Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1943 — Page 17

* READY MONDAY,

tober Cites Shortage of Clerks and Urges Early Payment.

duplicates for the spring in-| &

ment of property levies will be

le at the county treasurer's] | 8

beginning Monday. “A word to the wise should be suft—pay them ly or you may © find | yourself s g in line for half a day in the late rush,” warned Walter Boetcher. He said his office had lost 17 of the most experienced clerks since - the tax paying time and that beca of the manpower shortage, ts could not be handled in n volume. The deadline for payments to avoid penalties is ° May 8. sons who do not want to make a trip to the courthouse may write in, giving their names, addresses, the p in which they live and | a self-addressed envelope. , Clerks will mail the duplicates to ers who in turn can then

the payment by mail with]

either a check or a money order. There is no appropriation for the to mail out any tax bills with his own stamps so in order to get a duplicate, a tax payer must inclose a stamped envelope. - Mr, Boetcher urged that as many. as possible use the mail to avoid vision, at the cashiers’ windows

JITTERBUG PANTS’ RILE POOL PLAYER

SAN DIEGO, Cal. (U. P.).—David D. Coburn, 34, Negro butcher, gave as his excuse for opening a billiard ball barrage in a poolroom against spectators that “the boys in the jitterbug pants were trying fo get me.” | the count’s inquiry, he explained that “jitterbug pants” ‘are big at the top and little at the

Tired little Japs with drooping hats and bed¥aggled shorts are sorry warriors affer falling prisoner to Americans, where they expected to be tortured or otherwise mishandled. But marines in the Solomons

didn’t torture them. They took them to a concentration camp.

Bates House Key Returns,

42, Maybe

The key to room 269 of the old Bates house has been returned— anywhere from 42 to 70 years late. For there isn’t any Bates house anymore, no keyhole for the key to

fit, and as a matter of fact, there

isn’t even a room 269 in the hotel which sits on the site of the old hostelry. It came to the right location, all right, for the old Bates house stood onthe corner of Washington and

Ilinois sts., from 1852 to 1901. When

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MILLINERY

70, Years Late

it was torn down, the Claypool hotel was erected on the site. : T. E. Snodgrass, the Claypool’s general ‘manager, found the key in Ris mail this week. It was embellished by a 5-cent stamp and has a blurred postmark. The key itself is a three-inch type attached to a two-and-one-half-inch by five-inch metal tag. How it wound up here, Mr. Snodgrass has no idea, nor where it was sent from, or why anyone would trouble to put a 5-cent stamp on it and send it on its way. For the time being the mystery remains just an addition to the multitude of stories about the famous old house and to Mr. Snodgrass’ file of absent-minded—but honest—customers.

COTTON’S . USES MANY .

. Cotton is spun into 50 types of yarn and woven into a hundred basic types of fabric.

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| Regent street. Taxis, jeeps and|

JAP GENERAL WARNS PEOPLE OF INVASION

By UNITED PRESS The Tokyo radio has fold the Japanese people that American and British troops intend to land in Japan and “wipe' out completely the entire Japanese race,” the federal communications commission said today. : The commentator was. identified as a Lieut.-Gen. Ishimura, a veteran of the Malayan campaign, “The enemy is now frantic in preparation and expansion of military strength, and in event they effect a landing in Japan,” he said, “they intend to wipe out completely the entire Japanese race.”

MARION MILL BURNED

MARION, March 11 (U, PJ). — Fire yesterday caused damage of more than $2500 at the Hoosier soybean mills. The fire, believed caused when sparks from a motor fired dust particles, will force the plant to suspend several days.

trucks clatter along with dim yel-

low beams. Huge double-decked busses emerge from the gloom like

Overhead thousands of stars splatter the sky, sharp and clear as from a Vermont hill. Some nights huge searchlights switch on, throwing tremendous beams across the sky, lighting the whole area almost as bright as a Hollywood 'premier at Grauman’s Chinese theater. When the moon shines, London's ancient sooty buildings, bathed in a ghostly light, look thousands of years old with myriads of chimneypots silhouetted against the sky. Americans wander through the streets saying: hope theyll keep the blackout. It is too beautiful to lose.”

But other nights the fog closes}

in, seeps into buildings and fils the streets like an unseen curtain. Those are the nights when Londoners and Americans, too—if they are wise—keep indoors. Flashlights cannot pick out street names 15 feet from the ground. Even veteran London cabbies park their wheezing machines and give up for the

night. Surprise Americans The most startling fact about the London blackout to Americans fresh from the other side is the apparent brilliance of illumination. Light in London streets appears sharp and fresh in contrast to the

dingy drabness of Broadway and

42d st. under dimout conditions. The reason actually is the complete blackout of all windows, doors and building lights. The second surprise is the throngs in the streets. From darkness to

midnight, the principal London|

streets, pardenlanly Piesacily. are crowded. v

CENTRAL METHODIST

TO HEAR OVERLEY |

Toner M. Overley, manager of the

] ‘wrote, “for crurageous service to his {combat organization of fellow Amer-

“After the war I

“Your son Tas been awarded an Gen. Kenney

NEW DEAL SMEARING

WASHINGTON, March 11 (U.P). ~ Chairman Harrison E. Spangler of the Republican national committee warned party leaders today to keep aert for “sniearing tactics” by new d:al Democrats in an already active campaign to “perpetuate President Roosevelt in the White House.” In a statement mailed to Republizan leaders throughout the country, he declared “this foreign technique of political purge and liquidation can be (lefeated and destroyed if all of us are vigilant.” “With this drive has come a new wave of smearing and below the helt attacks on any who oppose the new deal,” he said.* - Spangler cliarged that the “smear technique” i¢ aimed at destroying the Republican party’s confidence in its own purposes and the character of its leadership. “On Washington's birthday, honoring the father of our country, President Roosevelt turned from quoting scripture to imply that all who labor to correct the shortcomings of the new deal are to be

tools of Hitler,” he said. “On the same evening, Vice Pros ident Wallace poured out over th air a new smear upon former Pre ident Hoover -— presumably because Mr. Hoover has sought to prevent a breakdown of the nation’s food supply in the wale of 10 years of mis-~

enemy aircraft. . . + He aided con-

SPANGLER WARNS OF

clessed with Benedict Arnold, or are];

oid ne the Battlefields in Teason|

deep Called Rough Rider.” : ayrmams " 'WITH AMERICAN FORCES,

"| Central Tunisia, March 9 (Delayed),

re be | —Theres another Gen. Teddy

Trades Child for Food in Germany . ‘By. UNITED PRESS A German father who ‘traded one of his triplet children for food has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for violating a regulation against bartering, according to the Vienna newspaper, Wiener Neusste Nachrichten. The office of war information

today received a copy of the newspaper which reported that the father ran an advertisement in another paper which said: “I will exchange one of my triplets against food.” Police were said to have traced the advertiser to Peine, Germany, and to have found that he actually had made a trade.

2 HOOSIERS KILLED IN BOMBER CRASH

AVON PARK, Fla., March 11 (U. P.).—Army officials announced today that five fliers were killed and two slightly injured in the crash of a medium bomber yesterday at Drew field, Tampa.

The dead included 2d Liuet. Elmer O. Bischmann, Evansville, Ind., and Victor R. Tharpe, Dana, Ind. Officials said the bomber crashed in an emergency landing on a rou-

planning by Mr. Wallace.”

tine flight from Elgin field, Fla.

‘Congratulations,

platoon to reach its objective.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr., roams the battlefield as a combination assist

1 ant commanding general and 3 cheer

leader. % He loves the smell of gunpowder. He's happiest ‘when standing in a topless jeep, his steel helmet slightly askew and bouncing from company to company, inspecting his men, inspecting observation posts and inspecting the enemy, when ever he can get close enough, Ww Stick Is Deadly

He climbs the rocky Tunisian hills with a jaunty step, flourishing a walking stick. His habit of returning salutes ‘with that walking stick sometimes endangers the lives and limbs of his companions.

~ But it's fun to tear around with

him. Jostling along a muddy, bumpy road, he recites poems, reeling off verse after verse. He hums tunes, When some of his men approach in a truck, he stands up in the front seat of his jeep and shouts: “You're looking good today, boys,” or “you going to give it to them, boys?”

Visits Men Often

The grinning soldiers salute and shout replies. He makes a-practice of visiting his men two or three times weekly. He knows the mess sergeants by name and always asks if the boys: are eating all right, He usually winds up drinking a cup ‘of black coff pany mess. - { Teddy Jr. he’s 55—doesn’t sit back waiting for the fighting to come to him, He goes out and finds it. He commanded a combat team that attacked Oran from the west during the invasion last Nov. 8; and was with the first infantry

nit.

— PR

from the come

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Better Business Bureau, will speak lon “Vibrations and Emanations” at the weekly church night program of the Central Avenue Methodist church tonight. Dinner will be served at 6 o'clock] by group 1 of the Women’s Society of Christian Service. ‘Ralph W. Wright will lead a community sing, and Dr. F. Marion Smith, pastor of the church, will conduct the devotional period. Music will be by the Central Avenue quartet. Mrs. Arno Siefker, group 1 presi- % : ; dent, and Mrs. Clifford Plummer, ; ii : ’ dinner chairman, are planning the Ayres’ joins the rest of Indianapolis in offering felicitations to our

dinner. 3,000 Girl Scouts and leaders on their 31st birthday. We also want

LOCAL AIR oh BET ASH to honor them for their help in furthering the war. fortis sale

The death of an Indianapolis aviation cadet was announced yesterday following the fatal plane crash of Noble Brewster Jr., near Stockton field, Cal. : Cadet Brewster was flying a: twomotored training ship. He was 22 and the son of Mrs. Mabel Brewster.

A SALUTE Also killed in the crash was Har-

lh the Men and Women of FIRE DESTROYS SCHOOL

"PACKARD MANUFACTURING CORP.

last night destroyed the five-room,

GIRL SCOUTS

On Your 31st Birthday, Friday, March 12!

of war stamps and bonds . . . supplying. cookies to service men's clubs—and for their ‘services given on the home front . . , to de-

.fense agencies, community organizations, hospitals, playgrounds and

other welfare agencies. . You've done a swell job, girls! =

brick school house at Haw Creek} {center, causing loss ‘of more than 1$35,000. A defective flue was believed to have caused: the fire.

SY Today, wherever you find American armed forces, at home or in foreign service, there you will find the war products of Packard Manufacturing Corp. doing an effective job for « our men and our Allies.

Little more than a year has. passed since Packard completed its conversion

from Genie to war production.’ The products we are making, for tanks, planes ‘Make up in a few se ¢ on ds.. a :

and guns, were Ye unfamiliar fo Packard men and women and presented many Jook lovely for hours

problems. But they sackled the job with the same spirit that is: ‘winning the war. They have worked hard, and long, ond well. Individually they have met the most ‘exacting spociliatiess. Working + as a 3 leq, they have delivered the ® goods—

on time!