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his tail gun at the most unexpected times. In more

| than 50 missions he has never yet seen an enemy

plane to shoot at, so he breaks the monotony by shooting at gun emplacements and flak ships two

3 miles below, These sudden blasts scare the wits out

of the rest of the crew, and Pruitt then catches a little brimstone over the interphone from the pilot. But this doesn’t faze him, or impair his affection for his pilot. Pruitt says he just shopped around in this army till he found a pilot that suited him. Back

. in America he “missed” a couple of trains to avoid

coming overseas with an outfit he didn't like. He says his hunch proved right, for his entire old crew in that outfit were killed on their first mission,

There's My Man

FINALLY HE got a chance to come with the B-26's. Pilot “Chief” Collins was a wild man then, and most everybody was afraid to ride with him. But when Pruitt saw him handle a plane he said to himself, “There's my man.” So he got on Chief's arew, and he's still on it. He wouldn't think of flying with anybody else. Pruitt is thin, not much bigger than me and he usually wears coveralls which make him look even thinner. He goes around poking his head out from hunched-up shoulders with a quizzical half grin on his face. He sure does enjoy living. Pleasant Valley, Ariz, is Pruitt’s home diggins, He is 30. He is married to a beautiful girl who is part French and one thirty-second Indian, and last Christmas day they were blessed with an heir. Pruitt has

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

YOU NEVER CAN tell where you and an accident are going to meet, For instance, take Maurice Gronendyke, the state C. of C. public relations director. Arriving home late the other night, Dyke went right to his bedroom. He didn't want to pull down the window shades, so he didn't bother to turn on the lights while undressing. He started to sit on the bed to remove his shoes. He sat—but not on the bed. Without his knowledge, Mrs. Gronendyke had rearranged the, furniture, and the bed was not in its usual place. He fell to the floor and, in trying to catch himself. broke a small bone in his hand, Quite painful, too. ... And then there's Bob Hoover of the News. On the way downtown yesterday, Ralph Hodgin of the Pearson Piano Co. noticed that one of Bob's hands was bandaged and asked what happened. Bob explained: He had gone to & home on Bolton ave, in an attempt to locale a certain man. As he stepped on the front porch, he stumbled and fell, his hand going through the front door glass. The hand was cut badly, and, to make matters worse, he ripped his topcoat clear to the collar, And then he discovered it was the wrong house, ‘There was no one at the house, and he had to write a note explaining what had happened to the glass, and promising to pay for the repairs. . .. Another freak accident happened to R. H Cowan of the Sheil Oil Co. He got up from his desk at the office yesterday and sprained his ankle. He doesn't know how it happened. Guess we'd better watch our step for a few days until this wave of mishaps is over.

Modern Miracles

BILL FIFE, the insulation salesman, has a young son who keeps things lively around the household. Little Bill, who is in the second grade at St. Joan of Are, came home the other day and asked: “Mother, what's a miracle?” His mother asked why. “Well.” said the boy, “I answered all the arithmetic problems today and Sister Marie Terence said, ‘William, that’s

Long-Term View

WASHINGTON, May 24.—The current inquiry by a house committee into President Roosevelt's seizure of Montgomery Ward in Chicago promises to produce something more than a congressional opinion on whether the Constitution was violated when Sewell Avery was carried out by the seat of his pants. Out of it may come some studied reflections, affecting future laws, on why this industrial nation is trying to get through the world's © ,greatest war without a definite labor policy—and with what policy there is being confused by overlappings of jurisdiction between several government agencies. The hearings so far have produced evidence from authorities— Chairman William H. Davis, of the war labor board, being the lead-off man-—that it would never have been necessary to treat Mr. avery so roughly if there had not been jurisdictional trouble between the war labor board and the national labor relations board. ,

Co-Ordination Lacking

MR. ROOSEVELT'S policy is to confine Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to duties of a social-uplift nature, while keeping in his own hands the strings of the practical and sometimes dangerous labor situation. Under the President there is no official with authority to produce a swift and definite co-ordination between the war labor board, the national labor relations board and several other agencies, including the national mediation board which is legally in charge of railway labor matters. The mediation board was sidetracked by Mr. Roosevelt in the railway wage

‘My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday—I had no intention in my column published on Monday the 22d, of stating that men were suddenly giving up their vote this year, but in some way the word “many” was left out of the copy. What I meant to say, of course, was that - ** “many men” this year, because of oy war conditions, are not going to be able to vote. This includes men ~ whose work has taken them to new places and who cannot qualify for either absentee ballots in the old place of residence or under the rules if their new place of residence. Secondly, many men at the front, for one reason or another, will not be able to comply with state regulations and get their ballots in on time, I traveled to Baltimore, Md. York on Sunday because to speak at

Adopted by Sergeants

THE THREE SERGEANTS in my crew sort of took me under their wing and we ran around to-|

all up, put on their dress uniforms with al] their sergeants’ stripes and their silver wings and all their ribbons, and we went to a nearby town to a singing concert. Then we went into the back room of the local pub and sat around a big round table with two very old and ugly British women, who were drinking peer and who were very grinny and pleasant. They giggled when Pruitt told stories of his escapades as a cowboy and of his trips to London on leave, There are about 20 flying sergeants in the same barracks with my crew. They live about the same as the officers, except that they are more crowded and they dont have settees around their stove, or shelves for their stuf. But they have the same pinup girls, the same flying talk, the same poker game, and the same guys in bed getting some daytime shuteye while bedlam goes on around them. I got to know all these flying sergeants and I couldn't help but be struck by what a swell bunch they were. All of them are sort of diffident at first, but they open up when you have known them for a little while and treat you like a king. They tell you their troubles and their fears and their ambitions, and they want so much for you to have a good time while you're with them. With these boys, as with most all the specialized groups of soldiers I have been with, their deep sincerity and their concern about their future are apparent. They can't put into words what they're fighiting for, but they know it has to be done gnd almost | , invariably they consider themselves fortunate to be Bridges, discussing the hransfer . : rumors in the senate yesterday, said living well and fighting the enemy from the air n= e congress and the people were stead of on the ground. But home, and what will be| te , 0 po " their fate in the post-war world, is always in the back OD o now e fac and he of their minds, and every one of them has some kind °* Bd On ihe admmistrayon- to of plan laid, confirm or deny this story. Report Milwaukee Transferred

Senator Owen Brewster (R. Me.) said the cruiser U. 8. 8S. Milwaukee Iwas one ship reportedly transferred to Russia. a miracle” . . . The old saying that lightning never | Asked today whether he had been strikes twice in the same place has been disproven following Bridges’ statement, Early several times. And now we're prepared to prove that said, “Yes, I saw it in the papers.” it also sometimes strikes twice in the same family.| “Any reaction?” he was asked. Mrs. Hazel Milligan, 1909 Ruckle, received a letter last| “No,” Early said. “But that is Friday from her sister, Mrs. Ralph Pickens, of Colum- one way certain people seem to have bus, Ind, saying lightning struck the Pickens home, of getting infogmation out that is damaging a refrigerator. The following day, lightning very probably of military value that struck the Milligan home, tearing up a light meter some other nations would like to and doing other damage. No one was hurt in either have, but cannot get from the instance. . . , Maury G. Fadell, manager of the WMC's executive branch of the governU. S. employment service, provides a new angle on ment. “Why Workers Leave Jobs.” One of the reasons given| “They can get it through their by women leaving their jobs is that they are going friends on the hill who in turn will to follow their husbands who have been assigned to|pass it out as privileged matter, military camps in other areas. The monotony was hence making it publishable unde varied the other day by a war worker who asked the code. . clearance papers so he could follow his wife, recently Code Regulations inducted into the WAC. : . . That reminds us that in| . yesterday's column we committed a grievous error. The voluntary press and radio In referring to Yeoman 1-¢ Madge Adams, we said censorship codes request that nothshe was in the WAVES. And she's really in the ing be printed or broadcast about SPARS. Excuse it please, Madge. {matters involving miliary security

. Ca | unless an appropriate authority—a Case of the Missing Melon duly authorized government source

POLICE CAPT. Audrey Jacobs had a big detective, _*.. authorize it. The office of problem on his hands yesterday, but he only partially | CERSTSDIP, however, has ruled that solved it. The captain, from some source or other, | these restrictions do not apply to obtained a fine looking watermelon. He placed it on a table right back of his office chair and kept a close

By Rumoring Russ Deal, Early Says.

WASHINGTON, May 2¢ (U. PJ). —~—White House Secretary Stephen T. Early, although not directly confirming the reported transfer of one or more U. S. warships to Russia, said today that the statement of Senator Styles Bridges (R. N. H) about the report constituted an evasion of censorship restrictions regarding military information. “It is a development of the statement the President gave you some time ago, in any event,” Early said. This was a reference to a press conference statement by President Roosevelt a few months ago that he had been exchanging messages with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin regarding a plan to transfer to the Russian navy for war usage roughly one-third of the surrendered Italian fleet or its equivalent in allied tonnage.

ber of congress.

gether for two or three days. One night they slicked | Bridges Evaded Censorship :

anything said publicly by a mem-_

watch on it. He left his office to get a drink of water’ in the roll call room, and when he returned, the melon

Bridges said in the senate yesterday that rumors about the transfer |

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had circulated for several days. He'

A . capt. S, wi steely i is was gone. Capt. Jacobs, th a steely glint in his demanded that “the veil of secrecy”

eyes, thought a minute. And then he headed straight for the press room and gave it a thorough fanning.! No melon. Next his suspicion was directed at Harry , lifted. Irick, secretary of the pension fund. Again he searched, without success. Finally, the trail led him to the inspector's office. And sure enough, there on Jack Small's desk was the melon. Capt. Jacobs had

found his melon, which he guarded carefully the rest! LER HERE FAGES of the day. but he couldn't find out who took it.| BLACK GAS CHARGE Confidentially, we know who did it, but we aren't| telling. That makes us a better detective than the] captain, or does it? |

of American foreign policy

| Indianapolis filling stations, was {charged with dealing in black mar-

By Fred WwW. Perkin § | ket. gasoline today and taken into

custody by a U. 8. deputy marshal. on ed Lt Cit | Indianapolis detectives arrested controversy which reac a crisis last ristmas. . | gar vesterday af x Chairman of the house committee looking into the| .. .. = .° ero ba pearud Montgomery Ward case is Representative Ramspeck | *' en n at ong of the § sta(D. Ga.), majority whip of the house and a power in | tions said that the manager had the house labor committee. Mr. Ramspeck was a been buying gasoline ration stamps

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Miss Marjorie Shute, Butler university student worker; Clarence

G. Baker, executive director, and Mrs. R. M. Lemen Sr., secretary, dis-

Service center.

GETS 5 YEARS FOR TAX DODGE

Fined $5000 for Failing To Declare Bets.

Describing the case as “one of the most serious this court has ever seen,” Federal Judge Robert Baltzell today handed a five-year prison sentence and a $5000 fine to James G. Gavin of Jeffersonville, charged | with failing to file an income tax | report on $9700, allegedly won on horse bets. Mr. Gavin, once known as southern Indiana's gaming czar and an admitted participant in a Jeffersonville gambling establishment, told the judge that he thought he had “lost as much as he had won” in 1939 and 1940, and hence”had not bothered to calculate his tax on gaming income. “It's obvious that you made a good deal more than you lost,” said Judge Baltzell, referring to affidavits charging Gavin with withholding $5200 in income tax payments, penalties and interest. “Most folks pay out a large por-

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cuss plans for the fund raising campaign at the Hawthorne Social

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be any exception.” Gavin was represented by Bur'rell Wright and George Jefiries.| | The defendant said he had

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vested most of his income in 1939 Hawthorne house, residence and an- |

association debt free. , Located at 2440 W. Ohio st, the

MAY 24, 1944

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Hawthorne Social Service Association Drive Starts

It's story telling time at the Hawthorne Social Service association as Miss Helen Eastwood, Butler university student, worker, tells fairytales to (left to right) Dorothy Carnagua, Marietta Coble and Judith

Glick.

2 STATES JOLT ATH TERM MOVE

Democrats Split in Texas, Defeat FDR Backer in Florida.

By UNITED PRESS A split among Texas Democrats,

The Hawthorne Tigers baseball team bogs feated record this year. Diamond stars are'(front row, left to right) Jack Hart, Philip Frame, Spiro Purichia, James Baker and Gerald DeWitt, student worker, and (back row) Pafrick Higgins, William Chandler, Bernard Jared, Mack Chamber, Floyd Marksbary and Dan

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Group Launches Campaign To Wipe Out Debt of $15,000

A fund raising campaign to wipe out a $15,000 debt is under way at the Hawthorne Social Service association as directors make plans to imtaxes, I don't see why you should |prove civic conditions in Indianapolis. Volunteer workers, including the association's board of directors, will] ‘carry on.the solicitations to.,make the three buildings owned by the

about their unde-

defeat of an ardent supporter of President Roosevelt for the Florida Democratic gubernatorial nomination and selection of the Maryland and Texas delegations to the Republican nominating convention in

Chicago next month marked the pre-convention political picture today. x The Texas Democrats, meeting in state convention in Austin, Tex, yesterday broke up into pro-Roose-velt and “uninstructed” meetings and selected rival delegations to the national convention where the Lone Star state has 48 votes. It will be up to the committee on credentials at the convention to determine which slate is seated. The disruption followed election of former Gov. Dan Moody as temporary chairman. Supporters of former Gov. James V. Allred bolted the main meeting and ade | Journed to a “rump” convention, {The Moody group refused to pledge lits delegatesycha President Roose

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Organizations using the facilities

and 1940 in the stock market and ex have served the West side com- | of the three buildings include the

{had not made any large profits. | unit surrounding this and other aspects | MI Wright stated that the Qefense 'more pe nad offered to make restitution on {the delinquent taxes,

i ————————— ——————— CARD PARTY TO AID POLICE PENSION FUND | { ladies auxiliary to the Indianapolis | police department, will be held at {2 p. m. Monday in Ayres’ auditorium. The proceeds will be used for the benefit of the pension fund, General chairman of the. event is Mrs. Jack O'Neal. Other chairmen and their committees include Mrs. Herman Rademacher, tickets; Mesdames Nora Shannahan, Anne Long and Katherine Keating, euchre; Mrs. Clifford Richter, bridge; Mrs. Charles Hodges, bunco; Mesdames Hansford Burk, Richter and Charles Garringer, special committee, and Mesdames Herschel Gill, Harry Sandman, Katherine Harris, Harry Nelis and Harry Irick, candy.

WOMAN'S BODY FOUND DETROIT, May 24 (U. P.).—The slashed and battered body of Mrs. Jean. Long, 40-year-old ministerial | secretary, was discovered today near ther office in the Twelfth Street Evangelical ehurch where she had just transcribed from Whittier the iwords: “I know not what the future

y for 21 years, accommodating than 39,000 children and adults and more than 878 groups | last year.

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Hawthorne emergency day care, { Hawthorne Free Kindergarten, |

| Hawthorne Camp Fire Girls, Girl

velt's candidacy.” G. 0, P. In Harmony Texas’ 33 votes at the national Republican convention were un-

pledged after a harmonious state convention in which the national

Approval of the step to take a Scout and Boy Scout troops, Haw- | administration was criticized by block by block solicitation of the!thorne branch of the American Red Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio and

West side was given the social cen-| Cross. the Lassie club, Roller Rang- | Oswald Heck, speaker of the New

‘ter by the Indianapolis Community ers, Casting club, Saturday Night A card party, sponsored by the fund which provides funds each club, Boy Scout leaders serving the year for the association's operation |West Side, church basketbal] teams, expense. Volunteer workers of the women's clubs, industrial groups, Hawthorne women's organizations business firms and other social

will solicit.

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court room in Washington. Listen-

received the now-historic message. Today Indianapolis Western Union offices throughout the nation in resending that first message as telegraphy marks its first 100 years and a full cycle of progress since the early Morse innovations. Indianapolis’ first telegraph office was opened around 1850. The staff consisted of a manager and a

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messenger.

particularly interested in recruiting

women with a background in either clerical or mechanical work.

ALAFARATAS TO ELECT Nominations for electiori of offi-

cede the card party and pitch-in supper sponsored by the Alafarata council 5 in. Red Men hall.

QUEZON IS ‘IMPROVING’

Manuel L. Quezon of the Philip-

contributor on Jan. 17 to comments on a series of {5 cover shortages created by sales papers, by Donald R. Richberg on the need for a gasoline Without Tequesting national labor policy. Said Mr. Richberg: | The boy said he and other atIt relations. There is too much uncertainty, too much endants had been selling the delay, too little light and too much heat. Much of out stamps. ernment, some upon labor and some upon those in Detectives stated that a theft was management who still refuse co-operation. | stations operated by Earl in which 646 gallons of gasoline were reTWO INCIDENTS of the opening committee (N€ft Was reported and admitted by proceedings: the young attendant. Earl lives at committee copies of the Montgomery Ward and SearsRoebuck mail-order catalogs, for use in its delibera- AIR UNIT RECRUITING Montgomery Ward, while its sixth regional board WOMEN FOR OVERSEAS declined to act against Sears-Roebuck on the ground | tion. Chairman Davis said, “These catalogs may be Nierested In serving overseas as used for many purposes, but throw no light on the civilian employees of the air transMr. Davis predicted, after much committee quese in the audito tioning of the war labor board's maintenance-of-| Tum of the Wm. H. industry will ask for a law to make this plan pernianent.” He said the aim would be to close the door aim the union leaders would be expected to oppose, vigorously. and could just stop over on my way to New York City. Spending so many hours on trains gives me a chance to spend an amusing half hour, I suggest you read a little book called: “While Father Is Away.” The smiles, even if a tear may be rather close at hand now and then. : for the American Women's Voluntary Services, at which they laurched their nation-wide campaign City and the secretary of the navy, Mr. Forrestal, both spoke extremely well, and for an audience cf condition at presen fashion show which was put on by Mrs. June Hamil-| ree ton Rhodes. : ° a .. GROTTO UNIT TO MEET

articles, published by the Scripps-Howard news- | of stamps. “There are too many agencies dealing with labor {gasoline at 32 cents a gallon withthe fault in present conditions must rest upon govreported this month at one of the Catalogs Passed Out | moved Trom. pumps: Later another Representative Dewey (R. Ill) presented to the 1022 S. Harlan St. tions over the war labor board's action against t rw J that the national labor relations board had jurisdic-| Starting today, women who are pending question.” port command will be interviewed membership plan for labor unions, “After the war COCK department store. against union shops and closed shops—which is an to do a considerable amount of reading. If ‘you want child is a very. real child and will give you many On Monday in New York City, I went to the lunch for clothes conservation. The mayor of-New York ladies, perhaps the greatest interest centered in: the improved.”

groups, of course, were the {i

little children who acted as models in a most pro-|Sahara

and seemed: not at all disturbed |:

Lt. Marjorie Murch, who will do | the interviewing, said that she ‘was|

To| qualify for the overseas assign-| ments, women must be between the | ages of 20 and 50, and have no de-|

cers at 7:30 p. m. Friday will pre-|

ASHEVILLE, N. C, May 2¢ (U.{ P.).—Ma}. -Gen. Bailia J. Valdes, | personal physician of President

pines, said today that Quezon's | was “much |

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Western Union Offices Here To Tap Out Historic Message

On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse slowly tapped out the message, “What hath God wrought!,” on his new telegraph in the old supreme

ers in a Baltimore railroad station

joined telegraph offices

York state assembly. Maryland Republicans, meeting in Baltimore, unanimously indorsed Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York as the party's presidential candidate. They adopted a reso lution recommending that 22 unine structed delegates to the national convention cast their 16 votes for

Dewey. Split in Georgia

Georgia Republicans split after contests over seating of Negro dele

Today the local Western Union division employs more than 400 persons in its main office and nine branches. Ninety per cent of the employees started out as messengers and advanced to more responsible positions, A. J. Dudley, superintendent, said. The war has brought many changes. The 168 and 17-year-old messenger boys have been replaced by elderly men and women, some of them between 60 and 70.

gates and held twin state conventions yesterday, A so-called “Lily White” facion named four unine structed delegates-at-large. Unofficial but virtually complete returns from a run-off primary in Florida gave Millard Caldwell, Tallahassee attorney, the Democratic gubernatorial over Rep. Lex Green, ardent supporter of Mr. Roosevelt. Democratie nomination in Florida is tantamount to election.

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explained. The money order business in Indianapolis has increased approximately 400 per cent as parents wire money to their sons and daughters in service, he stated. The first telegraph was a semiautomatic device.

isound. Modern telegraphic equipment is, in the main, automatic. The received messages are automatically recorded on paper tape and in printed form. Engineers and scientists of the telegraph industry have directed their thinking to speeding up war communication. Many of the developments, secret because of military security regulations, will serve the public when peace comes.

FEAR TWO PERISH IN MUNCIE BLAZE MUNCIE, Ind, May 2¢ (U. P.) — Authorities feared. today that a farm fire which claimed the life of Mrs. Cora Belle Harrison, 30, may

also have burned to death her husband, Don’ Harrison; a discharged

~ | veteran of world war IL | Mrs. Harrison died in Ball Me-| ~imorial hospital yesterday and her} husband had not been located lasti

night. ; Sheriff Charles Snodgrass planned to search the debris of their farm home when the embers cooled.

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women used to be an oddity, the! | fair sex has taken over, Mr. Dudley |

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Messages were | {received on paper tape and not by

Returns from 1376 of the state's 1496 precincts gave Caldwell 212,661 Green 174,040. North Dakota Republicans will meet in state convention today and Dewey is expected to gain the votes of the state's 11 delegates to the G. O.P. convention. The South Carolina Progressive party, denied representation by the state's regular Democratic organie zation, also will meet today to name its own slate of delegates to the national convention.

VAN BENTEN WINS CHESS TILT John Van Benten of Indianapolis won the state chess championship yesterday, defeating Alfred Gruenbaum of Indianapolis in the final match here,

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