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BRITISH SMASH | JAPS AT INPHAL

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"Pacific Centered on Truk Again.

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ner’s training at Laredo, Tex..

drives from Imphal, capital of In- paptist church. dia’s Manipur state, while the; American air offensive in the Pa-|qp io oq cific was centered on Truk and its] protective bases in the. Caroline islands. | Vape one Sie of BUS, on | couldn't “face either of them again” clearin e ro . le fa o miles vin of Imphal, another | if he diy 2: 2

captured an important enemy Po-| pT. AUSTIN D. RINNE, B-11

before he went

sition northeast of the capital and Flying Fortress pilot, has been miss- | : pushed the Japanese deep into the 0 since a raid over France Feb. 28. 5

hy beyond Imphal plain. { He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. {Although the captured position germann Rinne, 3046 Park ave. and

was not identified. the Japanese inp shang of Martha Jo Rinne, 2626 &

the hortheast sector last were re-!n Alabama st. ported on Pungshigun peak, 10 miles; from Imphal [to his wife, Lt. Rinne said he had Again Hit Kuriles

In the aerial offensive, American bombers attacked the Japanese onlin the Kuriles in northern Japan; the; Carolines and the Marshals in they orst, Shelbyville, central Pacific; New Britain in the| south, and New Guinea and Timor

in the southwest. _ | merly of Indianapolis, also was listed Liberators of ths 13th army air|

or 12th mission.

force made 8 2000-mile trip from| the Solomons to hit Eten and Param| jg Lt. Rinne was sent to Ft islands in Truk atoll, and the near-| piley, Kas. with the cavalry. After by enemy bases of Alet and Puluwat, | .ancterring to the air forces, he while Mitchell mediums from the| ao graduated from Turner field, 7th air force raided Ponape for the| Albany, Ga., and finished his bomber | 22d time in I5 days, and Ant ifland,| training at Walla Walla, Wash., Jast| and single navy search planes October. He was sent to England | bombed Oroluk, Ulul and Pakin. |following this advanced bomber Army Liberators from the Aleu- | training. tians struck the Kurile islands in| s = a northern Japan for the fifth]

fifth tie. Feb. 18, In the Southwest Pacific, escort-| His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John ed bombers dropped 284 tons of ex- Hare, 3106 N. Capitol ave. received plosives on the Aitape area, 90 miles the war department notice last .west of Wewak, while other allied Monday that he was missing but airmen ‘ranged far into the Dutch heard March 11 East Indies to strike “Timor island. wave broadcast from Germany that

siete ‘he was a prisoner of war. The war Nazis Lose 8000 | department <has not confirmed the, Planes in Raids

latter report. Overseas since June, the 24-year-| LONDON, April American air attacks have cost

17 (yu. py Old infantryman entered the army Germany's defensive fighter force

‘as a prisoner April 8. | Entering the service in October,

through -a short

Vance, 1325 Kelly st, was killed in |action Feb. 25 in the North African

American Air Drive in a cerifle service Jan. 2, 1943, the | |

{21-year-old soldier was graduated from armorer school‘ at Denver, 3 Colo., and completed his aerial gun- 3

Sqf. Arthur Vance, Gunner, Dies in N. Africa Air Fight

A graduate of school 34 and Tech- |: # , nical high school, Sgt. Vance was a British Imperial troops pushed nner of the Royal Neighors of the Japanese back today in tWoO|,, erica and the Garfield Park Before entering service, he was employed by Thomas |

In his last letter to his parents] g overseas, Sgt. Vance {was anxious to leave and said he

In his last letter written Feb. 23 &

| completed his 10th mission and had| received the air medal that week. | He was reported missing after his|

‘His co-pilot, Lt. Francis Born- J was reported a’ § | prisoner of Germany last Thursday. |Lt. John Aegeter, bombardier, for- |

R. J. Halsworth Charles Eilert

| PVT. ORVILLE C. HARE, who @#% straight day, attacking Matsuwa, was with the infantry in the inva1069 miles north of Tokyo, for the sion of Italy, has been missing since 8

He was in the son of Mrs. Jennie F. Arnold, Rock-! Sicilian invasion and then went to Ville; Sgt. William A. Bland, hus-| Italy. Before joining the army, Pvt. band of Mrs, Georgia Bland, Ft.|

RICKER AND JACKSON TO RN

Certain t6 Head Democratic Slate.

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he would accede to the demands of party leaders and run for the U. S. senate:

“In no sense am I asking any

INDIANAPO

Governor, Senator Almost

further consideration at the hands of my beloved Democratic friends in Indiana,” he said. “All I ask is for an opportunity to serve with | them in the best interests of our state and nation, {

“Extremely Happy”

- “If they will permit me to return | to private life, I shall be extremely | happy. On the other hand, if they | should determine that I be the par- | ty’s choice for United States sen- | ator, then I will do my best to be. elected.” The crowd of more than 1100 {didn’t wait until he got through. They" were on their feet, cheerin and clapping when he got through | the words “United States senator.” Senator Jackson was the first to clasp the Governor's hand after he had finished and hundreds of others of the party workers filed by the speaker's table to wish the Gov- | ernor luck and pledge support,

Senator Silent -

While the senator, the principal | speaker of the evening, made no announcement of his future inten{tions out-of deference to the gov|ernor, his friends made it clear | that he would soon announce his Wounded {candidacy for the Democratic gub-

|ernatorial nomination. } . { The senator, appointed early this) 9 |vear by the governor to take the| i | senate seat of the late Senator Van | Nuys, undoubtedly has the support {of an overwhelming portion of the | Demoeratic organization for the | gubernatorial nomination. The governor himself, as far as the Democratic public is concerned, placed his blessings on Mr. Jackson by picking him from a large field {of applicants for the coveted senatorship. C. E. Baker And the governor paid further Prisoner tribute to Senator Jackson in his They are 2d Lt. Homer J. Arnal, (200705 Seviriey Tiny ave {sonal satisfaction at the coming |state convention than a confirma-

Sgt. Arthur Robert Vance ..,. killed in action.

0. C. Hare Missing

A.D. Rinne, Missing

Missing

John Farrar . Captured

in November, 1941. more than 8000 planes since last Nov. 1, according ,to up-to-date, reliable estimates today.

| His brother, Sgt. James R. Hare Something approaching 5000 of

is an instructor in a Link trainer son of Mrs.

Hare went to Shortridge high school Wayne; T. Sgt. Harold R. Blosser, | and worked for the Sterling laundry, Son of ‘Asher A. Blosser, Goshen. |

Also 2d Lt, Francis J. Bornhorst, Josephine ‘M, Born-

the 8000 were fighters which at an Oklahoma base. horst, Shelbyville; T. Sgt. Jerold German factories would have turned | x = = W. Brown, son of Mrs. Lois W. out under an intensified production! T SGT. COLE

program had it not been for devastating United States raids. The remainder were shot down in aerial lowing a raid over Germany. combat, tis 27. Since the turn of the vear, Avert. can heavy bombers and their fighter {a

escort, together with medium bomb- | tress. Before entering the air forces Montpelier; ers and other fighters, have claimed [in December, 1942, he was a ship Pollye, son of Mrs, Hazel a total of 3560 German fighters de- i Welder in the Vancouver, Wash., Bloomington;

stroyed in battle.

{ high school, { 2 x =n | SECOND LT. ROBERT J. HALSDestro ed | WORTH, son of Mrs. Theresa Marie y Halsworth, 17 W. Pleasant Run ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Na- pkwy. South dr. has been missing

ples, April 17 (U. P).—Allied 5th in action since Feb. 24 over Gerarmy patrols, knifing deep into the many. German lines for the second time| A pilot of a B-24 Liberator bombin 24 hours, destroyed a Nazi am- er, Lt, Halsworth enlisted in the munition dump on the Anzio army air forces May 26, 1942, and beachhead front, a communique an- was commissioned May 21, 1943, at nounced today. Yuma, Ariz, He went overseas last The communique revealed that November, allied skirmishers were on the al-| A former employee of Curtisstack on all three major Italian Wright Corp, he was graduated

battlelronts yesterday, probing into, from public school 35 and Technical the enemy's forward positions and high school.

Nazi Dumps

f He is 23. knocking out isolated strongpoints ® x = In a possible prelude to a new of-| SGT. CHARLES EILERT. son of fensive, Mr. ‘and Mrs. Herbert Eilert, 17

{ Parkview ave. is home convalescing after being wounded in combat in

German Gauleiter el New Guinea,

Dies of lliness | The 24-year-old soldier is the

LONDON, April 17 (U. P.) —The husband of Mrs, Eleanor Eilert German DNB agency announced Whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raytoday that Adolf Wagner. Nazi mond Daffin live at 1938 N. Deargauleiter for Munich, had died after born st. a lengthy illness. } He worked for the Dr. Wagner, one of Adolf Hitler's Bottling Co. before entering service closest friends, participated in Hit- and spent 22 months in the Pacific ler's 1923 beer hall putsch. He was theater. He enlisted Dec. 10, 1941. one of the first Nazis, : #8 = =» In 1937 he closed all Catholic y FV1- JOHN FARRAR, army paraschools in Bavaria and reopening, TOOPEr, Was captured by the Gerthem under state supervision. He mans Jan. 25 following combat in attacked Pope Pius XI for “using 1/2: . the Catholic church to stir up re- _ His Wife, Mrs Nora Farrer, 648 S.

ligious strife and breed national Lf St, heard that he was a pris-|

dissension.” er about a month ago following Wagner, who could imitate per- he message thas he was missing. fectly the voice of Hitler, had as Ben Davis high school grad-

one of his duties the reading of Hit- U3'¢ Pvl. Farrer entered the army

ler's annual proclamation at the two years ago and went overseas opening of the Nurnberg party rally ‘ast Octobg, He worked for the and the two men often were re. 1Sier Cartage’o. before leaving for ferred to as “Little Adolf” and “Big the army.

Adolf.” The 23-year-old paratrooper is oo the father of 14-month-old John v | Thomas Farrar and son of Mrs. Dootlittle Raid ‘Anna Kent, 648 S. Taft st. 2 Years Old | Three of his brothers are in the

, . - Co army. Pvt. Samuel Farrar is staWASHINGTON. April 17 (U.P) tioned on the Anzio beachhead in —Two years ago today, 16 U. 8. Italy, Pvt. William Farrar. Amarillo mecium bombers led by Lt. Col Tex, and Pvt, James Farrar with ~James H. Dulittle roared over Tokyo air forces at F and four other Japanese cities to Seymour Feeman field. give Japan the first direct taste of ° ’ the war it started by the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The Tokyo ‘radio gave the out-

» o ” FIREMAN 1-C CECIL EUGENE Banh, who was reported missing an. 14, 1943, in submari ; side world the first albeit hysterical a prisoner of the Tn. duty, is report and somewhat indignantly His parents, Mr. and Mrs Chester demanded to know where the planes O. Baker, 1633 C rrollton ave Ye. came from. The attack took place ceiv 3 April 18, Tokyo time, which 17 in this country,

ed the word this week from the is April war department.

Enlisting in the navy in October President Roosevelt Subsequently 1942, Fireman Baker had been on

told A news conference that the Prence submarine duty in the Pacific since J operated from Shangri-La May, 1943. . Before enlisting, he » c Jeep Mericanrs as well as the worked for the Erte] Machine Shop pan guessing. and attended Technical high school.

GROUP TO SUPPORT (THE WAR DEPARTMENT today M. DALE WILLIAMS ous report that

T. Sgt. Jack Blacker, son of Mrs. Lela Blacker, 1902 W. New York st. A group representing labor and public school teachers has been or-

is a prisoner of war in Germany, n » - ganized to support the candidacy of BOATSWAIN'S MATE 20 LE. M. Dale :

Williams, for the Re- ROY DECKER, son of Mr. and Mrs. publican nomination for state reg. Ralph Decker of Bruceville, has been resentative, ¢ Killed in naval action,

2 ug ELEVEN HOOSIER soldiers toda. * said the first campaign ‘meeting (are listed among the 344 army ios 4 | Was held missing inaction in the European Festerdar., wag zone, PrRSY .

Based in England, Sgt. Sage was! , radio operator on‘ a Flying For- Ellison, son of Mrs. Oral F. Ellison, | SPacher of Jasper, treasurer of the |

Leonard A.|

,|. truck just missed you, then you

’ inati amation. i SAGE, son or Mrs. Brown, Advance; S. Sgt. Vernon cj homm dos. by acciamation.. Re is {not even expected to open a cam- | Betty M. Sage, 529 E. New York st., Caldwell, son of Mrs, Hazel Cald-| ign headquarters. ] was reported missing March 23, fol- well, Lebanon; 1st Lt, Richard D.| He Coleman, son of Ralph 8S. Coleman,

| Ft. Wayne. Others are 8. Sgt. Bernard F.

2d Lt.

Sgt. « Oscar Simon, | Evansville, and 'S. Sgt. Robert K.| | Slocum, son of Mrs. Mary Slocum, ‘South Bend. |

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= ” ” | THE FOLLOWING Indiana men are among 194 U. S. soldiers held prisoners of war by Bulgaria and | Germany, i All interned ifi Germany, they are! S. Sgt, Paul G. Boles, son of Mrs. Fern Boles, Sullivan; 2d Lt. Clyde, S. Cleveland, son of Mrs. Mildred E. Cleveland, Hammond; 2d Lt. Lee D. Crabtree, son of Dr. Louie R. Crabtree, Columbus; S. Sgt. Jerome A. Hellmann, son of Mrs. Philomina |G. Hellman, Tipton; Sgt. Fred {Baker Jr., son of Mrs. Lula M. Baker, Logansport, Others are Flight Officer Harold R. McClanahan, son of John H, Mec- | Clanahan, Moores Hill; T. Sgt. Maz- | ion G. McMullen, husband of Mrs. Dorothy M. McMullen, Monticello; Sgt. Robert G. Peltier, son of Mrs. ‘Jessie E. Peltier, Linton; Sgt. | Charles W. Rice, son of Charles E.| Rice, Spencer; T. Sgt. Archie Stam-

PePDer bush, son of Mrs. Edna Beshear, ChUsetts ave. early yesterday suf-

Evansville, and T. Sgt. Mervin F. Barkey, son of Mrs. Martha Barkey, Roselawn. 2 ” ”

| 8. SGT. DURWOOD O. CLEM of

Chesterton has been awarded the ©¢'Sey st. told police that two gun- |

silver star for gallantry in action. | 2 8 =n ROBERT EDGAR SMALL, chief machinist's mate in the navy, has been awarded the navy and marine corps medal, Machinist Small, who is missing in action, is the son of William T. Small of Amboy. The award was for heroic conduct while serving as a member of the crew of a U. S. submarine during three war patrols in enemy Japanese-controlled waters | “With keen foresight.” the citation | said, “Small maintained the engines and other vital equipment under his care in excellent condition at all times. and throughout these patrols| he displayed a thorough knowledge of ‘his tasks and carried them out

with. exceptional skill and untiring | devotion to duty.” |

| As for the gubernatorial fonaliip

| tion, however, there probably will | be a fight.

Wise, | only announced candidate, has stat- i

{ shipyards and attended Manual husband of Mrs. Dorothy L, Simon, {ore the convention as a candidate |

‘Democrats,

tion ,of my choice for this office (the senatorship).” Hannegan Speaks | Most observers believed that the

{governor will receive the senatorial

Por

Clarence U. Gramel- | |

Democratic state committee and the | ed repeatedly that he will go be- | for governor and that he will not |

compromise for second place on the | ticket, as has been suggested by |

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