Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1944 — Page 3

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“We love our children and we love |tag0R 7 who they love,” she sald. “Their decisions are ours.” ., Mrs, Eidson has kept a complete # scrapbook of Mer son's feats as an crashed. His left leg was fractured

Among the scrapbook pages are With a brace. numerous pictures of Col. Roosevelt, who as commander of a unit of the 12th air ‘force in Tunisia, was Col. Eidson’s superior officer. A graduate of the photo reconnaissance division of the army air Eidson received his

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The colonels father is a locomotive engineer on the Illinois Central

The Eidsons have four other sons: Alonzo D., 1316 Linwood ave.: Bruce, 635 8S. Lynhurst dr.; Boyce,

tion of the allied general staff. =

military and political objectives and hence “especially severe orders” were given to deal with them, the Nazi explanation claimed. : That explanation, Eden said scornfully, “is in fact a confession of an odious crime against the laws and conventions of war.” “No orders have at any time been given to British prisoners of war to

escape, in any subversive action, as the German government alleges,” he said.

Eden buttressed his charges by| oo the purple heart, was killed]

pointing out that not a single flier

and that the Nazis have not given

the airmen.

24-25 when some 76 prisoners fun-

were shot later were captured elsewhere,

who lives at home, and Paul, a docjtor in San Fernando, Cal.

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There are RIBS—of various kinds—the classic

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break during March, at the instiga-

take part, in the event of their|Eichle of Madison, also survives.

an account of the circumstances|Eytchison, 2623 Stuart st, or his surrounding the death of any of

;.| Pvt. Eyichison was wounded esca oc2 te at ml of Pe slightly in December and again Feb.

Only one shot was fired during|high school and was employed by the escape, according to testimony|the Indiana Trust Co. before being from repatriated prisoners who|inducted.

field Electric Co. before entering service, He attended the Bethel Baptist church and was on the manual track team. His grandmother, Mrs. Henry

PFC. ROBERT W. EYTCHISON, who was wounded twice in Italy and

in combat there May 29.

involved in the attempted escape 4rd be from Stalag Luft 3d was wounded| NO details of his death have been

received by his wife, Mrs. Lucille

mother, Mrs. Nellie Eytchison, 2230 N. Sherman dr.

14 in the Cassino battle area, En-

A resident of Brightwood nearly all his life, he attended Technical

Besides his mother and wife, survivors are three brothers, Sgt. James Eytchison, stationed in Texas; 8S. Sgt. Richard Eytchison, serving with the marine corps in Hawaii, and Maurice Eytchison of Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Bernard A.

Bouse of Crawfordsville and Miss Jo Ellen Eytchison of Indianapolis.

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LT. ROBERT E. SPEER, a pilot] in the army air forces, was killed in a plane crash June 7 in Natal, Brazil, according to information received by his wife, Mrs. Olive V. Speer, 825 N. Delaware st. Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Speer, |

air forces three and a half years ago and was graduated from Brownstown high school. He received his wings from Ellington field, Tex., Oct. 9, 1942. Other survivors are two brothers, Lloyd and G. W. Speer Jr., both of Brownstown. ” » . SECOND LT. HARRY B. NOON, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Noon, 509 W. 54th st, has been missing over France since June 11, according to a telegram received by his parents last night. A pilot of a P-51 Mustang fighter, he had been in England since May 29. He enlisted Jan. 6, 1943, and received his preliminary training at San Antonio, Tex.; Tulsa, Okla, and Independence, Kas. "He won his commission on Dec, 5, 1943, at Eagle Pass, Tex. The 22-year-old pilot was a graduate of Broad Ripple high school and had completed two years at Butler university at the time of his enlistment. A brother, 1st Lt. John A. Noon Jr, is stationed at Patterson field, Dayton, O., with the air service command. His father is associated with the Diamond Chain Manufacturing Co. and is a past commander of the Broad Ripple post of the American Legion. His mother is a former district president of the legion auxiliary. ” . - PVT, JAMES W. BOWMAN is In a base hospital in Italy being treated for wounds he received May 12 in that area. Yesterday his mother, Mrs. Rose Bowman, 1052 S. West st., received word from the war department that her son is improving normally. She also received his purple heart. » » s 2 Pvt. Bowman has been in the army since January, 1941, when he entered with the Indiana national guard, and has been overseas since November. He is in the infantry. = LJ 2 LOUIS F. ELLISON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Ellison, 1227 Wallace st., was wounded May 13 in Italy on the first drive on Gustav line, and is in a ‘hospital base in Italy. A graduate of Technieal high school in 1943, Pvt. Ellison entered the army just after graduation and has been overseas since March. » » 2 S. SGT. JAMES R. STUDLE, engineer and top turret gunner of a B-24 bomber, has been awarded an air medal with three oak leaf clusters. A member of the 15th army air force, he has completed 35 missions. : Sgt. Studle is the nephew of Mrs. H. C. Halcomb, 1712 Rembrandt st, and was employed by the Allison division of General Motors before joining the air forces. He has been overseas since December, 1943. 8 s ”

T. SGT. GEORGE W. MARSH,

{tioned was sunk.

Second Lt. Richard F. Miller . . .

Gerald Dix George Huffman Missing Honored

ment.

The colonel, a veteran of the Hamlet; T. Sgt. Henry L. Kiesel 4 South Pacific, has destroyed five son of Mrs. Julia Kiesel, F't. Branch; | German aircraft, four on the ground |S. Sgt. George C. Kopanda, son of | and one in the air, and is credited | Mrs. Frances Kopanda, East Chi-| with the destruction of a Jap Zero cago; S. Sgt. Charles E. Lancaster,

ft | Easley, son of Mrs. Ivy Easley, i |Jr., son of Mrs. Lillie Ellis, Wash-

. | Feinberg, husband of Mrs. Josephine | ¢ | Feinberg, Hammond; Sgt. Paul L.| © . _ |Prancke, son of Mrs. Lucy Francke, |: “ |Henryville; 1st Lt. Richard M. Gor-| |

| nersville; T. Sgt. Lanning C. Baker, ‘son of Mrs. Nellie Baker,’ La |Grange; 8. Sgt. Carl D. Coleman, Ison of Mrs. Mike Coleman, Wash-

ington; 8. Sgt. John E. Colwell, on | ined in Italy.

of Mrs. Lillian: Colwell, Greenfield; 12d Lt. Wayne D. Corbiny son of | Orval G. Corbin, Ft. Wayne; 24 Lt. |Noble E. Deer, son of Oscar Deer, | Bargersville; 1st Lt. Charles D.

{ Boonville, and S. Sgt. Earl Bilis

ington. Others are 2d Lt. Edward L.

{don, son of George W. Gordon, |: {Lynn; Cpl. Winford P. Gourley, son {of Mrs. Maria Gourley, Hammond;

need put. of ihe Camb Foye Shere ae tn with the in| year-old Mustang fighter pilot, has S, Sgt. Wayne B. Grimm, son of | == Ee reat and the 51 who|fantry more than seven months.

{| Kegebein, son of George Kegebein,

been missing in action over France Mr. and Mrs. William P. Grimm,| Second Lt. Harry B. Noon . . since June 8, his parents, Mr. and Montezuma; 8S. Sgt. Nolan E. Ha- | missing over France. Mrs. Porter J. Dix, Sullivan, have vens, husband of Mrs. Marie Ha-| been notified by the war depart- vens, Morristown; 2d Lt. Robert R.

in the Pacific. He piloted the son of Mrs. Amanda E. Rathell, | &

“Dynamite Dix.”

He was awarded the purple heart Son of Mrs. Hazel M. Mackey, Lake- | for wounds received when an air-| Ville. ! craft carrier on which he was sta-| Also listed were S. Sgt. Marvin | Rescued by a P. Martin, husband of Mrs. Cynthia | James Bowman tanker, ‘which also was sunk in the C- Martin, Palmyra; S. Sgt. Peter) Java sea, he finally reached Aus- | J. Piazza, husband of Mrs, Eva | : |tralia, and. was hospitalized on a Mae Piazza, Hammond; Pfc. Ray- Valparaiso; Pfc. Morris H. Thomas, | fiance, O., stock broker, who were | second rescue ship. | Holder of the distinguished flying cross, the air medal and sev‘eral oak leaf clusters, he had the {distinction of leading his fighter Brownstown, he entered the army|g;ou, on the longest combat flight

ever accomplished by single-en-!Sudakov, son of Israel Sudakov,

{Peru, and Sgt. Ronald R. Mackey,

Wounded

. Japs have not attempted any more

of these forays. | The MacArthur citation come mended the group for its part in

.irouting the Japs in the Bismarck

[sea battle, i 2 8 » *

S. SGT. WILLIAM

iFreetown, an aerial radio operator

gunner with the 13th army air forces, has been awarded an oak leaf cluster to his air medal.

2 KILLED WHEN CAR PLUNGES INTO CREEK

BLUFFTON, Ind, June 23 (U. P.), —Puneral arrangements were to be

{made today for Walter D. Griggs,

33, Bluffton, Baer field civilian ene gineer; and Fred H. Mueller, 37, De~

mond Slaughter, son of Mrs. Lucille husband of Mrs. Eva L. Thomas, killed yesterday when the station Slaughter, Jeffersonville; 2d Lt. Columbus; Pfc. James H. Thomp- wagon in which they rode failed to | Leonard H. Smith, husband of Mrs. son, Crawfordsville: 2d Lt. Charles (round a curve and plunged down a {Mattie W. Smith, Bloomington; 1st |E. Walk, son of Mrs. Grace B.|12-foot embankment into a creek, { Lt. Joe G. Stuart, son of Mrs. Fern Walk, Salisbury; Capt. Donald H. Wells County Coroner Dr. A. W, | Stuart, Marion; 1st Lt. Lawrence Wright, son of Garrett H. Wright, Brown said both suffered broken

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