Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1945 — Page 2
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By EMMA RIVERS MILNER : Times Church Editor "The navy needs 700 chaplains im- | « mediately. | Lt. Cmdr. A. J. McKelway, vet- | eran chaplain of South Pacific bat- | tles, stressed the need for naval | i of all faiths at an inter-| faith luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic elub yesterday. Speaking] quietly but vividly, Chapl@n Mec-! Kelway drew on his own experience | ax chaplain for 20 months aboard | the U. 8. S. Essex, one of the navy's| largest aircraft carriers, In order to secure 700 chaplains) to minister t6 875,000 men aboard | already in: service and 150 ships to be commissioned, CHABIATY | MeKelway is visiting a number of cities. He represents the Office of | Naval Officer Procurement, Chi-|
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Cites Needs at Sea {
He contrasted the situation of the congregation without a pastor and the sailor without a chaplain. He said persons living in a city ean always find a clergyman of some | denomination and a church, whereas 8 sailor is without a minister, no matter how greatly he needs one, when no chaplain is provided. Chaplain McKelway introduced himself as a Presbyterian minister from North Carolina and then in gracious, though solemn words, brought an indictment against Protestants and the Protestant church, He said some congregations were persuading their young
and vigorous pastors not to enlist|-
in the chaplaincy but to remain with the local church. In answer to the charge that “the Catholic church is running away! with the military services,” he said that was because Protestants “have slowed down to a walk in the chap- | laincy emergency.” “The Catholic church in its old wisdom and with its more workable organization, is doing more and prepared to do more than the Protest- - ant church,” he added.
Suffer from Loneliness |
“There is no situation a sailor can’t get himself into, but it is the! chaplain, or padre, who must get him out,” Chaplain McKelway said. Sailors “let down their hair” and| open their hearts fo the padre. In! this intimate relation, the chaplain | has the opportunity to see how the young sailor, far from home, suffers) from loneliness and at times a very, natura] fear. | “Naval men are eager for prayers | before combat but they ask more | often for the strengthening peace | of God than for protection from! danger.” he added.
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a church. Because of this and | at it means in the development the spiritual life of the chaplain, he besought the religious leaders! present to do all they can to help] meet, the tragic chaplaincy shortage, | The speaker was sponsored here | by the Indianapolis Civilian Office
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PUBLIC DEFENDER = BILL IS APPROVED
Several measures pending in the | senate have been reported ot fa- | vorably by committees. One approved yesterday by judi‘elary A committee provides for establishment of -the office of public defender. The committee recommended passage of the bill with an amendment setting the annual salary at $5000. The committee also reported ‘favorably bills relieving persons in the armed services from filing for mortgage exemptions and authorzing the governor to deed to the federal government land for a veterans’ hospital. The latter bill was amended slightly in committee. The banks, trusts and savings associations committee reported favorably on a bill to amend the state banking act. It would permit savings banks to accept. as collateral for loans approved bonds and stocks, life insurance policies, liyestock grain crops and other
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I NEARING ACCORD
Terms ‘for Cease Fire Order, Sought by Delegates to Athens Parley.
ATHENS, Jan. 11 (U. P.).—A British communique said today that) | British and E. L A. S, negotiators | 'had ‘reached & “large measure of | agreement” on terms, for a “cease | |fire” order in the Greek civil war. Other officers installed were | British authorities, headed by Lt. John Gray, senior warden; |c.. ponalg Scobie, British come Homer Se arden! mander in Athens, and. four repreHarry J. Stombaugh, secretary; {sentatives of E. A. M., parent body Horace B. Brown, senior dedcon; |of the E. L. A, 8. military group, Chester A. Plank, junior deacon; | began peace talks last night. a The discussions were based on
senior steward; | conditions laid down by Gen, Scobie
Harold Patterson, junior steward; and. Willian W. Bowman, tyler. | | as necessary for an armistice in the | fightiMg,
Otis L. Mavberry, past master,. "will —rontinue asthe ~Masqmie 1g | ch armored columns, .meantime,
iemple director and Everett, E: Ross, past: master, will be in | : charge of Masonic relief for the est SI Anens iB Win) ol Khalkis on Evvoia Island almost {due north of Athens, A Greek dispatch said- the situa{tion inside Athens and’ adjoining | Piraeus remained quiet, More than
6000 free meals and 300,000 free -29’ S IMBI [rations were being issued in Athens) daily, the communique said.
Japs Bendrt Coss Casualties and Damage From Raid on
Naval Base.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (U. P.).— bombed the
George House Thomas Twigg
THOMAS A. TWIGG recently was installed as worshipful master of Marion lodge, 35 F. & A. M, succeeding Lt. (jg) George C, House,
Lt, House, retiring master, has been serving with the navy since June, 1944, » 1944, and 3s at Miami, is at Miami, ‘Fla.
B-29 Superfortresses
pore in daylight today. An enemy { communique reported damage fo military installations, the destruction of 20 or more civilian dwellings and “scores” of casualties. A brief war department announcement revealed that Indiabased B-29's of the 20th bomber command attacked what were identified only as “military installations on the Malay peninsula.” The Tokyo radio several hours later said the main target was Singapore. Another Japanese broadcast said lone Superfortresses from the Marianas made three nuisance raids on Tokyo itself, Second Air Attack The raid on Singapore was the {second by the 20th bomber command. Last Nov, 5, another force tof the huge four-engined raiders) scored hits on a drydock and | wrecked other installations in the | strongest naval base in southeast Asia. | A communique issued by Japanese army headquarters at Singapore,
corded by the FCC, said 20 Super- | fortresses thundered over the city and the ‘adjoining Seletar district, site of large docks and naval in- | stallations, about 10:50 a. m. today (Singapore time). “Practically no damage was caused to military installations,” the communique said. “However, { 20-0dd houses were demolished and scores of citizens killed or wounded “Singapore as a result of the enemy’s blind bombing.”
Producer Guest | For Town Hall
GUTHRIE McCLINTIC, director and producer, will speak before the Indianapolis town hail
stage
at 11 a. m. tomorrow. He will speak on “The Theater, Remniscences and Predictions.” Mr. McClintic has staged 65 plays in- the last 20 years, 29 of which were his own productions. He produced - ac Pulit~ zer prize winner, “The Old Maid,” and a Critics circle prize winner, “Winterset.” He directs many plays in which his wife, Katherine Cornell, appears, and returned in December from overseas where he directed and appeared in ‘The Barretts of Wimpole Street” with his wife and Brian Aherne. The play was given for the armed forces. He
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25 EMPLOYEES OF | STOKELY GIVE BLOOD
A group of 25 male employees of | Btokely-Van Camp, Inc., 941 N. Me- | ridian st, today had completed | blood donations at the Red Cross| center in the Board of Trade build- | ing. Members had given blood previously, the latest time being the! 13th for one employee. group from the firm has| been scheduled for later in January. | —— AUXILIARY TO MEET i Bufns- West Streibeck auxiliary. No. 2009 to the Veterans of Foreign | Wars will meet at 4:15 p. m. today at the hall. Members of other V.P. W, auxiliaries will be guests | of the group.
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Rep. LaFollette Ready to Start On First Leg of Overseas Trip
Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. ‘11—Rep. | Charles M. LaPFollette, - Evansville | Republican, will leave for Montreal, | Canada, by train tonight. From | Montreal he will fly to England as A guest passenger of the British government. - the Jegislative ‘calendar | seanty at the of the 79th ~ LaFollette obtained the house, He 1
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| Civie theater.
now is working on production plans for the play based on the Arthur Train stories, “Mr. Tutt.” In addition to his directing and producing, Mr. McClintic has been honorary lecturer at ‘the Yale. ‘school of drama. He will be introduced tomorrow Jack L. Hatfield, director of Mrs, Philip Reed will be hostess for a luncheon in his honor in the Columbia club following the lecture,
BOY DIES IN SKID
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 11 (U. Pj —~Wayne E. Deckard, 18, son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles Deckard of Crawfordsville, was killed last night when his automobile skidded {on an icy highwaysnear Linden and crashed into a railroad crossing signal post.
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in addition to England. “I want particularly to stud? the wartime relationshipé between management and labor in Great Britain” Mr, LaFollefte said today. | “Also” learn what plans they have for solving economic problems in® | the post-war period, “In addition, I shall visit the hospitals and talk to wounded men, as well ag look Into the hospitalization
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«By UNITED PRESS
The American landing on Luzon] “viewed with alarm” by the!
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At least one newspaper, the important Asahi Shimbun, implied disharmony among’ Japanese leaders {by calling for a “united political {front to meet the eritical nature} {of the situation, . According to a Tokyo broadcast, reported by the FCC, Asahi declared the Japanese people were “burning with sincere enthusiasm,” and that it was up to the government to take steps “so that the elated enemy gan “Be pulverized.”
‘QUEEN ESTHER UNIT OF 0. E.S. TO INSTALL
Mrs. ‘C. A. Wahl, 953 Hervey st.. } | will be installed as president of |
| Queen Esther auxiliary O. E 8. at
3:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Masonic,
were more. than 50 miles | temple,
| Other officers who will be installed by Mrs, Dalsy Schumann, past president, are Mrs, William J Vanlderstine, vice president; Mrs. Lillian Glickert, secretary, and Mrs. Laura Carr, treasurer, New members of the board of directors include Mrs. C. H. Everett, Mrs. George Wilds and Mrs, George
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“BRITISH. ELAS. Discord i in Japan Indicated | As Press Sounds New Alarm,
The demand for unity added importance to an earlier broadcast by the Khabarousk radio in the Soviet far east, quoting a Russian commentary on developments in Japan as saying recent military setbacks put a strain on internal polities, sharply affected the Japanese econ? omy and lowered public morale, -The comméntary said Premier Kuniaki Koiso's “compromise cabinet” was facing numerous obstacles. Japanese army men, it said, were demanding tighter economic "cone trols on the nation while industrialists were struggling to relax the grip of the military figures. | A Domel transmission heard by {the United Press in New York said the landing operations were the | principal ¥ subjects in editorial | columns of all Japanese metropolitan newspapers.
Domei quoted Asahi as saying the | battle “that has. now begun on | Luzon is a development of utmost | gravity whose outcome will deter{mine Japan's destiny itself.”
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SPECIAL PRAYER SERVICE
Prayer candles will be lighted for | members of the armed forces at the special week of prayer service tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the North Methodist church. Dr. Dallas L. | Browning, pastor, will preside.
3 LATEST WORD: 106TH IN BELGIUM
Phe latest letter received in .Indianapolis from a soldier serving with the Camp Atterbury-trained 106th infantry has placed the division in Belgium as late as Dec, 30, Previous letters had the division, which the Germans claimed to have destroyed, in Belgiumh on Dec, 23. ~The letter, dated Dec. 30, was sent to Miss Jo Ahne Rouska, 101 S. Bradley ave, . by. Opl, Baer Hampton, Bristol, Pa. Earlier this week, Mr. and ‘Mrs. Ivan E. Lynch, 1520 E. Ohio st., received a letter from their son, Sgt. Leland (Stand; Lynch, that he was in a hospital in Belgium. His letter was dated Dec. 23, Mr. "and Mrs. Willlam Featherstone, 108 N. Brazil ave. received a letter with a Dec, 24 dateline from two New York men serving with the ‘106th and a Detroit, Mich. soldier wrote Miss Doris Stewart, 628 E. Vermont st, that he spent Christmas day in a foxhole in Belglum, .-
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SICILY “RIOTS ‘CONTINUE ROME, Jan. 11 (U. P.). Disorders by youthful draft dodgers and other rebellious groups were reported continuing in Sicily toddy, At Comiso rioters were holding out against soldiers and police. It was revealed that 10 soldiers who were, reported
missing a few days ago were being held as hostages.
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By JOHN B. McDERMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent WITH 84TH DIVISION, Belgium, Jan. 10 (Delayed).— From the Qruised lips of victims came today the story of German atrocities in the Ardennes bulge, It Js a story of wanton slaying; inhuman imprisonment and abduction of women and girls. One American soldier, Pvt. Joseph Gorczea (no address), told how he and five buddies were captured and - stripped in a snow-covered
‘field. German machine guns were
turned on them. He escaped by falling to the ground and feigning death. Later, although almost frozen, he made "his way through the icy woods to American lines. When the 84th and 2d armored divisions took Odéigne three days ago, Sgt. Harry Johnson, Houston, Tex. found the bodies of. six victims of German terror slayings. The bodies were packed in.straw rand pyramided into a funeral. pyre.
Apparently the rapid American advance had driven the Germans out |pefore they could set fire to the straw. A resident of Odeigne said 14 of his comrades were shot; that 235 others were herded into an unheated cellar two days before Christmas and imprisoned four days
death in the cellar. Many of the
without food. One child froze to|
|Bodies of Torture Victims Left by Nazis in Belgium
wives and daughters of the impris oned men were abducted by th Nazis as they fled. Tales of abdue. tions also came from the village o Freyneux, Others revealed that Nazi ston troopers tossed a grenade into th cellar of a home where an elderly couple and their son ‘were living! All three were killed. American troops in Odeigne found an.elderly man strapped to a chair in the shadow of the village ‘church. His head had been bashed in. In another village, the German drove a group of civilians into.a barn and warned they would b machine-gunned if they tried to
‘escape. Then the Germans set fire!
to the barn with incendiary grenades. When the heat became unbearable the prisoners broke .ous, The Germans were gone, | At the same village, the residents! said they had been unable to find any trace of the village priest and; 17 persons who had been imprisoned in the basement of a house.
REDS DELAY UNRRA FUND: WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (U, PJ). —Soviet Russia still owes $1,300,000 to the 1944 administrative fund of the united nations relief and rehabilitation administration and is holding - up payment pending a study “as to the use of the Russian
| contribution,” it was learned today,