Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1945 — Page 2

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Congressmen Believe Only, Boys of 18 Will Be Taken.

WASHINGTON, April 5 (U. P.)./| #1 efThe war department expects to : draft nothing but 18-year-old boys | , after the collapse of Germany, it was reported in congressional |

‘gircles today. Plans for army strength after V-E day have been under discussion

recently between military and con-

..gressional representatives in con- | «, nection with two bills now pending . in the senate, One measure would extend the | selective service act for one year beyond the present May 1j expira-.| tion date. i The other would permit resumption of enlistments in the regular United States army instead of the war-time army of the United| ' Btates. It js designed to build up a regular army force that will continue in service through the period of post-war demobilization of draftees. Only 18-Year-Olds

wear your old suit,

Suits, Dresses, Caais and

Who in the war-torn world will sequent sorting, packing and ship-

dress, coat, hat,

shoes?

ping will be in charge of George A. | Smith, local collection activities co-|

Marion county soon will be asked to donate two million pounds of clothes for the destitute people of once-occupied countries. Basic plans for the collection were discussed yesterday by relief and civic organizations in the War

| Memonial building.

ordinator. Mr. Smith has established offices! in room 300, Board of Trade building.. His phone is MA-5361. The local committee is headed by | former Governor Sehricker with Bishop R. A. Kirchhoffetr as vice! chairman.

Planning for the county-wide collection of clothing for the war-

| devastated people of the world in

Shoes Needed in Europe

| terday were (left to right) George

the War Memorial building yesA. Smith, local co-ordinator; former Governor Schricker, man; J. Eugene Cecil, co-ordinator of the Greater-Chicago area, and Bishop R. A. Kirchhoffer, vice chairman. They met with delegates of about 65 local organizations asked to aid the United National Clothing collection, .

chair-

“TWO ih u S. Casualties Exceed

STILL AT LARGE

ANDERSON, Ind, April 5 (U, P.). -Two convicts who escaped yesterday from the Madison county jail after overpowering = turnkey, | Perry Hoffman, still were at large! today. { State police reported they had | found no trace of the missing men, | [Danny O'Brien, 22, Elwood, and | Kelso “Bowers, 23, Bloomington, de- | [spite a state-wide’ search throughlout the night. The men attacked Hoffman, sub- | dued him with crude weapons and |

freed themselves. A third man, was held by the turnkey and did] not escape. Hoffman suffered minor cuts from | a knife, fashioned from a spare-rib| bone and a nail, weilded by the two, The convicts escaped along the! Pennsylvania railroad tracks. State | police halted a freight train in the! j vicinity last night but a search re- | vealed no trace of the men.

C. I. 0. WINS AT JASPER WASHINGTON, April 5 (U. P.) .—| The national labor relations board | today designated the United Fur-| niture Workers of America, local 331 (C. 1.,0.) as bargaining ‘agents | | the production and maintenance | workers at the Jasper Veneer Mills Jasper, Ind.

900,000 for All

WASHINGTON, April 5 (U. P.).—U. S. combat casualties, officially compiled and announced here, reached 892,909 today. This means that the actual total, including losses yet to be recorded in Washington, has surpassed 900,000. Today's official figure was 20,047 greater than-that. announced a week ago. It included 798,383 army and 94,526 navy, marine crops and coast guard casualties, The figures; Army 156,471 , 486,929 88,755 66,228

Navy 36,649 42088 10,623

Totals 193,120 529.917 99,378 70,494

Wounded Missing ... PrISONGIE ius. vesnssrsiivasivest 892,909 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said at his news conference today that 187,799 dead Japanese have been gounted in the Philippines. He estimated total enemy casual- | ties in the Philippines at more nn, GATES NAMES TWO U. 8. casualties in the Philippines now total 8138 killed, 28,356 wounded and 487 missing, he said, pointing out that the ratio of

Japanese counted dead to Ameri- Joseph E. Cain and Paul W. Me

pt Branches

T0 PLANNING GROUP.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 198

BAKER WILL HEAD “LEGAL AID" GROUI

Charles + ©. Baker has bee (elected president of the Indiana {olis Iiegal Aid society. Other officers are Jeremiah Cadick, vice ‘president; George Eggleston, secretary, and Willi G. Davis, treasurer, New membe elected to the board of angio were Herbert. E. Wilson, Srogon and williar | G. Davis of the law firm, Baker an Daniels Mr. Cadick succeeds Joseph Bloch and Mr. Davis succeeds A thur C, Shea, Following’ the resignation of Eggleston as general counsel, t {society is operating with Herbe J. Bagker, Robert F. Biehl Per orge M. Ober and Wi Steckler, part-time atto serv ving as counsel,

| superior court judge,

cans killed is 23 to 1. When units of the 77th division landed in the Kerama islands in the Ryukus, Stimson said, U. 8. losses were 24 killed and 61

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eral manager of the P. R. Mallord

| Economic Council today by Gov-|Co, here, replaces Charles J. Lyn:

ernor Gates.

the Accomplishments of ,the council, | | the Overhead Door Corp. of Hart [created as a

| Mr. McKee,

post-war planning | ford City,

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wounded. The Japanese lost 306 |agency, were to be discussed at a { O'Brien, who recently accepted a

killed, 140 sealed in caves and 99 [meeting today.

captured.

Mr. Cain, vice _president and gen- | servation commission,

{appointment on the Indiana com

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Discussions in connection with County participation in the - ——————————————————————— mar those two bills, in addition to gen- United National Clothing col lection | + eral demobilization . plans, have has been tentatively scheduled for given congressional leaders the im-| ga ‘one-day drive April 23.

pression that the army wants only |

18-year-olds after Germany is defeated. Approximately 100,000 boys {' turn 18 each month, of whom about %0 per cent -aré acceptable under present draft regulations. “They should be enough replacement problem confronting ‘us in the war against Japan,” commented one member of the senate military affairs committee. “The real job will be one of demobilation of the men already in service rather than drafling anything more than replacements.’ It was pointed out that the army, already has nearly 8,000,000 men in uniform, “That's more than we can in the Pacific war,” haven't even got the shipping to put that many men in the Pacific.” Shift to Pacific

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Use Fire Stations Mayor Tyndall has promised the use of city fire stations as collection depots which will supplement a possible curb pick-up. Lending advice in the planning session was ‘J. Eugene Cecil, coordinator of the Greater-Chicago area. Mr. Cecil outlined the plan to be used in his district. He urged representatives of about 65 organizations to “get out and get the clothing.” “I really felt the need of the campaign when I received reports on European conditions,” he said, People ‘Barefooted “In some of the once - occupied countries the people have made clothes out of paper. In Czechoslovakia —the—peopie—are barefoot:

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The navy revealed yesterday it is lowering - its calls for men

per population than any in the

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through selective service- and by

June will be calling up only half he donated. for

Ss many as the 35000 draft monthly during the past year. It is contemplated that more than 1,000,000° men will be] left in Europe as an army of occu- | pation. An undetermined number | will be demobilized under a point system on which the war department has been working. Still others seasoned in European battles will be shifted to spearhead the Pacific drive. They will be! augmented by the 18-year- olds | ‘drafted as they come of age. Congressional leaders generally believed that all men over 18 who | have not been drafted before the | “German collapse thérefore will | + mever see service in the present ' War.

3 HOOSIERS AMONG PRISONERS FREED

Two Hoosier servicemen and a civiliah are on today’ s list off lib-! erated prisoners from the Phil- | ippines. They are Pfc. Williany C. Murphy. Peru; Chief Boatswain's Mate Les- | N. Jones, Mitchell, and Muriel | Gertrude Jones, Bluffton. Pvt. Murphy and Chief Jones have arrived in San Franc

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Only serviceable clothing should this cause, he said.

{Clothes should be clean but not | necessarily have been sent for cleannot! ing before collection.

Mr. Cecil asked that no cloth-

ing be donated that would still

clothe and keep warm a person here at home. “But give that old suit that youl put away in the closet... The one | | you were going to have altered six months ago and instead bought a new one. The same goes for the women,” he said, Work of co-ordinating various phases of 1 the local drive with 1th subs

BOYS ADMIT THEFT OF 8 AUTOMOBILE:

After confessing to juvenile aid authorities the theft of eight automobiles in Indianapelis and nearby towns, two teen- ~3gers, rere held | here today. 4 The youths, one 14, other 16, told police they drove to Edinburg, Shelbyville, Boggstown, ditching one | car in the process.

NEW MEETING PLACE Ellen Rebekah lodge will meet to-

day in a new location, the Holliday building at 241 E, Ohio st., room

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