Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1945 — Page 2
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES |
TUESDAY, AUG. 21, 1945
76 Hats In Local Barber Tor Wait Return of Pore In Service
- By JUNE McKOWN WHERE DID you get that hat?
Homer E. Branaman, genial | proprietor of the Audubon Barber | shop, 5636 E. Washington st., has |
exactly 76 answers to that, and 76 hats. The hats aren't really his. They belong to former customers and friends, now serving in Uncle Sam's forces. Since the war is over he expects to return them to their rightful owners very soon.
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IT ALL started during the first
| year of the war, when one of Mr.
Branaman's “trimees” left his- hat
at ‘the shop just before he left for induction into tHe , army. dashed back in and started grab his chapesu—a huge black 10-gallon cowboy model. The proprietor suggested that he leave the hat and call for it when he returned from the wars. The hat is still hanging on the wall with 75 others. It belongs 11,
to Kenneth Qverbec k. R. R.
Box 40, and was hung Aug. 1; 1942. " = ” { EACH of the dapper lids, on , two rows of wire, is labeled with the .owner's name and is be- | decked with a tiny, proud American flag. Looking rather like a. haber- } dasher's nightmare, the arrangement includes all styles from the | fancy, new. styled wide-brim, to | a well - worn railroader’s work | cap. There are a few sailor caps
He | to |
and. overseas caps, left by men home on furlough. Bob Reed, 339 Whittier pl, who was a bicycle addict before he marched off for medical training
in the navy program, contributed |
his prized black bicycle crash helmet. or
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JUST a little out of place are | two feminine models belonging to | former patrons of the beauty shop |
in the rear of the barber shop. One of them, a pink felt, belongs
to Ann Hall, 5850 University ave.
J10W a member o fthe WAC. A little blue straw and veil creation belongs to Ensign Mary C. Milligan, 44 8. Bolton ave, The smiling barber said they, too, had added their bit to victory, In a ‘place of honor are four hats in a row, belonging' to the four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Edward | Aull, 938 N. Ritter ave. Cpl. John G. Aull, Capt. Roger J. Aull, Maj. |
Louis E. Aull and «Cpl. James C. Aull,
In a low spot all by itself reposes a dirty khaki covered Jap helmet sent from India by Capt. Erle Kightlinger, 201 Pasadena ave; and Maj, John Longshore, 1320 N, Delaware st. Fd o ” THE VERY last addition to the
ranks is the tricky brown pork-
| pie topper of Richard J. Powers,
R. R. 10, Box 360, who was inducted last month,
There have been 80 hats in the display, but four of the “luck-
fer” men have returned to civilian life and reclaimed theirs, To Mr. Branaman's knowledge, not one
missing or killed. He's happy about that, but says that although he can take care of their hats, he can only pray for their lives. A regular member of the Irvington Presbyterian churchy the barber says, “I pray each night for their safe return.” ” ” » A COUPLE of weeks ago, the
of the boys has been reported
shop was closed so that the owner and the other two men in the shop, Cecil Davis, and D. J. Batermeister, might take a wells earned rest. During that time, ‘Mr. Branaman took down all the hats, brushed and shaped them and hung them back in their re=spective places. Between the rows of hats is a big sign which reads “Our friends and customers now in the service of our country. Leave your hat here, we'll keep it until your return.” ®
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the “commando slayings” of three Windsor men. Two of the men apparently were killed by a knife wielding manlac and the other bate tered to death. More than 30 suspects have been questioned, and three were held following their arraignment yester= day on charges of carrying cone cealed weapons. A long knife was found in the possession of Richard Rowe, 51, & former Detroiter and a graduate of Angola, Ind, Tri-State university. Others held were David Osborne and Eric Evans, 65. Rowe, who said he majored in physics at college, was questioned at length after telling police that “I am a believer that cosmic rays can make me do something I shouldn't do.”
Church to Be Dedicated Sunday
| |also in the car, was seriously jack said the boys forced him into| lett a note telling him to put the| | fgg vested Wiis Lor. 43. gline back seat. They had beaten money from the cash register in a /501 N. Ca 4 be I ond ha "nd 18460 S10. ho way, end) [Lag sng hand 510 Alm: When the of murder after the slain oa Jimi Se tenint fo Sake hin ol [castiier complied, the man ler! tHe country to kill him when police store. More than 10 customers wit-15-year-old daughter,” Rosetta, intervened. nessed the theft. I dentified him. | Police said the boys are being | Claude Ingram and Shelby HenCab Driver Beaten {questioned in connection with the derson, both 30 and both of LouisWurder. SHognG. Holdups, Two teen-age boys, who allegedly 'écent wave of sluggings and that) ville, Ky., were arrested shortly after beat a taxi driver. stole his cab Munday is suspected of being an|they allegedly snatched approxiReported Here. and threatened to kill him, were army deserter. mately $100 from the Koenig & |being held on vagrancy charges by | ‘Rolled’ for $400 Friedrichs jewelry store, 142 N. MeA wave of violence swept Indi- | police today. J. R. Plummer. 43. of 1404 S| ridian st. They are charged with anapolis last night, resulting in one | The boys, Jennings Munday, 19, Moreland ave. ferorted to police] |vagrancy while police seek an unimurder and a series of sluggings Of York, Pa, and James Wagner, that men who bought } drink deniified third man, and hold-ups if a hie Bemant, hotel, uel in a nn b iy hy I ne 3 Mensgrdh Cash ’ : stopped by police when a United v 'n bar “rolled” him for Mrs, Cora Payne, 37, was shot 10 cab driven by Wagner sped by the more than $400 and personal pos- t awe Rigas, owner of Mie {death at 8 p. m. last night in her |scene-of an accident at 25th and sessions, ¢ | Ore, told police three men rushed car parked in front of her home, rural sts. at igRIgi | Lowell Corlett, 16, cashier. of the) info the store and grabbed the ” ice found the cab driver, Jeff, Cook’s Food Market, 759 Massachu- money from the cash drawer, He 2136 Columbia ave. Her next door yi “53° of g37 N. Delaware st. setts ave, reported the theft of $10|first reported $60 taken and later neighbor, Mrs. Elizabeth Kelly, 34, gnd Munday in the rear seat. Keith, | from the store last night. said an additional $57 was missing. of 2738 Columbia ave, who aR who had been beaten with a black] A lone holdup man handed Cor-| Manuel Leve, owner of a liquor
QUIZ SUSPECTS IN ‘COMMANDO DEATHS’
WINDSOR, Ont., Aug. 21 (U. P.. -—Tension mounted high here today as local and Canadian mounted police questioned three suspects in
store at 1518 N. Illinois st., reported the theft of four cases of mixed whisky valued at $160. He said someone entered through a rear door transom early today. Police also are investigating the theft of a purse containing $260 from the home of Mrs, Effie Partridge, 2606. Northwestern ave. last night, Mrs. Partridge said someone entered through the back door and took her purse while she was sitting on her front porch.
The Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist . . . will be dedicated debt-free.
THREE SPECIAL services will mark the dedication, Sunday, of the Fourth Church of Christ,
will play the organ. A statement concerning the history sof the congregation and the church will
Pleasant Run blvd. at Butler ave. Although the church building was completed and first services were held in the new edifice nine years ago, it is being dedicated Sunday in accordance with Christian Science tradition. No church of the denomination is dedicated until it is entirely free of debt. The regular Christian Science service for Aug. 26 will be given by Charles S. Thomas, first reader, and Mrs. Rae Thompson, second
be presented. C. Wilbur Foster, architéet and builder of the church, is chairman of the church board and Mrs. Herman Schaefer is clerk. The Fourth church was organized, June 7, 1922, as a recognized branch of the Mother church,
the First Church of Christ, Scien- |
tist, Boston. Church services, Sunday school and a free reading room were maintained at rfist in the Irvington Masonic temple.
reader. Mrs. Harold Tossell will sing “How Lovely are Thy Dwellings” and Miss Juanita Malke
The present site was purchased | July 2, 1924, and the building completed in 22 weeks.
LEGION POST TO GIVE SHOW AT HOSPITAL
The Bruce P. Robison post 133 of
BOARD MEETS the American Legion and its auxil{iary will entertain the men at the
veterans hospital tonight. Irving Ruben, New Member, The program will include musical
From Marion County. | numbers by the Misses Wilwa, Caro-
Irving Ruben
attend with
the 18 a
line and Virginia Sferruzzi, accomanied by Mrs. Mauro Sferruzzi and Earl K. Parson, Muncie funeral! P band concert by the Bridgeport director, was named secretary-treas- | | Brass Ordnance Plant band. urer of the state board of embalm- Mrs. Donald H. Smith, Mrs. Ralph ers and funeral directors at a Lynch and Earl J. Darnell are in meeting yesterday | charge of the entertainment. in the office of & Governor Ralph £ FG | REUNION TO HONOR Also named by : the board were $i Earl Hollis of LT. PETERSON HERE South Bend, president, | Lt. Charles Fillmore Peterson, reGottlieb Oexman a | cently returned from Germany, will of Hammond, | attend a family reunion in his honPresident mo ’ or tomorrow at the home of his of Noblesville was | grandparents, the Rev. and Mrs. appointed inspector. | Charles M. Fillmore, 1914 Comoe PN xl is Repubiiesn merce ave. chairman o aware county, wil rm anh} succeed Luther J. Shirley of Indi-| MS: Peterson wil anapolis on Aug. 26. | her husband ; { Indianapolis is the birthplace of Other Board Members | Lt. Peterson. When he was 4 years Members of the board, whose ap- | old he accompanied his parents, the $ Rev. Raymond A. Peterson and pointments by Governor Gates are + < Peterson to Tibet. They went effective Aug. 26, include Irving Ru- 55 missionaries from the Hillside ben, Indianapolis, Clyde Brown, Christian church here. The family Montezuma, and Don R. Ulrich, | later came back to the United Dillsboro. | States to make their home at Lima, O., where they now live. Mrs. RayMr. Ruben, president of mond Peterson is a daughter of Aaron-Ruben Funeral home, the Fillmores. member of the Indiana Funeral Di-| Other reunion guests will be Mr rectors’ association Monument| and Mrs. Raymond A. Peterson Jr Lodge No. 657, F. A. M.,, and the! of Tucson, Ariz.: K aneth E. LemChamber of Commerce. He is finan- | ons and Mrs. Lemons, daughter of cial secretary of the Jewish Educa- the Rev..and Mrs. Fillmore, 3927 tional association, a member of the | Central ave. and the Rev. Richard Indianapolis Hebrew congregation, | E. Lentz and Mrs. Lentz, another Beth-El temple and the Kirshbaum | Fillmore daughter, of Anderson center, and on the first aid advisory | Ind. Mrs. Fillmore's brother Fred committee for the Indianapolis' W. Kennedy, and Mrs. Kennedy of chapter of the American Red Cross. | Shelbyville, Ind.. also will be presEE, a, ent.
IKE TO GET DEGREE LONDON, Aug. 21 (U. P.).—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander government's invitation to send del-| of American forces in Europe, will egates to supervise‘'the Greek elec- visit Belfast on Friday, where he tions, it was announced officially | will receive-an honorary. doctor of yesterday. laws degree from Queens university
SUPERVISE GREEK VOTE
ATHENS, Aug 21 (U. P).—The| United States, Great Britain and| France, have accepted the Greek
Units Trined of . Atterbury” Reach Port on Queen Mary
NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (U. P)— The Queen Mary and three other transports, carrying 16,653
105th engineer combat battalion; 105th medical battalion; 30th reconnaissance troop (mechanized); 30th counter intelligence detachment; docked here today. | 434th, 435th, 436th and 437th miliMany members of the 30th divi-| tary patrol detachments; advance sion (trained at Camp Atterbury) | detachments of the 91st, 158th and arrived aboard the Quéen. Mary | 188th general’ hospitals; 23 OWI which carried 14,809 soldiers who| personnel; 15 civilian technicians; will go to Camp Kilmer, N. J, for| one USO and 10 navy personnel. processing. The generals aboard the Queen Other ships arriving .were the Mary were Maj. Gen. Leland 8. Hawaiian Shipper, with 1813 troops | Hobbs, Brig. Gen. James M. Lewis, diverted from the Pacific; Occi- | both of the 30th division: Maj. Gen. dental Victory, 20 troops, and the! J. H. Hildring: Brig, Gen. Jesmond Sarah J. Hale, with two aboard. | D, Balmer, and Brig. Gen, Edward Als§ aboard the Queen Mary were| J. Myaw. units of the 104th, 119th, and 154th; Aboard the Hawaiian general hospital detachments; 2d| were 797th. air materiel squadron photo technical squadron; 117th and | headquarters. and base service 120th Infantry regiments; 113th,| squadron; 547th air sefvice Rroup; 118th, 197th and 230th field artil-| 341st signal company; headquarters Jer etiam, divisional headquar-| 350th fighter group; 345th and and headquarters. company; | 346th fighter squadrons, 973d air srdtancs company, military | engineer squadron; 31st depot sup- | : r| ply company; 347th fighter squad5 The 262d 8 pum Bospial.
troops,
Shipper
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