Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1945 — Page 5

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| TUESDAY, JAN. 30, 1945 _ Hoosier Heroes:

"WELFARE BOARD

| CHANGES VOTED

Some Democrats Support

Measure for Setting Up New Commissions.

The measure is designed to abolish 11 present county boards, replacing hem with new commissions. Vote

on the measure was 66 to 26, with

everal-Democrats-indorsing the biti

long with the Republican majority.

Democrats as a whole have opposed

Passed to the senate, the bill

ould divide county board appoint-

ents among circuit and juvenile

‘ludges, county councils, county comL nissions and township trustees.

Trim Appointive Power

“1 At present; circuit judges (in Mar“ion county the juvenile judge) have i tull authority to name all five coun-

board members. Under the new fneasure they would name two memrs only, with the remainder di-

fided among the councilmen, com‘nissioners and trustees.

Democrats contended the dis-|

A bill which would completely pverhaul all county - welfare boards on July 1 had passed in the Indiana pouse today, as the floor debate over i rontrol of relief in the state flared i new.

Pvt, Reid Cory, a veteran of months ‘combat in the Eu theater, was killed in action Jan. 15 in Belgium. He was serving with the 16th infantry of the 1st aivsion, Pvt. Cory was the husband of Mrs: Mildred. Cory, 1521 ¥Roach st. and the son of Mr. and Mrs, Thorley E. Cory, Edgewater, Fla. His parents, who formerly lived in Indianapolis, are here now, having come to ohserve their 50th wedding

today. . -A graduate of Valley Mills high school, Pvt. Cory was 36 and was associated with his father in the contracting business for a number of years. After the father moved to

ated with his brother, Noble. Pvt. Cory entered the army last Marech-and--after 17 ‘weeks training was given a nine-day furlough before being sent overseas. He land-

{ed in Normandy on D-day and with

the exception of a month he spent in the hospital resting after a nervous strain, was in combat until the day he was killed. He was killed exactly a month after reJoining his company. Survivors, besides his wife, parents, and brother, Noble, include a sister, Mrs. Helen Alexander, Indianapolis, and three more brothers, Fred and Carl, Indianapolis, and

Fay, Edgewater, *

Pfc. William H. Parker, husband (of Mrs. Lorena Parker, 1445 8S.

Florida the soldier became associ-

lersed appointment method would Meridian st., was killed Jan. 13 in (ject political bickering into the | Belgium. He was serving with the belfare picture and seriously divide 3d armored division of the 1st army.

anniversary, which was a week ago

Pfe. Morris H. Kelly CIC prisoner of Germany,

Richard Leighton Albert Graham Wounded Wounded

1943. A graduate of Russellville high high school, he was 22 and attended Butler university. The cadet was a member of the Russellville church. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Rivers, Russellville, and three brothers also survive. One brother, Curtis Dale, is stationed at Camp Siebert, Ala. and the other two, Charles Ofto and Ronald Dean, live at Russellville,

Pvt. Parker is the father. of three esponsibility. Republicans said 3 nildren,: Doris. Jai. It Hille, 4 8 Jr, 12, and Geraldine, 10. Before| Pfc. James W. Davis, husband of entering the service K he lived in|Mrs. Bessie H. Davis, 1042 E. Epler Cleveland, O., and Louisville, Ky.|ave, and son of” Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Parker and the children have |Arville Davis, 5730 Laurel st, has been living with Mrs. Parker's aunt, [been missing in action in France Mrs. Alvin J, Nichols, since Pvt.|since Jan. 8.. He had been overParker entered the army. seas since the first part of DecemThe soldier is 36 and hasbeen in |ber and in France since the middle service since: February 19, 1944. He|O0f December. went overseas five months ago. Pvt. Davis is 25 and was graduTwo sisters and two brothers in |ated from Southport high school in Louisville also survive. 1937. He formerly was employed by an the Mitchel & Scott Machine Co. and entered the army last May 20. Pfc, Johnson H. Lawrence, son The soldier was serving with ‘the of Cleo Lawrence, Hotel Lorraine, infantry. was killed Jan. 14 in Belgium. He| A brother, Donald, lives at Greenhad just recovered from wounds re-|yooq. ceived June 30 in France and had {been out of the hospital little more than a month. Pvt. Lawrence was 19 and entered the service Sept. 1, 1943. He re-

yould be more representative of the oters. Jess C. Andrew (R. West Point), nswered Democratic “patronage rab” charges by describing the welre setup under the Democratic reime as “the biggest political mathine in Indiana.”

Speaker's Vote Decides -

Another welfare bill drew bitter iticism on the house floor. This is

§ he one which would restore to the

relfare act the right of counties to lkake post-morten claims on ‘the roperty of deceased old-age Tecipimts. 2 | An attempt to eliminate the prop-irty-recovery clause from the prolosal ended in a photo-finish 46-h-45 ballot against elimination. ouse Speaker Hobart Creighton ast the deciding ballot.

Action on other welfare shakeup! fheasures continued this morning. ss;

iu the bills weré sponsored by the pgislative welfare investigation comhittee

STATE HIGH COURT | LIBRARIAN NAMED

Ff Miss Genevieve Brown, Wisataas, thief clerk in the state treasurer’s fice the last three years, has been ppointed® as librarian for the Inliana supreme court. She will succeed Miss faines, Sullivan, on April 1. after is a Democrat. Miss Brown has been active in epublican politics since the womin's suffrage amendment was dopted In 1920. She was elected porter. of the «Indiana supreme |

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S. Sgt. Edward M. Nolley, a member of the 328th infantry division of the 3d army, was wounded

valescing in a: hospital in England. Sgt. Nolley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Nolley, Mont-: gomery, and made his home with .a sister, Mrs. Ezra Clements, 514 E. Warsaw st., before entering the Sgt. Nolley army. He was employed by the U. 8. Rubber Co. at that time.

\division before going overseas nine! months ago. The soldier attended Technical high school and was graduated from Richmond high school. Survivors, berides his parents, include a 17-yzar-old brother, Kenneth. His father is an employee of the Mdianapons Rang

. 4viation cot Morris E. Rivers, huSband of Mrs. Helen Rivers, 1500 | {N. Delaware st., was killed Dec. 17 {in a plane crash néar Palestine, Tex. |He was in navigation training at San Marcos, Tex.,, and was killed] The soldier was inducted Sept. {while on a training flight. 4, 1042, | Cadet Rivers was employed by the training in the Southwest. He was Allison division of General Motors {promoted to his-present rank before before entering the army, in May, leaving the counly, in August, 1944.

Fund Honorary Award Goes

nd appellate courts in 1928 and |

erved a four-year term. The first Republican vice chair- | .an of Pulaski county, Miss Brown | as & district vice chairman five] pars, She is a former president nd at present vice president of Women's Republican club of dianapolis. A graduate of Monticello public hools and Indiana university, iliss Brown has been admitled to ractice before the Indiana sureuie court. She also is past presi- | nt of both the Indianapolis and ndiana Business and Professional | omen's clubs.

illis and Capehart Remain In Opposition to Wallace

By DANIEL M, KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Both| hdiana. senators will be against) bnfirmation of Henry A. Wallace | br secretary of commerce, with or| ithout RFC. The former vice president's high | 0 endation of himself at a ew York testimonial ‘dinner ‘last | ight failed to change the Hoosiers’ titude. ; Senator Raymond E. Willis sald | e hadn't concluded to oppose Mr. allace on any personal grounds | ind in- fact he “rather likes the! an.” “But it was that low-down on tical letter which President Roose-| elt wom’ tc Jesse Jones saying | le wourd give Wallace anything he fanted because'he campaigned for | im that made up my mind,” Sen- | or Willis asserted.

def Rites for Capt. Zainey's Bride, Dead After Ocean Trip

Services will be held tomorrow br the young English war bride of Indianapolis army officer who jed while rushing to America mn 16 hope that their baby might be | brn here, a The bride was . | rs. Evelyn Di-F 88 ech Zainey, 19, ho was married ) Capt, Frederick . Zainey, 6056 N.

ova Scotia, Jan. ii 1) ; casing ‘of the Evel Zainey Mange. ‘She left Liverpool, Eng~ , Dee. 23 and was ill throught the trip. ~There was No physir the. vessel and, when Scotia was Tedched Jan, 5

| Indianapolis Athletic club.

ward D. Dimech, French minister | to the island of Malta before France "fell, was married to Capt. Zainey

jricueed law in Indianapolis before

To Miss Gertrude Taggart

She is treasurer of the Indianapolis Orphans’ asylum and has been a member of the board of that organization 30 years.

Baxter Heads Fund

Officers elected last night were R.| The award, presented by Thomas! Norman Baxter, 1945 fund presi- | D. Sheerin, chairman of the selec-|dent: Philip Adler Jr. and John | tion committee, is given annually | Collett, vice presidents, and Volney for outstanding community service. | M. Brown, re-elected .reasurer. Mr, Miss Taggart has been a member Baxter succeeds Perry W. Lesh. the board of directors 14 years.| In a resolution adopted unanimously™ ‘by members hduse bill 235 was condemned. The bill would require public welfare and private child placement agencies to report all children’s cases to county ja venile courts. Opposition was on the grounds that many children and parents would be given juvenile court records when it was not necessary.

The Indianapolis Community

Fund's honored member award was presented to Miss Gertrude Taggart, retiring member of the fund's board of directors, at the 25th anniversary banquet-meeting last night in the

“It seems to me the clear duty of the senate of the United States to refuse to support such a petty, partisan political attitude on the pari of the President, whether it be three-year terms on the fupd board

F. D, BR. or anyone else, ®.iof directors. They are Jeremiah “That letter showed such a loW | cagick Mr. Adler and E. C. Atkins, {type of political thinking that I|.. eected and Mrs. Eugene C. Miller considered it completely unworthy {Gerald Redding, Harold B. West of anything but contempt.” : Senator Willis sald he “holds no brief” for Mr. Jones, particularly, and that he would “feel the same way” if the letter had been written to anyone else under similar circumstances. Senator Homer Capehart, being & freshman here, stuck to his rule of silence in the matter and said that he would “listen to the senate debate.” But it is considered certain that he will not be one of the very, very few G. O. P. senators who will vote for the Wallace confirmation.

Directors Are Named

Eleven persons were named to

Lyman 8S. Ayres, R. H. Jones, J. G. Sinclair, Otto Shur and Evans Woollen Jr. . : In the annual report attention was called to the urgent need for a building to house the fund's noninstitutional health and welfare agencies. . The treasurer's annual report showed $790,615.85 paid out by the fund during 1944 and a balance of $45,014.19 on hand for 1945.

HUSSMAN SERVICES SET FOR THURSDAY

Services for John Hussman, who died yesterday at his home, 1008 E. Morris st, will beheld at 2 p. m. Thursddy in the J. C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Operator of the Coffee-Cup restaurant, 1121 Shelby st., he was 74. Survivors are his wife, Cora; two daughters, Mrs. Lucille Keller and Mrs. Iva Rose; a son, Lee Johnson; two sisters, Mrs. Martha Marshall and Mrs. Jermina Fisher, and a brother, James, all of Indianapolis.

she was removed to the Halifax infirmary. She died two weeks |later, six days before Capt. Zainey could reach her bedside. The couple’s baby was to have been born in about three months. Mrs. Zainey—the daughter of Ed-

and received his basic}

Parker, Lay

Pvt. Reid Cory . . . killed in Belgium.

Pvt. Richard O. Leighton, son of Mrs. Mildred O. Marks, 705 Prospect st., was slightly wounded Jan. 3 in Belgium. He has been overseas since—last-August--and served. in Holland and France before going to Belgium. A former employee of the Climax Machinery Co., Pvt. Leighton is 19 and attended school in Shelby county, He entered. the army In September, 1943. His father, Darcus Leighton, is employed at the Soldiers and Sailors home, Knightstown. He is a veteran of world war I, ” » o Pvt. Albert Gene Graham, son of Mr. and Mrs, Albert A. Graham,

Edinburg, was wounded in Belgium Dec. 30 and is in a hospital there. The 23-year-old infantryman is with the 3d army and has been overseas 13 months. Before going to Belgium, he served in Italy, England arid France. A brother, Pfc. Lee O. Graham, also is in the 3d army, and another brother, Sgt. Lloyd D. Graham, is in China. The brothers are cousins of Lenora Brown, 2306 N. Parker ave. " ” . Pfc. Billie B. Boyd, whose brother, Marion, ‘was killed on Guadalcanal, was wounded in action Sept. 19 on Peleliu. He was home on a 30-day furlough in December, and now has reported to duty at Norfolk, Va. Pvt. Boyd is 22 and attended school: in Granite City, Ill. He worked for the Blue Ribbon Ice Cream Co. before Pearl Harbor and enlisted in the marine corps two days after the Jap attack. Going overseas in June, 1942, the young marine served on Guadal-

- |canal d N Britai 11 as |= ceived training with the Rainbow | 73% 5 in Luxembourg. He is con |ca an ew itain, as we

Peleliu. He has six battle stars. Pvt. Boyd formerly made his |= home with his brother, Abe, who lives at 44 E. Raymond st. His| brother, Marion, was killed in Sep- | tember, 1942, while serving as a| marine paratrooper, He was a private 1st class, also. 8 o . Cpl. Alfred Bell, veteran of a year’s service with the marines in the Pacific, was wounded in September |during action on Peleliu. He has

Pacific island.

corporal in December. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bell, 2150 Gent ave. » » 8 Pfe. Merlin L. Mercer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Mercer, 2106% E. Washington st., was wounded Nov. 16 in France. He was fighting with the 44th division and had been overseas since last October. « Pvt. Mercer is 21 and entered the army in Pebruary, 1942. He at-

{cluster to the air medal.

{ tended school in Parnell, Mo. A brother, Pvt. Charles T. Mercer is with the infantry in Italy.

n n 2 Pfc, Morris H. Kelly, reported missing after action Sept. 17, in Germany, was captured on that day and is a prisoner of Germany. Pvt. Kelly is the son of Joseph R. Kelly, 2235 N. Meridian st. He |= is 30 and formerly. was employed by |S the International Detrola Co. Entering the service in May, 1943, the soldier was assigned to the infantry and received training at Camp Shelby, Miss. He went over- | seas last June,

» » " T. Sgt. Robert A. O'Neal, son of | Mr. and Mrs, Ray ‘B. O'Neal, 1019 | 8. Roena §t., and husband of Mrs. Thelma O'Neal, Moline, Ill; has | een awarded the fourth oak leaf He is aj radio operator-gunner on a B-17 based in England.

» n ” Two Indianapolis men have been | awarded the presidential distinguished unit citation for constructing an emergency landing strip while under fire on D-day. They are T. 3d Gr. Alvin I. Ellis,

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at ‘St. Joseph's Catholic ‘church, Kenton, Middlesex, England, They met while she was secretary to the American representative of the Bendix Aircraft Corp. in London. Capt. Zainey, who has been stationed in England for two and a half years with the army air forces,

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Pfc. William BH Parker .. killed in Belgium. 1448 S. East st, and T. 5th Gr. William E. Holler, 1127 Reid pl. Both are with the 9th air force engineer battalion. 8. 4 on Watertender 3-¢ John Norbert

today’s navy department list of dead. He previously was reported missing. ” » »

Lt. (J.g.) William Charles Menke, Huntingburg, is missing in action.

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Capt. Richard S. Lukenbill, grandson of Mrs. Ida Spangler, 1402 Kenyon ave, was killed Dec. 24 in Germany, The captain is the husband of Mrs, Margaret Lukenbill, Chicago, a student at Purdue university, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roach Lukenbill, Spencer,

Five Indiana men are included

wounded. They are: Marine Pfc. Paul A. Broyles, Marion; Marine Pfc. Qeorge PF. Gaines, Evansville; Marine Pfc. Harold Hacker, Bates ville; Marine Pfc. Carl D. Harrold, Wabash; Marine Cpl. James E. Harvey, New

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= » » " The war department today revealed the names of ‘the following Indiana soldiers who have been wounded. In all cases, next of kin have been kept directly informed of any change in status:

European Area Pvt. "Bdward OG. Bixler, Spencer; 8. {Guy 8, Black,. Albion; Pvt. Charles 5 Blankenbaker, Portland; Sgt. Ray P.| Clouser, Tipton; “Sgt. "Leonard Comin- | gore; Madison; Pvt. George R. Coy, Mun- | ; Pfc. Austin C. Dillinger, Green-| »; Pvt. Glen B. Dipert, Grovertown; . Sgt. James A. Dyer, Coal City; So | Ralph D. Edwards, South Bend; T. Sgt. Mishawaka; 8, sgt. | . |B. Hensley, Fairmount; Pvt. | C.' Horstmann, Evansville; Pre | Henry W. Horton, Chalmers; Cpl. James | R. Hough, Terre Haute; Huff, Birdseye; Pfc. : Huffing- | ton, Gary; Pvt. Robert R. J. Luther, Ft. | Wayne; Cpl. Roy M. Miles, Hammond; . Clarence J. Williamson Jr. | Pfc. Dallas L. Willis, Otwell; T. 5th Gr. | Norman G. Witkemper, Greensburg; Pvt Joseph A. Wolkiewicz, South Bend, and Pvt. Alvin N, Yeager, Terre Haute. 1 -Mediterranean Areas Put. Eligah B. Archer, Medaryville; Lt. William. H. Kreitzer, Anderson; t John W. Mattheis Jr. Cambridge ciey: | Pvt. David C. Millér, Ligonier; T. 5th Gr. W. W. Rains, Anderson; Pvt. Marion F.| Reed, Elkhart, Louis J. ayne. | Southwest Pacific Area |

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