Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1944 — Page 2
Undisclosed Number Dead * After 800 Tons of Ex-
plosives Fall Short.
By WILLIAM WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent CANADIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Aug. 16—An undisclose
of the 10 best choices for a life's 4 | profession,
nine mascot, “number of Canadian soldiers Were | eased
“killed and several others were fisted turned into a career.
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Sailors May Forget Girls, *
But Never ‘Officer Rybolt!
By DONNA MIKELS Almost as familiar as naval uniforms to the men of the U. S. naval armory in Indianapolis is the sight ofa small brown dog, shuffling along with some semblance of a sea-swag-ger behind one of the many gobs stationed at the armory. And although chasing sailors never has been recognized as one
Rybolt, the armory's seems more than with his vocation which And his
.|today to have aimed new blows at
.|Kuriles in the northern empire to
. THE. INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
HALMAHERA AIR RAIDS CONTINUE: ti
i certain her husband, Jon Hall, Attacks on Philippines Key
would “never make a pass at anyone else” and that- she was not In 2d Week; Kuriles Isle Hit First Time.
the least disturbed by reports. of the fight in which he was involved By UNITED PRESS Americar airmen were revealed
at the Hollywood home of Tommy Dorsey. “Even if he aid minke a pass at someone, it would ‘not make any difference to me,” she added. “We have a perfect Mnderatangi sg 2 Miss Langford said’ she did
A Te er purye Slmrye at Pat Dane, who is ‘Mrs. Dorsey, at ‘a nightéap party which pre-
‘not Japanese inner. defenses from the
bases in the South Pacific. = A communique from Southwest
as missing and wounded today aS, 010 like attachment to sailors result of the R. A. F. assault Mon-, brought him not only a perma-.}-day on the Falaise defenses in which |. "yome hut a rank as well, The 800 tons of bombs fell short of the | roduct which nature probably intarget and landed in the Canadian [tended for the K-Nine Corps has
lines, {been commissioned, chief puppy ofThe accident was the third in five gr the Indianapolis base.
weeks on the Normandy front in which allied bombers, closely sup-| Picked Up Half-Starved porting the land drives, have hit! Rybolt's stay at the armory betheir own men. One of the victims gan many months ago when Chief |: in a previous accident was Lt. Gen. gi o+cwain Orville Rybolt, then staLesley J. McNair, commander of tioned here, picked up a shivering,
American ground forces. Coming so soon after last Tues-
half-starved brown puppy and took| J
him to the “ship” where dogs nith-
day’s incident in which U. S. FIying| orto had been taboo. Navy chow and
Fortresses and Liberators dropped yeoyjar hours soon began to tell as):
part of their bomb loads on the 'Rvbolt bounded back into good Canadian rear areas, Monday's cidental bombing was announced his affection for sailors, until today : frankly by local army authorities,
timated that 20 per cent of the qo walking partner. 4000 tons of fragmentation bombs with his induetion into the navy dropped by some 700 R. A. F. Lan- came of course, duties. Rybolt now casters and Halifaxes fell on the pe forms the official function of “Canadian soldiers “driving toward greeting all’ hewcomers; barking Falaise, | farewell to out-bound seamen and The accident, however, did not jeading all drill parades. He has materially affect the progress of the pyjjt up a reputation of never missattack, which already was under jng battalion drills, gaining fame
8C- health. And as Rybolt grew, so did |}
|anyone not in Navy blues or whites|: = A Canadian army staff officer es- js strictly beneath his consideration
Pacific headquarters disclosed that wewens | the steady air assault on Halinahers, : 1250 miles from the Philippines, en~ tered its second week Monday as : | Liberator and Mitchell bombers | battered two sections of the virtual- . |ly-neutralized enemy base. : The Mitchells, flying at low level, bombed and strafed installations on the west coast, setting fires, while the heavy Liberators concentrated] on the Wasile bay area.
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corded by FCC said today that a fleet of about 40 allied planes raided | Halmahera last night for the fourth’ successive day. | |
Araito Is Attacked
A Central Pacific communique dis- | closed that navy search planes made the first attack of the war on] Araito, northernmost of the Kuriles, ! over -the week-end and sank an enemy patrol vessel while a single
“Chief Puppy Officer” Rybolt, of the U. S. Naval Armory of Indianapolis, reclines’on the lap of Coxswain Frank Mora, of Mari's Ferry, “0. Rybolt, official mascot of the Armory, is taking time out from his favorite occupation of walking with seamen ’ based at the armory.
Liberators raided Paramushiro. Five of 15 to 20 enemy fighters] which attempted to “intercept the] raiders on Paramushiro were shot;
way. | for his quick take-off to the head
AF. L. RAPS DEWEY _(irime Toe nome bs impo ATTITUDE ON LABOR
tant job which has endeared him to laggard gobs is his swift scamper WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P.).| —An American Federation of Labor |
down. Five others probably were, destfoyed and two were damaged. Two’ Liberators were damaged, but returned safely. | Army Liberators of the 7th air; force raided Iwo Jima in the Vol-/| canos again. One bomber was lost. Mitchell “medium bombers at-
U. S. ACQUISITION ISLANDS IS URGED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (U. P). —Senators Robert R. Reynolds (D. N.C.) and A. B. Chandler (D. Ky.)
A Japanese Domei dispatch re-|
ceded the free-for-all’ fight in ‘the Dorsey home ‘about a week ago. Neither did she believe versions of the fight in which her husband was reported to have had the tip of his classic nose nearly severed either by a butcher knife or by a geranium pot over which he stum«/| bled after a “balcony talk” with
Frances Langford Defends H ubby
all the witnesses on my side. I wasn't hurt as badly as the papers and radio said, In fact, I am working at the studio again.” : “Jon and I have been married seven years and we just adore each other,” Miss Langford said. “I don’t expect him to stay home when I am away touring so much and I cer< tainly don’t’ intend fo 1et a little ‘thing like this trouble me. “Of course, I have been worried ~—but I was more worried about Jon being worried about our plane crash | Menday.” She was referring to the forced landing of the plane in which she was flying to Australia as a member of the U. S. O. troupe headed by Bob Hope. None of the party was injured, and the entertainers continued onto Australia —on- the following day.
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blame Hollywood gossip columnists, sving they had they had made a mountain
I res on 2 Vat” she said, “I'm not out of the place two minutes when some gossip writer. isn't phoning to Jon asking if
Jon Hall
{we're going. to be divorced.
“Do you think I'd leave Jon and go on tour if I wasn’t sure of him?”
HOPE FOR FURTHER U. S.-JAP EXCHANGES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P.). —State. department officials
hopeful today : power shortages in Japan d prompt the
-An article in the dephitment's publication, the Bulletin, said more than 9000 J apanese “willing to be repatriated” still remain in this
can efforts had failed to elicit Jap-
Dorsey.
Miss Langford was inclined to
anese co-operation in arranging further exchanges. .
wl enh Alexander, allied commander in
WASHING’ Italy, declared last night in turning will speed Ger over the civil administration of the northwestern F provinces of Rome, Frosinone and A Tourn “| Littori vernme Actually, ttoria to the Italian government. farther 1 th
“But the war is not over yet,” ne sald. “The’ German tyrants ‘will fight to the last because they know peace will bring them inexorable extermination.”, Speaking over an Thaly wide radio
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Ventura attacked Shumushu —andf-
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| through the barracks every morn1ing, barking a warning to late . spokesman today criticized thie Re-| | Sleepers just before the entry of publican party and its presidential nominee, Governor Dewey, for their “policy and attitude” toward labor, Philip Pearl, edifor of ‘the A. F. of L's weekly press service, took Dewey to task for declining, “due to the pressure” of other activities, an A. P. of L. invitation to write a Labor day pessage for the union pube lication. “And we do wonder,” Pearl said, “how much time Mr. Dewey will be able to spare for labor if and when he is elected President, since he finds himseif too Busy even as governor to perform the courtesy of issuing a Labor day message.”
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‘CLEAN POLITICS’ ACT TIGHTENING PLANNED
WASHINGTION, Aug. 16 (U. P).
Thomas E.|
{the master-at-arms. Gets Regular “Leaves”
Like all good sailors Rybolt gets regular “shore leave,” when he follows the fleet to the Riverside amusement park. While some sailors take a postman’s holiday by a row around the lagoon, the canine gob finds a land sailor and steers him: to the hot dog stand where he’ quickly drops anchor. The dog has achieved the enviable reputation of being the only sailor who never pays for his fare at the stand and
wha hasn't stood: treat tp keep Ry bolt’s record;intact. =» ws Friendly to newcomers: but faithful to pals who have been shipped} Rybolt is hetoved by men at the base and ig*a pleasant*memory tes the former station persennel now overseas. ‘And their -frequent in | quirles about him prove that al-
there is scarcely one of his buddies
lar
War,
today gave their support to a resolution by Senator Kenneth McKel(D. Tenn.) that the United States acquire certain islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean after the
The resolution, introduced yesterday, was aimed at Japanese-owned and Japanese-mandated islands in the: Pacific between the equator and the 30th parallel of north latitude. It also’ urged U. S. possesion of Ber muda, now owned by Britain, all ds_in the West. Indies now in
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tacked Pagan and Rota in the Marianes and navy Venturas raided Nauru east of the Gilberts. |
PURDUE NAMES NEW DEPARTMENT CHIEF
Times Special |
LAPAYETTE, Ind, Aug. 16.— Purdue university's school of agri- | culture has announced the appoint- | ment of Dr. Norman J. Volk, of the Polytechnic institute, as the new head of the agronomy department in the agricultural experiment; station, He will succeed Dr. George D. Scarseth, who resigned ‘July 15 to becomé head of the farm research department of the American Farm bureau. Dr. Herbert R. Albrecht, also from the Alabama institution, has been named assistant professor of
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