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be chipped away before the extent of the damage could even be appraised and the repair job started. There's an acrid blue cloud of profanity still hover Ing in wisps over that particular drydock. If you ever go down to the sea in ships, it might be a good idea to take a few bags of cement along. Just in case. But if you ever find it necessary to plug a hole by that method, you'd better have your ship repaired in some other yard. That one has seen all the concrete it cares to. This is just one isolated incident in the saga of

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

MAYBE WE shouldn't squawk, with the labor situation the way it is, but it does seem the city

. Streets are mighty dirty. You don't notice it so much

until there's a breeze. But when there is, it's hard %0 keep the dirt and grit out of your eyes. Oh, well; maybe after V-day «(victory day) we can have a big C-day (cleanup day). The appearance of the city isn't helped any by those little hahdbills passed out on downtown streets by salesmen for some of the photo studios, Folks take one, glance at the handbills, then toss them on the sidewalk. Makes quite a litter. . . . Speaking of D-day, there's still a lot of confusion about what it means, As we've said before, it doesn’t mean a except the day of attack— case the day of the invasion. The same goes H-hour, which means the hour of attack. . . . One feminine readers says we ought to remind you to take shopping bags with you when you go to the grocery, or you, too, may find yourselves with a stack «of groceries and no sack or shopping bag available to carry them home,

Accidents Will Happen

SOME FREAK accidents we mentioned recently reminded Leroy G. (Abie) Gordner of some of the unusual things that have happened in his last 20 years of observation as an insurance salesman, For instance: An inkwell on a stepographer’s desk exploded, owing to insufficient annealing. The stenog demanded reimbursement from the insurance company for a ruined dress and minor wound. ... The owner of a vacant loft in a building, wishing to be polite to a prospective tenant, bowed him into an elevator door, unaware that the door lacked interlocks and the elevator was two stories below. ... A woman in ill health dropped a nitroglycerine pill from the medicine

D-Day

BALTIMORE, June 8—About 10 a. m. Toolmaker Marcel Lalone and some others in the big Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant here went up to the bench of Bill Sgheel, shop committeeman of the C. 1. O's United Automobile Workers’ union, and insisted some. thing should be done, “Maybe we should get a minister and pray right here,” some suggested. “Save your prayers for home tonight,™ was Bill's answer. “But there's the rest period coming up —we might just skip that.” Someone found a piece of paper and began to write. “Let us observe this D-day by volunteering our rest period this afternoon in honor of our brothers, husbands and sweethearts who are sacrificing their lives for us. These boys will have no rest period today. Let us help them in their big push—mentally, physically and spiritually.” ' It was passed from bench to bench, Men nodded agreement; signing would take too long. When the rest period came several hundreds in the big toolroom never looked up from their jigs and dies. Hundreds to whom war had a new, a tough, hard meaning; men building vital stuff on the day when, at last, the chips were down. “Ten minutes isn’t half enough to give those boys

| over there,” said Lalone. We're going home to a

meal. A shower and a bed. Who knows where they're sleeping tonight?” * Thus D-day took hold in the big plane plant here.

Tears, Bowed Heads

EARLIER IN the day a sound truck rumbled through buildings where aluminum wings glistened

Tears ran down men’s cheeks, and overalled women bowed heads at their benches. / Thousands of Maryland's own sons, workers knew,

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alls have conquered challenging © work has gone on day and night, in subzero cold and blazing heat. The minute one problem was licked, and often before, they plunged into another more puzzling and difficult. And because of them, all over the world vital ships sail the seven seas—battleships that rested on the mud at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, British

patch-up gangs have tackled difficult jobs and done them, well and swiftly. The impossible ones took a little longer, but they did these also. So when the day of victory comes, and the credit is passed .out to those who made it possible—don’t forget the man behind the acetylene torch and the riveting gun. He was in this war, too.

chest into a clothes hamper, Several days later, while being ironed after laundering, a towel exploded and set fire to a basket of clothes. . .. And then there was the case of a chain trailing behind a truck. The chain caught the corner of a privy placed on a highway during a construction job, upsetting it and its] occupant who demanded redress for injury to his pride and person.

No Place for the Cow

Urges Writers to Emphasize Peace as Ultimate World Motive.

By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staft Correspondent

VATICAN CITY, June 8.—A firm

policy of neutrality, regardless © what power controlled Rome, assured last night by the Holy Se

war correspondents urged them to

their writings. In an official declaration from the Vatican, the Holy See expressed confidence that it would be able to continue its spiritual activity in the world through regular free contacts with its representatives and expect~ ed that its efforts “to relieve every human misery will suffer no obstruction in their development.” The Pope, speaking in English at an historic reception in the Vatican throne room, told the correspondents they should write in favor of a peace “that will insure to one and all those conditions that are necessary for them to live in a manner befitting the dignity of their human nature.” War ‘Means fo Peace’ “Let the ultimate guiding purpose of your writing be peace,” he added.| “War may be and should be only a means to peace.” The Pope was clad in white pastoral robes, white cap and crimson slippers of the prince of the church as he received the correspondents and told them: . “You are most welcome. Our

THERE'S PLENTY of unconscious humor in some of the mail received by the OPA. For instance, a letter received by one board: “Dear Sir: I am sending for a certificate for a refrigerator. I have a milk cow and have no place to keep it.” And then there's the one received by a Tippecanoe (Ind) board: “Saturday I mailed you for an A and B gasoline book, | and I forgot to inclose the motor vehicle. I hope it won't get lost” ...Dr. Claude Stinneford, OPA district price economist, thinks the Kokomo Tribune was unnecessarily rough with him, according to the; OPA office publication, Contact. The Tribune, in

heartiest greetings to your homeland.” The Pope spoke for 10 minutes, after which he walked through the room, addressed each person indi-

and Pope Pius in a message to allied

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ALLIES WIN KEY HEIGHT IN INDIA

Gain Control of Major Imphal Road, Also Take Biak Airdrome.

By UNITED PRESS Allied troops have occupied Aradura spur, st mountain height south of Kohima in India, and captured Mokmer airdrome on Biak island, 900 miles south of the Philippines, communiques from the Pacific war theaters announced to-

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autographed picture of himself and a rosary which he blessed, . The reception was historic in several ways. It was the first time that the Pope ever received a woman wearing trousers. Because

reporting a talk by Dr, Stinneford before a woman's | of my travels during the past sev-

group, accidentally referred to him as Dr. Stinneford. . . . Art Queisser who with Buck formed a famous varsity battery at Butler some years| ago, gave a birthday party Tuesday evening for his brother, Ralph, and invited Buck. During the evening, Art and Buck were playing table tennis, Palming a golf ball, Art substituted it for the light table tennis ball, and served it. When Buck hit the hard golf ball, he almost broke his paddle, and the ball bounced around the room for nearly a minute, ... Tom Groscop, one of the 29 instructors at Hoosier airport who have been training army air cadets stationed at Butler university, phoned the other day and said they were willing to give their collectively owned pool table to anyone we would designate, The training program at Hoosier ends June 30. We got in touch with Arch Grossman of the Red Cross camp and hospital committee, and Arch is making arrangements to give the table either to Ft. Harrison or Stout field.

By Charles T. Lucey

would be in the drive into France. Five women in

an electric wiring section had husbands over across; |

three had sons, Numbed at first by the news, they were overcome emotionally then and had to leave their benches. Production slumped for a while. But soon they were back, pretty grim, working

" harder than ever.

In the final assembly line of the Martin B-26 Marauders, work had fallen a bit behind the day before the invasion; vacations had begun and many others were off. But as Yanks hit the French beachhead Martin men pitched in and brought that final assembly line up even with the push of production behind it. Men on the lower assembly floor heard crews above were behind schedule, and left their own work to go help. Foreman asked men to work overtime—not easy on a hot day with many hours already at their benches. Not a man refused.

‘Really Worked Today’

INSIDE A HOT aluminum shell, blond Martha Kyle, 19-year-old Cumberland, Md., girl, strung cable for rudders and elevators, . “I've got two brothers in the army in England,” she said. “T've really worked today.””

There was no exulting, no celebrating. Outside, test pilots put through their first paces Marauders which before many days would be making cross-chan-

nel sorties—their sister ships made hundreds yester-

day, 1hding the invasion, A ground crew test chief

said: “It's clearly before them how. They really know what they're wo for.”

rking In the front office, Glenn Martin said the same He noted the.many who had ignored rest periods and said reports from all departments showed

thing. a quickened production tempo.

Down in the maintenance department, Sam Zuskin, a millwright, had turned to Mac Metoskey, at the next bench, to say a word about the boys who might

in France that very minute. oing to the synagog to pray tonight,” he said.

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There were two other women in uniform at the reception, but together with myself, all were received without the traditional veil War photographers also broke Vatican precedent by taking flashlight pictures of the Pope while he was speaking. Although he seemed a little surprised at such informality, the Pope took the situation casually. The correspondents included Americans, English Canadians, French, Poles and Hindus and to the followers of the Catholic faith, the Pope imparted apostolic benedictions. In his address, the Pope expressed his thanks to God that the Eternal City was spared the and repeated a part of his mas eve message of 1841, in he said:

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High school pupils at the James E. Roberts school for crippled children, will be entertained at Crossroads, 3001 N. New Jersey st, tomorrow at 3 p. m. by a committee

Honor guests will be Ruth Cunningham and James Smith, who will receive diplomas from Shortridge high school. A' program of entertainment has been planned under the direction of Mrs. Bert McT. Hoopingarner, Mrs. E. R, Lindesmith and Miss Mabel Cox, executive secretary of the Marion coun-

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and Mr. Smith, students attending] will be: Joan Avels of Terre Haute, Barnett,

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day. British imperials captured the Aradura spur at dawn yesterday to gain control of the main highway

to Imphal below Kohima, and left a|

Japanese garrison -trapped in a small pocket facing certain liquidation.

Gain in Myitkyina

in northern Burma. American forces captured the upper end of the north Myitkyina airfield, while the Chinese made two 200-yard advances in the western and southern sections of the city. Chinese forces defending Loyang, railroad town in eastern Honan province which was captured by the Japanese nearly two weeks ago, successfully broke through’enemy lines and escaped to the west, a Chinese communique disclosed today. The Chinese 64th, 65th and 94th divisions made the break-through on May 25 after inflicting 5000 casualties on the enemy and destroying more than 40 enemy tanks, the communique said. After suffering many losses and exhausting their supplies,

nan and rejoined Chinese forces, the communique said. Allies Are Mum

There were no new allied reports

anese were within 12 miles of Changsha, key Chinese stronghold

in Hunan province. In Dutch New Guinea, American 6th army troops were driving westward from the airdrome toward Borokie: airfield under the support of an allied air and naval bombardment. Mokmer fell to the U. S. troops yesterday after they circled through

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By DUDLEY ANN HARMON United Press Staff Correspondent AN INVASION PORT, England, June 8.—This is the other end of the invasion—the return of the landing boats bearing the wounded. These are the boys who didn’t get past the beaches and the water obstacles. They come back now with blood staining their hastily-applied field bandages. . They lie pale and still on the litters. For them the invasion is no success, the assault no walk-over, I manage to catch a few words with one of the more lightly wounded as he hobbles off an LST with a bandage on one hand and his trousers torn to the knee,

Medics Do Good Job “The medics are doing a terrific job on the beaches,” he says.” “They have been right there giving morphine and’ bandaging wounds with bullets flying around their ears.” “I saw some boys with arms or legs blown away and they were getting tourniquets right away,” he continued. “I guess I was hit by a mortar shell or something, I fell down and when I came to, an army doctor was right there. He gave me

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then I walked back down the beach under my own power.” Some of the wounded walk off ships, slowly and painfully, Some of them are carried off in stretchers borne by Negroes.

Watched for Hours

I watched the wounded pour ashore for hours. Here was one who puffed a cigaret and tried to look chipper; there was another with a smile; some were pale and unhappy. On their litters they clutched the few personal things they had managed to hold—knives, cartons of cigarets or boots with the sands of the French beaches still clinging to them. The medics were doing a terrific job here at the wrong end of the glory road, too.

SIX LOSE $1031-T0 PURSE SNATCHERS

Six women were victims of pursesnatchings in downtown stores yesterday afternoon, Slipping away with the purses while their owners were engrossed in their shopping, the thieves gained $281 in cash, a diamond ring valued at $600, and three $50 war bonds. The victims and the amount of their losses were Mrs. Arthur Whitaker, 5848 Burgess ave. $28 and the $600 ring; Margaret Weaver, R. R. 2, Box 174, $120 and the three war bonds; Mrs, Dallas J. Todd, 2355 Durham dr., $16; Mrs. Helen Weddle, - 611 Arbor ave, $35; Ruth

E. B. Daugherty, $20.

PONTIFF RECEIVES CLARK IN PRIVATE

VATICAN CITY, June 8 (U. P).

| —Pope Pius XII received Lt. Gen.

Mark W. Clark, commander of the

| |5th army, for a 10-minute private | conference in the Vatican library

today. Later the Pope went to an outer

Clark’s party which included highranking 5th army officers and ofJosts of Whe allied military governs men

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§ Residents Complain Dust

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Calcium chloride appears to be kicking up more dust than it's laying down in city administration street repair and political circles. Latest fact about the controversial chemical is that while spread as a summer dust-settling agent on unimproved streets, it can also act as a temporary irritant capable of

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and the sensitive hides of sensitive pets. This newest revelation was first publicized by complaining residents

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hood of Oxford st, who demanded relief today from the works board. Among other things they charged that calcium chloride: Burns bare feet; discomforts dogs who then, trying to lick it away, become sick; discolors rugs; is “gooey and smells bad.” Refuse Purchase City Chemist O. H. Underwood confessed that the substance does possess “a dehydrating nature, absorbing moisture from things with which it comes into contact, especially when first applied to the streets,” He said the “hot foot” complaint was a periodic one and that the city has been using calcium chloride to settle dust for many years. : He advised residents living treated streets to avoid the chemical when first spread. Except for its irritant qualities, it results in no ill-effects and is not poisonous, he explained, Calcium chloride also disturbed the: run-of-the-mill works board routine last week when the board declined to buy any of it from the Lynn Chemical Co. because City Councilman Herman E. Bowers is affiliated with the firm as a salesman. An opinion on the legal status of city sales by concerns eme ploying city officials as representatives is now pending in the office of Attorney Géneral James Emmert. ; Street Commissioner Luther E. Tex said today that 250,000 gallons of asphalt bought from the Grady Bros. Construction Co. will be ap-

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