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SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1945
This story just arrived. It tells of Ernie Pyle’s
By BRYCE WATSON % United States Coast Guard Oombat Correspondent ON THE IE SHIMA BEACHHEAD (Delayed) —I watched a battered jeep return with the body of Ernie Pyle, bringing him 500 yards from the forward area. The Ie Shima terrain is smooth here, looking. like the Indiana “farmland where he was born—except it is broken by lines of advanéing tanks and tractors. — Maj; George H. Pratt, who was beside Ernie on that tragic instant, was sitting wearily in front of an abandoned Jap cave, “Ernie Pyle,” Maj. Pratt said softly, “was worth two divisions as a morale factor alone.” Ernie's body “had just been recovered from be. neath the machinegun and sniper fire up ahead by John J. Barnes of Petersburg, Va. . He was the driver of the jeep when it happened, and had remained with Ernie, pinned down by fire.
‘One of the Enlisted Men’
THE BODY was resting near Maj, Pratt. Ernie's battle dress was unpressed, his dusty shoes shielded from the sun by a poncho. “He was one of the enlisted men really,” Ma). Pratt said. When the jeep had started out, hours before, there had been four men in it besides Ernie—Dale Bassett from Denver, Colo.; Lt. Col. L. B, Coolidge, Helena, Ark.; Barnes, the driver, and Maj. Pratt, who is from Eugene, Ore. They were driying to the front lines, Suddenly a Jap machine gun opened up. The swath of fire swung to the right and swept oon a =”
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Ernie’s Last Words
was the victim. His last story is printed today on Page one.
By Bryce Watson
last ‘words, and details of the ambush of which he
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under the jeep which pitched to a halt. Al} five men went into the ditches. Barnes dived to the left, the others to the right. “The machinegun swept back and forth across their positions “I looked to my left,” said Maj. Pratt. ‘Ernie looked at me and smiled. He raised up slightly and said: “Are you all right?”
Among His Brave Men THERE HAD been a slight break in the firing. Just as Ernie Pyle asked his question, a burst got him. “He went backward slowly,” Maj. Pratt said. “It was a head wound. Thank God he never knew what happened. It was two or three minutes before he was dead, maybe, but he was unconscious all the time.” Tre machinegun was joined by sniper fire. All four men on the right side of the road managed to! crawl away. But Barnes had to remain until a special detail of infantrymen cleaned out the area, about 4! hours later. Then Barnes drove his flat-tired jeep back with Ernie's body. As 1 talked to Maj. Pratt, his voice broke several times. “He was so damned modest and human,” he said. I walked toward the beach, to the temporary burial ground. Men ‘were standing about, saying nothing. There were other dead there. In death, ‘Ernie Pyle was lythg among the common, trudging foot soldiers—the brave men-—he had glorified in. life.
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The following statement to Ernie Pyle’s feaders Is published at the request of Mrs. Pyle:
, “To all of you who have tried to find words to express the grief in your hearts for the deeply personal loss you feel because Ernie has gone from us, I want to say I am one of you. “Qur loss is a common loss. Your letters and mes-
FRANK FAIRCHILD, the lawyer, is just about to give. up on his lawn. Two years ago “he bought’ grass sced and sowed it on the front lawn of his home at I 6034 Haverford ave. Pretty soon the lawn developed a severe case of chives. The whole doggoned yard was just about covered. Frank thinks he must have bought chives seed instead of grass seed. He's been trying ever since to eradicate the chives, but he hasn't had much success. He's tried to” get the neighbors to help him pull it up by suggesting it was good in salads, but can’t get any takers." The irony of the situation is that he thinks that if he had TRIED to raise chives, he'd have raised nothing but grass. . . . A reader writes in to rib us about a story in the final edition of The Times Wednesday. A bulletin at the top of a page one story on the filing of a suit by a beer wholesaler had the statement: “We was granted a temporary restraining order.” At first glance, it appears to have been written by a sporting character of the “We wuz robbed” variety. But a hasty checkup reveals it should have read: “HE was granted, etc.” Just blame the printer. His shoulders are broad. . . . A runaway guinea pig has adopted Mrs. Anna C. White, 1524 E. Washington. The little animal appeared at Mrs. White's home early this week and looked hungry, so she put out some food for it. Now it won't leave. Whenever Mrs. White takes her pet dog out for a walk the guinea pig scurries along. She has inquired around the neighborhood but hasn't been able to find the owner.
Vas You Dere, Sharlie? JIM ELDRIDGE, a G. I. student at Butler, in doing some research on Alice Meynell, the English poetess, discovered in her letters to her husband, Wilfred, that she lectured in Indianapolis on March 15, 1902. She spoke before the Cgntemporary club. "Jim has; found one club member who remempers the
Ma 14 wo Arey ox x, leg EVERY DAY, more "than six times the number of words in ‘the Holy Bible are filed over arthy airways communication system to direct U. S. military cargo and passenger planes in operations all over the world. If each word were cut on ticker tape, it would require 1400 miles of tape daily. Thirty thousand officers and enlisted personnel operate the global] AACS stations, serving 165,000 milés of AAF airways, operating stations at more than 1000 locations. They are the “unsung” heroes who “keep 'em flying.” The story of AACS, known as the air forces global CAA, and the tremendous part it has played in the war, can now be told. Radio communications and navigational aids operated and maintained: by AACS furnish the electronic nerve system and airway markers for this global transcontinental air traffic. These services extend from the training fields and air transport terminal airports in the U. 8. to the “end of the line” stops at the battle fronts, the AAF routes which 700,000 wounded and 560,000 tons of high priority cargo, mail and passengers were carried in 1944. Its nerve center is located at the AACS headquarters in Asheville, N. C.. Its commanding general {s ‘Brig. Gen. Ivan L, Farman.
On Paper Only in 1938
IF ALL the main AACS route navigational aids— the radio range and homing beacons—were to be installed at equal ‘distances around the equator, an airplane ‘flying this 25,000-mile course would pass over radio range or homing beacon transmitter every B0 miles. On paper only in 1938, the AACS really became active on a large scale in 1941, Its original personnel ponsisted of only four officers and about 350 enlisted men when its first non-domestic base was located in Gander, Newfoundland.
My Day
NEW YORK, Friday. —The congressional committee now visiting concentration camps in Germany are viewing things which we at home find it difficult p take in. The horror-filled pictures and stories which we have been getting day by day in® our various newspapers make one shudder. The sufferings inflicted on war victims is cruel enough, but one also wonders what must have been done to a people who are willing to inflict such suffering. I read that one of our men, who had been a prisoner of the Germans, and. who is now back in this country, laughed when it
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ple near one of these camps did not know what was going on. He pointed out that there was constant communiation between the camp and ‘the town, and that: would have been. impossible for the: ‘people of ‘the m to be oblivious of what was happening. - I is therefore not just a question of soldiers orders. , It is a question of civilians reach 8 state of servitude that they ‘whatever ‘happetied to other.
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sages made me feel you had come to me for comfort | —the "comfort that Ernie had ‘given you each day. “That he will live in your hearts forever will | his reward—his monument.” MRS. JERRY PYLE.
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9s REPORT U.S. SEA BLOW 1 IMMINENT
Tokyo Radio Claims 100Ship Fleet Near Okinawa; Kyushu Blasted.
By UNITED PRESS American forces struck ‘new air and ground blows today in the mounting Okinawa campaign. Radio Tokyo said a 100-ship U. 8. invasion fleet off Okinawa's west coast appeared to be preparing for “new operations.” The fleet was reported to include four or five battleships, 10-odd destroyers and approximately 80 transports. The broadcast said 10 trans- | ports were in Nago bay on the west coast and the other ships. were cruising Qff the island. Suicide Plane Base Hit On southern Okinawa, 24th army corps troops advanced to the vicinity of Machinato, two miles north of Naha, the capital. It was believed the Americans had cracked through the strongest defenses. { Complete conquest of the island was | 1n sight. For the third straight day, B-29's blasted Kyushu airfields from which Japanese suicide-planes have been attacking the American fleet around Okinawa.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum!
poetess’ visit here, but who didn't attend because of an accident. Jim woula like to talk to someone who
did hear Mrs. Meynell that night 43 years ago. . . A
Mrs. William A. Dendy, a dietitian at Billings, has recovered the souvenir $2 bill she lost six weeks ago. The bill bore an inscripticn penned by her husband, | who is overseas. When she lost the bill Mrs. Dendy got in touch with the Indianapolis Clearing House | association, which sent bulletins on the loss to all banks. Co-operative tellers in the banks kept ther | eyes open, Sure enough, the bill was caught by the sharp eyes of Meredith Badollet at the Peoples State bank. Who said bankers weren't ‘sentimental? ... The street railway has two more new busses in the paint shop. Theyre due to go into service early next week, joining the first twe new ones on the Central] line. President Harry Reid expects to have 15 of the order of 25 by late in May,
End of the War.
THERE's AN OLD saying that “all signs fail in dry | were reported batling 700 yards! thousands who hit this
weather.” Apparently they fail in wet weather, too— at least, as far as cigns of the end of the war are| concerned.
a look at the signs, grabbed a pen and wrote: eight days from today, on Hitler's birthdav, April 20, war in Europe will end.” April 20 came and went, but the war still is dragging on. prediction Mrs. Haggerty is in good company. her date probably isn't as far off as, the guesses some of -the military marvels made a year or ‘so ago. In going back through the files recently I ran | across a story in July, 1944, about that mystic chart with the names of Churchill, Hitler, Roosevelt, Il Duce, Stalin and Tojo at the top. Their initials spelled] “Christ,” and under each name was their year of| . birth, age, year took office and total years in office. | In each instance the sets of figures totaled 3888—half of which is 1844. And further, the chart Puspersed to show the war would end Sept. 7, 1944, at 2 p.
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a few Japanese . planes | through to American ships off Okinawa yesterday morning but did not specify whether any damage was caused. Mindanao Cut In Tw% A Tokyo broadcast claimed that two allied cruisers, including the U. S. S. Savannah, and four large | transports had been sunk by suicide | planes in the Okinawa area. It |
{said a third cruiser was damaged.
American invasion forces on {Mindanao in the Philippines advanced 10 miles to within sight of {Davao gulf, virtually: cutting the island in. two. Bitter “fighting still raged on! {northern Luzon. Gen. Douglas | MacArthur's latest communique revealed no changes in positions at Baguio where the Americans last
from the center of the city.
Heavy. hombers from the Philip- | every 0 weeiss ago Mrs. Walter Haggerty took | pines blasted Formosa again. Other range for billets “Just | | bombers attacked the port of Saigon ‘and then set. out
in Indo-China.
British armored “spearheads ad-
But in failing in Lor | vanced 56 miles to reach within And
62 miles of the port city of Rangoon in southern Burma.
GROUP ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
Lots of people believed it, too, even when told hat Annual Meeting of of Trust Co..
their own life statistics would produce the same total —3888. - Oh, well, there's only one safe prediction: It'll be over when it's over, over there. : oy
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tors, or “hams,” seryice., By late 1941 the first airways Communica. tions crew was being trained and prepared for as signments which were to take AACS men to all cor-! ners of the world.
Fought Bitter Cold THE FIRST CADRE of AACS men headed for Iceland, Labrador, Greenland and the Hudson bay
territory of Canada in 1941, following the skeleton crew already in Newfoundland. They worked and | fought ‘bitter cold to install the first weather report- | ng stations and air-to- -ground communications as American-built bombers trickled through overhead to bolster England's air force. Cold mid-winter thaws flooded and washed away stations. High winds blew down antennae and wrecked installations but they kept communications intact. In late 1942, the radio range, homing beacon, airport control towers and ground-to-air stations were operating and guiding transport and combat aircraft across the Atlantic. At the close of 1943, the radio direction-finder was being used to locate and assist aircraft lost or in trouble and to speed rescue units to the aid of downed aircraft. In 1944, the North Atlantic airway became the first of the global allweather, over-ocean airways. Now ATC aircraft fly around-the-clock an average of 500 scheduled round trips monthly. The North Atlantic performance of AACS is
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Club Held.
Charles E. ‘Herin has been elect{ed president of the: 20-Year club of Flstcher Trust Co., succeeding Dongid. 5, Morris, RA . Other officers elected, at rie an- |
H. Moore, first vice president; Mary J. Sheets, second vice president; { Russell Geddes, secretary, and William Dawson, treasurer.
Directors named for 1345-46 were Rose Harriman, Atthur Hupp, Gertrude McOuat, Mr. Morris, William
“THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
|Judge Rhodes to Accept 2] New County Juvenile Center
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The new Marion county juvenile center ‘at 25th and Keystone ave. will be dedicated at 3 p. m. tomorrow,
Dr. Howard T. Baumgartel, executive secretary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis, will be the guest speaker. Judge Mark W. Rhoads will accept the buildings for the court on presentation by County Commissioners William T. Ayres, Ray D, Mendenhall and William Bosson.
Situated on 1033 acres, the unit comprises three brick buildings and a steel-concrete structure
which is being made into a fieldhouse for youth athletics. The buildings include an administration center housing the staff members, a. hospital unit, offices, dining room and kitchen. The two others are used for dormitories capable of housing 40 persons each. On Merit Basis
The large grounds and the many tasks about the center give the youths opportunity to apply their time to advantage. They are placed on a point basis for assigned tasks which are used to determine conduct, There is a combined power house and laundry where the girls help |
A Pacific fleet communique said! broke
with the washing three days a
two-acre garden plot, the repair of a baseball diamond and general! beautification of the grounds. After considerable negotiations, | the county recovered the property
week and fron another three. The | boys at present are working on a
‘The Marion county juvenile center, 25th st. and Keystone ave, will be dedicated at 3 p. m. tomorrow. Assisting in preparation for the ceremonies are (left to right), Mrs. C. E. Sunthimer, decoration chairman, and Mrs. Wolf Sussman, committee member.
from the federal government which had been leasing it for national youth administration work. The county took over the property last December and by April 16 had | housed 120 girls and 319 boys.
The center is under the admin- | istration of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond | B. Jordan who took oyer the center |
when the old home at 538 W. New.
York st. was abandoned. ’ General chairmen of the dedica-
{tion are Mrs. Edward -H.-Niles and |
Mrs. John F, Engleking | Clayton H. Ridge,
Mrs. president of the
| Seventh District Federation which
is sponsoring the dedication, is
{program chairman.
By JACK BELL Times Foreign Correspondent
r- PARIS, April 28—"“Mister,
you tell me where is here eyeful | tower is at?” A soldier and his buddy, there is always a buddy, just off a truck |
| trom the front, were a bit bewil- |
dered, but by no | means daunted by the hurrying throngs on the Paris boulevard. They were two morg of the many
town
day, ar-
on their own, or go to the Red
Mr. Bell (Cross entertainment center and say,
‘Got two days. Wanna see all I can, so gimme the works.” They get the works, to a shop were 24 French’barbers, working furiously, have -learned that every soldier wants “whatever fyou got,” including a massage, tonic, manicure—and
nothing in the world ever resem- |‘
bled the picture of a French girl [cleaning a- soldier's muddy field | ‘boots and “trying to shine them, >ach kidding the other in bad Eng- | h and worse French. “Tours Arranged Soldiers, whatever their national-| lity, are tourists at heart. In Paris, as other great centers of the world, | | the Red Cross and the army work |
to to the Eiffel fower, to Notre
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shampoo, |
G.l.s in Paris Want to See Whole Show in a Hurry
|demand. ‘There are art classes and | instructors in French. There is a beer, or vin rouge as; a breather, then more organized en-| tertainment—the movies, French leg shows, anywhere that there is| action. Chestnuts -in Bloom |
Prom a trip to the famous | Comedie Francaise, at which the | girls of the cast served refreshments and talked to the soldiers as best! they could, came to mystified lads|
observing: “There wasn't any comedy to it, but some of them girls] sure had pretty legs.”
Paris, with the chestnut trees in!
bloom, beautiful now, and no| part of it has been left unexplored by the G.ls.
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visit French families, and on Sun-; day evenings the Metro is jammed {with returnees from a day in the country, all carrying flowers or | blooming tree sprigs. Some of the]
too. Pirst | Soldiers seem slightly ill at ease, | _
carrying a bouquet—-but 50, 000,000 | © Frenchmen can't be wrong.
Down in the maze of the Paris underground railway vou hear, ‘Where the hell are we?”
| I remember a strikingly pretty| | French girl at a Red Cross informa-! {tion desk, a place where no ques- |
“So I can't rent a bicycle,” cried a perturbed G.I, “then how do I! get around this burg?” “Go: get lost in the subway,” A\mademoisellé™ replied sweetly.
| Copyright. 1945, by The Indianapolis Times | ‘and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. ape —————
= EEL RE SUN WERORIAL FOR.
Just prior to Pear] Harbor, amateur radio opera- | nual .meeting this week were ROY pare cathedral, the chamber of
deputies and other historic landmarks. And, any time of day or evening, | soldiers stand with bared heads
around the flower-covered tomb of Wagener, who was killed in action for us and made us wear wooden
the Unknown Soldier at the Arch) of Triumph.
American are
soldiers’ tastes
PVT. J. E. WAGENER
Memorial rites for Pfc. Jewel Escol |
Jan. 23 in France, will be held at | 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at Heath Me-
[ries deep in Germany. |
Those stationed here invariably
FREED G. 1S SING ROUSING | PRISON SONG
Happy Soldiers. Cheer . as They Arrive in U. S. for 60-Day Furlough.
By JACK ROWLES United Press Staff Correspondent CAMP KILMER, N. J, April 28
—“We're a bunch of Yankee soldiers |
i “We are eating mush and black bread.and-a beverage they call tea. “And we're going to keep on singing until Patton sets us free, “And we go rambling home.” Four G. 1's leaned close and sang
lit today for the last time as a train
rolled them toward this reception | center. They were among 1975 American soldiers liberated -from German prisoner of war camps and | the last time they rode on rails | {they were in German boxcars—60 | to 80 men to a car. “Come and Get Us”
The quartet sang Qn, harmonizing |
Stalag ‘9-A theme song” to the! tune of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” They hit the chorus) hard:
“Come and get us Georgie Patton, come and gel us Georgie Patton. | come and get us Georgie Patton, so
we can go rambling, on.” T feel as thougn I'd: been born lall over again,” said Pfc. Robert E. Moore, 24, of Freeport, N. Y
He is the son of the comedian Vic-| ror Moore. He told a story of leaving %he | army musical, “This Is the Army,”
{going to the front for a dose. of} t¢hrapnel, ' pneumonia * in prison camp and the. loss of 45 pounds]
in weight. | Captured at Bulge The barber shop quartet was comprised of Pvt. Walter L. King | {Jr., 20 of Lynn, Mass.; Cpl Robert | R. Rudy, 19, of Old Orchard, Me.; S. Sgt. Richard J. Brax, 22, New| London, Conn., and Pfc. Bernard G. Cohen, 20, Bridgeport, Conn. All were liberated from the Ziegenheim prison camp by ‘Amer- | ican troops. They had been ‘captured during | {the battle of the Belgian bulge and | were held first in a camp at Bad |
Brax spoke for the four. He said | treatment was fair, but food was terrible, “I've eaten soup filled with mag-. gots,” he said. Brax and dozens of other G. L's, however, approved balanced meals for German prisoners in the U. 8S. They said that they thought it ould be a mistake to treat Ger-| {mans over here as they were
| treated. “Go Get Lost in Subway."
Capt. Michael De Marco, 35. of New York City, gave his medical opinion on the diet served Americans at German prison camps.
| tion causes surprise any more.
A former pediatrician, he said, “I| went from infants to infantry.” ‘Lawn Mower Stuff’ “The German diet,” he said, “is
a starvation diet consisting of about| 1250 to 1300 calories. A man who, stays in bed all day would require | 2500 calories. They gave us ren) | beets, turnips, dehydrated turnips! and greens. “Those greens “were awn mower stuff—grass, pine 1 needles, twigs and | untiefgrish.> : De Marco said “the Germans Walk a psychology of trying to make Americans “look silly or-ri-jesegons “They gave us clothes too small
rere ce
shoes,” he said. “Leather was for the master race.”
Five former prisoners at Bad Orb
B. Schiltges and Evans Woollen Jr. |. jed—museums and art galleries morial Methodist church. The ReV. said that the Germans had plenty
Reports of the club show that 110 members of the group hd¥e served | 2876 years with the Trust company and its predecessor companies.
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Forty-three of thé Fletcher TPrust Co. employees are in the armed forces. Club members now in service are Chief Electrician's Mate 1-¢ Herbért Stewart, Cpl. Richard W. Birsfield,, Warrant Officer Harold E. | Suess, Cpl. George R. Prank and Sgt. John R. Persons. Admitted to the organization this year were George R. Frank, George Hulsman, Mildred Garns, John Persons, Bessie Dungan, Elizabeth May Gwinn, Dorothy E. Briggs, Mary J. Crist, Merle Piper, William Patton, Alma Busald, Lloyd Beck, Carl Kingore, Homer Phillips, Richard
typical of similar records set on the small islands of the Pacific and throughout the world. Every 15 minutes a military plane takes off from a West coast | airport for a flight across the Pacific. Every 13 min- | utes an army cargo or passenger plane heads out to sea over the Atlantic. During peak traffic periods, military planes haul military personnel to China and | pass over the CBI Hump -only three and one-half | minutes apart. AACS men “get 'em off, keep 'em on route, and get ‘em down.”
By Eleanor Roosevelt
No wonder we are concerned about what kind of government and education shall be carried on during the occupation period. None of us can achieve much that is worthwhile unless we understand what happened to these people; and I am frank to say that, for me, it is still a complete mystery. I went to”school with German girls, I have known German men and women. The milijary.caste always seemed to me obnoxious, both as travel companions and as passers-by on the street. But the average human beings in Germany seemed just like other people. The Nazi regime, the 8. 8. and the gestapo are, of cowse, an obvioys explanation. But how could they have become entrenched without the people being aware of what was happening? That, is the really terrifying question. One wonders if other people could be fooled in the same ‘way, and one longs to know how to prevent its happening anywhere to any people ever agin. Our men, who have been, prisoners of war, and who have seen these horrors which we read about, will have lost some of that confidence in their fellow every American citizen, It will take time’to make them ‘believe again ‘that predominately people have good intentions, and I don't think they will be patient with talk which does not ‘materialize into action.
Mills and Roy Wilson. Three employees, Emil Kuhn, Mrs. Orpha Runge and Gottiried Nagle, reached 25 years of service this year; Wade Talbert, Alfred Coffin and Miss Margaret Ship, 30 years: Leland Crawford and
Robert Nershaw, 35 years: Rex P.|
Young, 40 years. The oldest in service of ‘the company is Miss Clara L. Johanning, who has worked at Fletcher Trust 46 years. Secretary L. Albert Buennagel has a 43-year service record.
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{ Ernie's Folks Ask Times fo Thank Friends
HUNDREDS OF letters and telegrams expressing condolences have been received by Ernie Pyle’s folks at Dana in the last 10 days. Because it will be impossible to answer all of these messages, Ernie's father, William C. Pyle, and his aunt, Mrs. Mary Bales, today asked The Times to print the following: “To the friends and readers of Ernie Pyle’'s column: “We wish to extend to you our appreciation of your loving and comforting letters and cards.” Ernie's. friends will be glad to know that these messages of sympathy and personal visits have helped to ease the grief they suffered since Ernie's death was reported. “We are bearing up much better than we thought we would,” / said Aunt Mary in a letter this’ morning.
Hugh J. Baker & Co. Will
Celebrate Its 35th Year|
Hugh J. Baker & Co. will celebrate its 35th anniversary and present service awards at a dinner tonight at Hotel Lincoln. The ‘company is one of the oldest in the U. 8. designing and fabricating steel for concrete structures. In 1910, Hugh J. Baker opened an office as a consulting engineer in the Majestic building, now the Farm Bureau building, and pioneered in designing structures of reinforced concrete, J. Ralph’ Fenstermaker joined Mr, Baker the same year to operate an agency for several well-known lines of metal building products: In 1911 Hugh D. Fatout Joined them as engineer.
“Carl W. Steeg foiried hie corpora-|-
tion in .1919 and has been financial officer since then. In 1921 fhe
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After 15 years of reinforcing steel, the company added struc tural steel and miscellaneous and ornamental iron. In the 1930's a department . for acoustical engineering and sound conditioning was added. During -the war. most of the company's work has been for the maritime com on, as is the case with the otlier companies under the same management, the Baker Forms Co. and Baker-Ross, Inc. In normal times Baker Forms Co. builds and erects forms for concrete’ structures. Baker-Roos, Inc. manufactures shoring and clamping equipment fof building contractors. Officers of the three corporations are Mr. Fenstermaker, president; Mr. Fatout and’ J. David Baker, vice presidents, and Mr. Steeg, secretary-
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and each time returned to active duty immediately after hospitalization. He was killed his first day
convalescence. The son of Mrs. Lillian Wagener | and the brother of Norman Wagener; 1015 N. Jefferson st., he was! a member of Brightwood Baptist {church and the Loyal Order of { Moose. The family has requested that fowers be omitted.
G. |. MEMORIAL FOR
| CAMP PICKETT, Va. April 28 (U. P.).—The soldier newspaper {Camp Pickett News has proposed | that American G. Ls start a move for, a national memorial for “Ernie | Pyle. The publication appealed for sug- | gestions from soldiers . throughout | ™ |the world for an appropriate me-| morial for Pyle. In an editorial, the soldier weeny pointed to Pyles efforts in securing combat pay and other recognition for troops overseas. Pyle was referred’ to as the “Homer of world war-II"” who used a battered typewriter “instead of a lyre” to beat out the rhythm of his songs.
ALEXANDER FUNERAL IS SET FOR MONDAY
Rites will be held at 2 p. mi. Monday at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary for Mrs. Charlotte Alexander, lifelong Marion county resident who died yesterday in a nursing
cemetery. * Mrs. Alexander, who was 88, was a member of Ebenezer -Lutheran Thurch, Brightwood chapter, O. E.
Relief Corps. She is survived by two_sisters-in-law, Mrs. Sara Wolfe, Indianapolis, and Mrs, Florence Wolfe, Bargersville; a niece; Miss Gula Wolfe, and a nephew, Tyner W. Myers, Mor; gantown.
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JO. E. §, CARD PARTY
of Lyrihurst chapter 505, 0. E. S. is sponsor of a card part today at 1229 Lyndhut public is invited. . :
Pfc. Wagener was wounded twice
back at the front after his second |
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of .food and other essential equip-| ment. Plenty of Food Stored Second Lt. Matthew J. Giusfre of Brooklyn, N. Y. said, "take this from me. The German§ had enough |food stored in warehouses to feed | their armies, all of us'and American divisions besides. I know because I%aw it after we were liberated.” | S. Sgt. Stanley Kasper, 25, of | | Chicopee, Mass., prisoner at Zieg-| enheim, got off the transport at Stapleton, N. Y., with a' German| BB. rifle slung over his shoulder. “The Heinies used it to amuse | themselves,” he said. Disembarking from a long troop |
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PAGE T | Reconversion ‘Spot’ Permits For Factories Now Resumed
i» By JOSEPH LAITIN United Press Sta@f Correspondent. WASHINGTON, April 28-—The “spot authorization” plan, stepchild of the war production board since its birth last August, came into its own today. It is the agency's chief ~ niechanism for cushioning’ the initial shack of the switch from a total war economy "to a peacetime level of civilian output. : It will be used during the next few months to help individual factories get back into peacetime production .when their war con= tracts are suddenly canceled or when they run out. Restoration of the “spot” reconversion machinery was an-
nounced last night by WPB chairman J. A. Krug. Center of bitter controversy
among the nation's top leaders, the plan was virtually shelved oy military edict last December when the allied armies gave way under the German counter-offensive. n = LJ THE ARMY unsuccessfully tried to block the “spot” procedure for months before it was announced. Born in strife, it was almost im-
mediately orphaned when Donald M. Neison, .éaiher of the plan, left the chdirmanship for his present pest. as White ‘House - adviser Nelson's successor, J. A. Krug, was lukewarm toward it and gradually gave way under continued army pressure until the adverse military situation lasts Decemier forced it into virtual disuse.
Restoration of the plan by Krug does not in itself mean an immediate increase in the output of consumer goods. It merely means that a smoothly-operating mechanism for making the change-over is now available for use as -the manpower, facilities and material are released from war work. = = ” i UNDER. this procedure, a manufacturer may apply to the local regional chief for authorization to make specific non-war goods. If the WPB official decides it will interfere in any way with the output of munitions in the applicant's plant or in other factories in that area, the permission is granted. Despite its low-gear operation last fall, more than £$700,000,000 worth of civilian goods output was authorized under the plan but only about 30 per cent of this amount was ever realized. The “spot” plan will play a slightly different role than was originally planned for it, It was originally designed to fill in the chinks of war production with piecemeal civilian output. Now, with V-E day close at hand, it will. take on the bigger job of determining the more. essential civilian projects when the end of the European war forces large cutbacks in munitions and frees whole plants from war work.
We, the Women. Want to Keep Your Job in.
Peacetime?.
By RUTH MILLETT
WHENEVER WOMEN with war jobs are questioned about
their post-war plans, many of them say firmly that they want to continue working after the war. But it isn't likely there will be jobs for all the women who want them, for already em ployers are talking about & who shall get 8 Flin preference after the serv. | i icemen. i So, the wom- er A an who wants J a job In the post-war world should be making plans for it right now. Evidently wanting a job’ isn’t going to be enough. ® » ” THE WOMEN who will get the jobs and keep them are the women who have given the best ace counts of themselves during the period when jobs were plentiful. Any woman who wants to keep right on earning a pay check ought to be sure she is actually EARNING hers right now, She ought to check up on herself and see whether or not she has given as much to her.job as she should have and whether she has brought to it not only efficiency but a pleasant pérsonality and the ability to get along with other employees, » » n SASSY SUSIES have held down jobs during the war and so have Troublesome Trudies and Lazy Louises. But they haven't made any records that will make employers want to keep them on or meve them into other jobs when it comes time again to pick and choose employees. ; ; It isn't too. late right now fdr tlie women who have been trading on their “indispensable” status to ‘turn over a new leaf and start giving more to their jobs, ,
"POLICE ARREST TWO
WITH POOL TICKETS
Two. tavern raids Thst night rietteéd police a couple of arrests and 103 books..of baseball pool tickets. J ‘At the Arwinco club, 242 W.. Ver~ police picked up Mattie Lou Hayden, 35, gnd 23. books. of pool tickets. wi Ferguson was nabbed and B80 packets of