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Here is Wendell Willkie with the group of men and members of the crew which circled the globe in

the B-24 Consolidated bomber,

“The Gulliver.”

The plane is of the type called the “Liberator.” Left

to right, the men are (back row) Capt. Paul Pihl, U. S. navy representative on the flight; Joseph Barnes, foreign correspopdent and editor; Willkie; Gardiner Cowles Jr., publisher, and Maj. Grant Mason, U. 8. Tech. Sgt. Richard J. Barrett; M. Sgt. James M. Cooper; Capt. Alexis Kight, D.F.C., pilot; Capt. John C. Wagner; Sgt. Victor P. Minkoff;

army representative. Front row: Klotz, co-pilot; Maj. Richard T. Cpl. Charles H. Reynolds.

D. E. ROSS DIES; PURDUE FRIEND

Inventor and Benefactor Is Stricken Fatallv At 71.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. June 28 (U. P.).—David E. Ross, president of the board "of trustees of Purdue university and one of the school’s greatest benefactors, died early today in a hospital where he had been confined since a paralytic ‘stroke suffered July 16, 1942, The Tl-year-old philanthropist had been responsible for many improvements and buildings at Purdue university, The Ross-Ade stadium ~ was built when he and George Ade bought the land and provided $10,000 each for the stadium’s construction.

David Ross was the third widely-kngwn Purdue leader to die over the k-end. Others were Dr. Stanley E. Coulter and Prof. Gilbert A. Young. Turn to Pages 5 and 13. :

Mr. Ross invented a steering gear for automobiles and trucks which brought him a large fortune after he was graduated from Purdue's electrical engineering school in 1893. Since 1908, he had served'as president or general manager of the Ross Gear & Tool Co. until he became chairman of the board several years ago.

Headed Chemurgic Group

He was vice president of the National Farm Chemurgic council and took an active interest in the problems of farmers throughout his life. Although in failing health, Ross was reappointed to the new Purdue university board of trustees a few weeks ago by Governor Schricker. Once called “Indiana’s No. 1 citizen” by former Governor Paul V. McNutt, Mr. Ross also made possible the Purdue airport, first university field in the nation; the Purdue housing research campus; the university’s civil engineering practice camp; the gymnasium and field house; several farms, including his own, and several large cash gifts. Other than the Ross-Ade stadium, Mr. Ross never permitted his name to be used in connection with any of the ‘gifts. Ernie Pyle, Indianapolis Times’ columnist, had this to say of Mr. Ross in a column published Aug. 8, 1940: / “He is one of those few capable

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most a profession out. of elevating other people through the power of his character, his knowledge, his (Continued on Page Four)

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Hoosier Heroes

Sgt. Murray Is Killed in War Action

Killed

Sgt. William G. Murray has been killed in the North American area according to word received today by his grandmother, Mrs. Ida Metzler, 230 Oxford st. The sergeant’s aunt, Mrs. Arnold Busby, also lives at the Oxford st. address. ® x = SGT. WILLIAM BAILEY, er resident of Indianapolis SR ci and Shortridge high school studen, was killed in action May 29 in the North American area according to a letter to The Indianapolis Times from his parents w h o now live in Los Angeles. Sgt. Bailey Besides the parents he is survived by two (Continued on Page Four)

JENNINGS SEEN FOR OPA REGION 3 POST

Former WPA Director Here May Go to Cleveland.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 28—Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.), today confirmed a report that John K. Jennings, Evansville, likely will succeed Birkett Williams, Cleveland, O., as OPA director for region 3. Mr. Jennings appointment will be based on his “fine record” as WPA director at Evansville and later as indiana WPA director at Indianapolis, Senator VanNuys said. He also is a lifelong Democrat, (Continued on Page Four)

DRAFT QUOTA IN AUGUST IS LOW

Fathers May Not Receive Call Until Oct. 1 Or Later.

By EARL RICHERT Indiana's draft quota for August is at the same low rate as that in effect for June and July, Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state draft director, reported today. That means, the director said, that no bona fide fathers will have to be inducted in the state of Indiana before Oct. 1. " And, if the call for September should continue low, the date when fathers would have to be called in the state would be delayed further, he added. The September calls will be received next month. Col. Hitchcock said that the supply of non-fathers was adequate to fill the calls at the present‘rate during the next three months—and possibly longer, depending entirely upon the size of the calls.

Cites Uncertainty

Some draft officials were surprised at the low call for August. (It was slightly lower even than that in effect for July.) They had expected it to be increased somewhat. Col. Hitchcock attributed the low draft calls for Indiana to the na-tion-wide levelling-off process which is still going on. Uncertainty of the draft situation as it pertains to bona fide fathers

.| was emphasized by Maj. Gen. Lewis

B. Hershey, national selective service director, at the governors’ conference at Columbus, O., last week. He said he couldnt’ tell how large the draft calls would be until he received orders from the war department, And the war department, he added, is unable to look far into the future on its manpower needs

{because it doesn’t know what the

enemy is going to do. Lowness of the calls in recent months has given rise to the belief in many official quarters that the war department will not call bona fide fathers if it can possibly be avoided.

MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1943

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‘American

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Following the War - Must Be Worldwide’

Willkie, ‘After 49-Day

Tour of 31,000 Miles,

Learned There Are No Distant Points Any Longer.

CHAPTER ONE IN A FOUR-ENGINED Consolidated bomber, converted for transport service and operated by United States army officers, 1 left Mitchel field, New York, on Aug. 26 (1942), to see what I could of the world and the war, its battle fronts, its leaders, and its people. Exactly 49 days later, on Oct. 14, I landed in Minneapolis, Minn. I had encircled the world, not in the northern latitudes where the circumference is small, but on a route which crossed the equator twice.

I had traveled a total of 31,000 miles, which — looked at as a figure—still impresses and almost bewilders me. For the net impression of my trip was not one of distance from other peoples, but of close-

ness to them. The extraordinary fact is that to cover this enormous distance we were in the air a total of only 160 hours. There are no distant points in the world any longer. Our thinking in the future must be worldwide. Upon arriving in Egypt, I accepted eagerly an invitation from Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery to see the front for myself, at El Alamein. With Mike Cowles and Maj. Gen. Russell L. Maxwell, then commander of United States forces in Egypt, we drove out of Cairo on the desert road to the front. Almost »before we.-were out of our cars, Gen. Montgomery launched into a detailed description of a battle which was in its last phases and which for the first time in months had stopped Rommel dead.

Egypt Saved

AT FIRST it was hard for me to understand why the general kept repeating, in a quiet way, “Egypt has been saved.” The enemy was deep in Egypt and had not retreated. I remembered the skepticism I (Continued on Page Four)

NAB SPY WHO SENT NAZIS SHIP REPORTS

Naturalized Citizen Used

Invisible Ink.

NEW YORK, June 28 (U. P.).— Ernest Frederick Lehmitz, 57, naturalized citizen and an air raid warden, pleaded guilty to being a German ‘spy today when arraigned before U. S. Commissioner Martin C. Epstein. He was charged with violating the espionage laws by transmitting vital United States war information to Germany. He was held in $50,000 bail pending action by the federal grand jury. The penalty for wartime espionage (Continued on Page Four)

Sidelights of Two-Day Convention of the N. EA Meeting at Murat Temple

ONE WORLD by Wendell L. Willkie is breaking all sales records as a book and more copies have already been sold than any book in history over a similar period of time. :

We are proud to be able ta present to our readers this version of. ONE WORLD, carefully condensed into 10 installments from the book of 60,000 words, to be followed by a mew and exclusive article by Mr. Willkie as the final installment.

3 IN RACE FOR N. E. A, OFFICE

To Lead Educators

For Coming Year.

BULLETIN A. C. Flora this afternoon withdrew as a candidate for reelection as president of the National Education association.

By HELEN RUEGAMER Two women were nominated to oppose A. C. Flora, Columbia, S. C., for re-election to the presidency of the National Education association at the first business meeting of the association’s 23d convention at the Murat temple today. One was a native Hoosier, Mrs. Edith B. Joynes, Indiana university graduate from La Porte and now an elementary teacher at Norfolk, Va. The other was Miss Frances Jelinek, Milwaukee. Nominated to oppose B. C. B. Tighe, Fargo, N. D., for re-election as first vice president, were Miss Vera Strong, Houston, Tex. and Harold W. Smith, Glendale, Ariz. President Flora in his address urged enlarged services by N. E. A. to members, the work to be financed from the war and peace fund to which the teachers have contributed - $250,000. Given a Hoosier welcome by Governor Schricker at the opening meeting of the representative assembly last night at the Murat

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U. S. MAY KEEP CONTROL OF PIT

Mine Holdouts Testing Teeth in New AntiStrike Law.

WASHINGTON, June 28 (U. P). —Coal Administrator Harold L. Ickes said today “there is nothing in the situation” to justify hopes that the government will be able to return the nation’s coal mines to their owners in the near future. Testifying before the house ways and means committee in support of a bill to extend the Guffey bituminous coal stabilizatign act for two years, Ickes said: “I hope the government operation of the mines will be exceedingly brief. But I must tell you that at the moment there is nothing in the situation that makes me believe this will be the case.” Ickes appeared before the Committee as a majority of the United Mine Workers’ 530,000 hard and soft coal diggers went back to the pits, ending last week’s strike. Miners Still Out However, early indications were that about 40,000 of Pennsylvania's 125,000 soft coal ‘miners were still away from work. Some 6000 Alabama miners remained idle, as did several thousand Pennsylvania anthracite sminers. The continuous revolt of some miners against their union's back-to-work order, and a strike today at a Chrysler plant in Detroit, raised the prospect of early invocation of the new anti-strike law, passed on Friday over President Roosevelt's veto. But the justice department did not say how soon it would be ready to act. The war labor board, given statutory powers by the law, planned to examine its effects on general board policy in sessions today and tomorrow. The measure stipulates: that any person guilty of coercing, inducing, conspiring with or otherwise acting to lead others to interrupt production in government-operated industries shall be liable to a maximum of a year in jail, $5000 fine, or both. Not Retroactive

Inasmuch as the law is not retroactive, it cannot be made to apply to U. M. W. President John L. Lewis or other international union officers who sanctioned last week’s general walkout. Furthermore, the U.M.W. policy committee ordered the miners back to work almost a week ago. The justice department nevertheless must decide whether the act's stiff penalties are operative against any miners who may have urged their fellow workers to remain away from work since Friday, when congress enacted the bill over President

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TWO GREEK AIRDROME

As Vesuvius Shows Way in Assault

On Naples Docks.

By REYNOLDS FACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, June 28.

| Allied air squadrons renewed heavy blows against the easts | ern Mediterranean invasion route over the week-end whe

American heavy bombers blanketed two axis airdromes neag

Athens and R. A. F. Wellingtons again attacked Italy's big industrial and supply base at Naples. :

The American raid by four-engine Liberators from th

9th air force based in the Middle East spread fire and ‘destruction through the two key airdromes of Eleusis and | Hassani, outside the Greek capital yesterday and scatter leaflets across the city in daylight. $0

Seven enemy planes were shot down and eight others |

fighter-bombers, which again big U. S. planes. The daylight attack on the Athens area followed a damaging raid last week on the main axis airdrome of Sedes at Salonika, in northern

Greece. Wellington bombers of the Northwest African strategic. air force, commanded by Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle, started big fires with block-bustérs and other explosives dropped on the freight yards at Naples, main supply port of Sicily. This was the only operation against Italy announced today, but eight enemy planes were shot down by coastal aircraft and naval guns Saturday and Saturday night in repelling attacks on naval vessels. Guided hy the red glow of Mt. Vesuvius, the Wellingtons dropped a

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allied landing forces to the shores of

fever, as reflected in. reports reaching London from Europe.

Ruhr Believed

LONDON, June 28 (U. P.).— Royal air forte planes battered an enemy convoy off the Dutch coast today, sinking two ships, firing a third and damaging three more and sending the war's greatest aerial offensive into its ninth day. A large and concentrated formation of allied planes believed to include heavy bombers also swept across the channel against Nazi Europe today. Typhoon and Hurricane fighters attacked the convoy—the second

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line of ships hit off the Nether-

large number of two-ton block-|

RAF Sinks 2 Enemy Ships:

probably were destroyed for a total of 15 as the Liberators smashed through large formations of enemy fighters and

tried to drop bombs on the

busters and scores of other bombs on docks and industrial installations at Naples, Italy’s second port.

(An Italian communique reported : yesterday that enemy planes bombed Gerbini in southwestern Italy yesterday and Reggio Calabria, the toe of the Italian boot, last night.) . 2 Direct hits were scored on threé& hangars at Eleusis, a Cairo coms munique said. One was set afire and smoke was seen rising from a second, 1h “Other bombs burst on the in= tersection of the runways and near administrative buildings, and the whole surface of the airdrome ap= peared covered with bursts,” the communique said. ; At Hassani, both hangars suffer direct hits and were left in flam The entire airdrome surface. a (Continued on Page Four)

Battleships Mediterranean

LONDON, June 28 (U. P.).—American battleships have steamed in the Mediterranean to reinforce British squadrons preparing to esec

southern Europe, the Nazi-controll

Scandinavian telegraph bureau reported today. The STB dispatch, date-lined Berlin, did not identify the Americs warships, but the report coincided with a general rise in axis invasio

put to sea, either to seek a § haven or, less likely, to strike

European sources said also that offensive blow calculated to dis the harbor-bound Italian fleet had any allied invasion plans.

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lands in little more than 13 hout British raids last night had se the air onslaught into its n night as informed observers the allied air force already was per cent along on its goal wrecking Germany's most war industrial section, the Ri valley. Lo The Typhoon attack was deli ered from 50 yards. After Hf passed, Hurricanes barreled on the three ships left afloat on two others came to their The ships ranged from 600 to tons each. d : Yesterday a supply ship and three escort vessels were believed damaged in a similar convoy attack off the Dutch coast. A Berlin coms communique, apparently referrin to this attack, said nine of @0 British planes were shot down. Th Nazi Paris radio said “Britis (Continued on Page Four)

Stores to Close Monday, July

Downtown stores will closed on Monday, July 5, observance of July ‘4, whic ‘this year falls on Sunday. The summer schedule store hours will begin ¢ Tuesday, July 6. Stores 1 close 30 minutes earlier, day to Friday inclusive. 5.15 p. m. will be the closi time instead of 5:45 p. m. After the July 5 there will be no change in Monday store hours nor in| opening hours, Tuesday through Friday. * Beginning Saturday, July the downtown depart: stores and a large nui other retail stores will a 9:30 a. nm, and close -at p. m. on Saturdays during

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