Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1944 — Page 8

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Quartermaster 2-c Julian J. Commons, who was reported missing in action after the sinking of the de- "| stroyer escort Fiske in the Atlantic,

parents, Mr. and Mrs, P. M. Com-=~ .| mons, 751 N. Tremont ave., received the war department telegram last night. Quartermaster Commons was 22 and had been in the navy two years. He graduated from Cathedral high

after} serving on a convoy ship in the At-

school and formerly was employed by C. E. Trees & Co. : Survivors, besides the parents, include three sisters, Margaret, Noreen and Mrs. Ann Monahan, Indianapolis, and six brothers, Norbert A., a lieutenant with the bureau of aeronautics at Washington; James, Leo and Theodore, Indianapolis, and Thomas and Patrick, Techny, IIL | » n » Machinist’s Mate 3-c Alonzo Richard Kashner was killed May 3 while

lanti¢, about 1000 miles off the coast of Ireland. His ship was torpedoed by a German submarine and authough the side was blown out the vessel did not sink. ie The sailor's wife, Mrs. Hazel Puckett Kashner, 1027 Dudley ave., and.his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Alonzo Richard Kashner, 3729 Aurora ave, previously were notified that he had been missing since May 11.

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Sgt. Clarence V. Allen . . . missing » in France.

his plane and crew safely back to base.”

Lt. Kirkpatrick's parents, Mr. and “{Mrs. L. 8. Kirkpatrick, R. R. ‘11, have received no word of their son's

a letter informing them that his plane was last seen going out of formation. Four of the crew were reported to have bailed out. Later the family learned that seven members of the crew -are prisoners, while three officers, including their son, still are listed as missing.

» : Fred Mosey William Rogers Honored Honored Sgt. Eyster is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Eyster, 232 N, Belmont ave., and holds the purple heart, air medal and oak leaf cluster. Eighteen years old he attended Technical ‘high school and entered the service in September, 1943, going overseas in June, 1944. ” ” » Sgt. Clarence V. Allen, husband of Mrs. Lillian Allen, 3143 North-western--ave.;-has- been. missing in action in France since Aug. 9 » 2 “ Pfc. Laurel Howes was wounded in France on D-day but has re-

turned to active duty. He was awarded the purple heart which he sent to his mother, Mrs. Mattie Howes, 2129 Olive st. A former employee of Kingan & Co., Pvt. Howes is 32 and entered the army in October, 1942. He went overseas 18 months ago and served with a tank division in Italy prior to joining the invasion forces. 2 #8 Pfc. Harry D. Mundy, 20-year-old son of Mrs. Ada Mundy, 208 N. Sheffield ave., received five shrap-

nel wounds Aug. 1 on Tinian island and now is in a naval hospital-in San Francisco, Cal. A veteran of Saipan and Tarawa, Pvt. Mundy entered the marines Feb. 22, 1943, and had been overseas a year. He attended Washington high school and formerly was employed by. the Stewart-Warner Corp.

Maj. Donald C. Parker, husband of Mrs. Ruth V. Parker, 1909 Charles st., holds the distinguished flying cross and the air medal with | three oak leaf clusters. — A B-IT pilot, he completed 25 missions during a year in the European theater of operations and has returned to the United States. He

air forces’ redistribution station No. 2 in Miami Beach, Fla., where his next assignment will be determined. The son of Mr, and Mrs. Willard J. Parker, Valparaiso, Maj. Parker is 25 and attended Franklin college and Valparaiso university. t » ” »

Second Lt. William D. Rogers, son of Maj. and Mrs. George H.|t Rogers, 4355 Winthrop . ave, has been awarded the air medal .for meritorious achievement in aerial combat. He 18 based at an 8th army air force fighter station in|

by Brig. Gen, Jesse Auton. The lieutenant’s father is personal affairs officer for the 1st troop carrier command at Stout field. » o » S. Sgt. Robert L. Sprinkle, engineer and top-turret gunner of a B-17, has beén awarded an oak leaf cluster to the air medal for “meritorious achievement” ‘while pjarticipating in heavy bombardment missions over Europe, Sgt. Sprinkle is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben L. Sprinkle, R. R. §, and his wife lives on R. R. 12.

The navy today announced the names of four Hoosier marines who have been wounded in action. They a |are: Pfc. Joseph J. Kruyer, son of Mrs. Clara A. Kruyer, South Bend; Pfe. ® |Robert E. Landis, son of Mrs, Sarah «x “|B, Landis, New Albany; 1st Lt. Harold L. Shepard, son of Mr, and Mrs, Harry E. Shepard, La Porte, and Pfc. Roscoe Youngblood Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs, Roscoe Youngblood Sr., Chandler. ”

The war department today announced the award of the distinguished flying cross to 2d Lt. Louis G. Kirkpatrick, Indianapolis flier who has$ been ; listed as missing in-action since Feb. 25. =: The citation safd that on Feb, 25, Lt. Kirkpatrick piloted a [*

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” » A Fireman 1-¢ Fred Mosey, Richemy -installation mond coast guardsman, won a comin Germany. Over Me Kirkpatrick mendation from Gen. Douglas Mac200 miles from the target, his|Arthur for his actions in 11 Southformation was attacked by a large|west Pacific invasions. He served number of enemy fighters in aaboard a coast-guard-manned LST desperate attempt to keep thejand saw action during assaults on bombers from reaching their target.| Finshaffen, Lae, Cape Gloucester, “Suicidal attacks failed to turn|Saidor, the* Admiralty islands, him from his course,” the citation|Aitape, Hollandia, Taneh Marah, read, “and, despite additional oppo-| Wadke, Biak and Noemfoor. He sition by intense concentrations of [now is home on leave, | heavy and accurate flak, he reached a 8 8 1 the objective, dropped his bombs in| S. Sgt. Malcolm Bledsoe, Jefferthe target area, and inflicted im- sonville, has been awarded the oak mense damage to the vital enemy leaf cluster to the bronze star for aircraft factory. efficiency during enemy artillery

“On the return trip, his ship|shelling at Bougainville. again was attacked by aggressive ccording to the citation, Sgt. fighters employing rockets in addi- Bledsoe went out day and night retion to normal weapons. However, |Pairing broken communications in

despite all ition. he brought |areas where hostile shells were landol —s phos 2 neh ing. His work, performed under ad-

verse circumstances, contributed directly to-the success of the U., S. artillery’'s counter-battery missions, the war department said. !

EVANGELISTIC SERIES OPENS HERE TONIGHT

A special series of evangelistic meetings will start at 7:30 o'clock at the Mars Hill Free Methodist church and last through Sept, 29th according to an announcement by the Rev. J. Clinton 8Swanagan, pastor. O. R. Tessaro, evangelist from Greensburg, Pa., will be in charge of the meetings and Professor Paul Qualls will be in charge of the 300 uther SHORARON Fouts ol Sunt ss oie! Imusic

What Is Wrong When Prayer Fails?

Thirty years ago, in Forbidden

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Reporter Finds Fourth of

1941, Leon Kay of the United

layed) —Sofia is a city of bombblasted buildings and uneasy, fea ful people.

central district and 25 per cent e® the outlying sections lies in ruins as token of the effectiveness of allied bombardment which helped drive Bulgaria out of the war.

diers, stripped of their arms, march through the city. For them the

up at civilians puttering through the ruins attempting to salvage something from the holocaust.

ulation is being processed through the army | countryside, where. it. had sought refuge during the bombings. ; them the struggle is just beginning.

restore water and electricity in the habitable sections of the city but it will be years before Sofia heals ing at best, was an eerie city of night. Despite the 8 p. m. curfew I was given every attention by Bulgarian authorities and permitted to make a tour of

England and the award was made | ings.

greatest mystic he ever encountered{-

Tibet, behind the highest mountains in the world, a young Englishman named Edwin J. Dingle found the

during his twenty-one years in the Far East. He wants everyone to experience the greater health and the Power, which there came to

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answer to this question. A great|nim. mystic opened his eyes. A great| Within ten years, he wag able to change came over him. He realized | retire to his country with a fortune. the strange Power that Knowledge | He had been honored by fellowships gives. is in the world’s leading geographical That Power, he says, can trans-|societies, for his work as a geogform the life of anyone. Questions, |rapher. whatever they are, can be answered. | he is still so athletic, capable of so The problems of health, death, pov-| much work, so young in appearance, erty and wrong, can be solved. it is hard to believe he has lived In his own case, he was brought|so long. back to splendid health. He ac-| As a,first step in their progress quired wealth, too, as well as world-| toward the Power that Knowledge wide professional -recognition.|gives, Mr. Dingle wants to send to Thirty years ago, he was sick as|readers of this paper a 9000-word g man could be and live. . Qnce his} treatise. He says the time has coffin was bought. Years ofl almost {come for it to be released to ‘the continuous tropical fevers, \broken| Western World, and offers to send | bones, near blindness, privat. and|it, free of cost or obligation, to ‘danger had made a human wreck | sincere readers of this notice. For of nim, physically and mentally. He was about to be sent back to tute of Mentalphysics, 213 South

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And today, 30 years later,|

City Ruined by Bombs.

One of the last allied corre= spondents to leave the Balkans ahead of the German armies in

Press, now is the first American to reach Sofia, bomb-scarred capital of Bulgaria. Kay went to Sofia from Ankara, Turkey.

By LEON KAY : United Press Staff Correspondent SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 11 (De-

Seventy-five per cent of the

Soldiers Sullen Groups- of sullen, disspirited sol

truggle is over. They hardly look

About half of Sofia's 500,000 ppphas returned from the

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~{to meet local political leaders in

Dewey Cuts Sp

By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD DEWEY CAMPAIGN TRAIN, Sept. 12—Governor Thomas E. Dewey, concentrating on private conferences with leaders of political organizations and economic groups rather than public speeches as he swings westward on his first presidential campaign tour, added new meetings in Wyoming and Montana to his itinerary today. Paul E. Lockwood, secretary to. the New York governor, announced that stops ‘will be made at’ Sheridan, Wyo, Sept. 14 and Billings, Mont., Sept. 15, In order to arrange the additional opportunities

those two states the original tentative plan to spend three days at the Valentine, Neb., ranch of former Governor Samuel R. McKelvie was cut to a day and a half. Crowded into that day-and-a-half at the 12,000-acre “By the Way ranch” in the heart of northern Ne-

Nebraska and South Dakota as well as with some of the leading range cattle men of the territory.

No Nebraska Speeches

There will be no formal speech during the entire Nebraska visit. His only public appearance is scheduled at a rodeo at the Valen tine fair grounds tomorrow. Meanwhile, in the long hops between official stops, Dewey is spending most of his time working over the major speeches he has scheduled for Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles next week and making a minimum of rear platform appearances so common for a transcontinental tour of this type in former years, In order to discourage crowds except at formal stops, in keeping with Dewey's belief that wartime is no time for barnstorming, the are rival time of the special train’ at interim points is not being publicized

hrough miles of burned-out build-

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VALENTINE, Neb, Sept. 12 (U. P.) ~Governor Thomas E, Dewey - was greeted by a long line of Indians in feathered head-dress and

arrived today for conferences with Nebraska and South Da-: kota Republicans at the ranch of former Nebraska Governor Sam« uel R. McKelvie. of A crowd of about 2000 persons, ‘equal to the population of this northwestern Nebraska town, greeted the Dewey special train when it rolled ints the station.

sentatives in both political and economic Yesterday's eight hours at Des Moines was typical. . Dewey spoke briefly to the lof 4000 which met his train at the

minute lunch with state officials,

men, members of the Women’s Re«

publican federation and officers of the Young Republican organiza tion E

When he returned to his train he appeared confident that he will carry Iowa's 10 electoral votes in

pledge of Governor B. B. Hickenlooper, a candidate for the U. 8 senate, that Iowa will give G. O. P. a 100,000 majority. Hickenlooper told reporters that Dewey agreed with Midwestern farmers that egriculjure should be placed on the same economic basis

as labor and industry.

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