Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1943 — Page 4

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western dispersal area were covered with bursts and five aircraft were seen burning the ground south of the hangars. Other fires broke out at Hassani ortheast of the hangars and in je northern half of the western

dispersal area.

Though not intercepted en route their targets the Liberators were ‘attacked by enemy fighters during actual raids and shot down and CT-202s in aerial combats. British long-range fighters from middle-eastern command at-| & medium - sized enemy _ transport vessel north of Levkas and, off the west coast of Greece y and left. it with black rising to a height of 50 feet.

Messerschmitt 109s

All planes returned safely.

Hoosier Heroes—

SGT. MURRAY DIES IN “N. AMERICAN AREA

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sisters, Mrs. Marion Magnussen and Mrs. Edwin J. Scott,

» #” s Missing i LISTED AS MISSING hy the i ; war department today are four men from Indiana. They are 2d Lt. Buren J. Snyder, Frank- ~ fort, missing in the North African - area; 2d Lt. Clarence Hartman, - Evansville; 2d Lt. John H. Larson, Gary, and T. Sgt. Bernard. L. ~ Wright, Lebanon, all missing in - the Southwest Pacific. S ” o 2

: "EDWARD JAMES SMITH, sea- # man 1-c, Ft. Wayne, is listed as “missing by the navy today.

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Jennings Seen for OPA

Region 3 Post in Cleveland.

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while Mr. Williams, former Cleveland automobile dealer, is a lifelong Republican. : An attempt previously was made to replace Mr. Williams by former Rep. Frank Hook, a lameduck Democrat from Ironwood, Mich. but OPA Administrator Prentiss Brown, lameduck Democratic senator from Michigan, then announced that Mr. Williams would remain in the post. Includes 4 States

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gan and West Virginia. Mr. Jennings, it was pointed out, fulfills the requirements for top OPA jobs laid down by assistant administrator Clyde Herring, lame duck Democratic senators from Iowa. He said no man should get a good job there “unless he has met a payroll or carried a precinct.” As an Evansville businessman, Mr. Jennings has met a payroll. As part of the Evansville Demcoratic organization he probably has carried a precinct although the Republicans won there last time.

URGES LARGER ALLOTMENTS

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To Lead Educators

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theater, the 1500 delegates heard reports and addresses today. Few if any of the delegates played hookey from last night's meeting, when they heard the Rev. M. Ashby Jones, retired Baptist minister of Atlanta, Ga., tell them that their task was to develop the capacity for self-government within their pu-

pils. “Democracy rests upon the belief that a man is so constituted that there may develop within him the capacity for self-government,” he said. “If any form of tyranny ever gets hold of the schools of

dead in America.” ; Highlight of this afternoon’s session will be George D. Strayer’s talk on “Education During Crisis.” The Columbia university professor will apply his experience with educational policies during and after the last war to the present war emergency. The question of raising N. E. A. membership dues to cover the increasing costs of maintaining the N. E. A. headquarters staff was set forth by Mr. Flora in his talk on, “Problems Facing the Representative Assembly.”

Discuss War Problems

Aspects of maintaining a unified teaching profession were discussed by R. Minnie Garff of Salt Lake City, Utah, for local teachers’ groups; George E. Walk of Philadelphia, Pa., for state associations, and Willard E. Givens, N. E. A.

organization, Two of the assembly’s most vital war problems will be presented to delegates at tonight's session. As chairman of the educational policies commission, Frederick M. Hunter, chancellor of the Oregon state system of higher education, will talk on education’s place at the peace table. He also will present for con-| sideration plans for a united na-| tions educational conference.

Favor Public Aid

Active support of the bill calling for federal aid to public schools will be sought after H. M. Ivy, :-chair-

man of the legislative commission, presents the bill at tonight’s meeting. Other addresses will be by Richard Barnes Kennan of Augusta, Me., on teachers’ salaries, ahd Mrs. D. Edna Chamberlain of Tulsa, Okla., on teacher turnover, Rev. Jones told the teacher-dele-gates that .the same forces which have been trying ‘to destroy democracy have been trying to destroy religion. “To destroy democratic faith, they must first destroy religious faith,” he pointed out. The white-haired minister defined democracy as not a form of government, or political creed but a “faith in the supreme value of a man.” : What We Fight For

“We are fighting for a faith in America,” he said. “We might save every iota of land, but if we should lose that faith in accumulating that land, we shall lose America.” In his address Governor Schricker proclaimed his desire for education to sit at the peace table in order to avoid the mistakes made aft-

N. E. A. OFFICE

Hoosier Among Candidates

David Ross Dies

Lafayette Inventor

Friend of Purdue Stricken at 71.

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energy and his money. He is, all wool, without embroidery.

“Mr. Ross graduated from Pur-

due in 1893, and he has been paying back his alma mater ever since. He has given the school more than a million dollars, although it will make him mad to see it in print. More than that, he has given his time and mind . .. “Shortly after graduation (from Purdue) he almost died of typhoid and the doctors told him he'd have to stay in the open. So he went back to the farm, and never left it for 13 years. He was 35 when he ventured into the industrial world.

Never Drew Plans

“Out there on the farm, he had thought up his first invention. It was a stearing gear for autos. He built his factory in 1906. It is still going. Many of our passenger cars are steered with Ross gears, and more than half the trucks on America’s highways. . . . “In his inventing, he never draws plans. Just pictures the whole thing in his head, and makes the changes and alterations in his head too. He can lay a complicated plan away on a mental shelf for months, and when he comes back for it, there it is, fresh and accurate. “He says he has never had any desire for money. And yet almost everything he ever touched has made money. He owns about 1000 acres of farm land, and has three families running it. Two of them have been with him nearly 30 years. He doesn’t call them tenants, but partners. ., .

“Purdue His Life”

“He has never traveled much. Just took one of those cruises to South America. a few years ago. And never dabbled in politics much either. He has just invented, and made money, and acquired knowledge—all for the purpose it would seem now, of giving it back to Purdue university. “Purdue is his life. family he has.”

It's the only

. During the past year, Mr. Ross

was compelled to give up his civic activities but retained his contact with Purdue, Once asked why he devoted so much time to the development of Purdue, Mr. Ross replied that the school had supplied him with his training and that he was interested in the boys and girls of -the state. Mr. Ross’ only survivor is a sister, Mrs. Mary Stidham of Oakland, Cal.

er the last war,

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is death or imprisonment for a! maximum of 30 years. Lehmitz, tall and thin and wear-: ing steel-rimmed glasses, had re-! ceived extensive espionage training | in Germany and joined the air raid| warden service to cover up his activities in gathering information on troop movements, convoys, armament production and civilian defense, according to E. E. -Conroy,| special agent in charge of the New York office of the federal bureau of investigation.

Used Invisible Ink

He transmitted this information to his superiors in Germany, Conroy, said, by writing messages in invisible ink between the lines and on the reverse side of apparently innocent letters to “friends” in neutral! Europe. His reports, Conroy said, included comments on American public’ opinion and civilian morale and, through his air warden capacity— | he was listed as an “active worker”| —information on civilian defense and air raid precautions. These, he said in one message to Germany. were in ‘‘indescriable confusion.” This report was sandwiched in between the lines of an innocent, appearing letter which also contained information of the where- ! abouts: of two American battleships.” . ; Another letter, Conroy said, told of the shipment of bomb sights by the United States and also reported on the construction and repair of ships at the Brooklyn navy yard and the loading of transports and other vessels at Newport News, Va. . Lehmitz, who,. according to Con-

FBI Nabs Spy Who Reported

Ship Movements to Germany

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roy, got much of his information by frequenting taverns patronized by members of the armed forces and defense workers, went into painstaking detail. in many of his reports. One message specified the type and number of guns carried in convoys. Another reported that thousands of American troops were leaving in transports, some for Australia and others for England and Africa. He included the actual number of ships in some convoys and their destinations, with complete descriptions of their cargoes. On one occasion, Conroy said, Lehmitz told his superiors that a certain aircraft factory was at full capacity—three ships a day. In another letter he wrote about “11 ships leaving for Russia, including a steamer with airplane motors and 28 long-range guns. “One steamer has a deckload of airplanes and below deck, airplane motors,” Boeing and Douglas airplane parts, with Curtiss-Wright airplane motors and small munitions, searchlights and telegraphic materials.” ’

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had found. in Cairo, born of earlier British claims. But before I left the trailer in which Gen. Montgomery had

rigged up his map room, I had learned more about desert warfare, and he had convinced me that something more than the ubiquitous = self-confidence of the British officer and. gentleman lay behind his assurance that the threat to Egypt had been liquidated.

Toured the Front

® THE NEXT DAY we toured the front and I saw with my own eyes the clusters of tank and artillery troops, the occasional fighter-plane bases, and the formidable supply units which con-. stitute a front in the fluid, checkerboard type of warfare that goes on in the desert. On the way back to Gen. Montgomery'’s headquarters, he summed up what I had seen and heard. “With the superiority in tanks and planes that I have established as a result of this battle and with Rommel’s inability to get reinforcements of materiel across the eastern Mediterranean—for our air forces are destroying four out of every five of his materiel transports —it is now mathematically certain: that 1 will eventually desiroy Rommel. This battle was ithe critical test. . , .” Two memories stand out in my mind today of Alexandria. The first was a long discussion with Rear Adm. Rene Godfroy, in command of the forlorn units of the French fleet in the harbor. He was sorely troubled by the turn of ‘events in France, and almost uneducated in any meaning of the war outside his simple officer’s discipline.

Expressed Friendship.

HE HAD obviously been deeply embittered by the naval actions of the British against French ships after June, 1940. But he expressed great friendship for the United States and a desire for our victory. ; My second memory of Alexandria is of a dinner that night at the home of Adm, Harwood,

_ hero of the epic fight of the Exeter

against the Graf Spee in South American waters, and now commander of the British navy in the eastern Mediterranean. He invited to dine with us 10 of his compatriots in the naval, diplomatic, or consular service in Alexandria. I tried to draw out these men, all of them experienced and able administrators of the British empire, on what they saw in the future of the colonial system and of our joint relations with the many peoples of the East. What I got was Rudyard Kipling, untainted even with the liberalism of Cecil Rhodes. The Atlantic charter most of them had read about. That it might affect their careers or their thinking had never occurred to any of them. : That evening started in my mind a conviction which was to grow strong in the days that followed it in the middle east: That brilliant victories in the field will not win for us. this war now going on in the far reaches of the world, that only new men and new ideas in the machinery “of our relations with the peoples of the East can win the victory

without which any peace will be only another armistice. , , «

The Middle East 459

FROM CAIRO to Teheran, we flew above trade routes and over cities which are as old as anything in our civilization and which have kept the variety and the contrasts of thousands of years of history. In the air, between stops, an - airplane gives a modern traveler a chance to map in his mind the land he is flying over. . From Beirut to Lydda, to Bagdad, to Teheran, we had fairly long flights on which to compare notes and to sort out impressions.

Spoke With Leaders

(DURING THIS portion of Mr. Willkie’s tour he discussed the Middle East's social and economic problems with such leaders as Awni Bey Abdul Hadi, Arab leader who claims all of Palestine for his people, and Miss Henrietta Szold, ,80 - year - old founder of Hadassah, who has dedicated her life to the establishment of a national homeland for the Jews in the Holy Land. (He spoke also with the ruler of Iran (Persia), Mohammed Shah Pahlavi, who had his first airplane ride with Mr, Willkie’s party.) Before we left Iran for the Soviet Union, I had made up my own mind about the answers to some of the most immediate and pressing questions I had asked myself about the Middle East. In the first place, I was convinced that all these peoples were more on our side than against us. In the second place, I was convinced that some sort of yeast was at work in nearly all the places I visited. Even the strictest kind of neutrality cannot keep the war from working its profound and violent changes -on all the peoples who live in this region. Their lives will change more in the next 10 years than they have in the last 10 centuries. In the third place, I found no automatic guarantee that these changes will be in our favor. I found polite but skeptical people, who met my questions about their problems and difficulties with polite but ironic questions about our own.

Maladjustments Discussed

THE MALADJUSTMENTS of races in America came up frequently, and I believe every government official I talked to wondered about our relations to Vichy. Arab and Jew were curious to know if our expressions of freedom meant - only new and enlarged mandated areas which in the Lebanon and Syria and Palestine, rightly or wrongly, had come to mean to them a form of foreign tyranny. The Register and Tribune Syndicate

TOMORROW: A Visit With de Gaulle.

FORD PROFITS UP IN '42. BOSTON, June 28 (U. P.). — The Ford Motor Co. increased: its surplus $10,894,860 during 1942 — the first year of full-scale war production—according to its balance sheet

filed today with the Massachusetts state tax commissioner.

FOR LIGHT

Ruhr Believed Half Wrecked

“1. F. ATTACKS ENEMY CONVOY

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bombers were over western Germany but this was not confirmed.

tures over France and Germany was attested by a Stockholm report to the Daily Telegraph that said German railroads are losing 100 to 150 locomotives a month to attacking planes.

The raids on Frarice were on a small scale compared with some of the massive assaults of the previous eight nights, but they resulted in damage to an airfield, two locomotives and two railway yards, putting a further strain on Germany's already taut communications set-up in invasion-menaced France, The growing success of the allied bombing offensive was reported by the Daily Sketch to have led {he German high command to demand the ouster of Reichmarshal Hermann Goering as chief of Germany’s once-vaunted LuftwafTe. The demand was discussed at a recent meeting of the high command with Hitler, the Sketch said, with the military men seeking the appointment of Field Marshal Albert Kesselyring to the air command on grounds that Goering had failed to out-build the allies or develop sufficiently trained pilots despite the resources at his command. Already over the “hump” in its campaign to paralyze the Ruhr—an area approximately 30 by 25 miles— the R. A. F. will find the second half of its offensive easier than the

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Mother Has Premonition; Son Drowns

When Elmer J. Thompson, 29, of 925 Ewing st., left home for a fish= ing trip early yesterday, his mother, Mrs. Inez Thompson, had a premo= nition of tragedy. ih She said she was disturbed all i day by a presen= timent that her . son would never come back alive, © At 5 p. m. yes= terday, 12 hours - after the son left, she received a telephone call that he had : drowned in the a Oaklandon reserElmer voir about noon. Thompson Mr. Thompson's dog, Laddie, also sensed something was wrong and lay. at the front door whining, Mrs. Thompson said, “I told Elmer not to go on the fishing trip because I had a feeling’ then that something would hapepen,” she said. : Mr. Thompson, who went fishing * /# with two companions, Kenneth | Winegar, 23, of 830 Marion st. and Ralph Scoots, 21, of 709 Day st. apparently suffered cramps while swimming and sank. ’ State police from Pendleton and deputy sheriffs recovered the body. X five hours later near the spot where Mr. Thompson went down. Mr. Thompson had been an em= ployee of the Marmon-Herrington plant for the last six months, Previously he was a truck driver for the Mayflower Transit Co. Surviving besides the mother are the father, Alva Thompson; a brother, William Thompson, and a sister, Mrs. Helen Jackson.

BRITISH OUTBUILD NAZIS LONDON, June 29 (U, P.).—Grea$ Britain alone is now producing more

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