded the bundles to the prison camps. All members of the embassy staf contributed heavily. From the outset of the war the ambassador threw his home open to embassy staff members. . Japanese newspapers published photographs of the prisoners from Guam and Wake being marched through the streets of Yokohama the port of Tokyo, under a heavy guard of army, navy and policemen. Since May, according to my .information, some of the prisoners have been forced to work as stevedores at Koge,
Fruit Once in 10 Days
At the Zentsuji prison camp, I have been informed, the usual meal consists of thin soup, rice and black bread with 25 pounds of meat a week for 365 men, figs once a week and a piece of fruit every 10 days. Extra foods is given to beri beri sufferers and other hospital cases. An extra loaf of bread is given to prisoners who agree to clear land near the camp for cultivation. Japanese assert that the diet is that of Japanese privates. According to my information many men have lost considerable weight.
Sent to ‘Worst’ Camp
Well informed persons say that since reaching the camp from Guam and Wake the prisoners have not been mistreated physically. I spent six months in a concentration camp at a former girls’ school between Tokyo and Yokohama. Red Cross officials said that this was the worst camp. My own experience is that the food we were given was insufficient to maintain weight and health.
‘Invited’ to Luncheon
For two months we were cut off from all communication, kept in locked rooms with the windows barred under guard by 30 armed policemen. . Once the Japanese home office ordered most American newsmen, Leo Chamberlain of the National City bank and Dr. Walser to attend a luncheon at the Sanno hotel. The luncheon was given by the “Pacific War Relief committee.”
This organization, ostensibly one
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to ald war prisoners, was actually, according to my understanding, a propaganda agency. It coerced correspondents into making phonograph records for broadcasts and to write articles on assigned subjects. Correspondents who refused were told that their names would be removed from the evacuation list.
75,000 SEIZED
Refugees in Holland ‘and France Arrested, Sent
To Labor Camps. (Continued from Page One)
ber, 1939, for shipment to concentration camps in’Silesia. As many as 60,000 Jews had been shipped out of Amsterdam since last Thursday and 600 more will be deported daily until there are no Jews between 18 and 40 remaining in Holland, Zurich and Stockholm, dispatches reported. French chief of State Henri
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Philippe Petain and Chief of Government Pierre Laval were reported to have refused to co-operate in the arrests in Paris and northern France and were reported to have recalled Fernand de Brinon, Vichy representative in Paris, as a gesture of protest.
Spurn ‘Victory Parade’
The first night I was in the concentration camp the chief guard warned up we would be shot if we tried to escape. Several times a week government officials visited the camp, sometimes with women, to look at us. I was informed that at a concentration camp near Yokohama the internees refused a demand that they march in a “victory parade” to celebrate the fall of .Singapore.
Thirteen in One Room
Some Escape Nazi Zone
Laval reportedly refused to’ order arrests in the free zone or to permit German forces to come into the unoccupied area for that purpose. Petain reportedly offered to resign
terials for use in combat planes, It was designed to meet apeemnity of ulating conditions of long range bombing attacks. /
A Weekly Sivup. by the Wi shington Staff of the Seripps-Howard Neapapors
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(Continued fror: Page One) Senator James M. Mead, candidates fy New York gubernatorial nomi-
nation. Political eyes are trained.
inst2ad, on the battle for delegates
‘between President Roosevelt (for Mend) and James A. Farley (for
Bennett).
You can get bets on either side;
with anybody but Mr. Farley op-
posing, F. D. R.-Mead victory woulc¢ ¢ conceded quickly.
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Stimson will retire before December, be replaced by Senator Lister Hill,
Alabama Democrat.
MOVE TO OPEN loophole in would permit federally helped teachers
i 2 ” » | «Elatch clean-politics law—which to engage in politicse—has been
blocked temporarily in the house, mzy not get through at all. Senate approved it, but Rep. Hancock, New Z¢rk Republican, is out to stop it. He thinks it would open the way for pelities with NYA funds.
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SEN. W. L. O'DANIEL, seeking
renomination today in a Texas
primary, is sure of only one vote amen; the 23 being cast by Texans in congress. It's his own. There's an | oN itside chance he might get two
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MEAT SHORTAGE in many c.tie:
« roughly follows pattern of one
There were 13 Americans, 10 Britons, 11 French Canadian priests, five Netherlanders, two Belgians, an Australian and a Honduran in my camp. We Americans’ were in one room. Each man had a space of about three feet by nine. For the first two months the Americans were forbidden to speak to those of other nationalities. Those two months were the worst. During that time the police would not let the Swiss legation or the Red Cross in to inspect. But after repeated Swiss protests the police
'| permitted us to obtain extra food.
Wives of several internees who had not been interned bought and delivered the food.
No Food for Three Days
After the first few weeks the internees were permitted to exercise for two hours a day in a lot 30 feet by 50. During the first three days the internees were not supplied with food. They were required to wear a white numbered sign on their coats at all times and to answer roll call three times a day. The internees were permitted to bring stoves .to the camp and the police provided a small amount of coal, but there were many coalless days in winter and some remained in bed to keep warm. Dr. Joseph McSparren, well known American “physician of Yokohama, suffered a severe face slapping. He was forced to kneel for hours on his heels and was refused medical treatment for three hemorrhages due to stomach ulcers, which prison food aggravated.
Forced to Incriminate Self Dr. McSparren suffered another attack aboard the liner Asama Maru which brought him here, and he is in serious condition. Dr. McSparren was forced to write essays on the food shortage in Japan and the country’s vulnerability to incendiary bombs. On the basis of these essays, he was charged with circulating antiJapanese rumors. . He told me that he once was handcuffed with one arm over his shoulder and the other behind his back, and then was beaten until he fainted. Faces 257 Charges
Dr. H. W. Myers, 68, Southern Presbyterian who had spent 45 years in Japan, was deprived of his clothes in midwinter and was given a thin kimono. He said he was forced to kneel for days. He was sentenced to seven months.in prison on the charge that he “defamed the Japanese army” by deploring the fate of Nanking. He lost considerable weight by malnutrition and suffered boils and chillblains. W. R. Wills of Columbia broadcasting and Japan Newsweek was tried on 257 charges in- connection with alleged anti-German articles. He said he was forced to sit for long times on his heels with the result that he suffered a muscle injury which still has not healed. Given Water Torture
Dr. Edward H. Miller, Rouseville, Pa., a Southern Presbyterian minister, was imprisoned at Keijo, charged with propaganda against the emperor on the basis of a missionary pamphlet, “Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” Dr. Miller said that he was given the “water treatment.” This consists of being tied up in a lump with a rope tied over the throat. Then water is poured. over the nése and mouth until the victim is unconscious. Ralph Oliver Reiner, a Presby-
|terian missionary, said that he was
arrested at Keijo, Korea, and beaten with a rubber hose at intervals during 16 days when he was questioned about alleged spy activities. He
| displayed big welts on his Wrists, knees,
back and
rather than co-operate. Hundreds of French and foreign Jews reportedly stormed across the interzone line into Vichy, France, in an attempt to escape the S. S. persecution. Score of them were caught without the proper papers and were ‘taken to concentration
camps.
The French ’ roundup included
both Jewish and Aryan refugees— men, women and children over 8 years old.
French Police Object
Entire families were seized. The men were taken to the concentration camp at Compiegne, the women to a camp at Nancy, and the children to the Winter Sports Palace in Paris. Children under 8 were turned over to orphanages or were taken in by neighbors. The order for seizure, handed
of Paris, Gen. Oberg, created a minor revolt in the Paris police department. The police requisitioned busses in Paris to haul off those arrested. The busses were backed to apartment house doors and filled with screaming, crying, protesting refugees. Load after load rumbled through Paris streets toward the concentration camps.
‘ARMY CHOW FINE, WRITES LOCAL WAAC
(Continued from Page One)
barracks gave our company a big hand. As you probably know, we have to be up by 5:45, but most of the women are up. before ‘then. We have breakfast at 6:30 and drills and lectures all morning. Chow at 12 again. Yesterday afternoon we were free practically all afternoon. We can’t leave the post for two weeks, so that should give us an exciting week-end. Tomorrow morning we have our opening exercises and Mrs. Hobby (W.: A. A. C. director) is going to speak to us. She was out here all day Monday. Monday was some day. You could hardly turn around without bumping into a photographer or newsreel cameraman. The press descended on the place last week, and Sunday, when the WAACs came in, they got 'a few regular - sizes, put them in uniform and “shot” them all day. Mrs. Stout was one of them. I haven’t seen very many of the pictures. : This is certainly some experience. We have girls from down south in our barracks—one big room upstairs and two on first. I'm on first, and there are eleven of us. We each have a regulation army cot, foot and wall locker. We make our own beds of course. and have to turn the mattress every morning. We each have ‘three skirts, five shirts and one jacket.. We don’t have to wear our uniforms off the post; so you may never ‘see me in it. I had my picture taken last night and if it’s any good, T11 send you one. Army chow is fine, but I do eat lunch af 12 and really eat. When you have breakfast at 6:30 and drill all morning, you're ready to eat. If you were Here you could have all the cokes you wanted. | The machine in the basement | recreation room is full all the time. There is a laundry in the base~ ment with about a dozen tubs and half a dozen ironing boards. I guess the irons arrived today. We have both tubs ahd showers. Yesterday we ‘had our first in< struction in salute—so now we have to salute all the officers.
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in Canada last winter. Trouble with price control, as Canadians learned then, is that there are too miany kinds, grades, cuts, and local preferences in selling meat. If stoczrien’s, packers’, retailers’ profits are restricted in one direction they, can move in another, causing shortages and surpluses—but usually shortages. EJ ” ” |
The Army and Desk Jobs
UNSOLVED PROBLEM in thé 1:med services: How long should an officer be allowed to stay in Washin gton? Practice has been to alternate piriods of field service with Washington service, but lately result has lien to take away from here men who have just mastered complicated ;procedures, haven't had time to train subordinates. Recently the oily three men who knew how to operate a new undertaking had to lea re within a few weeks. ! 2 ” ” Ed . . » ” 8 OFFER OF THE A. P. OF L. {ct ‘nance Higgins shipyard in New Orleans caused some surprise. Engiii¢ers had been saying the Higgins method so cross-cut established metiicds of shipbuilding, so pooled and subdivided work, that old crafts would be broken up, union jurisdictions and memberships couldn't be maint 1ed. NOTE: Higgins yard, unlike trac itional ones, required more steel for its construction than normally Ho! »s into yard, cranes, other equipment of old-fashioned type. ” ¢ 8
Prices Still Rising
GOVERNMENT-IMPOSED price ceilings have failed to stem the advance in over-all food costs of th: average family. Catch is, says the bureau of labor statistics, that 0 per cent of the householders’ food budget is made up of items ov: which there’s no control. Latest report showed a 1.3 per cent increase in food costs in five weeks. » » ”» i » tJ ”
OCD IS TRYING to lead cities out of their confusion over airraid siren systems. For big cities ii recommends types costing $3760 per unit, effective over nine-square¢-inile area. WPB is discouraging claborate, centrally controlled systein they take too much cable and wire. One new, smali type operales; an filling -station air tanks, » » 8 2 = 2 SENATORS ARE SAVING pu! Bic money on telegraph tolls. Used to be that when they got a flood nf [2tters or wires from constituénts on one subject they would dictate & i'eply—usually lengthy—and have it duplicated to each constituent. { ese are called “book” telegrams. Now “book” telegrams can’t exceett 1( words. If senators want to say more, they must dictate different tn::sages. This causes more clerical work in their own offices so they cnt. Result has been a $50,000 ‘saving since the new rule went ir» effect.
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Concert Singer Held as Hostage |
LONDON, July 25 -(U. P)— Johanna Maria Vincent, 54, in- |
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JAIRO, July 25 (U. P.y.—British forces holding a line west of El Alamein were forced to withdraw to lay from one or two points they hed’ taken in offensive operations this week.
ternationally known Dutch con: cert singer, has been arrested as a hostage by German authorities: in Holland, the Aneta Dutch | News agency reported today. “The singer, popularly knowfi 8s | The withdrawals were due priJo Vincent, was said to have te- |inarily to intense enemy artillery cently snubbed Arthur Von Seyss~ {iire, it was said authoritatively. Inquart, Nazi commissioner in | Allied air and artillery forces, Holland. : | however, were reported renewing atWhen Seyss-Inquart. entered & |iicks on enemy front and rear concert hall where she was to lines. sing, someone told Miss Vincent | British and American planes, conthat “your government is here.” |finued heavy attacks, knocking out She replied loudly, “My govern 26 axis aircraft at El Daba aivdrome ment is in London,” according to | one and torpedoing an enemy the Aneta account. 5 1pply ship en route across the : ai : editerranean. |. Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton anrounced seven damaging raids
Times Spéeial \5zainst axis targets in Crete and WASHINGTON, July 25.— Vin-}orth Africa by his American fliers
cennes has been recommended for {iis week. designation as a critical war Pro- (HINA SENDS ENVOY TO INDIA duction area so that needed hous- | SIMLA, India, July 25 (U. P).—
ing in the city and vicinity will | (-eneralissimo Chiang Kai-shek of qualify for priorities, Senator Pred- ( ‘hina has sent a special emissary erick Van Nuys announced today. t» Indian nationalists urging them The nearby army air base has | to postpone any anti-British activcaused the housing shortage at Vine | |i ties until after the war, well incennes,. the senator said. ifyrmed quarters said today.
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habitual drunkard or whether he had any physical defects. In his statement to Prosecutor Blue, Lee told him he had ‘been “drinking heavily for more than two years.” He sald that doctors had told him he had a “nervous heart” after a fainting spell more than a year ago. Two women most seriously injured when Lee’s car jumped the sidewalk, remained in critical condition at City hospital today. Pedestrians killed in accidents last night were: DR. BENJAMIN A. BROWN, 3209 E. 10th st., who had been a physician in Indianapolis for 54 years. ISAAC ELLIS, Negro, of 1641 Yandes st. Dr. Brown was killed when struck by a truck as he attempted to walk across E. 10th st. near his home last night. The truck was driven by William Anderson, 37, Negro, of 2148 Hovey st, who was arrested by police on a charge of failure to have adequate brakes. Lives Only Few Minutes Dr. Brown, who was 76, received internal injuries, compound fractures of his right arm and leg and severe cuts and bruises. He lived only a few minutes after the accident. Dr. Brown was born in Hancock county where he received his early education. Later he ,moved to Indianapolis and was graduated from the old Indianapolis Medical college. He began practicing medicine in 1888 and was actively engaged in his profession at the time of his death. He was a member of the Indiana State Medical ‘association, the Masonic lodge, Odd Fellows lodge and the Methodist church. He is survived by the wife and wo sons, Lester D. and Thomas E. Brown.
Hit by Pastor’s Car
Mr. Ellis, who was 42, died a few hours after he was struck by an automobile driven by the Rev. S. C. Caldwell, Negro, in the 2200 block, Martindale ave. The victim was said to have walked out into the street in the path of the car. The Rev. Caldwell was not held. Mr. Ellis suffered internal injuries and fractures of both legs. The two deaths brought the traffic toll in the city to 50 this year, 10 more than the same period last year. The death toll in the county outside the city is 22 compared to 38 a year ago, making the total for the city and county six less than last year.
FT. HARRISON UNIT TO BE TRANSFERRED
WASHINGTON, July 25 (U. P.). —The war department announced today that part of the army finance school will be transferred by Aug. 1, from Ft. Harrison to Duke university, Durham, N. C. The move was necessitated by the expansion of the finance replacement training center at Ft. Harrison. Moved to Durham will be the
.|finance officer candidate school and
the finance officers school. The army will take over the entire Crowell Quadrangle at Duke.
LAND DENIES HIGGINS CHARGE WASHINGTON, July 25 (U. P.). ~—Maritime Commission Chairman Emory S. Land said today that no “outside influence” figured in the commission’s decision to cancel its contract with the Higgins Corp. of New Orleans for 200 Liberty ships.
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NAZI SABOTEURS
Down Trio Aiming at
Vast Destruction. (Continued from Page One)
from Germany on the S. S. Orduna March 9, 1925, and filed citizenship papers at Kankakee, Ill, three months later. He never became a citizen.
Advocate of Naziism Hoover said Kappe was active in promoting various German societies
while in the United States, and, prior to Hitler's rise to power, was
{“an- active advocate of Naziism and
boasted of his services for the Nazi party.” . He became telegraph news editor of the “Freie Presse” at Cincinnati, O., in May, 1931, and while in that city was a member of the German=Hitler group, Hoover said. He also
‘was a member of the Teutonia club
in Cincinnati which he allegedly claimed was.sympathetic with the Hitler government. Hoover said Kappe headed an attempt to .organize a national socailist party here in 1932 and at that time was described as an American correspondent for the Nazi press with headquarters at 1050 Waveland ave., Chicago, where he edited the Nazi pamphlet “Vorpsten.” Hoover said Kappe lived for a brief period in Detroit, and then moved to Chicago where he became editor of the “Deutsche Zeitung,” official organ of the Teutonia Society. This paper later became the “Deutscher Weckruf Bund Beobachter,” organ of the German-Ameri-can bund with pices in New York City. Once Lived in Canada
Schmidt, Hoover said, was born in Germany and lived in the province of Alberta, Canada, prior to the outbreak of war in Sept., 1939. Schmidt fled to Mexico and then to Germany, when war was declared. * Hoover said that Schmidt attended the German high command’s sabotage school ‘early this year and that it was known he was in Lorient, France, in May, 1942. It was believed that the eight Nazi sa-. boteurs now on trial left Lorient late in May. Barth came to the United States from Germany in 1929. He was a draftsman for the Long Island railroad until after he had returned to Germany in 1938, Hoover said. Hoover said Barth, on returning to Germany, became an intelligence officer and attended the sabotage school and also served as an instructor in methods of sabotaging railroads and railroad equipment. “He is regarded as an expert in the sabotage of railroads and would be expected to concentrate his activities in that field should he successfully return to the United States,” Hoover added. ‘
WARN ANOTHER ON CHILD LABOR LAWS
The proprietor of a recreation place .at 62d st. and Keystone ave. was arrested by police last night on a charge of violating the child labor laws. Two girls under 18 and two boys under 16 found working at the place after the 7 p. m. deadline fixed by law were taken to the juvenile aid division and turned over to their parents. It was the second arrest on child labor law violations within a week. Last Monday .the proprietor of a South Side barbecue stand was arrested on similar eharges. Both were arraigned before Juvenile Judge Wilfred Bradshaw who warned them not to employ girls under 18 and boys under 16 at night. They were released.
LIQUOR LICENSES IN IRVINGTON DEPLORED
The Irvington Cottage Prayer Service group has adopted a resolution requesting that the state alcoholic beverage commission reconsider its recent renewals of licenses for liquor stores in Irvington. The resolution stated that courts have held valid the original property covenants for the town of Irvington which prohibit the sale
'of liquors on premises in any part
of the original plat of the town. The group’s statement said that liquor licenses for several stores in Irvington had been renewed by the beverage commission récently.
PHYSICIAN DEAD AT 92 NOBLESVILLE, July 25 (U. P.). —Dr. -O. B. Pettijohn, oldest practicing physician in central Indiana, died in Hamilton county hospital here today at the age of 82. Two
sons survive.
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