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HOOSIER WINS HIGHEST HONOR

Sgt. McCall Is Awarded Congressional Medal. -

» The congressional medal of honor and a citation personally signed by the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt will be'uwarded to S. Sgt. Thomas CE” McCall of Attica at a post review at Ft. Harrison tomorrow. An infantryman, Sgt. McCall is a ‘prisoner of war in Germany. His father, Richard D. McCall, will receive for his son the country’s highest honor at 4:45 p. m’ from Col. ; Henry E. Tisdale, post commander. The sergeant won the decoration during an attack on German posi-e "tions along the Rapido river in: Italy Jan, 22, 1944, Last Man Alive The last man ‘in his section left ‘alive and unwounded, Sgt. McCall was last seen advancing on an enemy machine-gun nest with hi own: machine gun blazing from his hip. By that tinie he had knocked out two German machine guns and killed or routed their crews, Word was received later that he had’ been taken prisoner by the Nazis. Commander of a machine gun : McCall ewpasgd Migs

ee self to enemy fire. "and led -his men “through a barbed wire entangiement on the opposite shore to a road where the section's two machine guns were set up. Killed Nazi Gun Crew When one of the guns was destroyed, wounding the gunner and killing his assistant, the Attica soldier crawled to the wounded man and dragged him to safety. After men of -the second machine gun group were wounded, he picked up

the gun and killed or wounded all | -

of the crew im a Nazi machine-gun nest. Then he turned on a second machine gun crew that had started firing on him and rushed it, killing four of the gun crew. He then went after a thjrd machine gun nest.

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Word that Cpl. Don Johnson of the 106th division was released from 2 German prison camp April. 9 by allied troops has been received here by Miss Shirley Mitchell of 1306 Edgemont ave. Cpl. Johnson, who trained “with the 106th at Camp Atterbury, was ‘liberated from Stalag 9-A. He was

To Talk af Butler

T. Sgt.

Ward Walker,

nuaP Journalism Field day at Butler univers sity May: 5. i A veteran of the Cape Glou- ! cester: Peleliu and Guam campaigns, he will speak before a general assembly of high school students preceding a series of specialized group meetings. He will be introduced by Evan B. Walker, executive. assistant to the president of the Indianapolis

Sgt. Walker

marine. | combat correspondent, will be the | principal speaker at the 12th an--

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Railways, Mr, Walker, former Butler publicity director, inaugurated Journalism Field day at the university .in 1934. A reporter for the ‘Chicago Tribune in - cividan life, . Sgt. Walker served in Samoa and New Caledonia. after joining the marines in 1943." He then was &ssigned to the first marine diviserving at Cape Gloucester and Peleliu, and later to the third marine division when he went to Guan..© Last Dégember he was assigned

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DOUGLAS TALKS IN CITY MAY 11

Justice Replaces Truman in War Loan Drive.

Justice William O. Douglas of the U. 8. supreme court speaks here May 11 at Indiana's seventh wat loan kick-off rally. He replaces President Truman, who scheduled an appearance here two days before the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

| Chairman Eugene C. Pulliam of

the Indiana war finance committee announced today that Mr. Truman

Hoosier campadign. , Douglas was chairman of the |securities and exchange commission before his appointment to the supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Louis D. Brandeis. The justice will speak to Hoosier war finance committeemen at a

captured last Dec. 16 in the battle luncheon. His talk will be broadof the bulge. Mitchell, his fiancee, that he would work, as well as a network of 18 Inreturn home “after putting on some diana stations. The broadcast would weight.” Hi8 mother, Mrs. Rita be the first of national aspeét in the Eldridge, resides in Hartford, Conn. seventh war loan.

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~ GET OLSON ESTATE

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. April 25

esate of the late Charles M. Ol-

« Son, widely known capital city the-

ater operator.

Mrs. Ethel C. Olson, his widow,

was named executrix of the will when it was admitted yesterday to probate in Hamilton circuit court. Her bond was fixed at $500,000, indicating that Mr. Olson's property was valued highly. . The estate was bequeathed to Mrs. Olson, with the provision that it becomes the

(U. P.¥~fhe James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for Children |

in Indianapolis was scheduled to-| day to receive eventually the eritire,

Given Promotion On Library Staff

Miss Wilma Reeve, a member of the library staff since 1919,

"THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES”

INDIANA'S TRAFFIC DEATH TOLL DROPS

Despite a 26 per cent increase in

: Elizabeth Beggs Rites Tomorrow

\ , Cl illspa nd Lee B, 'T./50ns, Clarence Millspatgh 3 An East side woman Was recov

last night was..appointed as- { the number of automobile accidents, \gnelby Street Methodist church. and Harold Millspaugh, Pittsburgh, ering today from injuries received

sistant librarian by the school board. She was rec- § ommended by Miss Marian McFadden, librarian, a n d has held the post of chief of circulation since 1941. She is a $s Es graduate of ~ Earlham college Miss Reeve and the New York State Library school.

property of the Riley hospital. The _s Miss Mary C. Wilson, head of

will stipulated<that all of Mr. Olson's holdings, except the money he {left, be held intact after his widow's death, and that the income

| from the property He divided equal-

ly among several brothers and sisters. When the last beneficiary dies, the estate goes in fee simple to the children's hospital. Mr. Olson died several weeks ago at his home in Carmel.

the registration department, will take Miss Reeve's circulation post.

She ‘joined the library staff in

1910.

SLAVS CROSS BORDER LONDON, April.26 (U. P.). — Yugoslav troops have crossed the old Yugoslav-Italian frontier and are fighting in the outskirts of the Adriatic port of Fiume, Marshal

Tito's communique said today,

Economic loss from traffic mis[haps throughout the state was {quoted at $41,552,000, with Marion county leading. Accidents in the, first yearly quarter cost motorists | here $5,618,000.

GERMAN CASUALTIES TOTAL 11 MILLION

By UNITED PRESS A Moscow broadcast reported by the F. C. C.-said today that 11,000,000 Germans had been killed or captured on the Eastern front.

Of the total, 2,000,000 casualties were inflicted since Jan. 1.

| Bennett, who died yesterday at the| Maurice of Denver, Colo.; a daugh-|

Pa, 16 grandchildren and two great- | When an automobile in which shi

ill n nwood. Burial will be in Greenwood was riding was struck by a truck

Mrs. Beggs, who was 53, died yes- grandchildren, terday in Robert Long hospital.| Mrs. Hazel Hill, 48, of 25624 H She was a member of the Shelby| HARRY FINK [17th * st, past- worthy matron ‘of Street Methodist church and had! Services for Harry Fink, who died the Brightwood O. E. S. and.a well been matron at the James E. Rob- | yesterday in his’ home, 2816 Mere- | known singer, was injured yestery erts school for eight years. fdith -ave., were conducted today | day in an accident at Brooksids Survivors are her husband, Mar- in the Aaron-Ruben funeral home. | ave. and Windsor st. fon: her mother, Mrs. Marie B. Rabbi David Shapiro and Cantor | She was a passenger in an auto. Meek of Indianapolis; two brothers, Samuel Levin officiated and burial |mobile driven by Ozro Carmody, 60 William E. and George W. Meek, was in Knessess Israel cemetery. of 2005 N. Sherman dr., who ver and a sister, Mrs. Martha J. Book,| Mr. Fink, a resident of Indian-| ceived hand and leg injuries. all of Indianapolis, | apolis 32 years, was 71 and belonged | Arrested on a veckless driving to the Knesses Israel congregation, charge was Robert Braun, 17, of OTA MILLSPAUGH BENNETT Survivors are three sons, Ralph|11156 Linwood st. He was injures Services for Mrs. Ota Millspaugh' and Louis of Indianapolis, and slightly. : Eugene Ross, 8, of 1306 DeLoss st, home of a daughter, Mrs: Elizabeth | ter, Miss Anne Fink of Indianapo-i{received face cuts when he wa,

Cob WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1045 FOUR PERSONS: HURT i J de mm a min. IN AUTO ACCIDENTS

{be conducted by the Rev, { |Morgan’ at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Milispaugh, both of Cleveland, O.

Pickering, 1304 Central ave. will be lis, and two grandchilden.

held at 1:30 p. m. Friday at Moore! dl

Mortuaries Irvington chapel. Burial LOUISE M. DRAPER will be in Memorial Park. Mrs. Louise M. Draper died toMrs, Bennett, who was 70, was a day at her home, 5209 Park ave. lifelong resident of Indianapolis ahd = A lifelong resident of Indianwas a member of Woodside Meth- apolis, she is survived by a daughodist church. Surviving in addition Pickering are three other daugh- ski, Cleveland, O.. a granddaughter, ters, Mrs. Edith Wright and Mrs. Joann Long, St. Louis, Mo. and

[two nieces, Mrs. Richard A. Fox worthy end Mrs. Mamhkall Arnof 'both of Indianapolis. ter, Mrs. R. E. Weidler, Indianap- | to Mrs. olis; a sister, Mrs. Leonard Jablon-'

struck yesterday in the 1500 blocl of English ave. by an automobil driven by Alfred Ramsey, 47.

Rites will be held at 3:30 p.m

Friday at Flanner & Buchan

mortuary and burial will be Crown Hill

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