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War Leadership, He Tells Parley.

Times Special HERSHEY, Pa, May 20 —State governments must supply the leadership in post-war reconstruction and development “if we are to hold the respect and confidence of our people,” Governor Schricker declared today in an address before the 36th annual governor's con- : here. BE ovriil's talk was an out-and-out states’ rights speech. “Rtate severeignty, so frequently submerged in the past, must be something more than a text for a high-sounding editorial or political oration,” the Indiana governor said. «It must give ‘soul and body to a strong state agency which in days

to come will lift our commonwealths | to a new high level of public serv-|

joe and will void the necessity of running to the nation’s capital with so many of our troubles.” Finish Road Plans The Indiana council, the governor said, is giving priority to all postwar plans which do not involve financial assistance. Second are the projects which require partial financial assistance and third are those

which can be bréught to the con-|

struction stage but cannot be developed without full financial assistance, He sald that the state highway department has completed the plans for a $150,000,000 post-war highway building program. Governor Earl Warren (R. Cal) declared that neither local government nor industry can blueprint post-war plans until they know the extent to which the federal government will stay in private business after the war.

‘Major Question’ Asserting that the federal government has invested $15,000,000,000 in private industry for the war production program, Warren warned that disposal of the investments constitutes one of the major questions in post-war planning. Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, conference man, keynoted the opening session with the declaration that the future

strength of the nation will depend Tex, and went overseas in Janu- gon of Mrs. upon “the initiative, foresight, cour-| age and willingness to accept re-|

sponsibility of the leaders of our states and municipalities.”

The convention atmosphere was failed to return from a flight over missing in action.

charged heavily with Republican

politics by the presence of three of |

the most frequently mentioned G. O. P. nomination possibilities. Two of them—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio—broke the convention eve quiet with separate

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lege band. His wife, Mrs. Mary Boze, is living in Shawnee, Okla, and was a student at Oklahoma College for Women, Chickasha, Okla. ® "n -. SECOND LT. JAMES W. WATSON, bomber pilot instructor at Brooks field, Tex. was killed Saturday in a plane crash near Bracken, Tex. The 20-year-old airman is the son of Mrs. Olive Watson, 1619 E. 62d st., and entered the army air forces in February, 1943. His father, John ~ Watson, was killed in an accident in 1927 when 20 Sahara Grotto members lost their lives. { Born in Indianapolis Sept. 14, 11923, Lt. Watson entered the In- ! diana Masonic home in Franklin | when he was a young boy and at- | tended grade school there. He was | graduated from Masonic Home high school in 1941.

served as a drum major in the col-|

[Two Local Pilots Killed; T Another Reported Mi

Awarded a scholarship to Purdue

| year before entering the army. He, {took primary flight training at | Waco field, Tex., and was commis-| sioned Jan. 8, 1944, at Brooks field. | After g 10-day furlough he returned’ to Brooks as an instructor. | During the latter part of 1942, he worked at the Allison division of) General Motors and also took flight | | training at the Hoosier airport. bd {was a member of the Franklin] | Presbyterian church. ’ | Besides his mother, survivors are |two brothers, Pfc. John G. Watson, i stationed in England, and Aviation | Cadet Richard Watson, San An|tonio, Tex. and his grandmother, | Mrs. Ida Watson of Indianapolis. | The body will be brought to the {wald funeral home in Indianapolis [put funeral arrangements have not | been completed. » - » | FIRST LT. ROBERT E, STOCKWELL, son of Mr, and Mrs. E. W. | Stockwell, 3919 S. Ewing ave, has been missing in action over France since May 12. | Husband of Mrs, Marguerite A. | Stockwell and father of a 7-month-lold daughter, Linda Ann, he wrote home May 11 that he had completed his 22d mission as pilot of an A-20 | Havoc plane, | Entering the army air forces June 116, 1942, he was commissioned in| February, 1043, at Brooks Field,|

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ary. { » ” 8 | | LT. EARVIE THOMAS CLOYD,!

a pilot of a P-38 fighter plane,

Romania May 17. Based in Italy, the 26-year-old pilot is the son of Mr. and Mrs.| {Thurman Cloyd, 622 8. Lyndhurst dr.

SEAMAN 2-C FLOYD J. RACK-| {LEY, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E.

university, he attended there one)

First Lt. Robert W. Boze . killed in Caribbean area.

J. Rackley

Seaman 2-¢ Floyd . wins air medal.

Richard E. Talley, son of Mrs. Everett R. Talley, Worthington, » #5 - SEAMAN 1-C OLIVER EARL HUNTZINGER, son of Oliver G. Huntzinger, Anderson, was wounded in naval action.

» » 8 S. SGT. JAMES M. BENNETT, Rosa M. Bennett,

Elizabeth, and T. SGT. GORDON K. BUTTS, son of Mrs. Bessie A. Butts, Akron, are prisoners of war following reports that they were

» » 8 TWELVE INDIANA men are included among the 568 U. S. soldiers held prisoners of war by Germany. They are T. Sgt. Marvin D. Anderson, son of Dee Charles Anderson, LaCrosse; Sgt. William A.

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hour-long press conferences which Rackley, 2245 Kenwood ave. has revolved around the question of the | been awarded the air medal for his proper conduct for a presidential! participation as a tail gunner in

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aspirant. Bricker, meeting reporters in the afternoon, said he believed that a candidate for public office should discuss the issues openly. Most reporters interpreted the remark as aimed directly at Dewey, who is unannounced, and put the same question to him. Dewey agreed, adroitly sidestepped a score of efforts ‘to put him in the declared candidate category, and just as adroitly evaded any statement that would take himself out of the picture. In contrast to his message to Dewey-pledged convention delegates in the recent Wisconsin primary to cease working on his behalf, however, he conceded that he now was doing “nothing” to dis- | courage a draft-Dewey movement,

Parade Is Set

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the sponsorship of the Hamilton- | Berry chapter, Service Star Legion. Services were held in 15 areas! throughout the city yesterday as!

Memorial day week-end got under | FOURTEEN HOOSIER soldiers ter to the flying cross has been giv-| have been wounded in action on en to Capt. Charles R, Showalter, | | Wabash, and Capt. Carlos E. Dan-

way. Thousands made the pilgrimage to cemeteries and churches to pay their respects to the fallen heroes of the nation’s wars. In the New Bethel cemetery a plot |

sinking an enemy submarine. A member of the naval air corps, Seaman Rackley joined the navy | Sept. 12, 1942, and took his train{ing at Great Lakes, | He was graduated as an honor I student at Washington high school and worked for the New York Cen- | tral railroad before entering service. u o

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| T. SGT. ANTHONY L. MERVAR, T sgt. Harry D. Hawkins, son of and also many from the Midwest 1236 N. Holmes ave., has been dec- charles F. Hawkins, Lebanon; 2d|and the South.

orated with the first bronze oak!

leaf cluster to the distinguished Donnie R. Linton, Knightsville; Sgt.| the union make up the 85th.

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{Jr., son of Harry

| Bland, husband of Mrs. Georgia | Bland, Ft. Wayne; T. Sgt. Harold |R. Blosser, son of Asher Blosser, | Goshen; 8. Sgt. Harry Boegaholz Boegaholz Sr., Columbus; Sgt. James O. Davis, husband of Mrs. Nita M. Davis, Valparaiso; 2d Lt. William Davis, son of Mrs. Mary F. Davis, Ham-

Vanguards of 5th Within Sight of City; Nazis | “Battling Hard. (Continued From Page One)

Rome, other 5th army forces adfrom the former beachhead had driven into the outskirts of Velletri, like Valmontone a key fortress on the last German defense line protecting the capital, and smashed to within a mile and a half from Lanuvio.

15,000 Prisoners Taken

With their Tist, 94th and 715th divisions virtually destroyed and 15,000 prisoners in allied hands, the Germans weré revealed to have rushed additional elements of the Hermann Goering and 92d infantry divisions from their forces north of Rome into the crumbling defenses south of the capital. Robert V. Vermillion, United Press war correspondent with the 5th army, disclosed that the new drive from the beachhead was launched Friday across the flatlands below the Alban hills. The Americans gained more than a mile in the first hour alone and met

Edwin R. Embree

Dedication of the new Flanner House at 16th and Missouri sts. will be at 11 a. m. tomorrow with Edwin R. Embree of Chicago, president of the Julius Rosenwald fund, the principal speaker, Lt, Gov, Charles M. Dawson and Mayor Tyndall also will be on the program and several noted -visitors will be present. Among honored guests will be Dr, Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch; Dr. Douglas Steere of Philadelphia, Pa., a‘ representative of the American Friends service committee, and Miss Lillie M. Peck,

Federation of Settlements. :

comparatively little resistance until the approaches to) Campoleone. The American advance carried across the Anzio-Albano road north of bitterly-contested Aprilia and soon afterward British beachhead forces captured the factory area of that town. A Prench cruiser and allied destroyers supported the ground forces in their attacks north of Anzio. More than 7000 rounds have been fired by allied warship since the start of the offgnsive May 12. Tens of thousands of Germans strung along the Via Casilina as far south as Ceprano and Pofi already have been cut off from their main escape route to Rome by the allied bombardment of Valmontone, 30 miles to the northwest, but they still can fall back north and northwest over secondary roads. In the air, allied fighter-bombers destroyed nearly 200 motor vehicles and three tanks in attacks on clogged -highways both north and south of Rome. American = Liberators bombed installations at Genoa yesterday. Other Liberators attacked railway vards at Vercelli on the MilanTurin “line. Medium bombers attacked railway bridges and lines throughout central and northern Italy to round out the day's 2000 sorties at a total cost of three planes, Draftees Fighting Part of America’s citizen army— the draftees—smashed the German southern flank in Italy. This was revealed yesterday with the announcement that the 85th and 88th divisions, composed entirely of draftees and the first selective service divisions to go into action on any front, were fighting in Italy. These two divisions, composing the 2d army corps under the command of Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, had taken first line positions dur-

mond; and 2d Lt. Roy J. Eggman, husband of Mrs. Judith Eggman,: Anderson. | Others are S. Sgt. Paul J. Geis,|

son of Mrs. Rose Gels, Greensburg; |

Lt. Victor E. Linton, son of Mrs. |

Clyde S. Nance, son of Mrs. Lula M. Nance, Vallonia, and 2d Lt.

THE WAR DEPARTMENT today Henry G. Yockey, son of Mrs. Jessie

confirmed the previous reports that ). Yockey, Brazil.

T. Sgt. Robert M. Garnett, son of| Fred Garnett, 3102 Madison ave., is| a prisoner in Germany, and that Aviation Machinist's Mate 2-c Harry Edward Mackey Jr., son of Mrs. Eva Richaras, 3318 N. Keystone ave., has been decorated posthumously with the distinguished flying cross. = »

SEAMAN 2-C ELBA LAMOINE| DIXON, husband of Mrs. Tressie|

|awarded the distinguished flying Madonna Dixon, North Manchester awar ’ s af clusters to the has been killed in action. Dre or oak leaf

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the various war fronts,

in I Guinea, | awarded Sgt. Rufus W. McGlothlin, hart. hey Harrodsburg; Pfc. Don H. Moore, Dixon, second district; Toby Yoder, third district; Earl Merry, fifth district; Morgan, ninth (Mr. Tucker's home district), and Al Norris, 10th,

Newberry, and Pfc. Harold G. Sullivan, Linton.

" ” ” THE SILVER STAR for gallantry action near Cape Iris, New| last February, has been|

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8 s ” SIX INDIANA soldiers have been

The second bronze oak leaf clus-

Pfc. George M. Ball, son of Mrs. nacher, Anderson.

Ethel Ball, Carthage, has been| First Lt. Frank W. Robertson,| wounded in the Asiatic area. Rockville, and 8. Sgt. Gayle R.| In the Eurepean theater the Frederick, Ft. Wayne, won the first|

was dedicated to the memory of lo-, Wounded are: S. Sgt. Willlam W. oak leaf cluster to the DFC.

cal soldiers missing in action. monument and flagstaff will erected later. the first ceremony of its kind in the country, | Dedicated by New Bethel residents, a small white cross now stands in the center of the plot bearing a gold star in honor of Sgt Harold A. Kinsey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Kinsey, New Bethel. He was the first to be reported missing. from his home town. i Sponsored by the Bunker Hill post 220, American Legion, Commander!

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John Olsen said, “We hope to make area are T. 5th Gr. Rufus Arnold, firms that have accepted their

the service a national observance, and it will be taken up at the Legion national convention next fall” Speakers included Lt. Col. David

D. Donohoo, Billings General hos-.-0f Mrs. Lorene Jahn; -Jasper;—Pvt:

the Rev, Frank Buckner, New Bethel Baptist church, and Charles J. Crapo, post chaplain, '

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Good Invasion

Next 3 Months Is Predicted

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and British, are all waiting for their great crossing of the sea as armies of liberation in this tremendous crusade,” he said. “With pride we salute them»

Anstead, son of Mrs. Ethel Gale, | Terre Haute; 1st Lt.

Elliott, Elkhart; S. Sgt. Garrigus, son of Mrs. Ora M. Garri- | gus, Brazil; 2d Lt. Robert B, Kin- | nard, son of Charles D. Kinnard, Pendleton; T. Sgt. Jack F. Miller, | son of Mrs. Gertrude Clark, South | Bend; 2d Lt. Paul L. Stoker, son of Mrs. Iva M. Stoker, Brookston: S. Sgt. Robert J. Swinehart, husband f Mrs. Robert J. Swinehart, East Chicago. Wounded in the Mediterranean

son of Willard Arnold, Washington; Pvt. Alexander T. Borkowski, son of Mrs. Anne Borkowski, East! | Chicago; Pfc. Richard M. Jahn, son

| Paul W, Mattix, husband of Mrs, Jean Mattix, Rochester; Pvt. Har- ; old V. Priest, grandson of Mrs. Earl | F. Priest, Rushville, and T. 5th Gr.

Weather for

sion barges off the east coast of Denmark, causing concern in Sweden, At least 50 barges were moored at Copenhagen and 100 at the Danish island of Bornholm - off the southeast tip of Sweden. Radio Berlin said that Adolf

The distinguished flying cross

Jack O. was pinned on Flight Officer Ralph It is thought to be Elliott, husband of Mrs. Norma F. E. Bibler, Warsaw, and T. Sgt. John Earl Vv. W. Wolf, Crawfordsville.

FIFTH BOND DRIVE WILL OPEN JUNE 12

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issue reserved seat tickets for the coliseum program to Marion county

quotas for the drive. The tickets will be distributed to employees who have signed for extra bonds. _The Hoosier broadcast will feature pickups from all parts of the state and special messages brought by electrical , transcription from Hollywood stars Jack Benny, Kate Smith, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Governor Sthricker, - Eugene C. Pulliam, chairman of the war finance committee, and Bruce Barton, well-known advertising executive who will speak at a luncheon meeting here, will be on the program. Meanwhile, the more than 65,000 pupils of Indianapolis’ public and parochial schools will stage war stamp rallies Thursday and Friday. Their slogan is “Buy war stamps and fill every incomplete stamp book.” 5 ; Conversion of stamp books into war bonds during the drive will

counted by the Tucker forces for |Capehart are James McShane, first 'district; James L. Bradford, 11th | district, and Mr. Capehart, seventh

by the Tucker forces as being neu-

ing the large-scale regrouping prior to the present offensive. The 83th includes many men from the New York and New Jersey area

Men from nearly every stete in

Following dedication ceremonies visitors and local citizens will attend a private luncheon at the Claypool hotel. Before the program the Crispus Attucks high school band will give a concert from 10:30 to 11 a. m. Thomas D. Sheerin, Indianapolis business leader, will preside, The new Flanner House is a single-story functional building located on a full city block leased to the Negro self-help agency by the city for 99 years.

AUBURN STRIKE ENDS

AUBURN, Ind, May 29 (U. P.).— Workers at the Auburn manufactuging company returned to work at 7 o'clock this morning, ending a wildcat strike. Employees of the company walked out Thursday afternoon after they

the company and the war labor board on renewal of a contract.

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ment, That's when our trouble

began. We recovered and went on our

bombing run. Then fighters began to appear from every direction. Gradually we were falling back from our formation because of the lost engine. Bilt we finished our bomb run, unloaded our bombs, and hit the target, which was destroyed. As we fell back, the Nazi fighters lit upon us. The fierce air battle which followed lasted .well over an hour on the way home. We were credited with 15 downed Nazi fighters as “sure Kkills"—a record number for one mission— while many others were listed as probables” or damaged. The fighters tried hard to get us out of the .picture and would have succeeded if it hadn't been for another bomber piloted by Lt.

TUCKER SUPPORTERS

CONFIDENT OF VOTE

(Continued From Page One) Those they claim are Ira

Ben Huffman, eighth; Ivan

The three district chairmen

district chairman, The two district chairmen listed

tral are State G. O. P. Chairman John Lauer, who also is sixth district chairman, and Roy Jorg, chairman of the fourth district, the home’ district of Ralph Gates, unopposed gubernatorial candidate.

Counts On Fifield

The Tucker forces also report that Otto Fifield, G. O. P. congressional nominee in the first district (Lake county), is actively supporting Mr. Tucker and that their candidate will get approximately half of Lake county's 97 votes despite the statement made recently by James McShane, first district chairman, that Mr. Capehart would get 80 of Lake's 97 votes. In his statement in behalf of Mr. Capehart, Mr. Miller said that “the people of Indiana know®that a man experienced in business and in farming will be more competent to consider business and farm legislation. They are not igterested in oratory. “Homer Capehart has conducted a high type, clean campaign. There has been no word uttered by our candidate which would injure the prospects of-a sweeping Republican victory next November. - “Mr, Capehart is not seeking the nomination for U, 8. senator as a reward for past service to the party or as compensation for his 27 months of service in the U. 8. army in world war I, He, as are we, is convinced that by reason of his business and farming experience he is competent to render a service to the people of Indiana in thé United States senate.”

FLOOD THREAT IN ILLINOIS By UNITED PRESS’ Flood waters receded in Iowa today but a new thredt developed in southérn Illinois where the tur|bulent Mississippi crashed through

Drinan and his crew. They stayed with us until the very end, giving us every kind of protection they could—swinging under us, dropping behind us, and seeming to be all around us. We are really grateful to that crew,

Calls Come Through )

Upon first sight of enemy planes, the calls on the interphone started coming through fast. . . . “ME 109 coming in at 12 o'clock level . . . “Nice shooting, Herb” , , , “He's smoking” . “That boy never came back for a second try.” ,, “Formation of JU 88's preparing for an attack at 6 o'clock high —here they come” , . . “Nice shooting, Paul” , , , “We know he’ll never come back.” ... “ME 110 preparing to come in at 3 o'clock.” ... Well, come on in,

you. . ..l What are you waite ing for?” “O. K., you asked for it” ... “Do you see him, Prescher? The smoke is coming out

of his wing.” . , . “He must be frozen to the trigger.” , . . “Oh, oh—there he goes, heading straight down.” , ..

Lobbing Rockets

“Say, Mills, do you see those 88's out there about 5:30 high? Are they afraid to come in? .. . “What are those flashes coming out from under their wings?” “Say, what was that? Were we hit by flak?” ... “Here they come —they were lobbing rockets at us!” “They must need glasses—or could they be nervous?” . .. “No. 1 engine hit by a 20 mm.” “There she goes” still going strong.” Our tail was hit by cannon fire, causing Pistol Packin’ Mama to seem as if she were dancing through the air, so great was the vibration. But Mama, kept on until the last fighter had left us. Throughout the battle I, as top turret gunner, was in a position to see what was to pe expected of this fight. I watched the enemy line up for an attack, laying out of our gun range ang lobbing rockets at us, They would stay about 1000 yards behing us and the flashes from under - their wings were clearly visible, A few seconds later there would be an explosion somewhere around our ship, and they would follow Hough with an air attack. saw a JU 88 comin: 8:30 with all he haa, i from the rear of the ship, he made

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North Side Area Scoured

| For Suspect; Tavern Owner Kidnaped.

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Sodeman, 959 N. Drexel ave., station manager. Eleven-year-old Eugene Welch, T22 E. Vermont st., a newsboy, said two men robbed him of $2 near his home Saturday night. He gold the men returned 98 cents” in change to him. Burglars took $30 from a locker at - the Delaware Bowling center, 207 N. Delaware st., Saturday night. Mrs. Ida M. Thayer, 218 Detroit st, said a man grabbed her purse containing $78 at the terminal bus station Saturday night and fled.

F. B. GREENWOOD SR. DIES AFTER ILLNESS

Frank B. Greenwood Sr., retired Indiana Bell Telephone construction superintendent, died yesterday at his home, 5724 Madison ave. after an illness of several months, He was 78, In retirement for a year, Mr.

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failed to reach an agreement with | son, Frank Jr.; three grandchildren

Pistol Packin' Mama Shoots Those Nazi Fighters Down

Greenwood was a member of the Masonic lodge. He was born in Gallipolis, O., but had made Indianapolis his home for 37 years. Services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Wednesday in the J. C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes with a Masonic burial in Round Hill, He is survived by his wife, Lena; a daughter, Mrs. Nell Worrall: a

and three great grandchildren, all of this city.

ed smoking and he went into a dive—his plane out of control. Then another came in at 7:30. He tried the same stunt but he too went down smoking under the direct hits of my guns, I worried about my ammunition ++. it seemed as though the fight would never end. The Nazis were coming at us as strong as ever. Not having any idea how long it would last I leaned down to check my ammunition when almost at the same instant there was a ripping sound above my head and glass flying all over me. On raising my head I had the pleasure of looking at a half dome instead of complete cover as it had been a few seconds before. It was quite breezy to say the least, ME-110 Waits We sighted a ME-110 at $

o'clock high, This fellow stayed out there and waited for his

chance to sneak in, Not being so lucky as to get in without being seen he headed straight in, wave ing his wings in order to com- | pletely cover our ship with the bullets from his guns. Powder smoke was flowing from his wings. I opened up and ‘this fel- | low suddenly stopped firing. His | ship smoking, he went into a deep- | right vertical dive, never to return, i During the attack our left waist | gunner, 8. Sgt. Paul S. Biggart, | was killed. But before he died he knocked down three JU 88's and one. ME 210, after which | Bombardier Lt. Ebersole took over Biggart's place.

Hit in His Legs

Our right waist gunner,’s, Sgt. R. J. Prescher, was hit in both legs by fragments of a 20 mm. but he stayed at his gun until he was relieved by 8. Sgt. I. J. Mills, our tail gunner. Sgt. Mills already had had a busy time, with a few enemy fighters already to his credit. ‘The hydraulic system in his turret had been ‘blown out by a 20 mm. shell, a 50-caliber bullet piercing the side of his turret, going through his flying suit and sticking in the turret door. It was after all this that he relieved our right waist gunner. Our nose turret gunner, 8. Sgt. H. R. Clements, had a little life of his own. A 20 mm. passed betwen his legs and exploded right under his seat. The mechanical and electrical system for operating his guns was knocked out.

Bail Out!

Our ball turret gunner, S. Sgt. F. A. Genbough, was still operating his turret after every other turret was out of commission— his interphone shot out and his

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much a private. organization as the Shrine or the Elks, - “Our accounts could be opened to the public only through a court order.” Asserting that “any so-called expose of the F. O, P. would end just about as it ended in Cleveland,” Mr, Swego said the organization resented “anyone trying to stick his nose into our personal affairs.” In Cleveland this spring, the F. O. P. found itself in hot water with the city administration after it refused to open its books to Mayor Lausche, who recently received the Democratic nomination for governor in Ohio. The Cleveland administration demanded a full accounting of a similar F. O. P.-sponsored charity ball there after it was learned that only a minor part of the proceeds actually found their way to charity sources. Demanded Accounting Last week, Mr. Swego estimated that the local F. O. P. ball grossed about $9000. Today, he said, W, A. Wallington, agent for Lewis M. Lewis, was still in town awaiting final dispositiqn of the proceeds, In addition to assuming responsibility for the ticket-sales, the promotets also paid some expenses, although the F. O. P. financed rental and orchestra costs and other incidentals, Mr. Swego asserted. These complica-

" tions, the secretary said, “plus the

fact that some money is still coming in,” tend to extend the divvying-up process, ) Mr. Lewis will not returm to promote next year’s police ball, it was learned. Better Business bureau and safety board objec tions to “outside promoters” and high-pressure sales tactics have led to agreement that future public police affairs will be pushed by non-profit civic organizations.

OFFER COMMISSIONS Commissions in the naval reserve

the west and some 700 miles to the north in his march back to the Philippines, completing a recorle

quest of a 344,870 square mile aréa. Monsoons Slow Burma Action CHUNGKING, May 20 (U. P)—

slowed China's Burma-bound offensive almost to a standstill all along the 100-mile front west of the Salween river, a communique said today, Battling against mud, fog, and rain in the miles-high Kaoling

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FEDERAL AGENT DIES: WHILE RIDING ON BUS

MT. VERNON, Ind, May 20 (TU, P.) ~Undertaker Perry Shoultz of New Harmony was called yesterday to take charge of the body of a bus passenger who died en route to New Harmony. The victim, who died of a heard ailment, was Henry Busefink, 48, federal tax agent of West Ill, under whose father Shoults learned his profession. The two men were close friends.

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WAR MOTHERS’ PARTY

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Decoration Day!

To Speed Victory... BUY WAR BONDS!

are now available to graduate en- | entertainments on the program is gineers of all types. Men under 35/a concert by the News Boys should make application to Lt. (J.g) band. Mrs. W. E Mason is chaire Charles R. Lohmeyer, 120 W. North man and Mrs, Martin Burtt is ase st, today and tomorrow. sisting.

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Newly comm Williams field, Lt. LeRoy Hull, Haskett Hull, 5 Lt. Virgil M. 1] olis.

‘Lt. John Raine « One Indian apolis man an two other Hoo siers wer among th graduating clas of aerial navi gators at El lington field Tex., . recentl) ‘The men re ‘ceived thei navigator wing and com missions of s They are Lts. J of Mr. and Mr: Indianapolis, R Roger D. Bahe Naomi Baber a {ian Baber, bot! R. Adams, hus}

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of Mr. and Mr ‘of Whiteland. more than a fantry in Ala ferring to the

‘Lt. Myron L Mr. and Mrs. | 6043 Kingsley ¢ A. Hinshaw, Wi ceived their con . wings at Willis Ariz,

* At Stuttgart Herman Freder!