Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1945 — Page 5

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| WEDNESDAY, ULY 4, 1945 Hoosiers Buried in Iran.

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GIRL PROVES HER

Sixteen-year- -0ld Margrete Taricco explained “yesterday that she. knew “g little something” about wrestling. That's how she was able to prove her point in court, she said, < “Miss “Taricco appeared before Judge Frank Carrell to press her charges of attempted attack-against David - McLean, a 6- footer, who weighs . 180 pounds: She told the judge that she’ tossed McLean on his back .a~ ¥ week ago when he took her home from a party and. parked on a lonely road. 1 Miss Taricco weighs 140 pounds, and -the Judge was skeptical, 80 was McLean. “If a slip of a girl can throw me,

. Within this Army cemetery just outside Teheran, Iran, are buried [11] plead guilty,” he said. eight Indiana servicemen of the Persian Gulf command Including three

" The judge asked Miss. Taricco to demonstrate what happened on the lover's lane. She grabbed McLean.

Slam. There he was flat on his Local Men ‘Among Dead Paid [exis ie ouriceom. © =

STRENGTH IN COURT,

GARDENA, cal, July 4 (U. Pe

Plan fo Install

Grand Officers:

MRS. MARY HICKS wjll be in-

Stalled as noble grand of Irving- |

ton Rebekah Jodge No. 608 at 8 p. m. next Wedsiesiay at 5420% E. Washington i st. SE Other officers to be installed by Mrs. Ruth Pressel, district deputy presi= dent of district § 6, and her staff’ will be Mrs. Goldie” Wright, vice grand; Mrs. Iva Wise, right

‘supporter to the Mrs, Hicks

noble grand; Mrs. Minnie Mointjoy, left supporter to the ‘noble ‘grand; Mrs. Helen Hester,.right supporter to the vice grand; Mrs. left supporter {

Effie Wheeler, the vice grand. Also Mrs. Jewel Shields, con ductor; Mrs. Bertha Jackson, warden; Mrs, Laura Sherman, . chaplain; Mrs. Georgia Grant, inside guardian; Mrs. Leona Graham, outside guardian; Mrs. Alice

_ THE } INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

NAZIS FAILED IN MANPOWER CRISIS

MONTREAL, July 4 (U. P= (Nazi Germany fatled to solve its | manpower problem despite enslav{ing more: than 10,000,000 workers J from other lands, the international {labor office sald in a survey made

{public yesterday. [ “The uprooting and ~gonscription | {of men, women and children from | the conquered areas of Europe only|®

“partly met the needs of the Nazi

{war machine,” the report said, add|ing that the labor shortage ‘“be- | came more and more serious as the | war progressed.” | The ILO estimated that Nazi | labor capscription affected | from 1 30,000,000 “to 35,000,000 persons if {the families of those imported into | Germany were taken into account. Among . disadvantages to the Nazis, the repoft said, were that | under the system a “huge apparatus, requiring much German man- | power, was required to supervise {the lives and the work of the slave { laborers, and their presence in the reich exposed ' Gérman industry to

Yanks "Find the Lost Bells or INDIVIDUAL BOND Of-Shuri, 450 Years: od, SALES NEAR GOAL

Individual Hoosier bond purchases By RUSSELL. ANNABEL been searching for them under the|today Had climbed fo 97 per cent of hi htke Star July. debris of tile and coral. the state's $167,000,000 total for the SHU : | When the searching G, Is un-|Seventh War Loan drive, -. ‘which - 4 WU. P).—Treasure. seeking G. Is covered the bells they found in- ends. Saturday ab midnight. found the lost bells of Shur yes- | | Eugene C. Pulliam, state chair« scribed upori: them: “These bells! > ' térday. . man of the war finance committee, . tare voices-of divine beautiful green ¢ Bi vid The ancient ‘bronze bells, Which land springing up, between China reported that individual purchases had reached 162,100;000, with tabufor 450 years hung in the gateway [oh Japan” “ations still incomplete: -Sales will of this feudal castle of the Ryuk-| Although Shuri is ruined forever,j iin, 0 gh the week.

an simon weg 550 pounds ech OHA wi ens he ot el Gorscrons. which we ofr ee 3 market issues during 10 days of the

The great bells—voices. of author cqiq they will be "hung in the , ity, joy and doom on Okinawa>-| drive, have ‘already tripled their Buddhist temple immediately. lquota *~ with investments totaling

gave warning of pirate attacks, | $224, 100,000. as of today. The acta

ined for we dons of vobemer, SENATE GROUP OK'S [ma iomoom BRETTON WOODS penny. N.Y. TIMES °

Okinawa to feast days and religious WASHINGTON, July 4 (U, P).— | REPORTER, IS DEAD

ceremonies. They . were cast in Kyoto two years before Colimpus discovered The senate banking committee last America. Adm. Perry saw them in! night, by a 14 to 4 vote, approved WDES MOINES, Iowa, July 4 (U. 1853. The Okinawans believe Perry! ;q Bretton. Woods proposals for P.) —Harold Denny, 55, New York took “one of the three bells to] Times war correspondent, died of America, where it now hangs in the a world bank and an {a heart attack here yesterday. U..S. naval academy. | tional monetary fund. Denny, recently returned from - e bells were buried under the| The proposals, already passed by Europe where he had covered the castle walls with other great treas- | the house, are scheduled to be first army front. He was spending ures ‘when Shuri was bombed, and [brought to the senate floor the a brief vacation here visiting his

interna-

sister. He died in his Bote} room.

Monical, ‘musician.

sabotage. » military government officials had 'week of ‘July 16.

Homage by Gen. D. Booth my i "He ithe’ di wis

ready to plead guilty.

Three Indianapolis servicemen Pvt, Baldwin died July 1, 1944, of | and five other Hoosiers, who died pneumonia while serving as a truck | while with the Persian Gulf com-|driver hauling supplies into Russia, | mand and are buried just outside | He had been overseas 19 months. Tehran, are among: those paid Pvt. . Salbeck, an engineer, died homage by Gen. Donald Booth, | Aug. 1, 1943, of malaria after serv! commander of the Persian "Gulf |ing overseas nine months, forge, on Memorial day. The other Indiana men are: Pvt. ‘The local men are: Pvt. Robert! Charles E. Bridgewater, Loogeotee; E. L. Badlwin, 20, son of My. and!Pvt, Max E. Bush, Terre Haute; Mrs. James O, Baldwin, 201 N.|[Pvt. Jesse C. Gearring, East Chi-| Holmes &t.: Pvt. John Salbeck, 32, cago. Pvt. Stephen: J. Rehm, Co- * husband of Mrs. Cora Salbéck, 1426 |lumbia City, and Third Officer Ken- | E. 10th st, and Pvt. Marcellus neth A. Watérs, merchant marine, Lewis, fon formerly of 943 8. West st. lof Hartford City.

| “Battle for oil One of Top Military Operations of War

INSIDE GERMANY, July 4.—|nerable to attack. There * was no | One of -the great imtold stories of alternative source { world war II is the ’ ‘battle for oil.’ The storm brokk over Germany's | It was a top secret “eperation refineries in May, 1044. It. con- | which began May 12, 1944 and. con- | tinued in terrible blasts of high | tinued for exactly -12 months {explosive and incendiary bombs | _ Engaged in it were more than 500.~funtil the Germans quit, The great | 000 American air force men and! indtallations in the port of Ham- | their 5700 planes. {burg today are masses of twisted | The most significant aspect of the pipe, broken retorts and rubble. fantastic story is that it is being!The enormous Leuna plant in cen-| repeated now in general outline | tral Germany ok i does not exist against Japan. any more oye same strategical considera- Production “eut tions and the same methods of : ™, | operation which were unbelievably | Brux, Politiz, Schlovem, Blechsuccessful against Germany already | hammer—all ah blasted to bits. are being developed in the Pacific] There were 36 prime refinery or; “heater. synthetic manufacturing targets in Struck Stunning Blow {all.- In May, 1944, those plants The complex story of the “battle hroquced 1,344,000 metric tons of for oil” begins in February, 1944] gasoline and lubricants each month. | when the U. S. strategic air force] py january, 1945, production had commanded by Gen. Carl A. SPAa‘Z| paen cut to 36 per cent of normal. | and the Royal Air Force bomber yy yas down to 24 per cent in Febcommand hit the German LuftwafTe TUALY. a stunning bloy. | Late last March under” the preIn six days, Feb. 20-26, the entire .icion bombing of the United allied air’ force was concentrated on! giatee strategic air force producthe German aircraft industry. tion had increased to 29 per cent. Our airmen had determined that) Tne Germans are sturdy folk deep daylight penetrations into Ger- | and they .were repairing their many were not feasible until the ,j,,¢c as the fliers knocked them German airforce had been knocked | out. out. { But it was an uneven contest, | sThose six days stopped: German paysair materials-were short. Man- | plane construction for a time. The|,ouer was shorter. By mid- April time was long enough for-the allied| of - this year as the great German air force to obtain mastery of the | gar machine. was running ‘down, | air—and they never lost it. production was cut to 7% per cent Storm Broke in 1944 of the 1,344,000 metric tons a month “With the way cleared for eco- fof which the plants had been capa- | nomical long range, precision | { ble. | bombing,” says the “official report | Germany's refineries by then ||: on the. battle for oil, “the air were producing only-4 per cent of | forces started on the campaign | their gasoline capacity, 1 per cent | they felt assured would bring them of their Diesel capacity. the victory they sought. Job Too Great | “They had concluded iad oil| Germany was through. She tried was the most important and most ’ TR i vulnerable item in the German war 0 go upMereTOURd With, her Ye ‘economy. . “Oil was used everywhere. It plane industry. .But the job. was was necessary to all industry. Oil tog greac for-the enemy. Putting already was in short «supply. Oil 16 whole industry underground was plants were large, Complex, vul- fo impossible task. As plants were knocked out they | were put under almost daily photo i reconnaissance. Time after time German workers would * repair the! great refineries, untangle the twist= ling of pipe, patch the retorts, get | steam under the boilers. But time. after time on the very Indianapolis Concert band, - concert, 8 first day of production in a re-| p. m. Brookside park. d built plant, the American bombers | - . |i come over again and blast it. | EVENTS TOMORROW { The great plant at Leuna was atAssociation of Power Engineers, chapér 4, tacked.16 times in 10 months from Ry kid MR aor Colum* | May, 1944, to the end of the war. bia _club. ‘ When the war ended Germany's DEATHS refining and synthetic industry was Charles N.- McNeely,'.69, at 1316 W. 23d |® wreck. | st. septicemia. ~~ : Three weeks before the surrender | Carl P. Bagels. 47, at Methodist, €or- | there remained in all the expanse’ Annie Hardy, 83, at Coleman, myocarditis. | of Hitler's reich only two producWikis N. Bayless, 68, at Veterans, car-| inn targets and seven storage tarPrank J. Fertig. 73. at 5018 W. 10th st.|géts which were considered worth pilus Waseulyr Fi peurinoma attacking at all. Mary Ann Holman, 78, at 140 E. 28th st. — sug teins AN, 71, at Long, cerebral hemor- GETS HIGHEST AWARD BEE net wh. at UE BIO WASHINGTON, July 4 (U. P.)— acute cardiac dilatation. : “| Pfe. George Benjamin - Jr, 27, of Charles Thomas Nobes, 64, at’ 3330 N.| Carney’s Point, Salem county, N. J., wore ve. Og ie on gy who gave his life in a single handed and successful assault on a Japa- | nese machine-gun nest ‘on Leyte | ward Woodn st, | Dec. 21, has been awarded the con: | Rosie Baxter, 46, at Bity, brant haguus. | FESR A] medal..of honor, post- | Beith) humously, the war department an«| ) 5 | nounced’ today. ; | hoi fig ; ht 3 1. 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EVENTS TODAY

Fourth of i» Fireworks show, 7 p.m Butler howl Senate Avenue Y. M. CO, A, hand concert, m.; Douglass park

- rhage. Omer B. Berry, bi, AL Veterans, pulmonary tuberculosis Edward Woods, 65, at 234 W. Ray st,

moni Sally Christman, 62, at City, pneumonia.

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