Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1942 — Page 8

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ARINES MEAN D STAY LANDED

Spokesman in Ca in Capital Tells

of Long Practice That - Preceded Raid.

United States. Aug, 12 (U. P).

“We don’t know enough details’

say what's going on,” the spokes- |.

man said, “but we know one. thing —those marines mean business and

they didn’t make. those landing}

“They mean to stay landed.”

; Hardly a Surprise To those who know the marnies,

ment made by marine headquarters : yesterday wasn’t surprising: “Today, in hand-to-hand combat with the "Japs in the Solomon

islands—in close co-operation with|

other allied forces, the marines have opened the door to an allied offensive in the south Pacific’ A student of the United States ed forces would be surprised if if marines hadn't led the first ‘assault. And the student would have concluded that if the marines ~ weren’t engaged in hand-to-hand fighting, it was because they found “no one. to fight. The marines have specialized in landing operations since their organization before the revolutionary war. - The marines in the south Pacific had been practicing invasion tactics “day and night as a prelude. to attack on the Japanese-held Solomon island area, marine corps Headguarters disclosed,

New Twists in ‘Killing Intensive jungle warfare training was combined with’ landing exer-

_ cises, reports to marine corps head- | &

quarters here revealed. Training reports were kept secret until now or reasons of security. The leathernecks sharpened up their shooting for the invasion operations on combat ranges “hewn out of cocoanut and banana groves. They practiced with Garand and . Springfield ‘rifles, tommyguns, au- * tomatic rifles and machine guns. . “Marines put new twists and tricks to the business of killing Japs,” the marine corps said. “Quick shooting at surprise targets, knock_ing sniper dummies out of trees and assaulting an objective under a barrage of livé ammunition were 1942 marine invasion rehearsals.” During recent exercises, lieutenants led their platoons through and under barbed wires while expert riflemen fired live bullets just above the heads of the crawling marines. In preparation for such strenuous work, the marines on transports during. the long voyage gcross the Pacific spent many hours in hand-to-hand combat work, stressing the _use of knives, small arms and Ju Jutsu.

SCHOOL LOANS

4 out of 5 MORRIS PLAN Loans Made Without Endorsers

PHONE FOR A LOAN —MARKET 4455 ® Borrow on Character, Auto or Furniture | —from $75 to $500 to $1,000. ® Take 6 weeks to make the first payment. # Many leans completed while you wait. J ® Nocredit inquiries of friends or relatives

® FREE PARKING across the street in Arcade Garage for auto to. Sparaisal

Civilian defense district 6 fire ‘watchers on duty at their new fire tower atop the Hogan warehouse, 800 Massachusetts ave., are (front and right) K. M. Mason ‘and Edward Dunn (back row, left

Mrs. Prentice- Stanley Simms Sr. was cooking dinner last evening at the Simms’ home, 1739 Ludlow ave., when she decided it was time for her boy, Prentice, to come in. Prentice is 3 and his favorite pastime was playing cowboy astride his tricycle. Mrs. Simms went to the porch, noticing that a New York Central passenger train had stopped in back of the house. She went i over to see what Ps I was happening. Prentice lay on the ground unconscious. Mrs. Prentice gathered her son up in her arms and a

1627 Ludlow ave.,” Methodist hospital. When they got there, Prentice was dead.

took them to

Fashion Show

Modeling clothes they made in their sewing projects, 4-E cluly girls this afternoon .and tonight: will present a fashion show at Ipalco hall, 16th and. Alabama. sts. Fu THe event is being held: in iconnection with: the 4-H Victory show’ replaces - the county exhibit held each year at the fair grounds. Local eliminations were held among township clubs preceding the county competition. There is a total of 1966 articles in" the clothing exhibit, 166 entries! in food preparation, 181 in baking; 106 in canning, eight in room ime provement and. 20 in .rural electrification. Winners in the latter include Fred Rosemeyer, Irma Piel, Gayelle Rumford, Ellen Keever, Louise Dragoo,

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WORK RESUMED IN KOKOMO BOAT PLANT

KOKOMO, Ind. Aug. 12 (U. BP). —Three hundred employees of the Globe American Corp. plant here resumed work today upon settlement of a wage dispute which led to a work stoppage Monday. The company is engaged in the

| manufacture of life boats for the

CANADA DRY QUALITY

maritime commission. Officials of the Stove Mounters’ International Union (A. F. of L.) said the workers had agreed to accept a T%-cent-an-hour wage increase recommended hy arbitrator Verner E. Wardlow, Columbus, O., of the U. S. department of labor. Union members left work Monday, reportedly to. discuss the advisability of a strike when their demands for a 20-cent increase were not met.

MILLER QUITS LEGISLATURE

EVANSVILLE, Aug. 12 (U. P.).— State’ Senator Milford Miller, Evansville attorney, will report in St. Louis today for duty as a lieutenant (j. g.) with the U. S. naval reserve, following his resignation from the Indiana upper house. He will act as a supervisor in ap building.

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Mother, Hunting Son, Finds Him Fatally Hurt Near Train

neighbor, Oscar Wilkinson, 36, of |

to -right) Herbert Rich, district warden; Durbin Reeves, assistant district warden; C. S. Berry, block warden, C. H. Perry, Ray Wright, and C. R. Israel. The tower, five

The engineer of the train, John E. Carnes, 58, of Bellefontaine, O., said he saw Prentice on the tracks as . the train approached. Prentice ran behind a parked car.

miles an hour, got closer, he ran back ‘on the tracks and waved his arms as if signaling to the train. The huge cylinder on the side of the engine hit: him. Mrs. ‘Prentice said “he never had gone out of the backyard. But last night he followed some other children.” Surviving Prentice are his parents, two sisters, Almeda Leona, §, and Rose Marie, 2; a brother, Paul Joseph, “6 months; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse G. Simms, of Indianapolis, and the maternal - grandparents, “Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Knox, of Houston; ex. Prentice’s body was taken to the Harry W. Moore funeral home.

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Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

af Ipalco Hall

Margaret Jean Hudson, Margaret Augustine and Marjorie Wolcott. -: Second place exhibits: wege those of Jane Augustine, Mary Pelers, Ward, Roy, Jean

Shirley - Van ‘Sickle, Adelify Esther ‘Schmalfeldt ‘and Stratton. In the victory garden vegetable displays, first place went to Deloris Mae Hampton; second, to Eloise Carney, and third, to Rae Delight Sparks. . . Mesdames Marvel Robinson, Sanford Miller and Thomas Ayton judged the clothing entries and Mrs. Paul Lybrook served as judge for baking, canning and food preparation classes. The three-day Victory show ends tonight.

WALTER WHICKER’S RITES TOMORROW

Funeral services for Walter Calvin Whicker, 328 N, Fleming st., a machinist at Allison Division of General Motors who died Monday at his: home, will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow in the George Usher funeral home. Burial will be in Floral Park. He was 44. ; Death resulted from a heart attack. Mr. Whicker had worked the Saturday night shift at Allison, and had attended a movie on Sunday. Mr. Whicke? had lived here 19 years. He was born Feb. 14, 1898, in Clinton county. Survivors inclde his wife, Mrs. Tressa Whicker; a son, Carl, of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Spurgeon, and a brother, Harvey Whicker, both of Sheridan. ®

State Deaths

CROTHERSVILLE John Butler, i Survivors: Wife, Viola; daughter, Mrs. R. ks; brothers, Emm Ben Butler: sisters, Mrs. Rose Buns, Mrs. Alice Breece, Mrs. Elizabeth Greenlee,

EVANSVILLE—Solomon Edmondson, 89. Survivors: Wife, er. Mrs. James,

FT. BRANCH--Mrs. Florence Brewer.

—Thomas Jones, 77.

daughter, Miss

HARTFORD CITY: Suryivors: te, Flora;

Sadie J serrERoNTILLR- Boner Cross, .

NEW ALBANY--Mrs. Carrie Smith, 81 Survivors: Daughters, Miss Cordelia Mei n: broine Charles Schan. 5 T,. ny er. Survivors: nate, LilJoseph; Kurt Brin": ; mother, bisnte “stvilay sister, R. W. Hayes, aT: i Degenhart. ives Fa Eavonta, Mi. Sod Mrs. H. Br Trib ter, Marion Dome; brother, Chala Tribble. Martha Sto 67. Er fiend. Milism; quagivery son, Peter

WABASH Waite Freeman, 64. Surviv- : Wife, Yirue; son, Kenneth.

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MARION—- Sarah . MA CEInAnST: oo i Survivors: ‘Daughter, Mrs. Cecil Ro — Fred Collins.

oo) Stnith; nrad; sister, AMrs. Charles |

Williams, Mrs. Mary :

stories high, is one of the first to be set up in Marion county. The “district 6. boundaries ‘are from “College ave. and Noble st. to State -ave. and ‘from New York to 10th - sts.

(GRABHORN RITES

‘SET TOMORROW

Retired Furniture Worker ‘Had Been Resident of City -40 Years.

horn, retired. furniture refinisher, will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Royster & Askin funeral home. Burial will be in Memorial Park. Mr, Grabhorn, a resident of Indianapolis the past 40 years, died yesterday at his home, 1353 N. Dearborn st., at the age of 76. Surviving are the wife, Fannie Bell Grabhorn: four “sons Lewis and Kenneth. of Indianapolis and Edwin and Robert of "San Francisco, owners of the Studio Press, nationally known: book pubfishers; two daughters, Miss Evelyn - Grabhorn and Mrs. O. L, Smoyer of Indianapolis; two brothers, George and Harry ‘of Indianapolis; three sisters, Mrs. Harry Bowser, Terre - Haute, and Mrs. Sylvan Barker and Mrs. Sophia

Rites. for Henry Randolph Grab-|.

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lis HED LIKELY

Need for. Bala Balance ‘May Prevent Attainment of FDR Goals.

; “WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 U. P.). Production Chief Donald M. Nelson believes that it is virtually im.possible to- attain all of President Roosevelt's war production goals

‘|. for 1942 and 1943 and still maintain ‘| the necessary balance in‘ the pro- . | duction program, his associates said

today. They said Nelson and the united mations’ chief: of staff were ‘confronted. with the difficult. choice" of

| letting ' production fall. below the

‘president’s “goals or of sacrificing

‘|’ production balance.

They ‘prefer the first alternative,

‘| deeming the second vital to the ‘ I'success of ‘thé war program. On Jan, 6 Mr. Roosevelt asked for |

"1942 production ‘of - 60,000 planes, ‘45,000 tanks, 20,000 anti-tank guns

and 8,000,000 tons of new ‘merchant |

‘shipping. Goals “Can Be Met”

: High WPB. officials explained that |

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those goals included but a few of | J

the items necessary for equipping, for example; a fighting force such

as that now engaged in the Solo- |

mon’ islands. WPB officials don’t expect’ pro-

duction figures to fall far short of|§

the announced goals, however. And in ‘some cases—shipbuilding, for instance—they may exceed the president’s figures. _ All of the WPB officials consulted,

including some of Nelson’s closest |=

associates, agreed that all—or virtually all—of the presidential goals were attainable if everything else were sidetracked. WPB officials believe the final figures for 1942 airship production will be “close” to the designated 60,000 ‘although ‘assembly lines must

turn out at the rate of 8000 planes| = a month by the end of the year if | =

the president's goals are fo ‘be E E

reached.

President Roosevelt’s war produc- |=

tion goals for 1942 {will be met in a

general.”

Patterson, in an interview before|=

presenting a navy “E” award to the = White Motor Co. war plant, said (= that production was gathering mo- |=

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office of defense portation— were “interested” the plan; but none ever had heard of it before. A spokesman for the national inventors council ‘said the plan “very possibly”. might work, but he said this was the first time he had heard of it, too. : He suggested that such a réduetion in an automobile’s power would reduce its “pick-up” considerably and make it virtually useless for hill-climbing.

Automobile association thought ‘the advertisement was “premature” and possibly could injure morale by creating “false hope” among motorists in the East coast rationing area. He said AAA experts would investi= gate immediately. = Among local garagemen, the ides. was rejected almost unanim y

GAUSE NAMED JUDGE FOR LEE HEARING

Harry L. Gause was selected today as special judge ito preside in the case of John W. Lee, whose killed three persons in a downtown accident July 20. Judge Gause will preside only at a hearing Aug, 31 on Lee’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, in which he seeks release under reduced bond on

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