Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1943 — Page 4

ITALIANS

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Reluctance to Risk Test With Allies Confronts Axis With

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Major Mediterranean Problem; Escape Channel Too Narrow.

VIRGIL PINKLEY

United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 7.— Increased allied sea and air power and the reluctance of the Italian fleet to come out and fight represent one of the major problems for the axis as they attempt to frame their defense of the Mediterranean and adjoining territory.

The allied fleet

and air armadas have won new and val-

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THOMAS RITES SET TOMORROW

Former Warren Township! Trustee Dies in Veterans’ Marion Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at| Shirley Brothers Irving Hill mortuary at 3 p. m. tomorrow for Henry | M. Thomas, 340 N. Ritter ave., who! died yesterday in the Veterans’ hospital at Marion after an illness of nearly six months. Burial will | be in Washington Park. Mr. Thomas, who was 71, served as Warren township trustee for four | years prior to last Jan, 1, A native of Wisconsin, Mr. Thomas came to Indianapolis in

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Rites Are Set for i Mrs. M. E. Harvey

Miss Margaret BE. Harvey, who | ‘made her home with her sister, | Kate Fowler, 731 N. Bosart| lave, died yesterday in the Shady | Rest sanitorium after a year's ill- | ness. She was 76. A native of Hancock county, Miss Harvey had lived in Indianapolis She was a member of |the Cumberland Baptist church. Besides Mrs. Fowler, survivors are another sister, Mrs, Carrie Knopp | living near New Palestine, and] (three brothers, John W. and Lee! | both of Indianapolis, and Benjamin

|Harvey of near Cumberland.

Funeral services will be held at|

2 p. m. tomorrow in the Paul] |Dorsey funeral home. Burial will! be in the Phiiadelphis cemetery.

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SERVICES SET FOR WILEY OWINGS, 76

Wiley A. Owings, Hancock county native and an employee of the Pennsylvania railroad for 42 years untli his retirement several years | ago, died yesterday in the home of ‘his daughter, Mrs. Gladys Watson, 202 McKim st, after an illness of | two years. Burial in Greenwood Semelerg)

[will follow services at 9:30

| Friday in the Bert S. Gadd Ahi | home. Mr. Owings, who was 76, had resided in Indianapolis for many years, He was a member of the | Greenwood Masonic lodge. Besides Mrs. Watson he is survived by another daughter, Mrs. |Opal Barlow; a son, Arthur F.; a | brother, Frank E. all of Indiahapolis; two half sisters, Mrs, Laura Reiser, Maryland, and Mrs, Jennis Staley, Virginia, and a grand-

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the J. I. Case Co. Inc, for many years, He was a 32d degree Mason and a trustee of the Irvington Methodist church. He was a lieutenant in the United States army during the SpanishAmerican war, Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jeanette Perry Thomas; two sons, Capt. Perry M. Thomas, who is in the army air forces at Wright field, Dayton, O., and Lt. (j.g.) William H. Thomas, U.S.N, attached to the bureau of areonautics in Washington, D. C.; two daughters, Mrs. Lorraine Walker, Indianapolis, and| eS, Jeanette A. Carey, Arlington, | placed in the basins during the | Ya a brother, John 2Z. Thomas, | two day event. Several pieces of Olivet, Kas.; two sisters, Mrs, Amy | air fighting equipment including | Schroeder. Olivet, and Mrs. May planes, engine mounts, propellors, Avery, Lake Village, Ark, and two parachutes and communicating grandchildren. devices will be included.

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campaign to secure 1000 aviation | cadets in Indiana within the next |Mass, following services at 8: a few weeks. a. m, tomorrow in the Kirby mortuary and at 9 a. m. in the Church | of the Little Flower for Mrs. Eliza-| beth A. Herman, 731 N. Colorado st., who died Monday after an ill-| ness of more than seven years. | Mrs. Herman, who was 49, was| born at Turners Falls and came] to Indianapolis in 1920. She was] a member of the Church of the | Little Flower. The husband, Charles N. Herman, | and a daughter, Miss Patricia Marie Herman survive.

uable bases as a result of the Tunisian campaign, and ou strength in these two vital categories of three- dimensional warfare, has grown steadily.! ———— Meantime Italian sea power

has declined. Mussolini's fleet is so badly dispersed it would be extremely difficult to assemble sufficient power to offer anything like formidable opposition to any Anglo-American move throughout the Mediterranean.

ployee of The Indianapolis Times| circulation department, died yester-| day in his home, 600 N. East st, after an illness of three months. He | was 51. A native of Indianapolis and | former advertising manager of the | Detroit Motor News, he had for- | merly been an advertising salesman | for The Indianapolis Star. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Bagles. Funeral services will be held at] the Moore & Kirk funeral home,| 3447 College ave., at 3 p. m. tomor- | row. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Crys- | tal E, Barclay, and a sister, Mrs. | C. L. George, Indianapolis.

Naples, La Spezia or Genoa, they would be forced to swing around or attempt to thread the narrow, swift channel between Messina or Reggio Calabria and Italy. Once such a move was made, our sea and air forces would pounce on the Italian ships like a pack of} ravenous wolves. Such a develop- | {ment is something Cunningham, | Air chief Marshal Sir Arthur W. | Tedder, Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz,|: Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle and| others dream about but is very un|likely to happen.

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ANDERSON-—Mrs. Edith Sims, 69. SurYeiivith Husband, Charles: daughters, Mrs. holding Malta, ! George McDonald and Mrs. Alta Little:

lori sia, i | son, Carl E. Trutt Pantelleria, ria and Tunisia, jt|Sof, Carl RFR, would be almost suicidal to try to | willard; brothers, Hymie = | Ulrlek. run ships from eastern or south | Mrs, Sarah Ann Antrobus, eastern ports through the narrow ors: Husband, Benjamin; Fos, i A ohn : » | Be atrice Sutton, Murs. Sicilian channel, which is only 90 | Delores Casteter miles wide. This alleyway now iS! Lucille Poesler and Miss Elinora Wheat: ct A : . § TN so Benjamin and Arthur Antrobus: almost dominated by allied aireraft) hc Issac and Albert Lane. and ships. : : EVANSVILLE—Oscar F. Surhenry, 61 In three major sea clashes in the

Survivors, 61. Survivors: Wife, Amelia; war Italy has suffered heavily. First

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WASHINGTON, July 7 (U. P.). —Eric Edmonston, owner of a refrigeration service company, | bought for $12.50 the old pushcart | of Steve Vasilakos, the capital's | well-known peanut vendor who | died not long ago. The cheerful old Greek was | known to many presidents dur- | ing his 30 odd years on the White House corner, and he was as much a part of the Washington scene as the stately buildings in front of which he sold his peanuts and popcorn to tourists and | celebrities alike.

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Gaulle, who has been the soul of resistance in the darkest days . and it is its ardent wish that Giraud should take command of | the French army. Thus would be realized, technically and morally, the unity of all French fighting forces=-the indispensable instrument of liberation and resurrection of our country.” French resistance movements began to work in closer unity more than a year ago and their out-and-out policy of co-operation took full shape this winter, when the resistance movement of the French Communists pledged their support to de Gaulle,

They have a difficult role in the days ahead. The Germans are determined to spare no pain or suffering to crush underground adherents and in France they are getting the fullest co-operation from their puppet, Pierre Laval. The bitterness of French patriots against their pro-German countrymen is not the least of the worries for those trying to find order out of chaos. It is a problem calling for the greatest study and guidance if France is to be spared post-war disruption.

French manpower is decreasing hourly under the impact of forced labor deportations and tightening of restrictions upon all civilians. Grimly, they analyzed the prospects of another six months and agreed that they will need every shred of their unity and co-ordina-tion against intensified pressure from the Germans and Laval collaborationists which has already bled France nearly white. On the political side, this meeting of underground leaders-—now known as the Council of French Resistance—pledged anew its support of Gen. Charles de Gaulle as their symbol of unity and ultimate freedom. Huddled together in their darkened hideout, they tightened their inter-movement contacts to prevent duplication of sabotage whereby, for instance, agents of the Combat and the Federation Republicaine would not both attempt to sabotage the same bridge or warehouse and thus waste time and energy. Then, solemnly, they drew up a resolution about Gens. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud. A copy of the resolution, now in London, reads in part: “It is the will of this council that the government (of French affairs) should be given to de

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