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FLIERS BEATEN

By McQUOWN WRIGHT United Press Staff Correspondent”

CALCUTTA, May 4 (Delayed)— American airmen, liberated from the Japanese prison camp at Rangoon, revealed today how the Japanese

beat and starved U. 8. fliers, es-

: bombing raids on Japan.

recuperating

oners were liberated at Rangoon.

Although most of them were fairly _» healthy, déspife their starvation diet and’ beatings, it was reported that too sick to

about. 50 Americans, walk, were left at Rangoon.

Special Treatment The prisoners were given

26, supplies. to the 14th army lines near

out food or water. reached the. allied Wednesday. Lt. Billy T. Davis, one of the Americans recuperating here, said the American airmen were put in a group” on charges of indiscriminate bombing of women and chil- | dren. The men were lined up and the guards beat them with “clubs made | like pick haridles,” Davis said. The | Americans were treated worse than the other allied prisoners, he added, | and the beatings were more severe when, AN apariese guards were | - drunk.

forces

No Maiming ' “I was slapped about four times 8 week,” Davis said. “It got so you only hoped it wouldn't hurt too bad. You forgot the humiliation.” ‘He explained. that the beatings in most. cases were stopped however before the victim became maimed. The maltreatment was particularly severe when the Japanese suffered military reverses. Lt. Col. Douglas G. Gilbert, Arlington, Va., said food was most y rice and he estimated that 250 o. the 1250 prisoners at the camp died of ‘dysentery or beriberi. Gilbert had been a prisoner for 18 months. | Lt. John T. Whitescarver, Rittsburg, Kas, who was shot down in April, 1944, while flying a fighting plane, said he was charged with] murder for allegedly strafing civilians. Only a partial list of the Ameri-| cans freed from Rangoon was announced. They included 8. Sgt. Alvin L. Hastings, Martinsville, Ind.: Lt. Kenneth P. Moxley, (Route 1, Box 1) Newburgh, Ind.; Lt. Hilton Db Weesner, , South Bend, Ind,

SAYS CITY SERVICES PARTIALLY RESTORED

Efforts to restore city maintenance service, disrupted by a strike of workers, were ‘getting along all right” today in the opinion of Mayor Tyndall. He refused to comment on reports that he had rejected an offer of the state labor department to provide! a conciliator in the five-day-old| strike of maintenance employees. Meanwhile, there was little change fn the situation. City officials and! union representatives continued a differ in their estimates of the nu ber of workers who had Ty To their jobs. Lee Brown, president of Local 848, | American Federation of State, Coun- | ty and Municipal Employees (A. F. of L.) asserted that few, if any, ployees had returned to work. W. H. Frazier, sanitation plant] superintendent, said a number had/

returned, permitting operation of |

the plant “without too much difficulty.” Mayor Tyndall has refused to dis-! cuss the strike with union leaders, ! contending he is not legally ¢m-| powered to do so. A legal opinion] “by Attorney Gen. Emmert permits | him to discuss an employment, situation with union representatives, but not to sign an agreement recognizing a bargaining agent,

CHINESE BLOCK JAP | DRIVE AT AIR BASE

CHUNGKING, May J(u. P).—| Chinese forces in western Hunan | province have shattered the left! wing of -a Japanese drive aimed at the American air base city of Chihkiang, 250 miles southeast of! Chungking, a communique said to | day. 3 The Chinese have mounted a ,eounter-attack with four columns | driving south, north and east on| an arc between recently recaptured | Wyangcheng and Wawutang, ad- | vancing as much as nine miles, The |

entire Japanese 217th regiment | of | ASCs “The — Apostte” and "Thel

the 34th division was reported wiped | out.

LISBON WITHDRAWS NAZI. RECOGNITION

LISBON, May. .71.(U. P).—Portugal withdrew its recognition ‘of the German government last night and took custody of all German | properties, including the consulate. | An announcement said the properties will’be held until an interallied commission or any other

the allied ‘nations is set up in Germany, | The annotincemerit “said the action was taken because a central govetnment in Germany no longer frien ey

ei ————r—————} 0. E. 8. INITIATION WORK Lynhurst chapter 505, 0. E. 8. ” hold initiation work at 7:30 p " tomorrow at the. temple. Jéssie

pecially B-29 crewmen, after the

The airmen, from the first group ‘of Americans fréed ‘in Burma, are in a hospital : here. More than 400 Americans, most of them members of the air force, and approximately 600 other allied pris

their liberty. by the Japanese commandant at the. Rangoon city. jail April although they had virtually no| During the 50-mile march Pegu, the prisoners went two days withThe vanguard last

Los Angeles,

“special treatment

em-/

|over the last six months.

Laval attended mass from the bal-

agreement on turning, over Laval:

DEAD— : > t on that date,

Betty E. Shotts, 631 Coffey st.

1043. was employed by Kingan & Co.

a 3'2-months-old ‘son, Larry Allen whom Cpl. Shotts never

2215 Morgan st.;

Shotts, Indianapolis;

Shotts, .all of Indianapolis, Mrs, Thelma Saomp Kokomo. oN.

MISSING —

hale, son of Mr.

been many since March 18.

commissioned in August,

(ber, His parents have bomber was BY by flak,

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PRISONERS—

Pfe. George T. Turner, who was reported missing in Germany since (Jan, 21, has been listed as a prisoner of the Germans according to a war {terday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. {George Turner, 212 N.. Fulton ave. Pfc. Turner’s brother, 8. Sgt. Ev-

ferett Turner, has, been, wlssing over | §

{Italy since Dee. "29, but ne Iurther

| word has been received soncerning g

him,

SAFE

Liberated April 21, from a German prison, 8, Sgt. Howard D.

Mr. and Mrs. John Grindstaff; 1347 N. Kealing, that he is now in France awaiting a trip to the United States. Waist gunner on a~B-17, and holder of the purple heart for wounds reecived in action, Sgt. Grindstaff, who is 22, was reported missing and then a prisoner of the Nazis since March 16, 1944, He went [overseas in October, 1943 and is a {graduate of Technical high school, ~ s | Capiured on 2 Ds Day, Pvt. Norman { B. Angrick was freed on April 17 [irom Stalag 4-F, according to word | rece! vad by his parents, Mr. and rMrs—Karl-A: Angrick; 818 8. Tre= { mont ave.

The 21-year-old paratrooper has 3

| been overseas since November, 1943. » u u Another captive of the Nazis since Feb. 17, 1943, has been liberate oie oa

e is Pvi. Ralph Free-

ie ex 5 He Claribel Freeland, |

2401% Prospect! st. The 25-year-old soldier was fighting with an anti-tank division when {captured in North Africa. He en- | tefed service in October, 1941. : A | brother, T. 5th Gr. Edgar R. Free- | land, is now in New York aftef | serving 18 months in Europe "as an | engineer, on » =» Pfc. Roy H. Kibler, son of Mrs. {Bessie A. Xibler, 2952 N. Capitol {ave, who was revorted on war de{partment casualty. lists as missing in action, has now returned to duty. -Word that Pvt. Kibler had re-

Previously. reported missing in Germany since Sept. 17, Cpl. Lynn A. Shotts has been reported killed according to word received last week by his wife, Mrs.

The 20-year-old soldier was a machine gunner with an infantry regiment and had: been graduated from Washington high school in Before entering service he

Surviving besides the wife, are

his" mother, Mrs. May HE. Shotts, | a brother, Francis h and six -sis- ? - ters, Mrs: Hazel Totty, Mrs. Esther | ©” i 3 Wilhelm, Mrs. Maxine White, Mrs. Dorothy Roberts and Miss Shirley and

~ Flight Officer William R. Little- I and Mrs, George] ! A. Littlehale, formerly of 3754 Balti-| .; * more ave, now of Plainfield, has reported missing “over Ger-

Pilot of a B-26 with the 9th air force, Flight" Officer Littlehale was 1944, and has been -overseas since, last Decemreceived {word that the right engine of his

department wire received yes-

the march from] }

saw; . " Cpl. Lynn A. in.Germany.

~ Pvt, Norman B. Angrick . . . freed from Stalag 4-F.

Pic. George T. Turner ., . reported prisoner of Germans,

Grindstaff has written his parents|

Howard Grind- Allen Sheets, Jr. staff, Freed from Wounded and Nazis. Home

Forest L. McMillan, left, 2811

S. Collier st., Freeland, freed.

wounded; Ralph

fram the casualty section of the war department, » » » A prisoner of the Germans since Dec. 17, Sgt. Eugene A. Byard, has written his wife, Mrs, Gertrude L. Byard, 913 High st., that he has been freed from Stalag 4-B and is now in a hospital in France for a check-up: His mother is Mrs. Gladys Callon, 437 Parkway ave., and his father is

| turned to duty was received today

$10, 000 BIBLE SHOWN IN ‘RELIGIOUS WEEK’

An old Bible, valued at $10,000 and bound in deerskin, catches the]

eye among the volumes exhibited! for National Religious Book week in the Central library. During the week, which. opened yesterday and ends May 13, the {library will present a special shelf {of religious books of interest to ail faiths, Miss Marian McFadden, li- | brarian, reports a definite increase in the demand for religious books ‘Among those most often requested is “The Sky Is Red” by Dr. Jean S. Milner, pastor of the Second ‘Presbyterian church,

Pioneer Days The deerskin-covered Bible belongs to C. Tom Johnson, a local attorney .whose family has owned it {for eight generations. The old book | was carried in saddlebags by the |Rev. Peter Thornburg, an ancestor, | (As he rode his circuit in this com- | munity in piorieer days. Singed places on what remains of [the original binding indicates that it came through fire’ without being consumed as did Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, whose story it records, Other current religious books often borrowed from the library are

| Nazarene,” “The Christ of the American Road,” ‘by Jones; “The Hobe,” by Douglass; “Return to Re-

ligion,” Link; mon Reader,” Chase; Christ,” Durant; havior,” Lewis; “Song of Berna dette,” Werfel, and “The Sublime Shepherdess,” erdess,” Kayes.

LAVAL TO -BE GIVEN | TO FRANCE FOR.TRIAL

MADRID, May 7 (U. P.).—Pierre

“Ceasar and “Christian. Be-

cony of his jail yesterday while arrangements were made to. send him back to France for trial as a traitor, It was reported that American Ambassador Nbrman Armour and Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Felix De Lequerica had reached an

It was believed Laval would be delivered either to the United States or Britain, and they In tary would

“Bible and the Comes}:

Robert Robert A, Byard, 446 S. Alabama st.

HOOSIER SENATORS FAVOR EQUAL. RIGHT

Times Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, May 7. fs senators are on record today ‘as’ sponsoring the equal rights | {amendment as proposed by the National Woman's party. Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) has! for some years introduced the resolution in the house and the senate resolution has been presented by Senator George L. Radcliffe (D. Md). Senator Homer E Capehart (R Ind.) previously had been quoted in favor of the amendment and today Senator Willis issued the following | statement regarding it: “I am convinced that the matter

requires thorough discussion and I}.

believe it should be submitted to the legislatures of the various states after discussion sufficient to impress the points. on the ‘minds of the citizens in general. “I am glad to join with the spon- |

sors of the amendment in the sen-

late and shall give it my close at-

Lention when it reaches the floor.”

DELEGATES LEAVE FOR MEET BUENOS AIRES, May 7 (U, P.). —The Argentine delegation to the San Francisco conference left today.

800,000 Casualties and 185 Billion Dollars

3 By CHILES COLEMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May. 7. — The victory in Europe cost the United States. about 800,000 casualfies and more than $185,000,000,000, “These are the best conservative estimates available now. It will be a long time before the final figures are worked out. A United Press survey showed today that this country’s share of the cost of crushing the Nazi bid for world, domination will: exceed ‘by three ‘or four times the cost of ‘World War I-and its aftermath— whether the measuring’ standard, is casualties or dollars. “The cost fn money will be in creased in future years by many billions of dollars through interest on government borrowings and *bene-| fits to veterans.. The cost in’ broken

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+< SUGGESTS HAW HAW INTERNED BY EIRE

—Both Jn- |

‘was a passenger in Mufti who spoke

WOUNDED

Second Lt. Oliver C. Maggard, mission -over German oil refineries,

and is n8W-Back at his air base. Veteran of 20 missions, Lt: Mag-

Anderson Maggard, 3444 N. Penn“|sylvania. st. Besides the purple heart, he holds the air medal and

leaf cluster. He is a former resident of New York.

leave with his wife, Mrs.

and Mrs. Allen Sheets, 1617 Lexingloy ave,

will return to the U. S. naval hos-

a carpenter for the Service Con-

a former student at Technical high school, ——

» o ” - First Lt. John L. Bérnardic Jr. husband of Mrs. Freda Bernardic, 16 E, Arizona st., was wounded April 18 in Germany and is now hospitalized in France. Fighting with the 3d ‘armored division .of the 1st army, Lt. Bernardic has been overseas since: January. He served in the regular army at Pt. Harrison from- 1931 to 1938 and re-entered service four years ago. His father John L. Bernardic, lives. iv Cleveland.

Wounded a " in rE South | Pacific, Seaman 1-¢ Richard H. Gunther is now improving®in a| haval hospital at Oakland, Cal. He| is a brother of Mrs. O.-L. Lewellyn, 3519 N. Gladstone ave. Seaman Gunther, who is 19, is al former student of Technical high school. He entered the navy a year ago and went overseas last August. His father, Herman Gunfher, formerly of Indianapolis, is now living in West, Virginia,

STATE— NAVY DEAD

Lt. (jg) William Charles Menke, Huntingburg, and Marine Pvt. Hugh Whitehead, Princeton. MARINE AND NAVY WOUNDED Seaman l-c Melvin Gail Bozell, Fair Oak; Pfc. Adam H. Brosmer, Dubois; Pvt. Buren Gentry, Danville; Pfe. James M. Hammond, New Albany; Pvt, J. Housman, Elkhart; Pfc. $ Pvt. Robert V. Pasalich.| South Bend: Pfc. Richard H. Poe, Borden; Sgt. William M. Purdum, Versailles; Coxswain Maurice Rvan, Wellsboro: Pfe. John W. Weaver, Vevay, and Aviation Radioman 3-c David Wasmuth, Andrews. ARMY DEAD—EUROPE Lt. Russell J. Bechtel, Goshen; Jim O. Fanto, South Bend; Fl. Francis J. Hanner, Marshall; Pfc. Lester Okeley, North Judson: Pvt. Floyd W. Runnels, West Terre Haute, and T. Sgt. Jesse Stith, Tobinsport. ARMY DEAD-—PACIFIC Pfc. Robert Pearson, Corydon; Francis _ Pierson, Richmond, and Daniel Roberts, Bedford. ARMY WOUNDED Tech. 4th Gr. Leo R. Marx, cago; Pfc. Laurence Moore, Crawfordsville; 8. Sgt. Robert A. Robinson, Crawand Pfc. Alfred A. Robson,

Pfc. Cpl

East Chi-

fordsville, Attica.

ARMY MISSING—EUROPE . - 8. Sgt. Wallace Kasch, Crown Point, and Pfc. Emmett L. Shackleford, Columbus.

ARMY PRISONERS—GERMANY

Tech. 5th Gr. Matthew, M. Groszkiewcz, Roanoke; Pvt. Albert Hardy, Gary; Pfc. James T. Heady, Rockport; Sgt. John P. Kline, Terre Haute; Pvt. Wilfred Kuespert, South Bend, and Maj. Robert C. Payne, Cutler,

LIBERATED FROM GERMAN CAMPS Tech. 5th Gr. Alfred Bianucci, East Chicago, Pvt. Clarence J. Halter, Clinton; Tach, 5th Gr. Clarence Haskin, Princeton;

Rayniond A. Mikel, Muncie, and Pvt. {Ln Ryors Jr.,

Bloomington.

LONDON, May 7 (U, P.), — The Daily Mail suggested today that one lot three men who landed near Dublin Saturday after a flight from

Denmark might have been William Joyce, the “Lord Haw* Haw” “who broadcast for the Nazis throughout the war, : The mail said one of the three

fluent English. It added that many Y| persons were .asking whether it was Joyce, but officials of Eire were silent. The plane, carrying three purported German airmen, came down at Gormanstown near Dublin, The three were interned. ’ The British press association said {its Dublin’ correspondent reported there was no truth to a report that | Joyce was one of the three,

POLICE CAPTAIN DIES NOBLESVILLE, May 7 (U. B)) — Oscar Webster, 52, veteran Indianapolis municipal police captain, died | yesterday of injuries received when

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Hoosier. Heroes: One ect Soldier Killed: Pilot Missing, One Imprisoned, Four Freed,

wounded Dec. 17 while on a combat

has been awarded the purple heart

gard has been overseas since laft September, serving as pilof of a 1B-24 bomber. The 21-year-old officer is the husband of Mrs. Beth

distinguished - unit badge with oak

» » » Marine Pfc. Allen L. Sheets, Jr. wounded March 9 on Iwo Jima, is now spending a 30-day convalescent Evelyn | Gertrude Sheets, and parents, Mr.

Pvt. Sheets was fighting with the 3d marine division and-“had been overseas one year, serving in the invasion of Guam before the Iwo battle. When his leave is over he

pital at San Diego=for treatment. Before joining’ the marine corps two years ago he was employed as

struction Co. Pvt. Sheets is 28, and:

RULING: FAVORS MINE WORKERS

Lawful.

to-portal travel time wages. The court made the ruling in a

Virginia.

miners must be paid portal-to-portal wages.

portal-to-portal wages to elastic processes of collective bargaining.”

the entire war-time working agreement of the industry. Cite 1944 Ruling

the supreme court had established

for iron-ore miners. They contended that. no legal distinction could be drawn between working conditions in the iron-ore and the | coal mines.

and operators provides for payment of underground travel time. The supreme court ruling makes What operators and miners had agreed on] in collective bargaining a statutory i right. The decision was written by Jus-| tice Frank Murphy, ‘Who also wrote’ the iron-ore decision. Justice Robert H. Jackson’s lengthy dissent was {signed by Chief Justice Harlan F. | Stone and Justices Owen.J. Roberie and Felix Frankfurter.

CONTROL OF FOOD

WASHINGTON, May 7 (U, PJ.— The allies’ must maintain ~ Adolf Hitler's rigid food controls in Germany if they want to prevent large groups of the German people from being forced onto starvation diets, the agriculture department said today. In a summary of the European! food situation, the department expressed fear that it would be very difficult to maintain the Nazis’ ironbound controls over production and distribution of food. Under Hitler, food surpluses were diverted to shortage areas. The

o.|average German was asssured at

least 2000 calories daily, considered a subsistence diet. Invasion brought rations down to 1600 calories. The department predicted that weakening of distribution controls would cause the diet of Germans in thie south to fall to 850 calories and in the west to 750. These are the areas that will be under the military supervision of the United States and Great Britain.

ORGANISTS T0 HEAR, ELMER A. STEFFEN

Elmer A. Steffen, K. 8S. G., will present a program of - liturgical! music for the Indiana Chapter of the American Guild of Organists at 8:15 p. m, tomorrow at SS. Peter and Paul's cathedral. Selections will include Gregorian chant, examples of 16th century polyphony and excerpts from the music sung’ at the recent installation of the Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter as archbishop of Indianapolis. The newly formed chorus which will sing is composed of the clergy choir, the Cathedral Schola Can-

Catholic churches. Mr. Steffen some years ago was made a Knight of St. Gregory by his holiness, Pope Pius XII, because of exceptional achievement, in the field of church music. He will be assisted tomorrow by the Rev. Fr. Edwin Sahm, who is an authority on Gregorian chant and a priest of the St. Joan of Arc Catholic church. Edward Krieger will play the organ for the sacred concert to which the public is invited:

OF LOOSE CIGARETS

WASHINGTON, May 7 (U..P.).—

will be prohibited beginning May 12, the office of price administration announced day. Some dealers have been selling them for a penny | each. After May 12 they must be

he attempted to dynamite a stump lat his summer home in Noblesville,

Estimated Price to U. S. of War in Europe

Mast of the government experts consulted in the survey believed

that at least two-thirds of the dollar outlay since defense preparations began in 1940 went directly or indirectly into the war against Germany and Italy. This is based on the allocation of men to the two major spheres of combat.. On the basis of the best available information, two U. 8, fighting men were sent ‘to Europe for each one sent-to the Pacifie. The cost estimate “includes not only guns, bullets, planes and tanks, ‘plus. the plants to make them, but also such items as lendlease expenditures, training costs, merchant, ships, transportation, subsis and literally thousands. of articles afid services that never [Appeared on the fleld of battle but, were vital to victory.

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sold by the package.

Cost in'money—Defense and war expenditures total more than $277,600,000,000 since July 1, 1940. Assigning two-thirds of this to the European war gives a figure of $135,066,000,000. This compares with the $55,345, 000,000 cost of the last war, . The figure for the last war includes continuing expenses for many years after -the war and unpaid war The figure for, this: war is just the cost up to now. Cost in casualties—approximately 800,000 men killed, wounded missing and prisoners. This is a projected figure because the official casualty compilations aré far behind. Army casualties compiled here by theaters as of Mabeh 31 ‘sh total of 685,247 for the Eu Mediterranean, Middle Fast ahd Sariiosan Jenters—-ail part of fhe

Portal-to-Portal Pay Held

WASHINGTON, May 7 (U. P.).— The Supreme court ruled today that the federal wage-hour law requires soft coal minérs to be paid portal-

5 to 4 decision in the case of the" Jewell Ridge Coal Corp., operator of two bituminous mines in southwest The firm had appealed from a decision of the fourth circuit court of appeals holding that coal

Contending that the travel time in its mines were the longest in .the industry, Jewell Ridge urged the |tribunal to leave the matter of “the

It said that a mandatory portal-to-portal system would wreck

The miners, represented by the United Mine Workers, argued that

portal-to-portal as a rule of law when it held last year that the wage-hour act covered travel time

The new wage-hour contract be- | tween the nation’s soft coal miners

JOB IN GERMANY,

torum and selected voices from local |

U.S. TO PROHIBIT SALE .

. By EDWARD W. BEATTIE IR. United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, May 7~—It was around 1 p. m. of Sept. 12 that. our troubles began. . We- had heard’ there might be a good story up near Ghaumont--sur-Marne, so four of us started out in a jeep—Wright Bryan of the Atlanta Journal," John Mecklin “of ‘the Chicégo Sun, Jim Schwab, our river, and, myself.

of our jeep, and if we. hadn't brought it along we might have been able to maké a quick turn and get away from the Germans But the road was too narrow.

out a worry-when we came to a road block.. Schwab stopped our jeep and for about two minutes we discussed what we should, do. The Germans made up our minds for us. Under German Fire There was a burst of firing which sounded like an entire regiment was shooting” at Us. We tumbled out of the jeep looking for cover. I tried to get under the rear of the jeep and Bryan crowded in beside me. Mecklin dived for a ditch. Schwab ran back to the tow bar and kept

trying to get the. trailer unhitched so we could turn the jeep on the road and flee. He

was saying plenty of things about

duce here. The firing continued for three | minutes. Suddenly Bryan turned | his head and said: “I'm hit.” 3 “Is it bad?” I asked. ® {~. “No... It's just my leg and I | ‘didn’t feel it hit a bone.” "We lighted a couple of cigarets.. Mecklin was trying to erawl along the ditch away from the

There was a trailer on the back |

We were bowling along with-. |

the Germans that I-can't repro- -|

Beattie Tells Se oF 7. Month Seman

EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR, U

reached Pairs after more than seven months as a prisoner of the Ger-

“mans. Today he begins the story

‘several t¥ips to, Berlin where he. was questioned by officials of the foreign office in a vain attempt to get information from him. ' The

story of his captivity is the story of

nited Press war correspondent, has

of his experiences. - They include

the last favs of Hitler's Germany,

|_It will be printed in daily installments, .

| German lines and he might have | escaped if another American jeep | “hadn't- come: down the road just then. I stretched out from under | | our jeep and *tried to wave the | other one back. It turned, but | Just then a German, bullet put its motor out of commission, Three More Hit The six occupants of the jeep jumped and dived ‘for the | | ditch. but just Germans | came swarming out-of the woods” firing as they ran. Three of the | six men in the other jeep were | wounded. . The other three joined | us as prisoners of the Germans. We' never did find out what happened to the three” wounded | men from the other jeep’ Brvan was taken to" a haspital and the rest of us were put in a room in the old French barracks at Chaumont-Sur-Marne. The three men from the other jeep who had not been wounded | were Sgt. Ralph Harris of Soreven, Ga.; Sgt. Forrest Eadler of . Richmond, -Ind.. and Charles Padgett of Washington, Ind. All of them were angry, not so much because they had been ‘captured -as. because their com- | pany, which a few miles to the | north, had been promised steak for dinner. ; Instead of steaks we got a piece of dry bread, a chunk .of | margarine and a portion of hard | cheese. : : { | As we.ate our dinner we talked | i =| abdut the way the French acted

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out then

Services for Capt. Oscar Webster, head of ‘the gamewel] division of!

will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in | Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. The Rev. Roy E. Mueller will officiate, assisted by members; of - Capitol City lodge 312 and burial will be in Washington Park cemetery. Capt. Webster, 'a member of the police department 24 years, died yes|terday in the No- | blesville hospital tof injuries received Saturday lin a dynamite explosion on farm‘ near Noblesville.

Capt. Webster

from a field near his home. It is believed he .was holding a stick of dynamite when it explodeed. He lay helpless for almost four | hours before he was found by his| son-in-law, George Illyes, who took him to the hospital.

Hoosier in Van if

anube Crossing

ONE OF the first Yank doughfoots to cross the Danube bridge in Germany was Pfc. Frank Zen- | dell, 20-year- -oldf son of Mr. and

Mrs. Otto Zendell, 3230 N. Illinois st. "Now with the 12th armored * division of the 7th army, Pfc. Zendel is a graduate of” Shortridge high § school and a formér Indiana § university stu-", dent. The Indianapolis has been overseas eight months

Zendell

Pvt;

badge and a commendation for

army, he served with the French

3d.

Hoosier Talks To Rundstedt

merly commanded the- 83d di- | vision at Camp Atterbury was one | of the’ first American army of-

von Rundstedt, former command - er of German Western front | armies, after the latter's capture, | Often a visitor here, Maj. Gen. Frank W. Milburn participated in | the interrogation of Von Rund- | stedt as commander of the 21st army corps. Gen, Milburn is the

[brother-in-law of -Mrs. Raymond; 100.1620 EB:

F. Milburn, 6139 N. Meridian st, He was born at Salem. Overseas since last August, Gen. ‘Milburn and his fighting force || was credited with cutting off ‘an | estimated 2500 Germans in Feb- | ruary when they attempted to re- | treat across the across the Rhirde river.

OKINAWA TOUGHEST YET, SURVIVORS SAY

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 (U, | P.) —Approximately 1000 navy sur-| vivors of four destroyers, two vic-

A Arden Glenn Ober Jr tory ships and four landing craft |™ Ul. pw ldelica J. Cox. 1200 N. Oxford. sunk in the Okinawa campaign be- [John William. Baird. 2029 Singleton; Marcella Jean.Carr, 632 E. McCarty, tween. March 26 and April 6 were |g

back in’ the U. 8. today. !

They arrived aboard a navy James BI,

transport last. night, glad to be home and convinéed that the battle | a | for Okinawa is the “toughest yet.” "The officers and men, off the de- | stroyers Calhoun, Dickerson, Halli-

gan and Emmons and the smaller |Lioyd

craft were transferred to Treasure

his’

The accident. occurred when the captain was blasting tree stumps.

infantryman

A NATIVE HOOSIER who for- |

Mark, H Hetinan Recasanpus;

Police Captain Dies From 148-4 Injuries Received in Blast,

Capt. merly

Webster, who was 52, lived at 1723 Park ave.

for-

i | He

ice as a motorcycle. officer and then:

transferred to the electrical depart- |

ment.

{. Born April 3, 1893, in Carroll | |county. Kentucky, he had lived in! | Indianapolis and vicinity since 1903. | {He was a member of Capitol City lodge, F.& A M 2 In a tribute to Capt. Webster,! | Police Chief McMurtry said he was. ‘very valuable man in the daily Ds of the department and one lwho will be greatly missed by all of | {his associates. His record was one (of faithful and capable service.”

{W. B. Griffis, Everett Wells, Leo! Kuhner, Earl Isom and Carl (Ahrendt. - | Survivors are his wife, Henrietta; three daughters, Mrs, Hazel Mills and Mrs. Mary Illves, both of | Noblesville, and Pfc. Helen v.| | Webster, stationed with the marine | corps at Arlington, Va.; two sisters, ! { Mrs. Alice Warfield and Mrs. Bessie Berry, both of Indianapolis, and a | grandson # and granddaughter.

OVERSEAS VETERANS T0 GIVE SHOW HERE

i Overseas fighting veterans. will! give a 30-minute free demonsirg- | tion of warfare at Victory field May

| waved at us,

{who are “frozen” +—~Pallbearers will be. Cliff . Myers, |

when the Germans led us through Chaumont to our prison. They They smileg and they didn't seem to care ther the Germans noticed it or not. Apparently they thought the American army would be in town soon. The room in which we: were held had a few_ mattresses and

| some old blankets on the floor

After “dinner our guards found that the door would not lock from the outside. I speak German, so I suggested to the chief guard: “Give me tne key and I will lock the door from.the inside and then

| pass the key’ out through the

window bars to you.” . Guard . Overcautious

He seemed to think that would f

be equivalent to destroying an entire division of the Wehrmacht ° and rejected .it instantly. Ine stead he ordered a new lock made; I got to wondering what would happen when they- began questioning I was particularly interested in what they would do

us.

| to me when they found out I had

been a newspaper correspondent in Berlin for several years, It was dark now and we could hear a throbbing sound from the sky. It was made by a large force of roval: #ir force heavy

| bombers going out on their night-

ly mission to blast Germany. All of us wished them ‘the best ‘of + luck,

48-HOUR WEEK T0 END IN BITS

the Indianapolis police department, began his police department serv- {Joh Freeze’ Also. to ‘Be

Lifted in ‘Cutback’ Areas.

WASHINGTON, May 7 (U. P.).— Soon after V-E day the 48-hour week will be suspended in plants and areas where the “labor market has “loosened up,” it was learned today ‘from the war manpower commission. : At the same time WMC will probably lift controls on workers to their present jobs, _ Already such controls have been lifted on women workers in northern Indiana and other scat-

tered areas throughout the country. .

As WMC sees its problem, i is now two-fold: 1. To get workers into toon Ra war industries which will carry the production load for the Pacific war, 2. To direct the rest of the labor supply, including newly discharged veterans, into jobs .opening up in the reconversion program: It is expected that within the next six months 1500000 war workers will be forced out.of war jobs, because of cut-backs in war production programs. During the same time WMC anticipates 900,000 war veterans will join the labor force. To meet this situation the U.S.

Employment Service, now operat18 as a highlight to he | im ing under WMC, is expanding its ap, uve opening our aY$ umber of offices from 1507 to 2103. ie Sr, .

The show to be presented here under treasury department auspices will be one of 21 scheduled for Hoosier cities and towns during the | drive to end June 30. Accompanying the unit here will be a 40-piece band from Camp Gruber, Qkla. During the simulated warfare all the weapons of foot soldiers will be used, including bazookas, mortars, flame throwers and: automatic guns.

* INSTALL NEW OFFICERS |

New officers 4f the Warrenette linstalled last week,

are Virginia!

service In the Colmar pocket. (Bremer, president; Jane Eash, vice College ave. Before assignment to the Tth president ;

Mar y Patty Long,

Rohlnfan, treasurer;

secre{tary, Jackie geants-at-arms, and Wanda Morris, chaplain,

TWELVE INDUCTED BY BOARD NO. 2

Twelve "more Indianapolis ‘men have been inducted by Marion county board No. 2. They are Emery James Standeford, R. R. 7 Bot 124-D; Robert Owen Durfling- , 3287 Ralston st.; William Hazelwins: Millay, 2514 Carrollton ave.; | Walter | Rosslyn ave,; 3114 W. 14th | Oberholtzer,

: Harry William Jones st. John William 519 E. 25th st.; Wal-

and holds the combat infantry.| club of Warren Central high school] |lace Miltony Hollander, 1664 Park

ave.;, Edward Prancis Watt, 1666 Richard Paul Miller, {1227 College ave.: Paul William

| Stivers, 2044. Roosevelt ave., Ed-

1st army and later Gen. Patton's | Hertweck and Betty Folkening, ser- ward H. McAvoy, 2712 Guilford ave.,

and Guy Edward «Milburn, 1716

| Broadway,

IN INDIA

EVENTS TODAY

Indiana annual meeting, Hotel Washington.

EVENTS TOMORROW

Indiana Tuberculosis association, Hotel Lincoln

meeting

Sales of loose cigarets of any brand ficers to interview. Field Marshal, | | Women! s organization of National Associa-

ion of Retail Druggists, 12.30 p. m a Y W

Indixmapotis-¥'s Men's club, Internat

Association of racaidre] ie

NAPOLIS

BIRTHS

Girls

liam, Beryle Kornbrok: Ray, Clara Nix. Raymond, Ruth Pavey, Theodore, Mary Stuart . At City—James, Mary Hoard: Charles, Bessie Kelly. Harold. Gladys Smith. At Coleman— Byron, Eileen Cassidy, mer, Tillie Hazetip At Methodist Forest, lard. Erma Harris

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thy Lavern Collins, 1706 N. Alabama, ADEE, | Patin, 308 N Wis W Walnut; Martha | Bernice Carpenter, 0, at my ! itis ory Theron Scheckier. U.-S. srmy;| SSPE Geter 34 at Cy, carcinoma. Dorothy Martha Pugrad Kenosha, Wis. | Jong ic. Par ade oma. chronic nephriti :

Callahan Jr, Mary Virginia West,

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| Reuben Luther-Wenrich, 1108 N. Oakiand:!

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2410 N, Sherman

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