Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1942 — Page 14

ML iid OTED ALUMNUS OF I. U. IS DEAD ~ Dr. Oliver Curtice Martin|f Was Noted Chemist and Metallurgist.

Times Special - BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 4— . Word has been received at Indiana university of the death of Dr. Oliver Curtice Martin, Plainfield, N. J., widely known chemist and metallurgist and an alumnus of I. U. Dr. Martin was born in Rockville, Ind, and graduated €rom the university in 1900. In 1931, he was one of six I. U.-educated chemists to re- _ ceive honorary degrees at the dedication of the school’s chemistry + building. 2 Dr. Martin was associated for

plain that Hitler

on the defensive, of counter-attack

The axis apparently has taken

taken Tebourba, west of Djedeida, or is within the limits of the town. Despite the allied patrol of the narrow strait between Tunisia and Sicily, Hitler seems to have been able to get in reinforcements and| organize a hard-hitting tank force. The German air arm also has been! greatly strengthened. There is no doubt that Hitler has drawn heavily on his air reserves in Europe and probably withdrawn some strength from Russia. His communication problems are simpler than those of the allies. Hitler can fly fighter planes to Africa from| Sardinia and Sicily without diffi-

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The extent of axis resistance in Tunisia makes it

is determined to make a die-hard

stand in Africa and that there is a hard and probably long fight ahead for the allies. . From the latest accounts, the Germans are not

strictly speaking. They are capable and in the latest tank battle, which

lasted for 48 hours, the allies admitted losses as heavy as the Germans.

Dejdeida, 12 miles west of Tunis

‘(although the place has changed hands several times), and either has

culty. His only limit is the number of planes and pilots he can

| muster,

Allied fighters have to be transported by ship, down the Atlantic from Britain or across from AmerThe allied supply problems {is similarly complicated and the distant lines of communication are vulnerable to the axis submarine packs. ! Nevertheless, Hitler's ground forces are outnumbered in Africa and his main reliance must be in the air.

more than 40 years with thé cop‘per industry in various parts of the world. ; Survivors include the widow, the former Elinore Harmon of Zionsville, and three sons, Harmon Martin, New York; Payne Martin, Clinton, Mass., and Keith Martin, director of the Kansas City museum of art. -

JOHN W. DRAKE DIES: BURIAL TOMORROW

John William Drake, a sheet metal worker for the Liberty Engineering Co., here, died yesterday at his residence, 2005 Carrollton ave. He was 35. Born at Bowling Green, Ind. Mr. Drake came here as a youth.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the J. C. Wilson chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Park. Survivors include three. sons, John, Richard and Raymond, and two daughters, Patricia and Joanne.

HUGE FRAUD HINTED | IN NAVY DEPOT WORK

HARRISBURG, Pa. Dec. 4 (U.! P.).—An atmosphere of scandal hung over the huge $40,000,000 naval supply depot at ‘nearby Mechanicsburg—largest in the nation—today as the U. S. department of justice prepared to air an alleged $1,000,000 construction fraud there before a federal grand jury next Monday. Justice department officials said they had planned to present evidences of irregularities at the sprawling depot long before U. S. Commissioner Sidney E. Friedman charged that “the curtain apparently dropped when the investigation began to disclose serious offenses which threatened to involve higher-ups.” Friedman said yesterday that Washington officials thwarted an FBI and naval intelligence inquiry into “wholesale fraud, theft, bribery and embezzlement” at the depot.

HARRISON NEESE, ILL TWO MONTHS, DEAD

Harrison Neese, 1735 S. State ave., died yesterday in City hospital following an illness of two months. He was 74. : Mr. Neese was born in Johnson, county and had lived in Indianapolis 45 years. He was a carpenter by trade. ’ Survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Alma Gurley, Mrs. Mary Owens, Mrs. Ruth DeLong and Mrs. Helen Cooley, all of Indianapolis, and a brother, George Neese of Bargers< ville.

TUNISIA LONG A THORN TO ITALY Country fof Centuries Has Been Sought as Key to

Mediterranean.

Times Special History-conscious Italians have good reason to look with foreboding at the allies’ progress in Tunisia. It was from ancient Carthage, whose ruins are but a few miles

from the modern city of Tufis, vhat|

Hannibal started his famous campaign which took him across the Alps into Italy and to the gateway to Rome itself. Tunisia, strategically situated on

i the Mediterranean half way be-

tween Gibraltar and the Suez canal, first became a part of international

affairs when the Phoenician sailors!

started trading there in an extremely remote period of history. Carthage itself was founded in 850 B. C. by the refugee daughter of a king of Tyre who called herself Dido, meaning “the fugitive.” She is the fabled Dido who stabbed herself on a funeral pyre to escape a choice of marriage or ‘war with a neighbor king. Wars Centered There Dido and her fugitive band bought from the Libyan natives a piece of land on which to build a “carthage,” or “new city.” Her agreement of sale entitled her to “as much land as could be contained by the skin of an ox,” and Dido cut the ox skin into such thin strips that it encircled an entire hill, From the earliest days of Carthage, Tunisia has been a thorn in

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Italy’s side. Involved always, as there is today, has been the control of the Mediterranean, for Tunis is only 88 miles away from Sicily. In 550 B. C. the Carthaginians captured most of Sicily. The war there lasted a century. The famous Punic wars were fought by Carthage to keep control of Sicily and the Mediterranean. It was in the second of these wars with Rome that Hannibal waged the campaigns—using elephants as modern warfare now uses armored forces — which have brought him military fame to this day. Cato the Censor’s famous warning, “Delenda est Carthago” (Carthage must be destroyed), urged the Romans on to their final victory and conquest of Carthage in the third Punic war in 146 B. C.

Became 2d City

Now Carthage became second city of the Roman empire, next to Rome itself in wealth, learning and vice. Rome lost Carthage to the vandals for a brief period, recaptured it a century later under General Belisarius. Rome finally lost its control of Tunisia during the Arab invasions in the Seventh Century, A. D. A long period of Mohammedan rule was followed by conquests by Charles V of Spain, Don Juan of Austria, and finally Turkey, Under the Turkish ule the native Beys were allowed to run the country as a pirate state until it was brought into submission with the help of the infant United States navy, under Stephen Decatur. During the middle of the 19th Century Italy, France and Britain all played diplomatic poker for the country, France finally winning out in 1881. But Italy really never gave up her claims. Mussolini's cries for the “return” of Tunisia have not been motivated as much by desire for her agricultural prods ucts as for the key to the Mediterranean which Tunisia holcs.

JOINS FOREST FIRE STAFF Joe DeYoung, a farm forester in Jefferson county, was named assistant co-ordinator of the forest fire fighters’ service being developed by the state department of conservation by Hugh A. Barnhart, department director, today.

MacARTHUR COMMUNIQUE (Issued Friday, Dec. 4) NORTHEASTERN SE NEW GUINEA (Buna-Gona)—Intermit-tent fighting continues in all areas. The enemy is resisting stubobrnly. Our ground forces are receiving artillery and air sup-

port. NORTHWESTERN SECTOR

TIMOR, Koepang—Our attack units executed a successful surprise raid on the airdrome. Eighteen enemy bombers and three fighters were caught on the ground and were well damaged or destroyed with cannon and machine gun fire. Fires from burning aircraft and fuel dumps were visible 50 miles away.

NAVY COMMUNIQUE 211

(Issued Thursday, Dec. 8)

SOUTH PACIFIC (All Dates East Lonitude) : E 1. On the night of Nov. 30-Dec. 1 a Japanese force of troop transports, escorted by combatant fleet units, “was intercepted and engaged by a task force of U. S. naval vessels in the waters immediately north of Guadalcanal island. 2. The enemy was interrupted in his attempt to reinforce and supply his troops on the island and no landing was effected. 3. During the night action which followed oyr interception of the landin force, one U. 8. cruiser was sunk an other U. 8 vessels were damaged. ,4.-The enemy suffered the following losses during the engagement: 4) Two large destroyers (or cruisers) sunk.

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Lafayette Civic and Social Leader Dies Here After

5-Year lliness. Mrs. George P. Haywood, widow

wood Publishing Co. of Lafayette, died yesterday in Methodist hospital after an illness of five years. She was 84. : Mrs. Haywood had lived with her daughter, Mrs. Roy E. Adams, 4145 Washington blvd, since coming here five years ago trofn Lafayette. Her husband died 16 years ago. A native of Springfield, O., tHe daughter of Solomon H. Marshall and Sarah Ann Marshall, Mrs. Haywood was married in Lafayette on Oct. 3, 1879. Civic, Social Leader

Mrs. Haywood had been a prominent civic and social leader in Lafayette. She was founder of the Lafayette community house and

served as its. treasurer until illness forced her retirement. She was a member of the General de Lafayette chapter, D. A. R., the Indiana Society . of Mayflower descendants and the Tippecanoe Historical society. . A charter member of the Lafayette chapter of American War Mothers, she was also a member of the Business and Professional Women’s club. She was a member and leader of the Trinity Methodist church.

Brother Is Publisher

Survivors, besides Mrs. Adams, are a son, Marshal, of Chicago and Lafayette, present president of the Haywood Publishing Co.; a brother, Henry W. Marshall, publisher of the Lafayette Journal-Courier; eight grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Bradshaw funeral home, Lafayette, with burial in the Spring Vale cemetery there.

PURPLE HEART EXTENDED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (U. P.) — President Roosevelt today made provision for award of the purple heart, signifying that the wearer has been wounded in action, to all members of the armed services. Heretofore it- was awarded only to

members of the army.

Text of Communiques

(B) Four destroyers sunk. (C))Two troop transports sunk. (D) One cargo ship sunk. 5. Japanese sailors rescued from life rafts on the following day identified one of the destroyers as the Takanami. casualties has, as yet, been received. The next of kin of personnel killed, wounded or missing in t above action will be notified by telegram as soon as inférmation is received.

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NAVY COMMUNIQUE 210

(Issued Thursday, Dee. 3) : Sous PACIFIC (All Dates East ude) : ’

1. On Dec. 1: (A) Army and navy aircraft continued daylight attacks on enemy positions’ on Guadalcanal island. ’ Y Dec. '

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5 ec. 2: (A) U. 8S. marines attacked a patrol of 60 Japanese near the upper nga river. Thirty-five of the enemy were killed and a quantity of arms and ammunition was captured. ’ (B) In another encounter between U. S. and ‘enemy. patrols in the Matanikau area, 20 Japanese were killed.

Navy Communique 212 > (Issued Friday, Dec. 4) Wo UTH PACIFIO (All dats east longiude. 1. On Dee. 3 ground activity on Guadalcanal island was confined to routine patrol operations during which 14 Japanese were

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Rites Tomorrow

FUNERAL SERVICES for Mrs. Carrie M. Adams wil be held at 2 p. m., tomorrow at the Acton Baptist church, followed by burial in Acton ceme-

TRIBUTES

1 Maj. Callaway Voices the

| the services and a military salute | was fired by a squad from Ft. Har-

tery. Mrs. Adams died Wednesday at\the home of | Mr. and Mrs. | William H. | Brown, where she had lived for the last five | years. She was | : 4 81 and a memSing ber of, the Acton Mrs. Adams Baptist church. Survivors are two sons, Walter Adams of Beech Grove and Louie Adams of Acton; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Swartz and Mrs. Sarah Williams; one brother, Richard Toon; nine grandchildren and | two great-grandchildren.

ARRANGE HAMILTON MEMORIAL SERVICES

‘ A memorial service for John Wal- | lace Hamilton, former Indianapolis resident who died Wednesday night at his home in Flushing, N. Y., will be held at 3:30 p. m. Monday in the Hisey & Titus mortuary. Funeral services will be conducted in Flush- | ing. Mr. Hamilton was 80 and was dom) in Indianapolis. He was associated | with the old Fletcher American bank, now the American National bank, for more than 55 years. He retired five years ago and went to Flushing to live with his daughter | and son-in-law, Capt. and Mrs. ! Walter J. Willoughby. He was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, here. Survivors are the daughter; two sons, Morris W. Hamilton of New York city and Wallace Francis Hamilton of the West Indies, and one grandchild. :

State Deaths

ALEXANDRIA—J. M. Powell, 82. Sur-|

vivors: Two sons and seven daughters. | ANDERSON—Walter S. Amick, 74. Survivors: One daughter and four sons. BEDFORD—A. R. Younger, 69. Survivors: Wife, two sons, and a daughter. William H. Tucker, 70. Survivors: Five daughters, a son and three sisters. CENTERVILLE—John WW, Beck, 88. Survivors: Sons, Maleolm and Randall; daughters, Mrs. William Horney, Mrs. Merlin len, Mrs. O. H, Brown and Mrs. Berniece Dietz; sister, Mrs. Martha Caldwell. CRAWFORDSVILLE — Mrs, Walkup, 177. CROTHERSVILLE—MTrs.’ Florence Bedell, 76. Survivors: Sons, Donald and Alfred; daughters, Mrs. C. E. Murphy and Mrs. Ernest Forest; sister, Mrs. William Davis. DUBLIN—Chester R. Smith. Survivors: Wife; sons, Bernard, Essie and William. ELWOOD—Mrs., Jennie Jackson Freeland, 69. Survivors: Sons, Ralph, Fred and Howard Jackson; daughters, Mrs. Laughton Kennedy and Mrs, Opal Jarrell; half sisters, Mrs, Stella Blue and Mrs. Lena Shetterly. ENGLISH—Mrs. Eva Roverson, 67. Survivor: Husband, Charles. MONTPELIER—Milton Richey, 68. Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. Marvin Keller, Mrs. George Cassell, Mrs. Floyd Petzel and Mrs. Harley Hapner; sons, Raymond, Chester and Kenneth. NEW ALBANY—Peter Eberle, 79. Survivors: Sons, George and Robert; daughters, Mrs. Frances arbrough, Mrs. Sadie King, Mrs. Helen Ohania and Mrs. Bertha Meyers. E tery. Survivors:

Miss - Carrie Pe Brother, Nelson; sister, Kate A, Petery NEW CAS Helen Catherine

TLE—MTrs. Fauotte, 21. Survivors: Husband, Harvey, mother, Mrs.

Mary Ayres Brock; sons, Lonnie and Jerry Allen; sister, Mary Ann Ayres; brothers, Paul

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Colleagues at Rites.

Maj. Allen J. Callaway of Indianapolis, an officer at the Rome (N. Y.) army air depot, yesterday payed high tribute to Maj. Herman B. Leeth, also of Indianapolis and the

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depot, at tuneral services held for|

Maj. Leeth at.the Flanner & Bu-' chanan mortuary. Maj. Leeth was killed Sunday, night in a plane crash near Bethel, Conn. Full military honors were accorded him in the last rites. Maj. Callaway spoke in behalf of the officers and enlisted men at the depot, describing Maj. Leeth as “a good soldier, devoted to his country and his work and zealous to the last degree in carrying on to win the war.” With him, Maj. Callaway brought a large American flag which was

draped over Maj. Leeth’s casket and

which was presented to the officer's

immediate family as a token of the army air force's respect for Maj. Leeth. Dr. W. A. Shullenberger of the Central Christian church conducted

rison at the grave in Crown Hill cemetery. Before entering the service, Maj. Leeth was treasurer of the Allied Specialty Co. here and Maj. Callaway was local manager of the GrayBoth served in

world war I.

ODT Asks Holiday . Curb on Taxis

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (U.P.). —The office of defense transportation today appealed to taxicab operators and the public not to use cabs unnecessarily during the coming holidays. Pointing out that the Christ-mas-New Year season produces an annual peak in taxicab travel, the ODT described most of this as “frivolous” and “the least essential of all cab trips.” Taxicab operators were asked not to change schedules to make more cabs available for such holiday peaks as New Year's even.

BRITISH LORD URGES BOMBING OF ROME

LONDON, ‘Dec.:4 (U. P).—Lowd Wedgewood urged today that Rome be bombed. ; He put to the government, in the house of lords, the question “whether in view of the fact that Rome is a battleneck for transport from Germany to south Italy, and fascist. headquarters, Rome may soon receive the attentions of the royal air force.”

TRUCK DETOUR ON 20 TO END. TOMORROW

The state highway department today announced that the detour for trucks on U. S. highway 20 betweerf the junction of U. S. 12 and state road 49 will be lifted tomorrow. Passenger traffic has not been affected by the truck detour, which has been between near Gary and Chesterton.

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