Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1945 — Page 9

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By CHARLES T. LUCEY - Scripps-Howard Staff Wrifer

WASHINGTON, April 13.—Harry | 8. Truman is an everyday American who ploughed a straight’ furrow as a Missouri farm. boy and ‘who, as President, is expected to do the same. Extreme’ views on both sides can| pe heard Son Jui today, Tr here now. is, “How long will the No one By better than Harry Japs hold out?” There are all kinds of opinions, Truman how sharp is the contrast | Put actually TOO rove his right mind between him and the Franklin - We don't know, becauSe no one in his right min “Roosevelt h ceeded last night, |°3% pretend to understand the Oriental manner of H Sys 5 . a 4 Mr. I thinking. They are unpredictable. They are intonb he 3s a i Dealer. He has sistent. As one officer said, “They are uncannily oy beholden to bosses but he has smart one day, and dumb as hell the next.” Tn bi So 7 oc them. He Their values are so different” from ours. The er wid i Say So romise who|"eVS broadcasts’ from Tokyo and Shanghai are an »i% a man edrgll in COMP example. These broadcasts are utterly ridiculous.

can work well with Republicans as : Examples of Japanese Lies

with’ Democrats. And he is a rather frank-spoken man whose] pURING OUR first week on Okinawa they con-

blintness more than once bas got |

ORINAWA (By: Radio).—Our war with Japan has gone well in the last few weeks. We are firmly ofi | Okinawa, which is like having your foot in the kitchen { door. Our wonderful carrier pilots have whittled down the Jap air force daily. Our ‘anti-aircraft from ships and from shore batteries has plugged Jap ‘fliers for the highest ratio I've ever known from ackack. Our task forces have absolutely butchered the only Jap task force to ‘put to sea in many months. B-29's are hitting Japan, with fighter escort from Iwo Jima. Alrfields are springing up on Okinawa, We all say we sure are glad we are not in the Japs’ shoes. One ‘main question asked over

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colossal naval power we have here you could Baily believe. your eyes. “It's one of the most impressive | things I've seen in this war, We. have plenty of troops in reserve, and new convoys of supplies have already begun to-arrive just as ‘we finished unloading the original massive supply i fleet. : Firm -19 Years. On _Okinawa the majority of the Japs are on the dou southern tip, and in considerable strength. The| Services for William J. Merl, a northern area is being combed and a few scattered | salesman for the Landwerlen Leathones- mopped up. ler Co. 19 years, will be held at : Tnere is Jough, Jieniing is ig Solin and Bs will 8:30 a. m. toomrrow in the Blackremain toug e en 've heard some officers| say the south end of Okinawa may turn into another | I 3 am, Iwo Jima. That will mean heavy casualties on our Burial will be in Holy Cross cemeside, but the end of Okinawa is inevitable. tery. y

Rest of Island Seems Safe Mr. Merl, who was 39, died yesAND WHILE the army's 4th corps of infantry is terday in St, Vincent's hospital. He doing that job, the rest of the island apparently is|lived abt 1226 N. Chester st. and wide open for us to develop and we are doing it with |W8s & member of the Little Flowour usual speed. . er church. This island has everything we could want in such| Survivors are-his wife, Alberta; an’ island. There is plenty of room for more air-|tWo sons, Donald and James; a fields, room for roads and vast supply dumps and |DProther, John E., and three sisters, anchorages for ships. And the civilians from whom) Mrs. Josephine Trefry, Mrs. Cathwe had expected trouble are docile and harmless. ferine Dew and Miss Margaret Mer], The way Americans can build, this island can be|8ll of Indianapolis. transformed jn two months. Before long it could look like Guam or Pearl Harbor. We are in Japan's back door and while we are here they can't really do very much to us. :

WALTER EUGENE APPLEBY

Memorial services for Tech, Sth Gr. Walter Eugene Appleby, who

him in hot water. Harry Truman came to the senate in 1034 with advice from Boss

stantly told of savage counter-attacks ‘when there They told of driving a large part of our landing forces back to the boats in the Okinawa sea, when actually Shey fired ely 3 few shots onto the

weren't any.

intact.

“Of course, Japan's vast land armies are still almost | But if it does come to the great mass land warfare of continental Europe, we now are .able to

|died of wounds received March 19 in’ Germany, will be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday in the Lynhurst Baptist church. The Rev. C. H. Schick

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For Railway

Rites will be held at 2 p, m. to-

Kenwood ave.

Crown Hill. Mr. Reed was employed at the

in Beech Grove. He is survived by his wife, M&bel; a stepson, M. L. Nortman, Martinsville; two sisters, Mrs. Refnel, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Alameda Hammond, Cincinnati, O,, and two brothers, Willlam and Charles Reed, both of Indianapolis.

CARRIE SMOOT

Mount st.,, will be held at 2 p. m.

member, Park,

lifelong resident of Indianapolis. Her survivors daughters, Mrs. Edna Johnson, Mrs Ruby Gossett and Mrs. Marie Baldwin; two sons, James Court Apple-| gate and George O. Applegate, all|

| morrow at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary for Harry K. Reed, who died Wednesday at his home, 3553 Burial will be in

Hazel

Rites for Mrs. Carrie Smoot, who died yesterday at her home, 45 Ne

tomorrow at tha West Side Church of the Nazarene, of which she was a Burial will be in Floral Mrs. Smoot, who was 77, was a

include three

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pion of Indianapolis and Mrs. Opal Evans of Greensburg; two sons, Herschel of Pendleton and Delbert, serving with the army in Germany; two brothers, Robert and ‘Joseph, both of Greensburg, and seven grandchildren.

New York Central railroad shops ADDA GANTER

Rites will be held

home for Miss Adda Ganter, survivor of- a pioneer Indianapolis family, who died Wednesday at her hqme, 820 E. New York st. will be in Crown Hill. Miss Ganter: was the daughter of Cassius and Catherine Ganter, who settled in Indianapolis in 1849. She was 82, She attended school 9 and old] Shortridge high school and was employed at Kirshbaum Manufacturing Co. and the Excelsior Laundry before her retirement 18 years ago.

LIDA WILHITE BROWN Services for Mrs.

Saturday at ‘Grinsteiner's funeral] last |

Lida Wilhite! Brown, who died yesterday at the!

1118'z Shelby st.,

‘| home of a daughter, Mrs. Lida Stein, | will ‘be. held at.3 ! p. m, tomorrow at the Moore Mortu- | {aries Peace chapel.

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build up strength for that warfare right on the e. . Burial ‘will be| Pendergast to work hard, keep his p € 8 cen of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Pris-| {in Crown Hill; .

beaches: GUA ne knew the ropes,

‘and, answer hie wasn't until 1037 SIT TnEY oa mg that | put him in the national spotlight, and that was as vice chairman of a - committee investigating the railroads.

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Fy ALT pS finally suegsdad, 1o. Bd 6000 troops. The truth is that by sunset. of the’ evening we had an incredible number of scores jo ‘thousands of Americans on Okinawal Everything that Tokyo said about us was a downright lie. Yet maybe Tokyo really believed it. No one can tell. The Japs don't think as we do. The crippled Jap air force cannot do.us anything but spasmodic harm. from now on. And their navy needn't ever be considered.” If you could see the

No Exceptions When it came to digging into the Missourt Pacific, names of politicians and others back in Missouri began to bob up. Telegrams and tele-| phone calls poured in on Senator | Truman asking him to ease up on] that home-state stuff. Boss Pendergast was one of those who turned | on the heat.. But Mr. Truman told] THE DIGNIFIED Atty. Gen. James A, Emmert his committee investigators: | is a most accommodating man. He got on an elevator “I don't want you to ease up on in tne Claypool Wednesday, accompanied by a nice anything. Treat this investigation | looking woman—not his wife—and cdrrying her lugjust as you do all the others.” | gage. When they reached the 18bby, hé and'his comAs senator, Mr. panion walked over to. the desk.

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

There is a fighting spirit among us. People are will officiate.

cotifécturing ahout the possibility izSAMe Pacific war ~fgn we had ever ~Alawed. QuEsalygs

seluasn Ol Mr, and Mrs, Frank Appleby: 833 4» JMlE Norfolk: | st.’

to" |‘Anzio- beachhead and went into

For years it looked endless, “but now you hear people talk about being home maybe by Christmas. France in December, 1044, with the Some really believe they will. Others have their Rainbow division. finge Bre: is Srouses, but they are more hopeful than | | CORA MAUDE LAUGHLIN Instead of a war weariness, there seems to be al new eagerness among our forces to sweep on and on, and wind the thing up in & hurry.

Services are scheduled at 10:30 (a. m, Sunday at the Barnes funeral | home in ‘Rockville for Miss Cora Maude Laughlin, formerly of 2001 | Ruckle st, who died Wednesday at | the home of her sister, Mrs. V. W. Wilhite, Bloomingdale. Burial will be in Bloomingdale.

| A resident of Bloomingdale most day containing the check. The good Samaritan 1s| |of her life, Miss Sine was em-.

connécted with Capitol Dairies, but neglected to| 1 oyed five years in the home sérvidentify himself. . . . Note to the young lady at Conti-| ArT of the Citizen's Gas nerital Optical: Sorry, but I can’t carry out your re-| & Coke utility, retiring last” August. quest A long.time ago I learned that one item of| 1, addition to her sister, a broth-

Technician -Appleby--was--the. son.l.

apologized for Boss Pendergast and | when the old man died a few months ago he went to Kansas City to his funeral,

Truman never |

Pendergast had been |

his friend and there still was loyalty

there, that was all.

Harry Truman has a certain

gentleness about him, but back of|

this is the shrewdness which, despite | what some people have rated only] average ability, has carried him to! political success.

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mittee, he went to his friend Bob Jackson, then attorney general, and asked him for the best man he had to run an investigation. The attorney general gave him Hugh Fulton, and other able investigators were found. Friends cited this to show that, given a job, Mr, Truman tries to surround “himself with able people.

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There he put- the luggage on the floor, and started out of the lobby. Meeting a friend, he remarked: “It's. getting so you: have to do everything around this hotel—even to carrying people’s luggage.” Asked who the lady was, the agccommodating attorney general explained: Don’t know her from Adam, She stopped me in the hall and asked if I would carry her luggage.”...

Two of the

busses being delivered to IndianapWhen he became chairman of the |olis Railways will be on exhibit on Monument circle senate war investigating body that | Monday for a public inspection. The two busses, and came to be called the Truman com- | others expected within the next few days, won't go into service for several days—probably not until the Tt will take several days to instruct some of the operators with the new busses, including the automatic clutch feature. Best bet is the Central line,

Clothing Unnecessary

A HEADLINE in the Daily News Record, a cloth< |ing trade paper, announces that: essential commodity, says federal judge.” Upon reading the story, you find that the judge isn’t advocating nudist camp practices—merely that he refused to impose a jail sentence on a man pleading guilty to charging above ceiling prices -for 102,000 yards of However, the judge did give the man .a Norma Jean Johnson,"who works in lost her paycheck

service - department, Wednesday.and thought it was gone for good. Imagine her pleasure when she received an envelope yester-

Where will the new

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folks obtain garden space. mittee serving as a go-between for a couple of years, ut apparently nothing is being done this year. comment was suggested by a letter from Harold Clager, 614 N. Grant, seeking inforfhation where he! could find a garden lot near his home,

Government Cats | POSTMASTER Adolph Seidensticker has started his own private war on pigeons and starlings. A rep-| resentative of the fourth assistant postmaster general's office was in town the other day and heard Mr Seidensticker complaining about the bad manners! of the birds that perch above the federal building en- to the Mi. Carmel ¢hch 17. years

trances at night. The representative said "they had | #82

You see, there are a lot of street |

. It seems odd that, with the govus to plant victory gardens as we there's no organization set up to help The O. C. D. had a com-

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, the same frouble in New York, but managed to discourage the pesky birds with wooden cats, suspended

“Clothing is not and placed them

civilians? “They Hollanders,” to Berlin, they

he says, adding: “I suppose when we get |

on wires from the top of the building. Mr: Seiens| sticker had a carpenter make up some wooden ca

above the entrances at the OO oe

corner of the building. Now he's waiting to see the pigeon’s reaction. , 9th army in Germany, writes home to his wife (in|P:™ tomorrow at Flanner & BuchShelbyville) that his outfit has taken quite a few | towns but thus far they haven't found any German|

. Pfc."Glenn Ash who 1s with the |

all say they are“ Prench; Polish or|

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doubt, Glenn; no doubt--upless we get there first.

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"NEIGHBORS INDORSE TRUMAN'S ABILITY

INDEPENDENCE. Mo., April 13 (U. P.).—The home town neighbors of President Harry S. Truman—regardless of how they differed with him on political questions—were certain today that he would make a good chief executive. They voted .agaihst him heavily {inthe election. last fall, but one (and all, they were proud to have Missouri's first President come from | Independence, and- they wanted him to know it. “Harry will make a good #President,” said Col. William Southern, editor of The Independence EX-| aminer, who has. known Mr. Tr-| man all his life, “With everyone else in Independence, I am proud that a man from | Missouri—and one “from Independ- | ence-—=has become: President of the United States.” Mrs. Margaret | Ncland, 96, an aunt of the Presi- | dent, the Truman home, was “stunned by the great responsibility which is thrust upon Harry.” “But,” she added, ‘him and have all the faith in the world he can handle the job.”

| ELKHART WOMAN, | | ELKHART, April 13 | Mary Wilson, * whd was 102 last March 18, died late today in the Elkbart county infirmary.

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came to Elkhart as a child. BRIDGE PARTY TOMORROW Golden Rule chapter, O. E. S., will| | meet Monday in the home of Mrs. | | Hazel Berry, 847 N. Bradley ave., for a luncheon and bridge party.

| Ellen Truman lives across the street from|

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She was. born in Knox county, Ohio, and|

praise for a courteous trolley operator brings 100 er, also of Bloomingdale, survives. more just like it. : railway employees who are thoughtful and considerate. ! | CHARLES H.. WALTON They greatly outnumber the few whose manners are

Services for the Rev. Charles H. Walton, pastor of the Mt. Carmel

| Baptist church, will be held at 10

a. m. tomorrow in the Mt. Carmel

|church. The Rev. J. B. Carter will

officiate and burial will be in Crown ‘Hill. The Rev. Mr. Walton, who was 64, died Wednesday. He lived at 0268 W. 26th st. A barber on Northwestern ave. for many years, he began his work las minister in the St. Paul's Bap-

tist church in Greencastle. He later was pastor of Bethany Baptist|.

'|church in Norwood before coming

Survivors are his wife, Anna; a sister, Mrs. Martha Littlejohn of St. Louis, Mo., and several cousins in Bolivar, Tenn.

FLORA H. LAUT Services will be conditcted at 4

anan mortuary for Miss Flora H. Laut, bookkeeper of the W. C. Brass | Co, who died yesterday at her home, 702 Virginia ave. Miss Laut was a lifelong resident of Indianapolis and was a member |of St. Paul's ‘Evangelical Lutheran rehun a She is survived “by two sisters, | Mrs. A. L. Gale and Mrs. Bertha D. | Vehling and three brothers, William, Henry W. and C. W. Laut, all of Indianapolis. RALPH. WILLIAM SECOY

‘Services for Ralph William Secoy, who was injured fatally Wednes-

day night when his car hit a safety

zone abutment at Ohio and Delaware sts.,, will be held tomorrow in St. Rose's Catholic church in" Lima,

O. Burial will be in Dpper San-|

dusky, O. Mr. Secoy, president of the Federal Express Co., son ave. He was 46.

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JOHN: LEE SALLEE Rites for John Lee Sallee, who died Wednesday in his home, 2011 N. LaSalle st., will be conducted by the Rev. William O. Breedlove at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Moore Mortuaries Peace Chapel. will be in Washington Park cemetery.

Indiana five months ago. a member of the Baptist church. Survivors are his wife, Emma; two daughters, Mrs. Beatrice Cham-

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Employed at Union Sh Here 19 Years.

Harry Richard Foxworthy, railroad . telegraph operator at the Union station for 19 years, died yes-| terday at his home, 6170 Crittenden | ave. He was 73. A former resident of Knights- | town, Mr. Foxworthy came to work at Union station in 1018, after| working as a telegraph operator for| séveral railroads. He retired in| 1037. He was secretary -of the Indianapolis unit of the Order of Rail-| road Telegraphers for several years, and was a member of Knightstown | Methodist church. He and his wife, | Mrs. Eva Belle Smith Foxworthy, celebrated their golden wedding an-| niversary Oct. 23, 1942. He is survived by his wife; two, sons, Walter ‘'R. and Claude T.; al daughter, Mrs. Ethel VonBurg, all of Indianapolis; three brothers, Ira A., Ft. Myers, Fla.; Milton K., Indianapolis. .and Earl D., Knightstow: Mra granaetrer and “three great- grarichikiren,

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Indianapolis, and Charles Leo, Toledo, O., and five grandchildren.

years, ‘Mrs. Brown: Was TR Dhawan! a the. midow: ‘of Charles, Be. Brown, who died several years ago, and. was] a member of East Park Methodist |

: two other Retzer, | and Mrs, Isa-| belle Masters, Ft. Wayne. three sons, Orville R, and Joseph E. both of

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