Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1945 — Page 6

“pon Herr, who built a. career around automobiles in Indiahapolis during the past 41 years, and is remembered as an early 500-mile race driver, will move to Detroit

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Auto racing got into his blood just five years later, Mr. Herr said, when he and the late Howdy Wil‘cox, one-time Speedway winner, were asked to ride as mechanics in the Vanderbilt Cup race, In 1912, he drove 150 miles relief in the Speedway for Joe Dawson, who won the event that year. “The next year driving one of the fastest cars in the race and starte ing in pole position,” Mr. Herr declared, “I well remember develop= ing clutch trouble in less than 90 miles, and having to withdraw.” One-time youngest executive in the National Motor Vehicle Co., he left this organization in 1915, to enter the taxicab business with Wilcox, first under the name of

Creating his own auto rebuilding business in 1924, Mr. Herr remained in this enterprise until 1938. In this time he became an origi[nator of the Indianapolis Auto- | motive Maintenance association and |its first president. He also served |as president of the state automo[tive maintenance association. | For the past four years, he has {been division manager of the Ram- | | sey Manufacturing Corp., of St.| | Louis, with offices in the Merchants | | Bank building. Mr. Herr’s Indianapolis address is 3720 N. Merid{ian st. His Detroit position will beCc effective Sept. 1.

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LIFT RESTRICTIONS ON RUBBER ITEMS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (U. P). | —The war production board today | lifted its restrictions on the use of reclaimed and scrap rubber and all | synthetic rubber except butyl, The | action authorized the manufacture | of bathing - caps, bath mats, fly- | swatters and many other rubber | household products. | Butyl, the special-purpose type of | synthetic used chiefly for tire inner tubes, and natural rubber remained under rigid control. 1 WPB promised some rubber toys for Christimas as well as many! other familiar civilian items that disappeared during the war. Among other items freed are combs, beach bags, bottle stoppers, hair curlers, rubber gloves, soap dishes, window wipers, sport shoes, boxers’ rubber mouth pieces, battery cases, rubber flooring, stair treads, and weather stripping. The OPA also lifted restrictions on the use of sponge rubber in cushions and mattresses.

JAMES G. BRACKEN FUNERAL ARRANGED

Rites for James Grover Bracken, 514 N. Sheffield ave. former employee of the American Specialty | Box Co, will be conducted at 2

in New Crown cemetery. Mr. Bracken, who was 59, died yesterday in City hospital. A lifelong resident of Indianapolis, Mr.

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Bracken retired from his job at the box company a year ago because of ill health. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy; four sons, Seaman 2-c James G. Bracken Jr. and" Ernest; Kenneth and Jack; four daughters, | Mrs. Dorothy Carnes, Mrs. Cath- | erine Fultz, Miss Patty Grover and Miss Betty Grover; two sisters, { Mrs, William Rose, and Mrs. Jo- | seph Rose; a brother, Robert, and | three grandchildren, all of Indianapolis, °

PARTNER IN CANDY ' BUSINESS HERE DIES

| Miss Mariah Catherine Martin, | died today at her home, 2159 Madi- | son ave, She was 77. | Born in Marion county, Miss | Martin ‘had lived in Indianapolis | most of her life. With two brothers and three sisters she operated a confectionery at the Madison ave. residence for 30 years, She was a| member of the Southport Baptist | church; Survivors include her brothers, | {Marion H. and Luther, and her sis-| ters, the Misses Anna Martin, Cora Martin and Laura Martin, all of the | same address. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday in the J. C. Wilson Chapel {of the Chimes. The Rev. D. Millard | Church, pastor of the Edwin Ray {Methodist church, will officiate | Burial will be in Round Hill

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by Lt. Gen. Takashiro Kawabe, vice, chief of the imperial Japanese staff when he arrived in Manila as leader of the Jap delegation. Apparently he did not relish his role.

SOUTHEAST ASIA JAPS SURRENDER

RANGOON, Aug. 28 (U. P).~— Paving the way toward a rapid allied entry into Singapore, Japanese surrender envoys signed preliminary . peace agreements for Southeast Asia at 1 a. m. today in the brilliantly lighted grand ballroom of Government House. (The B.B.C. monitored by the N.B.C. in New York, reported last night that the British East Indies fleet, led by H. M. S. Nelson, was already steaming toward the straits of Malacca for the British navy’s

triumphal re-entry into Singapore.)

Lt. Gen. Takazo Numata, deputy chief of staff for the Japanese southern area, signed as plenipotentiary for his? chief field marshal, Count Juici Terauchi, while Lt. Gen. F. H. M. Browning, chief of staff of the Southeast Asia command, signed on behalf of Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten. Actual surrender of Japan's Southeast Asia forces to Mountbatten by Count Terauchi will take place at a later date in Singapore.

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Thief Selects ‘A Dozen Whips

SOMEONE must be in for a whipping to top all whippings, A dozen black and white jumbo rawhide whips worth $36, were | stolen from the Wright-Bachman Lumber Co. in the’ Indianapolis | stockyards, last night, according to Joseph B. Malcolm, lumber | company manager, i

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Services for Mrs. Bertha Abramson, 2347 College ave., will be conducted by Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht at 2 p. m: Thursday in the Aaronuneral home, Burial will be in the Indianapolis Hebrew cemetery. Mrs. Abramson, who was 74, died yesterday in the Methodist hospital after a short illness. A native of Germany, she had been an Indianapolis resident 41 years. She was a member of the Indianapolis Hebrew Temple and a past member of Hadassah. { Survivors include her husband, Julius; a daughter, Miss Meta Abramson, and a son, Herman, all of Indianapolis; ‘a brother, Mortiz

125 B-29'S DROP F000 TO POW'S

GUAM, Aug. 28 (U. P.).—A mercy | fleet of 125 Superforts dropped {more than 875,000 pounds of food, iclothing and medical supplies—in- | cluding canned beer—into 60 allied | prisoner of war camps on Honshu and Kyushu late this afternoon, the 20th airforce announced. Officials estimated that some 20,9% prisoners were held in the rget” camps, whose populations — between 19 and 1000. Ironically, the Superforts in their second mercy mission of the week returned to scenes of their most devastating wartime bombing operations, > Fifty-gallon oil drums were parachuted into 11 camps in the Toyo areak, 12 near Fukuoka nine in the Kobe-Osaka area, eight near Sendai and six near atom bomb-blasted Hiroshima, In the oil drums were soup, cocoa, C and K rations, fruit, candy, vitamin tablets, shoelaces, sewing kits, khaki uniforms, soap, toothpaste, razor blades and other toilet articles, Each of the gleaming B-29's carried 7000 pounds of supplies. One of the camps required only

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'Siamese Twin’ In Arizona Eat,

PHOENIX, Ariz, Aug. 28 (U. P.). —Louise and Macila Miranda, newborn “Siamese twin” girls, were crying and eating normally today as doctors tried to determine whether they can be severed.and live. The twins, born Saturday night, would have one chance in a million to survive separately if X-rays show they have separate organs, Dr. Frank W. Edel said. Initial X-rays showed that the babies, joined from breastbone to pubes, have separate stomachs. Subsequent tests will be made to determine if they have separate circulatory systems, livers and intestinal tracts.

RECH AND HO WIN

The winners of the Hoosier photographic exhibit at the H, Lieber Co., were announced today. They are, for the military class, P. H. Ho, Indianapolis, first, Hirshburg, Richmond, second. Ed Rech, Evansville, again won first place in the portrait class and Willard Martin, Terre Haute, was

second. The commercial class prize

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Almost identical in size, the bae bies weighed a total of eight pounds, nine. ounces at birth. They had & single umbilical cord. The girls were born Miranda at her home in suburban Clearwater .with only her mother in attendance, They were prought to St. Monica's hospital here late Sunday. Doctors reported Sats only fous sets of Siamese twins cal history have survived for any length of time. The Mirandas also are parents of a three-year-old child. Miranda works on a vegetable farm near his home.

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Studios, Evansville, was second, The exhibit, sponsored by the Indie ana Association of Photographers, will be open to the public at the Lieber Co., until Friday. :

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