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WITH FIFTR ARMY BEACHHEAD FORCES IN ITALY, April 11 (By Wireless) ~One night I bunked in the dugout of Sgt. Bazzel Carter, of Walling Creek, Ky., which is just a short way from the famous coal town of Harlan. In fact, Sgt. Carter's brother is a

tanks shot out from under him and is now on his third. One was destroyed by bombing, the other by shellfire, but he didn't get a scratch either time. I came to like Sgb. Carter a great deal. He is the typical man of the hills who doesn't say much until he gets to know you, and even then he talks very quietly and humbly. ® Gradually we got . acquainted. Sgt. Carter told me about his folks at home and got out pictures of his father and mother and younger brother. He hoped his mother wasn't worrying too

‘much about him.

He told me how he had gone to the University of Kentucky half a semester and then restlessly quit and joined thé army before we were in the war. Now he feels that he didn't do right, because his father had worked so hard to save the money for him to go. But when the war is over he is determined to go on with - his schooling. 1 hit Sgt. Carter's bailiwick at a propitious time —for me. He had just that day received a box from his mother and in it was a quart mason jar of good old American fried chicken. We heated it on our little Coleman siove and ate it for breakfast. When the word got around that we'd had fried chicken for breakfast we were both the envy of the others and the butt of all “plutocrat” Jokes for the day.

Avalanche of Candy

FOR ONCE in my life I was able to reciprocate the sharing of this gift. It's a long story, but it seems that a friend of mine from Indiana university, Stew Butler, manages or owns a candy factory in Chicago which makes a bar called “Old Nick.” The day before I left Washington last November to return overseas, Stew called up long-distance to say he was going

. to send me a box of his candy every week. Never one

to refuse anything, I said try it if you want to, althcugh I'll prcbably never get any of them. So a couple of months went by and nothing hap-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

VICTORY GARDENERS’ hopes of getting their garden plots in shape in the next few week-ends were dampened by Sunday's downpour. For there's an old saying that, if it rains on Easter Sunday, it will rain for seven consecutive Sundays. And don't

laugh! The saying came true last year. Remember? ... O.R. Breeden, 915 N. Linwood ave,

wantéd a small safe in which to keep valuable papers, so he asked a friend to get it for him. The safe was delivered in Mr, Breeden's absence, and imagine his surprise when he opened it later and found a bag of onions fir it. He doesn’t know how they got there. . , . Lt. (jg) Howard T. Batman, the former public service commission public counsellor, is winding up his naval training at Pt. Schuyler, N.Y. and has received orders assigning him to the public relations office at Great Lakes as of May 1. This is quite convenient for him, inasmuch as his wife and two daughters are staying at Mrs. Batman's parents’ home in Oak Park, IIL . . . Ruth Miriam Richardson, 2410 Adams st, night shift clerk in the tool grinding department at Lukas-Harold, read about” the four “Marys” at the Broad Ripple Haag drug store. She reports that of the 15 men in her department five are named George, Their last names are Klein, Sweet, Whaley, Redford and Coffin,

A Claim Stake

WHEN SPRING housecleaning fever set in at the Btate Life Insurance Co. offices, the girls in the actuarial department decided something ought to be done about an old vest that had been hanging in the office as far back as most of them could remember. Someone recalled it had been left there by Charles Robert Rupp, then a 19-year-old clerk, when he left for the navy on Dec. 30, 1941, He now is a yeoman

Chicago Seaway

CHICAGO, April 11.—Once again Chicago is getting all hot and bothered about dreams of a more than half-billion-dollar St. Lawrence river development that would make this great inland metropolis a transocean seaport. This time, in the guise of a postwar make-work project, the vision has some possibility of being translated into reality. Senator George D. Aiken of Vermont, Republican, has introduced a bill authorizing immediate work as a war measure. This has no chance of going through. But the New York state legislature, Republidan-controlled, and Goveernor Thomas E. Dewey—a very probable Republican presidential candidate—and President Roosevelt, who is almost certain, to seek re-election, all indorse the idea as a post-war necessity. With such bi-partisan support and with New York's

" opposition to the seaway phase of the development

apparently withdrawn, Chicago believes that within perhaps five years after the war ends, 10,000-ton freighters froth Liverpool and Le Havre, and Marseilles and Bremen will be patronizing the Port of Chicago. In the incipient campaign to put the necessary authorizations through congress, advocates of the seaway are recalling how previous attempts, beginning in 1932, have been defeated by “powerful ine terests in New York City” and by such other unpopular ogres as the railroads, John L. Lewis and the “power trust.”

Long Complicated Story

THIS IS something of an over-simplification of what has happened. The entire story is a long and complicated one, but a few highlights can clarify the backgroud of what may yet develop into a real battle royal. St. Lawrence development consists of two items, separate and to some extent distinct. One is power development—provision for the generation of more

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday.—We had children in the White House with us over Easter, and the youngest members of our family have acquired a little white Easter bunny. To the children who read my daughter's story about “Scamper” in the White House sev= eral years ago, there will be no surprise in the fact that this new bunny was promptly = named Scamper. He was brought by some WAVES as an Easter gift to Fala. I was a little -afraid that even Fala’s good education might not have eradicated his natural insfincts as far as rabbits are concerned, so their meeting was brief, and ‘the bunny now resides in a box of his own. We all attended the early East

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Suady 3 this pent-up candy came pouring in two and big boxes at a time. Srottier; 931 hare candy! So lately I have been taking it to the front with me a box at a time and passing it around. I had a box along on this trip, so I gave it to Sgt. Carter and his tank friends, and you should have seen them go for it. We get hard candy and plenty of gumdrops and lifesavers, and sugar too, but very

(WARNING: Having had experience with Americans’ generosity before, let me urge you NOT to start sending me candy, because very shortly I may be: changing location, and it would never reach me.) Sgt. Carter fares pretty well himself on packages from home. Three are sent him every week, one ‘by his mother, one by his sister, and one by his cousin. He gets most of them, too. They don’t send fried chicken every time, but there is always something to eat. *

Dugout Is Bare One

SGT. CARTER'S dugout is just-a bare one, with straw on the floor, a tiny electric light in the ceiling and a litle shelf he has anchored into the dirt wall. “He said that after he got his dugout finished and moved in he discovered a mole burrowing in the wall. 80 he killed it and skinned it, and the hide is still hanging on a nearby tree. The sergeant sleeps in his overalls, but the dugout was so snug and warm I decided on the luxury of taking off my pants. Even so I was kept awake a long time by our own guns. Not by the noise, for it was rather muffled down there below ground, but the vibration of the earth was distracting. When the big “Long Toms,” which were almost

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HINT MEXICAN ASSASSIN DIES TRYING ESCAPE

Reported Shot in Attempt To Flee After Firing. At President. MEXICO CITY, April 11 (U, PJ).

—Mexican newspapers said today it was “rumored strongly” that L&.

old 'army officer, had died of a wound suffered as he tried to escape from custody last night after an unsuccessful attempt to assass inate President Manuel Avila Camacho.

half a mile away, would go off in battery salvo, the earth on which we were lying four feet below the sur- | face would tremble and jerk as though it were in an | earthquake. But once asleep I never awakened, even | though they said later that bombers were over during the night. Sgt. Carter gets up at 6 ewery morning, and the first thing he does is slip out and start the engines of his tank, which is dug in about 20 feet from his dugout. This is a daily practice just to make sure everything is in readiness for a sudden mission. After breakfast he showed me all through his tank. It's so spotless you could eat off the floor. He is very proud of it, and had me sit in the driver's seat and start the engines to hear them sing. I was proud, too, just because he wanted me to.

aboard a destroyer in the ‘Atlantic. One of the girls wrapped up the old vest and took it to her home. From there she phoned Yeoman Rupp's mother, Mrs. Peter Rupp, 5247 E. Ninth st., and said she was sending the vest home. “Don’t do it—take it right back to the office,” urged Mrs. Rupp. Then she explained: Her son left it there and he wants it left there. It's | just an old salt-and-pepper vest. But it's his re- | minder to the gang at the office that he’s coming back to take over his old job when the wars’ over. And so the vest is back on its old hook. . , ~The water company has a new honor roll clasification. Along with the 52 names on -the list of mert in the service are four others under the heading: Discharged—Returned to Work. The names under this heading are Lawrence Van Cleave, Milo Russell, Benjamin E. Palmer and Hugh Edging.

What? No Shortage?

WE'RE A LITTLE surprised to find there's still a surplus of eggs on the market after hearing from so many folks who tried the One-Eyed Connelly” recipe over the week-end. So many tried it that we don't see how there could help being an egg shortage by now. Most everyone said they liked em. Guess we're going to have to get busy and try one, too... . Whoever arranged the date for the Democratic state convention, June 16, probably wasn’t a fisherman. Or he would have known that that’s the opening date for the fishing season. , .. Life is just one speech after another for Governor Schricker. As soon as he finished his address to the legislature today, he was scheduled to take off for Auburn, 135 or 140 miles northeast, to address a community father and son | banquet. . Market st. is seeking a couple of used phonégraphs. One is needed at Camp Atterbury, the other in the reception center at Ft. Harrison. If you have one to donate, phone the salvage office—FR-1475. . . One of our agents reports an appalling shortage of cleansing tissue. He tried five downtown drug stores yesterday without success. War really is hell,

By S. Burton Heath

than 2,000,000 basic horsepower of electricity that would be dirt cheap in or near the little city of! Massena, N. Y. but then would have to be delivered | for use to other points. The other is a canalization around the rapids. | The International Rapids are the only ones in which! the United States has any legal interest. The others are entirely within the Dominion of Canada. In the International Rapids section, some facilities would be solely for power, some solely for navigation and some could be used jointly. Power and navigation each would be cheapened because of contributions to cost made by the other. In 1830-31 this writer served as secretary of a

state body appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, then | "8%

governor, to study the possibilities of power development. We had nothing to do with navigation. This commission recommended that the rapids be developed for power production, by the State of New York acting through a self-financing municipal corporation, which would be forced to charge selfsustaining rates for its product. Such a corporation was established in 1931; I helped to get it through the New York legislature,

Hoover Sought Treaty

PRESIDENT HOOVER fried to get a treaty with | Canada to make: power development possible. Congress stalled. In 1934 the senate rejected President Roosevelt's plea for ratification of the Hoover-nego-tiated treaty. The matter was dropped until, in 1041, President Rooseveit tried to get a new “agreement”! adopted, under the plea that power needed for war production would result. This was rejected. = It should be noted that these attempts had to do solely with hydro-electric power. That Is only incidental in Chicago's interest. ‘Chicago wants a ship canal, and speaks of New York's interest in power as “incidental.” While there never has been any real argument whether St. Lawrence power would be economical, there always has been a bitter dispute whether canalization of the St. Lawrence, at a cost to this country alone of several hundred millions of dollars, could pay its way either directly or indirectly.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

a time of war, has a particularly poignant menting, As the sentry walks up and down guarding the tomb, he must be thinking today of all the boys all over the world who will be represented in this war in this

‘symbolic manner,

Here one should, without question, rededicate ‘oneself to the effort to lay foundations on which. peace may be built by the generation that fights the war in the immediate post-war period. These young people will undoubtedly have to rebuild. this torn and tattered world. - The process will be painful and will call for boldness, self-sacrifice, courage and vision. As each step is taken in this rebuilding process, we will see a peaceful world being shaped, or we will

- see the steps that lead fo war being carved out again

by personal and national greed and self-interest. I am doing a broadcast today in the treasury department’s grandmother series. I thought I’ was grandchildren, but one o

. The Marion county salvage office on E. | saying that after a preliminary in-

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’lin securing his appointment to the

ed in El Nacional, government offi {cial organ which is close to responsible’ quarters and in a position to know the facts. An official statement was not expected until later in the day.

Antonio de 1a Lama Rojas, 33-year-|®

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1944

Lama Rojas, who apparently had|3 :

connections with pro-Nazi sympathizers, was shot in the back last night as he attempted to flee from the Etchegaray military barracks following his incarceration on charges of high treason for his effort to assassinate the president. ‘Member of Palace Staff, The artillery officer, a long-time {friend of the chief executive and a member of the palace staff, fired a 45-caliber automatic point blank at Avila Camacho jn the presidential yesterday morning, but the bullet passed harmlessly through the president's coat just above the heart. Q After belng subdued, Lama Rojas was taken to Etchegaray barracks in the state of Mexico and held on charges of high treason and assault tof his commander-in-chief. Facing 'a possible death penalty if con- | victed of either charge, the officer attempted to escape last night. Cmdr. , Antonio Lozano Ruiz of the 6th regiment of cavalry at Etchegaray said Lama Rojas was “gravely wounded” in the attempt. “Rojas tried to get away,” the commander said, “and there was nothing for the guards to do but shoot. One shot entered Rojas’ back and came out through his stomach.” The artillery officer dived into a group of women in the yard, the commander explained, apparently hoping to keep the guards from shooting. : Seven Shots Fired . Seven shots were fired at the fugitive, he said, with six of them aimed Into the air, before a sharpshooter brought him down with one bullet. * The government information bureau, issued a bulletin last night |

vestigation “it is presumed that he (Lama Rojas) is, it seems, a mentally unbalanced person connected

pathies. Newspapers and labor leaders! charged that the attempts on the! president's life was inspired by Nazi-Fascists, and there were reports, although not confirmed, that {Nazi documents were found on {Lama Rojas. Jose M. Altamiramo, chief of the {information bureau, said he also had heard similar reports but ex- | plained “they are only reports and| {the government has nothing official {to say beyond what we have already said in our bulletin.” ‘One Man's Feelings’ Earlier Avila Camacho, who once befriended Lama Rojas and aided

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Mexican military college, Mexico's West Point, said he believed the incident “repiésented one man's feel-

“I believe that it does not represent a division in the great Mexican family,” he added. Dr. Octave Mondragon, the President’s personal physician who was with Avila Camacho during the assiissination attempt, said it was apparent that Lama Rojas’ “fanatical act was the product of a sick brain.” After he was subdued, the artillery officer was questioned personally by Avila Camacho and told the President .that he attempted to | shoot him because he was not permitted to attend church or mass in uniform.

6.0. WAR VETERANS TO MEET ON FRIDAY

Republican war veterans of Marion county will hold their first 1944 campaign meeting at the Claypool hotel Friday night. The principal speaker will be Roy P. Wisehart, former state superintendent of public instruction. Appeafing on the program also will be his son, Capt. James A. Wisehart of the army air corps, who recently returned to this country after completing 25 missions as a

theater. Frank P. Livengood, chairman of Marion county Republican Veterans, and Robert Schuyler, chairman of G. O. P. Vets, Inc, explained Fthat the two organizations, which have operated independently in past campaigns, will posi their efforts this years

cc DEMOLAY MOTHERS MEET A public card party will be sponsored by the Mother's club of the Indianapolis chapter, Order of DeMolay, at 8 p. m. today in the Grotto club, 4107 E. Washington st. It is for the benefit of the De-

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German stronghold. campaign.

Nazi Snipers Hunted Down During Cassino Battle

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The smoke of battle still lingering on the scene, New Zealand infantrymen search a partially-de- | molished house in Cassino as they look for enemy snipers during the heavy fighting for possession of the | Cassino has turned out to be the toughest single point in the entire Italy-Sicily |

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FLORIDA LAW HELD INVALID

‘Involuntary Servitude’ Ban Violated Is High Court Ruling.

WASHINGTON, April 11 (U.P). —The supreme court yesterday outlawed,.as violating the constitutions | ban against involuntary servitude, a Florida statute making it a crime for any person to obtain an advance against future wages with intent to defraud on performance of labor or services. The high court, by a 7-to-2 split, also held that the Florida law unconstitutionally furnished employers with a peonage weapon, and deprived individuals of their liberty! without due process of law. Justice Stanley F. Reed and Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone dissented. Justice Robert L. Jackson, delivering the high court's majority opinfon, sald the jurists “impute to the (Florida) legislature nq intention to oppress, but we are compelled to hold that the act . . . by virtue of the 13th amendment and the anti- | peonage act of the United States, (is) null and void.”

Other Decisions

In other rulings, court yesterday: Upheld a southern New York tegeral district court decision "that the fi-| Lite Lens Co. Inc. New York, must San { solve its distribution system for pink-| tinted optical lenses because it violated! federal anti-trust laws, but

the supreme

i order directing Frank Bros, | Mass. to bargain collectively with a local] of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of | America (C. I. O.), even though the union lost its majority among the firm's 85 empioyees during the seven months of pro-| ceedings before the NLRB. Agreed to review the conviction of Gus-| tav H. Kann, former president of Tr umph Explosives, Inc. Elkton, Md. charges of using the mails to defraud | the firm's stockholders. | eed to review a Kansas supreme | court decision banning the sale of ‘Caroiene,” an evaporated milk product, in the! state of Kansas on grounds the product | ted within the state's law banning “filled |

OCD IS SEEKING TO CONTACT PLOWMEN

Victory gardens are the subject again and the Marion county O. C. D. organization has issued an appeal! for persons interested in plowing. They are asked to contact Harry! Peterson, 6325 Central ave. or call’ BRoadway 4245. The food outlook for the nation this year is about the same as last, according to the organization. But there are “ifs” attached to it. Those “ifs” are: if the weather is normal, if labor is plentiful, if crops] are average and if victory gardens, aré kept going. - Last year these home gardens | produced 40 per cent of the fresh, vegetables.

DETAIL FOR TODAY Goldbrick

Lawrence, |

A GOLDBRICK is a soldier who is allergic to work, He had a thousand different methods, all the result of much research, of getting out of work. There is an art to being an accomplished GOLDBRICK—it takes months of practice. If a GOLDBRICK finds it impossible to get out of a certain detail, he can make another job, that would ordinarily last about 15 minutes, stretch over a period of days, thus‘. rendering him immune to the certain detail.

Molay boys and Mrs. Helen Sheets chairman 4

| yesterday decried statements that | America’s youth is soft and advo-

Heavy Guns Join Landing

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Craft as Invasion 'Musts'

WASHINGTON, April 11 (U.P.

authorized an over-riding priority placing heavy artillery on a par le with invasion landing craft as the most urgent items in the entire (t

war production pregram, it was Tr

) ~The" war production board has

evealed today. .

The action was believed by many observers here to reflect a high 4 command re-evaluation of the effectiveness of artillery as result of!

battle experience in Italy, where| air power failed to live up to predictions of its most ardent pro-| ponents as’ a means of preparing | the way for ground offensives. In a terse message declaring that “recent developments have' made ge imperative a sharp acceleration in 1 the army's heavy artillery program” during the next 90 days, the WPB advised manufacturers that artil- | lery-canon, ammunition and motive power units for 155 mm. guns, 8inch howitzers, 8-inch guns and 240 mm. howitzers—now has the right of way over all other armaments, except landing craft. Landing craft ranked heretofore | as the unchallenged No. 1 item in | the entire production picture. Artillery, used heavily in world] war I to prepare the way for infan-| try advances, played a secondary | role toair power in the first stages of the recent allied attempt to dis-| lodge the Germans from Cassino, There have also been reports that American 105's have proved inadequate on the Anzio beachhead and that even the 155s have not had sufficient range even when moved |

tions. One of the big guns now at the] | top of the arms program—the eight- |

dimissed | incher—is the type used by the Jap-|N. Pennsylvania st. similar anti-trust charges against the anese in the heavy bombardment | {was awakened at 1:30 agm. by a Roy & Lomb Optical Co, Rochester, tpa¢ eventually brought about the Man standing at the side of her bed

Upheld a national labor relations board surrender of American forces on With a flashlight and a knife. She|

Corregidor. The effectiveness of artillery was reflected again today in a war de-| partment report on observations of {Maj. George Artman, an infantry {officer of Piqua, O., who returned recently from the Anzio beachhead. He described the allied position i there as a “German artillery impact area.” “There isn't a safe square foot of ground on the whole beachhead,” he reported. “The allies have had to dig in, the way they did in the first world war, with deep holes and rhead cover.”

Nimitz Favors |

Service Sports

PEARL HARBOR, April 11 (U. P,).—Adm. Chester W. Nimitz,

cated sports as part of the service fitness program as he spoke at the dedication of the “Nimitz bowl” athletic stadium. “There are some who say the present generation are soft mollycoddles. I don't believe that. I | doubt if the Japanese believe it,” he, said. “I believe the present crop of young men have just as much | muscle and maybe more brains than their predecessors in the | days of iron ships and iron men.” | the admiral said. !

PROWLER RAIDS

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LOCAL G. 0. P.

ENEMIES WAVE OLIVE BRANCH

Sign Truce as Worry Over Democrats in Primary

Mounts.

By SHERLEY UHL ; From all indications, the county's two G. O. P. factions, mortal “back= biting” foes for the past year, have suddenly formed a pre-election mutual aid society for the protecticn of the party’s reputatian, With the primary battle only three weeks away, both city hall

{and regular organization Republic-

ans appear to be waging “bloodless” campaigns under a temporary truce in which all holds are barred and most of the punches pulled. Chief reason for this is the probability that some of the G. O. P.

moguls on both “sides have gotten

together and reached the tacit understanding that a vicious dog-eat- | dog Republican primary struggle { might well work to the advantage lof the Democrats.

Begin to Worry

A fight-to-the-finish between Re- | publican forces, they reason, may ‘have the effect of exhausting the winning faction, both morally and { financially, and providing the Democrats with an abundance of general election “ammunition” in the form of political family secrets which would inevitably crop up under the stress of a G. O. P. feud. Although most Republican ringaders exhibit confidence galore on he surface, inwardly they're too smart to shrug off the possibility-of Democratic come-back here. special in view of the fact that eir own party has been split right Jrivl the middle since February, 11943, There has been a growing con-

[cern in Republican ranks over the 3 HOMES HERE apparent Democratic solidarity, The G. O. Politicos are cognizant of

emarizes. Wore Women as He Makes Tour With Knife And Flashlight.

A prowler who terrorized women in three North side homes last night was being sought by police today. He first appeared about midnight

fat 29 W. 28th st., where two women

{reported they were awakened by a man opening their bedroom winidow, They screamed and he fled before-getting inside the building. Half an hour later two women

‘at 826 N. Illinois st., reported they were awakened by a man in their

bedroom, flashing a light in one hand and brandishing a longbladed knife in the other. They|

|to the most advanced allied posi- Screamed, jumped out of bed and

‘crawled out a window to call police. {When they returned he was gone. |

| Democratic County Chairman Rus- | sel Dean's observation that the Republicans, if given enough rope, will hang themselves.

Dull and Listless

All this adds up to a comparative ly dull and listless primary campaign. Although city hall and county organization Republicans have long been threatening to “expose” each other's alleged governmental mismanagements and political foibles, no sensational party scandals ‘are likely to develop. For instance, both Republican congressional candidates, = Judge Judson L. Stark, the organization’s choice, and Charles A. Huff, city hall's man, are retiring and gentlemanly fellows. Reports have it that Judge Stark doesn't even intend to make an active campaign of it, pre- | ferring instead to turn the political Sites over to the organization. Mr. Huff, it is understood, will make a

A woman living in the 800 block Positive and constructive” primary

{said he threatened to kill her if shé | screamed. She said he took $1.50 out cf her] purse, attacked her at the point of| a knife and fled. Descriptions given by the woman indicated the prowler in all three] instances was the sam2 man.

WAR FUND EXPENSES TOTAL $467,178.80

Indianapolis - United War and

| Community fund expenditures to|talled $467,178.80 during the first

quarter of 1944, Harold B. Tharp, fund president, announced today. Fund Treasurer Fermor S. Can-

inon listed the following allotments

to member organizations of the war

fund: Belgian war relief, $625: British War Relief society, $7988; French war relief, $3060; Greek War Relief society, $7181; national war fund administration, $4486; Norwegian war relief, $280; Polish war relief, $5257; Dutch relief fund, $280; Refugee Relief Trustees, Inc., $3938; Russian war relief, $14,237; United China relief, $13,842; United Czechoslovak relief, $328; United Seamen's service, $5783; United Service organizations, $79,674; U.S. committee for care of European

! Bundles for America, Indianapolis chap-|

ter, $2550, civilian naval procurement | committee, $450: Indiar 1a polis post-war planning committee, § Indianapolis |

Service Men's Centers, Inc, $19 488.86; Marion county civilian defense council, | $1900; Officers Club of Ingiapapelis, $750; { Indianapolis Community und $189,241.05; Jewish welfare fund $86.500; American Friends society. United War and Community fund, administration, $6067.89.

Mahurin, Air

FT. WAYNE, Ind, April 11

in action since March 27.

The telegram delivered to the little square house where Mrs. Ma-

hurin lives with her daughter said only that he became missing while in action over France. Previous dispatches from 8th air force headquarters in England had disclosed that he shot down his 21st plane on the same date he was reported missing. Mrs. Mahurin had been prepared for the shock by a letter from the wife of one of the major's buddies. She told Mrs. Mahurin recently that in a letter her husband said he saw Maj. Mahurin bail out of his plane during a mission over the eontinent: “I am sure that he is safe,” Mrs. Mahurin said after Feceiving the telegram yesterday.

Ace, Missing

(U. P.).—The grey-haired widowed mother of Maj. Walker M, Mahurin, who with 21 planes to his credit once was the leading American air ace in the European theater, was notified by the war department yesterday that her son has been missing

reported she]

(6 months), | $625: |

{bid in which political personalities {will play a minor part, if any, | Mayor Tyndall is supposed to be {in the gubernatorial race, but he ‘hasn't aimed any verbal darts at {Ralph Gates, the outstanding as{pirant. The mayor's speeches, so | far, have cansisted of impersonalized denunciations of the New Deal.

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Nazi Fate Linked

To First Invaders

ST. PAUL, Minn, April 11. (U. P.).—Erika Mann, noted German authoress and lecturer, said last night that the post-war future of Germany may be decided by whether the Russians or the Americans arrive first in Germany. In a speech to the St. Paul foreign policy association she said: “The Russians will help the German Communist party, and it is reasonable to expect that Americans and British will help the German church.”

‘Y’ HOBBY SHOW TO BE HELD MAY 3

The South-West branch Y. M.

{ children. $1138: United Yugeslav relief N | fund, $3137: war prisoner's aid com-|C. A. will hold a hobby show May mittee, $3252; Indiana war fund, $4520; 3 at the Riley Park community

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center and exhibitors must register at the center May 23 between (1 p.m. and 9 p. m. The display will be open from 3 Ip. m. to 9 p. m. Nine types of exhibits will be |accepted: natural history collec. | tions, coin collections, stamp col= lections, handcraft, art, mechanical and technical, bird houses, models and miscellaneous.

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distinguished flying cross.

March 8 by knocking down three Nazi planes in a raid on Berlin, bringing his total to 20 at that time. It was the third time he had made a triple bag. Early this year he wrote his| mother that he had been offered a

“I am {lad it was over France be- , that

“He loved to fly so, that it seems terrible- he has to be kept on the

Mahurin had won the distinguished service cross, the air medal and three oak leaf clusters, and the

- He temporarily became America’s leading ace in the European theater

leave to come home but had turned |