Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1944 — Page 2

as the road up to the front.

Elmer leslie Jenkins is arog

this the hard way. In November, 1942, Elmef, man

. ning an anti-aircraft battery on a desctroyer, lost: his right leg in the battle of Savo ba¥, one of those |

| His Right Leg Lost in Battle, Sea Veteran's Left Leg Is Injured as Auto Hits Him Here

The road back is slmost as'tough | I

furious naval engagements inci:

dental to the ¥ank invasion of Guadalcanal. After a year in hospitals in San Diego, Oakland and the Veterans’ hospital here, Elmer went home to his folks at 323 N. Layman ave. to resume his place in civilian life. Two months ago he married Miss Mary Ann Kivett, and only yesterday he took a civil service examination at the Federal building.

Left Leg Injured

Today, Mary Ann was with him -

at City hospital, where Elmer had been taken early this morning, his left leg injured in an automobile accident in front of 2410 E. Washington st. He was crossing Washington street late last night when he was struck by a car driven by Offie 8. Dunn, 28, of 7201 N. Sylvan ave, The 21-year-old ex-serviceman’s leg wasn't fractured and City hos-

pital doctors said he should regaif]

the full use of it soon. He was removed to Veterans hospital at hoon today and will convalesce there. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jenkins, Elmer attended both Technical and Howe high schools, leaving the latter in 1340 to join the navy. The first time he tried to aan he was rejected as under

HE stationed at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Nipponese attack in 1941, he participated in five major

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Elmer Jenkins . .

ROBOT ATTACKS

IN FIFTH WEEK

‘Important Success’ by ~ Allied Defense Measures Is Reported.

LONDON, July 14 (U. P.) —Germany’s robot bomb assault on London and southern England went

!into its fifth week today on a de-

clining scale and Home Secretary Herbert Morison said allied defensive measures were having an “fnportant measure of success.”

battles in the Pacific. Possessor of the purple heart and several cam-

At the same time, however, Morrison warned that the flying bomb

paign stars, Elmer was honorably had not yet been completely* mas-

discharged May’ 14, 1943. From his hospital bed today,

{tered and said that England “may

El- have to put up with quite a bit

mer said he still would like to have! yet” that civil service job. - carierrmem———————————— !

P. 0. DEPT, SATISFIED WITH ZONE SYSTEM

WASHINGTON, July 14 (U.P) — The post office department yesterday rejected a proposal to require delivery zone numbers on all mailed matter because “such drastic ace tion” is inadvisable. Three other suggestions from department personnel were discarded because they would “complicate” the 14-month-¢ld delivery -zone number system established in 124 of the nation’s largest cities. The system was described as a “lifesaver” in the face of increased mail volume and the loss of more than 42,000 department personnel to the armed forces. The department has referred. to the navy a recommendation that all naval craft be numbered to speed distribution of Sailors’ mail,

CAT COSTS CHICAGO $2980 FOR REPAIRS

CHICAGO, July 14 (U. P).—A tomcat named Dewey caught rats at 8 city pumping station for years and never charged the city a cent, but

Some of the German flying torpedoes crashed and blew up in Lon‘don in daylight today, but the capital had a respite from attack dur|ing the night for the fourth straight night. Attack in Daylight

Al] signs indicated that the Germans, finding it increasingly difficult to maintain their offensive in the face of round-the-clock aerial bombardment of their launching platforms and supply lines in France, were concentrating their attacks in daylight in an unsuccessful attempt to disrupt the city’s 1if. Morrison, in a message to his constituents in the south Hackney district of London, said the allies’ counter-blows were “making a very apprecfable difference in the weight of the attack.”

STRIKERS RETURNING TO CHICAGO PLANTS

CHICAGO, July 14 (U. P.).—8ix thousand workers in 10 plants of the American Can Co., and the Continental Can Co. who struck yesterday in protest against a war labor board ruling, began returning to. work today, Henry C. Dehmer, chairman of three local unions of the United | Steel Workers union (C. I. 0.) in-

today it became apparent what his | volving 1600 strikers at the Conti-

services would cost. Investigation to see why one of)

nental company’s plants, announced

| they had voted at an early morning,

the four pumps wasn't working dis- | mass meeting to return to work at

closed a wad of Dewey's fur tangled | once.

up in the rotor coils. cost $2080.

He said the American Can

Repairs will | Co. workers also would meet today

ito vote on a return to work.

nn a i A BA RRR SN a

. found the road back a tough one to travel

This War Too Big For a Single Song

MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 14 (U. P.).—A global war is just too much for the songwriters to handle, composer Sigmund Rome berg said yesterday in explaining why the hit tune writers haven't been able to turn out another “Over There” since Pearl Harbor. - “This war is spread out too much for a song writer to grasp its many phases and pack them all into a single song,” Romberg said. - “The composers can't attain the success of George M. Cohan’s first world war hit because a single family may have its members separated by the snows -of the North, the tropical heat of the South Pacific, and the rain and fog of England. How is any song writer going to pack all those climatic conditions and the various modes of warfare that result from them into a song that expresses the sentiments the people feel?” Romberg, who at 59 is still as incurably romantic toward music as in the days when he wrote “Maytime” and the “Student Prince,” said he is sure that jitterbug music will*lose its popularity after the war. “The men 6n the fighting fronts won't care for jitterbugging when they get back,” he predicted. “It will seem silly to them.”

SEES NAZIS TILLING RUSS SOIL AFTER WAR

WASHINGTON, July 14 (U.P.) .— Hundreds of thousands of German “colonizers” who came into the Ukraine and Byelorussia behind the German armies in 1941 and 1942 “will end up as farm laborers on the land of others,” the Soviet embassy predicted yesterday. “They will learn the consequences of German colonization to, their cost,” the embassy said. “It is necessary, once and for all, to knock out of their heads the nonsense of ‘living space in the East’ and their mission as the ‘higher race’ to dominate other nations.” Describing the life of the colonizers as “hard and dangerous,”

the embassy said that these Germans have become nomads. not knowing where to go or what to do, and may eventually become labor- | ers either on Russian farms or in their own land.

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In Flanking Drive on Livorno.

By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, July 14.—Allled armies have by-passed and invested Peggibonsi and Arezzo, last big transport hubs on the way to Florence, and American forces today threatened Terricciola, 17 miles east of Livorno, after capturing a number of German strongholds in a flanking drive against the great Italian port. The 5th and 8th armies battered forward against stiff resistance through seven sizeable towns and many strategic heights for the gains totaling several miles in some sectors, the greatest since the Germans turned to .defend the approaches to their Gothic line. The allies now were closing in from all sides on Arezzo, 30 miles southeast of Florence, and clamping a pincers on Poggibonsi, 22 miles below the central bastion of the Gothic line. “The allied armies in Italy have made further progress in their attacks to drive the enemy from his strongly defended hill positions covering Arezzo, Poggibonsi and Livorno,” Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander's communique said.

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Nazis. in France Homeward Bound

BERN, July 14.—1t appears that every German in France these days is beginning to realize the truth of the adage, “East or West,

home is best.” Latest information reaching here indicates that the German gauleiter of Alsace, Robert Wagner, has decided to go while the going is good. He is transferring his headquarters from Strasbzbourg across the Rhine to “somewhere between Heidelberg and urzburg.” - Commenting on these measures, the Basler Arbeiter Zeitung remarks that they speak plainer words than any Goebbels propaganda office communique.

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PRESS PILLORYING OF DIPLOMATS SCORED

WASHINGTON, July 14 (U. P.).— Hugh Gibson, former U. 8. amhassador to “Belgium, Luxembourg and Brazil, today accused the press of “pillorying” American diplomats and said that such attacks weakened their prestige and lessened their ability to act. Writing in the current Collier's Weekly magazine, Gibson referred to newspaper attacks on Robert Murphy, who as U. 8. special envoy to North Africa dealt with Adm. Jean Darlan, and on Adm. William H. Standley, who as U. S. ambassador to Russia accused the Russians of refusing to tell their people the extent of lend-lease American aid. Gibson praised both men for carrying out the wishes of the President and of Secretary of State Cordell Hull,

SAFE STOLEN WITH CASH AND WAR BONDS

five war bonds and business papers | was stolen from the Melody Inn

A safe containing $400 in cash,

tavern, 3826 N. Illinois st., between closing time and 3 a. m. today. William Artman, merchant policeman, saw the padlock on the front door broken when he was walking his beat and called the owner, Louis

The general German retreat today along the western Normandy front indicates the early fall of St. Lo, Lessay and Periers. The Nazis have retaken Colombelles, east of Caen.

AINGTON, Juiy u . P). “Lear, former come manding general of this 34 amy. has been assigned to command the army ground - forces, 1g Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, who has been givers % IpOFLARL Overseas 4ssjgnmen war department nounced today. 5

hoo” before Pear] Harbor when he severely disciplined a unit of the 35th division for “yoo-hooing” a group of girls on & Memphis, Tenn., golf course in 1941. The rer general served as alent forces Ming f of tie year for a brie Interval after McNair was wounded in North Africa,

porary command of the ground forces.

WEEK-END DROP IN MERCURY DUE

8 to 10-Degree Skid Forecast with Showers Sunday and Wednesday.

An 8-to-10-degree temperature drop this week-end was forecast for Indianapolis today as the city en-

joyed its second day of relief after) _ Yeport submitted by Superintend-

a ‘sweltering heat wave. - ; During the next five days, accords ing to the extended weather forecast, temperatures will average near normal. It will be warmer tomorrow, followed by a drop in temperature Sunday and Monday and a gradual rise Tuesday and Wednesday. Indianapolis is promised approximately one-fourth inch of rain in the form of thundershowers Sunday and again Wednesday, while a halfinch of rain is predicted for the northern section of the state.

SAFETY PROGRAM TO BE LAUNCHED

A series of 15-minute programs, produced by secretary of labor's national committee for the conservation of manpower in war industries, will be launched tomorrow, July 15, with the presentation of “Listen and Live” over radio station WIRE, at 11:15 a, m., it was; announced today. The committee will concentrate its programs on the meat packing industry for the next three months in an effort to reduce manpower, losses. Local companies have loaned the following men to take part in the, drive: John Q. Kirkpatrick, RCA; G. R. Cummings, Eli Lilly; H. E.| Fahrenbach, International Har-| vester Co.; Charles D. Mosier, In-| dianapolis chamber of commerce,’ and 16 other special agents for the U. 8. department of labor in Indiana.

BROWN NEW SERVICE | OFFICER OF LEGION

Oscar R. Brown of Peru, Miami | county’s prosecuting attorney, was’ named today as state sefvice officer, of the American Legion by F. Dean Bechtol, state 'commander. Mr. Brown will assume his new duties as soon as his resignation from his Miami post is accepted by| Governor Schricker. He will succeed! the late Harry R. Hall of Marion, |

ZJONIONS VIE WITH ORCHIDS | CHICAGO (U. POX — Radishes and onions shared honors with rhododendrons and orchids at the, Garfleld Park Conservatory at a) flower and Victory garden show of |

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ANDERSON—Nancy Teter, 1 Sor. Sur-

vivors: Parents, Mr. an rs. Teters; brother, James; ji Pony ‘Mrs. Betty Turner CAYLOA—jeme) Cornett, 77. Survivors: Jennie; sons, Lester, Carl,

{ Floyd, Vance and Herbert; brothers, Sam- | ual, Jacob and Isaac. CHRISNEY--Nellie Keasling, 43. Sur- | vivors: Husband, Herman; daughler, Mrs. Carol Clark.

ly EVANSVILLE—Mathilda Smith, 48. Bur- { vivors: Husband, Clyde; daughters, PaHh ca and Dorothy Jane; son, Charles; | brothers, Victor, Robert and Bruno Pir- | nat; sisters, Mrs. Orie Underwood and | Mrs. Stella Reynolds.

| | Charles Pfettscher, 49. Survivors: wite, { Blanche; father, Adam; brother, Danie! | Joseph Brune, 58, Survivors: Sites, | Mrs. Emil Luig, Mrs. Charles Backman, | Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor and Mrs. Monte lie brothers, Henry, Willlam and Ole

Survivors: Wite,

Lawson Blades, 38. 4 son, Charles;

| ns illla; 'daughtér, Euvens; | brothers, Harold and Clyde. { FLORA—Stella Martin Billings, 63, 8urvivor: Sister, Mrs, Willlam Ayres. | Fr. WAYNE—Mrs. Jean Lo 44. Sur- | vivors: Husband, Wayde; dau Ru | |

th . mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor.

STATE DEATHS

HUNTINGTON — August Brebaugh. 3.1! Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. Ada Burns, | Mrs. Lorene Humbert and Mrs. Mary Loy | Stouder. LOGANSPORT — Philip Voorhees, 87. Survivors: Son, Arthur; brother, Edward. | Ernest Caldwell, 55. Survivors: Wife, Florence: daughter, Mrs. George Lehman; son, Robert; brother, William.

MOUNT VERNON—John Osban, 95. Sur-|

vivors: None. PERU—Christopher Waymire, 89. Survivors; Wife, sie; . daughters, Mrs. Arthur Johns, Mrs. Glen Mattox and Mrs. Darrell 8idden; son, Richard; brother, Noah. PLYMOUTH—Mary Welch, 85. Surviv-

ors: Son, Clarence; daughters, Mrs. Cecil | Stough and Ethel Welch. SHELBYVILLE—Joe H. Bonner, 41. Survivors: Wife, Oriena; daughter, Linda! Lou; son, Dennis; brothers, William, Chris and John Bonner. SHELBYVILLE—Ada Swazay, 63 vivors: Brother, Joseph Fisher; Mary Alice and Myrtle Fisher. SOUTH BEND-—Allen Roach, 81.

WARSAW-Lizzie Case Thomas, 76. Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. Paul Casner and Mrs. Henry Makielski. William Fawley, 73.

WASHINGTON _Rishaly Llark, 68. Sur.

Sursisters,

FT. WAYNE-Julia LeVon, 76. Burviv- |vivor: Brother, C. B. | ors Daughters, Charlotte and Mrs.| Anna Atherton, 71. Cateivor: Sister, | Frank Smenner, Mrs. A. McCoy. —OPEN UNTIL

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FORMER KOKOMO INDUSTRIALIST DIES

KOKOMO, July 14 (U. P.).—Francis P. Gormerly, former Kokomo

industrialist, died last night in his home at New Rochelle, N. Y., of a heart ailment, Mr. Gormerly, who was 56, was! president of the Haynes Stellite Co. of Kokomo, Electric Metallurgical! Co., Michigan Northern Power Co, Electro Metallurgical Co. of Can-| ada and Union Carbide Co. of Canada. He is survived by his widow and two children,

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{U. S. BALLOTS ARRIVE HERE FROM OVERSEAS

Three federal short form ballots reached Secretary of State Rue Alexander today from Hoosier boys overseas. As Indiana law does not recognize the short-form federal ballot, Mr, Alexander is sending these youths a letter explaining the Indiana law and inclosing an application form for a complete federal, state and county ballot. The, secretary of state said he al-

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