Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1943 — Page 15

[ FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1943

Hoosier Vagabond

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa—(By ~ Wireless)—Two little profiles of men who fight— When I first met Charles P. Stone on a Tunisian hillside he was a major. Within two hours he was a lieutenant colonel, The promotion consisted of nothing more than his regimental commander walking up and telling him about it. Stone is a West Pointer and a regular army man. So was his father before him. “I beat my father by 13 years,” he says proudly. “He was 40 when he got his lieutenant-colonelcy.” Col. Stone goes by the name of Charlie, and. he calls his officers by their first name. He is tall and slender, his hair is short in a crew cut, and he has a front tooth missing. He had a qne-tooth bridge but il came out in battle and he lost it. Despite his rank he sleeps on the ground in the open, with only one hianket. He 1s friendly, but his decisions are quick and positive.

A Hard Man to Rattle

STONE CARRIES a couple of dozen big snapshots of his wife in his pocketbook. His home is at New Brunswick, N. J. He writes one letter a day no matter where he is. He manages to shave every three or four days. He has the ability to ignore all the little clutterings of war that have nothing to do with the action. He is a hard man to rattle. You could see that the whole complicated battle area and its hourly confusing changes were as clear as crystal in his mind. At 27 a battalion commander and a lieutenant colonel, with four big engagements behind him. IT would wager heavy money on him to be a general before the war is over.

8 Sgt. Jack Maple is one of those f The boys of his infantry company say Maple is about a 120 per cent, While he's around he's the kind who makes himself the butt of his own jokes. When a visitor shows up the others gather around just to hear him perform. - Sgt. Maple says he fully intends to be a hero every

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time he's in a battle but somehow there's always so! much suction in his foxhole that he can't get out of it. Sgt. Maple says he expects to be the Sgt. York of this war, but siiice he’s a little slow in starting he has nicknamed himself Sgt. Cork. “What kinda headlines they gonna put on your! piece?” he asked me. “Can you get ‘em to put a big! headline clear across the front page in San Francisco | or Los Angeles saying ‘Sgt. Cork Maple Is Hero of Tunisia?” ; { I told him I would use my influence.

Plans Novel Night Club

MAPLE LIVES at Culver City, Cal. He says he has all the hard luck. He ‘pulled a tiny piece of! shrapnel put of his pocket. It was paper thin and | about thé size of a pinhead. Thats my souvenir,” he said. “It landed on top of my hand and didn’t | even preak che skin.’ |

When I saw it I just looked at it and said: “Cork Maple, if -it had been anybody else in the company it would have gone clear through his hand! and he'd have got the next hospital boat home. Bui you can be smothered by 88s and they won't even] draw blood on you.” Maple has his after-war career all mapped out. | He's going to open a sort of night club in Los Angeles. He will call it the Eighty-eight. All the drinks will have war names, such as Airbust, Stuka, Bouncing Baby and so on. The booths will be foxholes in the floor, and the place will be full of boody traps that. will go off and scare people. “I oughta be able to get somebody to back it,” he says. “There'll still be some suckers left after the war.” | “It sounds good to me.” I said, “but if I put it in; the paper some patriot will steal your idea and have | the club before vou get home. ~~ “That's all right.” he said. “If vou put it in the, paper, that'll be a record that it 1s my idea. Then! if somebody steals it I can sue him. Maybe I'd make more money that way anyhow. Go ahead and put tm.” ! And as I walked down the hil] Sgt. Cork called | after me: i “And don't forget the big headline now! across the front page!”

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum,

STRAW HATS are beginning to blossom out. now that we've had a few nice days. The owners still look a bit self-conscious, though. . . . Seen on Illinois st.: A youth wearing a zoot suit with what may be the beginning of a new fad. He had a pair of very loud suspenders draped over his shoulders, but fastened to nothing. . . . A bit of tragedy was enacted near 30th and Delaware yesterday mo:ning. A bus rider reports seeing a car parked at the curb with a rapidly flattening tire. It was. still hissing, A man, apparently the owner, was down on his Knees, anxiously feeling the tire. Four passengers were grouped around him registering such emotions as disgust, dismay and utter dejec- ’ tion. . . . A letter from Maj. Don Hoover, former Indianapolis newspaperman. indicates he is somewhere in Persia,

Around the Town

VERBAL POSIES to Streetcar Operator 368. otherwise known as John Vanstone, 959 W. 34th. One of Our agents reperis seeing him stop his Illinois streetcar between 15th and 16th last evening, get off the car. remove a voung bird from the rail and place it on the curb. His good deed for the day. .". . Just a reminder. for those planning to display the colors Memorial day: The flag should be flown at half mast from sunrise to noon, then at full staff from noon until sunset. The full staff is to symbolize the living nation. . . . School kids will have to go to school Monday but they shouldn't gripe too much, Only a

Sweden

STOCKHOLM, May 28 (Bw Wireless).——Allied spokesmen would do well, I think, to follow the lead of Winston Churchill's address to congress, in which he said the allies would show né mercy toward tine G& man and Italian peoples until they abandoned or destroved their present regimes of wranny. More and more allied propa-= ganda can be turned effectively against Hitler and Mussolini. but with that we could well refrain from threats of post-war retalistion against the masses of the people of Germany and Italy. One fact that is emphasized here so close to Germany is that Goebhels is working desperately to hold the allegiance of the German people. He 1s doing that by telling them that a dire fate awaits them if Germany is defeated. In building up that line the German press eagerly exploits every item that can be found in the American or British press ahout the determination of the allies to re-educate or exterminate or sterilize Germans after the war. Extreme statements in allied countries make the best German propaganda at this time when fear is the chief weapon of the Nazi regime in holditg the German people together.

Bombs Make Best Propaganda

PEOPLE WHO have come out of Germeny recently and who are friendly to our side—such as escaped prisoners—say that there are many signs the Germans have lost confidence, but that Goebbels’ slogan of “Victory or Bolshevism” is effective, as well as the extreme “extermination” threats in Britain and America.’ © Of course the hest;ailied propaganda is the allied bombing of Germany and Italy. That impresses the Germans and the neutrals more than anything else. Some here regard it as highly significant that the Germans in Tunisia stopped fighting before it was necessary—while they still had ammunition. The hest informed Swedes regard it as indicating what will happen on a larger scale when the allied offensive 'is pressed home.

My Day

ARTHURDALE, W. Va. Thursday. — Yesterday frernoon, the president of Liberia, Mr. Edwin Barclay, aud the president-elect, Mr. W. V. S. Tubmadn, arrived at the White House at 5 o'clock. There had

been a slight uncertainty as to whether they would be able to get here. They came in. on time, however, and were received, as usual, on the lawn with appropriate military honors. The cabinet was present to greet the heads of this small nation, in which we in this country have a special interest, since we helped found it. I found myself deeply interested in my conversation at tea. and I wish I knew more about the whole African continent, the ct knowledge of which, > far as I am concerned, represents the usual maps and nothing more. Perhaps, some-day, travel will be so quick and

few more days until theyre out for good —week from | Wednesday. We can just hear some of the parents| groaning at the prospect, . Conny Charley CHARLEY CAMPBELL, who with his truck constitutes the Campbell Transfer Co., of Virginia ave., is one of those ageless individuals whose shrewdness in-| creases with the years, Charley knows a few tricks that save him a lot of work. For instance, he has one, of those self-sharpening lawnmowers which he prizes | highly. Every once in a while it needs sharpening, but Charley doesn't hother sharpening it himself. He! just sets it up tight and lends it to a friend. When] they bring it back, the borrowers ,always complain about how hard it runs. And they never borrow it | again. But that doesn’t bother Charley. He can always | find some other borrower io sharpen it for him the! next time. |

Picture 1 Glass IVAN POGUE of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. | sales /department here is gaining quite a reputation | over the country for his hobby—"“carving” pictures in| glass, It's actually sandblasting pictures in glass, and| includes picture panels for glass bathrooms. A paper! pattern is prepared and fastened to the glass. The | exposed places are sandbldsted to varying depths. Mr. | Pogue, has just completed his masterpiece, on order | of a club at Shreveport, La. It's the figure of a mytho-! logical horseman carved into the back side of a panel | of three-quarter-inch plate glass. Mounted (smooth | side out) on a black glass background and edged with | indirect fluorescent lighting, the carving makes an intriguing picture.

By Raymond Clapper

The Germans in most places from Berlin west and north now can notice increasing danger from! the air. oh Anyone walking down Unter den Linden in Berlin will see some buildings damaged in the vicinity of the Adlon hotel Three doors away a four-story building has been completely destroyed. i A number of hotels and apartments An the Tiergartenstrasse, where officers live, have been hit. For! a time after the March 1 raid the area around the! Hotel Esplanade was roped off from the public because! of an unexpicded time bomb. There has been some heavy damage around railroad tracks in the suburbs. ' Obviously all over Berlin residerits are constantly aware of the fact that the coming air war over | Germany has in fact begun, but only begun. |

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See Sentence of Doom

INDUSTRIALISTS HERE know what damage is|™ :

,S. QUININE SUPPLY]

being done to German production. The entire Phillips. electrical works near Amsterdam, employing 20,000 persons, was laid flat some months ago—completely| demolished. Such losses have a most devastating! effect on production schedules, because so many |

‘Can, Will

And Must’ Is Class Spirit

By HELEN RUEGAMER Their world is a comparatively silent one, and their heritage is continuous effort to overcome their handicap, but for the past 100 vears Indiana's deaf citizens have found needed education, encouragement , and assistance at the state

school for the deaf. When the 26 members of the school’s © centennial graduating class receive their diplomas Monday, 4210 deaf citizens of Indiana will have received not only academic and vocational training at the school but also will have learned to overcome their handicap and find a place in a progressive world. Located on 42d st., back of the state fairgrounds, the state school covers 80 acres and the imposing brick classroom buildings and dormitories stand An a quadrangle of well-kept lawns. surrounded by trees, shrubs and flower beds.

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Now 400 Students

FOR FI'S PRESENT 400 students, the institution is more than a school—it is their home nine months out of the year, where they study, eat, sleep and take part in all forms of recreation. For the 60 faculty members, many of whom live onthe grounds, each pupil is an individual whose slightest progress in the world of speech and understanding provides the greatest possible personal satisfaction. When a child first comes to the school between the age of 6 and 7, ne can express himself only with crude gestures and has no means of communication with his companions. By the time he leaves at the age of 18 or 19, he usually is able to talk to a certain degree, read anyone's lips, and support himself -in the world. ”

Individually Trained

w SOME STUDENTS ARE totally

deaf, others are hard of hearing, and still others once could talk but became deaf after an illness. However, each is trained according to his needs and adaptability. Since they are all able to hear the speech of thosej}around them, learning to talk is a mechanical skill. Their vocabulary is built up slowly through imitation and articuiation, and the teachers try to build up within each child as normal a voice as possible, They are all taught to read tne lips, and some become so proficient that their handicap goes unnoticed. Although the sign language is not included in the school's curriculum, the pupils soon pick it up from each other and resort to

i it frequently when talking among

themselves. Have Vocational Classes AS THE PUPILS progress

through the school, they are given vocational instruction. For girls there is sewing. typing, cooking, homemaking and handcraft. This vear's girl graduates are making their own baccalaureate dresses after taking a shopping trip to pick out their material and patterns. The hoys are given a basic knowledge in hookbinding, print-

The Indianapolis Times

By Ernie Pyle Deaf School repares for 100

These three young people, who will be graduated Monday as mem+ bers of the centennial class of the Indiana State School for the Deaf, are planning to go on to college. Outstanding students in their class, they are, left to right, Gwendol Butler of Brownstown, valedictorian; Erma Tyson of South Bend, selected as the senior who has shown the most progress, and Leslie Massey of Lafayette, salutatorian and class

president.

ing. upholstering, shoe repairing, linotyping, cabinet making, furniture repairing, weaving, metal work, agriculture and horticulture. Through the printing course, all of the school's supplies are printed, thus saving the state thousands of dollars. The pupils rebind the worn textbooks and repair school furniture. Twenty acres of ground is under cultivation by farm-minded boys and the sale ‘of the handcraft articles helps pay for the materials used.

The vocational program is pay- \E

ing dividends since the school is now having more requests for its trained pupils than it can fill. Many already are working in war plants, including the P. R. Mallory Co. and the RCA Manufacturing Co. of Indianapolis, n

Represented at Capital

THE SUCCESS OF the school's academic training is proved by its representation at Gallaudet college, the national college for the deaf in Washington, D. C. Indiana has been represented by ‘as many as 16 ih a single year and has averaged abbut nine a year, which is higher than any other deaf scigool in the world. Of this vear's class of 26, five have made application for college entrance. The college graduates are eligible to teach and supervise in other institutions for the caeaf. The school's superintendent, Jackson A. Raney. and principal, .Charles G. Rawlings, fully realize that the happiness and security

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of their students depends on a

well-balanced program of extracurricular activities. The girls and boys both have scout organizations, hobby clubs, handicraft groups, and honorary societies. In athletics the “Silent Hogsier” teams have an enviable reputation, The school holds two national deaf school championships in basketball and is a frequent winner of the Central States conference kasketball tournament, ”

See Movies Weekly

THE PUPILS ARE escorted to a moving picture at 42d st. and College ave. one night a week, and social hours, all-school dances and parties are held weekly. Recreation rooms and lounges are provided for each age group in the boys’ and girls’ dormitories, The monthly publication, “The Hoosier,” carries essays and stories written by the students and news

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of the various alumni. It goes to readers all over the United States and to several foreign

Vocational training for the boys includes printing, bookbinding, upholstering, shoe repairing, cabinet making and other trades. Shown upholstering a chair are, left to right, Albert Rhodes of Indianapolis, Instructor Lester Stanfill, and James Sayers

of Ambia.

countries. The school was started in 1843 by William Willard, a deaf* man who had taught for several years in Ohio. He opened his school on the North side of Washington st, between Illinois st. and Capitol ave, with an enrollment of 12. In 1844, the state's general assembly appointed*an incorporating board of .trustees and the school became the second educational institution founded by the state, being preceded by Indiana university. It was also tlie seventh state school for the deaf in the

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State Helps School

) IN 1845-46 THE legislature purhased 122 acres at. Washingtgh st. and State ave, where Willdyd park now stands. The lawmakers threw open the doors to all deaf people of the state for a free education, thus making Indiana the first state to adopt universal free education for the deaf. By 1850 the institution had an enrollment of 125 pupils. James S. Brown, who had become superiniendent ‘after the school’s first session swas succeed-

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ed in 18:3 by the Fev. Thomas

MaclIntire. Under his leadership for 27 years, the school's vocational program was expanded and the enrollment increased tc 328. Successive superintendents were Dr. William Glenn, «Eli P. Baker and Richard Otto Johnson. The

latter inaugurated the policy of

WILL BE INCREASED

WASHINGTON, May 28—Ex-

components pf War machines are missing as 2 portable quinine-bearing bark from

result. i The point of this is that it drives the German! military machine .into an attitude of conserving its) equipment. of attrition. Hundreds of planes being lost on the; ground now in the south are far less easily replaced | than our own losses. ! We could now than Germany loses, instead of fewer as is actually the case. That fact, as informed industrialists here put it, is a sentence of dooom already pronounced. Incidentally, the fact that in the last few months Swedes who are well informed on what is going on|

inside Germany have come to the conclusion that | allied victory is certain. accounts for the haste with! which Sweden is now moving to enlarge its repre-! sentation in America. Stronger legation and consular staffs, with economic and other experts, will: prepare for reopening trade as soon as the German! blockade of Sweden is broken.

It" leaves the axis weakened for a war]

afford to be losing far more planes;

t at El Porvenir, Guatemala, will be {obtained under an agreement. just

he 17,000-acre cinchona plantation

| announced by the board of economic warfare here.

A fourth of all Latin-American

| production is expected to come from { El Porvenir. Guatemala is the only [source that can supply the anti- | malarial drug to this country by {land route.

A laboratory already has been established at El Porvenir for testing and analyzing bark and studies are being made of the different types of trees found there. It is hoped that a training program may also be undertaken to school people for work in locating

‘and testing other cinchona stands

in neighboring republics.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

PENSION GROUP TO MEET Group 17 of the Indiana old-age

pension program will meet at 7:30 easy that every country will represent people to us,|P- mM. Monday in McClain's hall,

people whom we know and understand. After I had taken the president ef Liberia, and | the president-elect, to their rooms, I retired, for the! usual stag dinner was given in the evening, and I| was obliged to leave by night train to get to Arthurdale, W. Va, this morning. Have you happened to¥come across a little book of drawings entitled, “The Lovely Ones? The artist, William Steig, has appeared principally in magazines and you doubtless are familiar with his work. The drawings in this book are impressions of people. They are very individual people and I think you will be amused by them. The expression of the gentleman whose picture is captioned “I Do Not Believe in Misleading People,” is really wonderful. There is another book which came into my hands yesterday, entitled “The Gremlins,” from the Walt Disney production, and it is a royal air force story by Flight Lieutenant Roal D. Dall. It is enchanting and when you have read it, you can pass it along to the younger members of the family.

State st. and Hoyt ave.

Your Blood Is Needed

May quota for Red Cross Blood Plasma Center — 5800 donors. Donors so far this month— 2817. Yesterday's quota—200. Yesterday's. donors—117.

You can help meet the quota by calling LI-1441 for an appointment or going to ther center, second floor, Chamber of Commerce buildipg, N. Meridian st. ‘

Del Mar 7 rack Is Going to War

WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. PP), —The navy today disclosed the organization of a lighter-than-air operational field at the Del Mar race track near San Diego, Cal, as an auxiliary field operating under the Santa Ana command. The field’s commanding officer is H. N. Coulter. The navy stated that there is no Intention of taking over the couns try club nor its race track, nor would it reveal the number of personnel stationed ‘there.

school,

ENROLLMENT AT I. U. German Mystery LAW SCHOOL RISES!

Indications of increased nici] ment were noted today by William | R. Forney, dean of the evening di-| vision of the Indiana university law | | he announced courses for the new school year. A course in introduction to law will be conducted, as will second | and fourth-year classes. Instructors are James M. Ogden, president of] Addison | M. Dowling, dean of the day school, Judge Harry

the Indiana Law school;

Ralph B. Gregg and R. Champ.

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Pupils at the state deaf school receive vocational as well as aea= ; demic instruction. The girls’ training consists of sewing, cooking, homes | making, typing and handicraft. Here three of this year's graduates are shown working on their baccalaureate and commencement dresses. . The girls selected their own materials and patterns and made their gowns. Left to right are Mattie Clampitt of Goshen, Gloria Brunette

of Ft. Wayne and Latefiah Hassen of Whiting.

Some of the

Harmony and Ralph Moers of Evansville.

instruction by speech and lip reading, departmentalized the school, and started a kindergarten department. Up to this time the school had been erroneously. designated as an asylum. In 1907 the general assembly passed a law declaring it an educational institution and the name became officially “The Indiana State School for the Deaf.” In 1913 a state law made attendance of the deaf of all races, creeds and religions compulsory for those between 7 and 18.

un 2 n Moves to 42d st. “THE SCHOOL MOVED to its

spacious home on 42d st. in 1911, only to have its progress thwarted in 1918 when the buildings were used to train soldiers. However, a correspondence course kept the children from. deteriorating as students. Oscar M. Pittenger became superintendent in 1919 and was succeeded in 1935 by Mr. Raney. In 1940 the school was placed ‘on a par with other public schools when a commission for grades one to 12 was granted. The school's graduates now may enter any college in the state they choose. n

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Plan Baccalaureate

THE CENTENNIAL GRADUATING class will have its baccalaureate program Sunday afternoon and commencement exel-

Bomb Is a Hoax

LONDON, May 28 German propaganda on a type of devastating mystery bomb i was labeled an “elaborate bluff” | by the Daily Mail's aviation ex- | pert today. He said ‘the reports appeared | based on stories about a tremendous explosion of a-~bomb which fell into the Thames during a rei cent night raid. . R. A. F. experts explained that | the water surface .acted as a

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life and education.

GREW EXPLAINS FLIERS' MURDER

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ister of the Tabernacle Presbyters

Recreation facilities and athletics are provided fo Pog the youngest and the gldest pupils at the schbol, no, primary pupils enjoying their playroom are, left to right, Carolyn Mitten of Kramer, Robert Hochbaum of Crown Point, Patricia Perry of New

ian church, {vill deliver the, Sun={ .

day address, and Governor. Schricker will speak at coms mencement, : 1. The gradyales are Gloria Jean Brunette, Ft, Wayne; Gwendol Dwight Butler, Brgwnstown; Billy] David Butts.|Gesfien; Mattie Jane |

Clanipitt, Goshen: Mildred “Mars! -

ian Clipp, New Albany; Clarenc Amberson Cox, Goodland: Ed= ward Hubert Echterling, mond; Raymond Lee Hall, Sh burn; Latefiah Hassen, Whiting} Gayle Donald Lacy, Noblesville; Ruby D. Markland, Rising Sung Leslie Jasot: Massey, Lafayette; Iona Cora Merrick, Elkhart; Wis *

nonah Ruth, Miller, Petersburg; “2

Wilma May Nopdyke, Hammond; Dorothy Lucie Rats, Rushville

Raymond Dallas Reynolds, Founs «

tain City; Albert Rhodes, Indian apolis; Floyd Rule, Warsaw; Jame Edward Sayers, Ambia; Alber Edmund Slater, La Porte; Loyell Owen Smith, Anderson; Darrel Francis Summers, Vincennes John Winton Swank Lebanon Erma Irene Tyson, South Ben and Ardith Weist, Winchester, The motto of this 100th cias is “We can, we will, we must.” I signifies the spirit, of the school! alumni, students and teachers whi recognize that the deaf can quers. come their affliction by persever= ance, courage and a well-rounded

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,, May 28" P.).— The execution of Anierican.

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| fliers captured after the Tokyo, raid :

former ambassador to Japan, told. "

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sounding board for the explosion | of a 1000-pounder, throwing the noise over a ‘considerable area.” “Goebbels is putting out one of the most elaborate bluffs yet,” the Daily Mail said.

TIRE ALLOTMENTS WILL BE THE SAME

The office of price administration said yesterday that there has been

ments of passenger car and truck tires for rationing in June. In apportioning quotas among various rationing districts, OPA changed the quota for used or recapped casing more than others, the \total for June amounting to 690,000 against 600,799 for May. These are for replacements on cars with mileage rations of 250 a month {or under when the present casings are not recappable, New passenger car tires which go for needed replacements on cars with monthly mileage ration exceeding 240, total 1,012,00 for June compared with 1,006,882 for May.

WASHINGTON. May 28 (U. 2.) —

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was part of a planned program lof

terrorism by which Japanese mili= jtarists hoped to intimidate the fhe

American people, Joseph C. Grew,

the Harvard ‘alumni

association: yesterday. Bee

“ ' } | Japanese soldiers are taught ruthe lessness by their military leadéss in .

the “mistaken belief? that such action will’ undermine American morale, Grew added: - Tod

“It may be assumed that the exes

cution of prisoner ‘taken in the view. Unques=

tionably ‘they believed that that

[utterly sevagl act ‘would exert

Doolittle raid over Japan was carried” « . ‘out with that end in vi

intimidaung effect on the Ames (

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DR. PEEPERs

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cises at 10:30: a. m; MoSisy. The { .. | Rev. Ralph O'Dell, assistant mijhs |. «