Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1944 — Page 9

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A COLLEGE EDUCATION tet a yieossaity erediont for politi-

cal success, if the cases of the

four top men on both state

tickets can

be considered a measuring mark for this sort of thing. Only one of the four, G. O. P. gubernatorial nominee Ralph Gates, got what is considered a full-fledged college education, He He entered the University of Michigan dn 1911, following graduation from the

received gree in 1915 and his law degree in 1011, going to college six years

tion of all, He graduated from the eighth grade at his home town of ‘North Judson. He had to go to “work after that, but he has been educating himself since by reading Hewspapers and-books.on gov= ernment.

Belong to Same Church

MORE PERSONALS on the top “four candidates: The two senatorial candidates, Governor Schricker and . Mr. ‘Capehart, belong to the same ‘shurch--the Lutheran. The two gubernatorial candidates, Ralph Gates and Senator Jackson, belong to the same church—the Presbyterian. (Senator Jackson has been an elder of the First Presbyterian church at Ft. Wayne for 20 years.) , Governor Schricker, 61, is the oldest of the four. His opponent, Mr, Capehart, is the youngest at 47. Mr, Gates is 51 and Senator

* Jackson is 49. All but Governor Schricker are

veterans of world war I. Mr. Capehart was a sergeant, Senator Jackson a captain in the infantry, and Mr. Gates an ensign. : Governor Schricker has had by far the most experience in government while his opponent, Mr. Capebart, has had the least of the top four. The governor was

* 8 deputy county clerk at 21 and

hag held public office continuously since 1832, serving from

1933 to 1937 as a state senator,

from 1937 to 1941 as leutenant governor and taking office ip 1041 for a four-year term as governor. Senator Jackson served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Allen county during the "20s, was an unsuccessful candidate for congress from the old 12th district in 1028, and was appointed by Governor Schricker in January, 1944, to the séat in the U. 8 senate left vacant by the death of Senator VanNuys. He has been very active for many years in Democratic party politics.

- ss 2 Experience and Wealth MR. GATES has had the most experience in party politics. of any-of the top four, having served 83 A Republican district chair man from 1934 until 1041 when he became Republican state chairman. He resigned as state chairman early last summer fo become a candidate for governor. His only actual experience as a public office holder consists in having served as-town attorney of South Whitley for 10 years, one term ag county attorney of Whit-

ley county and one term as city |!

attorney of Columbia City,

Mr. Capehart's experience les |

almost solely in the business

field. He is a successful manufac-

Son who is & navy lieutenant; ‘Senafor Jackson has- three sons, the two eldest both army privates.

Stillerman Ends Furlough flere

after Visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Still1005

has had 10 months training Cpl. Stillerman as a meteorologist. He has been in the army over 20 months and is a graduate of Manual! high school, Cpl. Stillerman left for Lincoln, Neb, where he will be assigned to air crew duties aboard & bomber.

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: Before the end nd of 104 the Tn Sura fo serve our fighting men if the ots to" meet its quota. To ts only. 24 local = nurses have ma the ‘army nurse's corps. ‘The war manpower commission has classified 150 nurses of the arca as non-essential to the home front and these women are being sought by the Indianapolis Red Cross nurse recruitment commitiee lo help Al the quota, ’ The need is s0 acute that the Red Cross has been asked to send fis velusiténs surses’ Aides into army hospitals, Every uune siassited as avell: able is asked to answer the call to

LEAVING four to care for the wounded, six attempted to, escape, They were captured and removed toward Germany but they managed to escape. Three, their tunics battle-

““It was a tough go at the Arnhem bridge," ‘one of the survivors,

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nis “We made & perfect drop en the

| outskirts of Arnhem and my sec-

tion moved off to its objective He b ridge over the lower Rhine the heart of the town. . » ” “IN THE darkness we passed through Oosterbeek and reached Arnhem without any real opposition: “Crouching through the streets, we reached houses at the northern end of the bridge. Our mission was to occupy them. “We got into a school building underneath the approach to the bridge. # » ”

“THAT FIRST night we made a charge against a pill box guarding the bridge and blew up an ammunition dump inside. Twenty’

Germans ran out with their hands

up. “We pulled back again and began fortifying the school house. By now the Germans had gath-

ough Go af Bridge,’ Serviving Sky Tr

Lite Laneushios Offer Lt. Den Simpson, sald

. . » ABOUT MID-DAY a convoy of German lorries came over the bridge. We opened up killing the men riding them. The lorries caught fire. * That night the enemy started firing mortars at us. “Tuesday, two. Mark III tanks appeared and began furious firing which continued most of the day. “One of our men crept across the road underfire and dropped a bomb from a house top on a tank, disabling it. 52 f£ = 8 “THAT EVENING the Germans again tried to burn us out but we extinguished the fire. “That night Tiger tanks roamed about shelling the school house until it was riddled like a sieve.

“The next day two Tigers |

bridge and we realized they were

putting in a demolition charge. » ; er ya. to leave fo “WE RUSHED out with fixed | men with them and give ft bayonets through enemy fire, | sihery u chance to escape. cleared the Germans from the “But as we got clear of tk bridge and removed the charges. | houses the Germans closed in au “Thep the Gefmans.counter- | forced the last six to surrender. attacked and we withdrew to. the A corporal, Charles Weir,

houses. we » . » 4 “We organized another bayonet charge, This time we suffered heavy - casualties but ‘all the charges were removed. . . ” “THE ENEMY now was closing in. a “They set fire to the school and the building began to fall in, _ “We had 21 wounded and tried ‘to get out with them. There were now 45 of us. “We got as far as the next

SHERWOOD TO AID FON

—Author-Playwright - Robert Sherwood who has: frequently laborated in the drafting of s dential state papers, resigned director of the overseas branch ¢ the office of war information

Mr. Roosevelt's fourth-term

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