Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1943 — Page 20

MRS, NICHOLSON

"ON CITY BOARD

[First Woman Member of

Health Agency Named By Tyndall.

The city health board today had

its first woman member. She Is| long |

Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr.,

Miss Kessler Miss Virt

active here in legislative and public

welfare circles.

{Appointed by Mayor Tyndall, she 4

will serve as one of two Democratic

members of the bi-partisan board.’

She succeeds Dr. M. Joseph Barry, Democrat, whose six-year term as president of the board expires today. Dr. Barry has been a health commissioner for 12 years.

‘As a member of the public morals

committee of the 1935-36 legislature, Mrs. Nicholson led a movement to abolish “Heart balm suits” and simflar legal action from the Indiana courts. Secretary of the Indiana constitutional convention in which the 21st amendment was ratified in 1933, she later was secretary of the goverrior’s advisory committee on liquor control. She also was an alternate to the 1932 Democratic national convention. “A former member of the mayor's committee on recreation, she also has held posts on the state advisory committee on child welfare and was state chairman for the New York world’s fair, the president’s birthday ball and the Committee to Aid Chinese Orphans.

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WILLKIE ASKS BULE BY COMMON MAN.

DETROIT, June 1 (U. Tre

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success of attempts to develop : : harmonious post-war international

relations depends on our willingness |

to accept the leadership of the com-

mon man, Wendell L. Willkie told 450 delegates to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the U. S. A. last nig

The 1940 Republica presidential candidate said it is Often argued that the inability of aj democracy to act quickly in a crisig suggests the “substitution of leadership from the top.” “This is an insidious argument,”| he asserted. “That is the voice of our destruction. We must at all hazards keep our leadership among the people. At its best it is based on the principles of truth and justice by which all nations must live as well as individuals.”

ROB RADIO SHOP 4TH TIME IN 3 WEEKS

The Skinner Radio Co., 1001 N. Meridian st, was the target of burglars last night for the fourth time within three weeks. = They obtained $150, three radios and a microphone. Louis Skinner, the manager, said that the total loss in the four burglaries, broken windows, other damage and loot would amount to about $1000.

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Ten senor girls at Howe high school have been awarded scholarships to Butler university. THey are Thelma Ellis, LaVerne Gorby, Eva Ruth Ham, Marjorie Harvey, Mary Alice ler, Evelyn McConnell, Virginia Stafford, Mary Lou Steffy, Gloria Virt and Carol M. Wagner.

"SOVIETS CLING TO

NEWLY-WON POINTS

MOSCOW, June 1 (U. P.).—The Red army hurled back two German counter-attacks on newly-won Soviet positions near Lisichansk in the Ukraine today, inflicting what were officially described as “great losses” on the enemy. Joining the fighting on the Lisichansk front, Soviet aircraft shot down four German planes in dogfights and destroyed 10 others parked on an enemy airdrome, the Russian mid-day communique said. Continued fighting was reported

by the midnight communique in the |

Kuban area northeast of the Black sea naval base of Novorossisk, but no details were given. The Germans have been battling desperately to retain their bridgehead there.

92,089 BRITISH DIE IN 3 YEARS OF WAR

LONDON, June 1 (U. P.).—British empire casualties in the first

| thiee years of the war totaled 514;-

1 993, including 92,089 killed, Clement

i R. Attlee, deputy prime minister,

told the house of commons. today. Attlee said that 226,711 were missing, 88,295 were wounded and 107,891 were takén prisoner. The casualties were divided as follows: United Kingdom, 219, 844; Canada, 10,422; Australia,’ 53,959; New Zealand 19,345; South Africa, 22,615; India, 101,979, and colonies, 30,829.

FLIER DIES OF INJURIES BRADY, Tex. June 1 (U, P.).— Injuries received when his plane crashed into a tree on a takeoff last Friday proved fatal to 1st Lt. Jack M. Shattuck, training officer at Curtis field here, it was announced today.

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| . AT THE CROWN OF CROWN HILL

In Memory of Yesterday and Today

Wins Crown HiLL’s borders is a second cemetery— cared for by Crown Hill—but owned by the Federal Government.

® Here rest in peace the men and boys who fought in the Civil War—and others who later wore the uniform .of our Nation's

® In the beginning, Memorial Day was gstablished to honor our soldiers who had served and departed. Through the long years our thinking has broadened, and Memorial Day is now a day to pause, honor and remember all of those dear to us, who have gone before.

® As we approach and pass Memorial Day of 1943, we are more than ever conscious of those who are no longer here, but haye contributed so much to the happiness of each family and the Nation’s

* @ Crown Hill is a beautiful expanse of wooded , flowering grounds —especially at this time of year. Here is sanctuary and eduring : care for all—when the day of need comes.

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SENATOR URGES PEOPLE'S PARTY

Langer Stuffs Mails With , Plea for New Political Organization. By THOMAS L. STOKES " Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 1.—Senator William Langer (R. N. D) is stuffing rural postoffice boxes far and wide with a manifesto, com-

posed by himself and distributed

free under his frank, proposing some sort of new political movement “to fight the battle of the

| people.”

The senator, for years a stormy political figure in his state—his election to the senate was contested on charges of irregularities—recommends a national convention, if his idea gains favor. Delegates would be chosen from a series of meetings, beginning first in homes, then in precinct, county and state, in the manner used by the non-partisan league in his state. The recipients of his mail, anonymous to him, get copies of a speech he put into the Congressional Record March 25—a speech predicting that monopolists, millionaires and Wall Street interests would try to take over the government in 1944, and calling for organization of farmers, labor and the common people to forestall this, if not through existing parties, then bya new party.

Emphasizes ‘America First

He lays strong emphasis on the need of a political group to fight

war projects ‘he has this to say: “Already, although the war is not yet won, we see an attempt to tie this country into a new league of nations, an. attempt to have our boys part of a great force to police the world. We see this although one-third of our own people are still undernourished and ill-clad.” The senator said today that between 200,000 and 300,000 copies of his speech were franked out originally for distribution through rural post office boxes, and that about 200,000 more had been sent since to individuals who requested bundles to distribute in their communities.

Pays Cost Himself

He is not associated with anyone else or_any group in this movement, he said. He explained that he paid out of his own pocket for the costs of reprinting by the government printing office, which has a special low rate for such favors to mem-| bers of congress, * He said he could not recall the cost off-hand, estimatirg it around $700, $800 or perhaps $900, but said

celed checks from; his bank for. the exact amount. (The government printing office declines to make public the cost of( such jobs for members of congress.) He said he had not counted up the responses, but he said there were “several thousand,” some of whom signed the pledge he inclosed with his speech, some of whom did not. Most of those who replied were favorable, he said. A few were critical. This pledge says:

Denies Isolationism

“I do hereby promise at a date to be selected by the national committee to call together in my home on the day specified, patriotic men and women who, regardless of race, color and creed, will pledge themselves to fighting the battle of the people.” He said in about another month he would decide whether to issue a call and specify a day upon which, under his plan, the leaders in precincts would gather to start in operation the machinery for electing delegates. Questioned as to what might be called the isolationist connotations in his speech, the senator denied that this was an isolationist movement. : “It’s all up to the people themselves—whatever they decide on any issue,” he said.

BEATEN BY CROWD

Karl Magit, 28, Chicago, reported to police that after the truck he was driving struck a pedestrian on W. 16th st. a group of 50 bystanders dragged him from the truck and beat him severely. Lester’ Abrahams, 27, also of Chicago, who was a passenger in the truck, said he fled, called a taxi and went to police headquarters. The injured man was Elzo Howard, 49, Negro, 1321 Collins st. He received fractures of both legs and a chest injury.

OES TO HONOR MRS. FOX

Cumberland chapter 515, O. E. 8, will honor Mrs. Bliss Fox, worthy grand matron of the Indiana chapter, at 6 p. m. dinner tomorrow at the Cumberland Masonic temple. An initiatory and “inspection program will follow at 8 p. m. Mrs.

| Linnie Cannady and Karl Steineck-

er are worthy grand matron and worthy grand patron of the Cumberland chapter.

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‘In Africa,’ Son Tells Parents

“Here I am, somewhere in North Africa,” was the cheerful message which Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Blankenship and their daughter, Miss Myrtle om i Blankenship, were reading today. It came in a letter from their : son and brother, Cpl. James E. Blankenship from whom they had not heard for five weeks. = Cpl. Blankenship, who lived Cpl. Blankenship with his parents and ‘sister at 660 Warren ave., was inducted May 22, 1942, and sent to the coast artillery center at Barkley, Tex. He attended Washington high school. Before his induction he was a crane operator for: the Infernational Harvester Co.

MAJ. DAVIS NAMED TO LIAISON POST

Maj. Rezin Davis has been appointed liaison officer between selective service headquarters and the war manpower commission state and area offices in Indiana, Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state draft director, announced today. Maj. Davis also will handle requests for discharges and reemployment problems of ex-serv-icemen. He will be replaced at Indiana state headquarters in the occupational classification section by Capt. Hugh M. Quigley, formerly of national selective service headquarters.

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CALL BEFORE "44

McNutt Says Goal Set for Dec. 31, 1943, by Services Is 10,800,000.

WASHINGTON, June 1 (U, P.).— War Manpower Chief Paul V. Mc-

Nutt disclosed today that 2,700,000 | more men will be drafted this year

to meet the 10,800,000-man goal set by the armed forces for Dec. 31, 1943. ‘He said this will permit industrial deferment of only 1,500,000 men and that employers, to insure industry against disorderly withdrawal of men, must file manning tables and replacement schedules promptly. Approximately 3,000,000 men now are occupationally deferred, of whom 1,000,000 have no dependents. The remainder have been in class B and rapidly are being reclassified by draft boards: in conformance with the order abolishing that class. Stresses Dependents McNutt stressed that the estimate of 1,500,000. men who can be given industrial deferments includes men with dependents. The pool of physically fit men of draft age as of May 1, McNutt said, was about S000, including 900,000 deferred necessary men in agriculture. He added: “This leaves 5,100,000 from whom approximately 2,700,000 must be inducted into the armed forces by the end of this year. “There then remains about 2,-

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Cpl. Young Is Army Pre-Medic

CPL. - STEPHEN J. YOUNG JR., son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Young Sr., 2816 Indianapolis ; ave., is taking a 3 pre-medic course in the army. He is attached to the 28th cavalry, headquarters troop E c a mp, Lockett, Cal. A gralluate of Crispus Attucks high * school Cpl. . SP Young was for many years a newsboy for The Indianapolis Times.

RAF STARTS EARLY IN JUNE RAIDINGS

LONDON, June 1 (U. P.).—Royal air force fighter planes swept across the “channel today to start June

raiding on continental objectives that took record batterings in May. German planes tried reprisal attacks

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‘on London and a southeast coast

town, but lost four aircraft. Fighters in considerable numbers roared over in the direction of Boulogne and other points on the French coast this morning, returning an hour later. Their objectives were not revealed at once.

400,000 of whom it is estimated approximately 900,000 will be men deferred for dependency reasons, leaving 1,500,000 as the maximum number of men who can be deferred for occupational reasons. other than ag-

riculture at the end of this year.”

| LOST 446 SHIP

Australian Says 2000, Planes Put Out of Acgion. MELBOURNE, Australia, June 1 (U. P.).—Japan, since the start of . the war, has lost 446 ships and about 2000 aircraft destroyed, damaged or probably destroyed, - Air Minister Arthur Drakeford said in a speech today. Drakeford estimated Japan's losses as follows: Aircraft destroyed — more than 1100. Aircraft probably destroyed—392. Aircraft damaged—480. The enemy's shipping losses were said to aggregate 2,224,600 tons, including two battleships, six aireraft carriers, nine heavy cruisers, eight light cruisers, 70 destroyers, 25 submarines, one seaplane tender, 25 tankers and 300 merchantment, totalling 1,600,000 tons. . “Air supremacy has been wrestéd from the Japanese in the Southwest Pacific and there. is every indication that the encirclement of Japan is being brought about gradually but inexorably,” he said. “Japan is doomed.” Mine SAVES LIVES OF 25 °° LOS ANGELES, June 1 (U, P.) — Pharmacist’s Mate Vernon M. Floyd, 24, was praised by the navy today for saving the lives of 25 wounded marines aboard a transport plane which crashed in the Pacific.

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