Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1945 — Page 8

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"STUDY URGED.

Monroney ‘Says Succession Should Be Clarified.

By JAMES F. DONOVAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 14—Rep. A S. Mike Monroney' (D. Okla) said today that he intends to do something to end the confusion in present laws governing succession to the

ency. “There are too many blind spots in the present system,” he said in an interview. “There are too many possible contingencies that neither the constitution nor congress: have provided for. And now is the time for us to get busy—not when the ‘contingencies arise.” He said he will introduce a bill shortly to set up a 12-man commission to study the entire problem ahd make recommendations to cons,

gress, sll Former Postmaster Gefieral James A. Farley advanced the same idea last week. In a speech before the Hazelton (Pa) chamber of commerce, he urged the establishment

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of such a commission and sharply

criticized the present method of —

presidential succession. Stettinius Next in Line The law stipulates that the secretary of state shall become Presi-| dent if both the duly-elected President and vice president die. This never has happened in American] history.

dent Truman should die now, Sec-|

Lt. Richard Sipe

son oO

(left)

lieutenants

ured by the Germang” Mixing (the Battle of the ~Bulge:hiie: Jot returned to rest and recuperate at Billings hos-

They are 1st Lt. Frederick A. Wiecking, Wiecking,' 320 E. Maple rd., and. Lt. Richard W. Sipe, son of Mr,

f Mrs. Marie

and Lt. Frederick Wiecking . .. they shared the discomforts of a German prison camp, TWO HOQSIER who were ca

and Mrs. Claude Sipe, Knights~ town, Liberated from Stalag 12-A by the 1st army, Lt. Sipe was wounded by shell fragments on Dec. 16 and’ was wounded a second time and captured on Christmas day. A prisoner at the same camp, Lt. Wiecking was wounded and taken prisoner the day before Christmas.

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57 MEN INDUCTED

SERVICES

Fifty-seven more Indianapolis

in th

e armed forces.

As the law stands, if Presi-|men have been accepted for duty

One man was

retary of State Edward R. Stettin-| qualified for the marine corps, 18

jus Jr. would become President. Under this system, Farley said, a vice president who has succeeded | to the presidency can arbitrarily|

‘name his own successor merely by ‘tenden ave.: ave.

appointing him secretary of state. | ©

Monroney : said that additional mond st. Market st.

difficulties would arise immediately if a secretary of state ever became President. Jurists disagree, he said,

enter

ed the navy,

and 38 were in-

ducted into the army. The marine corps enlistees was George

{Edward Kremer,

1542

Somerset Taken

{into the navy were Robert Nigh, 4961 Crit-|

folk

Wilburn Waldon George Rhodes,

1828 Nor- |

1924 Winfield

ve.: Cleo Brewer Sampson, 257 W. Ray

Jack Davidson,

Dvard Dennis Ballard, 928 E

1438 Terrace

James Doods, 2621 Carroliton ave.:

Oren Evans gard,

Emery,

4712 Caroline st;

James

R. R. 3, -Box 384; Willard Green-

"5405 Winthrop ave.;

Robert Gril-

as to whethef or not the cabinetifin, R. R. 4 Box 88: Louis Kazakoff, 1801

officer next in line would be #he/ new President's own. secretary of | state or the secretary of the treas-| ury in the dead vice President's cabinet.

AUXILIARY TO MEET The auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans will hold its initiation meeting at 7:30 p. m. tomor- | row. i

| Winfield ave:

William = McBride, 57

William Hillan, 626 Pt. Wayne ave; Edgar Baycliff, 310 N. Illinois st, vet Taylor, 1132 Winfield ave; 204 W. Minnesota st.; Clare pine) Short, 347 Lansing: James Melton, 741 N. Lynn st.; Robert Long, 965 Somerse. gh Frederick Keller, No Mathews 106 . Koehne st.; a % Ketcham ave.; Mau609 N. Bozart; Louis Duh Clair st.; George Linder, 338 Beauty ave.; William Bradley, 1536 W Vermont st.; Orville Hale, 737 N. Lynn ist.; Marion. Anderson, 320 Millrace; Joseph: Domogalik, 5155 Delmar; Charles Parrish, 536 -N. Elder st.; Julius Jugg, 3502 W. 12th st.: Paul Griffin, 1219 Win{feild ave. Delmar Wilson, 28 E '16th st.: Walter Bruce, .917 River ave. Robert Jones, 1021 N. Warman; William Reynolds Jr, 129 N. Miley ave.; Donald Agnew, {1422 N.. Tremont ave. and Murl Hershberger, 3038 W. Michigan st.

Do-

Fred Re rice Kinney, 2826 W. St.

PLAYLETS TO BE STAGED The women's auxiliary of Sahara Grotto will meet at 8 p. m. Wednesday in the Grotto clubhouse, 4107 | E. Washington st. A program, con-

[Ip AVIATION SEEN SLIPPING,

|in their own front yard, is a battle

U. S. Rookie Pilots, One From Indiana, Score,

OKINAWA, May 14 (U. P.) —Ma-= rine fighter pilots who, have begged more than 100 Japanese planes in less than two weeks said that Japanese aviation has declined vastly since the Guadalcanal and Rabaul campaigns. ‘ Pilots said most of the Japanese dive bombers in this area carried no rear gunners and were escorted by outdated Matos fighters, prede« cessors of the Zeroes. Enemy pilots, seemed to lack any plan or defensive skill, they said. But the desperate aerial thrusts of the Japs, who now are fighting

which suits marine fliers, said. Marine Maj. Gen. Francis P. Mulcahy, commanding general of the second wing and the. 10th army tactical air force. Aces In Two Weeks Most of the pilots were new to combat two,K weeks ago, but they have emerged as aces. Second Lt. Clay H. Whitaker, Lafayette, Ind., wds first with one and one-half planes. His Corsair

L.gigantic relief, but it carmot be a

can never sing and dance again,

ERNIE PYLE ON VICTORY This excerpt is from the, final chapter: in Ernie Pyle’s book, “Brave Men.” It tells how the late war correspondent felt ahout: the victory he saw coming in Europe, about the unfinished war in the Pacific, and about the peace.

od will seem odd “odd when, at some given hour, the shooting stops and everything suddenly changes again. It will be odd to drive down an unknown road without that little knot of fear in your stomach; odd not to listen with animal-like alertness for the meaning of every distant sound; odd to have your spirit released from the perpetual weight that is compounded of fear and death and dirt and noise and anguish, The end of the war will be a

matter of hilarity for most of us. Somehow it would seem sacrilegious to sing and dance when the great day comes—there are so many who

The war in France has hot been easy by any manner of means, True, it has gone better than most of us had hoped. And our casualties have been fewer than our military leaders had been willing to

tle to the scene and jumped a flight of 25 attacking Jap planes.| Shooting down 15 in as many"min- | utes in the ensuing aerial battle,

"MEETINGS SCHEDULED Germania lodge, 129, I. O. O. F. | will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow in| Germania hall, 437- Prospect, § st. Aj

six marine fighters opened throt-|

accept. But do not let anyone lead you to believe that they have been low. Many, many thousands have {come to join the ones who already have slept in France for a quarter of a century.

Too Long Already’

For some of us, the war has already gone on too long. Our feelings have been wrung and drained; they cringe from the effort of | coming alive again. Even the ap- { proach of the end seems to have | brought little inner elation. It has

brought only a tired sense of relief.}

I do not pretend that my own feeling is the spirit of our armies. {If it were, we probably would ‘not have had the power to win. Mpst|

‘fetter broken from around our

{Maple rd: James Moran. 4344 College | sisting of two playlets by the draave. Richard Owens, Pe N. Kealing | o ave. David Palm Cold Springs | Matic committee, will follow un and John Phillippe, 62 N. Arling-|der the direction of Mrs. Coral ton ave, Army inductees were Anthony Pietry- Bryson. kowski, 1443 Park ave; George Cheyne, |

1240 Broadway: Fugene P. Davis, 1341.N.| O. E. §. MEETING TOMORROW {Gale st.; George Faucett, 428 Fulton st. :

{ Prancis Pallikan, 516 Bell st: Charles C. | North Park chapter, O. E. S, will Natt, 126 E. AE A pStame Mott, 2 hn meet at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow with Parker ave.: Fre ster, Jersey st.; Edgar Crafton, 1632 oy Mrs. Cora Reimer, worthy matron, ston st. Roy G. Willison, 548 N. TraubTand Harry L. Harrison, worthy pa{ave.: Robert Peoples, 2734 N. Pennerk i h vania st.; Robert Andrew, 137 Park ave.;! ron, in charge.

You're Heavenly In

CHEN YU

district meeting will be held June 8/men are stronger. Our soldiers still at Capitol lodge 124, I. O. O. F, E.[can hate, or glorify, or be glad,

Washington st. and Hamilton ave.

VOICE STUDENT RECITAL The voice students of Mrs. Lu-|

at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Allen Chapel A. M. E. church. The Richard Allen guild is sponsoring |

the event.

{ with true emotion. For them death

from our “other ‘battles. The victory here is the result of Russia, and the Western Desert, and the bombings, and the blocking of the sea. It is the result of Tunisia and Sicily and Italy; we must never forget or belittle those campaigns. We have won because we have had magnificent top leadership, at home and in our allies and with ourselves overseas, Surely America made its two perfect choices in General Eisenhower and General Bradley, They are great men—to me doubly great because they are direct and kind. Invasion , Mighty Thing We won because “we were audacious, One could not help but be moved by the colossus of our invasion. It was a bold and mighty thing, one of the epics of all history. In the emergency of war, our nation's powers are unbelievable. The strength we have spread around the world is appalling even to those who make up the individual cells of that strength. I am sure that in the past two years I have heard soldiers say a thousand times, “If only we could have created all this energy for something good.” But we rise above our normal powers only in times of de-| struction. We have’ won this war because our men are brave, and because of many other things -- because of

|Dead Wouldn't Want Chars Ernie Wrote, In Describing How He Felt About Victory

been gone a 160g time, and they have seen and done and felt things ‘you cannot know. They will be changed, They will-have to learn how to adjust themselves to peace. Last night we-had a violent: electrical storm around our countryside. The storm was half over before we realized that the es and the crashings around us were nop artillery but plain old-fash-loned thunder and lightning. It will be .odd to hear only thunder again, You must remember that such little things as that are in our souls, and will take time, And all of us together will have to learn ‘how to reassemble our broken world into a pattern so firm and so fair that another great war cannot soon be possible, To tell the simple truth, most of us over in France don't pretend to know the night answer. Submersion in war ‘does not necessarily qualify a man to be the master of the peace. ble and try once more—try out of the memory of our anguish— and be as tolerant with each other as we can.

NOMINATED FOR HEAD

Henry E. “Hank” Siebenmark, South Bend Legionnaire, has been nominated for the office of the In-

diana department commander of the American Legion. Mr. Siebenmark

Russia, and England, and the pas-

{sage of time, and the gift of na-|

ture's materials. We did not win it because destiny | created us better than all other | peoples. I hope that in victory we| are more grateful than we. are proud. I ‘hope we can rejoice in victory—but humbly. ‘The dead men would not want us to gloat, Adjustment to Peace The end of one war-is a great

lives. But there is still another to be broken. The Pacific war may yet be long and bloody. Nobody

has a pang, and victory a sweet | scent. But for me, war has become | a flat, black depression without

and an exhafistion of the spirit. We. have won because of many! things. We have won partly be- |

{ home will be torn between the new cretia L. Lone will” give a recital highlights, a revulsion of the mind spiritual freedom of half-peace and | the old grinding blur of half-war.

can foresee, but it would be disastrous to approach it with easy hopes. - Our next few months at

has been active in Legion 26 years land is a field representative of | Bendix Aviation Corp. ‘He has held Legion executive posts in three states and is a member of the board of directors of Bendix Aviation Post 284. His candidacy was unanimously endorsed at the

last 3d Indiana district meeting,

GRAY LADIES WANTED

Women who desire to serve as gray ladies at Veterans’ hospitals will be interviewed up to 9 p. m. tonight at the Red Cross chapter house. Women between the ages of 25 and 50 are eligible and may make application by calling Lincoln 1441.

PLAN MEMORIAL SERVICE A memorial service will be held

It wifl be a confusing period for us. Thousands of our men will soon

A completely new ‘cake make-up that gives > the’ complexion you'v

at the meeting of the Federated | Patriotic society at 8 p. m. Wednes-

| cause the enemy was weakened be returning to you. They have | {day at the hall.

All we can do is fum-

STATE T0 SCAN “CITY'S TRAFFIC

Interviewers Will Query:

Drivers on Street.

Citizens will be Interviewed in their homes and drivers queried on the streets in an intensive traffie survey to be launched here by the state highway commission.

More than 125 part-time intere |

viewers will contact 11,000 Indiane apolis homes over a three-month

period, said Highway Commissioner

John H. Lauer. They will endeavor to obtain a cross-section of poste war traffic plans Sonceived by lay citizens, he added.

Purpose of the survey will wn

determine traffic improvement needs in the city. The highway de~ partment will be assisted by the Indianapolis plan commission. Control points will be designated at the city limits on all main high ways. A percentage of all drivers will be stopped and polled. All ine formation will be in strict confis dence, said Hillary Jones of the state highway urban division, a

|survey director.

OF INDIANA LEGION

POST-WAR CHAIRMAN TO ADDRESS ROTARY,

George A, Kuhn, chairman of the Indianapolis post-war planning come mittee, will give a report on the

progress of the post-war plans as the Rotary club luncheon at 12:1%

p. m. tomorrow in the Claypool hotel.

OBSERVANCE PLANNED

Corinthian chapter 456, O. E. 8, will confer degrees and observe Mother's day at a meeting at 8

p. m. Wednesday at the hall, Mrs, Rachel Goodwin, worthy matron,

and Claude Goodwin, worthy pae

tron, will be in charge.

SEWING FOR HOSPITAL Sewing for the Shrine crippled

children's hospital will be the order

of business at the meeting of Koran

Temple No. 30, Daughter 8f the:

Nile, tomorrow at the home of Mrs,

Martha Phillips, 3788 Rockville rd,

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