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| DEAD—

| Member of an armored division, ki 8. Sgt. Jack W. Berkeley, husband {of Mrs. Bertha Berkeley, 963 N, Pénvavivania st., dled in an” acci- | dental fall April 30, in Germany.

Sgt. - Berkeley was employed by] *

i Klein & Kuhn before entering the

| army’ in May, 1942. He had earned

{| good conduct medal resident of Lexington,

A former Ky., Sgt.

| Berkeley was graduated from high |.

| Mrs. Dale Henry, 1056 W. 31st st.

[| The officers are John M. Hare,

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| and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Robert . Brown, of the Pennsylvania st. address. :

SAFE— Pfc. Harry D. Sullivan, husband of Mrs. Marian Sullivan, 2174 N. | Talbot st., and son of Mrs. Blanche Sullivan, 12 Harris ave. has been freed from Stalag 7-B. An infantryman with | army, Pfc. Sullivan was captured in ‘the Po valley on Sept. 18, 1944 ” o ” | T. Sgt. Maynard M. Spencer, hus“band of Mrs. Vivian Spencer, 1829 | N. Pennsylvania st, had been lib- | erated from Stalag 17-B, and will | be home soon. - He was serving as | top turret gunner on a B-17 when forced down over Germany. rr Tw "on Pfc. Basel Maners, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Maners, 1035 Winfield ave, and husband of Mrs. Hcpe G. Maners, formerly of 1451 N. | Holmes ave, has been freed from ' a German prison according to word | received by the Red Cross. Fighting with the 8th army, Pfc. Maners had previously been reported missing in Germany since April 14. Mrs. Maners is now fving at ~ Staunton, Va. Pfc. Maners' pou

TAX DEFENDANT, GETS REGEIVER

|. C. Paty & Co. Acts in Case Involving $545,357.

Facing $545,357 in federal tax and OPA claims, the J. C. Perry & i Co. wholesale grocery and liquor

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firm, was in the hands of a receiver) |

{ today. Superior Court Judge Hezzie B. Pike named John S. Lloyd receiver of the firm, on petition of Mrs. | © Myla Hara Jordan, a stockholder: , Smiley N. Chambers, attorney, } who filed the action, said the firm was solvent, but that not enough | i cash assets are available to pay off | { a federal tax claim by a May 17] deadline. He said this “friendly’

{ action was brought to protect the | . firm's property.

Calls Claim Unjust

The trial of three Perry & Co. officers: is scheduled in federal |

| court June 11 for alleged violation |

of OPA ceilings on whisky sales. | president; Robert R. Hare, secrd- | tary and Clinton L. Hare, treas-

| urer.

The OPA is seeking to collect | in the form of treble damages to the extent of $194,285, sald Mr. Chambers. The ‘treasury department is pressing claims for deficiency taxes, penalties and in- " terests totalling $351,172, he added. The = petition for receivership | termed both the treasury department and OPA demands as “large, unjust, unlawful.and unwarranted.”

i It asked appointment of a receiver to continue business “in an orderly | | way.”

12 DIE IN ARSENAL BLAST EDGEWOOD, Md. May 26 (U.

P.).—The third service command! Investigated today a loading plat- | | form

explosion which killed women war workers,

Lt.-Col. Malmstrom Home: Liberated by the Russians’

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Lt. Col. Mainstrom and other commanders stood around with the keys in their hands and waited. “The first Russians blew in.on a commandeered German truck driven by a Frechman,” said the colorel. “That's an excitable combination anyway. “Then when they met us there was a hub-bub—handshaking, backslapping and cheering from both sides. “There really wasn't any more] c¢onfusion than you'll find in a tight football game when our side has just scored the winning touchdown,” he smiled with rare understatement, The Russ - American contact touched off a ‘series of “elaborate toasts,” the lieutenant colonel added. One that was repeated over and over again began something like this: They, Couldn't Understand “We are blood brothers. We fought together and we'll live together. , Most of the conversation was relayed by interpreters. The Russians had about a dozen of them along. Some of the Americans could converse. in broken Russian too. There had been’ a class in Russian, at the compound, The Germans hadn't known about that, “The Nazis couldn't" understand us and they weren't always aware of what was going on,” Lt. Col, Malm--strom said. "We made very little effort “to keep them informed. “For instance, we didn't bother to keep them posted on our tunnel work, which was carried on con- “ sistently” The Germans lost a lot of prisoners that way, he added. Their Nazi captors, however, “made little effort to abide Seiely by the rules of the Geneva con-

the 5th|%

,| eran pilot took a side trip to Lon-

S. Sgt. Marshall Wise . . . from Stalag 3-c.

er, Pfc. Marion Maners, is serving in the Western Pacific.

8 o » . First Lt. Austin D. Rinne, husband of Mrs. Martha Jo Rinne, 2626 N. Alabama st., and son of Mr. and Mrs. Hermann H, Rinne, 3046 Park ave, has been freed from Stalag Luft 1. Pilot of a B-17, i Lt. Rinne was ‘ shot down over Lt. Rinne nonce. on Feb. 28, 1944. He holds the air medal with an oak leaf cluster. ” o ” 2 8. Sgt. Marshall Wise, son of Mr. and Mrs. Redford Wise, 3015 Jackson st. has ‘been liberated from Stalag 3-C and is awaiting transportation: home, his parents were notified last night. Sgt. Wise was reported missing in action’ Oct. 3, 1944, at Aachen, On Feb. 10, his 21st birthday, his parents learned he had been taken prisoner by the Germans.

, treated for malnutrition.

T. Sgt. Jean B. Ent . . . freed from prison at Moosburg.

band of Mrs. Betty Jean Allen, 3717 Brookside Parkway, South Drive, and son of Mr, and Mrs. Frank F. Allen, 1954 Broadway, has been liberated from Stalag Luft 1. Lt. Allen was captured April 11, 1944, when the B-17 on which he was navigator, was shot down over northern Germany.

" " s Pvt. Stanley B. Noble, who was captured ‘by the Germans Dec. 21, 1944, in the battle of the bulge, was liQerated the latter part of April from Salag 4-B. He is the husband of Mrs. Thelma Noble, 3515 N. Salem st., and now is in a hospital in England recovering from pneumonia “and being He was with the -106th division when he was taken prisoner, * td a 2 Pvt. Robert K. Northcutt, husMeridian st, has been liberated hospitaiized in Michigan. Both! Mrs, Northcutt and their 3-year-old son, Ronald Lee, are visiting Pvt. Northcutt in Michigan.

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A graduate of Washington high | school, he entered the service two| years ago and has been overseas

since March 18, 1944.

Sgt. Roland H. Hiles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland H. Hiles, 2019 Caroline ave, has been freed from a German prison, according to a Red Cross notification.

Second Lt. Gordon M. Allen, hus-

Nicolai Funeral Arranged Monday

Frederick William (Will) Nicolai, 125 N. 18th ave, Beech Grove, died | yesterday at St. Vincent's hospital. He was 76. An employee of Eli Lilly & Co. for 36 years, he retired 10 years ago. A lifelong resident of Indianapolis, ne {was a member of Zion's Evangelical and Reformed church and Indian|apolis lodge 669, F.& A.M. He is survived by his wife, Emma; a daughter, Mrs. Edna Etter; his son, Ernest J. Nicolai, all of Indian=y |apolis; five grandchildren and six (great- grandchildren. Rites will be held at 2:30 p. m. | Monday. at the Bert 8. Gadd funeral {home and the Masonic lodge will | conduct rites at- Washington Park.

JESSIE CLEMENTS ’ Mrs. Jessie Clements, resident of | Indianapolis 35 years, diéd today at | her home, 2921 Madison ave. She was 52. She is survived by her ‘husband, Theodore; two sons, Richard, Indi- | anapolis, and Fireman 2-c Theodore Clements, Gulfport, Miss., and a sis- | ter, Mrs. Marie Schumacher, Indi- } anApolis. Rites will be held at 10 a. m. Tuesday at the G. H. Herrmann funeral home, with burial in Calvary cemetery.

| BERTHA MIARS

Rites will be held at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Conkle funeral home | tor Mrs. Bertha Miars, 139 N, Shef- | field ave., who died yesterday at the {home of Mrs. Everatt Warren, Bridgeport. | Mrs. Miars, who was 74, was a {lifelong resident of Marion county and a member of Bridgeport Methodist church. She was the widow of George E. Miaxs, who Sed in 1044, Surviving are .her brother, 3 L. | Reagan, Washington, D. C.,, and an luncle, Samuel Reagan, Bridgeport.

war, as the Russian tide pressed lin from the east, Nazi prison com{manders “warmed up” considerably to their Yank captives, Lt. Col. | Malmstrom recounted.

“The Nazis grew chummier, but we kept our distance,” said the air corps officer. “We had an ironclad rule against fraternization.” It Was Rugged Barth is far north of Berlin, on |the north German coast. “It was really rugged there in {winter time,” Lt. Col. Malmstrom recalled. “The sheets were skimpy and the food skimpier, I lost 20 pounds in six months, “The Germans blamed it all on American bombing. They * said Yank planes -were shooting up our Red Cross supplies along with all the rest of the Nazi supply and transportation system.” The lieutenant colonel ‘left the Bartha compound by plane 12 days after the Russians came. The vet-

don to pick up combat film on which he had recorded. 118 fighter sorties. Some of these were shown on the home movie projector last night also.

Going Back on Duty

Among his decorations are the distinguished flying cross with two clusters and the air medal with three clusters, and the purple heart, received for “injuries sustained in a crash landing in France. Before the war, he taught aviation at the University of Idaho. . After a short stay at the home of Mrs. Malmstrom's mother, Mrs. Beatrice Carlisle at 2724 W, Washington ‘st, the family will go to Spokane, Wash, to visit the

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DIES IN CHICAGO

'Link-Belt Co. Executive Stricken at Meeting.

“Charles Walter Spaulding, general, divisional sales manager for the Link-Belt Co., died yesterday while attending a meeting in Chicago. He was 53. Mr. Spaulding resided here for the past 50 years and lived at 4508 Broadway. A veteran of world war I, he was a director of the Huron Forge and Machine Co. of Detroit, a trustee-of Tudor Hall, a member the Indianapolis Athletic club, the Woodstock club, the Contemporary club and the Joan of Arc Catholic church. > He is survived by his wife, Helen Louise; a daughter, Ann Louise, a student’ at Tudor Hall;. a son, Lt. John Spaulding, with the air force in the Pacific; a brother, Lee Roy Spaulding, Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. William Smith, New Delhi, India, Rites will be held at 8:30 a. m. Monday at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary and at 9 2. m. at St. Joan of Arc church. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Active pallbearers will _be Robert C. Becherer, Richard: F. Bergmann, Albert C. Fellinger, Warren H. Maxwell, Frank S. O'Neil, Forest H. Spencer, Charles R. Weiss, George H. Woody. . Honorary pallbearers will be William B. Bond, John H. Bookwalter, Jerrus M. Bryant, Edward J. Burnell, Bert Dingley, Pat H. Fitzsimons, Monroe Heath, Robert Hollowell, Sidriey L. Houck, Cornelius V. Loughery, Eugene C. Miller, Lowell H. Patterson, Franklin C. Schimpf, Dr. William M. Smith, Alexander L. Taggart Jr., Frank C. Thompson, Guay A. Wainwright, Fred L. Warner, James S. Watson, Col. Walker W: Winslow, Timothy A. Brothers.

DR. MILTON T. JAY

Rites and burial will be conducted tomorrow in Portland for Dr. Milton T. Jay, retired Portland physician who died yesterday -at the home of his son, James C. Jay, 3620 Washington blvd. Dr. Jay had practiced medicine tland ‘more than 30 years held several public offices. He was the author of many newspaper and magazine articles on history and nature. A member of the Portland Elks lodge, he also was a captain in the 139th field artillery of the state guard. The son and two grandsons survive.

DAYTON P. CARTER

Dayton P. Carter, 2327 E. Michigan st, construction engineer, attorney and former school teacher, died today at the Veterans’ hospital. He was 53. An engineer with the Grinslade Co, for the last 12 years, Mr. Carter taught school in Indiana and Iowa from 1910 to 1913. A graduate of Indiana State Teachers’ college and Indiana Law school, he was admitted to the bar in 1917. He enlisted in world war I and served as a lieutenant, His survivors include his sor, ' Machinist 2-c Richard P. Carter, with the navy; his father, Sylvester F., Paragon; two brothers,” Elvie, Indianapolis, and Loren, Princeton; three sisters, Mrs. Avis Slerp, Indianapolis, Mrs. Edith Whittaker, Eminence, and Dea Colwell, Paragon, and a granddaughter, Jane Carter, New York. Rites will be held at 10:30 a. m. Monday at Shirley Brothers’ West Chapel and at 1:30 p. m. at Mt. Pleasant Baptist church at Hall Burial will be in Mt. Pleasant ceme~ tery.

CHARLES WILLIAM ECHOLS ‘Word ole i of death of Charles

lieutenant eolonel's. folks, Lt. Col. Malmstrom is »

reports back |

still very much in|

band of Mrs. Doris .Northcutt, 2359 |

An infantryman, Sgt. Hiles was

C. W. SPAULDING!

Second Lt. Gordon M. Allen . . . freed from Stalag Luft 1.

faptured last July 7 and was interned in stalag-4-B. He is a former Times carrier. ” ” ” T. Sgt. Jean B. Ent, radio operator and gunner on a B-17, who was shot

Sgt. Roland H. Hiles . . . , from German prison. Cpl. Dec.

freed

Harding was captured last! 16. - ¢ |

visiting his parents, the Rev. and

down over Berlin last October, was freed April 29 from the German prison at Moosburg. Word of Sgt. Ent’s liberation was] received by his parents, Mr. and

ave. o o o Pfc. Emil Malinovsky, who had | been reported missing in action in Germany since April 12, phoned his| wife, Mrs. Laura Malinovsky, 15 S. Bolton ave., yesterday from ‘the East coast. tnat he would be home soon. An infantryman, Pfc. Malinovsky was fighting with the 34th Red Bull| division when reported missing. | ” » ” | Captured Feb. 17, 1943, In North |

from a German prison and is now| Africa, Pvt. Robert T. Darbro, son

's. Rybolt ave. was freed April 16 |

from a German prison by the Brit: ish 7th armored division. 8 um Cpl. Albert G. Harding Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Harding, 1237 Lee st., has been liberated from Stalag 9-C on April 29, and is on his way home. A member of the 106th division,

to Arizona a few years ago. is survived by his wife, Ruth; daughter, Betty, both of Tucson, and his father, James A. Echols, Indianapolis.

MARY E. CASWELL Services for Mrs. Mary E.- Caswell, .114% E. Ohio st. Thursday at Methodist hospital, will be held at 11:30 p. m.- Monday at Moore Mortuaries Peace chapel. Burial will be in Crown

Hill. A resident of Indianapolis 40 years, Mrs. Caswell was 68. She | formérly was a saleswoman for L. S. Ayres & Co. and was a member of East 10th Street Methodist church. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Grace K. Abel; a son, Virgil both of Indaniapolis; two

and Vern . Chance, Andersonville, and one grandson, William Abel; Indianapolis.

REBECCA ANN CURD Rites will be held at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow at Southport Methodist church for Mrs. Rebecca Ann Curd, who di&d Thursday at her home near Southport. Burial will be in Greenwood: A lifelong resident of Marion county, Mrs. Curd was 74 and was a member of Southport church. She. is survived by her son, Byron, Southport; two daughters, Mrs. Elmer Raeburn, Acton, and Mrs. Thomas Averitt, Greenwood; a brother, Cyrus Bentley, Acton, and three grandchildren.

CORA AMANDA MITCHELL

Service ‘for Mrs. Cora Amanda Mitchell, who died yesterday at her home, 910 West dr., Woodruff Place, will be held at 4:30 p. m. today at Hisey & Titus funeral home. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mrs. Mitchell, the’ widow of Thomas Wallace Mitchell, was a lifelong resident of Indjanapolis and a member of Meridian Heights Presbyterian church. Surviving are the daughter, Mary Katherine; three sons, -Donald L.,

grandsons and one great-grandson.

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who died |

brothers, Otie Chance, Connersville, !

Indianapolis; Hugh, Anderson, and | Frank T. Bronxville, N. Y. five

Mrs. Roy H. Turley, | ave. Rev. sity | church.

Turley is pastor of "UniverHeights United Pfc. Turley was captured |

| stroyer unit of the 9th armored di- | vision, on 2 8 | A prisoner of the Germans eight months, Pvt. Lawrence R. Shelton, |son bf Mrs. Mary Shelton, 547 N. Belmont ave., has been liberated ac-

{cording to word received this week | Pvt. Shelton was captured last

{infantry regiment. 2 8 =

Cpl. Albert G. Harding Jr. , .. | treatment freed and on way home.

~ Lee R. Hagner Wounded

19, in Germany and is expected to {return to ‘the- states for medical] has been a

soon. He awarded the purple heart.

a Red Cross message received last | son 8

night.

Robert J. Hall Wounded

| HONORED—

First Lt. Donald E. Rhoades, son i |of Mr. and” Mrs. Samuel R. Rhoades, | Zionsville, has heen awarded the oa . |leaf ‘cluster to the air medal for i | bombing raids against Germany and {now is on his way home, having i completed 35 missions, Lt. Rhoades (is i of a = 117.

STATE | The names of the following Indiana men appear on today’s official | casualty lists:

NAVY DEAD

Raber L. Hall Princeton; arine Pvt. Lyle V. Keller, Pountain City; achinist's Mate 3-¢ Larry Benedict | Schueler, New Albany. NAVY WOUNDED

Marine Pfc. Herbert W, Clark, Boone

Marine Pfc L

Marine Pfc. Lee R. Hagner, son: ville; Marine Pfc. Roger G. Clark, Misha=

Cpl. Donald Eugene Halderman,

aka Pvt. Schreiner was captured Jan. of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hagner, | Logansport: PRarmacist's. Mate 1-c Hasson

4042 Otterbein | 'WOUNDED— Cpl. Robert L. Harris, son of Mrs. Brethren | Edwin F. Martin,

ave,

Pvt, Emerald F. Foster, who was

vision, was freed April 23, from]

Foster, 3140 N. Keystone ave. o n ” Pvt. Fred D. Schreiner, husband of Mrs. ‘Kathryn Schreiner, 1832 N

‘FUNERAL TODAY -

Retired High Mason.

Rites for David W. Stratton, retired wholesale tobacco dealer, who| | died yesterday at the home of his | daughter, Mrs. O. L. Shelton, 445

| Blue Ridge road, will be held at 4 p. m. today at Shirley Brothers’ Central chapel®* Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mr. Stratton, who was 73, was the father-in-law of Dr. O. L. Shelton, dean of the Butler university school | of religion. For approximately 18 | years he was manager of the Oklahoma City, Okla. office of the Sledd Wholesale Co., a tobacco firm. He later operated his own wholesale company before retiring in 1929 and moving to Indianapolis. He was active in Masonic affairs and was a 32d degree Mason and a past master of the lodge at Ponca City, Okla. He was a member of University Park Christian church. | Surviving are his wife, Lavina; the daughter; a son, Maj. Cecil Stratton Wright Field, O.; two grandchildren and one great-grand-child.

RUSH F. PICKENS : Rites for Rush Franklin Pickens, a resident of Indianapolis 60 years who died Thursday, were to be held at 3 p. m. today at Hisey & Titus funeral home. Burial was to be in Crown Hill. Formerly employed by the state as an engineer, Mr. Pickens had been retired for three ‘years. He is survived by his wife, Mary; a brother, Owen, and two sisters, Mrs. H C. Adams and Mrs. Marguerite P Brown, Indianapolis.

DR. GLENN J. BOOKWALTER Rites for Dr. Glenn J. Bookwalter, who died Thursday at his home, 5250 Washington blvd., will be held at 4 p. m. Monday at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial . will be in Crown Hill.

EVENTS TODAY

V-Mail exhibit, Ayres’ Times-City Récresion tournament fin

auditorium,

division marble

tival, 9:30 a. m., -Arthur Jordan con38} valor. National V town area Society of Indiana Pioneers, , m,, Butler university Boy: Scout camping demonstration, Longacre park. State C. I. O, executive board, 12 noon, Hotel Washington, miisuapolly Choir Directors association, p. m,, First Presbyterian church, 6:45 P m., World

. F. W, Poppy day sales, down-

meeting, 2 luncheon,

Youth for Christ rally, War Memorial plaza.

EVENTS TOMORROW

Erale ole, post, V.F.W, organization

ing, 3 p. m., Claypool hotel order of Amaranth, meeting, Beth Bi slay;

Washington.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

Herbert Arthur Bogard, 8. navy; Dorothy Louise Volpp, 1545 Yn, Robert Virgil Brokaw, 2350 N. Talbott; jzabeth Jenner, 2052 Central. Brown, 1720 Berwick; Mary Louise Buchanan, 27 8. ‘Highland. John Ra d Chandler, Cincinnatl, O.; Velma uth Coplen, 2459 E. Riverside dr Francis Coleman Fitch, 642 Union; Rosemary Nevitt, 5102 Shelby y. Lee Andrews Flowers, U. 8. Iris Mabel Brommell, 21 3 Tints, Russell Goodman, N. New Jersey, Mary Magdalene Doolin, 1441 N. New

Jer Richard’ 8. Graafsma, 3 N. Gray; Olive Jean Wise, Beech Grov Thomas P. Hall ran, 928 s Missouri; Doros thy Marie Hahn, 842 Mel James Rn ihony Harmon, % “8. Linwood; ‘Lois Evelyn Suddarth, R. R. 11, Box 341. Richard Haughton Jr., Dallas, Tex.; Margaret Jean Hughes, 49006 06 N. Meridia Robert Leslie Haynes, 490068 Orion? Chariotte Elaine Cox, 3037 Graceland. Ra, ong Wesley Jones, ' Ft. zabeth Bailey, Indianapolis. Bo? Jerome Keller U Die 3 2 N. Delaware Louis Lvs Mann, 1118 ‘N. Tacoma; Iris A'vene J.ehman, hg nN woo) arg Rains,

oR Seti ond; uk 3a pre 2 3 indy

‘Claypool

dinner, 7 p.m. Hotel

8. army; Mary Bue

Indiana Junior omipetitive music fes-| charter |

: Maris M Gerald Art pro Ashley. 16, at City, chronic |

IN INDIANAPOLIS

L. Bronstrup, 308 N, Bosart. Teonard Glen Stephenson, 501 N. Emer 200; Hazel Lorraine Parkhurst, 465 Vi

g.n Everett Verle Stitt, Kokomo; Edith Pauling Overman, ‘1143 Nelson Lynian Henry Trowbridge, ” Harrison Betty Jean Dilts, 1300 W. 23d. Kenneth Clyde Vradenburg, U. 8. army Jean Eckert, 4619 Primrose. Glenn Houston Walters, 246 8. Gray; Lorena Pearl Edwards, 246 8. Gray

BIRTHS Girls At St. Francis—Forest, Eva Bender At Methodist — Carl, Minnie Craig; Lloyd, Betty Louisa Had

Veda - Bell, John

Jean Booth; Paul

ley. AL St. Vincent's—Robert, Mary Christie At Home-—Stanley, Reeble Capps, at 313 E. 8t. Joseph; Booker, Mary Seats, at 1514 N. Arsenal; Catl, Ruby Ward, at 53¢ Kentucky. At Coleman--Robert, Mildred Chattin, Boys A St. Franch» — Lewis, Betty Hargrove joseph. Thelma Mandabach; Jame ‘Ruby Rash. At City—George, Edythe Arthur; Roy, Del phine Irvin Methodist—Thomas, car, Nell Dowell; Simon, Hazel James, Margaret Hanly: Myron, Ruth Honey; Alvin, Emma Ruble’ «4 St Vineent's—Louis, Freda Denzelan Clarence Phyllis McClendon; Mark Sutlen Hil t Coleman- Anthony, ‘Marguerite Carll Orion, Vivian OGabert; Charles, Jane Horton: Donald. Harriett Stephens

DEATHS |

Burton Henry Tubbs, 50, at Long, arterio sclerosis. Leona Atkinson, 49, at Methodist, enteritis Mary Sunningham, 80, at 205 8. Arsenal, hypertensiod Jusephina os Wehlage, 71, at 30 E Minnesota, cerebral hemorrhage Alice M. Riess. 1. at 2050% College, cere: __bral hemorrhi “al abel ¥. Pollock, a, at 12 N. Rural, acute |

itis, 3 Helm, 90, at 2165 N. Capital, cerebral hemorr| ape M. John 33, at Bt, Vincent's,

Alice Burks: Os Essex Viola

n Pood anal, 80, at 1625 Wade,

Pad) Costin. 1, at Riley, acute pulmonary | sen Tovans 87. at: 420 Patterson, pulary Bass. 8, at Carrollton, eoroe Lewis, 0. months, at ony, da E Ryker, 6, at City, coronary

|service

Oakland, Cal

Pfc. Howard ‘D. Turley, who .was| 1: of this year while fighting with 1512 N. New Jersey st., was wound- | Fagene . Johnston, freed from a German work camp the armored infantry of the 14th dinear Stalag 4-F on April 14,.is now | yision, 7th shy;

| # a

[5th marine division.

|P. R. Mallory Co., Inc. Cpl.| His brother, marines on Okinawa.

n s 2 . o 5 Nineteen-year-old

division, - was

and is now in a naval hospital at wounded there March 2, and is now Pic at the Mare Island naval hospital, | Pfc. Jackson, who is 19, was fight-| San Francisco. of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Darbro, 3041| captured Jan. 9, while fighting ing with the 7th marine division. | the infantry of the Rainbow di-| |Overseas ‘one

year, * he

in. January, 1943.

Culver Military academy and Wa-~|Putated.

bash college. 1

Pvt. Hall - enlisted in

led March 4, on Iwo Jina, but has| returned -to his famed outfit,

The 19-year-old serviceman en-| {tered the marine corps in Decemded pa Ron ber, 1943, when he was in his last| was wolindeq whi'e ltgnungi {year at Cathedral high school. Mrs. Harry C. Ent, 5526 Kenwood|DeC. 22, While with a lank de.| | with the Marines on Okinawa, and went overseas last October. Pfc.| rely, Soname, Plientd; {now is hospitalized in the South | Hagner is ®& former employee of | Pacific. ; Overseas nearly 27 months, Harris attended Park School and Hagner, was one of the first Hoosier Shortridge high school.

Marine Pvt. » ° Marige seriously L Ton

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hall, entered | 2945 McClure st., the young marine +" Pfe. stepped on a land mine on Iwo| Stalag 4-B, according to word re-|yocxion is & graduate of Shortridge Which blew oft his left leg. At the] ceived by. his wife, Mrs. Lorena pioh school and former student at|hospital his right leg also was. am:

December, | Chi jes Church, Gary; 8 |1943, going overseas this January. | | Michigan City:

Elkhart; Marine Pfe, obert J. Mestach. Mishawaka; Pfc. Hurben C. Thompson, South NAVY MISSING Ship's Cook 2-¢c Norman Cécil Ent, Law~ renceburg. : ARMY DEAD—EUROPE Sgt. Clarence J. Blastic. Whiting; . Pfe. | Leroy A. King, West Terre Haute. ARMY DEAD-—PACIFIC Freeman B. Ayres, Sulphur Springs; Ralph M. Holiandbeck, Rensselaer; Sgt.

Marine Bend.

the

Sgt He| Sgt

ARMY WOUNDED—EUROPE

| Pfc. Harold A Demaree, Franklin; Glenn R. English, Aurora; Pvt. Manson EB. Carl| Fancher, ‘Ft Wayne: Pfc. Carl F. Fox, Crothersvilie; T. 5th Gr. Maynard L, Gere gely, Gary; Pvt. Robert E. Haley, Ander- | son; Pvt. Ralph W. Jackson, Carlisle: Pfe. | Carl” E. Kopp, Corydon; Pvt. Car! P. Lae | Pever Ft. Wayne. Sgt. Carle J Serno, Pvt. Terre Hau , Pvt. Robert L. Stephenson, Washing Buh ARMY WOUNDED—PACIFIC Pvt. Elias Pisher Zhe Id Pfc. Charles fard Cit ist Lt

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Grad 2 William E Hamm. Winslow; Richard J. Harmon, Greensburg; Pvt, ndon C. Herbert, Mays: Cpl. Edgar J. Hewitt Anderson; Cpl. Anthony C. Janu= | is New Castle: Warren C. Kesler, Ne Albany, Brookville: T Valparaiso;

hramm, Charles P. Smith, Balti= Pfc. Loyd G. Smith, Bloomfieid. ARMY MISSING—EUROPE Pfc. Robert W. Thrasher, Bloomington. LIBERATED FROM GERMAN PRISONS Pvt. Arthut E. Biddle, Evansville: 2d Lt. Louis D. Carothers, Bremen; 24 Lt. Sgt. Leos W, 1st Sgt.-James H. Spencer, Pfc. Paul J. Tedrow, West

Ambia;

Cpl. Lowel Brasies, husband of He attended Ben Davis high school! Baden Springs; Pvt. Robert H. Thompson,

Alabama st., was freed from a Ger-|Mrs. man prison on May 23, according-to | Keystone ave., was wounded April|Camp’s, Inc.

DAVID STRATTON William B. Stokely Dies of

His Home in Newport, Tenn.

William B. Stokely, father of W. |are his wife; B. Stokely Jr., president of Stokely-| Horace Burnett, Mrs. L. S. Moore | Tobacconist ‘Was, Van Camp, Inc., of Indianapolis,| ;

{died yesterday at his home in Newport, Tenn,

Margaret Brasier, 2005

Oakland, Cal;

h N.land is a former employee of Van| French Lick;

four daughters, Mrs. |

Bend; Pvt. Charles D. Thurston,

Pfc. Louis L. Tucker, New Ibany: Cpl. Paul M. Williams, Vincennes;

A | Pug Paul Zona, Hammond.

University of Tennessee and active in alumni affairs. The funeral will be in Newport at 3 p. m. Sunday.

| CLARK OWEN MITCHELL { Clark Owen Mitchell, retired care | penter, died yesterday. He was 78 and was a resident of Southport.

and Miss Edith Stokely, all of | Mr. Mitchell, a resident of “Mar. ° | Newport and Mrs. K. M. Eberts of | jon county 25 years, is survived by three sisters,

Miss|a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Wallace,

He was one of five brothers who, Carrie Lou Stokely, Miss Anna Mae Greenwood, and three brothers,

along with their mother, Mrs. Anna

| Stokely and Mrs. Fred Fisher, all of | Rollie, Vevay; Dellie, Bedford, Ky. -

'R. Stokely, founded Stokely Broth- { Newport, and a brother, Judge J. T.| and Noble, Louisville, Ky. ers in Newport in 18398. For many | | Stokely of Birmingham.

years he was president and a direc-| | tor of the company.

Rites will be held at 4 p. m. toe

Prominent in civic and religious morrow at the J. C. Wilson funeral circles in the East and Tennessee, | | home in Greenwood, with burial in

| Survivors besides “his son here Mr. Stokely was a graduate of the ' Greenwood.

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Vol. 3—No. 46 Dear Fellows—

THINGS ARE GETTING back to normal around here, now that the strike of garbage and ash collectors has been ended. . . . The dispute was settled Monday when the city agreed that representative groups of employees shall be entitled to be heard on grieve ances. The workers immediwork, 12 hours a day, to catch up with the 19-day accumulation of garbage and {rash. . The thermometer hit the eighties Monday afternoon and for a time it looked as if summer really werg here. . . . But it didn't last. Chilly weather returned the very next day. . . The war bond campaign was given a boost this wepk with the appearance of three survivors of the historic Iwo Jima. flag raising. The young marines, making a whirlwind tour of the country, said the tour was harder on them than the time they spent on blocdy Iwo Jima. . The Church Federation of Indianapolis has sent letters to all local ministers urging them and their congregas= tions to comply with price and rationuug regulations. in order to fight inflation. The state conservation department has preparéd a long range .plan calling for a state park within 35 miles of every Hoosier. It would mean adding 10 parks to the 11 we now have,

ately set to

Mules Go on ‘Rampage—

A PAIR - of mules caused a lot of excitement out ‘at Washington amd Tibbs Wednesday when they, wandered from home. ' Police tried to round them up, and the mules went on a rampage. . With the police in hot pursuit, the mules galloped through a vegetable and flower garden at Fire Station 18, nearby, annoying the firemen no énd L Finally, heenawing at the cops, the mules permitted themselves to* be caught. Brig. Gen. John M. Weir of Indianapolis has been ~assigned by the war department to the job of nabbing war criminals and bringing them to trial. The Lions club has decided to continue its campaign to provide cigarets for men overseas. In two years, the glub has raised $12,000 tor fags.

% 9% Injured Playing Ball— "NORMAN RUNKLE, 1433 Olive st. was knocked unconscious whéh he stumbled over a park bench at Rhodius park while | attempting to catch a fly ball. , . . Lou Young, advertising manager of The Times,

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broke his arm in two places when he stepped on a coke bottle a child had left on the top step of his basement stairway. . . . He fell all the way down the stairs. . . . Ned Bottoms and Charley Lamb have formed the Bottoms and Lamb Flying Service and will operate a flying school at Bob Shank’s new airport on U. S. 52 at Georgetown road. . . . The new airport has just been opened. . . . Mr. Shank recently leased his Hoosier airport to .the Parks Aircraft Sales and Service. . Fred Hasselbring, active in American Legion affairs, has been named assistant treasurer and public relations director of the Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corp.

TR R Monument Is Lighted—

THE SOLDIERS and Sailors’ monument now is being lighted each night, and it presents a most attractive spectacle, . . , The lights, made possible by the recegd general -assembly, bring out detail not noticed in daylight. A sure sign - of summer was observed this week when the monument fountains started flowing. . . . The old monument still is the favorite ~ trysting place of lovers. . A tulip tree on the statehouse lawn is in bloom, creating quite a bit of interest. . It’s the state tree of : Indiana, you know, The tree has thousands of green and orange blooms shaped just like a tulip. . . Steeplejacks still are working on the cupola above. the dome, putting the finishing totiches on a new coat of gold and silver paint. . ‘The painters look like midgets way up there in the air. . . Mrs. Russell Gordon, 3024 N. Pennsylvania, looked out the window the other day and discovered her 4-year-old son, Phil, playing choo-choo on the sidewalk with six of his father's precious packages of cigarets. . . . She broke all speed records getting out there and grabbing those cigarets before someone else beat her to it.

* * * What's Cookin’ in Sports—

rue INDIANS have been playing a nice brand of baseball. The Milwaukee Brewers eased theni from first to third place in the A. A. race by splitting a double-header .. But they're still within easy reach of the attic berth. . EJ Wright, who pitched a no-hitter for the Tribe against Kansas City a week ago, became the leading pitcher in the association with five straight victories. . The fifth

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“was sn 8-1 decision over St. Paul . ie

Baseball Commissioner Hapby Chandler is to attend a Junior Baseball benefit. game. dt Victory fleld June 13. oh Jesse D.

ea at Mack ny