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port to police Mr. Whitlock, who is an agent the National Life and Accident

for Co., said while he was making collections at 10th and West sts. three men grabbed him and forced him his

what appeared to be a blackjack and struck me on the head” he said. “They kept on beating me until I was unconscious.”

Left in Car Trunk

He said he awakened several hours later in the back trunk of his car several blocks away from the scene of the attack. He said luckily the trunk door had been left unlocked and he was able to open it and get out. He was found by passersby and taken home where his firm's physician began treating him, Company officials said they presumed Mr. Whitlock had reported the attack to police at the time it happened but the victim said he thought his superiors had reported it. So there was no report to po-lice-on it until late yesterday.

SEE BULGAR ‘NO’ TO SOVIET ULTIMATUM

LONDON, May 25 (U. P.).—Bul-|

garia has until midnight tonight to reply to a Soviet ultimatum that she abandon her pro-German policy, the Daily Mail said today, but London sources saw little prospect that she would yield.

Reports reaching Switzerland and Sweden said the Germans had been pouring reinforcements into Bulgaria since Tuesday in sufficient strength to keep that country firmly within the axis orbit even if she

should desire to break with Ger-|

many. The German troop movements, coupled with the Soviet ultimatum, conversely may result in a complete break between Russia and Bulgaria. Though Bulgaria is at war with the United States and Britain,

Bhe has maintained relations with|:

the Soviets because of strong racial ties.

BICKERING STARS AT SEDITION TRIAL

WASHINGTON, May 25 (U, P.) — The big sedition trial today went into a round of bickering over introduction of government exhibits

Lt. Robert C. Dillon, 4010 Forest Manor, exchanges congratulations with his father, Craig Dillog. Lt. Dillon, who returned to Indianapolis recently on furlough, has been awarded the air medal with eight oak leaf clusters for flying 135 combat missions "during 16 | months in the South Pacific. His fathér is superintendent of maintenance at Curtiss-Wright Corp., | propeller division.

FOUND IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO, May 25 (U, PJ— More than $100,000 in stocks and] {bonds and a will leaving his estate [to relatives were found here yes{terday in a deposit box of the late {Indiana author, George Ade, in the {Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. | | James D. Rathbun, executor of {the estate, "life-long friend and | business manager of the 78-year-old lauthar who died May 16, at Rathbuns home in Kentland, Ind, opened the box in the presence of Alva E. Herriman, county assessor (of Newton county; Indiana; E. L. Middleton, examiner of the inheritance tax department of the Illinois treasurer's, office, and Charles Fernald, vice president of the bank,

KELLER IN HAWAII SERVING RED CROSS

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 25.— An Indianapolis man is one of the two Indiana university graduates who have arrived overseas as staff workers for the Red Cross. Thomas C. Keller, 3943 Arlington blvd, is now in Hawaii, Before going overseas he had been in civilian employment in Indianapolis and had served with the Red Cross in army | camps in the U. 8, { The other Indiana university! graduate overseas is Miss Juanita Lough of Darlington who is in Eng-' land as a hospital staff aide. {

FIRE WCOSKEY FOR | {POLITICAL ACTIVITY’

Joe McCoskey, Sullivan, fleld| auditor in the state motor vehicle, license bureau, has. been discharged |

and diseussions over whether gourt- because of “unfavorable political appointed attorneys should continue | 3HVity,” it was learned today. to represent unwilling clients. Attaches in the secretary of Attorney James J. Laughlin asked | Sates office said Mr. McCoskey was Judge Edward C. Eicher to relieve | [ed because he had been found to him from the task of representing |P€ Seeking support for the selection | Bdward James Smythe and Robert {of R. Lowell McDaniell, motor ve-| Noble—a task to which he was ap- |Dicle bureau director, as state pointed by Eicher—or to give him |G. O. P. chairman, They said that “a substitute or an associate” be- |the Tucker-Capehart senatorial cause of the “deep friction” between | fight was in no way irfvolved in Mr. | his clients. McCoskey’s ouster, as had been! Eicher ruled, as previously, that rumored. |

Smythe and Noble “cannot waive

their SEU Nem 0 coun- | GEN. MIKHAILOVITCH \ had not raised the nove prev.| WILL GET DEMOTION

lin had not raised the issue previLONDON, May 25 (U. P.).—Re- |

ously, “the presumption is that you are being compensated” and denied {liable Yugoslav sources said today |that King Peter was expected soon |

the attorney's request. to instruct Gen. Draja Mikhailo-

STRIKE HANDICAPS vitch to pool his Serbian forces DETROIT BAKERIES those of Marshal Josip Broz!

and put himself at the disposal of DETROIT, May 25 (U. P.).—De-

the Partisan leader. liveries of baked goods to stores| Peter was understood to have de- | and restaurants in the Detroit area |Cided on the composition of a new | were halted today by a strike of | Yugoslav government-in-exile, ex1000 wholesale drivers, members of cluding Mikhailovitch, war minister | local 51, Bakery Drivers, Teamsters |iD the present cabinet. Dnion, (A. P. of L.).

| Output of 46 city bakeries, em- RUSS REPULSE NAZ| |

ploying 5000 workers, was curtailed as wholesale deliveries refused to ATTACKS ON DNESTR

carry 90 per cent of the city’s bread | | and pastries. MOSCOW, May 25 (U. P.) —Soviet | {guard units repulsed a series of ORDER OVERSEAS DUTY [German attacks on the Soviet NEW YORK, May 25 (U. p.).— bridgehead northwest of Tiraspolon The army has ordered all service | ne west bank of the lower Dnestr, ands to send all able-bodied Ver yesterday, killing 400 Germans! enlisted men now performing cleri-| 2nd knocking out a quantity of war cal; hospital and other duties in the | material, including 20. tanks. United States overseas for combat | There were no major changes on service by June 30, Maj. Gen. | 20Y section of the front, however, a Thomas A. Terry of the 2d service | COT munique sald. | command said yesterday. _Russian forces turned back four | { Nazi attacks against the Dnestr | { bridgehead. emer eteeame————————

TECKEMEYER TO SPEAK

—_—— BEN HUR UNIT TO MEET The 42d annual Indiana Congress | of Ben Hur starts at 1:30 p. m. to-| morrow in the Severin hotel. Ralph| Earl B. Teckemeyer, chairman of Kemble, Elkhart, is to preside and the legislature's welfare investigatEmest E. Cole will make the prin- ing commission, will speak on “Pubcipal address, The meeting will close lic Welfare in Indiana” at the noon with a banquet and dance on the meeting of the Exchange club toroof garden Saturday night. {morrow in the Claypool hotel.

Here's How Appropriations Shape Up in New Measure WASHINGTON, May 25 (U. P.) —Here is a breakdown of the 1945

war agencies supply bill showing what was asked by the budget bureau,

the amount approved by the house a 1 Se appropriations committee, and actual appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30:

Agency Asked A s pproved 1944 Censorship ........... aise tapas $ 29814425 $ 29700,000 $ 29,600,000 War petroleum administration.,... 6.550000 6,000,000 6,070,000 Selective service .............. ees. 63573000 61,500,000 68,243,000 Btrategic services ,......... .... «es 57,000,000 57,000,000 35,000,000 | Central administrative services, _,, 9,133,000 7,783,000 10,867,200 ice of civilian defense ......... 1,139,000 1,000,000 4,700,000 ir employment practices ......... 585,000 500,000 474,933 finator of inter-American \ ; Affairs... 19,174,000 18,000,000 Rhee 174, L000 30,735,000 of defense transportation.... 18,811,000 18,000,000 16,650,000 aie re 15596000 15,000,000 = 14437300 scientific research and 3 dics aan. ++ 131,135,000 120,000,000 - 135,982,500 iss ,390,000 58,625,367 38222504 |

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