Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1945 — Page 3

FRIDAY, JUNE W045. = ~~

MINIATURE WAR IN SYRIA OVER

[French Troops Cease Fire;

Conversations Due.

By HENRY P. McNULTY United Press, Staff’ Correspondent . PARIS, June 1.—French troops geased fire in the Levant today. A Beyrouth dispatch said the undeclared miniature war that took at least 400 lives and enflamed the Arab world apparently had ended. - A spokesman for President Gen. Charles de Gaulle's personal advisory committee French troops had been ordered to stop firing against Syrian irregulars and retire into their barracks. There was no immediate explanation whether the order was sent from Paris or given by the French gonimander in ‘the Levant--on his own initiative. Damascus Quiet In any event, it complied to the | letter with Prime Minister Churchfils virtual ultimatum of yesterday to DeGaulle, © Churchill had ordered British forces in the Levant to intervene to prevent further Jhloodshed. A Beyrouth dispatch said the French had instructed their commander to “play ball with the British” and asserted shell-pocked Damascus today. was “quiet .as a grave.” Gen. Humbolt, the French commander, met with Gen. Pildeau, British area commander, in Damascus last night, the Beyrouth dispatch said. Humbolt consented to the British orders. ’ “Good progress has been made An-the execution of the orders and no incidents have been reported since,” the dispatch said. One large fire still was burning in Damascus this morning and Syrian sources estimated damage to their capital at $40,000,000. Gen. Sir Bernard C. Uaget, Brittsh and allied commander for the Middle East, arrived in Syria during the morning. "A British foreign office - spokesman in London said Anglo-Amer-fcan-French conversations on a final solution .of the Levant situation would begin in London as ‘soon #s possible.” The United States already has agreed to participate, he said, but France's reply has not been re-

geived. Syria and Lebanon will not |

take part in the initial conversations, but will be brought in later.

Publish U. 8. Note

The American embassy said De Gaulle’s reply to an American note regarding Syria had been received and transmitted to Washington Thursday night. The text of the B American note was published «in France today. In London, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told a cheering commons: “We have confidence that we ean now rely on all concerned to co-operate in complete restoration of order, which is ‘indeed the first step to solution of this complex problem.” wi Sreseg—— During the height of the struggle, French Senegalese troops-had seized the Syrian parliament building in Damascus after virtually destroying it with mortar and artillery shells. French planes bombed and strafed Damascus and several other Syrian cities. Two British military policemen were wounded; one seriously, in one of the final incidents before the cease fire order last night, a Damascus dispatch to the United said. French shells hit the military -police station, the dispatch said. “One witness reported that Senegitese troops were taking hostages and even forcing their- way into houses,” the dispatch said. The original fighting flared after French reinforcements landed in 8yria and Lebanon without advance notice being given the Levant gov= ernment. They contended their independence was being violated. The French cabinet met this morning to consider the situation. There was a possibility that it might decide to withdraw all French troops from the country.

FORMER BEDFORD WOMAN DIES HERE

Mrs. Nell McConnell, resident of Indianapolis for 12 years, died today at her home, 2355 Central ave. Bhe was 53. A former resident of Bedford, Mrs. McConnell was a member of First Methodist church. She’ is survived by two sons, Robert, Indianapolis, and T. Sgt. Harold McConnell, in Germany; two daughters, Mrs. Geraldine Hurst and Mrs. Mildred Copeland, both of Indianapolis, and two grandchildren. Rites will be held at 10:30 a. m. Monday at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Bedford. » .

FUNERAL TOMORROW FOR SAMUEL YEFTICH

~ Rites for Samuel Yeftich, Indianapolis merchant who died Wednesday at Methodist hospital, will be held at 1:30 p. m, tomorrow at the residence, 3530 W. 16th st. and at 2 p. m, at the Roumanian Orthodox church. Burial will be in Floral Park. A native of Yugoslavia, Mr. Yeftich was 48. He had resided here 85 years and was a member of St. - George lodge of Serbian Federation Unity and of the Yugoslavian National Home. ' Surviving are hys wife, Angeline; three sons, Alexander, in the navy at Great LakesyIll., and John and Thomas, Indidnapolis; two broth ers, Mladen and Blagoy, and two sisters, Mara and Dosta, -all of Yugoslavia, r

MARY, JOAN NESBIT ~ SERVICES MONDAY

. Miss Mary Joan Nesbit, died to‘day at Her residence in Allisonville, where she had been a lifelong resi1 dent. She was- 85 and leaves no Services will be at the home at 10 a.m. Monday and burial will be

oF a

“Mrs. John W. Todd, 55 N. 15th

confirmed that}

south of Coblenz, when the Amer.

Robert Todd to Be Eagle Scout ROBERT TODD, son of Mr. and

ave., Beech Grove, will be invested with the rank of Eagle Scout at the Central In- . : diana Council Eagle Court™of “honor at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the war memorial auditor- $ ium. Scout Todd, who is a .member of troop 79, qualified for eagle rank at a the Central In- Robert Todd diana Council Eagle board of review May 19. Recommended by scout leaders and church and community leaders of Beech Grove, he has given outstanding seryice in bond selling and other war projects.” : .The court of honor will feature numbers by the Boy Scout band, the eagle address by John G. Benson and the eagle scout induction ceremony.

Witness Says 3 Shot and Beat Parachutist.

By JOHN McDERMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent AHRWEILER, Germany, June 1.

—A witness testified at the murder

trial of three Germans today that he saw German civilians shoot and beat an American airman to death when he parachuted into the Reich from a crippled bomber last August. The first trial in American-occu-pied territory of German civilians #ccused of war criminality opened before a military commisison in a tiny courtroom of the Ahrweiler city hall. Peter ~Kohn, a crane operator from the town of Preist; Matthias Gierens, a Preist railway worker, and Matthias Drein, blacksmith and rural policeman, were accused of murdering a U. S. flier whose identity never was established.

Shot and Clubbed

The Germans pleaded not guilty. A handful of German civilians at= tended the public hearing of the charges ‘and testimony. The chief witness for the prosecution was Nicholas Nospes, 74. He said he saw the airman shot in cold blood, then clubbed merci-

bullet wounds. Nospes said he was cutting wheat in a field near Preist, 60 miles

ican parachuted down from the crippled bomber. Townsfolk rushed to the scene of the landing, Nospes said. Peter Back, a semi-cripple, hobbled from a motorcycle, drew a pistol and shot the airman in the head. Back has not been found. we Gierens trembled violently when Nospes testified that he—Gierens— and Kohn, who has only one arm, beat the airman with a club and a hammer after Back wounded him. Sobs at Testimony. Maj. Theodore Irwin of Dallas, Texan prosecuting- attorney, asked how many shots were fired. Nospes said Back shot the airman twice. One bullet entered the side of his head. He did not know where the other hit. Although mortally wounded, the airman struggled to his feet as the crowd gathered, Nospes testified. He sald the body was a bloody mass of shapeless flesh when he saw it later. It was buried in an unmarked grave after all clothing and identification markers were removed. Drein sobbed at times during Nospes' . testimony. The men were represented by a German civilian lawyer, Dr. Franz Mehl, in addition to Maj. Richard T. Brewster of Kansas City, Mo., and Capt. Henry Dunck of Belleville, 11.

In Indianapolis

EVENTS TODAY V-Mail exhibit, Ayres’ auditorium. Marine corps art exhibit, Block's . audi-

torium. Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, noon, Columbia club.

EVENTS TOMORROW

Indiana Disabled American Veterans of world war, meeting, Hotel Lincoln. V-Mail exhibit, Ayres’ auditorium Marine corps art exhibit, Block's auditorium,

BIRTHS

Twins At St, Francis—Robert, boys At. Home-—Lsaac, Mill,

Evelyn LaBeau, Martha Myrick, 1412 boy and girl. Girls At St. Francis—Robert, Brady, Norene Parsons, Steele, At Oeleman—Eldred, Kathryn Lee; Maurice, Margaret Stoelting. At Methodist—John, Georgia Holwager, Pasqual, Betty Moffo; Dave, Stella ebb,

At Home-Alfred, Maggie Black, 1443 Cornell; James, Pearl Coleman, 2081 Highland pl.; George, Christine Knadler, 334 Bancroft. At St. Vinecent's—Wyatt, Helen Cargal; Albert, Evelyn Mann; Ollard, Clarabelle Martin; Wade, Thelma Nicholas; Francis, Sylvia Robertson; Ralph, Norma Strubble. v Boys

At St. Francis—Willlam, Mazel Berry, Palmer, Mary Clark; Robert, Ada Crago; Harry, Rosemary Lawrence; Earl,

Maybelle, Moon, , At City—Cldrence, Ruth Robinson; Mert, Anna Williams, At Methodist—Harold, Edna Broadstreet; Charles, Thelma Hornberger; Kenneth, Dorothy McQuilling; Ernest, Audry Remington; Roy, Helen Smith; George, Justine Tewell, . At Home—-Willlam, Virginia Denney, 841

N. La Salle, At St. Vincent's—Marvin, Catherine Beck; Baten, Lucille Cox; Holland, Bertha erle. v

Evelyn Gray.

DEATHS : Thomas D. Wadelion, 58, at St. Vincent’s, acute cardiac dilatation. Thomas Hunt, 64, Long, arteriosclerosis. Nora Marie Tarpy, 66, at 462 Division, cerebral hemorr e Charles E. Couch, at BOOT ‘Pennaylvania, arteriosclerosis. James P. Arterberry, 65, at 18 E. Adler; cardio yascular renal. Orra Bell Harry, 79, at 3645 N. Dearborn, carcinoma. ‘ Jesse W. Baxter, 89, at 2102 N. Delaware, coronary lusion

THREE TRIED IN AIRMAN SLAYING

lessly while he still bled from thej-

William, Mary|

Oscar ’ 7. 1 i ai SU’ Eisabeth Bhs. $1. at 1433 N. Penn

MRS. HUME TO HEAD. ENGLISH TEACHERS

‘Mrs. Bess F. Hume was elected president of the English Teachers’ club at the annual election meeting. officers named were Miss vice president; Mrs. Esther Powers, recording secretary; Miss Mary -Hall, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Leo

Other Margaret Kellenbach,

Rasacco, treasurer.

Minnesota, Modern English Curriculum.”

Speaker at the meeting was Dr. Dora V. Smith, of the University of who discussed “The

LIFE UNDERWRITERS GROUP TO INSTALL

Installation of officers of the

olis Life Underwriters .association will be “conducted at the meeting Wednesday noon in the Columbia club. dia Miss Nellie” A. Polley, retiring president, will: install for Mrs. Marcia B. Cochran, president; Mrs. Marion M. Hull, secretary, and Mrs. ‘Frace M. Jones, treasurer. “Industrial Insuranee—as Related to the Ordinary Field” will be discussed by Mrs. ~Theoda D. Tibbles, Mrs. Stella JA. Richardson and Mrs. Inez L. Tuttle, all local representatives of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ___ WARNING REPEATED

women's division of the Indianap-.

Cnt

roe

CHICAGO, June. 1 (U; P)-—|chicken raisers can't get enough

3 R S Jes fish and grain products will| feed. The federation said the gov-

er Suuasie; Adoiph Senetstichn: be the main foods for U.S. civilians ernment would not grant needed ay repealed a warning that NO ihe rest of<this year. manpower - priorities to feed pro-

mail can be delivered to ‘prisoners | . : . of war in the European area and| A United Press survey based in| ducers.” | Main items on the

that all such mail will be returned.government and private sources to sender, {show that pork and beef will be|the government reported, will The move was the result of. an luxuries. Chicken will be only a! Eggs, fluid milk, skim milk byorder from the war department and | little more abundant, ..| products. fresh and frozen fish, does not apply to prisoners in Japa- Sugar will be available only for and grain products with the excepnese camps, Mr. Seidensticker necessary uses—such as sweetengng' tion_of rice in some areas. pointed out. ~ coffee, tea and, cereals. : | “Add to these items fresh vege- ———————————————————— Butter is rapidly. approaching the | tables from truck farms and vic‘RECEPTION SET Istatus of a museum piece. | tory gardens and the nation will Maple Circuit lodge No. 7, Order| Chicken to some extent will help | find a well-balanced, if plain, diet. of Druids, will hold a reception to- | alleviate the ‘meat. shortage. But Although output of beef and veal morrow night at the hall.

family -table,

148 Staff of lie Fe Be Eggs, Fish, Grain

| toward the

year, léss is finding 1s way into

civilian homes. : i The overall meat picture reflects the 30 per cent drop in pork production. Meat production in 1045,

{according to- the government, will

run approximately mine per cent

be: | less than last year.

_BURMESE INDEPENDENCE "LONDON, June 1 (U. P), — A government-sponsored bill looking Jitimate independence of Burma with the status of a British commonwealth was pushed

| through its second reading in comthe farm, bureau federation said is expected to set a new record this/mons today. Ze

STRAUSS - SAYS: — —

FINE!

STORE HOURS — MONDAYS SAME AS OTHER

Wear them under

--your fine Jackets .

Sports . or

under your Leisure Coat. Wear them ,.. . under your Sports Shirt. * Wear them as is ; ..

with your

THESE

Slacks.

SKETCHES

-are pickéd at random from our

stocks . .

« just te

give you an idea.

These

LEISURE

OXFO

RDS

by Roblee are 5.85

prs

A man likes them—in different weaves and colorings— and he wants quantities!

For town and country—for around home—for indoors or out—for bending over a hoe or bending over a lathe—for taking part in active sports—or for looking on!

He likes the feel of these "T" shirts next to the dermis . . . the comfort and coolness that he gets out of being in them . . . And they are not much of a laundry problem .. . some suds and a bit of hand effort . . . (no ironing) . . . and the "T" Shirt is ready for more chestal service!

Flat weaves very light in weight—rougher weaves light and of stockier weight—white— plain shades—and all manner of colors—including some very assertive stripes!

They absorb perspiration . .

.-and encourage it to evaporate... which is good for the health. a

The Man's Store has gone overboard on "T" Shirts . . . has selections galore , . . and priced very moderately. (We

. »

underscore that word VERY .. . purposely!) T.. Tremendous!

DAYS — 9:45 TO 5:45 — SATURDAY 9:30 TILL 4

STRONG SHOWINGS AT

1.00 1.25 1.49 1.65 200 35 400