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HOLLAND, Mich, Aug. 15 (U. P.).

TUESDAY, AUG. 15, 1944 Hoosie

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Pfo. Delbert West, R. R. 9, Box 421-F, in Guam. : Pfc. Robert L, Loy, 3544 Brouse st, in France. = : Pfc. Gilbert Poynter, 642 Foltz st., in Burma, Sgt. Orville Russell Savage, 1001 Marion ave., on Saipan, % Pfc. James W. Hall, Indianapolis. Cpl. Clayton P. Gulley, 1739 Montcalm st., in Pacific area. Pvt. Marvin Marsh, 37 W. 24th st., in France. Pvt. Allen French, formerly of 828 8. Shepard st. in France.

PRISONER Pvt. ‘Ralph D. Preeland, 2401% Prospect st, in Germany, ® » ” Lt. William C. Ewbank, husband of Mrs. Maxine Peters Ewbank, 6419 Park ave, was killed in action with an infantry unit July 31 in France. Word of his death was received Yesterday. Lt. Ewbank, who was 31, had been overseas 14 months and was purchasing agent for Briggs Clarifier Co. in Washington before entering service in October, 1942. A graduate of Lawrenceburg high school and Indiana university, he attended the Harvard university school of business administration, Besides his wife, survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Ewbank of Lawrenceburg; two children, Elizabeth Mae, 3, and Thomas Peters Ewbank, 7 months, and two | brothers, Ensign Gerald Ewbarik. |

Pfc. George W. Wilson . ., . killed on Saipan,

First Sgt. John J. McHugh . . . killed in France

Second Lt. James E, Pratt , . . missing over France.

Quartermaster 2-¢ Julian J. Commons , . . missing in Atlantic.

stationed in the Pacific, and Walter, ~

Washington, and two uncles, Louis! and Richard Ewbank, Indianapolis lawyers, » J »

First Sgt. John J. McHugh, husband of Mrs. Betty Jean Pope MecHugh, 978 Ellenberger pkwy., West | dr, was killed July 18. He was) ope of the first infantrymen to en- | ter France on D-day and had been overseas since April. He entered the service three years ago. Sgt. McHugh is the son of Mr. - snd Mrs. Thomas McHugh, Bast Orange, N. J, and was married Sept. 25 in Newark, N. J. He was 27. Pfc. George W. Wilson, 20, halfbrother of John F. Hughes, was killed July 7 on Satpan. He was & graduate of Southport high school and entered the marine €orps in January, 1043, ~ » -

Quartermaster 2-¢ Julian J. ComMons, a member of the destroyer escort Fiske which was sunk by enemy action in the Atlantic, is missing in action, His parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Commons, 751 N, Tremont ave. received the notification that hy was lost a week ago today. A native of Kokomo, Quartermaster Commons is. 22 and has been in the navy two years. He Was graduated from Cathedral high school and worked for the C. E. Trees & Co. before enlisting. His brother, Lt. Norbert A. Commons, is with {he bureau of aeronautics at Washington, se 8» @ Second Li James E. Prait, the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pratt, 1110 N. Olney st. to become a war casualty, has been

IRVINGTON G. 0. P. CLUB SETS FEAST

The Irvington Republican club will hold its annual watermellon feast, Sept. 11, Tyler Oglesby, first vice president, announced today. Arrangements committees include Duke E. Hanna and Fred Dicker-

man, program; Judges Dan V. White and Ralph Hamil, ways and means: Merrill Woods, time and place; Don “B'Warrick, Arthur 'C. Renick and Judge White, special guests; Sam G. Campbell, John T Pope, Earl Townsend Jr, John C. Siegesmund and Prank Richards, refreshments: Mr. Oglesby and Edward J, Hecker, publicity, and Glenn W, Funk, Jonn T. Linegar, William A. Hart, Homer Lewis, L. V. Rawlings, Ben Keitner Homer G, Meek, H. H. Reinhardt Bernard L. Curry, George Vestal ang Sylvester Snow, reception. The club, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, n.eets Monday nights at 5446'4 E. Washington sti

LOCAL YOUTH ILL OF FOOD POISONING

An Indianapolis youth, Boyd Higgins, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs, William R. Higgins, Woodstock dr., was -among 14 persons who became ill of food poisoning last night on a Pere Marquette railroad diner near Grand Rapids, Mich, the United Press reported. . Mrs. Higgins said here today that her son is not very ill and will return tomorrow from a vacation in Michigan. He was treated at Doctors’ hospital in Grand Rapids. Pere Marquette officials said that an investigation was underway to determine the cause of the poisoning ‘and that there was no further information at present, the United Press said.

James Alandt Albert Shaw Wounded Wounded

missing in action singe a. flight over] Overseas since April, 1944, he arFrance Aug. 1. rived in France June 17. He was "His brother, Sgt. Arthur O. Pratt, reported missing eight days later, aerial engineer, was killed in action He was a junior in Franklin town-

Delbert West Wounded

Marvin Marsh Wounded

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eral months ago. ithe army and also was employed at Lt. Pratt is the husband of Mrs. the Beech Grove shors, Elaine Kosier Pratt of the Olney ave, address. He had been overseas since June 17 and had been on sev- |

Entering in January, 1942, | Was wounded seriously Aug. 3. he was com: Jan. 13, 1943,| Sgt. Shaw, who is 25, is the son in Arkansas. Beforp enlisting, he! ¢ Patrolman Folie F. Shaw, 1217 worked at the Hittle Machine and |8hepard st, and Mrs. Hazel Arthur, Tool Co. [1329 Shepard st. Two other sons of the Pratts also| In the service two years, he has are in service. Sgt. Robert R. Pratt | is an aerial photographer stationed | in Italy and Aviation Cadet Richard M. Pratt is training at Craig field, Ala. ] . entering: service. Two other sons, Donald and Da. | His brother, Ben, is stationed with vis, and two daughters, Mary Lou the navy at the Anacostia naval

{uated from Washington high school and worked for Link-Belt before

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while on a mission over Austria sev- ship high school when he entered |: Sgt. Albert S. Shaw, serving with |

eral missions as a co-pilot of a B-17.|8 tank destroyer unit in France,

been overseas since last February. | Born in Indianapolis, he was grad-!

Sens : Pvt. Floyd R. West . . . missing in Normandy.

Lt. William C. Ewbank in France. .

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Marvin Reed Decorated

Elvin Dice Honored

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Donald Bowles Jack Scarlett Honored Honored

; hospital doctors reported that his wounds will heal satisfactorily. He | is stationed in Burma. Pvt. Poynter is 22 and attended Manual Training high school. A brother, Jesse, is stationed with the ‘quartermaster corps at Cincinnati, O.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Hugh Killed in France; Pfc. Wilson Reported Dead af Saipan

[Bogland, reported back to duty and 1

-{Claribel Freeland,

and Doris, live at home. ! » » » | Pvt. Floyd R. West, son of Mr. and Mrs. James West, R. R. 9, Box | 421-F, has been missing in Normandy since June 25 when he was! serving with an infantry unit. He, entered France shortly after D-day! and his last letter home was dated |

A former student of Franklin| township school, New Bethel, he is! 19 and played on the Pranklin bas- | ketball team. He entered the service in October.

» base, Washington, D. C. Sgt. Orville Russell Savage, s = = {brother of Mrs. Walter Rife, 1001 Pfc. James H. Alandt, son of Mr | Marion ave, and Mrs. Lois Wand, 1965 Dorman st, was wounded July and Mrs. H. P. Alandt, 6205 E, 10th 0 on Saipan and has ved the st, received an ear injury when! recet

a shell burst near him during the Purple heart.

is now back in the hospital. Pvt. {French was with the infantry and lentered the service on Nov. 6, 1943, ‘and went overseas in April, 1944, {| His parents live in Vermont and his“wife is doing home demonstration work at Accomac, Va. | i & s » Pvt. Ralph D, Freeland, formerly a prisoner of war in Italy, is now a prisoner of war in Germany, his mother, Mrs.

2401 Prospect st., has been notified. The 24-year - old private entered service in October, 1941, was sent overseas Feb. 17, 1942, and was captured a year later by the Italians. Until : September, 1943, ‘Tt Freeland he was held in an Italian camp. | His last letter was written Sept. 8, 1943, from the camp in Italy. Before he was captured, Pvt. Freeland served with an anti-tank division in Scotland, Africa, Ireland and Sicily. . A brother, Cpl. Edgar Ray Preeland, is stationed in Italy. Both boys attended Technical high school and Pvt, Freeland worked for Tucker & Dorsey. » = = Staff Sgt. Robert F. Resiner, son | of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Resiner, 514’ N. Jefferson ave, recently was awarded the air medal at a troop carrier base in Europe. A radio operator, Sgt. Resiner received the citation for participation in the airborne invasion of France. | He is a graduate of Technical high school and Butler university. 8 n 2 Sgt. Robert D. Kays, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kays, 508 N. Beville| ave, a waist gunner on a Flying] Fortress, has been awarded the air medal for bomber missions over Europe. { Sgt. Kays received his gunner’s wings in December, 1943, and formerly was employed at Allison division of General Motors Corp. 2 s~a Pvt. Charles B. Huehls, son of Mrs. Rhoda Huehls, 1165 Nelson st., has been awarded the bronze star for active service on the 5th army front in Italy. During a concentrated artillery barrage, Pvt. Huehls helped evacuate wounded men from a nearby | jinstallation to a hospital.» | =n = #

Six Indianapolis men who have been awarded the combat infantryjman badge for combat in Italy are | Pfcs. Lloyd E. Ross, 612 8. West st.: Edward Skaggs, 1444 Astor st.; Sgt. Anthony B. Lott, 1317 N. Tuxedo st.; 8. Sgt. Arthur Schurick, 924 N. Warman ave.: 2d Lt. Merrill D. Pyle Jr, 4133 Central ave, and 1st Lt. James W. Kiesle, 2134 Central ave. t J o .

Pvt. Donald Bowles, who was

| He formerly attended Washingbattle for Rome and was sent tol n high school and has been in | Naples hospital. He now has TECOV=' service two and one-half years and | joverseas two months. Three broth- | {ers are also in service. They are

Inducted into the army Feb. 6,/Charles PF, William Earl and Roy 1943, Pvt. Alandt took 13 weeks’ Savage. }

training at Ft. McClellan, Ala, and rz 8 =» . then went overseas. He fought in| Pfe. James W. Hall, son of Mrs. Algiers, Palermo, the Sicilian in- Sarah Hall of Indianapolis, was

wounded in both arms May 24 in Italy, has received the purple heart and is now at Wakemann General hospital, Camp Atterbury. The son of George H. Bowles, 1525 E. Tabor st. Pvt. Bowles has | been in service a year and went, overseas in November, 1943. He is a graduate of Technical high school

vagion, Salerno and on Anzio. He was graduated from Howe high school and is 20. = ” 2

Pfc. Delbert (Pickle) West, whose brother, Pvt. Floyd Robert West, : has been reported missing in acCal, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—Because no tion, was wounded in combat on one in his family has fought the | Guam, according to a letter reJaps, Marine Pfc. Rivington R. ceived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Winant, son of John G. Winant, | James West, R. R. 9, Box 421-F. United States ambassador to The 22-year-old marine is in-a Great Britain, is anxious to see {hospital in the South Pacific area action in the Pacific, according to |and wrote that he was “as well as marine corps combat correspond- |could be expected and hoped to be ence, Co ~~ Nelping dad--in- the - farm again A field télephone lineman, 18- |soon.” ! . year-old’ Winant is a member of Nicknamed Pickle because he is the 29th marines reinforced. His 50 small, Pvt. West was in the batbrother, 1st Lt. John G. Winant [tle of Bougainville. Jr, pilot of a Flying Fortress, [the marines in September, 1942, shot down over Germany last Oc- and took his basic training in San tober, is a prisoner of war. Diego before going to New Zealand. Winant, a Princeton university |Six months later he entered the student until he entered the ma- (Pacific theatef He worked at the rine corps six months ago, said !Beech Grove shops before enlisting. his father “is quite proud that Pfc. Robert L. Loy was wounded I'm a marine.” July 15 in France when a bullet hit - — his leg, breaking it, and is now in 7 | a hospital in England. He is the HOSPITAL EXPANSION > of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Loy, . . {3544 Brouse st. and has received IS PLANNED HERE “siz ev { Pvt. Loy is 22 and entered the service in November, 1942. He went! Times Special | overseas in April, 1944. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5~The| s = = Velgrans hospital in Indianapolis | Pfc. Gilbert Poynter, son of Mr. will be enlarged to practically | double its “size under the nation- | 21d Mrs. Oscar Poynter, 642 Foltz wide hospital expansion program to! St» has been wounded the second meet postwar requirements, Repre- time in two months overseas servsentative Louis Ludlow announced |Ice: He was wounded in the chest yesterday. the first time and. the second time This program, authorized by the | Machine gun fire penetrated his

Winant Wants To Fight the Japs

LINDA VISTA, Camp Elliott,

He enlisted in!’

{wounded in action with the ma'rines. ’ ” 2 » Cpl. Clayton P. Gulley, son of Mrs. Lucy Gulley, 1739 Montcalm {st., was wounded June 22 in the | Pacific area and is now in a rest camp in that area. A former employee of the Continental Optical Co, he entered the service in June, 1942, and has been overseas about eight months. He received his training at Parris Island, iS. C.; Quantico, Va.; New River, N. C., and Camp Pendleton, Cal. and participated in the Kwajalein campaign. The corporal is 20 and attended Technical high school.

Pvt. Marvin Marsh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Marsh, 37 W. 24th st,’ was wounded in combat July 4 in France while serving with a paratrooper unit. In a recent letter to his parents he said he had recovered sufficiently to go on furlough from a rest camp in England. . Enlisting in the army in March, 1942, he trained at Camp Claiborne, La; Ft. Bragg, N. C.: Ft. Benning, Ga. and Camp Mackall, N. C, before going overseas last December. He had served in Ireland and England before going. to France, A brother, T. Sgt. Max M. Marsh, has served in India in a medical

i detachment of a station hospital.

Ld ® =n Pvt. Allen French, husband of Mrs. Eleanor French, formerly of 828 8. Shepard st., was wounded in action June 24 in France.

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POLISH TROOPS TAKE

ITALIAN ROAD HUB

ROME, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—Polish troops of the British 8th army have captured Monte Vecchio, two miles due east of Frontone, the highway junction 28 miles inland from the Italian Adriatic coast which they

occupied the previous day, it was|gg

announced today. West of the Polish units, Indian

troops in the rugged mountain area

north of - Arezzo occupied several strategic positions evacuated by the retreating Germans,

5-YEAR-OLD DROWNS

=Lois Marie Nollen, 5, daughter of the Rev, and Mrs. Marion Nollen Lafayette,

cost will be between $750,000 and $1,000,000.”

MRS. IDA G. SMITH DIES AT HOME HERE

Mrs, Ida G. Smith, mother of O. J. Smith, owner of the O. J. Smith Realty Co. died last night at her home, 1926 N. Alabama st. She was

Bare legs must be hair-free |

Born in Macon, Ga. she was on her father’s plantation when Sherman’s troops were there. She had lived in Inadanapolis for 64 years. Her husband, John J. Smith, was also a real estate man before his death 48 years ago. She was a mem- |" ber of the First Presbyterian church and of the Y. W. C. A. Surviving besides Mr. Smith are another son, David F, and two

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and Indiana university. | ss = =» : | Lt. Jack C. Scarlett, formerly of 1512 N. Meridian st, has been!

| bombing missions over Europe. = = » Four Indiana men in different branches of service have been killed in combat. First Lt. John N. Freeman, son of Mrs. Helena J. Freeman, Crawfordsville, and Cpl. Orville PF. Humphrey, son of Mr. and Mrs.

have been killed in e action. T. 5th Gr. Billy 8. Boxell, son of Mrs. Cora Boxell, Marion, and Pvt. Jess M. Brown, son of Mrs. Ella M. Brown, Monterey, have died in the European area. » = 8 Cpl. Don R. Moldenhauer, Michigan City, died Sunday in the crash of a medium bomber at Savannah field, Ga. » 2 »

Pfc. Ronald R. Hary, husband of Mrs. Mary M. Hary, Evansville, formerly reported missing in action, is safe. 7 8 x Motor Machinist's Mate 2-¢ Francis Felix Arkfeld, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Joseph Arkfeld, Jeffersonville, and Seaman 2-¢ Owen Davis Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Davis, Evansville, are missing in naval action. :

= » 5 Wounded in action with the ma=rines are Pfc. Ray R. Grelecki, son of Stefan Grelecki, Hammond; Pfe.

Homer L. Humphrey, Smithville, |

Robert N. Keltner, son of Mr. and Sgt. Ned D. Morrison, Warren, the Mrs. Marvin Keltner, Mooresville, | distinguished flying cross. and Pfc. Edward 8. Kovatch, son! of Mrs. Ora D. Kovatch, South Bend.

o = # T. Sgt. Owen E. Ake of Poe, has been awarded an oak leaf cluster in lieu of an additional air medal for his work as an aerial radio operator and gunner ‘from April 17 to May 10, 1944, in the South Pacific area.

» » . Capt. George E. Elliott, Richmond, and 2d Lt. William I. Littell, Clayton, have been awarded the first bronze oak leaf cluster to the

: | distinguished flying cross and T.

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tended DePauw . university and s = = Hanover college before Lt. (jg) Marvin Reed of Bates- N° Navy in August, 1941, ville was presented the distinguished | ’L sx flying cross at the Ft. Lauderdale, | Second Lt. Wilford D. Drake, son Fla. naval air station recently for of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer P. Drake, extraordinary achievement while a L. Rushlie hes been awarded pilot in the Solomon Islands and | pe a medal at his fighter base in Bismark Archipelago. | =pand.

. # ” The son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. i: Reed of Batesville, he suffered hp Riis x Dies, os of bs vere burns when he successfully awarded the air medal and two oak piloted his burning plane back t0!1eaf clusters at an air. force Liberahis aircraft carrier after an aftack | tor station in England. against a concentration of Japa-| Sgt. Dice, who has been in the nese warships in Simpson harbor, army 19 months, has flown 22 misRabaul, last November. |sions over Europe and is am engineer

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