Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1945 — Page 2
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Mrs. Gilbert N. Hulme will serve
~~ BOARD NAMED
Trustees Will Appoint Five :
- To Commission. |
Names of five trustees of the city's redevelopment commission ; established by the last legislature to 3 |
_ clear blighted areas were announced : \ i |
In accordance with the law, Mayor Tyndall and City Council President 3 | John Schumacher each named two, $n and one was named by Circuit Court 3 Judge Lloyd D. Claycombe. b y | The Tyndall appointees are Helen Hamilton Arthur R. Baxter retired president of the Keyless Lock Co. four-year| MISS HELEN HAMILTON, Determ, and Isaac E. Woodard, presi- | catur high school senior, fecently dent of Acme-Bvans Co. three was crowned Junior-Senior Prom years. |queen by Marvin Armstrong, junior. Mr. Schumacher appointed HuBert! In a formal garden setting the H.' Woodsmall, president of the royal attendants were the Misses woodsmall Agency, Inc, for a four- | Betty Bennett, Patricia Murphy, | year term, and Fred W. Jungelaus, | Joan Latimer, juniors, and Margaret president-treasurer of the William | Barnett, Evelyn Horner and Carol Pp. Jungelaus Co, to a one-year | Cox, seniors. Harvey Clarkson will term, be master of ceremonies. Earl H. Schmidt, secretary-treas-| Committee chairmen in charge of urer of the Hamilton-Harris Co. arrangements were Rose Lee Beving- | was appointed by Judge Claycombe ton, entertainment; Shirley Carter, | to a two-year term. decoration; Mis Taumes, veld iments; Mr, Clarkson, finance; Mr | WH Ayyvint Comission {| Armstrong, invitations. Mrs. Cath-1 The group will meet within 301 erine Copeland and Mrs. Marjorie days, to elect officers and appoint | Woods were SpONSOTS. five members to a redevelopment commission. The commission mem-
bers shall serve one-year terms. | SOLDIER ABSOLVED 2 The commission has been given] vk power to: ) Declare an area blighted, to con- IN WOMAN S DEATH demn and clear the property with- |
in this area, to replan the area and| pyt Charles Dodson, 26, of Bear to sell parts of it to other city de- . air fleld Ft. Wayne, Ind. partments for park and other pur-|®'" wil re 2y J poses, and to sell the rest of the | Was absolved of guilt yesterday in land to private business for low-cost the death of a soldier's wife at Ft. residential construction. | wayne. The law further empowers the| ,, gammy general court martial commission to: ) Levy as much as 10 cents om each at Stout field here found Dodson $100 of property valuation for two | not guilty of assault and battery years without recourse to’ the usual with intent: to commit rape in conchecks on taxation. This means nection with the death of Mrs.
that the county and state tax boards Dorothea Howard, 36, whose hus- |
will not review the annual budget band also was stationed at Baer 7f the commission. field.
Tax Review After Two Years | - ‘Mrs. Howard died of pneumonia
O-V _i11 days after she was found unSljer This Iwo-yaup peried, hoy [conscious ‘in an alley. Authorities
ver, the law provides for the cus-| : omary SD reviews and places said she had been lying there about
the levy limit at 5 cents a $100. |five hours. Bitter controversy developed in! In Ft. Wayne, Prosecutor Everett the legislature during public hear- A. Blume of Allen county said ings on the bill. The plan, desig- | Wednesday that if the army failed nated a “private enterprise” attempt |t0 punish Dodson, he intended to to replace public housing efforts, file a civil court charge against the was developed by ‘Mayor Tyndall's | soldier and attempt to detain him
as new president of the organization of 500 Baptist servicemen's wives during the coming year. The organization was inaugurated to provide social contact and mutual aid for the wives as they
{await the return of their husbands.
The provision of needed counsel or assistance” for the demobilized husbands is also envisioned. Dr. C. W. Atwater, pastor of the First Baptist church, has mgreed to sponsor the group, which is forming units in local churches, Other officers elected by the central organization are Mrs, William Mutterspaugh, vice president; Mrs. Lloyd Sanford, secretary; Mrs. Robert Gary, assistant secretary, and Mrs. ‘Forrest . L. Morrow, corresponding secretary. Counselors include Mrs. Olive McGuire representing the Indianapolis association; Mrs, Willlam O. Breedlove, Baptist Women of Ine dianapolis, and Miss Marie Dryer, the Baptist Demobilization committee. »
St. Rita's Mibsters Compete in Qualifying Round
Keen competition has developed among mibsters at St. Rita’ Catholic parochial school. Here they are shown playing the qualifying round in The Times-City Recreation Division tournament. Individual school winners will compete at 16 [sectional meets to be held next Saturday.
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Pay-Off Is Near on Okinawa, Mindanao and Baguio Fronts
"FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1945"
By UNITED PRESS American ground forces moved toward the pay-off today in battles for southern Okinawa and for Baguio on northern Luzon and Mindanao in the Philippines. Japanese resistance was reported cracking on southern Okinawa, Troops of the 24th army corps c¢aptured Sawtooth ridge, highest point on the island. Tey moved into position for a downhill battle to the south coast. Radjo Tokyo reported the Amerfcans also had landed men and material behind a Japanese pocket still holding out on Motobu peninsula. This juts from Okinawa's northwest coast, Some 400 miles to the northeast, Superfortresses blasted for the sec-ond-time in 24 hours at seven Japanese suicide plane bases on Kyushu, southernmost of the enemy’s home islands. . Troops of the U, 8. 33d division battled toward the center of Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines.
Despite subborn resistance by the Japanese defenders, front dispatches said the city’s fall was imminent, On Mindanao, troops of the 24th division raced within 20* miles of Davao gulf in a drive to cross the island and cut Japanese forces in
two. Only scattered resistance wag
encountered, *
Gen, Douglas MacArthur's come:
munique said bombers attacked Formosa again,
dromes and railway yards. Other
planes wrecked 12 freighters, river . boats and patrol boats in sweeps - from Hongkong to the south Indoe -
China coast. In ‘Burma, British and Indian troops were reported making “good progress” in. a push south from
newly-captured Toungoo, 100 miles
north of Rangoon.
ACCEPTED BY FRATERNITY Carolyn Coxen, James D, Mitche ell and Ronald W. Gilbert, Indian
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7 0st-war planhing committee . headed by George A. Kuhn. Paul - L. McCord is chairman of the subcommittee on housing. It is estimated that the levy for| the first two years will produce! about $1,000,000 as a starter. The plan will be applied first to an area bounded by West, 10th, and 16th sts. and Fall creek.
TUK-A-PACHE CLUB TO SPONSOR DANCE
+ .The Tuk-A-Pache Teen Age club of the Y. Ww. C. A-Y. M. C. A. will | sponsor a spring formal dance to-| night at. the Y. W. C. A. Barton] Rogers’ orchestra will play. 4 Bob Jones is chairman of arrange- | ments, assisted by. Beverly Gunderson, Co-chaléman,. Other members, of the committee ‘are Joan Elis, | Marilyn Chapman; Mike : Michael, Bob Steel and Delores Heath,
R. A. F. RAIDS KIEL
| suicide.
<given command of a division.
for custody after the war.
SAY MAN WHO SAVED HITLER IS SUICIDE
LONDON, April 27 (U. P)—A British broadcaster said today that Lt. Gen. Emil Remer, who was credited with foiling the plot against Hitler last July has committed
Frank Gillard of B. B. C. said Remer took his life April 20 after his division failed to hold the Russians on the eastern front. | Remer, a major at the time of the attempt on Hitler's life, was] promoted to lieutenant general and
SCHOOL TO HOLD RALLY OF ALUMNI
The annual.reeeption of the New Augusta high school alumni asso- ||. ciation will be held from 8 to 11:30 |
LONDON, Apri 27 (U. P)~— |p. m. tomorrow at Pike township R. A. P, Mosquitos attacked the|school auditorium. ; German naval base at Kiel and | The classes of 1905, 1915; 1925 and
airfields in northwest Germany last | 1935 will hold reunions and a pronight. gram will be presented.
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