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“burned 10 . miles southwest of Lama
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~ John D. Crum, son of Mrs. Minnie |
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Uvalde. Tex. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs Glenn E. Smith Sr. and husband
Juday Smith, all of 2103 Ringgold ave. The 22-year-old cadet was graduated from Man-
his flight train- Cadet ing at Jones field, Smith
Bonham, Tex., and was stationed at Eagle Pas, Tex. . ss Enlisting in the air forces in November, 1942, Cadet Smith was to receive his pilot's wings April 13. His brother, Pvt. James E. Smith, had been in training with the field artillery division at Ft. Knox, Ky. He had been on a seven-day furlough and left 30 minutes before the telegram arrived about Cadet Smith's death. The brothér was contacted by the Red Cross while on his way to Ft. Meade, Md., and will return for the funeral. Survivors besides his parents, wife and brother are a sister, Joann; three other brothers, Robert, Donald, and Max; his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Smith of North Salem and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Smith, Tipton. Funeral services will be held in the J. C. Wilson chapel of the chimes but complete arrangements will not be made until the body arrives. Cadet Smith's wife will arrive in Indianapolis tomorrow from Oklahoma: » " » Hs
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Cai Jet: : Flier out Over Reich
of Mrs. Olive Hall, South Bend:
Pfc. Nelson R. Holman, son C. Holman,’ Holton: 4 Howard L. Jessup, son of Verle Jessup, Anderson; T. 4th Gr. Henry W. Morris, husband of Mrs. Hazel A. Morris, Spencerville; Pvt. William Ix Rader , $00 o Mrs, Anna Rader, Pvt. Robert A. Rech, son of Mrs. Rech, Evansville, and Pvt. Conrad Wheat, son of Mrs. Flossie Wheat, S8helburn. » o »
CAPT. CLARENCE V. HODGES,
» 2 8 GUNNER'S MATE 3-¢c VIRGIL E. BRYANT, husband of Mrs. Mary Alice Bryant, 2182 Avondale pl., has been commended by the navy for his outstanding performance of duty as a member of the armed guard unit aboard the SS Abner Nash during action against enemy aircraft off Sicily, July 13-26, 1943. The ship was subjected to 40 attacks by hostile planes and despite the constant danger from falling bombs and shrapnel Gunner Bryant remained at his battle station day and night, ” . J CAPT. GEORGE BARTUSKA of South Bend has beer awarded an oak leaf cluster to his distinguished flying cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in an attack on a target near Bordeaux, France. Capt. Bartuska, son of Mr. and Mrs, George Bartuska, and husband of Mrs. Maude Janet Bartuska, is a bombardier with the 8th air force Flying Fortress group, stationed in England. ss 8 8 T. SGT. ROBERT L. SANDERS, engineer gunner on an 8th army air
LT. THOMAS J, THOMPSON, bombardier-navigator with the 15th) air force in Italy, has been missing in action over Germany since: Feb. 25. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.! T. J. Thompson, 1146 N. Beville! ave, and husband of Mrs. Ellen Thompson, Fulton, N. Y. | Entering service in 1040, Lt. Thompson has been overseas since last September. He was commis-! sioned In February, 1943, at Victor-| ville, Cal, and received the air medal in January. Before going overseas and par-| ticipating in 25 missions, he took training at Santa Ana, Cal, and in Texas. Grandson of Mr. and Mrs L. PF. Mogle, of the Beville ave. ad~ dress, Lt. Thompson was graduated from Syracuse university, His brother, Robert, is a storekeeper 3-¢c in the navy at Farragut, Ida.
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» » . SECOND LT. ROBERT W. KENNEDY, son of Mrs. Frieda Kennedy, 621 N. Beville ave. was wounded in
over Belgium Feb. 24. The 21-year-old Thunderbolt pilot
nical high school, joined the airforces following graduation in June, 1941. He has been overseas since last Dec. 1. i - " » ~ FOUR HOOSIERS have been killed in army and marine action. { Pfc. Ralph FP. Steffel, son of James Steffel, Rensselaer, died of wounds received in combat in the Mediterranean theater. Marines killed in action are Plc.
Whitcraft, Chesterton; Pfc. Donald | Edgar Dixon, son of Mrs. Lena Saul, | Cayuga, and 1st Lt. Hobart Kemp, son of Mrs. Theodora Kemp, Gary.
RADIOMAN 3-¢c JAMES LEO THOMAS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard L. Thomas, New Albany, is missing in naval action. » = .
NINE INDIANA men are among the 423 U. S. soldiers and 104 marines and naval members wounded in recent battles. | Pfc. Donald M. Warren, son of Mrs. Ola Warren, Rensselaer, was wounded in marine fighting. In the European theater 8. Sgt. Benjamin E. Ambler, husband of Mrs. Evelyn O. Ambler, Bedford, was wounded. Those hurt in the Mediterranean theater are Pvt. David A. Hall, son
force Flying Fortress, has been {awarded his second oak leaf cluster to the air medal for anohter series jof five combat missions over Euroge He is the son of Mrs. Beatrice {Sanders and husband of Mrs. Marigaret Sanders, Bedford. Before en- | listing in September, 1942, he was a | machinist. . ” ”
LT. (jg) ROBERT JOHN of {Newcastle has heen awarded the | distinguished flying cross and LT. {jg) ROBERT KUNKLE of Peru [the NAVY Cross. Lt. John was cited for effectively bombing two Jap ships at night in the face of adverse weather and
‘theavy anti-aircraft fire. Lt. Kun-
kle’s citation said he “displayed unusual ability in locating Japanese ships” from a patrol plane and in bombing them at mast-high level
BERLIN CLAIMS BIG AIR BATTLE RAGES
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bombed the Pas de Calais strip of the French invasion coast. . Medium-sized forces of 250 to 500
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Auto Industry Will Not Be Able to Revolutionize Models.
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knows how and can be equipped-fo build. It would take a year or more to design and test radically new models, to retodl the plants and get into production.
Coste to Be Higher And before that year had passed,
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y. stagnation and unemployment in
Detroit and countless other places— in all the branches of manufacturing and trade dependent on or related to the automobile industry— would reach tragic proportions. Another reason is costs. It's predicted here that prices of the first post-war cars will be 25 or 30 per cent higher than:they were in 1841, Wages and other costs have advanced far during the war. best way to offset such increased costs, and start prices down again, is by mass producing for a mass market—but every week of delay will lessen the, chances for highvolume output and sales. : Furthermore, the men who must build and sell post-war automobiles are convinced that the public just wouldn't like those “dream cars,” those super-streamlined, beetleshaped showcases on wheels which have been pictured in many articles about the world to come.
Agree With Desmet
Most of them thoroughly agree with E. C. Desmet, executive engineer of the Willys-Overland Co. at Toledo, who undertook at a recent meeting here of the Society of Automotive Engineers to demolish what he~ termed the “hallucinations” created—on paper—by certain designers, stylists and artists. Cars with bulbous fronts and tops of curved glass or transparent plastic would prove decidedly unsatiisfactory, Mr. Desmet asserted. They'd cost more. They'd give less protection to drivers and passengers in accidents. Vision through curved windshields would be distorted. Plastic would get scratched and blurred. Steel bodies will continue to be superior to bodies of aluminum, plywood or laminated plastic, he predicted. Steel is easier and less expensive to shape and weld and repair. It dents or bends in accidents, instead of cracking, breaking or tearing. Has Its Disadvantages
Drivers’ seats, moved farther forward as some “dream” designs propose, would be directly between the car's front wheels Drivers and front-seat passengers would have to enter through doors placed well back, then take several steps to reach their places. And any advantages gained by moving engines to the rear of cars would be more than offset by practical and psychological disadvantages, Mr. Desmet continued. “It would be interesting,” he said, “to
U. 8. Mustang, Lightning and | know the average driver's mental
Thunderbolt fighters flew with the! Fortresses on the long trip to un-| identified targets in central Ger-| many. The heavy bomber swing back to! Germany followed two days of at-|
tacks on Nazi air fields in France
where the enemy offered no serious’ opposition. Liberator crewmen dropped their! bombs through holes in broken clouds which obscured results Again they bombed without challenge by the German air force, but encountered scattered bursts of. anti-aircraft fire. The Berlin radio, first to report. the attack, said two strong forma-| tions of American bombers flew] over central, northwest and west parts of the reich.
NAVY COMMISSIONS
ORBISON, OPA AID
Robert H. Orbison, rent attorney for the Indiana district, office of price administration, has been commissioned a lieutenant (jg) jin the U. 8. naval reserve and will report for active duty April 25, at Hollywood, Fla. Lt, Orbison practiced law in Indianapolis for 10 years before join- | ing the OPA in July, 1942. His wife, Beatrice, and their two children will remain at the Orbison home, 6162 Park ave.
BOSSERT WILL SPEAK Walter Bossert will speak at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the meeting of group 1, Indiana Old Age Pension program in the English hotel.
{ reaction if he found himself sitting {right out in front of a car going | 80 miles an hour, with 95 per cent {of the weight behind him and no | visible forward protection except a {front bumper and a glass or plastic bay window.” All that doesn't mean, however, jak the industry's engineers and salesmen reject the idea of post-war { change and improvement. They ac- | cept that idea enthusiastically. But {they believe the changes must
| evolve by steps, not by leaps; that]
the improvements must be real, not [heey innovations. Automobiles will continue to get | better year by year, as they have | since the industry was born, and | progress is likely to be more rapid jatier the war than it was before,
THIEF TAKES PURSE, $53 FROM WOMAN
A’ purse snatcher and a holdup man got away with $87 in their raids last night, Mary Whittaker,-18 N. Jefferson ave, lost $53 when a man grabbed her purse as she was walking in the 300 block on W. Washington st. A masked holdup man drove in a filling station at 1079 E. 10th st. and, pointing a gun at the attendant, 16-year-old James Kirshner, 1129 W. 18th’ st, forced him to give up $25.
CARD PARTY SLATED Monumental division 128, Auxiliary to Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will sponsor a card party at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Citizens Gas and Coke Utility.
IN INDIANAPOLIS-EVENTS-VITALS
EVENTS TODAY
Red Cross annual fund campaign. Easter seal campaign. Indianapolis symphony orchesira, mumelpal concert, Murat theater, 8 p. Indiana Mineral Aggregates atscition, Claypool h-tel. Indianapolis Control of the Controllers 1 stitute of America, Hotel Lincoln, 6 p. m Oupiemperaty club, World War memorial,
Administration, Washingm, Jaview club, Ayres’
auditorium, 2p Robert Adosson Woman's Relief forps Red Cros sewing unit, Ft, Friend-
1:30 p. Bein Grove Tha r, 0. E, 8, installa ; Hon, Beech rove Masonic temple, p. m. ~
EVENTS TOMORROW Red Cross annual fund campaign. Easter seal campaign, Wate paper collection, at schools 84 and
Indiana Shipper-Mofor Carrier Conference of Indiana, Hotel Lincoln, 10 a, Indianapolis Rea] 5 Estate board, Washing dianapelis Chamber of Commerce Indus-
Tolan Business Men club, Columbia club,
lis Association of Life Underi and he indianapolis cha of Chartered Underwril Hi Lincoln, noon. 2 Hotel Lincoln, 6:48 Spcial proiems lecture, Un ns
rai Ree [a Seiu rity administration, Washink i it!
al Safety club, Columbia club, 6:30}
Dry forces of Marion county, South Bide Seventh Day Adventist church, 2:30 p.'m
MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are froth official records Id
in names and
David Juugh, 31, U. 8. army, Camp ReyPa.; Cora Lee Reed, 33, of 1641 a z Warne C. Holcombe, 23, U. Harrison;
Lawrence Frederick Lent, 43, of 2010 Guilford; Frances Leone Kuss, 43, of 510 8. Wittenberg, Springfie mas E. Shaffer, 26, of 4917 W. 1ith: Barrett Irene Geddes, 23, of 3549 N.
Gordan Douglas Ammerman, 24, of 911 Meridian; Betty Jean Marsh, 18, of ves
Thoma "award Wetter, - 18, U. 8. nav Myralyn Jeane McClain, 18, of 3707 New York. Joseph V. Daugherty, 21, of 2538 W, Mortis; Jrene Hien Manuel, 17, of 3044
neral
29, of 718 Virginia; Tamara
16,
Durell kbar; 2, U : Mae ine 21, ‘of in oT Beech
a' are; . 39 N ia
Tom Rezzo, 42
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m. Harriett Davis, Eis "Marion, |
1 1121 Rela i 19, of id dion; Mis emia, Carter,
Dorothy Mae Silverman,
28, of 1521 Kennington. 8,
BIRTHS
Girls | Robert, Bessie Beamiet, at St. Francis. Frank, Dorothy Everman, at St. Francis. Vincent, Flarance Howard, at St. Vincent's. William, ry Locey, at Coleman. James, ‘Martha Bettis, at Methodist, Earl, Pannife Frank, at Method Lioyd, Mildred Laugmer, at etn podist Vincent, Catherine Rogers, at Methodist.
Boys s Walter, Madelon Horne, at St. Francis. Robert, Irene Sullivan, at St. Francis.
gril, Dimple Vernon, at St. Francis. , Dorothy Sun , at St. Francis. ' Anna Pirtle, "st. Vincent's.
Lioyd Robert, Margaret Duncan. at Methodist. Robert, Clara Ford, at Methodist. Robert, Jane Heckman, at Sauthodsst, Earl, Eva Roth, at Method 1 Soorge, Rebecca Wall, gris thodist. } | John, Norean Williamson, at Methodist, ————————
DEATHS Robert Hasting Viers, 43, at Veterans, lobar pneumonia. David Camp, 92, at 2322 Adams, disgiles Gefins a, 5, at 1445 Broadway, occlusion, 3
Jatt Rida Bawards, 46, at City, nelle Nose Kinin, 65, at 2001 Park, ane A 8h 67, at 1 Mert bre . apito, a ml B. dian,
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300. Schoo! Satliors. M dione Threaten
LEN DEVELOP, ; ' Walkout on April 10 in Union Squabble
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cludes approximately 300 of the 350 school maintenance employees. A statement issued by the union said that the quarrel with the school board was not over pay increases but over the board's “flat refusal” to bargain with the employees. The union asked for seniority rights, the right to promotion, vacation and sick leave, the right to
grievance appeal and setting up of a nine-hour day and a 48-hour
work week. According to school board officials, the union has requested a labor contract for the past two years, and the board has taken the stand that as a governmental unit it has no right to enter into a labor agreement. A school board statement issued today expressed regret at the threatened strike and warned that any employee who abandons his post of duty shall be considered as having resigned. Raises Already Given
~The school officials stated that in the past three years custodians have been grarited approximately 30 per cent increases in salaries. Those on the payroll six months receive a minimem of one week sick leave and vacation with pay, and those employed for longer periods receive
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(They're
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18 maximum of two weeks sick leave
and vacation with pay, the statement set out. In other school board action last night the school officials agreed to consider a request by the Classroom Teachers association to increase teacher salaries-31 per cent for the 1944-45 term. They estimated the
. | proposal would require an increase
of almost. $1,500,000 in the teacher salary fund in the new budget.
Legion Backs Boost
A resolution stressing the need for increasing teacher salaries was read to the board by Dr. Harry H. Nagle in behalf of the 11th district, American Legion. The board voted to accept a joint bid by. six banks on a loan of $700,000 to help defray year-end operating expenses of the schools. The banks are the Union Trust Co., the American National bank, the Fletcher Trust Co, the Indiana National bank, the Indiana Trust Co., and the Merchants National bank. Virgil Stinebaugh, acting superinténdent of schools, was named to the board of directors of the Indiana Symphony society and appointed a member of its executive committee to fill the vacancies created by the death of DeWitt S. Morgan, The board approved the execution of a lease of School 95, at 46th st.
SAYS:
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“Super Wearingtons™)
Hickey-Freeman)
and Keystone ave. fo the govern ment for conversion into 10 housing units or apartments.
TUCKER EXPECTED T0 ANNOUNCE TODAY
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O. P. senatorial nomination late today. ~ The announcement will be made in ‘a formal statement, it was learned. Since his discharge was announced a month ago, the 36-year-old former state official who was wounded at Salerno has been laying the groundwork for his campaign to win the nomination over Homer E. Capehart, Indianapolis businessman and seventh district G. O. P. chairman, who announced his candidacy in January. The Tucker-Capehart battle is expécted to be the highlight of the Republican pre-convention cam-
paign.
SHIPPERS TO MEET The Shipper-Motor Carrier conference will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow in the Lincoln hotel. Richard Stickel, assistant director of the motor transport‘of the office of defense transportation, will speak.
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Threatens to Resign Unless | House Reverses Stand
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the entire government.
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DEAR SIR: There are SUITS here at 30
and wonderfully good at their price!
AND there are SUITS here at $68 to 5105 |
And--- they can be spoken of as “the finest in the world Res for-Wearing”
CHURCHILL ASKS i
President Richard A. Butler of the board of education had opposed the amendment for the government on
grounds that it would upsét the nation’s financial machinery and overburden local authorities. Churchill said in his statement that there “must be no doubt or question of the support which the government enjoys from the house
The* government had decided, he said, to delete entirely the amended clause and resume debate on the education bill as the first order of business on the next sitting day. “This act of deletion will be regarded as a vote of confidence in the present administration and if the government does not secure an adequate majority, it will entail the usual consequences,” Churchill said. The “usual consequences” of a failure to secure a vote of confidence would be the resignation of
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LAIR WAB—Berlin radio ore. sisong bomber formations over
PACIFIC—Allted bombers attack top ‘10th straight day on northern New Guinea coast, raiding along 100-mile stretch from Hansa bay to Wewak, | ;
ITALY--Allles withdraw from ade vanced positions on upper slopeg of Mt, Cassino,
BURMA-—Allled troops establish new positions in Ukhrul area against Japanese pressing down from Somra hills toward Imphal,
COMMENCEMENT AT IS SCHEDULED
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 29, —Indiana university will hold & combination April-and-Augus$ commencement ceremony April 28 to enable summer school graduates to take part. Approximately 625 students wil participate In the exercises, ale though about 125 of them will no receive degrees until the end of the | summer semester. Eo
VICTORY
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