Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1942 — Page 40

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JUVENILE COURT |

“WILL SEEK HELP

Transit Population Brings Problems of Checking On Children.

% Tnclanapolis’ rapidly expanding Jemnorary and transit population is ting problems of’ serious propor‘ions for the Marion county juvenile Sours staff. ® During the last few weeks the ‘eourt has heen swamped with scores of truancy cases, the majority of them originating among children of

ilies that moved: here tempo-|

rarily to work in war plants. “It appears that school attend-

ance officers face an wlmest unsolv-{ .

able problem among these transit children and it may be that efforts / Yo keep toem all in school will have to be abandoned,” Judge Wilfred Bradshaw said,

Parents Not Concerned

* The judge said the testimony of |

parents in most of the cases indicates that they are not much concerned about keeping their children in school while in Indianapolis. Many of the new families are living in trailer camps, tourist cabins and rooming houses. \. “Some children are sent to school a few days from one address and when .they fail to return to classes the next: week, attendance ‘officers can’t even find any trace of the entire family—they moved to anoth8r section of the city or to a tourist camp,” Judge Bradshaw said.

Shift for Themselves

Many of the cases revealed that both the mother and the father are working in some factory, leaving the Children to shift for themselves. ~ With juvenile delinquency already 20 to 30 per cent greater than last year due to war-time restlessness among adolescents, it is feared the children of transit families will add more burdens to the court’s social workars. : Mark W. Rhoads, juvenile court Judge-elect, who will succeed Judge Bradshaw Jan. 1, said he is planning to enlist hundrads of volunteer social workers who would work in their own neighborhoods to help see thet neglected children get proper guidance during the war-Jime crisis.

ENGINEERS TOLD OF GROUND GREW FEATS

Members of the Indiana section, Society of Automotive Engineers last night heard the ground story of the “Flying Tigers.” T. C. Bosler, engineer at Allison's; read the paper, “Ground Crewing the Flying Tigers,” prepared by Tye M. Lett, Allison overSeas representative, : Mr. Lett, who is in England, was with the “Flying Tigers” in Burma and China. Assigned as technical advisor and expediter to the volunteer group, he left Indianapolis in May, 1941. “The AVG ground crew,” Mr. Lett says, “was the most outstanding maintenance group that I have ever seen. Their Curtiss P-40s, thanks to their tireless devotion, flew at top-notch performance longer than any other planes, before or since.” = And the greatest battles were not fough it in the sky alone for small Parts like “nuts and screws gave us the headache. It wasn’t the major parts like pistons and crankshafts. They always seemed available. ws “Lack of a tiny part was enough fo iramobilize a P-40, 8000 pounds of perfectly good flyable parts.”

RESPECT CONVOYS— CIVILIANS WARNED

Civilian drivers are asked to cooperate with army convoys so that Beeidents may be kept to a minimum. # Maj. J. Hobart Miller, commanding officer of the fifth service command motor pool, Ft. Harrison, has

‘Up the Hatch

Not a Nazi in sight, so a New Zealand soldier in the west African desert unbuttons” the front of his American-built -tank and pops up for a look-see.

SINKING NAZIS SLAY RESCUERS

War's New Low Seen When Crippled U-Boat Fires on British Crew.

LONDON, Dec. 11.—Their U-boat helplessly surfaced and unable to dive, the German submariners were huddled abaft the conning tower knee-deep in water or swimming nearby. Silently they watched the lifeboat put off from the British freighter to rescue them,

As the lifeboat approached closer to the submarine the British merchant navy rowers, exultant over their accurate gunfire in disabling the U-boat, tossed jibes and flippancies as they came within earshot.

An Old Nazi Custom

Then it happened,

Coldbloodedly, the U-boat machine gun crew drew a bead on their would-be rescuers and opened fire. Almost the entire lifeboat party was wiped out, It takes no imagination to guess what their British shipmates did then to those U-boat survivors out there in the eastern Atlantic.

U-boat machine-gunning .of survivors is now an old story to admiralty officials here, but this killing of men seeking to follow humanitarian instincts reaches a new low in submarine warfare,

In contrast, the admiralty officer told the details of how British warships in the Mediterranean engaged in the exchange of humanities during one battle bétween the royal navy and the Italians. The British were picking up Italian survivors when German dive-bombers began raking the water with machine guns, attacking rescuers and rescued alike,

Italians Grateful

The British were forced to withdraw from the rescue work leaving some 300 Italians in the water or on rafts. The British commander then made a signal to the Italian commander advising him to send out a hospital ship and promising that it would not be molested—by the: British at least. “Thank you very much,” came the reply from the Italians. The German aircraft continued their attacks until driven off by the British A. A. fire. #

SOCIAL WORKERS TO MEET

The Indianapolis Social Workers club will meet dat 12:15 p. m.. Mon-

WAR TO DELAY

CAR OF FUTURE

First Peace - Time Models |;

Likely to Look: Like Those of 1942.

DETROIT, Dec. 11 (U. Americans who expect the automotive industry to supply them with ultra-streamlined ‘passenger cars immediately after the gwar is over

"|are in for. a. surprise.

The industry, bending its back Wr help win the war. as quickly as possible, believes the first post-war car will be virtually the same as the 1942 model with possibly a few

.| minor changes.

The motoring public probably will have to wait. a year or. more after the war. is over’ for the socalled “car of the: future,” because the industry's designers and engineers are knee-deep in “model changes” for war products. C. E. Wilson, president of General Motors. Corp., in peacetime the industry’s largest producer of passenger cars, declared recently that if any company turns out a “radi-cally-different car immediately after the war is over “then it has been: cheating a little on its war program.” “The post-war car,” Wilson said, “will be substantially the same as the one bought prior to Pearl Harbor, with perhaps a different color scheme or some minor change.” George T. Christopher, president of the Packard Motor Car Co.— long a supplier of automobiles for the “carriage trade”—agrees with Mr, * Wilson that the immediate post-war car will be virtually unchanged from present new models.

War Experience Helpful

However, he explained the industry’s experience with new materials and technique on the war program would contribute toward “more efficient, more economical and’ better motor car transportation .in the years to follow the war.” Availability of materials and fuel, Mr. Christopher added, also will have “a marked bearing” on the car of the future. - Materials have been brought into new practices in war work and their adoption to the automobile may bring- about interesting results, he said. “Silver, for example, never used before in automobiles, is contributing to major engine improvements.”

BAMBOO POLES FOOL JAPS AND SAVE SHIPS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U. P.). —The Japss may be interested to know that the “anti-aircraft gun” that kept three pilots from sinking a Philippine ship wasn’t a gun at all, but just a couple of well-placed painted bamboo poles. The story was told by Lieut. Comm, Carmelo Manzano, now of the coast guard reserve and formerly a major ih the Philippine army, who was in charge of the 5000-tcn vessel when it was attacked by Jap airmen in the South Pacific last February. Three times single enemy planes came into sight and each time the ship’s crew rushed to the imitation gun, tore off the tarpaulin and went through the necessary motions. “It worked, too, for it fooled the Japs enough to keep them at high altitudes- beyond our ‘range’,” Manzano said. “They let their bombs go at us but they were too high for accuracy and as a result, those dropped during. the three attacks fell harmlessly into the sea.”

PEDESTRIAN, 7, INJURED

Seven-year-old Robert King, 1307 S. Sheffield ave., received a broken left leg and scalp wounds when struck by a city truck yesterday. Police said he was walking diagonally across the intersection of Belmont ave. and Morris st. when hit. He was taken to Methodist hospital.

day in the Washington hotel.

@sked civilians to observe a few|}j

‘elementary facts. °

¥ Do not intermingle with the ve-|} If caught in|{ one, become a part of it and dog

icles of a convoy.

pot stop for traffic lights. Police escort convoys through all cities. Civilian cars must not break ‘through or cross a convoy from a side street. Use of hand signals is imperative.

SHORTRIDGE PLAY SET FOR HARRISON

The Shortridge drama league will present the “McMurray Chin” for the men of Ft. Harrison on Dec, 18. Arrangements to give the play were made at the request of Miss Grace Hawk, entertainment head of the ost. : re cast includes Dick Tribbe, Norma Klepfer, Patty Rice, Mar‘garet, McGuire, Joan Bartley, Jack Thompson, Genesia Epstein, Al Puniap and Mary Hall.

SIGMA DELTA KAPPA £70 HOLD INITIATION

mB, ‘Howard Caughran, U. S. district attorney, will be the principal speaker at the Sigma Delta Kappa ' panquet-initiation tomorrow at the Columbia club. - Circuit Court Judge

Far] Cox will be toastmaster.. Cecil{|

, manager of the Union Trust Clo., will be inducted as an honorary member. ' Initiation will begin at 5:30 p. m. ‘for Raymond S. Grahn, Peter A. Pappas, R. B. Williams, Robert W. Young and Frank J. McCarthy.

ADD CHORUS TO PROGRAM

| The mother’s chorus of School 82, 1mder the direction of Mrs. R. E. Maginity, has been added to the

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CITIZENSHIP |

‘Dr. Thomas H. Reed, lecturer on

{citizenship and. authority on mu-

3 |nicipal government, will speak Mon-

recruiting officer, swore him in, Pvi. Sears has left, for. the arise

a RE training. .

day ybefore classes in foundations of American democracy and the faculty of Butler university. Dr. Reed is now lecturing

throughout Indiana on “Education

in American Citizenship” under the

@ [auspices of Wabash college and the. ‘| Josiah K. Lilly endowment; !

‘He will be guest of the ‘depart-

' | ment of history and political science

faculties at a lincheon Monday noon.

“RAIL AUXILIARY SETS PARTY The title now for Ray Sears (chnler), former Biitler university track | : coach, now is Pvt. Sears. ° He is shown after being sworn in as a private in the marine corps.: Mrs. Sears was present as Capt. Ralph Boulton, -

Crossroads of America Lodge 901, Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, will hold their annual Christmas party and covered-dish dinner at 6 .p, m.

.| Wednesday at the home of Mrs.

Laura Gray, 1149 Perry ave.

na to Sure |

The inseparable’ twins, Katie Lou and Betty Lee Kellison, daughters of the Rev, and Mrs. M. O. Kelli: son, 754 W. 43d st., are about i be separated. This afternoon the Butler univer-

sity sophomores will ready them-

selvey for a marriage ceremony. Katie Lou and Cadet Warren Dailey of the army air force join hands at 5 o'clock. Betty Lee will be her sister's attendant. The ceremony will be held in the Graham chapel of the Missions building. The, bride’s father, who heads the department of religious education of the United Christian Missionary society, will perform the ceremony on. the 31st anniversary of his and their. mother’s wedding. Other members ‘of the wedding party include Myrene Liverette,

Liverette. All are students’ at Butler. Katie Lou and Betty Lee planned on finishing college itis but war and marriage prevent. Following the ceremony the bridal couple will go to Big Springs, Tex., where Cadet Dailey is stationed.

When her husband is assigned tq |

active duty, Katie Lou will return to Butler. Through summer sessions ‘she will try to catch up with her sister so they can graduate together. - The twins have ‘been inseparable as sisters, musicians, cheer leaders and ‘students, - On entering Butler this fall they became affiliated with the Pi Beta sorority. Both planned

‘to become kindergarten teachers.

Katie Lou met Cadet Dailey during ‘their high school dayi in Ponca City, , Okla. :

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