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"Reif was a grand kid, smart full of good humor, and I'm sure so happy in his life as when working in our little madhouse. He had come voluntarily to help rassle my luggage out to the airport. © And last’ but noi least, In another minute here tame prancing in my tiny little friend Lt. Maxine Budeman, the nurse-dietitian from the nearby army hospital. She is from Kalamazoo, Mich., and everybody calls her Goldielocks. She is just shoulder high and weighs approximately 90 pounds,

International Osculation

** AT THE airport Reif lugged in my bedroll and bags for me and I got all set for the plane. Then we started to say goodby. We four were standing beside a command car. A group of officers and soldiers stood nearby, idly watching us, while they waited for their planes. Our little goodby sequence must have given them a chuckle or two. First I shook hands with Harry. And then, since pretty nurses don't come into one’s life every day, I managed to inflict upon Goldielocks a goodby kiss that must have shaken Rome. And then I turned fo shake hands with Reif. : But Reif, instead, grabbed me by both shoulders and in true continental fashion implanted a large

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE R. G. THOMPSONS have been taking a lot of kidding from their friends over a Maytag washing machine advertisement in the May 1 issue of Life magazine, It so happens that the Thompsons are

expecting the stork one of these days. (Getting just bi a like Winchell, aren't we!) And

they've been looking high and low

for a washing machine, asking all their friends to look, too. And so you can imagine the Thompsons’ surprise the other day when they received by mai] from Mrs. Bill Ansted a page torn from Life magazine. Taking up almost the entire page was a comical sketch of a stork wearing top hat, bow tie, wing collar and nose glasses, and carrying a pair of laughing twins, Just beneath the stork's beak were the words: “Hate to do this to Mrs. Thompson until she can get a new Maytag!” At first, Mr. Thompson—he's head of the Ditto Sales and Service here—thought the ad had been “doctored up” =but then he discovered that's exactly the way it appeared in the magazine. Quite a coincidence— stork, washing machine and even the right family name.

dt Won't Be Long, Now

* DON HASTINGS of Spencer W. Curtiss. Ine. Industrial advertising, has what seems to be a good idea. We'll let him tell you about it: “It seems with Almost everyone talking about D day or Invasion day that it would be a good idea for the operators of the

air raid siren on top of the Merchants Bank building’

to open it wide when this momentous occasion occurs, A ‘flash’ could be given them by the newsPapers and if it was during the day, the many downfown office workers would appreciate it. And if it happened at night, I don't think anyone would object to being awakened by the news.” Maybe it could be arranged. Of course, one of the problems would be to know whether it was the real invasion, or just a false alarm—maybe one of those feints which Winston Churchill indicated might precede the invasion. «++ One of the busy men around town is M. G. (Oley) Johnson, assistant to the chairman of the post-war planning committee. The committee isn't getting much publicity now, as it's in the “drudgery”

Two G.I. Joes

WASHINGTON, May 5—The picture, widely published in newspapers, of two husky soldiers carting the august personage of Sewell Avery off the Montgomery Ward premises, did more than anything else to arouse public interest in the case. That action : : scene dramatized the issues. It was the most celebrated piece of newspaper art since the picture of J. P. Morgan and the midget. Yet, so far as we have been able to review all that has happened, ‘those two soldiers were the only persons connected with this case who did their duty in an orderly manner. Their orders were to remove the person of Mr. Avery from the Montgomery Ward build- ' : ing—and they executed their orders with as much neatness and dispatch as the circumstances and Mr. Avery's resistance permitted. They didn't muss him up, maul him or otherwise mane handle him. They carried him out in a sitting posture; leaving him in possession of as much personal dignity as was possible In-such an episode.

Consider the Others

BY CONTRAST with the way the soldiers did their duty, consider the other principal actors in this drama: The President of the United States invoked his war powers to help a labor union win an argument< with a non-war business enterprise. Mr. Avery, head of a large merchandising establishment, got his company in bad with his government by refusing to comply with a simple order which would have meant little sacrifice in wartime—namely to

— renew temporarily & coritract With a labor union,

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—Mrs. Curtin, the wife of ‘the prime minister of Australia, lunched with me yesterday, and I also asked Miss Craig McGeachey,

by law.

things did seem romantic. A heavy darkness had

nants of the sun streaked the cloud-banked horizon ahead, making it vividly red and savagely beautiful. We were high, and the motors throbbed in a timeless rhythm. Below us were the green peaks of the

that we should be there at all amid that darkening beauty so far away and so foreign and so old.

+ It was one of those moments impossible to transmit | to another mind. A moment of overpowering beauty, of the surge of a marching world, of the relentless- |

ness of our own fate. It made you want to cry. i

(Last of

: By VICTOR PLANS TO

the present war, are under

sary to complete plans roughed out to date. ? Frank H. Henley, trustee secretary, said thé board actively is considering the completion of the original plans besides making additions which will be necessary to accommodate the needs of 300,000 Hoosiers now in service. Such, too, are the terms set forth in the house resolution submitted by George Henley, floor leader (R. Bloomington), in the recent special session.

Indianapolis Must Act

Meanwhile the American Legion executive’ committee, which met Tuesday in Washington, accepted resolutions which mean that if Indianapolis wants to keep national headquarters it will have to speed construction of the twin to the present housing facilities. Actively interested in the creation of one to three buildings similar to that which headquarters. now occupies, sponsors of the

period—getting its material in shape. It's Oley’s job to serve as go-between for 10 or 12 very active committees, co-ordinating their work and digging up information for them. As a former city engineer, he's] well equipped for the job. i i

Whisk Away the Rain

MRS. DEE NICHOLAS, traffic engineer for WIRE, has trouble getting wide awake before starting to work some mornings. As to that fact, we have the word of none other than her husband, Lt. Ted | Nicholas. It looked like rain Wednesday morning and | so Ted suggested: “Don’t you think you ought to take an umbrella?” Mrs. Nicholas agreed, and stepped to a wardrobe to get one. As she got to the front door, Ted discovered she was carrying not an umbrella but | a long handled whisk broom. . , , Lt. Louis B. Shackle- | ford, U. 8. N. R, public relations officer for the state | selective service headquarters, has been promoted to, lieutenant commander, . . . Seen yesterday at Tom-| linson hall where the central ballot count is being conducted: Safety Board President Bill Remy walking! around and casting an eagle eye over the proceedings. !

Following him around at a discreet distance were Rep. August H. Andresen (R. Minn) | predicted today that almost all ra-| tioning will be lifted before the!

{November elections and then be] made tighter than ever if the “New| Deal elects its fourth-term can-|

Sam Blum and Leo Scharffin, |

Voting for Postmaster

OVERHEARD at the polls in the sixth precinct, second ward, last Tuesday: A woman worker telling how she tried to mail an overweight package to a service man overseas, and how, when the clerk re-| fused to take the package, she carried an appeal! directly to Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker. It seems the postmaster, too, declined to accept the package.

that aren't going to vote for you, too.” She didn't know that the only way to vote on a postmaster is to

get elected to the U. S. senate. . . , Harry Pritchard, |

| Legion resolutions called for a | thorough investigation of future | needs both in Indianapolis and

| Washington.

The report of such a survey with recommendations will be made at the pre-convention meeting of the national executive

SEES POLITICS IN

RATION POLICIES

Rep.* Andresen Lashes New Deal, Predicts Lifting Before Election.

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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1944

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expand the Indiana World War Memorial, making it a public tribute to the men and women of

active consideration by the

board of trustees and a committee created by the recent special session of the legislature. Approximately three million dollars would be neces-

committee at Chicago, Sept. 17. The resolutions also stated that it is the definite expressed conviction of the national executive committee that the “American Legion and its allied organizations should not in any way share headquarters space with the headquarters of any other veterans organizations, either in a building or buildings, or on the same immediate site.” . National growth of the Legion has added greatly to headquarters work and files and employees are overflowing to other downtown buildings. “We really need more space” . says Dorlald G. Glascoff, national adjutant. “Right now we are horribly cramped. If an adjacent building should be erected, we undoubtedly would move into it. “Operating in our present building are the national headquarters, national auxiliary headquarters; the national 40 & 8, the Legion department of Indiana and the department's auxil-

Frank H. Henley . .. Secretary of

another 200000 within the next

ary. “We are growing every day even though we do not accept a member until he is honorably discharged

three months.» It is not hard to visualize a membership of six million 10 years after the war. That would mean a potential office staff of between 400 and 500

“Today we have a membership of 1,260,000 and expect to take in

Case of Whisky Sails Into Yard

FOR A SPLIT-SECOND vyester-

workers in Indianapolis, “I guess that can best indicate

SOLDIER DIES, 3 HURT IN CRASH

Butler Private Killed Automobile-Streetcar Collision.

| day Mrs. Catherine Long, 515 S.

Senate ave, could hardly believe her eyes as she gazed from her back window. For into her own back yard came sailing over the fence a case of whisky. The tinkle of broken glass had |

WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. P.).— Accusing the administration of playing “politics” with rationing,

didate.”

tivated by either one of two facto: To “remove the odor” of the seizure of Montgomery Ward &

president of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. let Co. properties by military force, or

business go hang yesterday. He couldn't be bothered |

with mere business, not with his two sons home from! It was the boys’ first reunion here since!

the navy.

they left for service together on April 11, 1942. One, |

| elections” on Nov. 7.

Expects Further Moves

Andersen said other items he exted to be removed from ration-

Lt. (jg) Edward T. Pritchard, formerly with the

Interstate Coal Co. has been on a destroyer escort in!

the Southwest Pacific. Donald D. Pritchard, formerly in the insurance bro- | kerage busine coast,

The other, Specialist A.l-c!

“Political expediency properly timed to end food rationing a {few months before the presidential

{steak, sugar, butter, canned fruits,

By Walker Stone

The war labor board, which issued that order, was

without adequate proof that the union actually repre- [thereafter reinstate and make more aimost six blocks from where he | sented a majority of the Montgomery Ward workers. drastic all rationing policies to fur- haq tumbled into the water.

{ gasoline, fuel oil and automobile tires, but added:

| “Personally, I am convinced that| youth had drowned in the river

should the New Deal elect its fourth

{term candidate on Nov. 7, the office | house dock near 30th st. His body

{of price administration will shortly

And Chairman Davis had no better excuse than | ther regiment and socialize the

that the Ward strike was of “epidemic” potentialities. | The union, a C. I. O. organization, apparently did everything in its power to prevent a showdown as to! whether it actually did represent a majority of! employees.

Dual Personality

AND NOT LEAST among those who did things wrong: Attorney General Biddle (note carefully his

title). First he functioned as Gen. Biddle, in com- |

mand of troops, scaling the ramparts of Montgomery

Ward, and issuing the order for the summary ejec- |cessed foods due to the splendid | Avery. His alibi for thus acting SO production effort of farmers and |

tion of Mr.

economy of our country.” He said that for more than a year beef and pork producers pleaded with OPA to lift rationing to prevent a glutted market, but that the proposals, not being “geared to proper New Deal timing,”

{fell on “deaf ears.”

“Food rationing could have been {abolished six months ago as it was well known that all warehouses {were bulging with meat and pro-

warlike was that Montgomery Ward sold farm imple- | processors.”

ments and workmen's clothes. ware or general store doesn’t? Next, as a sort of | afterthought, he performed in the role of Attorney | Biddle and took the case into court, seeking an in-|

Junction against Mr. Avery and associates (who were | without bayonets) interfering with Gen. Biddle's

forces. ‘ Had Mr, Biddle observed propriety, legality, constitutionality and duty as did those two soldiers whe carried Mr. Avery down nine flights and deposited him on the sidewalk—had Mr. Biddle as much common sense as those two G. I. Joes. he would have gone into court first, as Attorney Biddle, and left the Gen. Biddle role until a later, and if necessary, performance. Yes, congress had better investigate what has happened—Ilest we find that ours is a government by executive use of troops, rather than a government

By Eleanor Roosevelt

been accumulated in the children’s bureau. She is lending trained personne). I was quite pleased that we were able to get to-

What country hard- |

Cites Magazine Article Andresen said he was especially interested in knowing who ordered Price Chief Chester Bowles “to virtually discontinue” meat ration-

{ing in view of the fact that a

national magazine just five days before circulated an article in which Bowles, discussing meat rationing, said there would be “some relief in 1945 (with luck) ‘and possibly end when the war is over.” Meanwhile, Food Administrator Marvin Jones ‘hinted that steaks and beef roasts—the only meats

made point free by fall but warned

of food may be only temporary.

‘PARK ASSOCIATION TO MEET’ MAY 16

The Indiana Municipal park and |

mo- | rs: |

still requiring red points—may be|

that the presen t abundant supplies | f

An army private was killed and three civilians injured in a street-| Hobart McDade, 1014 E. Troy ave., |car-automoble accident last night | an employee of thre Motor Express 'at 42d st. and Cornelius ave. Co. He explained to Mrs. Long | Pvt. Harold W. Wolf, 19, Box G., | that the whisky had been stolen | Forbes, N. D.,, was killed. His body from the Motor Express loading was taken to Ft. Harrison. Pvt. platform at 620 S. Senate ave. Mr. | Wolf was stationed at Butler uni- | McDade said he had caught the [versity air detachment training] thirsty thief in the act and had |gthool. chased him down back-alleys un- | The injured are:

til his quarry tossed the loot into | Mrs. Long's back yard. Five | ROBERT DEATON, 23, of 61 N.|

no sooner died on the evening air than there appeared on the scene

quarts were spilled. {14th st., Beech Grove, in critical i condition at City hospital. THOMAS K. SISK JR, 21, of ARCHIE RIORDAN 323 Hanson ave., driver of the car, lin fair condition at City hospital. | | ALVA PINDELL, 60, of 3660 Cos- | TIM road, streetcar motorman, | | treated by police at the scene of the | Funeral services for 11-year-old accident. | | Archie Ray Riordan, whose body, The force of the impact de-! | was recovered yesterday from White | railed the streetcar and imbedded | [ riv {the right automobile door in its river te th | j OPposi ¢ . Tom Taggart ie. There were no passengers on memorial in Riverside park, will be tne trolley at the time. at 4 p. m. today at the C. C. Hens-| Mr. Sisk is employed as a flight!

SS, has been stationed on the Florida ing before the elections were beef ley funeral home, 909 W. 30th st. instructor and Mr. Deaton as a me-

Burial will follow in Glen Haven, |CPanic at Sky Harbor airport. {| The son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie {| L. Riordan, 1445 W., 30th st, the

{April 23 after falling from a boat-

IN MIDNIGHT CHASE

was found by a police rescue crew

A wild, midnight chase through,

Survivors, besides the parents, are | City streets ended disastrously last three brothers, Charles and Frank night for a shiny, sleek Packard | Riordan, both of Indianapolis, and stolen from in front of the Co- | | Marshall Riordan, petty officer sec-|lumbia club. After receiving a rejond class of the navy; and three port on the theft, Sgt. Charles |sisters, Miss Edith Riordan, Mrs. Birkett, in a squad car, spotted the|

| Floala Williams and Mrs. Virginia auto at Spann ave. and Randolph | | Redding. all of Indianapolis. | st.

| With sirens wailing and red lights hospitalization, who are to be discharged or those compelled to com {back for emergency reasons. | 3. The | which requires that men granted Its occupants escaped down Leota {leave be returned to their jobs at|choir announced its 1944-45 officers the expiration of the leave.

| TWO WOMEN HURT IN CRASH ablaze, the squad car swung into|

| Two women were injured, neither action and the stolen Packard soon | seriously, when their car struck a was driven into a Power & Light !safety zone at Delaware and Mar-|{Co, pole at Leota and Bates sts. ket sts. last night. Dorothy Payne, 17, of 1121 S. Meridian st., is in City|st. after Sgt. Birkett fired a shot hospital suffering from shock. Eileen |in their general direction. The car Ames, 20, of the same address, was|belonged to Jerry Carlow of Zions- | treated by a physician at her home. ville. FC.

Up Front With Mauldin

WRECK STOLEN CAR

| 3 More Buildings Proposed for Memoria .

the Indiana World War Memorial

Board of Trustees,

our need for more said. Mr. Henley said that the board is considering the erection of three more buildings similar to that occupied by the Legion at an estimated cost of $500,000 each. Two would face Pennsylvania st.

space,” he

Baby Loses Fight |

Against Leukemia

RAHWAY, N. J, May 5 (U.P). — Nineteen - month - old Therese Truax was a gurgling, happy baby yesterday as she fondled her dolls

| and played with her daddy home on furlough’ from the Pacific war.

- Today, Therese was dead of leukemia, plus complications of bronchitis and German measles. Therese played in the sun for

three hours yesterday with her

father, brought home on emergency furlough after Mrs. Alice Truax, the mother, wrote to President Roosevelt telling of her daughter's plight. Late in the afternoon, the child

succumbed to a fit of coughing, |

and died a short time later.

Dr. Edward E. Blakely of

Orange, a blood specialist, said |

measles was the of death.

COMBAT FURLOUGH PLANS ARE. REVISED

WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. P.) — The war department today announced a new plan under which

indirect cause

{key army ground forces personel in

combat zones will be able to return

(to this country on non-emergency

leaves and furloughs. The department emphasized, however, that the overall number of men who will return will not be increased since the key personnel —men whose jobs make them “in a measure” indispensable—will be included in present furlough quotas. They will be allowed three weeks within the United States before returning to their posts. Ground forces personnel may now be granted leaves and furloughs under the following plans: 1. The rotation plan which requires that personnel returned for leave and reassignment be replaced by men of the same grade and military specialty.

| 2. The return of men who need

key personnel system

Plan Ridenour

Memorial Rites

DR. SIDNEY BLAIR HARRY will conduct memorial services for Lt. Herman Franklin Ridenour, who died April 11 in India, at 3:30 p. m. Sunday in the Meridian Heights Presbyterian church.

An army pilot, Lt. Ridenour or- !

dered his crew to abandon. ship when it developed engine trouble, He maneuvered the plane while they left it, but it was too late for him to jump. Personal tributes will be paid - by Andrew Jacobs and Otto Cox, attorneys, and the color guard of the Broad Ripple post, American Legion, will participate.

MEXICAN BORDER

INQUEST GALLED

at the north end of the plaza and

ested patriotic organizations and undoubtedly would be rent free. The occupants would maintain the interior and meet running expenses while the memorial organ= ization would care for the exterior. Included in the expansion would be the completion of the museum, space for which has been standing idle in the memorial building since it was ready for occupancy in 1936.

Would Complete Room

“Naturally, present war mementos “would be included with those of world war I to give a complete museum. Also we would complete the interior decorfition of the room now being used by the Red Cross,” Mr. Henley said. The crowning step ‘would be the completion of the exterior of the memorial building itself, which would mean the purchase of the sites occupied by the Second Presbyterian and First Baptist churches besides moving or razing them, Pastors of the two churches, Dr. Jean 8. Milner, Presbyterian, and Dr. Carleton W. Atwater, Baptist, expressed willingness to co-oper-ate fully should plans for completion of the memorial be adopted. As Dr, Milner said, “We are ready at any time to talk to any authorized group about the sale of the church. Naturally we love the old place but are ready to acceed to the wishes of the public.”

SEDITION CASE

Garner, Publisher of Weekly | And Trial Defendant, Found Dead.

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. P.). —The government today completed presentation of its case in support of contempt charges ‘against James J. Laughlin, defense attorney in the big sedition trial, and Laughlin immediately

| moved for dismissal of the con-

tempt citation but Judge Jennings Bailey overruled the motion.

| WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. P.).— | Authorities ordered an autopsy today on the body of Elmer J. Garner, 80-year-old Wichita, Kan. pub'lisher, whom death released yesterday from further prosecution as one of the 30 defendants in the {war's biggest sedition trial. The quiet, almost-degf defendant, publisher of the allegedly anti- | Semitic weekly “Publicity,” was found dead in his rooming house. The death was first attributed to advanced age but the autopsy and lan inquest were ordered when the {coroner's office learned of his con{nection with the sedition trial. |; Meanwhile, the contempt hearing {of Defense Attorney James J. {Laughlin continued in its second day with the government attemp‘ting to show that the outspoken jattorney had issued his many motions during the first two weeks of the trial mainly to obtain publicity. | Laughlin was accused of making a “contumacious” attack on the integrity of Trial Judge Edward C. Eicher.

OFFICERS ARE NAMED BY SYMPHONIC CHOIR

| T h e Indianapolis. Symphonic

|today. They are Herman W. Kothe, president; Robert D. Armstrong, vice president; Miss Catherine Bailey, secretary, and Humbert { Pagani, treasurer. The committees and their memi bers include: | Pierre FP. Goodrich, Miss Helen M. | Kendall, Robert L. St. Pierre, and Mr, | Pagani, sponsor membership; Miss Rose- | mary Dawlor, Dwight Murphy, Mrs. Ruth IM. Armstrong and Miss Bailey, active | membership; Elmer A. Steffen, Dr. Franz | R. Hensel, Mrs. Charles C. Martin and { Mr. Kothe, music; Mr. Armstrong Harry

| E. Calland, Leonard A. Strauss and Mr. ‘Pagani, audit and budget.

| Mr. Steffen, conductor, and Fa- | bien Sevitzky, musical director, are completing plans for the choirs fall and Winter season. The choir, {together (with the Indianapolis Symphony, will present two or more major choral compositions during

the year.

HOLD EVERYTHING

= Ri A “who is head of the welfare division of to | Recreation association will meet

* ome so that she m

J 2 . This led to some interesting informa- * tion which Dr. Louise Stanley was able to give us. “ Dr. Stanley is now special as-

sistant to the administrator of the /

gether those who really could give us information! on a subject’ which interests so many phople in every country. I have had two thing drawn to my attention just recently. It was sald that in writing back from va-

May 16 at local community centers, followed by a dinner at the Indianapolis Athletic club. Paul V. Brown is president.

park in the morning, North East center at noon and at Garfield park In the afternoon. Members of the Brightwood Merchants’ association will be hosts at luncheon.

Sessions will be held at Brookside |

VETERANS TO MEET

The annual convention of the state association of Mexican Border | Veterans will be held June 18 in the Lincoln hotel, with an informal party on the 17th. ) Maj. Gen. Lewis B, Hershey, selective service director, who served