Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1945 — Page 2

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Hoosier Heroes: Local Mon. Killed i in Okinawa Fighting

Dean Haibe Killed

K. Wolsiffer : Liberated

WAR BOND REVIEW TICKETS ALL SOLD

{- A ‘complete sellout of tickets: in! the navy war bond review tomorrow | Remember the general at Bastogne|ture de luxe). night at Murat temlpe was reported | Who told the Nazis “nuts” when they | Solon Buck, introduced Senator | spectators crowded around for: a today. asked him to surrender? | Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado who look at the surrender signatures. Stocks of both general admission | He did the honors at the unvell-| introduced ‘Maj. Gen. Anthony C. and reserved section seats being|log of a case full of German suf-|mMcAuliffe who. told those Germans |

By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN The spectators leaned on the United Press ‘Staff Correspondent cases and against the bronze gates Star-Spangled Banner” .and some "WASHINGTON, June 7 (U..P.).—| (this archives building is a struc- | more marches (ear shattering in The archivist, Dr.ithe marble. confines) and the |

speeches, the bani struck up “The

I will say for’ those Germans at

| given with the purchase of an extra ender documents. Potted palms nyts” - Luneberg, Reims ‘and Berlin that 7th war loan bond were depleted. |lined the taffy-colored marble halls And Rope Stuck they had clean fingers. There lof the Archives building. wasn't’ a smudge on a single sheet. The “Mighty Seventh” drive in The general ‘turned out to be 8p 4 oin hands were sweaty the

Marion county will realize a mini- An army band tottled military nice looking. young fellow with his| mum of $200,000 from the variety marches The bigwigs included Un-| hair parted in:the middle and three | | presentation. Approximately 1937 dersecretary of State Joseph OC.|rows of campaign ribbons on. his |seats were scaled into separate bond | Ce, Supreme Court Justice Wil-| pop-tailed jacket, denomination categories for the|lam O Douglas, small business ex-| ,.... 4. dignified little speech | show. \pert Maury Maverick and a couple gee you the documents about to

stains didn't show. I guess, though, |that they were nervous. I couldn't make out a single signature; the way Gen. Adm. Hans Georg von Friedburg wrote his

Pvt. George H. Sturgeon, hus: band of Mrs. Wanda Sturgeon, 1859 Holloway ave, and son of # Mrs. Harley Pierson, Sunshine « Gardens, was killed on Luzon May 8.

‘of the Makin island and Saipan * campaigns, was killed aprh 29 in “action with the infantry on Oki-|

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8. Sgt. Dean C. Haibe, a veteran :

Kenneth Hull Wins DFC

Charles Crum Purple Heart

Appearance of the 10-act navy|of hundred other gents with enough talent, show on tour of five states to! gold on their shoulders to trim a spark the “Mighty Seventh” is be- row of Christmas trees. ling sponsored locally by the Amer-| They marched into the main ex{ican Women's Voluntary service. | hibition hall, where a heavy cloth Doors to the Murat will be opened | covered the central case. Around {at 7:30 p. m. and the show will get the edges were other cases, uncovR under way at 8 p. m ered, containing Rooseveltian soummm |venirs, - There . was the diamond. Istudded sword (real diamonds, the

ARREST DEATH cAMP HEAD

MOSCOW June 7 (U. P.)." —_ A!/man said) that King Ibn Saud gave Soviet Tass agency dispatch from | Mr. Roosevelt; the note that Prime Warsaw said today that Polish) Minister Churchill wrote. him say-

authorities have arrested Paul Hoff-|ing thanks for a birthday present {man, former head of the German! (a bowl), and a gold-embroidered

| de ith camp at Maidenek. robe sent by the Russians,

appear publicly for the first time were testimony that the American soldier can overcome any evil force on earth. Then he grabbed’ the rope that controlled the cloth that covered the case and what always happens happened. The durn. thing stuck. The general didn't say “nuts.” He didn't say anything.. He Jost kept on tugging. Sheets All Clean An assistant archivist In a} chocolate-colored suit helped him| out. There were a couple niore

name. it looked like a blue-black water snake relaxing. I was about to identify one of ‘the documents bearing a baby-blue ribbon when four military police with guns on their hips started shooing the customers back. They - were polite about it. Now Gen. McAuliffe had to come back and try to unveil the case all over again for the photographers. He was red in the face. The rope didn’t work any better this time than before. “Give it a good yank, general,” cried a picture taker.

entered service Oct. 2, 1941, and Belgium in January. A graduate of trained at Camp Wolters, Tex., and ghortridge high school, he has 1lso s Ft. Ord, Cal, before going OVErseas received the presidential citation. :in ‘March, 1942. The purple heart was awarded A former Technical. high school osthumously to Pfe. Emil G. Berstudent, Sgt. Haibe was a carpenter nits son of Mrs. Emil L. Bernitt, in civilian life. He took part in the'p Rr 10. Box 543, who was killed in invasions of Makin, Saipan and Germany on March 27. Okinawa and holds the combat in-| ‘ a » fantryman’s badge. . First Lt. Kenneth T. Hull, son of » Besides his mother, survivors are Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Hall 804 N «+8 brother, Earl, and two sig ters, Bolton ave, recently won the dis Mrs. Enid Hamel and Mrs. Vera Sirgnithed Jivitg cross” for. “auick

» Banta. {thinking and professional skill dur-

» wi MISSING ing a long-range bombing mission wt ) uot on March 10 in northern Italy.” N. ( < 4 ra- 3 ¥ Pie. Norma Jak) Bare 2 has! Lt Hull.is a graduate of Tech--dio a Ba the India-Burma nical high school and was a student i * 1 spbesn, Tussin March I. He is the at’ Indiana university when he en- ] i Joven ay 049 «husband of Mrs. Imogene ~Bayne|listed in November, 1542. .~ and the son of Mr, and Mrs. O. J. # «Bayne, 1303 E. Michigan st. STATE— Pfc. Bayne was an employee of | NAVY DEAD

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the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. untill Marine Pfc. Coy Lee Kiueh, Bristow he entered the army in February, NAVY Worse % ” ivan Marine Pvt. William 8 rank 1043. He has been overseas since 0t0€ ie Pvt. Lawrence a ha. or January. La Porte.

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SAFE— Harold Hardin Elfreich g Evansville. Pfc. William H. Pilkinton, son of ARMY DEAD—EUROPE Mr. and Mrs. William D: Pitkin Sgt. George E. Wolpert, New Albany.

ton, 236 S. Parker ave. was freed ARMY WOUNDED—EUROPE from Stalag 2-A, May 19. He was | Pfc. Vernon Richard Cargal, Bicknell captured in France June 6. i ARMY WOUNDED—PACIFIC Pfe. Pilkinton, an’ infantryman, ! Ins Em Oe Fos Te =e is a graduate of Technical high liam B. Rainwater, Rensselaer; 8. Sgt. school and ‘was employed by Stew- |Earl M. Smith, Hartford Ci ’

Plo ~Wiitiam C~-Wood, Coat esville; Pfc. arts, Inc. before he entered the | wh: Ter L Womiak, East Chicago: Pfc { Milton York, Hammond, Pvt. Sam York

army Sept. 6, 1944. ” Ed 2 . Pfc. James'1. Bolton, son of James) Capt 1. Bolton, Box 138, Maywood, has |

| Metamora. ARMY MISSING —EUROPE Louis C. Wieser, Hammond. ARMY LIBERATED—GERMANY

been liberated from a German| sgt Paul R. Aylsworth, Boonville; Pte Thomas M. Baillie, Ft. Wayne; Pvt. Robert prison camp. ‘ R. Bradford, Anderson; Pvt. Frank J 2 2 = | Buczkowski South Beid; Pfc. Waldo A Cox, Kempton, Pfc. Robert L. "De Viteger Pvt. Joseph B. Holland, husband | on Bis i TET LE A of Mrs. Betty J. Holland, 3025 S. pi Pvt. Clyde E. Evans, Rushville Foltz st, has been liberated from | s.°Sgt. August X. Suteke, And rson; 8 i Sgt. Walter G. Gehlhausen, Bristo Pf a German prison camp. Richard F. Gemberling, La Porte; T. Sg s ” ® Marvin L. Gesehhues, Floyds Knobs. S 1 Sgt. Peter Gigvanini, Clinton; T. 5th Gr S. Sgt. Lawrence Otto Wilson, pty. “5% Gig "gvansville; Ist Lt. Jame.

brother of Mfs. Roy... Griffin, 822 |%- Glendening, Geneva. Buchanan st, has been liberated| Pfc. hn, E, Jamiton, Colmes; T {Sgt. Harr awkins anon; 8S from Stalag 2-B and is on his way | pugsen E Hicks, Somth Bénd: 1st Lt. Eh home. JRE C. & are, Crawfordsville; s sgt. r jam ackson, Mount Vernon: Sgt An infantryman, he was captured | Kenneth G. Lawrence, Jeffersonville; Pvt in October, 1944, in Germany, He | Robert W. McKinley, Pt. Wayne. entered the army Nov. 22, 1943, and | Fst Lb, Charles oc

Sgt. Edward A. Muszynski went overseas in June, 1944. Before 8. Sgt. Clyde £. r T. Sgt. John N. 'Nix,

going into service he was engaged | 5, "8p Foney, Shaliners :

in construction work here. He was rence E. Parton, Evansville; Pic’ Pemberton,” Gary; Pvt. Ro i, L Peif fle graduated from Crawfordsv ille high | Georgetown; Sgt. . Herman Phi beck, school. Richmond. Two brothers, Leo and Philip, live! oS, 55% Dennis M. Richardson, Scotts. r alph ar rgos Sgt at 843 Buchanan st. Harold I. Roach. Newberry; lst Lt. Wil2 = = liam P. Ruoff, Floyd, Mal. Robert L. Sal zarulo, Richmond: T Sgt Lawrence C

Lt. Paul W. Cavanaugh, Catholic |g hwandt, Hammond: Pvt. Wi chaplain’ with the 106th division, bold, French Lick. has been liberated from a German Pf", Don prison camp. ca Chaplain Cavanaugh, who made yu. many friends with local church |Stines members while the division was in Fras training at Camp Atterbury, was Pc reported missing four days after ° he arrived in Belgium A member of the Soviety of Fy Jesus, he was student counsellor Haute at Loyola academy in Chicago be- gai fore he began military service a

se ago. i ls» mie of Se: SOUTH BEND MAN DIES +» LAN*TRAIN-AUTO CRASH

Liberated April 20 from a Ge man prison camp, T. 5th Gr. Isham CHICAGO, June 7 (U, P.).~— G. Benton Jr., is now home with his | Harry 8. Clay, 55, South Bend, Ind. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isham G womal Benton 8r., 316 W. 28th st. “A OH Technician Benton, who arrived; here Friday, was captured in Ttaly “0¢2) on Jan. 18, 1845, while serving with the 92d division. ia ” i Pfc. Kenneth Wolsiffer, husband *_ 4 FI of Mrs. Josephine Wolsiffer, 963 §. Olver Farm Equipme: New Jersey st., has been liberated CagO, Was (ae from a German prison camp and is | hurled ti in Rheims, France, awaiting trans- ,.... partatien home. Clay's ‘pa He is the son of Mrs. Lida Wol- 'g'Brien = 37-v siffer, 1411 E. Southern ave. A yorcee w member of the 10lst airborn divis wreckage sion, Pfc. Wolsiffer was -captured it} Dec. 23, 1944, in Belgium.

e n n Two Hoosier heroes have received i the combat infantry badge : i gh aclifevement, ART SHOP LOOTED William G.” Gregory, son

Articles v Mr.. and Mrs. Lander J. Gregory, $650 were taken from t 36 N. Randolph received his chinese art. badge for his partigipation in the {on st. when it battle of the Ruhr pocket, the seiz- | Tuesday night. ure of Cheb and the Czechoslo-| taken were art vakian eampaign. He is a member yond their monetary of the 387 infantry, 87th division. ggid : Sgt. Leslie Hampton Jr., son of Mrs. Edith P. Hampton, 1221 Villa

" ‘ave, was awarded his badge for . OFFICIAL WEATHER

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nawa, Son of Mrs. Anna Haibe, 27 S. has been awarded the purple heart ||” Webster st., Sgt. Haibe was 32. He for wounds received in action in

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service in the European theater. He — U. 8. Weather Bureau is with the 271lst infantry, 69th (All- Data in Central War Time) = June 7, 1945 division’ Sunrise 5:16 | Sunset 8:11 s. 8 8 I t tin 24 hi 8, ending 7:30 a. m. 04 Four Indianapolis servicemen fon since can. 1 19 Fe have been awarded the purple heart =**% hyd ; “The following Libis SHOWS the Wighest for wounds, ter tures for 12 he dil 1 1.36 . Coast Guardsman Charles Crum, p. ni yesterday and the lowes est “tem er + ‘husband of Mrs. Charles Crum, 443 tires for 12 hours ending. at 7:30 a. u B. Pine st, was injured at his battle High Low station as loader on a 40-millimeter Bian «oorerereeee nb gun aboard his ship in the, Pacific, Chicago i 85 sa InCIBRAtE 4 ciiiiinasrns inne 68 53 Marine pe Wallace B.S Hengy, CIOVOIANA oo vvipnss yes Breen 69 ., 46° | of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Henry, Evansville 62 E. Ohio st., wis presented with, disnapolis deity) 69 heart at a mass’ ceremony | Kansas C ty. Mo : ami,

“epull it hard,” sald another. "The general uttered one . word. The band was dishing it up 0, that nobody could hear him,- but’ I'm a lip-reader. “Nuts,” the general said. Or at least that’s what I think he said. If he didn't, he should have and I'll be grateful if he 3 Endy not deny it.

7 LOCAL MEN GET

ARMY DISCHARGES

Seven more Indianapolis veterans have « been discharged from the

army through the Camp Atterbury separation center, four under the point system and three by the age regulation. Point dischargees were Cpl. Harold Gundeérloy, 4913 E. Michigan st.; Pfc. Walter D. Anderson, 1254 W. 29th sti; Tech 5th .Gr. Elmer L. Oliger, 2465 Broadway, and Sgt. Raymond Alkern, 321 S. East st. Men over 40 years of age who were released were Sgt. Robert Payne, 1211 Herbert ave.; T. Sgt. Paul W. Gardner, 2006 N. Emerson ave, and M. Sgt. Lowell Myers, 3145 N. Illinois st.

THURSDAY, JUNE. y 1045

i General Who Said" Nuts 16 Nazis Feels That Way Again

FOOD FOR EUROPE, -

CONFERENCE CAUSE ‘8

LONDON, June 7 (U. P.).—Food chiefs of Europe have been invited to an “urgent conference” in Lon= don to discuss the continent's crit= ical food situation; the Daily Mail said today. .

Invitations went to France, Bele. yf

gium, Holland, Luxembourg, Dene mark, Norway, Greece .and ‘Russia. _ British Food Minister Col. J. J. Llewellin urged that the Saniste ence begin as soon as possible—pbs= sibly next Tuesday: Purpose of the conference was described as three-fold: 1. To impress the delegates and their peoples ' that the world's larder is alarmingly bare and is likely to remain so for some time. 2. To show proof of Britain's short rations and emphasize that Britain cannot be called: on for further food cuts. 3. To discuss’ the world food situation ‘and facts as outlined at the Washington conference in April.

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