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BERLIN BLASTED AGAIN BY R.A.

Axis Transport Attacked by

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Floods at A Glance

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“Bessie” Inspects the paint brand on & porkers back. Some Sunshine Gardens residents marked thele livestock for iMentification,

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The weatherman says it has rained 13 days in the last 14 days. Whe can remember the one day it didn't?

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La, 3 x ¥ >] Some Residents Back! ¥ » Up Debris. Ry EARL RICHERT A : White river at 15.2 feet here and | Indianapolis weather bureau for falling; peril diminishes. tonight and tomorrow gave sup- | White and Wabash receding upWN |ting unexpected heavy rains, Whe giream; rising in lower basins. [vo of the flood is over here L A: Reve aid: hor dog receding both here and at More than 3000 homeless in LI ! ’ 5 A - [points above Indianapolis. The! ‘est Terre Haute in worst dis . 10th st.) le ® showed a drop from 1835 feet at 8 OPA Ceilings BOMBER HITS !|City and County Property ein and the river was still falling this ‘afternoon ® » = | \ : ’ May Close ! BIG GAS TANK uffers $200,000 Damage | The Indianapolis Water Co. Ye- Points south of Vincennes guard Flood damage to roads, streets, bridges, sewers and parks may amount| strengthen levees, © near $200000 in Indianapolis and Marion county, officials estimated £ n ; SN units assigned to stricken and By HELEN RUEGAMER Craft Takes Fire water recedes, officials of both city and county governments said many t nes at areas. Nany Indianapolis wholesale and | | miles of washed out street and roads would have to be rebuilt. After Crash. Io Yom | Bast fork of White rising at in that way for the remainder of the r because of lack of » St Iork © ute rising a © Close their doors and house. | tues, ? ye Ripple dam was 73 feet over the) goymour and Shoals, but no * * dam at 11 a. m., a drop of 42 since canbed goods as a result of the new Jge UL 8. army bomber, fying —————————— wees Ww hrough bad weather, crashed into an Although the water is receding, OPA celle prices which went into (hrough bad : it is expected to be several days bes est side of Chicago todny, burst Damaged Here Of Roads Ruined A ee ay ur wih _. eh nid oo getaped with | flooded areas in Ravenswood and bh Naan ¥ } 3 > i 5 RY . N AJ ALS wholesalers - and retailers as they By SHERLEY UNL By NOBLE REED Sunshine Gaidens. Some ‘of the food § By . coil. | Eyewitnesses sa ing Brice: oy ne oy ot n 350 feet high over the reservoit. by no means subsided with receding highway crisis in its history when |tively high grounds in these areas : {€th service command said the plane ihe frying pan, into the fire” for timated 30 to 40 mil t th \ [immediately started cleaning up| . Grocers Seek Reliet ‘ miles of thorough ¢ premises. However, Engineers Fear Was & BN Wowmuer Hom Tarant, the city fathers, nok iucned fares washed out or damaged and . | ’ 9 and vegetables, juices and! ‘That type of plane customarily 'to make an over-all est Big and Little Eagle creeks also) foods. Some letailers re- carries six to eight men. ‘flood damage inflicted on city-! County commissioners and Nights) enthuse to recede. The flood Come the total . X : : { ws the articles, and several in Marquette park, and Joseph the severe drenching has admin. damage to roads and brid TRY . be A b a Ri y ~ Mn Res in the - HEZE CLARK cuses were withholding Meyer, an automobile testing lane istered a near-fatal stroke to the county might run $75.000 to $100,000. LOCAL GIRL. 15. By could secure relief from Washing. flying about 50 feet high crack into; Works Board President Harmon exiva money in the county budget SHOT AT ELWOO ERR Ha aay a ton the side of the towering gas tank. Campbell, one of several authorities yo spend on roads. g n Horii cedure. the housewives will be un- trouble” Krantz said. “I saw it hit the crisis, ventured to say that the Situation Critical | ELWOOD, Ind, May 20.—Miss) of ROMS Tetre Haute was still able to purchase the canned items the side of the gas tank and flames city street and sewer system probe! “UhleSs ‘we can get some emer Laura Ida Smith, 15, of Indian-|intact this afternoon but engineers yo : “ | " y p s shot! A lavor battalion of more than pendent grocery shelves runs out. turned in the fire alarm. [of “from $75,000 to $100000.° And where, the county road situation Mercy hospital after she was | . ) The National Wholesale Grocers) The gas tank stands 130 feet high. that estimate excludes inroads on will be more critical this year than | Vith a 32-caliber revolver here this| 500 men continued to work fran(Continued on Page Six) | Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. said levees, dams and parks. sioner William T. Ayres, She gave WH Eneiampogs ndress) Satidbge Ugulnsh . US. Ok Dues “ i 3 Las st. |W A the plane fell inside the gas tank. Many Ate Clogged Adding to the road dilemma Is Mr. Campbell the county's share of the state gas [apolis, are being held by state po-| 18 hours, thought, probably will be the sewer gline tax ‘mohey,’ leaving only lice for questioning, They are Issue General Alarm MAY BUY COLLEGE a thorough check-up. he said it Was earmarked * for construction of |Groover, 20, whose home Is in yesterday for nearby residents to : WASHINGTON, May 20 (U. P).— likely that washouts had occurred «must® roads for necessary war |Indianapolis but is now stationed evacuate the area as soon as posNegotiates for Central sufficient numbers to care for alll Hundreds of smaller drainage | If all the roads in the county According to police, the group|eight-block area didn't wait for the axis prisoners captured in North conduits are clogged with muck and pow under water have to be re- drove this morning to Elwood)further signs of breaks. They Negotiations are under way for country, Secretary of War Henry L. out by city crews before they can mile to do it. totaling around $90. entered a store, leaving Miss Smith | and hurriedly jammed into the the taking over of the Central Nok Stimson disclosed today. be placed back into efficient opera- goo, commissioners said. Replacing And Mr. Krauss in the car. When streets, today as well as other types of labor per. date was at Raymond st. and Ken- | {the right breast, Police said she every available vehicle and trekked One meeting has been held py Missible under the articles of the tucky ave, where a large line from’ ga. m. ... 60 10 a. m. ... 68 Was still conscious when they ar-/toward the high points in the cen : 1. 11am i) . : ; ena i or . J ery in the and another is scheduled fi studied by the war department, washed out. Much of the repair, 8 a.m. .. Krauss shot her. Mr, Krauss de-| The faces of every one near future. but both pollo the Stimson said. (Continued on Page Six) Sam ... 8 1pm ... 7 inied the shooting. (Continued on Page Four) * . It reported that the Farm Babies, Aged and Cri

Prison camps have already been es- at outlet points for several of the traffic, leaving nothing for the With the army at Newport News, sible, mal college at Danville by the In. Plans for the disposition of pris. tion, he pointed out. (Continued on Page Four) | they returned to the car, Miss| They piled huge bundles on autofuse to discuss the matter pending! ~ + F Fl d T Bureau, if it takes over the coliege, PP! Y would establish commercial courses AAA aE : \ A 4 Se for the training of bookkeepers and NR \ \ WR other secretarial help for its coj operatives. Animal husbandry and j other agricultural short courses also f would be established, it is said.

The college, which is operated by ! {(Centinued on Page Four)

Home Cleaning A “no rain” forecast by the *2 { » » . E port to the official belief that, bare » » * | The swirling White river walers . Sunshine Gardens evacuees, [were government gauge on W | Aster in years, 'P. mM. yesterday to 152 at ¥ a. m.| from homes, ported that the river at the Bioad against new swells in Wabash and S S | ome Jdtores to hes . Servicemen and civilian defens All on Board Killed as Huge Although an accurate check of the damage cannot be made until id civilian defense r WARS $." 8 retail grocers may find it nee sary) They warned that much of the damaged public property may have] wives face possible shortages in! OHICAGO. May 0 (U. P) =A serious consequences feared, . . . Streets, Sewers More Than 30 Miles 5 lamina tiy s tank on the southget wis yea ey oe fore the overflow clears from the brad out , Of nts. i : pointed out that they cannot sell all its occupa id flames leaped City administration troubles have’ Marion county will face the worst ‘persons having homes on comparas« AT TERRE i AUTE profit, {The public relations officer for the flood waters, Its a case of “out Of flood waters recede. leaving an es. feturned to their homes today and — @ items affected include canned Field, Tex. Officials today | The waters In Fall creek and in| . imate of four bridges wrecked, That Break Still May they would discontinue, Frank Krantz greenhouse keeper gwned property. but all agreed that way officials estimated (Continued on Page Four) the sale of canned foods until they official in the park. saw the ship already strained municipal treasurY. And theres not near that much | Times Sl Welter q § A ° ¥ ver If the grocers follow this pro-| “The plane appeared to be in who labored day and night during | Times Speeia ing the raging Wabash river out after the present supply on inde. leaped 330 feet high. I ran and ably suffered flood wear-and-tear gency appropriations from some- apolis, is in a critical condition at feared it might break any minute, association is seeking relief from’ Charles Anderson, foreman at the other municipal property such as! in our memory,” declared Commis |MO ning. | teally, stacking up hundreds of ; es —————— the recént reduction of $128.000 in| Three companions. all of Indian- | through the levee for more than Hardest hit, HINT FARM BUREAU vu. s. camps Reavy FOR AXIS PRISONERS system. Although its too early for 972000. This balance all has been Glenn Krauss, 28; Robert E.| A general alarm was issued late tablished in the United States in larger feeder sewers. flood emergency. Va. and Miss Jean Bell, 20. More than 1000 residents in an Normal of Danville. Africa that will be received by this debris that will have to be scraped puilt. it will cost about $3000 a Where Mr. Groover and Miss Bell packed their personal belongings diana Farm Bureau, it was learned Oners and their use for farm work, Biggest sewer break discovered to) ei im— | Smith had been shot once through mobiles, bicycles, wheelbarrows and HOURLY TEMPERATURE college and farm bureau officials Geneva convention, are being the West side defense area was, Ya mm rived and told them that Mu. ter of town, 62 12 (noom) .. 1? a final decision

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Soldier Dies InN. Afri niv. rica Killed | PVT. CLARENCE MOSSBER- | GER, an Evansville resident who ! had served overseas since June, | 1942, was killed in action Feb 17 | in North Africa. Pvt. I 1 was stationed in Iveland before | going to the African war area. } ® 2 = Prisoners (Italy) i CPL. HENRY C. BRACKEN, | husband of Mrs. Bernice Bracken, 515 N. Linwood ave, is a prisoner |

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VINCENNES WAITS BLO TERRE HAUTE SUFFERS IVER DIPS

Bnd of rain in city and state |

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FLOOD IS OVER

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Biggest Swell Is Yet To Come in Lower | Wabash.

(See Map of State Flood Areas Page 10) By LEO DAUGHERTY Vincennes and other downs state cities and towns today [feared the worst flood disaster lin years as waters boiled down {the channels of the Wabash and West fork of the White river, West Terre Haute already was | suffering its most disastrous deluge [since 1913. An estimated 3000 pere

‘sons in that area alone have fled from their homes, Red Cross officials here estima that more than 11,000 in scattere. jparts of the state have left their | homes and countless more homes and rich farmlands in the south threatened with inundation.

Third of State Hit

The death toll reached six, all drowned in swollen. streams. Elliott Moses, assistant regional director of the Red Cross, said here that a preliminary survey showed about one-third of the state's 98 | counties have been hit in some dee {gree by high water and continue {ous rains, The U. S. weather bureau here | for the first time in days issued one optimistic word to flooded and threatened areas when it promised an end to the rains. Streams north of Indianapolis were receding after taking thelr toll in unestimated damage to homes, their furnishings and farms and livestock. But the great swell was yet to {strike at the lower White and Wabash basins,

400 Leave in Allen

The army, navy, state guard, state and local agencies and civilian |forces moved along the threatening Wabash from Newport, above Cline ton, southward through Terre Haute and Vincennes to Mt. Carmel, Ill, where the stream and the White converge and threaten a major swell, While damage threats diminished in up-stream areas, Wabash, Peru, Logansport, Delphi and Lafayette still suffered heavy crop and prope erty losses, The Maumee at Ft. Wayne still endangered the east dike, bolstered with sandbags all night long by civilians and soldiers from Baer field and Camp Scott. A United Press report said 400 (Continued on Page Four)

OSBORN IS ACTING ALLISON MANAGER Appointment of C. R, Osborn of {Detroit as acting general manager of the Allison division of General Motors was announced today by R. K. Evans, vice president of General Motors. : He succeeds F. C. Kroeger, who is on an extended leave of absence due to illness. Mr. Osborn has been assistant to Mr, Evans for the past several years

and has been connected with Gene eral ‘Motors for 22 years, spending

were

many of them abroad.

In announcing the appointment,

Bh Mr. Evans said that Mr. Osborn has

had broad experience in engineers ing, manufacturing and distribution and is familiar with the organiza tion and activities at Allison's, His new duties begin at once.

IMAGINE ERNIE'S SURPRISE

In a Tunisian farmyard Ernie Pyle found a winds mill. On the big fan he read: "Flint & Walling Man« ufacturing Co., Kendallville, Ind." Ernie writes: "You just can't get foreign enough to lose us Hoosiers,"

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