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mecadam highway. It was about 10 “We should maks it befors full darkness,” one of

yond for miles. in the road. “This is purple heart corner,” the officer

Nobodu Knon : hE A SI ee Cf i ONE OFFICER went into an orchafd to try to find where the tanks were. In wartime nobody ever knows where anything is. The rest of us waited

along the road beside an old stone barn. Three jeeps

were parked beside it. The dusk was deeper now, Out of the qrchards around us roared and thund-

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You wondwhole a lying in darkness. % ~ Ernie Gets Behind the Barn ~~

around behind the barn. “You don’t like that?” inquired a soldier out of

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1 said, “No, do you?” And he replied as honestly, “I sure as hell don't.” A sergeant came up the road and said, “You can

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a late, and pulled forward into the orchard very slowly for you could barely see now.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nussbaum

THE SQUIRREL population seems to be getting out of hand out around E. 52d and Guilford. The woods are full of them. It's not that the folks out

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pro baseball teams wear the names of their sponsors. Inquiry revealed that the uniform was given Jub Jesior 9 Ralph Hamill, judge of Superior court , Pp y with the hope of getting special janitorial service for his courtroom. :

Playing Both Sides By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, July 29.—~The Republican party is about to get itself in the position of playing both sides of the street, which is nothing new in politics, and sometimes it pays dividends, : This was Indicated in the press conference Gov- : ernor Bricker of Ohio, the vice presidential candidate, held at Albany during his visit with Governor Dewey, The Ohio governor said he still stood ‘by the speeches he made in his pre-convention campaign for the presidential nomination. That is consistency, but it would seem to put him in conflict with the party platform on some points of both domestic and foreign policy, according to many interpretations, though the governor see it that way. Without going into

himsell does not ‘details, it seems fairly clear that the governor was more conservative on domestic policy in his speeches than is the platform. And as for foreign policy, he has reiterated his adamant opposition to any sort of international police force which would seem fo. be suggested by the party platform in the vague

phrase “peace forces.” Also he has been hazy about post-war international collaboration, and he opposes any sort of alliance or arrangement with the other powers, such as Governor Dewey has advocated as a first step in peace plans.

Passes Upon Opportunity

WHETHER INTENTIONALLY or not, Governor Bricker bacame the focus of such “nationalist” or “isolationist” forces as were present at the Chicago convention,

My Day

HYDE PARK, Friday—Now that I am back at

His leaning certainly seemed that way to anyone who has sat before him at press conferences in recent weeks, as has the writer, and

tional policy. That was the general impression. Nor did he try to evade or dodge. He was forthright. In his Albany press conference he passed up the opportunity to move himself closer toward the platform or to. Governor Dewey on foreign policy. The inference is that he is willing to remain the section of the Republican ticket to which the isolationists can rally, while the presidential candidate and the platform point in another direction. Governor Dewey declined to be drawn into the discussion.

‘We Welcome All Support’

SIGNIFICANT OF Governor Bricker's general attitude was his reply to a question as to whether he would welcome the support of John L. Lewis for the Republican ticket. “We welcome all support to the Republican ticket,” he said. “At least I do. That's the way you win elections, by getting votes. If they agree with you and vote for you, well and good.”

“His vote will be counted, if he votes for the Ree publican ticket,” he replied. * The foreign policy planks of both Democratic and

The candidates, as usual, must make their own platforms. Governor Dewey and Governor Bricker don't seem to be singing the same tune now. President Roosevelt, too, has hedged somewhat in recent months on post-war international collabora tion, having retreated from a forward position of several months back.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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Designed to Avert Post-War Chaos.

By SHERLEY UHL _ ‘Fully aware of its obligations to World. War II veterans under the selective service re-employment act,

survey conducted by Maj, Rezin Davis indicates that msdjor industrial plants are taking a realistic view of the re-employment law by initiating interfactory rehabilitation

programs. . These are expected to lighten the load to be assumed soon by agencies co-operating with selective service in the proposed Indianapolis information center for job-seeking dischargees. Surveys Completed A cross-section review of rehabill-

period. : 2. Special training schools have been established to assist veterans who, through disability or other factors, may be obliged to under-

utilised in the form of “refresher

courses” for men long-separated from their accustomed trades.

Problem of Civilians 3. Much consideration is being

come back to the same job, the

For one thing, neither selective service nor industrial employment expect a sudden gush of job-chasing dischargees. Prevailing in selective service here that demobilization will gradual, due to chaotic conEurope and Asia, which

U. S. MILITARY GAINS HAILED BY SPEAKER

William S. Neal told members of the Press club last night that the

the greatest danger to American planes was the possibility of being caught in a shower of burning gasoline from a Zero. Mr. Neal, who is head of the con-

conducted the war. -

“A month ago a highly placed officer returned oe

Well Developed Program|

-} “A preliminary selective service

Army and civil air patrol officers who visited the army air forces examining board at L, Strauss & Co.; Inc, this week included; left to right, Lt. Lynn Keiser, recorder, army air forces \ board 1 (Indiana); Lt. Howard S. Dahleen, public

contact officer for the board who has returned from combat duty with the 8th air force in England; Capt. Russell G. Pankey, assist ant air liaison officer, 5th service cdmmand, Pt. Hayes, O.; Lt. Col. Walker W. Winslow, C. A. P. wing commander for Indiana; Capt.

Examining Board Here

Lawrence Mills, commanding officer, Indiana recruiting district; Capt. John Dwight, public contact officer, Cincinnati district; Lt. H. R. Rifkind, chief of recruit ing, 5th service command, and Lt. 8S. 8. Donenfeld, president, army air forces examining board 1.

DR, BENSON GETS NATIONAL POST

Methodist Temperance Unit _Honors Superintendent of vessdborobadpspital.

"CHICAGO, July 29 (U. P.).—Dr. John G. Bensen, superintendent of the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis, has been named a vice president of the board of hospitals and homes at the meeting of the board of temperance of the Methodist church it was announced today. Bishop Wilbur E. Hammaker of Denver, Colo, will head the board

‘{of temperance of the Methodist

church, succeeding Bishop H. Lester Smith of Columbus, O., as chairman of the board, which last year expended $152,236 to promote temperance in civilian and army life. Other officers elected by the temperance board, which met yesterday in connection with a series of 16 meetings of the church-wide boards and commissions throughout the week, included Bishop Charles Fling, Washington, D. C., and Bishop J. Lloyd--Decell, -Jaekson; Miss, first and second vice presidents, respectively; Dr. Harry Burgan and Ernest H. Cherrington, both of Washington, D. C., recording and executive secretary respectively, and W. W. Marlow, Washington, D. C., treasurer. Members elected at large included Dr. Burgan, Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, W, W. Marlow, Mrs, Jacob

| Payton, all of Washington, D. C.,

and Mrs. George W. Crabbe, Balti-

Richmond, Va. Mr. Cherrington, who was reelected executive secretary, lauded the navy for not permitting consumption of liquor aboard ship and criticized the army for permitting the sale of 32 beer in post exchanges. .

PROGRAM ADOPTED BY POSTAL CLERKS

A resolution submitted by Local No. 130 of Indianapolis demanding labor management committees in first and second class postoffices was adopted by thé National Federation of Postoffice Clerks at the C| hotel yesterday. 5 A resolution recommending time-and-one-half pay for overtime was also adopted. This resolution directs the federation’s officers to give precedence in congress to the bill sponsored by Representative Samuel A. Weis of Pennsylvania. Q Herman Goldstein of New York was elected third vice president, William Gunther of Baltimore was elected sixth vice president and John O’Connor of Oakland, (Cal, was elected ninth vice president. Other officers who were uncontested were elected previously. The 1946 convention will be held at Mil waukee. A club known as the Postal Press club was formed from the. editors of 30 local union publications for the exchange of information and

more, Md, and Mrs, Hill Fleet,| |

Clerk Is Held as AWOL, Bigamist

A 26-YEAR-OLD clerk is being held by Ft. Harrison military authorities today fojowing his arrest on a charge of desertion from the army as well as a

civilian charge of bigamy by local

police. od a EA PR Arthur. Barns ‘McGuffey, 1928. N. New Jersey st, was arrested last night in an Illinois st. grocery store, where he was employed. Police said he admitted that he not only deserted his infantry company during Tennessee army maneuvers_ last March, but also married an Indianapolis girl March 11 without securing a divorce from his wife in Nashville, Tenn, : Elsie Lee McGuffey, whom the prisoner says he married in December, 1939, has charged him with the forgery of checks in her name, according to Nashville police, who also wrote that the couple has one child.

JAMES LUDWIG GETS PRESIDENT'S MEDAL

~ A" home front hero received the “president’s medal” for lifesaving Thursday night when James M. Ludwig, 1635 Fisher

st, was presented the award offered by the National : Safety council. At a dinner in his honor at the Indianapolis Country club, Mr. Ludwig, a lines- ~ man for the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. was = praised for saving the life of a felJ. M. Ludwig oy worker, Robert Hill, 1229 Hiatt st., last August when Mr. Hill came in contact with a high power line southeast of the city. Climbing 20 feet up the pole where his co-worker hung unconscious by his safety belt, Mr. Ludwig applied artificial respiration before lowering the victim to. the ground. The quick treatment was credited with saving Mr. Hill's life. In making the award, H. T. Pritchard, company president, said “I believe that an outstanding performance in civilian life, in saving a person from injury or death, is just as worthy of official recognition as bravery on the battlefront.” Mr. Ludwig, 36, is married and is the father of one daughter. On the same program, Jacob J. Steurwald, retiring safety director for the company, was presented with a gift by the operational employees for his instruction in accident prevention and first aid.

CRASH KILLS DRIVER VALPARAISO, July 29 (U. P.).— Services were arranged today for William Shepit, 43, Crisman, who was killed yesterday when his automobile and a heavy truck collided on U. S. highway 20 at Crisman,

PICNIC SCHEDULED

Former employees of Central State hospital will hold a picnic to-

operating suggestions.

morrow afternoon in Garfield park.

~ Up Front With Mauldin

FEDERAL LINKS T0 CIO CHARGED

Dies Group Names Officials As Actual Leaders in Political Aetion: =

WASHINGTON, July 29 (U. P.). — Charges of collusion between high - ranking government officials and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in promoting the candidacies of new deal office seekers were under scrutiny today by the house special committee on unAmerican activities,

Committee Chairman Martin Dies (D, Tex.) late yesterday made public a preliminary report charging 72 federal employees with being “in frequent communication” with C. I. O. political action committee officials during recent ,campaigns. The report included a statement by the committee's chief investigator, Robert E. Stripling, who said: “From evidence gathered I am of the opinion that the C. I. O. political action committee is in reality not so much of a labor political committee as it is the political arm of the new deal administration,

‘Running Organization’

“While it is true the top officials of the P. A. C. are identified with labor, yet the people who are actually running the organization seem to have no background with labor, but are fresh out of the government.” Among those listed in this category are C. B. Baldwin, former farm security administrator, now assistant P. A’ C, chairman; and C. A. McPeak, former employee of the war production board; Raymond S. McKeough, former Illinois congressman; Charlotte Carr, former war manpower commission employee and George S. Mitchell, former assistant FSA administrator —all now with the political action committee. . The report implicated Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt through alleged telephone calls to her from Baldwin and P. A. C. Chairman Sidney Hillman, and through alleged communications and White House visits by Verda Barnes, head of the C. I. O. women's division who was charged with “influencing” the recent defeat cf Senator D. Worth Clark (D. Ida.). ’

Starnes Defeat Studied

The report also stated that the P, A. C. might have engineered the defeat of Rep. Joe Starnes (D. Ala), Dies committee vice chairman. “Since he was only defeated by a few hundred votes it might well be that the influence and interference of L. S. Morgan, director of the FP. 8. A, might have been the determining factor,” the report said. Morgan was one of those listed as being in “frequent communication” with the P. A. C. Among high-ranking government officials accused in the report are Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins; David K. Niles and Jonathan Danjels, administrative assistants to President Roosevelt; Lowell Mellett, a former administrative assistant; Chairman Maury - Maverick of the smaller war plants corporation; Samuel Rosenman, special counsel to the president; Price Administrator Chester Bowles and Director Elmer Devis of the: office of war information.

ADVISE REJECTION OF FAULTY G. I. BALLOTS

Atty. Gen. James A. Emmert today advised Secretary of State Rue J. Alexander to reject war ballot applications of service men who failed to have their signatures properly certified. . Mr. Emmert said that many commissioned officers certified to their own signatures, but he said that the 1944 war ballot act required the

counter-signature of another com-}|.

ENGLAND, July 29.—When we first heard the dread hum of the robot bomb we were waiting. for

alia. As the pile untangled, & |

Bomb Narrowly Misses ~ Group Waiting for

By COLLIE SMALL ‘and J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondents SOMEWHERE . IN SOUTHERN

a bus with a half dozen Britishers and an American sergeant. Seconds ° later the hum crescendoed into a roar that enveloped everything about us. The Britishers already were flat on their stomachs in ‘a nearby doorway. The American sergeant hit the top of the pile, and: we landed on top of him. That pile of scared human beings emitted the whole range of human terror sounds during the awful seconds we could hear the death whistle of the diving bomb. It crashed. The pile . bounced with the great earthquake jar of the whole street. The explosion roared up between the buildings and pieces of glass fell outside the doorway as flakes of paint and clouds of dust fell down on us,

It Was Over * It was over-for us. We were

teen-age girl kept whimpering, “Now everything will be all right.” The robot bomb was one of many the German hurled against London and southern England in “salvoeg last night and today in an effor$ 4 to saturate British defenses. 1d One bomb wrecked several hose E pital buildings, setting them afire and burying at least seven patients beyond hope of “rescue. With panes of glass still falling in the street, we started up the street towards a black mountain of smoke that rolled skyward less than a block away, but’ we were stopped by a cloud of dust that prevented breathing. Defense workers wearing goggles and holding handkerchiefs to their faces passed’ us and fire engines stormed up the street. People came out of that dusty hell—scared people with mouths opened and eyes - staring out of dust-coated faces. A policeman asked a man behind * us where the bomb hit. The hurrye ing man stopped, then shouted: “Aw, shut up.”

A Burning Tomb We came finally through the Yog of dust upon a crazy pile of smoking rafters, rubble and mortar. It had been a good-sized building of several stories. Now it was a burning tomb. Servicemen formed a cordon across the road against the gathers ing spectators, nurses in white marched in, ampulances’ arrived, rescuers scurried over the rubble pile. People began to emerge from the blast-gutted adjoining buildings, An old woman hobbled out of one building, holding a apronful of the little things she valued most. Rescuers led a younger woman from another building, almost carrying her. She cried over and over: “Where's Henry? I left him right here on the corner a minute ago, I won't move until I find Henry.” Blood trickled from her forehead as nurses took her in charge. * For an hour we stood and watched the searchlights scan the rubble, watched the flashlights glinting through gutted rooms of windowless buildings, watched nurses and civil defense workers and firemen in the second battle of Britain. : Than as they began carrying out bodies with blankets draped over stretchers, the bells of the old church up the street tolled the hour, It was requiem. :

DEPUTY NAMED IN BOND ROW OUSTED

John F. Taylor, Center township constable, said today that Deputy Constable Charles Loganofsky had his badge recalled because a woman complained that he mistreated hep while making an arrest. Mrs. Lena Callahan, 342 N. Hame ilton .ave., had charged that Logane ofsky had attempted to coerce her into applying to Marty Frankfort for bond. She also charged he had handled her roughly when he made the arrest. : 4 ‘Justice of the Peace Ernest T. Lane said that Mrs. Callahan Had been released on her own identifica= tion and no bond had been made, He added that when the arrest was made Mrs. Callahan had sent word to Mary Rapia, a professional bonds= woman, asking her to be ready te go bond. / 2 Justice Lane appointed ‘Attorney Ernest E. Dillon to preside at the trial of Mrs, Callahan who .was found not guilty of “defiling” a neighbors reputation as a citizen.

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