Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1943 — Page 11

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CADET TRAINING P

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Edwin Cohan, | Wait Until After His Next Birthday.

Eleven Indianapolis men between the ages of 18 and 26 have been accepted for army aviation cadet training and will report to their selective service boards for immediate induction.

They are Fred B. McCord, 1823 E. 69th st.; Robert D. Spurry, 210312 Central ave.; Frederick H. Mendenwald, 21 N. Tremont st.; Roy M. Brown, R. R. 12; Gayther IL. Plummer, 1324 S. Sherman dr.; Jesse L. Miller, 4905 W. 15th st.; Joseph D. McCain, 3901 Prospect st.: James E. Burchfield, 4737 Cornelius ave.: Conrad Black, 2439 Mars Hill st: William L. Walker, 6607 Ferguson st.,, and Dale Hasler, 1638 ChristoTpher lane,

Seventeen-year-old Edwin H. Cohan, 2826 Park ave. will be called to active training duty within six months after he becomes 18. = Cpl. Kenneth C. Dreyer, son of Bir and Mrs. Lucien J. Dreyer, 1706 N. Delaware st, is a recent graduate from Chanute field (Ill) of the army air forces technical training command.

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= Four local men are among the 397 bluejackets who have been| graduated from the navy’s school

for aviation machinists and metal- | smiths and diesel operators at navy | | |

pier at Chicago. Promoted to aviation machinist’s| mates 3-c are Marvin Albert Poore, | son of Mr. and Mrs, Charles A. Poore, 341 S. Lyons st.; Philip William Sims, son of Mr. and Mrs. | Willard L. Sims, 2931 E. New York! st., and Robert Allen Sones, son of | Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Sones, 3845 Ken- | wood ave. | Orville Ray Young, son of Mrs. | Carrie Young, 2391; N. Temple ave., received the rating of fireman 2-c. |

Studies at Keesler

A new student at the Keesler field, Miss., B-24 Liberator mechan- | school is Pfc. Fred W. Rich-| ardson, son of Mrs. Maude Rich- | ardson, 639 Eugene st. He was re- | cently promoted and selected for! technical training as a result of the |

high scores he received in his army | | mechanical aptitude tests.

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Board 10 inducted the following men into the army and navy this week : _Navy—Norman Lee Barlow, deman ave.; Robert Ewing Jr, ant st.: William Allen Rouse, st., and Ernest Walter S. Rural st. ¥- Army—Charles Arthur Summers, 1746 St. ! § Paul : Angus Garfield Eldridge, 953 S. Capitol ave. Isom Parham, 1262 hart st, William Frizell Woodard, Ss. Keystone ave. James Henry Shemell, 2401 Bethel ave.. Charleston Edward McPherson, 1732 Calvin st.; John Jones, 2862 Tindall st.. and Bennie John Henry EasTey, 1316 Kevstone ave.

Gets Basic Training

Pvt. Earl B. Thacker, 1220 Park ave, will receive basic training as an ordnance soldier at the ordnance replacement training center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Ernest Dillehay, 3906 W. Washington st., son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dillehay, was promoted to private first class at the same station. He was inducted May 21, 1942,

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Aux. Violet Hammon, sister of Miss Martha Hammon, 127 Johnson ave. arrived at Keesler field, Miss, this week with the first contingent of WAACs to report for duty at this unit of the AAF technical training command.

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A recent graduate of the AAF flexible gunnery school, Kingman, Ariz. it Robert L. Zahn, 19-year-old son of Mrs. Alice M. Duncan, 2111 Napoleon st. Pvt. Zahn attended Manual high school. He entered the army Nov. 13, 1942.

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Jy Completes Training

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Pfe. Lowell C. Williams has been |

graduated as a skilled aircraft mechanie from the technical school at Seymour Johnson field, N. C. He is the son of Mrs. Jewell Williams, 1306 Sugar Grove st. Before enterMine the army, he was employed at Allison's. He is a graduate of Technical high school.

Pfe. Robert Pawlinson, formerly of 3014 W. 10th st. graduated from the AAF technical training commands airplane mechanic's school at Roosevelt field, N. Y. this week and is eligible to apply for training as an aerial gunner.

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O. T. Sherman §S. L. Taylor Jr.

Crouch, son of Mrs. Beatrice Crouch, 622 E. 21st st.; Samie L. Taylor Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Taylor Sr, Box 2, Westfield, and Clifford E. Henderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Henderson, Shelbyville, and husband of Mrs. C. E. Henderson, same address.

C. A. Crouch C. E. Henderson

Four Hoosiers, including two from Indianapolis, have received their wings as aerial gunners at the army gunnery school, Harlingen field, Tex. They are: Oral T. Sherman, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sherman, 247 N. Beville ave.; Claybourne A.

Handbills Fell on Tripoli; Lt. Wells Sends Copy Here

Prior to the allied occupation of Tripoli, residents of the former Italian possession in North Africa were bombarded by American hand-

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3s HARNESS CHES FOR ON DRAFT

Says Attitude in Fortas Case ‘Upsets Entire

Procedure.’

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 19 —Praising 32-year-old Abe Fortas, whose home town is Memphis, for his willingness to resign his post as undersecretary of interior and enter the armed services, Rep. Forest Harness (R. Ind.) castigated hoth President. Roosevelt and Interior Secretary Tckes for making public statements against this move. As a member of the house military affairs subcommittee investigating such matters, Mr. Harness took the floor to point out that President Roosevelt’s statement in the Fortas case “upset the whole draft law procedure.” “I am perfectly willing to accept

Aris Prisoners Get Daily Pay

. May 19 (U. P)). enlisted men captured and wr to this country receive 80 cents a day plus food, clothing, medical care and housing if they are assigned to work on farms or elsewhere. If they are not put to work, they receive 10 cents a day plus maintenance, The Geneva convention governing treatment of prisoners of war permits captors to order prisoners to work at any job which does not directly aid the war effort. Jobs such as making or handling munitions are banned.

NAVY SEABEES NEED CONSTRUCTION MEN

Lt. Roger Kramer, Seabee pro- | curement officer for Indiana, announced today that 150 men were interviewed last week for appointments as petty officers in the navy construction corps. He said that more skilled carpenters were needed as they would be of primary importance in con-

LEARN TO MAKE SUPER-VITAMIN

Synthesis of Biotin, Worth

$4,000,000 an Ounce, Is Acomplished.

NEW YORK, May 19 (U. P.).—

Discovery of a synthetic biotin, the super-vitamin valued at the rate of $4.000,000 an ounce, is announced

in the current issue of Science!

official organ of the American As-

sociation for the Advancement of]

Science. The synthesis resulted from research at the laboratories of Merck & Co., Rahway, N. J., the announce-|

{ment said.

Only one-tenth of an ounce of] biotin is available in the world and! only minute amounts have been! available to scientists. Biotin, a member of the B vitamins, was extracted in 1936 from 550 pounds of dried yolks of duck eggs. The announcement said results of assays with synthetic biotin on bacteria “show that it has a bio-

'A Taste of Flak' Might Alter | Lewis’ Attitude, Say Fliers

A former Indianapolis resident, bombardier, a former Pennsylvania {now an army lieutenant with the coal miner and a member of Mr, 8th air force bomber station over- Lewis’ union, who said: “I thought seas, has sent The Times a copy I had a hard time in the coal mine, of an article in the Stars and but after putting in 21 missions Stripes, ' army newspaper, dealing over here, I figure I'm lucky to be with John L. Lewis and the coal alive. situation. | "Lots of those miners have kids He is 1st Lt. Bernie Archer, whose, here and in Africa. I don't believe home here is at 505 8. LaClede st. | that they should have gone on He sent the article, he explained, strike—it’s too much like stabbing because it is “a true picture of the!their own kids in the back.” general attitude of the armed| The article continues with des | forces in Jfhis and all theaters of goriptions of the sacrifice and operation. danger faced daily by bomber crews; | ‘Lucky to be Alive’ and states that the airmen feel “& | According to the article, an “in-| taste of flak over St. Nazaire or & | vitation” is extended to Mr, Lewis | bout with Focke Wulfs over Bree to accompany pilots, co-pilots and | men would forcibly alter the opine other airmen of the 8th air force ions of Mr. Lewis.” q | station on their next mission over| At a bomber base, the article | Europe, and continues with: “This| states, “the life expectancy of & base has suffered particularly grave combat crew is considerably shcgteft casualties on the last three opera-| than that of miners digging in the tions.” filmiest bootleg pit. It is hard} It quotes Lt. William Colantoni,| therefore, for bomber crews to une derstand the mewlings and pukings of disgruntled civilian groups al home.”

Family Unhurt as

at face value the report that Mr. Fortas is ready, for his own part, to resign his civilian post and offer himself for induction,” Mr. Harness

bills. ‘a copy was sent home by 1st Lt. John E. Wells, army air forces navigator, now missing in action. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert

W. Wells, 4937 Hillside ave. The handbill was inclosed in a letter to a sister, Mrs. Bertha

struction of advance invasion bases. All skilled construction workers, between 17 and 50, are being con-

logical activity equal to that of the natural biotin.”

Plane Hits Home |oASUALTIES GROW

sidered, however.

Scientists said the synthesis of

biotin, which stimulates growth, LOS ANGELES, May 19 (U. P.).

IN SHIP EXPLOSION

| Bhornbrosugh and Rex Nichols. Dial was named 1st sergeant.

| Julius,

Schrader. Written in Italian the

message was translated for The] | Times by Dr.

Gino A. Ratti, dean of the college of liberal arts and; sciences at Butler university. It

reads: (On the side showing the heel |

with the swastika), LAST WARNING TO THE CITY OF TRIPOLI German War

The Germans will sacrifice your soldiers at Alamein. Do not let

| them sacrifice your property in

Tripoli in the German interest. (On the other side)

LAST WARNING TO THE CITY OF TRIPOLI

In a few days, in a few hours, Tripoli will be in our hands. But first the Germans will try to demolish the city in order to delay

our pursuit and to give them- |

selves a breathing spell. Every single demolition:

1. Will close our advance out- | = side Tripoli, will force us to bom- |= =

bard the Germans within Tripoli. | 2. Will increase disoccupation (work stoppage), epidemics, after the disappear-

| ance of the Germans,

OFFICIALS, ENGINEERS, TECHNICIANS, GUARDS, AGENTS OF THE ITALIAN PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (like American policemen), for all the courageous people who have not been evacuated—it is up to you to reduce to a minimum the losses and destruction. For that reason:

| Hasten the passage of the Ger- | mans through Tripoli,

removing Tripoli as a miliatry target. Oppose every German attempt to demolish the public utilities.

TO SAVE YOURSELVES FROM THE BOMBARDMENT: | OUT WITH THE GERMANS! |

In the letter to his sister which | accompanied the handbill, Lt. Wells | wrote, “Inclosed you will find a|

printed warning which was dropped |

on Tripoli in January before its fall. . . . I guess it's all right to!

say I helped in the fall of Tripoli,

by bombing it or at least being a party concerned.” According to the war depattment |

(telegram, Lt. Wells has been miss-

ing in North i Noy, Shun since ns 1!

privations and |

Busy Nurse

Miss Eva Reynolds, Once Retired, Is Back at Work.

Miss Eva Reynolds

WAR AND an acute shortage of skilled nurses has brought Miss Eva Reynolds, R. N., back to active duty at the Methodist hospital. Miss Reynolds, who retired sev-

in February, 1942, and has achieved a perfect attendance rec-

1 declared.

[in his way to embarrass him. The]

Blames Administration

“In faci, he is to be commended for this attitude and to be consoled for the official attitude which stands fault Jies not with Mr. Fortas, or 8 other young men in government who may be caught in this difficult situation, but with the administration pelicy in such cases. “Secretary Ickes’ position in the matter, while understandable, is!

eral years ago, returned to duty imuch of the “indispensable man”,

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hardly in keeping with spirit we! should expect from government, which certainly ought to set an example of sacrifice for the rest of the country. “As regrettable as is the position | taken by Secretary Ickes in this instance, however, the president's action in the matter is even less ex-| cusable. President Roosevelt is the highest authority in all draft classification questions. He literally is the court of last appeal. As such, it is unthinkable that he attempts, as he has in the Fortas case, to circumvent regular selective service routine, and to prajudge a case before it comes to him in the gwar: order of appeal. “Whether he so intended it or not, his statement on this case can hardly be interpreted as anything but an attempt to direct the deci-! sion of the local draft board which is supposed to determine Mr. Fortas’ status.”

‘None Is Indispensable’ The president's stand smacks too

Mr. Harness said and concluded: “In no case is an individual he |

| base hospital 38 during world war

I. She has many years experéence as superintendent of nurses, a private duty nurse and hydrotherapist. At one time she did private work in California, traveling to her patients by burro team and stage coach. She owns a farm, which is rented to her nephew. Despite a full schedule at the hospital, she tends 10 acres of the farm herself, devoting the land

| to chickens and vegetables.

WASHINGTON HIGH NAMES ROTC CHIEFS

The appointment of officers and Butler university student publica- | Wife has a $5600 position as a govnoncommissioned officers of ‘the tion, was;edited this week by 14 ernment attorney in the justice deROTC of Washington high school | journalism students from Manual partment. hy. Trey nave have no Ho Childieh

were announced today by Sgt. John E. Boric, military instructor.

Captains appointed are Clyde Smith! Jr., Charles Boschen and John L. Courtney; 1st lieutenants, George Krees and | Don O. Todd: 2d lieutenants, Dalton J. DeHart and Donald F. Wade; staff Se geants, Richard F. Miller, Hicks, John Ashcroft, Robert Borgmann,

Hardy William Shite: Albert Winter, Bill Fdwin

Sergeants are Albert Lee Jr, Dennis| Hilliard, Lester H. King. Pete Kazacofl James Southworth, George Crafton, Jack Crin, Johnny Rush, Clifford Butler, Rob-| ert Patterson, Harvey Cates, Kenn Quantz, Robert Sprowl, Walter Keene. Ray Chambers, Cecil Wagner, Bén Bogu | Coy Crank, Robert Tucker, Chastes | Christy Boshkoff, Earl Reuter. | Mac Day, Walter Mears, Denzil Kincaid |.

|and Wayne Muetzel. | _Corpoerals named include Robert

Deakin, {Fred Baker, Albert B. Hohn, Harold! | Monroe, William Tyron, Leonard Ratclif, Perry Kirkham, Frank Weist, Jack {| Bugher, Bruno Florenncig, William Mec-| Cafferty, Myron Fall, Bill Brittain, | Joseph Saba, Perry Miller, Bill Hodges, |' Gene Sircussa, Robert McQuinn, David | | Wheeler. Norris Canbrall, Billy Wider, | | Pete Sidery and Richard Cast. | Dwight Henderson, Jack Kirk, Robert! McMillan, Roland Littrell and Robert! Heintz were named band ants. Banal corporals are Harry Litchfield. Rober: Jones, Louis Kuzacoff, Kenneth Barding, | Marshall Brown and Kenneth Williams.

CREDIT UNION LEAGUE HOLDS MAY MEETING

The central chapter of the Credit Union league will hold its Nay meeting, concluding spring activities, at 7:30 p. m. today Lincoln hotel. C. L. Hughes of Armour and Co. is chairman of a discussion group on “Lioans.” Newly-elected officers!

MANUAL PUPILS EDIT BUTLER COLLEGIAN

A guest issue of the Collegian,

Training high school, who visited | the Butler campus. Ai Tavenor, Manual senior, was editor-in-chief of the special issue. Other editors were Doris Colligan, city editor; Helen Carter and Mary | Cory, society editors; Mary Fritsche, |

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make-up editor and Molly Cohen,

| copy editor. Reporters were Rosalind Hoffman, | Bernard Horwitz, Betty Strols, Rosa- | {lie Elkin, Virgil Cronley, Almarie| | Hoffman, Dorothy Reinacker and] Libby Kipp. Miss Gretchen A. Kemp, journal- | ism instructor and sponsor of The Booster, Manual paper, accompanied the SD:

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“King of the Drums” entered the jcounty jail to serve three months lafter he pleaded guilty to contrib-

| Pateakos, 20, his valet.

PURITAN LODGE 1.0.0.F.

FOUNDED 52 YEARS

The 52d anniversary of the found- | |ing of the Puritan lodge, I. 0. 0. F., | | will be observed May 26 in municipal gardens. Soldiers from Harrison will be guests at an anni-| versary dinner to be held at 6 p. m. The lodge was founded on May | 26, 1891 in Haughviile, a suburb that | | was later incorporated into the city, of Indianapolis. The lodge now owns |

[its hall at 2306 W. il st.

al services

| Progress Rebecca lodge, No. . | will be held Sunday in the Memo-| rial Baptist church. The Rev. |G. Kinsey will preside.

[felony charge that he used the (vouth to transport marijuana cig‘arets last January. Hearing on the

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[replace him in reasonable time. I say that as a general rule, every

[the more ready he should be to

Only in the rarest cases is it difficult or impossible to

man’s responsibility should be measured by the same standards. And the more richly his country has re- | warded the individual in public service, the mors eager he should be | to discharge his full responsibility,

serve with tiie armed forces. “As a public figure, he should indeed desire to stand as an exampie to the rest of the country.” Mr. Harness said today that noth- | ing further is to be done until wn Ey draft board rules. The Indiana congressman comes vom Kokomo where he entered law | practice after being weunded and decorated as a young officer in world war I. Mr. Fortas is married and his|

GENE KRUPA STARTS 3-MONTH JAIL TERM

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (U. P.) —Gene Krupa, tousle-haired| |idol of the hep eats, went to jail last night for contributing to the {delinquency of a minor. The orchestra leader billed as

uting to the delinquency of John

The delinquency charge is a oy demeanor, but Krupa still faces a

| felony was postponed until June 8. Krupa “took it swell,” Jacog Ehr- | (lich, his attorney, said. “He was cheerful and has no complaint.” | The Krupa orchestra is on ° ‘vaca- | [tion,” it was explained. He was arrested here by federal narcotic lagents, who claimed he sent Pateakos to his hotel room to get mariJuana cigarets.

TRAINED FOR WAAC

Completion of plans for training |

navy recruiting station on the 4th] | floor of the federal building. |

ple, North and Illinois sts. Mrs. Allie Hartmann, worthy matron, and| yesterday. John E. Henry, worthy patron, will were withheld pending notification preside.

Interviews may be had at the|, av solve the mysteries of many

avidin, the counterpart of biotin.

NAOMI O.E.S, TO INITIATE Naomi chapter No. 131, O. E. S,

7 KILLED IN BOMBER CRASH CHARLESTON, S. C, May 19 (U.

{will hold initiation ceremonies at| |P.).—Three army officers and four]

non-commissioned men were killed | {when their bomber crashed here | Names of the victims

p. m. tonight in the Masonic tem- |

of the next of kin.

diseases and may shed light on|

—An army fighter plane crashed into a suburban home last night and smashed through the wall of the dining room, where H. B. Otte and his father were having a snack. The pilot was killed. Army officers withheld his name pend- | ing notification of next of kin. | Neither Otte, his father, nor his wife, who was in the kitchen, was hurt.

MOREHEAD CITY, N. C, May 19 (U, P.) ~The casualties in the explosion of a small naval vessel | Monday swelled to six dead and 18 injured today as a board of inves | tigation convened to determine the icause of the tragedy. With the exception of Charles R, | Fowler, 2d class U.S. N. R,, of Laws rence, Kas, all of the injured were | veported in good condition.

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conducting the meeting are Duke Willett T. McQuinn and Mrs, Women radio technicians for service

hical ‘training command at Los E. Hanna, president; Fred Swego, Emily Myers, only charter members In the WAACs was announced to-

Angeles, Pfc. William H. Wallace, Men's Furnishings—Street Floop

son of Mr. and Mrs, George Wallace, Vice President, and Mrs. Don Ver- still living, will be honored at the 9ay by officials of the eivil =e has received training in army air

burg, secretary-treasurer. Sg. forces elerical duties.

sms ecw wad] VA Doin Capacity Dwarfs Nazi Dams Blasted by RAF

promoted to corporal at the army r base, Casper, Wyo. He is the

on of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. O'Brien, 628 E. Vermont st., and is serving

as a refueling operator. . 5 |P).—TVA officials said today that (the dams on the Eder and Mohne The promotion of Cpl. Elden W.! okes, 738 N. Sheffield ave, has

The Eder river dam was described | as 150 feet high and with a storage capacity of 160000 acre feet.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Mav 19 (U.!

A. F. bombers, compare in size with A been announced by air force head- TyAx Ft. Loudoun dm on the Quarters in the Middle East. Tennessee river. Cpl. Stokes, is assigned to the pr gever their reservoir areas are! transportation section of & fAghter puny by comparison with those of | the “war dams,” is about the same group. the authority's dams. ‘height as Ft. Loudoun but is three 5: & 0 The dam blasted on the Mohne times as long. Its storage capacity Pre. Calvin Kirkwod, son of Mrs. river, according to files in the TVA is more than 1.565000 acte feet. ep Sa jarpiatety, Bt 125 feet The Sone dam corporal at Camp Hood, Tex. high, 300) Tou ton « a masonry | heigh Mohne A Moher live AL 15H4{ ie storage capacity of kh or

| feet high and 3870 feet long, and a a storage capacity of 415,000

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rivers in Germany, blasted by R.! TVAs Ft. Loudoun dam is 122

| commission. Applicants will be given eivil serve | ice appointments and called to active duty with the WAAC at the end of the training period. Training periods vary from three to six months. Information and application forms can be secured at the civil | service office in the federal building Gy first or second class post-

HOOSIER BOMBS JAPS IN SURPRISE RAID

Donald Sanxter, Hamilton, Ind. was one of the pilots in a formation, of Liberator bombers which Sur

ttackers returned safely from | a at aie free buning Hat. miles from the Jap<held|