Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1945 — Page 2
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FIGHT FLARES
“Soldier Who Used CHINESE. REDS. SAVE
Talkie’ in Burma g.9q RAIDING CREWS
Helps Drive Here
12-Year-Old Township War
Renewed in Court.
Legislative effort to solve the 12-year-old real estate argument again
‘Has been challenged in the courts.
* A suit has been filed by Perry *township in superior court 5 to set
'aside action of the 1945 legislature that, made Decatur™ township the winner, The affair developed in 1833 when Marion county commissioners ‘changed the boundary line between the townships. The dispute prob-
rably wouldn't have grown except
that the $8,000,000 Harding st. generating plant of the Indianapolis sPower and Light Co. was at stake. Tax Revenue Involved
Tax revenue from the plant is considerable. The Indiana appellate court upheld the action of the commis-| sioners in giving property to Perry township. In 1943, however, Decatur town- ’ ship, which has claimed near-bank-“ruptey since 1933, obtained passage in the legislature of an act returning the property. The Indiana supreme court ruled the act unconstitutional and the fight was renewed. Want River as Line
The last session of the legislature passed a similar act.
Defendants in the present action]
are the Power and Light Co. Decatur township officials, the county auditor, treasurer and assessor and
‘the state tax board.
The suit asked that the present channel of White River be fixed as the boundary line between the two townships. This would put the utility property in Perry township.
SOCIAL WORKER TO
ADDRESS COUNCIL
Members of the neighborhood and youth agencies of the Council of Social Agencies will hear John M. McDowell, New York, at a noon luncheon Monday at the Y.W.C, A. Mr. McDowell, who is assistant executive secretary of the National Federation of Settlements, will speak on present settlements and their’ relation to other agencies in
the valuable |
The Perry-Decatur township! «boundary dispute won't stay settled.
8 community program of group
work and recreation.
BUS DRIVERS STRIKE
ASHLAND, Ky, March 23 (U. P)).|
—Approximately 150 drivers of the Blue Ribbon bus lines went on strike today, paralyzing local bus tfansportation in Ashland, Ky. and Ironton, 0, and forcing many war workers to walk to work.
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Pfc. Willard Johnston
ONE OF the service men demonstrating the uses of handietalkies in downtown Indianapolis this week is an Indianapolis man, well qualified for the job he is doing. Pfc. Willard Johnston, son of Mrs. Gertrude Andrews, 4917 Orion ave., is one of four returned Asiatic-Pacific veferans who are demonstrating the handie-talkie device in’ the P. R. Mallory & Co. campaign to recruit criticallyneeded workers. ” o os THE MALLORY plant, which makes batteries for vital communication equipment, is sponsoring
the demonstration on the street, |
In stores and in the lobby of the Indiana theater where “Objective, Burma!” gives a dramatic account
{ of the use of handi-talkies and ‘| | walkie-talkies behind enemy lines. Pfc. Johnston was returned to | this country after he served in a |
communicafion unit of Frank Merrill's Marauders in the 1000-mile march into Burma. 5 ” td
THE LOCAL soldier operated | the talkie device with a group | moving over mountainous terrain |
from 20 to 70 miles behind Jap lines, in the wake of the para-
chute division whose exploits are |
recorded in “Objective, Burma.” He took part in three cam-
paigns, five major battles and 32 |
minor engagements on the march which culminated in the capture of the airstrip at Myitkyina. Returned to this country after three years overseas, he served
with the famous Americal division |
“on Guadalcanal before going into battle in Burma.
WASHINGTON, March 23 (U.| P.).—Crew members of B-29 Super- | fortresses forced down in Japanese-
and led to safety by Chinese Communist guerrilla soldiers. That was part.of the story about Chinese Communist
|den, U, S. foreign service officer, who has just finished an eightmonth trip into
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“Attention All
B-DERS!
eighth floor.
grand falept by the W,
Saint Louis.
Sub-Debs' Easter parade of fashions. I. T. C. H. Club and their
soloist, Betty June Oakes: of course good music
will be Miss Thelma Stiers,
L.S. Ayres
The Sub-Deb Federation. meeting will be held Saturday, March 24, at 2:30 in Ayres’
Auditorium,
It's spring again''—and with spring comes the
There will be
By the Majors, and our guest star of the meeting
Sub-Deb director from
We'll be looking for you—so don't forget.
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March 24th,
afeas of China.
to give details about the rescue of |the B-29 crews, but indicated that |
[raany of them had been found by |
the Chinese Communists, led |
{through the Japanese lines and sent | (back to U. 8. headquarters in| { Chungking.
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The Chinese Communists, he said,
leredit the United States for taking |great Japanese pressure off them
with the Pacific ® campaigns.
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GIRL SCOUT COOKIE DAY ...
JBe sure to buy a package from the
Girl Scout who approaches you.
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LS. AYRES & CO.
held North China are being rescued |
activities | {Drought back by Raymond P. Lud-
He is the first offi- | |cial U. S. observer to go to that {area since 1938. He declined for security reasons
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Gestapo a Year|
PARIS, March 23 (U. P),— | Bishop Stockums, senior auxiliary bishop of the Cologne cathedral, was discovered recently’ hiding® in an old peoples’ home where he had fled after denouncing thé |
| Nazi party plan to. turn the ca-
thedral into a political museum early last year, Capt, Peter Wiktor, Detroit, Mich., chaplain of an infantry division, told the story in the army newspaper, Stars and
the Communist | Stripes, today.
Or 2 Clerics Evade | BOY, §, IS INJURED | Build Span Over bt WHEN HIT BY AUTO
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The Nazis forced the archbishop
of ‘Cologne west side of the Rhine, but Bishop Stockums stayed in the city. Both
to evacuate to the | | the acute shortage of medical aid in
evaded the gestapo for more than !
| a year by moving from house to
house. ITALIANS REFUSE TO WORK
TOLEDO, O. March 23 (U. P.. —A group of 650 Italian soldiers, angry because they still were re-|
garded as prisoners of war, today were on after refusing to work at the Ross-| ford ordnance depot here.
Eight-year-old Jesse Klee Brown,
1549 ‘8. Richland ave. is in City |
hospital today after he ran direct- | ly into the path of an automobile at Kentucky ave, and Minnesota st. { this morning. His condition is reported as alr. The driver, Earl English, M~ov~s-
ville, was reported by witnesses to
| be driving slowly.
LAUNCH CAMPAIGN
“Rhine in9Houvrs
WITH 1ST ARMY IN GERMANY, March 23 (U. P.)—The 237th engineer’ ‘combat battalion constructed a 1400-foot treadway bridge across the Rhine in the : record-breaking time = of nine hours and 11 minutes, it was disclosed today.
The veteran engineers, who won a presidential citation for work in the Normandy landings D-day,
| began construction at 7:15 a. m.
TO OBTAIN NURSES
| at the rate of 180 feet an hour
A drive to obtain nurses to ease
Veterans’ administration hospitals
|was launched by the U. 8. civil service commission today. More
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than 2000 nurses are needed to ald |
lin caring for wounded servicemen
and women who require hospitalization after being discharged. Civillan nurses to replace army
By 2 p. m. the gap was 70 per cent bridged. Work was progressing
and military police began gathering on the east bank to direct traffic. At 4:26 p. m. the bridge was
completed—in less than half the |
time normally required for construction of such a bridge.
INDORSE LUNCH PROGRAM WASHINGTON, March 23 (U.P).
{nurses in hospitals for coast guard,|—War Food Administrator Marvin a bread-and-water diet! merchant marine and army .casu-|/Jones today indorsed legislation to alties also are being recruited at make permanent room 528 of the postoffice.
the agriculture
{department's school lunch program.’
000,000 10DAY'S "GOAL OF RED CROSS,
Volunteer workers in the Indianapolis Red ‘Cross war fund campaign hoped to reach the $800,000 mark today. The drive, which opened March 1, closes next Wednesday night, and | workers have been urged to cover [their territory as quickly as possible, A total of $554,601, or 48.4 per cent of the $1,145500 goal, was already in prior to today's third report meeting. “After our checkup tonight, we will know exactly where we stand and how much of a balance will be needed,” Russell J. Ryan, general chairman, said. “We. realize that despite all of the hard work done » date, the big task is still ahead of us.”
FREED FROM PRISON CAMP Evelyn C. Barnes of Fairbanks has been liberated from a prison ‘camp in the Philippines.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1945 1 Just Sax Lhate
~+or.an Evening
WASHINGTON, March 23 (U,
P.).—Royal air force pilots like “*«
the nightly Mosquito’ plane bombrun to Berlin, according to the British Information Service. One pilot, the B. 1. 8. said, ex~ plained it this way: “We can take off after tea and be back before the officers’ club bar closes.”
'LIFELONG RESIDENT
DEAD AT" HOME HERE
Mrs. Lois Schurmann, Inc.anapolis resident nearly all her lite, died last night at her home, 4430 Park ave., after an illness of two years. She was born at Traders Point and was a member of the Tabere nacle Presbyterian church. Her husband, Howard, and three sisters, Mrs. S. D, Crane, Carmel, Mrs. Wilbert Eggert, Indianapolis and Mrs. Cletus Haggerty, Putnam ville, survive, Services will be held tomorrow at the Flanner & Buchanan mortue ary with burial at Crown Hill,
FRIDAY,
HOUSE |
DRAFT |
Bill Passed Withot WASHINGTO!
~The ‘ house | passed and sent lation extending
ice act for anotl ent act expires The measure opposition and It would exter til the termins should the war 1946. The legislation by -the military after army charges that tI had broken a rt 18-year-olds in a year's trainin
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Rep. Forest / one of the lea give 1B-year-ol said: “The regulat olds into comba after induction as soon as Gel think we'll nee them then.”
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