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| WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1942

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SECOND SECTION

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland, July 29.—At the new American naval base here the chief petty officers’ huts are all together at one end of the

nissen hut. It has just been opened.

The manager is Chief Yeoman David Hurley, who is a sort of

master of ceremonies for the whole station, and a character in anybody’s country. Hurley is an old-timer in the navy. His sleeve has service stripes clear to the elbow. He is a good-natured guy, and he talks your head off. He has a hand in everything—ar‘ranges Sunday picnics, puts on all the movies, plans and supervises the weekly dances. He's an arranger at heart, and he’s in his glory over here. Last week he had three days’ leave, but he never even left the camp. One of the officers found him in the recreation hall stringing up colored pennants on wires. “What are you doing here, Hurley?” he “You're supposed to be on leave.” Hurley said, “Yes, but all these British sailors and Irish girls are coming to a dance tomorrow night. This place has got to look nice, and if I don’t do it it won't be done.” i He acted very mad and persecuted about it, but he couldn’t have been pried out of there with a courtmartial,

‘If You're Single, Call . . .

TWICE ALREADY the navy and marine camp

said.

Ahas thrown a big British-American dance. They in-

vite all the British sailors in town. Everybody digs up a girl. The dance takes place in the camp’s big recreation hall. The navy has an orchestra. There isn’t much trouble between the British and American enlisted men, What trouble there is springs largely from the fact that the Americans get more pay than the British, and that of course gets all the girls. The colleens are like girls everywhere. They like to have money spent on them,

By Ernie Pyle

The boys say they like the Irish girls all right. The main trouble with them is they all want to get married. The reason for that is that they want to get to America eventually. A lot of girls won't waste their time on a man if they find out he’s married, so intent are they on sewing up that old ticket to America.

The other day a marine officer was standing near a private at camp when a train went by. A note flew out the window and landed nearby. “I wonder who that's for,” the officer said.

“For me, sir,’ the marine said. “She’s been passing every day on the train, and I've been waving to her.” So he picked up the note, and here’s what it said: “If you're single, call me tonight at such-and-such a number. If youre married, forget about it.”

Honor Among the Colleens . . .

THE MARINES TELL ME the Irish girls are a clannish lot. There is indeed honor among girls wanting to get married. They say the minute one of them gets crazy about an American all the others lay off, and he couldn’t get a date with anybody else if he got up on a soapbox and pleaded. The sailors, when they first arrived, threw out a lot of self-protective misinformation around town. For instance, they told the girls that any man wearing braid (an officer) had a contagious disease and

.should be avoided. And that red stripes on a man’s

sleeve (a petty officer) meant he was a criminal out on parole. But the girls soon found out the truth for themselves. About the only way an enlisted man can get a girl at first is at a public dance or by the plain old pickup method. But this doesn’t mean theyre all of the street variety. Many swell girls have been picked up in this neck of the woods. The officers, of course, fare better, for they have opportunities to- meet girls through regular introductions. The American officers run around mostly with the uniformed girls known as WRENS and WAAFS, and with American nurses and Irish girls whose families they have met.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

REMEMBER ALL THAT trouble about the Kingsley drive numbers you saw on Page One not so long ago? Well, it’s finally getting all straightened out, we learn from Mrs. David R. Hocker, who lives at 5857 . (formerly 5817). The folks out on Kingsley got their numbers originally from the title companies and it turned out eventually that there were a good many duplications, even going so far as there being two houses with the same number in two separate blocks. The postoffice finally straightened it all out by simply ordering everyone to put up their new numbers. Good thing, too, because Mrs. Hocker, for instance, was having: the very deuce of a time. One morning a truck came up and started to unload a truckful of unordered gravel in the driveway; another time the Hockers were answering the doorbell at six in the morning only to shoo the people down a block, and once looking in consternation at a plumber delivering a new toilet seat, ete. The payoff though was when the telephone man came to remove the second phone which the Hockers

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Got your number straight?

Remember Way Back When—?

TIME TURNED BACK in its flight for a few minutes the other day when Burford Miller, maintenance man at the Murat dug up an old Evelyn

L. Nesbit Thaw souvenir album (price 10 cents) while

cleaning out an ancient cabinet at the theater. Published back in 1913, it displays the once famous actress on each and every page (except the last) in what passed for glamorous poses back in 1913. On the first page she’s pressing some flower petals to her chin with a dying calf look. Next she has an index finger coyly pressed against her upper lip. The next page displays her “Oh, my heavens” pose, (remem-

ber?) with left hand clutching hair, high on head, and the other hand caressing her right cheek. It goes on like that for 19 poses, and don’t let anyone tell you hats in those days were any more sensible than those today, as in several poses she’s wearing what looks like a wooden fruit basket, handle and all, on her head. Who says we haven't made progress?

Bands and Bans

THE TRAFFIC in the alley back of the Circle theater has increased greatly since the theater started presenting name bands. You see, the band celebrities - step out the back door and over to the Hotel Washington several times a day and most every time they find a crowd of youths—boys and girls of grade and high school age—waiting to see them and get their autographs. Most of the bandsmen are pretty accommodating too. . . . A newcomer to town is all burned up the way the apartment house people ban couples with children and dogs. “They ask you right off the bat if you have children—or a dog—and if you have, it’s too bad,” he said. “I told one place to wait a few minutes until I could shoot the kids and take the dog to the dog pound, but they just hung up.”

We Take a Stroll :

SEEN AROUND TOWN: A window trimmer removing one of those impressive displays of packaged articles (this happened to be unguentine) from Hook’s Illinois and Washington window, and shucks—all the cartons were empty. . . . An auto with the words “Just Married” still showing on the paint of its trunk and a Niagara Falls tag on the license plate. In the old days, no marriage was official until the bridal couple haa visited Niagara. Remember?. . . . Bill Adams, the Republican, “feeling good” after dieting from 167 pounds down to 138—‘“just because I was too heavy.” ... Beautiful postcard views of the Scottish Rite cathedral on sale at the Indiana newsstand. On the back of the cards it says the cathedral was “completed in 1727’—better than twe centuries ago. That must have been before our time.

Raymond Clapper is on vacation. He

will return the early part of August.

Cards Up!

WASHINGTON, July 29.—What Josef Stalin is said to want and need more than a second front in

western Europe is plenty of supplies from the United States and Great Britain.

That is believed to have been the burden of Soviet

Ambassador Maxim Litvinov’s latest talk with President Roosevelt.

Russia has plenty of manpower. She has 190,000,000 inhabitants as against 80,000,000 in Germany. If supplies via Murmansk, Archangel and the Persian gulf were cut off, her excess of manpower would do her no good. She might have more soldiers but they would have nothing to fight with. So Germany could well afford to withdraw large contingents of troops to France or wherever needed and still . have enough left to do the job on the eastern front. There may be a second land front in Norway, France or the Low countries. I don’t know. But one thing is fairly certain, Washington and Loridon have laid their cards face up on the table for Stalin, Litvinov and other Soviet officials to see.

We're Not Quite Ready

THE CARDS PROBABLY show that the allies are not quite ready just now to launch a large-scale offensive in western Europe. If one were undertaken at this time, it would mean that, henceforward, every plane, every tank every gun and every %hip available would have to’ be diverted from Russia to service the new front.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—Yesterday I attended the lunch given by Mrs. Marshall Field, John Golden and Charles Auchincloss for the men and women in "the theater box offices, who see to it that good seats are allotted to the young military men who are now given half-price seats at the various theaters. Afterwards I sold the 50,000th ticket to a young American officer from Georgia, : This Officers Service Committee has very pleasant rooms in the Commodore hotel, and is most anxious that all American and allied officers coming into New York City should avail themselves of the services which they have to offer. I took some navy boys to see Irving Berlin's show, “This Is the Army.” Prom {he first notes played by the orchestra, to the very last bar, we enjoyed the music. The songs and lines were

By Wm. Philip Simms

For, to be effective, the offensive would have to be a full-scale affair. Anything less woul damount to nothing more than a futile sacrifice for the good will of an ally. Unquestionably also, the cards show that President Roosevelt, probably more than any other leader be a full-scale affair. Anything less would amount and that he is wholly unselfish about it. At the very outset Mr. Roosevelt publicly announced the United States’ policy. It was to seek and smash the enemy wherever the enemy could be found—in any clime, on land, sea or in the sky.

Has It a Fighting Chance?

STALIN KNOWS THAT these were not just words. Today American fighting men are in the British Isles, Egypt, Equatorial Africa, Iran, India, China, Australia, New Guinea and other islands of the Pacific. They are in Iceland, Greenland, Newfound-

land, Bermuda and other outposts in the Atlantic.

They are in British and Dutch Guiana, in Central and South Americ, in the Arctic and Antarctic and on all the seven seas. In London, the Communists are earrying on a sustained campaign to pressure Winston Churchill into launching a second front. On Sunday night there was a mass meeting of 60,000 in Trafalgar Square with that in view. Yesterday the London Evening News said the cry for a second front to ease pressure on Russia was natural but “hardly useful.” I doubt if similar political pressure in this country would change the situation in the least. If Pranklin Roosevelt and his advisers believe the venture would have a fighting chance, and would not harm Russia more in one direction than the good it would do her in another, there will be one. You can bet on that. ‘

By Eleanor Roosevelt

better dancing. The thing which really stirred me most was the singing by Irving Berlin and some of his contemporaries of “Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning.” We made the night train, and had the good fortune to-find Washington fairly cool this morning. I was told today that the treasury*department is working to integrate the interests and the work of women to boost the sale of war bonds and stamps. It is quite evident that men alone cannot make the maximum contribution. They may allot part of their pay, but if the woman in the home does ‘not learn to budget, does not see to it that she feeds her family well in spit of the economizing she must do, that family will not be making the greatest possible contribution from their income. : In some cases, it is going to mean doing without things, but these items must not be essential to the family health. In other cases it is going to mean training ourselves to remember that everything which we do has a bearing on the winning of the war. The ieasauy department very wisely realizes this, and is

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Reporters on Way Home Warn: There Is No [asy | Road to Pacific Victory

By RICHARD C. WILSON and ROBERT T. BEI {AIRE Copyright, 1942, by the United Press Ei

LOURENCO MARQUES, Portuguese last Africa (Delayed), July 27.—Don’t underestimate the Japanese. There is no easy road to victory in the Pacific war. We and our allies are fighting a strong, well-prepared foe. He has seized vast potential resources. Has is grinding millions of people, including his own, unde; maximum hardships to exert the greatest possible militar’ strength - against us. He will risk anything and everything in this

all or nothing gamble.

Victory over such a foe requires willingness

to match

the Japanese in effort, determination and sacrit ce. En route to Lourenco Marques, we who spent years in the Far East compared notes and tried to reach conclusions that might help our countrymen understand what we are up against in this war; what the enemy has been able to achieve and to what extremes he has ine and is

prepared to go.

The Japanese war lords have spent years |-uilding up

and testing a war machine designed to conquer Asia and

overcome western influence and prestige.

Thay are in-

genous and have the aid of capable technicizns and in-

ventors.

(It would be a grave error to regard them as

imitators.) They are ready to fight on for years if necessary; to strike at Russia when and if the right moment

arrives. : The Japanese military machine is well-equipped. The soldiers are tough, often savage, and well trained for particular tasks, although they show up best in team-like routine operations and may crack up when caught off guard or when confused by a surprise attack or unexpected maneuver. The fighting at Hongkong offers an interesting example. The Japanese had prepared for the attack for years. Their methods,

such as sneaking through . old sewer tunnels as the artillery and air attack began, were well coordinated. Their soldiers each had rubber shoes for quiet movement and to cling to the rugged hills.

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No Regard for Losses

THEY WERE PREPARED, if necessary, for a much longer and harder fight for the British out-

NEW PEACE PLEA 1S GIVEN TO POPE

Roman Catholic Bishops in Germany Suggest Plan ‘Fair to Both Sides.

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SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, July 29.—The Roman Catholic bishops of Germany, it is learned, have addressed a letter to the Pope expressing fears concerning the future of the reich’s Catholics should the war last another winter and urging the holy father to take a definite stand in favor of peace by publishing a program which might be acceptable te both warring camps. The appeal was signed by all the German bishops, including Graf von Galen, bishop of Munster, who is believed to be the initiator of this new courageous move by reich’s clergy.

«+Fear British Bombings

*The bishops emphasized in their request, he says, that although cutwardly Catholic persecutions have stopped, Nazi extremists now are waging a subterranean war against Catholicism. z

Further causes of anxiety mentioned in the letter were the effect of British bombings upon the Rhineland -Catholic population and the possibility of internal conflicts one day breaking out in the reich, leading to communism. In such circumstances, it becomes urgent for Catholics throughout the world to combine their efforts in favor of peace, pleaded the bishops. The letter also contained a general outline of the suggested peace which the German bishops consider “fair for both camps.” This included the possible evacuation of western Europe, except Alsace and Lorraine, and the return of Germany to its 1914 eastern frontiers. ? Austria, it was suggested, should be granted ‘ complete autonomy within the reich, while Czechoslavakia would be reconstituted and Poland: restored within new “ethnographical frontiers.”

Favor Danube Federation

The bishops also declared themselves partisans of a Danubian federation, with rights of religious minorities effectively guaranteed. The Vatican reception of this request was described as “extremely reserved,” the pope not believing the time yet ripe. Some Catholic observers, however, discard the idea that the Ger-

man bishops’ appeal may influence the contests of the p yc

post “island, havin; moved up their heaviest artillery for a final assault which did jiot prove necessary because of ficient handling of smaller cérinion. The big guns wer: later moved southward without | having - been fired. The entire jis:ault was carried out without riégerd for losses, which were heavy, tut with ma-chine-like precisi and often with cold biooded killing of prisoners. bi But when something goes wrong or when something unexpected occurs, the Japareg> machine is less impressive. An example was the American bombing raid on Tokyo, which’ risited in such confusion that tlie :ity’s defenses seemed almost unal’le to operate and some anti-airciaft guns apparently fired on their own planes. This confision was reflected in contradic ory, excitable statements and ¢lzins—Ilater re-

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pudiated—anhd the inability of

Americans seriously, ” 5 * . JAPANESE EQUIPMENT, especially that usz¢ in China, has

Under-Estimate the Japs!

An example of Japanese ingenuity. The member of an allied force repair and salvage unit examines

a “belly tank” from a Japanese “Zero” fighting plane.

pilot can release its dead weight once he has drained it of fuel.

The tank is made so cheaply of wood that the

often been old or out-moded, but usually proved sufficient for the intended purpose except in aerial encounters with American fliers or in traps laid by the Chinese. But that must not be regarded as meaning that the enemy does not have new or up-to-date equipment. The Japanese navy fighter plane, known as the zero, copied the best features of western-built fighters, but Japanese mechanical ingenuity such as has been demonstrated frequently in industrial fields in the past, added certain important features to make the plane more suitable to Japan’s requirements. (The zero had fatal weaknesses, primarily lack of protection for the pilot, if it was to engage in modern-type air warfare, but it accomplished its purpose in the East Indies fighting and later models used over Australia had corrected the armor deficiency.) ” ” ”

All Japs Toughened

NOT ONLY the Japanese soldier, but the Japanese people are hardened and toughened by their ordinary life. ‘Their living standard, extremely low in comparison to western countries, alleviates for the time being at least the increasing hardships of war-time existence, the food shortages, the pegged wages, heavy taxes and an increase nf perhaps 300 per cent in prices.

These hardships, especially if aggravated by future allied bombing attacks, may make themselves felt, but the present military successes and an air-tight censorship have stirred up a tremendous nationalistic feeling and indicate that they can carry on for a long time if newly-won resources can be exploited. Communications have proved a serious weakness for the Japanese and should become an increasingly grave problem as American air and naval strength increases in the Pacific. A few allied submarines this spring disrupted enemy shipping off Hongkong and the problem of maintaining railroad communications in occupied China has been tremen-

. dous and largely unsolved.

Railroad equipment is run down

- and Chinese scorched earth tactics

have disrupted many lines in addition to breaks caused by guerrilla attacks. Even in the Shanghai sector, guerrillas continue active and many Japanese fear assassination so actuely that they will not leave the international settlement without an army escort. ”

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Reduce Fire Danger

WHEN THE guerrillas strike, the Japanese at Shanghai attempt to isolate the affected zone. A

blockade is established and not .

even food can be moved in or out. One such blockade lasted six weeks and when it was lifted more than

Poem, Freak Love Apple and Bags of Mail —That's Life of 'Working' Tomato Editor

By FREMONT POWER Editor I trust you haven't forgotten about this tomato usiness. Though the garden tour has been suspended while I catch up on other matters (which means work), correspoiiicace on love apples flows on genily and plentifully. Fo : Fact is, I even got one ripe and slightly freak tomato yesterday morning, ang. also a poem neatly typed out ox a penny postcard. * The tomato, which has sort of a handle affair sticking out the topside and a green seam down one side, was br¢ught in by Floyd Eslinger, who has uite a garden at 3241 Guilford ava. Darndest thing I ever saw. 3 “ 2 THE POEM WAS written by “G. D. S.” (who has 58 tomatoes on one vine). Ij goes like this:

Times Tomato

To a Fomato Lo, the lowly tomaio :’hangin’ on the vine, i Is breakin’ into newspapers, gettin’ quite a line. | Each and every fellel has his growin’ way, i

And Fremont’s busy ls nin’ as they all ~

have their say. Some tie ’em up, ‘anc some let ‘em sprawl, I Bois break off suckers, some leave ‘em all. I They're a'growin’ by the stoop, a’flour- - Ishin’ in the fields, And folks are measjiri}’ on the yields, i Thev grow 'em in -the East, they grow

and a’countin’

‘em in the West, But, somehow, in Incdigdna they seem to grow the best, |

SENTENCE FIVE OF

107TH STREET MOB

PRESCOTT, Ariz. July 29 (U. P.). —Five members of New York's “107th st. mob” were sentenced in U. 8. district court today in connection with the S11 tgling of narcotics into the United States from Mexico by a $1,000,000 syndicate. Federal Judge Aliert M. Sames sentenced Salvacdo: 'Santorio, 26, and Dominick Petrelli, 42, to five years in prison and fined ‘hem $1000 each on a conspiracy count. Each re-

Livorsi, 38, were years and fined $1100 each on the conspiracy count. They also received a one yea: | suspended sen-

been apprehendec: = All men pleaded guilty

Frankly I'd like to reply in rhyme but I can’t seem to get two words that fit together very well. I'll have to give this a think.

2 ” EJ MEANTIME, ON WITH the mail: X MRS. THOMAS A. SCOTT, 1113 Dawson st.— Mrs. Scott warns about the danger of moon vines, like the one which attack “her plant. “This mean little moon vine had entwined around them (the tomato plants) and was stretching them up,” she wrote. “Before I could find time to remove the vine, it pulled all three of my plants up and the roots lacked a good inch from touching the ground.” Astounding! MRS. DOROTHY KENNEY, 207 Taylor st., Pendleton, Ind.—Mrs. Kenney wanted me to know about the sign she’s got on her victory garden. It reads like this: U. 8S. VICTORY GARDEN Keep Out Plants Working 7 days per week—24 hours per day

2 » ” A. L. ARKLESS, 889 E. Jackson st, Martinsville, Ind.—He used grass clippings to cover the ground beneath the plants. Made cultivation unnecessary, he said. Thought I'd want to know. (And I did.) " MRS. DAVID BEASLEY, Mitchell, Ind.—“Sorry yours doesn’t

HOLD EVERYTHING

BE, INC. 1. 5 BoE, “A new idea for a totem pole I picked up in college, Pop!”

_ COLLISION INJURIES FATAL

make a better showing.” Why Mrs. Beasley! MRS. PEARL KIBBE, 2025 E. Riverside drive-—Sorry I can’t get out there now, Mrs. Kibbe. MRS. GEORGE ROESSLE, 574 N. Temple ave.—“We have some tomatoes that are just about ripe and you may have them. Or are you fed up on them?” Me fed up with tomatoes? Ridiculous! MRS. KELLY BRANAMAN, 340 Lesley ave.—“We have some 10 inches around.” I say, you've got something there, Mrs. Branaman. t- 4 ”

MR. AND MRS. VERN BRINSON, 1631 Sharon ave.—In addition to tomatoes, they wrote, “we have a fine rose-colored Egyptian lotus in our pool, with blooms as big as your head.” Well, don’t fail to keep me informed on that corn cob tomato, and the lotus sounds fine. HARRY C. CAMPBELL, 3522 N. Keystone ave.—~“Real farm” inside city limits. . EJ ” 2 A janitor at Central library— Hg says my one plant out there opA\the lawn is showing severe symptoms of loneliness. Maybe I ought to put a potato out there with it.

ISEABEES WILL GET

INTERVIEWS FRIDAY

Applicants for the “Seabees,” navy overseas construction unit, were urged today to complete physical examination at the navy recruiting station prior to interview day, Friday. Applicants also were asked to furnish at least two

letters of reference which are de-

pendable records of skill and experience. ty officer ratings are available for remen, electricians, quarry drillery, quarry crusher men, deckhands, blacksmiths, carpenters, powdermen, riggers, telephone men, mechanics, bakers, barbers, boat-

| swains, chainmen, cooks, divers, in-

strument men, rodmen, truck drivers,. sail makers, stewards, men with clerical experience in construction, draftsmen with architectural, mechanical, electrical or structural steel experience. General construction laborers also will be enlisted

tives were informed yi

250 Chinese were found dead of starvation. : Another enemy weakness that the Japanese war lords have made every effort to counteract is vulnerability to aerial attack at home. Progress has been made toward reducing the inflammability of Japanese cities by avoiding congestion in new sectors, but many great industrial areas at Nagoya, Kobe and elsewhere are easy bomb targets. . How far the favorable and unfavorable factors go toward bale ancing each other will be determined only by progress of the Pacific conflict, but the Japanese are desperately attempting to guard against their weaknesses by using their long - prepared strength to hold the initiative. There is no doubt now that calculated cruelty has been used as a regular part of this program, intended in part to destroy western prestige in the Orient but also directed against Orientals. Only part of the story of maltreatment can be told now but our dispatches have cited specific instances of bayoneting wounded prisoners at Hongkong and maltreatment of Americans interned in China and Korea. These primitive acts demonstrate the Japanese adaptation of axis methods of all-out warfare against civilians as well as sol= diers. They emphasize the ruthless, relentless foe we face. They warn - that -half-way “measures won't win the war in the Pacific.

DRIVERS IN EAST SCRAPPING CARS

OPA Ration Books Show Drop in the Latest

Registration.

WASHINGTON, July 29 (U. P.), —Rubber and gasoline shortages have forced “thousands” of east coast motorists to store away or scrap their automobiles, the OPA reported today.

Initial reports indicate that ape plications for permanent “A” gaso= line ration books run at least 800,« 000 less than the number of ration cards issued under the temporary plan which ended July 21, OPA said.

“This reduction is due partly to the fact that some cars that obe tained cards in the temporary syse tem do not use ‘A’ books under the new plan, but it is apparent that thousands of motorists have stored or scrapped their cars,” OPA said.

Registration Shows Drop

Reports from five of the 17 east coast states in the rationed area show a total of 1,061,465 “A” books issued. Under the temporary plan, 1,173,660 cards were issued in the same states. The difference—112,194 or 9.6 per . cent—would indicate an overall reduction of approximately 812,000 throughout the entire rationing area if the same. ratio prevailed, OPA said. A total of 7,745,382 temporary cards were issued in the entire 17 states. Initial reports showed the large est drop in ration book applica tions in Massachusetts—from 750,= 851 nder the emergency plan to 679,16 under the permanent plan. —_———

U. S. BOMBER FLIES 745,000 WAR MILES

LONDON, July 29 (British Broad-

‘cast Recorded by United Press in

New York).—An American four= motor Liberator bomber (Consolie dated B-24) has flown 745,000 miles during the past year in service with the R. A. F. y The four-motor bomber has been used for convoy duty over the Ate lantic, in attacks on German planes which bombed allied shipping and in chasing axis submarines, it was said.

HOOSIER ON GRIPSHOLM PRINCETON, Ind. July 29 @, P.)—Walter Frese, former U. 8S, treasury representative at Hong-

's wife, Mildred, and his two