Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1945 — Page 2

Col. Jim, Who 'Wouldn' t Die,’ Slowly Losing Fight to Live

ree FT. WORTH, Tex., July 19 (U. P).|Santa Fe, N. M.. examined him | The sorrowing family of Cpl. Jim, ‘briefly and slowly shook his head.

The physician .told the family slNowman finally aqmivied fOaay that Jim's condition was “grave.” Mrs |

it will take more than his cheerful Newman suggested they move him "Yenacity t6 win his fight for life. [to a hospital. Even ‘Jinvs mother, Mrs. O, F.| “I don't think there is any use,’ “Newman, who in the two weeks | the doctor replied.

” her soldier boy was ‘sent home| All during the two weeks since] go d

army doctors gave Jim ‘only two! ie 'stoutly maintained he was, |days, to live, the Newman home|

has been flooded with telegrams ahd letters of hope from throughout the world,

4, 80Ing to recover, confessed last night that Jim's fate was out of « their hands. s«: "Were holding on only to God Aor bim now,” she said. “But if it is His will to take my son we ean abide by His decision.”

people were so interested in him.

* For a while it looked as if the a ‘Buy who'd spent seven years in Iv. at fighter group headquarters.

*snidier the doctors doomed to cer- the army. Three of them behind | “%ain death would live in spite of the barbed wire of a prison camp. |

all { When Jim was rescued from nis|—— oS we seul vay of " COL. HOBBY IN HOSPITAL rd in the tank, ald oper- |

NEW YORK, July 19 (U .P).— his father’s truck, while the younger ' ? i Mrs Army doctors tried, un- | signed

Yuickly for three years of starva- | successfully for five months to cure yomens army corps, was undergo-

After two days at home—and a Japanese captors, he was suffering plane trip army medical men agreed from malnutrition, laryngitis, the Tsurely would be fatal—Jim's family after-effects of beri-beri, and tubersaid He had gained weight. He ate culosis of the lungs, throat and in‘enormous meals as if to make up| testines.

"ion in a Japanese prison camp, He him and finglly gave up hope. had’ more color in his face. ° At the insistence of his mother, But Monday night the 25-year-|Jim was sent home to spend his of “a turn for tHe worse. He spent ajed by the people he loved ‘more “restless night and slept only wih) than anything else in-the world fhe aid of sedatives. His only] For a long time, the family in-

i | sisted. he would pull through. ‘mn ent was less than. a glass/ It was only yesterday, after hear“0 milk.

ling the doctor's words. and seeing 4 Cpl. Jim was no better “Tuesday, | him lle on the bed, a skeleton of his and last night Dr. Jack Daly, who | former self, .that they admitted has treated Jim since he came home théy - might be wrong and that sfrom Bruns general hospital at|death might yet win.

U. S. Probing Charges G. |.

Prisoners Beaten by Guards

LONDON, July 19 (U. P.).—An, An army spokesman told the American combat infantryman United Press that the beating bg ® he today charges already were being officially that he and other soldiers, many investigated by the inspector genof them wounded veterans, were eral’s office. beaten art Subbed yepsatally oy) He said the investigation began: placement Sepot in England. {10 days ago following a report in a The soldier, whose hame Was newspaper in the United States

withheld by Stars and Stripes, said | quoting a former prisoner as saying he was clubbed on four separate that he had been beaten. occasions by American officers and| Evidence is now being taken noncoms for minor infractions of ‘from men who were at the camp the guardhouse regulations. at the time of the alleged beatings. “I have been reading so much gowever, since the incidents wereabout a private in the U. S. army iq to have happened last Decembeing court-martialed for hitting | ber many of the men“tbncerned are German prisoners of ars ' the sol-|scattered all over the world and the die wrote. “So what? They don't|process of collecting evidence is exgo to that much trouble about an pected to take ‘several weeks. : a AVION dotdhboy weiter | No charges will be made until the | investi Hon is com lete k said he spent more than four El Pleted. :

Baan nt ing ad ms HELD ON CHARGE he saw soldier prisoners beaten on| OF DRUNK DRIVING

many occasions. : “I know they beat men with clubs ol Floyd Christian, Noblesville law-

there and made life miserable for | Yer, will be tried on charges of them with different types of pun-| drunkenness, operating a vehicle

3 he | ishment,” he went on. “The reason while under the influence. of liquor

«Foknow. Je. they RRNA. 212. for) times and made me” double time Ta Si. bis Sicilia ggainst a wall while two Jailens Hel °0Urt three Zug. 7. my-arms and three beat me. | Mr. Christian, who appeared in “They said they had orders® from | court this - morning, was arrested the commanding officer of the post. early today in the 2200 block of They could do anything they want- E. 10th st. His case was continued ed with the prisoners. Even if we by Judge John McNelis, were in the guardhouse we should, Betty Downey, alias Annie Morate higher than any German roney, 38, of 1424 Sturm ave. also | P.O. W” |was arrested on the: charge of The letter was signed “A Dough in drunkenness. She was a passenger Company M, 310th Infantry.” in Mr. Christian's car, ”

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Capt. Thomas Kiernan Jr. (left) him. Jim never could understand why and Capt. John P. Kiernan, sons

of Thomas Kiernan Sr. 537 N. 0000 their father install a large | To his mind he was no. hero, Just! gipbg ave, met in England recent- oi) tank at the Peru plant of the| the - 8th air force's 55th Wayne Ladd Soybean Processing |

week as head of the

today. 3 the need of hospitalization, it across the truck. oid hero suffered a relapse ahd took last days-in his own bed surround-{ _._. derstood.

oe TITS ATO IT TIS THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1045 Sailor,’ 20, Is Electrocuted; SHITCHMAN FALLS "When Do We Go Home?" Still; Brother Dies Trying Rescue UNDER FREIGHT CAR Absorbing Concern of G. I. s

" Glen McTaggart, a switchman for " KOKOMO, Ind., July’ 19 (U. P.). was electrocuted as he Stamrte the New York Central railroad, was

~The: short-lived joy of :having/to pull-his brother away with his Jo 000 condition in Methodist | —It's not the World Charter or fear home.

hands. The father took the bodies | their sailor son home from the) of both youths from the Si [hospital ‘after he fell beneath a of inflation that soldiers in Europe | labor picture was good. There were

Seuth Pacific on furlough today | with a ‘bodrd. {moving freight car in the yards at talk about. It's “When do we Eo | strfkes in peacetime. There will turned into grief for the Carli A naval physician from the near-| sherman dr. and Raymond st. last home?" and “Will we all have jobs?” Goudy family, |py Peru naval station pronounced 'night. His right leg was cut off at Seanian Donald E. Goudy, 20, was|the boys dead after a rescue squad the knee. from Jean A. Brunner, commander ying (he Knutson bill; which pro from the station’ worked over them| A discharged World War IT vet. |iD chief of the Veterans of F earn | vides seniority rights in civilian for two hours with artificial respira- eran, Mr. McTaggart is 47 and lives Wars, who has just returned from {jobs for men who have been In

ition units. “fat 831 N Delaware st. apt. 5. H a European tour during which he | was helping switch cars os Fo spoke to thousands of servicemen. Service, Brunner sald, i : accident. occurred. - He said he told men who are ‘to For Peacetime Service... | Japs Eager for His wife, Ruth, is a WAC sta-|P¢ discharged to go back to their| The V. F. W., he said, is not [tiohed at Stout. fleld, and his son (0d Jobs if possible until they be- asking any employer to take on a

G lo ry D raug ht? | also is in the army came adjusted and are able to 100K | yoteran unqualified for a job but | . . | Byron Stewart, 32, Bargersville, for something else. And he advised does feel that veterans should be SAN FRANCISCO, July 19 (U. [received face and arm cuts early| ‘em to take full advantage of the lority vights 1 A Co. | P). — The Japanese newspaper | today when he was sideswiped by a SF ay of Nights and continue piven Beer y Yighis in employs As the senior Goudy stood on a : . train at the Midway station of the hn ment yals | ig SEO to a Tokyo broad- | "0 iiroad. Mr, Stewart, a switch-| The discharged veteran, Brunner, The Knutson bill, Brynner said, cast recorded by the United Press | tender for the railroad, was treated id must ‘not expect to rest on his| differs from the one proposed by in San Francisco, today had this |at Methodist hospital. aurels, Ly Rep. John -E. Rankin (D. Miss.), Culp Hobby, who re- boy stood at the rear of the vehicle| comment on how the Japanese teams Labor Picture Good [because the latter “is an attack on : to give Donald directions for setting! People would react to an invasion EXCHANGE CLUB SPEAKER “The test in civilian life is indi-/the closed shop.” @ of their homeland: Alfred L. Moudy, veteran of 35 | vidual initiative, ability and lsad- | “We only want fo’ give the serve “They will be only too, willing to |years of service in the army, ana, ership. The veteran must have | icemen a break,” Brunner declared, something to offer.” He said the V. F, W. is “coms

WASHINGTON, July -19 (U. P.). are concerned atiout strikes “| {

electrocuted accidentally when 15,000 {volts passed through him yesterday. His 15-year-old brother, Carl Jr. i was killed while trying to rescue

Sons of Carl Goudy Sr., a Koko-| mo contractor, the two youths were

lated a block and tackle device trom |

the tank in place. A boom on the rear of the truck |

leaders will lead the thirsty. horse (luncheon meeting of the Indian-|any Santa Claus in the post-war ing in peacetime” and would “back

Donald was killed and Carl Jr. to the well.” |apolis Exchange club, tomorrow. | world,” Brunner declared. “They \up anything passed. by congress. "

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