Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1945 — Page 2

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38th, Rooting Out Japanese Near Manila, ~ RITES ARE SET FOR

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TARIFF | ssing, Former |JEFFERS OPPOSES TARIFF VICTORY Edgar M. Blessing, Former ~~ JEFFEl er A ‘os TRAVEL RATIONING. Uses Silent Weapon—-Artificic ight VICTIM OF FALL AS OMEN Appellate Court Judge, Dies - “Uses Silent Weapon—Artificial Moonlight J ue | / / ‘ ‘|. LOS ANGELES, June 21 (U. P.). : : Services will be “held at 2 p. m. : BR | Edgar M. Blessing, one of Indi-| — William M.. Jeffers, president of By GERALD Z. THOR? gc of the 227th searchlight bat- searchlight battery and asking for| saturday in the Jordan Fiver y lana's most widely known attorneys; sy . 2 imes Foreign Corresponden { talion. more light on specific areas. A| home for Mrs. Emma A. Brown, y Truman Leaders Hopeful and former judge of the state ap- the Haven Packs Jalirond Sn WITH THE 38TH DIVISION ON The powerful searchlights are few nights ago, the 152d infantry | who was killed yesterday when she Gen. » : pellate court, died yesterday at his | mer nation rubber % LUZON, June 21.—The frenzied, enerally directed at the sk a was dug on the side of Mt. Purro|fell from the window of her apart=: On Bretton Woods. home in Danville. He wa. 68. doubted today that civilian. train gjsidal night attacks of the Japa- g AL re e sky and| ith the Japanese on. the crest a|ment, 233% Virginia ave. Burial : " Mr. Blessing became ill at his| travel would be rationed. Nese in the Dills. east: of Mania not. on the enemy, but the beams|few hundred feet above them. The will be in Washington Park. (Cont : By ALLEN DRURY office a few hours before his death. L “Travel rationing, if sttutedi neva bees eloaded. by ne. of the are reflected from the clouds and beams were shifted to the top of Occupaiits of the apartment . ; United Press Staff Correspondent He had been in good health and, would Be impracticable and hard to| s¢ ppe y “| blanket Jap areas with a brilliance the ridge just as the Nips started a| building said Mrs. Brown, who was on a ¢ sto] WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P). had attended a meeting. of ‘the : f the dificult 8 rangest weapons, compared to that from a full moon. banzai charge down the side of|gs had been ill for several days. this mon ¥ _ An overwhelming victery on post- [board of directors of the First Na-| administer because ol the culty | of the: war—arti- The practice, novel in this theater, the mountain. Nearly all of the|. Mrs Brown was barn in Crawford ~ While | "1 war tariffs made administration tional bank of Danville yesterday of deciding the. merits of travel ap-| ficial moonlight. was first used by the British in SheIny were slaughtered. county, lived in Dennison, Ill, for newsmen g rs in the senate confident to- morning. : plications, Jeffers said. Rather| From dusk to Normandy. : embers of battery C are en-|some time and had been a resident would ne i Widely knowh in legal circles than force establishment of a ra-| dawn, the moun- The lights are set about five JOVing their new job, according oof ndianapolis 19 years. $500,000 r “day of similar success with the gnce he began practice in 1904 In tioh system, he suggested, civilians tainsides from miles behind our front lines and|Lt- Sherwood J. Evans, Bangor, Pa.,| gyrvivors include seven sobs, warned tl ~ # Bretton Woods international mone- Danville, Mr. Blessing also had should just “stay home.” which the 38th just below ridges to protect them |their commanding. officer, Mark, Edison, Clovis and Clyde, all Other tw tary program. > been_active in Republican politics “It would be difficult for me un-| division is root- .} from direct” enemy fire. Before| We feel we are actually helping of Indianapolis; Ernest, Dennison; choose to i The senate passed the admin- for many years. He recently te-| der rationing to say that it was any|ing out the last , they were put in use, the Japa-|the infantrymen,” he explained, carl, South Bend, and Cpl. Ray= China an ¥ gstration’s bill to extend the recip- turned to his law practice in Dan- more necessary for John Jones, an|of the enemy in nese frequently crept to within five| 20d they're the guys who have the | nond, Camp Haan, Cal; two daugh= His ne roca) trade act another three years ville, after concluding a four-year industrialist, to travel than for &|this sector are or six feet of doughboys in fox-|toughest job in this war." ters, Mrs. Anna Staggs, Indianape long-soug by a vote.of 54 to 21 late yesterday term as judge of the appellate court |young lady with her baby whofbathed _ in eerie ; holes before they were discovered. |CoPirt, 195 bY The indisgapolls Yimes | olis, and Mrs. Pear] Baldwin, Bowls venge. after rejecting half a dozen at-|in 1944. | : {wants to see her serviceman hus-|light. The Jap * One night recently, the beams r———————————— ing Green, Ky., and a brother, Wile He had tempts to limit the presidential] The attorney also had served two Lpand before he leaves the country,” who attempts to Mr. Thorp were not turned on until nearly 9| 14526 LEAVE QUEEN MARY [liam Patton, Indianapolis. India wit] “authority on reciprocal tariff re- years as a member of the Indiana v "| Jeffers said. {move from his position finds him-|o'clock. As the darkness was dis-| NEW YORK, June 21 U. P= er ——————————————— and Chin 4 ductions. public service commission, resign- BS < | Increased Pacific war activity self spotlighted as an easy target. |pelled, two Japanese, bent on a The last of 14,526 American soldier ANNIVERSARY NIGHT taking wi § The bill, having been approved | ing when he was appointed solicitor .- Edgar M. Blessing | prompted him to buy a 12-room| The 38th's silent weapon consists suicide mission, were spotted just | and sailor passengers marched off|- Winamac council, Degree of Pocae beating” ¢ ® by the house, now goes to the/of the postoffice department under home here, Jeffers said. The move of 13 anti-aircraft searchlights, 50 feet from a U. 8. position and | the liner Queen Mary. today after| hontas, will celebrate their 44th ane . hese, White House in exactly the form re- | Postmaster General Harry S. New.| His wife, Elsie, and a sister, who did not mean that Union Pacific| each of 800,000,000 candle-power, set were killed. {the great ship's first announced|niversary tomorrow night. Each Pla # quested by President Truman. While solicitor he practiced in|resides in northern Indiana sur- | headquarters would be moved from|up at regular intervals along a 10-| The doughboys themselves can arrival since Great Britain went to member will ask a guest from ane He subs Senate Democratic Leader Alben | federal courts all over the country |yive him. | Omaha, Neb., he added: mile front and operated by battery direct the beams ‘by radioing the war. other council. ican com k« W. Barkley of Kentucky inter-|in civil cases involving use of the ——— x ie a ———————— — and Indie . preted the test on the reciprocal mails, and was in charge of all le- eralissimo ¢- trade bill as an indication of how |gal work of the postoffice depart-jj deputy cc ~ the fight on the Bretton Woods | ment. ! east Asia ; agreement would go. | After resuming private practice Mountbati “I wouldn't say that the division|in Danville in 1926, he became While | of votes would be exactly the same,” identified with almost all import- he helpec “"' Barkley said. “But it certainly in- ant litigation in Hendricks county. Burma. + & dicates that the senate is in a mood [He also practiced extensively in supply To for the fullest co-operation in bring- |other counties over the state. was. given _.. ing about stability in- post-war in-| Mr. Blessing also had served as Ora __. ternational trade.” : prosecuting attorney for Hendricks | Subsequ * The Bretton Woods agreement, | county for two terms shortly after fon with also passed by the house, would receiving his bachelor of law degree | recall to ?" authorize United States participa-|from the University of Michigan where he # tion to the extent of $6,000,000,000 in 1904. U. 8. arm in an international monetary stabili-| A native of Wadena, Benton zation fund’ and an international county, he attended grade and high | bank. school in Benton county and was | Stilwell’: Hopes For Speed a graduate of what is now Indiana | open the Barkley said both trade and fi-|State Teachers college ' at Terre; commande ®: nancial agreements would be an|Haute. He served as a teacher two Nimitz integral part of the nation’s co-|YeArs before his graduation, and | Geiger of operation with the rest of the world was principal of Plainfield high of grounc to stabilize commerce after the war. school for two years before entering after Bu Senate banking committee hear-|1aW school in 1901: ; | pressly lef ngs on the Bretton Woods proposal Mr. Blessing was a member of the | contmand ..» are scheduled tentatively to wind up | Hendricks County Bar association, | the army's next week. Barkley hopes to get it the Indiana State Bar association, Tokyo re through the senate before President the Methodist church of Danville, planes sco © weuman leaves next month for his|the Columbia club and the Knights] for several ¢ first Big Three meeting. of Pythias and was a 32d degree preparatiol + The final vote on the reciprocal Mason, | bombing © . trade bill was anti-climactic. The | ~The Jap , Teal test came Tuesday when the T E IP AS 0 AR or more 1. Senate sustained, 47 to 33, presiden- 4 tacked Wa "tial authority to cut. tariff rates 50 : Pdcific ba per cent below the present “floor.” DIVES INTO CANAL was the | ~ Bix other restrictive amendments this year ¢ 4: Were rejected during the final day| Two soldiers and their dates took lant stand of debate. They included proposals|an impromptu swim at 1:40 a. m. cember, 19 i Yo require congressional review of today when their car dived into the ? \ The reco - tariff changes and restrictions on|eanal at Ohio st. Striped Shi 0 pan today ~ reducing tariffs on agriculturaland| pvt, Charles Hicks, 28, stationed riped Shirt, 4.00 \ » 12 Liberat mineral products. at Pt. Harrison, said he mistook the ers, two ni Fifteen . Republicans, . including | canal for an alley and was attempt- Twill Shorts. 5.98 ; - ? Superfort, eight who had consistently voted ing to turn the car around at the 101s, 0.53 § ¢# / a large ty with the administration on every intersection. Liberators came from

test, joined with 38 Democrats and| passengers, all of whom escaped ji £ 2 one Progressive, Robert M. La Fol- injury, were T. 5th Gr. Royce Mc- 1 ; : : As lette Jr, Wisconsin, in the final pougall, Jersey City, N. J.; Miss

soll call. Edith Thurman, 337% Virginia ave., Meanwhi The 21 opposing votes included |and Miss Mary Modrical, 1044 sions ham five Democrats and 16 Republicans. | wright st. | in norther Senator Capehart of Indiana voted| Another soldier, Robert Perkins, drive to ¢ for the bill; Senator Willis against. on furlough from a gamp near ¢ one of the EN eT | Springfield, Mo., was injured yes- 3 ’ of the nor WLB ORDERS BRASS |terday afternoon when he lost con- J EF The 37th ; STRIKERS TO WORK © of his motorcycle at 16th st : : [/ Ragan, eal near Victory field. : a 7 T-Shi RO. oo ELEHART. Ind. Jute 31 (U. P).| | | | rir gi ; + I -Shirt, 2.00 te Tn Ea Is oud Joy wane ATMY ASKS CLOTHS AN | thes seve - SUI a ei % 1 * i Northern Indiana Brass Co. plant, | FOR OKINAWA NATIVES : ‘ Classic Pleated Shorts, 3.00 ] 4 \ Saving 1 The WLB yesterday notified strik-| GUAM, Thursday, June 21 (U. P.). ‘ AIHA] Be : aT ing members of Local 326, United| The military government of Oki- % | } fk of > ositions & Construction Workers (U. M. W.), nawa has raguested clothing for ‘ / Py —————— to return to their jobs immediately 69,000 women and children on the vf or appear at the regional WLB of- | island, Hudson Bacon, American i fice at Chicago Thursday. Red Cross director of civilian relief pry The work stoppage began June 2. in the Pacific announced today. i Strikers since have picketed the, The clothing will supplement gar- weap . oy 17 ; ;

plant. The striking workers majn- | ments being supplied to Okinawans tained’ that the company would not by the armed forces. The clothing recognize the union and refused to will come from the San Francisco grant-a new contract embracing pay | stockpile, including 130.000 garments increases retroactive to 1942. | collected throughout the U. S. The ruil ows Okinawa clothing requisition is

RITES TO BE HELD pending naval approval. Beso said FOR A. M. E. MINISTER shipping commitments will delay its

arrival at Okinawa until the end of Rites will be conducted for the AusUSt.

Rev. Andrew M. Taylor, associate OFFICIAL WEATHER -

minister of the Caldwell chapel of NE Zn shureh at 11 a. i) ieee, 8, Weather Bureau Je oh yy fe ape. Burial willl (4; pata in Central War Time) : : : June 21, 1945 Rev. Taylor, who was 81, died| sunrise ...... 5:16 | Sunset ...... 8:17 Tuesday in his home, 950 N. Bel- | Precipitation 2% hrs. ending 7:30 a. m. .30 mont ave. {Total precipitation since Jan, 1 .....2651 Survivors are his wife, Ella; three |Exctss since Jan. 1... ............. 618 .| The following table shows the highest sons, Frank, Raymond and Bruce; temperatures for 12 hours ending at 7:30 three daughters, Mrs. Mabel Banks (p. m. yesterday and the lowest temperaMrs 4 Ruth Whitney and, Miss | tures for 12 hours ending at 7:30 a. m . ’ ~ today: Margaret Taylor, and three grand-! children, all of Indianapolis. |Adante —— Chicago abs cincinnati ... Cleveland ver

PILGRIM SHRINE TO MEET

Pilgrim Shrine 12 will meet Mon- Evansville ........occeiaeee day at 8 p. m. at the Modern Wood- | fediananols (city) .: man hall, A reception «will follow Kansas City, Mo. for Mrs. Grace Roeder, SUDFEMe | Mien pits-St chairman of supreme material ob- Nev Qricans jective district 2. Mrs, Christina Oklahoma City Peyton, high priestess, and Mrs. |S pn po Whitney ES watchman | Bittaburen

ofjgan ADIOTIO, TeX. earn reins shepherds, will preside. Bt. 1 ;

Peasant Blouse, 4.00

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“IN INDIANAPOLIS © REI DS Oloas | ;

EVENTS TODAY Women's Western Open golf* tournament, | Highland Country club . i Indiana Conference of Methodist churches, | At Central Avenue Methodist church, War La board hearing, 10 a. m., Hotel

Wash on. Indianapolis Typothelae educational committee, dinner, p. m Indiana League of Women volers, meeting, Hotel Lincoln. Stevens college alumni, dinner, 6:30 p. m,, Hotel Lincoln, |

| At City -- Henry, Sidralee Helms: Rex Bernice Harold, Elizabeth Stenger Coleman -- Louis, Marjorie" Barley; Harry, Mary Sims; John, Maurine Wars |

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ner. At Methodist—-James, Ruth Crouse; John, ; Dorothy ™dger; Fred, Gaylena Hodson); : 4 3 : $ J ; Joseph. Marion Johnson; George, Claud- | y . — iL i # i £r ‘ n ean Lupear; Ernest, Nancy Morris. Dirndl Skirt, 3.00 4 : At St. Vincent's — Francis, Margaret Israel: George, Kuth Roberts. At Home— Walter, Alice Neville, 806 Sadie: Solomon, Lucille Perkins, 2015 Winter; | Walter, Ellen Sullivan, 1633 E Kelly; : : i Herbert, Ida Taylor, 718 Darnell; Ernest, f a “& y ial i

Helen Tyler, 1432 N. Missouri; Eugene, i ve olorful playclothes in a vagiety of cotto

Thelma York, 1155% English. abrics i. . each with 14 waghabili

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EVENTS TOMORROW Women's Western Open golf tournament, Highlana country club. diana Conference of Methodist churches, Central Avenue Methodist church, : diana Order of the Rainbow for girls, \ _ mee 3 Fratern gL 0 Baffles home, . lami Chi maga sorority, convention,

Cl hotel. Daniel K. Bash, 46, at Veterans’, cerebral Order of Eagles, convention, | hemorrhage | | Pranklin G, Main, 83, at Methodist, suber culosis. i: George W. Reed, 75, at City, “carcinoma Er ———————— Anna in aie, 90, at 2058 Carroliton, myocarditis BIRTHS David J. Moriarty, 176, Twins thronic myocarditis.

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at 050 N. Gray, R i . & 1407 Boutheastern, | F L00 chroni¢ myocarditis, | fF 0 U RT H : John E. Harris, #3, at City, meningococeic 2

fr ma OI meningitis asi. RD Loretta Daker; John, | 5 ciave A, Bowman, 66, at Methodist, gen- | At Olt ! OD,

Olty—Richard, Alice Colemas; James,

a% Methodist, chrohitc nan.-H ;

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Jane, Calvert; niriey Adaline Jumes, 1 at 824 N. East, 1d AEA: al rr. : | io. Granger; Rev. John Lewis, 51, at 336 N. Richland, cat-| Pi Le . > rl { Richardson, 83, at Methodist, | | hemorrhage. 5 ,, 80, "ab 637 B. Maple d.,