Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1945 — Page 7

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; > REE PARKING ‘Secret Weapon. 5 "Okinawa rec Shi, T= BUTLER GRADUATES, F : ; ; ooh # p Y John W. Bricker, former or Br WILLIAM MCGAFFIN completely housed in ships, which He “a ermor of Ohio and 1044 Republican Just Across the Street "WITH SERVICE SQUADRON 10, Saves Many Years 3 Ag iP 0 3 ; nominee - for vice president, will In the Pacific, April-3.—Censorship More than any other single de- ho ; SER gE : ¥ speak at the Butler ' university | wraps have .been lifted to permit | velopment of the war, perhaps, this ; Ag, # ’ a 4 g commencement exercises June 11, the disclosure of how a “secret|floating base has utterly upset Jap ) i en el Dr. M. C. Ross, Butler president,

. " | calculations. It would have taken| Say £7 ? announced today, I! Jreapon Tao 1 He Drecifiovs| |years to establish land bases close| | NP 48 : i 8 jo ; I Three times elected governor of ; Women Ss fo U.8.5th fleet pe 2 | enough to threaten’ Japan's vital| ; A 4 N 5. FE his native state, Mr. Bricker. served for its vital role | fo areas, ; ; Big 3 a, ; as assistant attorney - general of | . st spearheading | Ade | But for the development of serv- oe . . | Ohio from 1923 to 1927. He was a Spring and supporting | ald ite squadron 10, official name of this Ld 9% na member. of the public utilities com- | : . ; wl floating base, Japan might have| § 3 ; pe iy mission from 1020 to 1632,

: Ry " § Former Governor Bricker for- i ¥ . 4 AT | gotten away with {ts plans to de- E of SY - : this “secret i. F © velop its conquered territories to | FEE EERE : of mally opened his campaign for the 7 ¥ F 0 0 u ay weap” —it was {ED 3 “ | point where it would be so strong| op Pg . Tice bres ency in Indiana last Sep- | 7 > jesignated as i oi it could not be defeated. Hai - 4 : ember . : 3

Such by Adm, NER This - product of American in- LT, HYTER IN CHINA ® Shester W. Nim- £3 \ 'C genuity literally has revolutionized

tz, himself--is a distances from ports in which the 4 o , fNoating base, a Mr. McCain” fleet can operate. In previous wars i RE y n, 308 i . mobile’ supply and , repair base.|1000 miles or so was the maximum. gham dr, is an assistani 5 i y 0 1

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ers "se - | - | Jnlike fixed- land bases, this|Now we are operating 6000 and 7000 : : personnel officer at a Chinese com- |S

! A bat command field headquarters in| 8 a city of floating filling stations,| miles from base. School 80's Knit-Wit clubbers (left to right) Don Kirkpatrick, south-central China so spending | + water tanks, drydocks, repair shops, Ordered By Nimitz Spencer Trudgen, Richard Macy, Frank Abbott, Carol Crosbie, Gloria |several months as a courier on the |

tmmunition storehouses and hotels| rp... Okinawa operation—three| Chandler, JoEllen Geiger and Janet Ragsdale. Burma rd. \ "or thousands of mechanics, repair- times as big as anything the navy . 7m nen and ammunition handlers, |} before attempted—would have THE KNIT-WIT CLUB of US been impossible without this float- school 80 at 920 E. 62d st. has ing base, ordered by Adm. Nimitz . ; ‘se oe i , _ [and built by the naval genius, Com- just completed its Easter project. { modore Worrall R, Carter, Norfolk, | Club members made 45 stuffed | Va. 8 | animals of assorted sizes, shapes | From anchorage service squadron and colors for the children at {10° supplied fighting ships with] | astronomical amounts of supplies : | pefore they jumped off. pp. afghan for patients at Billings | amounts cannot be disclosed. But hospital.

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|full year—enough to run one €ar| A transparent celluloid kit beme | JOT 300,000,000 miles. | longing to WAC Cpl. Mary H.

THREE: Sufficient lubricating oil| gerak was found near The Times for complete change of oil in 466,- | mice yesterday. by Alvan L. Foley,

000 automobiles. SR isan man for the Western

. FOUR: Enough explosives to0| ynion Telegraph Co. blast Tokyo out of existence—the| 1ncluded in the kit,’ which is at : . equivalent of 480 freight cars full.| The Times office, are an identifi- i : E ‘ - Sold £ ’ £ 7 ; b FIVE: Nine million gallons of|cqtion card giving Cpl. Herak's sta- Ii nest Funeral Service ecauvse your water to ease the task of distilling| {jon at Freeman field, Seymour, and

: i plants carried by each ship for con- military passes. diet lacks bulk? verting ocean’ waters to fresh.

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. f bran...important Vitamis B, operation would not have been curAll these thousands of tong of ” «needed iron and phosphorus. tailed,” he went on.

: F supplies, ammunition and fuel for| “One bad moment was ‘when the Finer-milled by special pro- this operation were brought to the!,.. ai of oil was badly timed and

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You'll be sur- [#1 NA x Floating Warehouses this mistake we had to unload 1000 i 2 F k prised ., . and H This floating base is as far from tons af ammunition to get down to 18 SIL rom Indianapolis’ Authorized k San Francisco as ‘San “Francisco is the "eight-inch shells, which were } : : 1 ; Keepsake Jeweler Jrom London It is as far {rom urgently requested-by the pornbard. | : a 3 Pearl Harbor as New York is: from. ment group at Saipan.” San Prancisce, “| . Carter's floating-base has ‘grown Both conventional types of ships in experience and size since then, I Your comsti- ; . and some “special designs such al until it was capable of jobs such as putes doe vo} P “crockery fleet,” or a green dragons,” |that just performed for Okinawa Sour physician, 4 : comprise the hundreds of ships of! operation.- The commodore estiservice squadron 10. The green mated that more than 1000 ships of | BAKED BY NABISCO . dragons get their name from the all $ypes Werp Servciy for that. A Ores Saicny fact that they are made of cement “Comseron 10,” as the name o ther endid NATIONAL siscuir, COMPANY jand ‘are painted green. ‘Fifty per | the floating base is telescoped in Dr va,

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