Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1944 — Page 2

A Weekly Sizeup- by the Washington § Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers i

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by making this a party issue. Democrats believe soldier-vote controversy will bounce back on Republicans later. AVOR I te Repub ODDS FAVOR postponement of selection of new sena epubHeap leader to succeed that late Charles McNary until after Novem-

Decis will be made at a party conference next ion will continue in that role

Wednesday. Acting Leader White of Maine if selection is postponed. . ” - ” 8 8 HOUSE NAVAL affairs subcommittee, back from tour of U, S. bases in South Africa and Caribbean, will recommend that we give or lend part of our naval vessels to Latin American republics after the war, with stipulation that warships be manned and maintained for joint hemispheric defense. Committeemen say it's solution for swollen navy which we won't want to retain in peacetime. : ss 8 = s =»

OPA to Seek More Funds

OPA WILL ask congress for more funds to enforce price regula“tions but won't abolish—as many ration boards have advocated—the system of price investigations by volunteer assistants, (OPA plans to concentrate price compliance drive at wholesale level, believing pressure can thus be diminished on 1,750,000 retail outlets, which would be difficult to police.)

CONGRESS TRAINS its sights on completion of annual appropriation bills and other “must” measures by June 1 to permit recesses for national party conventions. Leaders also are holding out promise of week or 10-day vacation for Easter. 7 Note: Congressmen, no strangers to crowded conditions, will: feel a% home if they attend Chicago conventions. Arrangements committees, still at sea on how visitors can be handled because of severe hotelroom shortage, are telling them they'll have to double up. 2 s s - 2 8

WATCH FOR renewed pressure on WPB to expand civilian production, on heels of Truman committee report which, in effect, spanked WPB for its policy of using cut-back unemployed to supply labor shortage in critical areas. Donald Nelson contends reconversion period Is still far away, puts its after the collapse of Germany. " = = ® = = PRELIMINARIES IN war labor board’s big steel-wage case indicate the administration may move eventually.toward upward revision of little steel formula. This would vindicate F. D. R’s most faithful union supporter, Philip Murray, and also help stem a widely reported political defection among rank and file in C.I1.Q. as well as in A. F. of L. and rail brotherhoods. .. Note: Republicans, seeing a chance to split the labor vote this year, plan to w along those lines. A labor committee named at To adackin fff erc may ask leaders of several union groups to take part in prefinary platform discussions. ”

Political Pressure on Army Camps

ARMY SEES old peacetime handicap again iooming on” horizon. For years it had to quarter small units at posts kept open only because of political pressure. Result has been that troops got no adequate large-unit training. Now these pressures are being felt again, with senators and congressmen protesting against possibility of closing

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various war-emergency camps. 8 ” ” » o ” WILLKIEITES claim 40 “loyal Willkie men and women” on G.' O. P. national committee. Their first act, if Willkie is nominated, will be to oust Harrison Spangler as chairman. Rep. Charles M. LaFollette of Indiana created a stir among the more cautious Republican colleagues by announcing his candidacy with the statement: “I am for Willkie for President and if there are those who do not agree with this stand, let them enter the primaries and not wait and fight their own party candidate in the general election.” . ® = ® = 8 LABOR ORGANIZATIONS are clamoring for right to send their own publications to fighting men on all fronts: charge that other . conveyors of news misrepresent their case. War department foresees similar demand from churches, industry groups perhaps; shudders at thought of transportation difficulties. ..8 8 . 2 sa ¥ NUTRITION IN WAR plants get surprising results. Where .wellplanned, well-balanced meals have been put before workers, 56 per cent changed their eating habits, ate more vegetables, milk, raw salads. One textile mill in Alabama upped production 10 per cent two weeks after starting nutrition program. West coast iron works decréased labor turnover from 12.5 per cent to 4.9 per cent; cut absenteeism from 9 to 4.1 per cent. } ” s o ns . Strong management groups, feeling their representatives on war labor board are being outmaneuvered by labor members, partly because the latter gave more time to it, are making plans to throw in reinforcements, work out a ‘way to assure closer contact between their board spokesmén and industry in general.

‘Funeral Flippery' Absent in Services for Irvin S. Cobb

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|is sprightlier.” those dismal numbers run up by the |

undertakers’ dress-making department, I'll come back and ha'nt 'em,” he said. The humorist asked that his ashes be laid at the roots of a dogwood tree in Paducah “at the proper planting season. Should the tree live, that will be monument enough to me.” Paxton sald that Cobb's wishes will be carried out. “We won't hold a celebratién because Bill (a youthful nickname for Cobb) didn mean exactly that. There will be no tube roses or lilies.” Cobb suggested that if someone felt moved to say a few words, that would be all right and he suggested

ist wrote, “no flowers .

‘berries from the flat-lands

Cracken county ridges if it

apples if it be in other season.”

Tarkington Pays ‘Tribute to Cobb

| mate, but undoubtedly the company

the spot with leaves—Christmas | and cedar from the friendly low Me-! be winter, and leafy bows from native ’q pickery or hackberries or wild crab. |CAITY mention of the only two |D1aving been sufficiently occupied by |

Booth Tarkington today at his

for the _job— “Well, say, Tom Waller.” ee Waller Will Speak - ==

Waller, a lifetime friend of the humorist, will speak. He said he will describe Cobb as he knew him when the two were barefoot kids together and tipped over outhouses and fished in the streams. Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was author, humorist, lecturer and newsspapernman. He started as a cub reporter on his hometown paper, and while a young man moved to New York and became one of America’s most beloved humorists. | - -Cobb’s letter specifically requested | that the Christian burial service!

“which in view of the language the third floor of the Federal build- | employed in it I regard as one of "8 Will be open until 9 p. m. Monthe most cruel and paganish things 98Y and Tuesday and until midinherited by our forebears from our Night Wednesday, deadline for pay- | pe Ing income taxes. Persons have been asked to use| the east elevator if they want as- ,... Slstance in making out-reports and ithe west elevator for access to the dear | cashier.

remote pagan ancestors,” avoided in any services for ‘Him: Wants 23d Psalm He asked, however, that justice to the faith of our mother . . perhaps the current’) pastor of the First Presbyterian church would consent to read the 23d Psalm, which was her favorite! passage In the Scripture, and is

ruption and decay, and being merciful without creed or dogma

fire for those parties we do rot like, ‘mo direct promise of a heaven, which, if one may judge by the people who are surest of going must be a powerfully dull

may have the worst cli-

~home in Indianapolis paid tribute

to Irvin S. Cobb, famed humorist who died yesterday in New York, He said: “Irvin Cobb was a fine artist, a true humorist, a genuine, wise American and an endlessly gener-| ous, great-hearted man. His vanishing 4s a loss to the country and makes it a duller and sadder place! in-which to live.”

TAX" OFFICE PLANS LAST-MINUTE HELP

The infernal revenue office on|

NOTED AUTHOR VAN LOON, DIES

Historian Stricken ~ While Talking to Wife About

New Book.

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author had been Qlseny a her the progress he was on a new book, “The History of the Eighteenth Century.” The attack ended this talk. Van Loon, who achieved fame through his self-illustrated historical works, was born in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1882 and came to the United States when he was 21. After two years at Harvard univergity, he entered Cornell university where he took his A, B. in 195. Six years later, he received his doctorate at the University of Munich, In the intervening years, he was an Associated Press correspondent at Washington and, during the 1906 reveloution in Russia, at Moscow, St. Petersburg, | Warsaw,

Covers War Fronts

From 1911 to 1914, Van Loon lectured on history and the history of art at various American universities iand in 1914 returned to the Asso{ciated Press for which he went to Belgium immediately after the outbreak of the first world war. For that service he covered the siege of Antwerp and later worked in England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark until 1917, when he returned to the United States after an accident. Van Loon turned to writing and lecturing following the phenomenal success of his sixth book “The Story of Mankind,” in 1921, two years after he had become a naturalized citizen of the United States.

He was professor of history at | Antioch college, Yellow Springs, O,, lin 1922-23 and associate editor of {the Baltimore Sun, 1923-24. In (1934, he made a lecture tour of |New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and South America.

Honors Come Fast

{ A member of the National Insti{tute of Arts and Letters, Van Loon | was awarded the John Newberry {medal in 1923, was made an offi{cer of the Order of Orange-Nassau

and ' pen—

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peared in court and Mr. Blue's deputy refused to issue the afiidavits, the letter stated. Judge Niblack then helped out with three of the affidavits in the absence of a prosecutor. The cases were heard with Judge Niblack doing the questioning. ! Mr. Blue said the defendants were found guilty and sentenced to $1 and costs, which were suspended. “Should_you persist in your activity of making these arrests, 1 shall be obliged to consider your actions as wilfully oppressive,” Mr. Blue's letter stated.

(Holland) in 1937, and in 1942 was made 8 Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, His first book, “The Fall of the Dutch Republic,” published in 1913, was an immediate success, and in rapid succession the following volumes, most of them {llustrated by Van Loon himself, came from his

The Rise of the Dutch Kinkdom, 1015, the Golden Book of Dutch Navigators, 1916, a Short History of Discovery, 1918, Ancient Man, 1920, The Story of Mankind, 1921, the Story of the Bible, 1923, The Story cf Wilbur the Hat, 1925, Tolerance, 1925, America, 1927, The Life of Peter Stuyvesant, 1928, Man the Miracle Maker, 1928, R. V. R,, the Life of Rembrandt Van Ruyn, 1681, Van Loons Georgraphy, 1932, An Indiscreet Itinerary, 1933, An Elephant Up a Tree, 1933, Ships, 1935, Around the World With the Alphabet, 1935, Airstorming, 1935, The Songs We Sing, 1936, The Arts, 1937, Christmas Carols, 1937, Folk Songs of Many Lands, 1938, Our Battle, 1939, The Life and Music of Carl Michael Bellman, 1939, Pacific Ocean, 1939, Songs of America, 1939, | Invasion, 1940, Life and Times of | Johan Sebastian Bach, 1940, Good Tidings (with Grance Castagnetta), 1941, Van Loons Lives, 1942, The Life of Simon Bolivar, 1943, and Thomas Jefferson, 1943. A new book, “The Boy Who Escaped,” the story of Gustavus Vasar, founder of the royal house of Sweden, was scheduled for early publication by Dodd, Mead & Co. Van Loon was married in 1906 to Eliza Bowditch and in 1920 to Helen Criswell, whom he remarried after a marriage to Frances Goodrich.

THE INDIANAPOLIS

POLICE SHAKEUP No Officers to Be Demoted, Says Mayor; ‘Satisfied’ With the Setup.

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Jacobs, who is now working “inside” at the police department, to a more important job as head of the traffic division, Also doomed to reduction under the suggested shakeup would be vice squad Sgts. John Foran, Ralph Bader and Charles Burkett. As a whole, the “reorganization plan,” it was learned, would, if followgd, usurp Chief Beeker’s present control over field and traffic operations and those activities dealirig directly with the public. Meanwhile, the air of mystery and subterfuge surrounding the list increased as those holding the few copies extant pleaded ignorance of. its origination. Among those are Chief Beeker and members of the safety board. Mayor Tyndall, who reportedly handed the Tepolnendae tions to’ the chief, was not avaflable for comment and his secretary, Harry Calkins, refused to divulge the source of the document. Safety Board President Wjll H. Remy minimized the importance of the latest development in the antiBeeker campaign by saying that “somebody's always suggesting changes in the police department. vie There's nothing to that list. When we get ready to make some changes we'll make them.” The re-assignment schedule presumably was composed by anti. Beeker forces within the Tyndall administration who have been pounding away at some of the chief's personnel and policy theories.

EVANGELIST TO TALK The Rev. Jack Shuler of Los Angeles, young evangelist and former Hollywood actor, will speak this evening at the Youth for Christ meeting "beginning at 7 p. m. in the Roberts Park Methodist church.

MUNN TO TALK AT ROTARY Daniel PF. Munn, Indianapolis, manager of the National Casket Co., Ine¢., will speak at the Rotary club luncheon Tuesday at the Claypool hotel. Mr. Munn is a member

|He had another son, Henry B.

of the club.

‘Prophet of Paducah’ Sought Dogwood Tre As Only Marker Above Cremated Remains

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{ mortal exit in a tail coat with white | tie, and artificial pearl studs. | “I'll be done with after dinner | speaking forever so why dispatch | me hence in the regalia of the craft. When a man dies with his sins, {let the sins die with the man. { That's what I say, and it sums up such. speculation asd might ever have had touching on the future I state, if any. ; “For me a suitable epitaph would be: ‘Anyhow, he left here. But ‘never mind that. It might offend some of the pious, and I'd hate to |go on giving offense after I'd quit living.

Fertilizer With Ashes

“When convenience suits, I ask that the plain canister--nothing fancy there, please—containing my |ashes shall be taken to Paducah, {and al the proper planting season, a hole shall be dug in our family lot, or elsewhere at Oak Grove, and a dogwood tree plahted there | with the ashes strewn in the hole | to fertilize the treet roots. Should |the tree live, that will be monu‘ment enough for me. But should {my surviving relatives desire to

And over the simple plaque on Mark the spot further,,T make so! which “provided it doesn't cost too!Dold as to suggest that they use| much,” Cobb asked that Robert! a slab of plain Kentucky limestone Louis Stevenson's own epitaph be Set flat in the kindly earth, or a| inscribed, “Thank you,” the humor- | rugged natural boulder of southern | _ cover | granite bearing a small bronze plate |

on it and, if it seems pertinent, the year of my birth and the year of my death, which appears to be the custom although I could never understand why a gravestone should

{events in the career of the deceased {with which he had absolutely nothling to do—unless he committed suicide. “Also on the bronze tablet, or stone slab, as the case may be, and provided it doesn't cost too much, I'd like to have inscribed certain lines from the epitaph which Robert Louis Stevenson wrote for himself,

en as: ee oe te |trenches of the sin of no man's land where I long to be . . . home is the |@ reclaim the tortured souls who

hunter, home from the hill, and the sailor home from the sea.’

Quotes From Memory “I'm quoting from memory. If

I'm wrong, will someone kindly corOr, if a simpler single

rect me? line bearing the impact seems desirable, I offer this one as suitable: ‘TI have come back HOME.

“And, thank you, no flowers. Does | {anybody feel moved to send flowers,

mine since it confains no.charal, | - mor morbid mouthing about cor-'

carries no threat of eternal hell-

The following data is required: Form W-2 from employers stating tax withheld; form 1125 sent by the collector showing tax reported and paid in 1942; the declaration of estimated taxes for 1943, if made, and a record of other income besides wages recorded in 1943.

BRAZIL SOLDIER KILLED | - BRAZIL, Ind. March 11 (U. P).— | The body of Cpl. William A. Pitt{man Jr. was being brought to Bra!zil today for burial. The 20th Clay county victim of the war, Pittman was Filed in an accident near Camp ex. -

I'd prefer that they give the money | they'd spend to some local non(denominational charity. Cover the {spot with leaves—Christmas berries [from the flat lands and cedar from |the friendly low McCracken county ridges if it be winter, and leafy boughs from native hickories or huck-berries or wild crab apples if it be in other season, “Above all, I want no long faces and no show of grief at the buria grounds. Kindly observe the fina

reading the so-called Christian bur

| as one of the most cruel and pagan ish things inherited by our fore bears from our ‘remote pagan an cestors. ip Respects Mother's Faith

“In justice to the faith of ou

who was in her

municant of fhat congregation

wishes of the undersigned, and avoid and pestilences, raping and slaugh-

ial. service which ‘in view of the language employed in it I regard

dear mother who died in 1032, lifetime . a loyal, though’ never a bigoted com. n, per-

haps the current pastor of the Furst] | presbyterian church would consent | {to read the 23d Psalm, which was! her favorite passage in the scrip-| tures, and is mine since it contgins no charnal, nor morbid mouthing | about corruption and decay, and being merciful without creed or dogma carries no threat of eternal hell

“But getting back to what I was talking about, I am a life member of Paducah Lodge No. 217, BPOE, but I'd prefer that the burial program of the order not be read. Like most burial programs it needs editing. However, if the members desire to turn out, either as a body or singly, I'll be very glad to have

fire for those parties we do not like, [them present, Judging by my latest!

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SECOND LT. KENNETH E. KEENE, 1210 N. LaSalle st, pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber based in England, has been awarded the air medal and three oak leaf Clusters and given seven days rest leave, He is the son of Mrs. Nettie Keene, .

He wrote recently that he and his brother, Pfc. Robert L. Keene, also stationed in England, had spent two leaves together. Both men are Technical high school graduates. T : ® 8 8 FIRST LT. JOHN D. ABRELL, former Indiana university student, has been awarded an oak leaf cluster to the air medal as a pilot of the Flying Fortress “Junior.” The 22-year-old flier is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Abrell, Greencastle, and the husband of Mrs. Phyllis Abrell, Bloomington, III. He received the award after combat in 10 attacks on Naz military and industrial targets in Germany and other Nazi occupied countries, according to an 8th AAF release.

The war department today confirmed the previous report that Pvt. Paul Richards, son of Mrs. Daisy Richards, 1022 Epler ave., an infantryman, had been wounded Jan, 28 in Italy. Out-state men listed as wounded in. the Mediterranean area are 2d Lts. Howard F. Michael, husband of Mrs. Margaret E. Michael, Linden; Myron W. Reed, son of Mrs. Mary

US. REJECTS EIRE'S PLEA FOR TWO SHIPS

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meet Ireland's 20 per cent deficit in her wheat crop. The request for expulsion of axis representatives from Eire was accompanied by an American statement saying that the presence of the axis agents: constituted a “danger to the lives of American soldiers and to the success of allied military operations.” Eire’'s stand was revealed yesterday with the publication here of an exchange of notes between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. Unless ‘world opinion causes - de Valera to change his attitude, it was believed here that the present situation would remain unchanged. This réasoning was based on the fact that the United States note, sent on Feb. 21, merely requested that the German legation and Japanese consulate in Eire be .closed. It promised, at the same time, that if this request were denied no military or other measures would be taken to force Ireland to accede

no direct promise of a heaven, visits to the basement of the EIkS' to American proposals.

which, if one may judge by the | people who are surest of going | there, must be a powerfully dull] place, populated to a considerable, and uncomfortable degree by prigs, |

gressive individuals.

but undoubtedly the company is | sprightlier. The Catholics with their | genius for stage management handle this detail better. The officiat-! ing clergyman speaks in Latin send the parishoners, being unacquainted | with. that language, are impressed |by the mystery and the majesty of | the rolling, sonorous period without | | being shocked by distressing illu-!

: i | !sions in harrowing references. i

Pictures ‘Ideal’ Religion

“As an aside I might add that my | notion of an ideal religion would, combine the dignity and the beauty! of the Romanists rituals with cer-| | tain other ingredients; the good

| own business. - !

| “I am proud that I never setmyset up to be my brother's keeper,

{the job of being my own keeper. To {these add the noble ethics and the |splendid tolerance expressed in re-: {formed Judaism; the steady inde{pendence and the good business! jprinciples of the Mormons; the gentle humility and ordered humanity of the Quakers; plus the militant zeal and unselfish devotion of those shock-troops of the Lord— Salvation Army—who fight in the

{clothe the naked bodies of those whom the rest of the snobbish world forgot. If, based on this combination there was a determination to practice these sectless preachments and the teachings of Jesus Christ who was the first true gentleman of recorded history and the greatest gentleman who ‘ever lived, I might not have joined the fold, but certainly I'd have stood on the sidelines and cheered for it. By the way, have you noticed that in time of war not the most passionate partisan dared to ask the Prince of Peace to blast his bloody arms and forward his bloody deeds?

Easier for:84alin

“He invokes -the ald of the god of unjustified battle as created by the ancient Hebrews. All Hitler needed to do was to-let his whiskers sprout i and sit on a nest of thunderbolts and 1 naked swords, thinking up plagues

ter and slavery for the vanquished, to be a fit understudy for the vengeful murderous Jehovah of the forepart of the Old Testament, For Brother Joe Stalin, our present beloved ally, and, secretly, the avarlasting enemy of our institutions, the job would be easier. He already has the whiskers. (One advantage of dying is that it affords a fellow opportunity to say a lot of things that have been curdling in his sys-

club, it wouldn't do them a bit of harm if some of the habitues there got out in the open alr, if only for a trip to the cemetery.

“For the wind-up, I'd be grateful

time-servers and unpleasantly ag- if some of my colored friends sing ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’ and then, “Hell may have the worst climate, ‘Deep River.’ I think I could count |

on Mattie Copelander of Jones street who for so many years was a loyal loving servant of my family to recruit the singers from the choirs of our colored churches,

Remembers Poker Pals “I was almost overlooking one item; I take it that there will be no need for pallbearers, as the trade term goes. Pallbearers are another surviving relic of heathen practices. “Recalling how this pair of my friends could cuddle to their bosoms three of a kind in a dollar limit game, I'd nominate either George Goodman (OPA director for Kentucky at present) or Will Gilbert

|Evangelical groups—to mind their ARYhOW, properly rendered down, |

my ashes shouldn't much more than fill a mason fruit jar.

| ‘Among others, I'd like fo Invite to! |go along for the ride—provided they promise to be cheerful and bright

I think of Col. Gus Thompson, Fred

Neuman (Cobb's biographer), Her-, {bert Wallenstein, Jim 8mith, Doug- | [las Bagby. Ed Paxton, (editor and |

publisher of the Democrat). This last letter written to Paxton and Neuman), Capt. Louis Igert, Ed Scott, Jim English, Fletch Terrell, Henry Weil, A. R. Meyers, Dr, War-

This explicit language served to set at rest rumors rampant in Eire that the allies might move in by force of arms and take over the country,

WOUNDS FATAL TO 4TH ORGY VICTIM

"RIVERSIDE, Cal, March 11 (U, P.) —~Second Lt. Beaufort Swancutt was “somewhat improved today,” but his commanding officer, Capt. Aubrey Serfling, was dead, the fourth victim of Swancutt’s wild shooting orgy Sunday night at the Camp Anza officers’ club. Mrs. Serfling, who had been at her husband's bedside since grriving from Preston, Minn., Thursday, was unable to speak with him before his death last night. Dorothy Douglas, the 19-year-old girl over whom Swancutt went into a jealous frenzy; Lourdine Liver-

; . ; i i & i licetaste and the ability of the Unitar (retired druggist) as a dependablé more, 18, her girl friend, and Po ians and the Episcopalians a trajt custodian of my mortal remainders | man Arthur Simpson, were killed not too common to some of the OD the trip to the burying ground, | when the lieutenant went berserk.

Two Air Officers Missing After Missions in Europe

is in the army air forces at Miami, |:

® = = Mitchell, son of Mrs. Alta V. UND Mitchell, Whiting; Cpl. Edward J. vo 5D Karski, husband of Mrs. Jean

LT. JOBN E. MAGUIRE JR. 20 (above), hombardier on the Flying Fortress “Liberty Run,” was reported missing over Denmark Feb. 22 on his 10th mission. He is the husband of Mrs. Dorothy VanHorn Maguire, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Maguire Sr., 903 N. Oxford st,

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E. Reed, Monon, and Robert F. Spencer, brother of David E. Spencer, Charlestown; Sgt. Arthur J.

Karski, Gary; Pfc. Charles E. Taylor, husband of Mrs. Winnifred J. Taylor, Mt. Vernon, and Pvt. Warren E. Peters, husband of Mrs. Evelyn L. Peters, Highland.

” - » 8GT. GLENDON R. HINSHAWN, a marine, Mooresville,

was listed as wounded by the navy department,

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confirmation was not forthcoming at once. ; The daylight operations followed a widespread attack by British night bombers on aircraft and ballbearing plants in central and southern France. g

Rome Is Raided

In the Mediterranean theater, American medium bombers made their seventh raid on Rome in eight months yesterday, Mitchells and Marauders bombed the Littorio rail

yards on Rome's northern outskirts and the Tihurtina yards in the capital's eastern suburbs, ripping up tracks and smashing rolling stock. American fighters escorted the British-based 8th air force heavy bombers in their forays over Germany and the Pas de Calais coastal area of northern France today. Later, formations of twin «tailed Lightning fighters roared out across the Straits of Dover for additional raids.

Hit Central France

R. A. F. Lancasters utilized a full moon last night to pinpoint their targets at three aircraft factories and a small bearings plant in central sand southern France, while twin-engined Mosquitoes attacked iat western Germany. Only one | plane was lost in the night's opera- | tions, which marked the fourth time {in five nights that the R. A. F's heavyweights have hit France, The raids followed attacks Monday night on railway yards at Trappes, 15 miles southwest of Paris, Tuesday night on railway targets at Le Mans, 110 miles southwest of Paris, and Thursday night on an aircraft factory at Marignane, 12 niiles northwest of Marseille, all without the loss of a single plane. A Stockholm dispatch to the London Daily Mail quoted “reliable reports” that Hitler had ordered immediate preparatiohs for the evacuation of all remaining factories, government ministry and civilians from Berlin because of the intensity of American daylight air

| business

OF PAPERS

GMC Speaker Says Firm Set for Civilian Production. = (Continued From Page One) the right opinions and decisions, Opposing the trend toward con-

tinuing in some form the wartime controls, he quoted

~ |government from a recent congressional report: “Experience

has. taught us that our country will flourish best when Teast } 1 "by t control. Some policing, of course, Is necessary. The frauds and excesses of the late '20s established that. But it would be wrong to approach the subject from the viewpoint of attempting to impose on American industry and labor and over-all plan with complex rules and regulations,”

to proceed we could be in production within three to six months,” he said.

eral Motors is prepared to make to help preserve the free competitive enterprise system as the keystone of American economy.” Dr. Frank H. Sparks, t of Wabash college, who recently. served on the war manpower commission: in Washington, called upon the editors and all citizens at home to advise their representatives in Washington on how they would like government conducted. Confusion in Washington

wartime Washington. that it is difficult for government officials to know exactly what they are trying to accomplish.” he said. “People back home should contact their representatives in Washington with both criticisms and encouragements.” Dr. Sparks said the most serious job ahead is to deal with the pyragovernment bureaus and agencies necessary during wartime, “The goverhment agencies have done a wonderful job in financing the war, controlling inflation and providing the manpower without conseription of labor,” he said. “But we run the risk of chaos if the trend of buréaus is continued after the war, The people will insist that the wartime e agencies be unwound and abolished.”

Newspaper of Future The streamlined newspapers of

Loose of Elizabeth, N, J, and Fred White of Chicago. Mr. Loose described the newest methods of printing newspapers, making . it possible to deliver on the streets of Los Angeles a New York newspaper at exactly the same time it is printed in New York. It merely involves photographing proof pages in New York and sending them by wire-photo across the country, where they can be reprint ed the same as pictures. Mr, White said recent surveys showed the newspaper of tomorrow will be more compact and streamlined.

of news in a smaller space with more pictures and features,” he said.

of the National Tax Equality association, said the inequality of tax ation between co-operative enter prises, government-owned utilities

tion. “Co-operaflves run by consumers, farm bureaus and others have reached the proportions of big busi

any federal taxes,” he said.

raids and British night assaults.

terprise.”

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Boyd, Roy Nelson, Tom Waller, Jack Fisher, Roy McKinney, Morton Hand, James D. Langstaff, Henry Ward, Leo Keiler, Elliott Mitchell, Rev. Curtis Fletcher, Luther Carson, Sam Langstaff, Charlie Bahlkamp, Wade Sowell, Bob Moshell, and Charlie Beard (noted historian). “If I have overlooked any suitable candidate I beg their pardon. Ladies

also welcome with or without escorts.” :

low-townspeople might favor memorial exercises of sorts, either in connection with the funeral or elsewhere. Personally I have no objectlon, only desiring that no dismal note be permitted to doze into the proceedings. Keep the thing cheerful boys and girls. 1f somebody feels called upon to speak, I'd like to suggest for the job—well, say. Tom Waller, He could be depended upon to be neither verbose nor lacrymose. Or if Waller isn’t avail able there's Jack Misher or Jim Wheeler or Roy Shelbourne. - Only make it snappy. ’ “Well, I reckon that will be about all except that I extend, in passing, my affectionate and grateful regards to the gracious and generous folks who make up so overwhelming ly the dwellers in my home community and my native section. You've been mighty good to me and I appreciate it. Much obliged, youall, and goodby and bless you and prosper you, : “Signed) IRVIN 8.

tem all these years. Frankly, I'm enjoying myself.) : ’

NI COBB, “At New York, . Ri » 10432

ren Sights, Dr. Frank Boyd, Linn

“I rather figure some of my fel-

are still available in all se

memories. The cost is wi

National Road East

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Make Arrangements Now

There are many reasons why it is to your advantage to reserve space in Washington Park Mausoleum in advance of actual need. The space available is limited, and a considerable percentage of the total space has been sold. Howaver, choice locations

ctions of the building.

It is much easier to. make arrangements in advance than to wait until the day of actual need. When that day comes there will be satistaction and solace in knowing wm that everything has been arranged—thaf no hasty decisions must be made; that your final tribute will be paid in the quiet beauty, peace and comfort of. this sanctuary of

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For further information and definite inspection appointment, phone IR vington 8383. Your request involves no obligation whatever.

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