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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

ROBERT GLADDEN, the acting Marion county school superintendent, comes of a long line of superintendents. He's not only a superintendent himself, but the son, grandson and great-grandson of a superintendent. His father, Fred T. Gladden, is a former Marion county superintendent, while Fred's father and grandfather were superintendents in Scott county. . . . Eddie Hall, a veteran printer for The Times, has discovered a novel but tiresome way of catching possums. Eddie is drilling a well at his home, 141 N. Shortridge rd., and laboriously dug a hole 5 feet square and 4 feet deep for the pump housing. Yesterday, while Eddie was at work at The Times, Mrs. Hall discovered a half grown fn the hole in the ground. She called a neighbor who lifted it out with a shovel and freed it. The animal took off at high speed and scampered under an unused chicken house. . . . Not to be outdone by the aviators, the army's jeep jockits have adopted the custom of naming their jeeps. Some of the names involve flights of fancy, but one seen by one of our agents yesterday must have been conceived after a nice long ride in a jeep. It was: “O-Mi-Bak." . . . One of our readers noting our reference to our Hoosier generals—Walter Bedell Smith" and Mark Clark—asks why we didn't mention our Hoosier admirals, too. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, of Indianapolis, is commander of the Central Pacific fleet, while Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll commands the U. 8. Atlantic fleet. Also there are Vice-Admiral Jonas A. Ingram, commander in the South Atlantic; Vice. Admiral Arthur B. Cook of Evansville, commander of the Caribbean area, and Rear Admiral Moon of Kokomo. Admiral Norman Scott was killed in the Southwest Pacific. A fighting bunch, these Hoosiers,

Yum Yum Dept. A NOTE THAT stirs our gastronomical imagination was received from Mrs. Rebecca Kurfiss. It reads: “The women serving at the pantry shelf Sunday night would like the recipe of a delicious orange cake that was donated. Telephone IR-0433." Now there's a real compliment for some cake baker. When soldiers like cake, it's good. But when other cake bakers start a search for the recipe, it must be super duper. Mrs. Kurfiss, if you find that recipe, send us a copy of it. . . . B. F. Royse, 236 E. 15th, calls our

Fire-Power

(Second of a Series

WASHINGTON, June 14—Those big guns on U. 8S. battleships, which blasted the French coast at dawn on D-day, were made here in the Washington navy yard. They are “tailor-made” and thoroughly tested for . such combat before being sent to sea. There is no mass production about 16-inch naval guns. But a visit to the naval proving grounds at nearby Dahlgren, Va., demonstrates their power of mass destruction. Standing directly behind one of these fire-belching behemoths will almost blow your pants off. Even with your ears cotton-stuffed and your mouth open, they still sound like the crack of doom. v During a newspapermen's preinvasion inspection tour, one of the firing problems was to see what such a gun does to the heavily reinforced concrete pillboxer which both Germans and Japs are so handy at building. It does plenty. Watching through a periscope from a bomb shelter showed that a 16-inch shell making a direct hit put the top of the pill-box on the bottom and twisted the whole concrete and steel structure until it looked like "a modern “last word” hat for a giantess. :

Look a Block Long

IN THE SHOPS these huge guns look a block long. On ships they seem to shrink, the reason being that one-third of the barrel is behind the well-armored turret. h ‘This testing of the guns keeps the place as noisy as

- proving ground has the latest laboratory equipment, with provision for reason-

My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday.—I Imagine day by day, is reading the papers and trying to visualize what our men in every branch ; going through in Europe. Einie Py

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Drastic Treatment THE NIGHT before sailing we were instructed to

cine away, and after that we felt fine. Although the channel crossing was rough, I didn’t hear of a single man aboard our ship who got sick.

attention to an error in a notice last Friday of an initiation to be held by the Maj. Harold C. Megrew auxiliary 3, U. 8. W. V. The heading above the story was “Sanitation Planned.” Just a case of a printer having difficulty with a copyreader’s handwriting. The head. should have read: “Initiation Planned.” Sorry, ladies. . . . Speaking of errors, Time magazine (June 12) refers to Sgt. Richard Eberly as being one of the first to be landed by. air in France, in the invasion, but credits him to Vincennes, Ind. instead of Indianapolis. Someone on Time must think Vin-| cennes still is the state capitol. . . . Miss Eleanor Hardy of the Bozell and Jacobs advertising agency got to thinking the other day. She recalled that it was just 20 years since she was graduated from high school, and 24 years since her sister was graduated. Adding the 20 and 24 gives the number of years—4#4— since her mother was graduated. . . . My, hasn't it been warm.

Bad Luck Followed

H. BURCH NUNLEY, chairman of the state OPA price administration, is convinced that it doesn’t pay| to boast. Burch attended the Junior C. of C. meeting last week and was just remarking that “everything is under control—going fine” when a waiter spilled a bowl of gravy, much of which decorated Burch's suit. "And you know how hard it is to get clothing

cleaned these days. That afternoon he went home|

and found that his wife had fallen and broken her | \

wrist. And to cap the climax, a couple of nights later| he discovered someone had stripped his cherry trees; of most of their fruit. Now he hopes the jinx is broken. . . . Speaking of OPA, the rent control office was visited the other day by a couple who wanted! immediate action. They explained that they live in’ a double house on the near north side. The house has a single porch with a railing separating the two sides. It seemed the two families weren't getting along! very well, to put it mildly, so one obtained some’ gunny sacks and tacked them up between the halves, completely separating them. The other family wanted the OPA to go right out and tear the “partition” down. And they didn't want to take no for an answer, ' . « «+ W, PF. Michael, who has charge of the Richmond OPA rent office, thought he was “seeing things” the other day when he received a petition for a certifi-| cate to evict one Chester Bowles. It just happens that a certain Chester Bowles is Mr. Michael's boss, the national OPA administrator, in Washington. A| second look disclosed that this Chester Bowles lives) in Connersville. The house he lives in has been sold | and the new owner wishes possession. |

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able facsimiles of any kind of weather. This is par-! ticularly important for the guns that are to be mounted on airplanes. The main business of Dahlgren officers and men is ballistics. . Since this is the science of the motion of pfojectiles, they go into the matter of guns and gun. meunts, propellents of all kind, shells and casings, One of the firing problems uader study included the use of plastics for casings, replacing the more scarce, and costly metals. | Armor also is tested at Dahlgren—every sample | plate having been fired at before acceptance. Fuses get plenty of attention. Thus are developed those that fire on impact, explode in the air or dive under water to do their stuff,

‘5-Inch Machine Guns’

WHILE NEW BOMBS and rockets have been getting the headlines, the main batteries at Dahlgren prove most exciting for the visitor. - Here all- guns from 3 to 16-inch are tested. That is what makes the biggest noise. Officers, demonstrating how 5-inchers are made at the Washington yards, reported that they were fired so fast in some of the South Pacific battles that the Japs reported we were using “5-inch machine guns." “Stabilization in space” is the fancy name used to describe how the new gun turrets function. It means that regardless of how the ships toss and pitch the firing goes on from a stable position, much in the manner of field artillery. This is accomplished by highly complicated mechanisms which the layman wouldn't understand even if it were explained to him . Many of the small gadgets required for the gun mountings are made in the Washington yards by women war workers. Officers in charge report that they are better than men in the field of Intricate and the only criticism to be made of them is that they are absent more often.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

fantry and final occupation of a country must be made by the infantry. 5 To bring this home to us, we are asked to cele-

covered afl Gd city charter provi-

“infantry day” on June 15. This day will be

“Post in First Big Survey Change.

Ferger to Get Works Board A

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The first major change in os hall personnel, since the job and wage survey was started by a Chi-|| cago efficiency firm several months}| %g0, has been made by Ma Tyndall. - The ax fell on High Niven, beard of works secretary, who was notified! by the mayor yesterday that his services will end June 24. In his place, the mayor has appointed Otto Ferger, city plan commission secretary, whose post is bene Shelton in a realignment of

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Job Being Merged

The secretary job is being merged with that of the newly-created plan commission engineering director. This post is being held by Noble P. Hollister, an engineer, with a $5400 annual salary. “An engineer was needed to handle the plan commission work and Mr. Ferger was not qualified for it,” Mayor Tyndall said. “There were too many executives in the plan commission and one had to be eliminated.” The mayor said he was consider-

ing a proposal to establish a per-! manent personnel directorship for| city hall to set up classifications of | -

jobs and salaries and draft qualifications for persons holding each job. Firm Makes Proposal

The proposal to appoint a per-! sonnel director or board was made by the J. L. Jacobs Co, Chicago, which has been surveying city hall jebs and the mayor's-advisory committee on personnel. The Jacobs firm gecently proposed wage increases for most city hall jobs, especially these in the lower

brackets, - ; The advisory committee inform the mayor that increasing the salaries without filling the positions with qualified workers would. be inconsistent if the full return of the taxpayer's dollar is to be realized.

‘Uncover Charter Ruling

While discussing the legality of the proposal to appoint a personnel director, thie advisory committee un-

“hich séquifes the to appoint & “hiring ratty Ho law had never been followed inf city hall appointments, v - Mayor Tyndall said he would try to find another place in the adminstration for Mr. Niven when Mr. Ferger takes over the board of works job. Wh The mayor explained that Mr. Ferger was given the job because of his “seniority” over Mr. Niven.

RED CROSS SEEKS FIELD DIRECTORS

The American Red Cross is seeking men to serve asrassistant field directors. Se Men’ 31, years of age or.over, with’ mindr dependents aré eligible, regardless” of draft classification, and may serve either in this.country or overseas. 3 The work is-concerned with personal and family problems of servlee men and women. and their smilies. informatign ‘may be » by calling en “Red Cross, Lificoln 1441. Prt

Super-Salesman For Wear Bond's

BACKING UP his four brothers and * brother-in-law in service, “Joseph Boyd is' Washington high . School's super-salesthan of war bonds. ES, _ For, gelling ' moré."than $1000 worth of bonds and Stamps durdng’ the school’s drive last month, Mr. Boyd received a cash award from the student union as first place winner. Two of his brothers, Sgt. Robert and Sgt. Paul Boyd are with the marines in the Pacific. Cpl. Boyd is in the South Pacific with the army, and Machinist's Mate 3-¢ Phillip Boyd is in the east. His brother-in-law, Tom Crosley, is in the army. All are graduates of Washington high school. Stamp sales at the school last month exceeded by approximately $3000 the goal set by the student union and is twice the total for any other month.

MOTORIST SOUGHT AFTER NIGHT CHASE

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LIGHTNING HERE STARTS 3 FIRES

Two Homes and Workshop Damaged in Storm; Fair Skies Today.

"5 Two homes and a warkshop were damaged and three limbs were blown down on the North and East sides in lastenight’s electrical storm. After yesterday's rainfall of .12 inches in the city, the weather bureau chief today promised continued warm and humid weather for tot and tomorrow with scattered dershowers tomorrow. The roof and attic of the two-and-a-half-story hick home of Jacob S. White, 3707 -N: Delaware st., were badly damaged when lightning set fire to the house yesterday afternoon. Fire caused by lightning also slightly damaged the home of Mike Hanrahan, 1716 E. 62d st.

Damage Set at $300

Although a fire in the Wood Work Shop, 1019 N. Kealing ave,.did not begin until early this marning, the flames were belieted to have been started when lightning struck and shorted a motor in: the store yesterday. H. W. Oberlies, owner, estimated damage at $300, Wires were regorted:- hit lightning in -the“%00 block of N. Bancroft ave. and tree limbs were blown down, blocking the street in the 2000 block of N. Delaware st. While Battalion Chief Charles Milender was returning from the Bancroft ave. address, his car, driven by Howard Vaughn, skidded fon the wet pavement into an automobile driven by: Gladdeus Repinski, 1356 N. Gale st. The Repinski car was stopped fora traffic signal at 10th st. and Sherman dr. Both cars were slightly damaged.

~ SPONSOR CARD PARTY .. Indiana Old Age Pension group 3, will’ sponsor a tard party tomorrow night in McKinley club.

Pfc. Noble Bowers

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Cpl. Virgil Bowers

Robert Lee Bowers

There was grim determination

vengeance among the fighting leatherneck sons of Mrs. Lillis Bowers, 624 Lockerbie st., today. Letters, traveling to two marine sons in the Pacific and to two still in the states, carried the word that their brother and comrade Marine Sgt. Orville C. Bowers, had been killed in

action in the South Pacific. Here in Indianapolis another

Lee Bowers, who was discharged from the marines two years ago, tried to re-enlist when he learned

of his brother's death.

And at home two younger brothers talked con-

stantly of joining the corps when Mrs. Bowers received the war department telegram last Thursday telling her that Sgt. Bowers “gave his life to save his company’s supplies.” “lI wish I wasn't so old,” she said today. “I'd get me a gun and help them whip the Japs.” The 33-year-old marine worked at Elkhart before he joined the marines. His wife, Frances, and 99-year-old son, Clarence Leroy, live in Detroit, Mich. Being a marine is almost a tradition in the Bowers family. Russell Bowers, now a gunnery sergeant at Quantico, Va. has been in the corps 10 years. Before the war he served in China. After Pearl Harbor he saw action in the South Pacific before he. was returned to the states.

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.—Awe-stricken, German prisoners gape at the sight of Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery perched on a jeep in first stages of the allied invasion. The Nazis are being marched back by British PW camps, :

Death of Member Stirs Vengeance Spirit In Family of Fighting Leathernecks Here

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they “grow up.”

Cpl. Virgil Bowers, stationed in the South Pacific, wrote home not long ago that he and Orville were close together and were trying to arrange a meeting. Pvt. Floyd R. Bowers went overseas from San Diego, Cal, about three months ago, and Pfc. Noble Bowers {is stationed in South Carolina. The father, Clarence Bowers, who was in war work at the fairgrounds, died two months ago. Other members of the family are three sisters, Mrs. Fary Kiser, whose husband, Glenn, is with the army medical corps in England; Virginia and Lucille Bowers and Clyde, 14, and Marvin, 12, who talk about being leather-

necks, too, some day.

Synod Lauds Mrs. Johns for Youth

Work at the Wallace Street Church

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER . . Times Church Editor Work done by Mrs. Ralph Johns in connection with the Wallace Street Presbyterian church was praised in a report presented today by the national missions committee of the Indiana Presbyterian synod. The synod, the woman's synodical sociéty and the youth group, or Westminster fellowship, have been holding simultaneous conventions in the Second Presbyterian church since Monday. Mrs. Johns was instrumental in

bringing™ scores of children and}.

youths into the Wallace Street

‘{chureh, the report said. She dis-

covered while visiting war industries near Wallace street that 75 per cent of the youths were not affilia with any church,

Up Front With Mauldin

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| | will be held at the Keystone com[munity center at 8 o'clock tonight.

A note of faith and hope was struck in his final address this morning by Dr. W. Sherman Skinner of Philadelphia. Dr. Skinner, who is president of the denomination's board of pensions, said “the Christian attitude toward trouble is to make of the worst difficulties a great opportunity. Every obstacle

ing. There seems to be insurmountable obstacles that an evil fate puts in our path. But history has found the Christian taking a way through or over or around, to a far better day. “And so we must begin.” The inter-relation of farm and city and the fact that an unceasing stream of youth flows from farms to become the foundation of the city was discussed by Dr. H. S. Randolph of New York. Dr. Randoiph is secretary for the rural

missions. Lauds Country Church

He spoke of the way the country church holds the community together and said educational and recreational facilities should be the best. “Much of the thought about

'|a new post-war world centers on

rural life,” he said. “The church in America, therefore, should be greatly concerned with the people on the land.” Mayer chapel, social service project of the Second church, in Indianapolis, also received honorable mention in the national missions’ report. The Rev. R. C. Linberg and Mrs. Linberg conduct the work there. All three groups of the synod were to adjourn this afternoon.

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ADDITION VOTED!

FOR SCHOOL 68

‘Board Approves $250,000

Loan for Salaries and | Expenses.

Construction of a four-classroom

{addition to school 68, 2Ist st. and Riley ave., and plans for a $350,000

loan to relieve a shortage in the fund for salaries and current ex=-

penses were approved by the school board last night.

The cost of the addition was estimated at $57,700, and construction

{is expected to be completed in time

for the second semester of the next school year. The building will take care of the school’s increasing enrollment which jumped from 105 in 1941 to 190 last year. A basement room was used as a classroom this year,

Homes Being Built

A. B. Good, board business direce tor, said 242 new houses have been built in the area and 33 more are under construction. : The plans for the school building will be prepared by McGuire & Shook, architects. The $250,000 loan will be obtained cn lowest interest bid June 30 and will be repaid from receipt of 1943 taxes in November. The board authorized the summer lease of the grounds of 12 publie schools to the park board for use as playgrounds. The schools are 4, 7, 16, 22, 25, 26, 32, 41, 44, 46, 43 and 49. Library Pay Hiked

Board members approved a gradue ated scale of salary raises for 121 professional staff members and 24 preprofessional and clerical workers of the public library. The raises will increase the present library budget by an estimated $9983. Professional employees’ raises will go into effect Jan. 1, 1945, and other raises, July 1. Promotion of three library staff members was approved. Those pro= moted and their new positions are Miss Marian McFadden, assistant librarian; Miss Marion Fay, office assistant,” and Miss Helen Barron, a position in the book order department.

LOCAL NURSE ONE OF FIRST ON BEACHHEAD

Caring for American and German wounded on the allied beaghhead in France is 1st Lt, Neva Rohr, Indie anapolis veteran of the Noxth Afe rican and Sicilian campaigns, A press dispatch from France listed Lt. Rohr as one of the first American nurses to land on the beachhead late Saturday. Lt. Rohr, a graduate of the Meth« odist hospital school of nursing in 1930, worked here until July, 1942, when she enlisted in the army nurse corps, She arrived in Casablanca on Christmas eve in 1942, served with an evacuation hospital in Africa

in London, England. While in Indianapolis she lived

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