Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1945 — Page 8

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“BADLY MAULED

; Allied Control Commission’ MANILA. Feb. 19.—Now that his

Must ‘Dust .Off' Before Setting Up House.

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN ‘Times Foreign Correspondent

LONDON, Feb. 19.—<When the, allied control commission for Ger-| many sets up housekeeping in Ber-| . lin, its members will have to do a

little dusting hefore hanging up|

their coats. The latest high-| 1 altitude photo- | graphs of the German capital] J @show that the city | is by no: means)

Freeing of Family Releases

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

| United Press War Correspondent bdestroyers.

|wife and four children have been

TANK SEAT MAKES

Fabulous Tale of Pacific Ace TRACTOR RIDE EASY

CHICAGO, Feb. 19 (U, P.) —Like a 75-mm. gun and sank two Jap|the one-hoss shay, the hard-riding,|forces With possibly far-reaching

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ______

By ELIAV SIMON United Press Staff Correspondent JERUSALEM, Feb. 19.—Two new

bone-cracking tractor seat is on its consequences are seen arising in

He mashed the little finger of his|way out and will be replaced by a right hand in a jeep accident. The new type making tractors as easy

rescued from internment at Santq|doctors told him it would require riding as the family car, the Mon-

Tomas it is possible today to tell part—but only part—of the fab-|the finger. ulous story of Col. Paul I. (Pappy)| “Six months — hell!” Gunn who has become an almost|Pappy. “There's a war on.” legendary figure’ with Lt. Gen. George Kenney's air forces. He's been fighting the Japs since the war started and he perhaps more than any other man is responsible for the success of U. 8. medium and attack bombers in this recovering now from theater of operations.” | wound in his left shoulder. That's Pappy worked out heavier fire | why : power for A-20s and B-25s. He de- [family ‘when they

veloped a tail camera for the Mit- from Santo Tomas. : chell so that results of strafing] But hell be back. He: doesn't

mission the next morning,

were released

six months to restore full .use of | Toe

Then he told them to cut it off jamong farmers. or he'd shoot it off, They cut: it off, and Pappy was away on another

The Japs finally hit him. He's a bullet |hicle is traveling over

he wasn't here to greet his|

Auto Equipment Co. reports. The new seat will eliminate the |jolting and jarring medicgl men

growled | yjame for the high percentage -of

skeletal disorders The “seat has a variable rate coil spring and a spe- | eial triple action hydraulic shock absorber which resists up and down action and enables the rftier to re!mairi on a level even while his vebumpy

kidney and

| ground, Where did the company get the |idea for this new seat? The ‘tom|pany invented a special seat for {army” tanks and ~ manufactured

the Middle East by both the Hebrew and Arab press. : They are the Arab league and the new unity Orthodox church. Newspapers here regard the former as a British scheme and the latter as Moscow's protege.

Amity Reigns

Representatives of Transjordan, | Syria, Lebanon and Iraq have just [finished talks here preliminary tb the. Arab - conference opening in Cairo today and it is reported’ that they have settled the so-called “Saudi-Hashemite” deadlock, Rivalry between these two Saudi Arabian houses had been regarded as the chief stumbling block to Arab unity, but an Arab spokesman told the United Press that “these

Britain and Russia: Seen

grudges have now been swept away, to be replaced by brotherhood.” The - Telaviy Hebrew newspaper Haboker reported that it learned that the Soviet government .does not consider with favor the “British scheme” to set up an Arab federation, although Russia's « attitude towards the Arab-Jewish problem in Palestine has not be¢n stated. Haboker said that for practical

purposes Russia - has become a

neighbor of Iraq and is naturally

opposed to the establishment of a!

strong Arab federation, London has held that an Arab federation is vital to the interests of the British empire, for it would serve, as a barrier against the spregd of foreign influences after the war, ‘ Meanwhile, there are increasing signs of interest here in Moscow's

as Back Sfoe Rivals

in Middle Ea st church as a result of the election had schools for boys and girls al there of a new Russian patriarch over Syria, Lebanon and Palestine by heads of the Osthodox church| “We trust that. Russia's interests from other countries, in the Russian church will be re Moscow's invitation (to hold the vived, particularly in the Middle election there) is regarded as a sign |East, and that the meeting in Mos« of the growing moral ang political cow will herald the beginning of ¢ influence of Russia's news hold on new era.” the synod. ’ S————————————— _, Hopetal of Russia PLAN O. E. 8. RECEPTION

Issa Effendi El Issa, publisher of| Southport chapter No. 442, O. ® Jaffa’s Arab newspaper, Falastin,|S., will hold a‘ reception for new and widely accepted as the most in- members at 8 p. m. Wednesday ir fluential Christian Arab, wrote re-|the Southport Masonic temple, Mrs cently “now that Russia has gone Ora Brown is worthy matron and

into the field of Othodox religion, members of ' the Orthodox church Winiam Haruman is woriy patron

in the Middle East should place all their h¥pes in Russia.” He said Moscow's invitation to the election “is a move which Wwe the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fired

Orthodox of the Middle East should fob. ignore, On “the contrary we NS and=Engineers will hold a good

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'should endeavor to renew old ties| fellowship supper from 5 to 7 p. m

that bound us to the Russian church | Thursday in their hall, 734 8. State before the last war when Russians ave, 7. ie)

ONDAY, FEB. 19, 1948 |

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new leadership in the Orthodox

| About -eyery that practically/even invented a new aerial torpedo. or aampes . m=) fF wake us up to f

" knocked flat, but|attacks could be photographed. He like Japs—and Tokyo is still .ahead. | 200,000.

trays just as ol It got to be they poured foo and about every fed us to death.

They Were

THE FLIGH same job as a crews and two since the same ' rest, and a’ new Both our fli were 16 passeng (one a marine c myself, the only good care of us all alike, and t rank aboard. Théy wore | shirts, and worl first one was Se

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Mr. Stoneman pletely leveled or) Shot Down Into Sea

burned out. p Judging from the pattern of the] He made three desperate at-

damage, it looks as though there tempts to rescue his family in would not be’ many windows left. |nfanjla, The third time the Japs There is po uch Sholes 8 747 shot him down: into: the ‘sea. He as damage is concerned, ’ : the areas of the city assigned to| Was rescued by a patrol boat. : American, British and Russian{ Back in Australia he was commisforces of occupation. sioned a captain in the army air forces and assigned to the now fane Fiat as a Paneake { mous third attack group which Qut around Templehof airdrome. | was then an, infant outfit. Pappy where our bailiwick lies, there is a immediately began to cut red tape. Finally he gathered 15 Mitchells a New Guinea field. Then he

large area west of the fleld which is as flat as a pancake. Areas to|at the east and north of the airdrome, | outfitted them with belly tanks | which contain many ‘good modern | hee designgd himself and led a apartment buildings, are - not de-i00-mile mission to Del Monte | stroved by any means and it is/airdrome on Mindanao island in probably “there that we will hang |the Philippines where .some Ameri} our hats. [cans were still holding out as Inte; The West End; where the British |at April 1942. will be, has been roughly handled. | Rescues All Americans Photographs indicate thet the St Pappy found some gasoline and | BE Es tsdamerbanhof |, Vet the field. When bombs| The fine residential area south of | Ad gasoline ran out, he built him-| the Tiergarten, where many em. | Self 8 weird belly tank out of af passies were formerly located js 0il barrel and ‘a rubber hose anc y ’ calmly led the flight back to New ery badly demas the Tiergarten | Guinea. taking out all the Ameri-| ike y ¢ el Mante. {s also badly mauled with large gaps cans Who hl Joey a in of burned-out, knocked-down build- A-208 anid “began experimenting | tgs all over we Pate, Tiergarten | Vith eight 50-caliber aching suns { nose. It worked and the Japs| things are pretty flat. Kurfuersten- 10 11 TT By surprises when | damm, the main drag of the West | ambers turned into strafers. end, seems to have lost many of its | Finally he was assigned to the |

prinapal stores and cafes. lair service command at Brisbane. Central Berlin Battered He was placed in charge of the | Centr] Berlin is badly Betiered |VIIGIRE MIOCICRUOR she . : put eight jes in the B-25s nose. | but not as completely as one might |p, "ong crewmen. believed such | magne. 2 Be er n arrangement would unbalance ;m : =1 ; n ex- . i the plane. But Pappy put a strasse and Wilhelmstrasse, je seri- | erimental plane through its paces | ously hit and it takes ony one | and convinced his critics. | glance to see that the old Chicago Daily News office and other spots) where American correspondents| - pyring' the Bismarck sea battle used to bat out their stories, are pappy's innovations paid off heavRo more. . lily in, the destruction of an entire ou ences, Sebainge which | jap fleet—the first time a new Eeem e least - damage n S| force was wiped ou yy | whole area are such government of-| jr, | fices as the Reichschancellery, the| pappy flew the first B-25 to carry | propaganda ministry, the. air minis- | {

MRS. AL RC always has told to do was to j , convinced of it the country and

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try and the foreign office. At least their roofs. still seemed

to be on even after the great Amer- SWISS DIG DEEPER ican 2300-ton raid of Feb. 3, in which ] experts indicated that all these of- INTO FOOD RES

fices had been hit. ¢ They based their appraisals on these same photographs and, ob-| BERN. Feb. 19.—Swiss housewives - viously, ‘they know _better than the placing great faith in the outamateur what ‘damage was done, come of thé current Bern economic Berlin's East End, which will be in| ..caarice, They ope that it willl the Russian area, seems to be fairly i.0 about the restoration of}. well preserved, including the dis-| enough coal to cook what food they tricts around Schlejscher and Gor- ,..e | litzer stations. { «The Swiss are having to tighten The proletarian areas seems t0|4p.ie pelts: among the last na-| have escaped better than te middle | 4; nais in Europe to do so. Startclass and upper class districts. . ing on March 1, it has heen anObviously, Berlin ‘will undergo .....odq the daily ration of potato further changes before we get there. p oqq (there is no other kind) will It Is still -due for additional heavy pe reduced from 250. to 225 grams pastihg from the air if the Germans... day choose to defend it, and shellfire; Switzerland has had to livé"for the which is more accurate than bomb-|,. 4 year on its reserves, suppleing. * Shai NS we. th {mented only by local produce. The ill, with-a little patience, the| cent hread ration, for civilians, three occupying forces ought to be Dress and refugees requires 1200 tons ablé to fix themselves up pretty! ¢ corn daily, a terrific drain on nicely. stocks, according to a government

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Wife Returning From Mass for Pacific Ace Learns He Is Alive

4 PITTSBURGH, Feb, 19 (U, P).— one to the haby and me,” Mrs, Ruth Suehr returned to her | Suehr said, home after “attending mass which! “I don't know why I did it, but had been said for her husband,| the first thing I read was the date. | » Capt. Richard C. Suehr, who had It was January 31. At first it didn’t | been reported killed in action in|register, then I read it again and | the South Pacific Jan. 1, I realized it had been writterfafter | Sorrowfully she went about her Dick was reported killed.” ordinary household duties—prepar-| A hurried phone call to the ading. breakfast for herself and her |jutant general's office and then a baby, Ricky. She thought of the | period of waitin i B 3 ) g and praying foltime just two years ago when Capt. |lowed. | i i When the adjutant general's -of- The Classic Cardigan

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forced down in the wild bush coun- , For six days he hiked through |Suehr that her husband was well | jungle, living on berries and and safe and was still piloting his i until he stumbled |P-38 in the Pacific. io | 8 native settlement, ° | Capt. Suehr, a graduate of Mar- , Suehr paused in her quette university, was rated an ace to read the morning|in May, 1943, when he was credited .| with shooting. down his fifth Jap |

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