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Killed In Auto Cr
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38th Soldiers Get Field Training
Injured at | Pendleton
Car Bearing Four Sideswipes Truck At Edge of Town " Opal Gehring Jr., 27, of 345 E. Merrill St., was killed instantly early today when his car sideswiped a truck on the east edge of. Pendleton.
Rp critically. g x Mrs. Lillie May Biirton, 19, of . 1531 Woodlawn Ave,” was in “TEritical conantisn With a piinc~ttured lung —and-— probable skull & fracture. Miss Maxine Linhart, 17, of 350
fracture and other injuries Both in Hospital Both were in St. John's Hospital, Anderson. Willard Conover, 23, of 345 B. Merrill St., was treated at the hos-
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pital for minor injuries and re- . re 41 School Tax Hike _ The truck driver, James Lin- :
son, 24, Arcola, Ill, was released
The “Battle of the Bulge" is fought daily at the free scale at L. Strauss & Co., where women shoppers check where the arrow stops and plan strategy for another diet or exercise schedule.
Ed Sovola, author of Inside Indianapolis, is on vacation.
Why Worry?
NEW YORK, Aug. 9—It is entirely admirable that we are discussing plans to build bomb shelters which may easily be converted into parking may not arrive, and if it does arrive, may find the Gehring’s individual well out of its range.
post said Mr. Gehring turned off Ind. 67 onto U. 8. 36 and struck
By Robert C. Ruark the truck, which had come to a : stop.
5-Year Plan Would Increase Class Space
Body to Pendleton
doomed. This may very well be true but my point
body taken to the/® P | Bright Funeral Home, Pendleton tos Anal adoption.
from the hospital after treatment for minor injuries. . earin g e ll State police of the Pendleton »
A proposed 27-cent raise in the Charles Chafin, Madison Coun-|/Indiananolis School City property is that the hour of horror has not yet arrived,/ty deputy coroner, ordered Mr. tax lo.y for 1950-51 will receive ‘ olic hearing Aug. 31. prior
-decentralize large popula=— I rode ammunition ships during the war, and tions, and making plans, plans, plans against inevitable atomic onslaught.
Mr. Gehring and Mr. Conover! watched some of my brothers blow up at close were employed at the Hoosie
1 Ihe tax boost, calling Tor a #cord total expenditure of $16,-
Reports Home Folks
ash Korean War
t. Charles Robinson and Sgt. Ray- , 151st Infantry, Richmond, Ind.
If Alive | Ain't Dead
"cided just one thing. Until such time as I get hit
' threats which may not materialize—and which, if
hand. I figured that so long as I was alive I was Pete filling station at South 281,853.10, will include a building Already I know peoplé who are selling prop- not dead, and when I became dead I would not and Virginia Ave. Both resi” .d|fund levy of 20 cents to finance erties near what they believe to be probable tar- know that I was not alive. So I said to hell with|at the home of Wayne Pio d45/a five-year building program degets, such as New York and Washington, with it and went“back to sleep, since there was nothing | EB. Merrill St. signed to provide Indianapolis some nebulous idea of finding safety in the sticks. much I could do about determining my fate. Mr. Gehring, who was
Already I know people who have conceded that As it turned out nothing happened to my ships,| Bedford, served in life is over and that it is just a matter of minutes and so I was a lot happier guy than some of my|from June, 1943, to M before the world becomes a strioking slag heap. _shipmates who carried the boats on their backs, _ ~~ "7 so to speak, and spent their days and nights fretting. If this be an ostrich technique of burying| the head I can’t help it. It prevents ulcers of both soul and stomach. on Some of my ancestors got bumped off with Indian arrows, and if I catch a fistful of angry neutrons I am no deader than they. Or the man who was shot to death recently at a baseball __game, when a kid fired a pistol into the air and the bullet met a stranger's skull. Or Gen. Patton, who survived a war to die in,a motor crash, Whisky Is Nourishing SO I intend to let the others moan and speak in baleful tones, and let the others dig their holes and run away and fret and plan. I will be thankful for such favors as a good job, good health,| good .digestion, and ability to sleep eight hours| a night. : The sun is, bright, and steak tastes fine, and a little whisky is nourishing. Girls are pretty and quail are fun to shoot and music is nice to hear
An in!children with 200 new classrooms. Nav, + 1946. / i
Other expenditures pushing the new budget $1,319,600.10 higher than the 1949-50 school fiscal} “|year will be increased Instriiction costs, operational costs and debt services. Give Tentative OB t # In giving the budget tentative approval. last night, the Board of School Commissioners fixed the new tax rate at $1.70 on each $100 of taxable property. Present school tax rate is $1.43} per $100. Imposition of the 20-cent building levy was foreseen last November when J. Dwight Peterson, {president of the Board of Com{missioners, told 250 Indianapolis businessmen the money to erect more classrooms had to be procured from taxes.
THIS VIEW. is not for Pollyanna Ruark. You are looking at the original bright-eyed kid. So far as this new “emergency” is concerned, I have deon the head by catastrophe, I expect to predicate my life on the expectancy of living a minimum of 100 years. If they hit me they hit me, but if they miss me I am way ahead of ‘the guy who has spent his days cowering in a mental foxhole, I live on the top floor of a high building in the middle of New York, and I aim to stay right up there in my roost. It is a fine target, but I am - betting that if they aim at me they will overshoot or undershoot and scrag some scared civilian who has tried to beat the game by moving to Red Bank, N. J, or to a cave in the Catskills, One thing I learned the hard way, in the last war, is that you cannot hide, and I don’t intend to dedicate my paltry years to running from
dicated in June, when Maxwell] V. Bailey, business director, sub-|
Northview Ave.
Lt. James Hoover, 3201 N. Tacoma Ave. telephone and telegraph officer at Camp Atterbury is instructing’ Sgt. 1/c Carl Other increased costs were in-|" Parker in operations of a switchboard, Sgt. Parker lives at 2507
they do, may well be far beyond any single man’s
and travel is broadening. On the basis of my control. :
: mitted a high emergency appro-| shipboard philosophy that whoever is alive at that
Want A-Bomb Used
“| . On ‘Our Real Enemy’
By DAN KIDNEY Staff Writer
Times WASHINGTON, Aug. 9— Hoosiers are shocked at ‘the turn the Korean War has . taken and are ready for dropping A-bombs on the U, 8 8. R., Sen. Willlam E. Jenner (R. Ind.) reported today
after spending. in the state.
deeply wounded by the Korean deiopts and retreats,” Sen. Jenner! said regarding the reaction
the great United States of Amerfea. What. they want is to take those A bombs and let our real enemy have it, “They know that the only enemy we have in this world is Communist Russia. They want to see us shoot Stalinists, not Koreans or Chinese. That will stop the menace at its source. It is the only way we can stop it. We can't win by fighting a hundred Korean Wars.” po
Trip Convinced Him Sen, Jenner said his trip home had convinced him he was right in crying out against the bipartisan foreign policy. “For two years or more I have been saying that the thing to do was éstablish what we can defend and then lay down a Monroe Doctrine for that area,” Sen, Jen ner asserted. “All the money we have poured into the Atlantic Pact and arms aid could well have been used for our own military purposes. Then maybe we would have been ready
i {to whip Korea.”
That the rank-and-file citizens
and Becr tary of Acheson for our present plight is obvious, Sen. Jenner ruported. “People of Indiana are well aware who made this mess,” he
& (said “If the election were tomor-
row they would throw them all out. For they. feel they. have been both betrayed and disgraced by
this crew.” 7 ’ ) ' “The stor z In Jr Sor om nc
; there
isn’t much rushing to enlist in any of the Armed Forces slated for the Korean front. > In fact, he said, there seemed to be more Reservists wanting to retire, particularly if they are World War II GI's with Pacific fighting records. 2 Sen. Jenner, first World War II
“Their patriotism has been
of the home folks. “They feel _ tht Wich fighting 18 unworthy of =
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errs War seems
To shape a life around fear is an awful thing. It warps your living out of kilter, and if expected disaster fails to come true, then all the life has been twisted and the cringing wasted. : Each day I seenr to meet more people who go about shaking their heads dolefully and muttering that all is lost and there is no future and man is
moment ain't dead, it is a pretty nice world still and not nearly so dreary as a lot of folks would like to make it. If this is a lightweight approach |
to the future I apologize, but do not forget that
the bathtub, too, beckons ever to the grave, and people also have died from an overdose of banana | Probe Factory splits, - : ;
; {Worker's Death
Opal Gehring Jr. . . . traffic victim.
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On Sheriff's Deputy BLOOMINGTON, Aug. 9—Robert Eads, 26, of Bloomington,
TT Death of “a factory “employee Was ‘held ini Jail Tiere today after. {was being investigated today by!'he attacked a deputy sheriff with
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-the same general proportion. . (work. Their fathers, nearly all of whom wore whisk-| Dr. Harrison ers, were the gentlemen who bowed to each other, coroner, ordered the body re-| Father's shook hands, and then kissed each other precise- moved to the county morgue.
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it soon seemed commonplace. - Lennis had been The members of the various sects are known fall. among themselves as the ‘plain people. I got to| me er talking to a. plain person-—he had no buttons on his clothes because he regards these as os oo'P olio Statist Ics tions—-and: ‘he explained this masculine kissing {Today's pollo totals” in Indiana a” rattiésnake. business. It is a standard form of greeting and{since Jan, 1, compared with the! The boy, Richard, was bitten anybody who meets a friend without kissing him!same date last year: ~~ |when he stepped on the snake is guilty of extreme impoliteness. : No. of | near the Davis summer home in | Cases Deaths . Counties LaGrange County. Davis immeMost Are Prosperous 11950 79 4 38 diately sucked the poison out of MOST OF THE PLAIN people are prosperous 1949 367 38 56 | the bite and took the boy to a farmers, who house their beautiful cows in ele-| New cases reported today: One| physician, ‘who - administered gant barns with windows. Some of these, so help|in La Porte County. serum. -me, have venetian blinds to keep the sun out of
the cattle’s eyes. Beds for Brass—Ground for Gls—
Young farmers, who can’t afford such elab-| ' oo orate establishments get the same genetal eftect (gy d 3 C h t 5 T 1 by painting pictures of windows on the sides of! uar S om a raining their barns. But that's enough of reporting, be-| ! ° ® cause I wasn’t supposed to be working. I spent | D } | R | + T h most of my couple of days in this never-never| eve ops ea IS fod ug land sitting by the stream in the front yard of] John and’ Hilda Hosberg, old-time friends, waiting for fish to bite my hook. Hilda provided a striped umbrella for me to do my waiting under. And there I am, talking Pennsylvania Dutch. ! I'd better stop right here with the wish that our | federal bigwigs could spend a little time here. The|
government couldn't help being better when they got back to Washington.
-belfeved 5 injured. b { these. It was a full inch and a half long. Caused ured Y. 3 my bride to scream when I threatened to swallow
tors said today the quick action it alive. :
of Corby Davis, South Bend, saved the life of his 3-year-old
“WHAT TM DRIVING AT is that Washington seems strangely unimportant here in this green valley 125 miles away. Nobody cares much what Joe McCarthy calls Millard Tydings, or even vice versa. Congress’ yammering barely penetrates the foothills. The big city newspapers are hard to come by when you get outside of town, while the radio does a good deal of sputtering. So the folks seldom listen to it. They've got more important things to do. Such as admire those cows. Some of the world's finest dairy cattle produce this globe's richest cream in these parts. And now that there's a nip in the air, the leaves are turning dusty and summer is about to depart, county fair time is approaching. Some of the smaller, preliminary shindigs are in progress now. . Every cow that goes to the fair travels in style in a shiny truck and, to keep from catching the sniffies, wears a padded blanket with her own--er's initials embroidered on the sides, Mr. Bor--den’s celebrated Elsie was not so pampered in Hollywood. Abounding in this region are perhaps a dozen Fundamentalist religions, each of which differs from the others in its interpretation of the Bible. At Roxbury; eight miles down the pike, the Holi-
. Camp Atterbury, Aug. 9. DEAR SUGAR PLUM: no LEE : ~ You've got a regular customer for that soft couch in your living room when I come home from playing soldier. When the “rookie commandos” of the National Guard took to the hills here yesterday for some real combat training, they took me along just for laughs, The general told the officers to make it “just like combat.” And they did, The men slept in pup tents on the ground and the staff officers of the 293d Infantry Regiment slept on iron spring cots with matAnd let me tell you, Sugar Plum, the field training looked . just like the real thing. But it was kinda amusing when one of the rifle platoons was chased out of a field by a gal on horseback. : ® % 9 i De a8 8 . IT WAS A perfect day for me. I started out by getting lost in a field that was posted all over signs warning: “Danger Unexploded Shells.” : Lt. Paul H: Marks proudly told me his heavy mortar com-
were calling the cooks and mess sergeant “belly robbers.” After chow the soldiers pre-~ pared for a night defense " boys, Pvt. Robert Oogan, Rect. Wendall Leland and Ret. Robert Wilcox, sang out the martial strains of “I had a Dream, Dear.”
» » » LT. EARL RAVENSCROFT and the top sergeant, Richard Martin, decided they should have a password in keeping with the peaceful mission of the National Guard. So they chose “Korea Bound.” Some of the boys want to go to town tomorrow night, but I.am a trifle financially em-
What are the world’s 10 largest islands? First is Greenland (since Australia is a continent); second is New Guinea and third is Borneo. Then come Madagascar, Baffin, Sumatra, Honshu, Great Britain (main island only), Victoria and Ellesmere.
Why are straw hats made in Ecuador called Panama hats?
It was about a century age that Panama hats were first seen in the United States. They were Ecuadorian hats that had been imported into Panama and purchased there by miners returning from the California gold rush. The 49ers called their hats Panamas and let it go at that. So did
What do airmen mean by “ceiling unlimited”? succeeding generations of North Americans.
Ceiling is the height above the ground at which eo @ ea % solid cloud layer occurs, cutting off view of the wil earth from any higher altitude. If you can see : Why is sloe gin so called? Sie [from the ground all the way up to clear blue sky, it Sloe is the name of a kind of prune (plum). ‘Is “ceiling unlimited.” Its color is a bluish or purplish black.. Sloe gin :
“called becai > »@ pany was a wonderful outfit barrassed. aa 18 30 ca use it takes its flavor and color J : Sy ‘and always had good morale With all my love, * from the sloe and not from juniper berries, as is What is the weight of the Liberty Bell?” © and good chow. : THE OLD SARGE.
P. B. Please send me two bucks,
Its weight has been 2080 pounds, When 1 got there theym
The discovery » was made by shot Eads in. the left leg, : then| : something like baby caps. Once they're married, Morris Cooney, 28, of 1633 Roose- took him ‘to a hospital for treat. America 8 Gertrude Ederle. to and they marry early, they wear black caps of velt Ave, as he reported for ment. No charges have yet been| AS the new queen returned to
‘SOUTH BEND, Aug. 9—Doc-|
son when the hoy was bitten by suffering from. exhaustion last
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Record-Breaker ‘Surprised’ Shirley May, Who Won't Try Again, Failed in Attempt
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Wissant, a weary 31-year-old {Argentinian was ordered out of {the water a mile from the English
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-BOULOGNE-S8UR-MER; France, Aug. 9 UP) ==Californian Florence Chadwick, the new queen of the English Channel swirn- > a y |mers, was given a rousing welcome by almost the entire populaMarion Cotinty coroner's 3 butcher knife and was shot tion of the nearby port of Wissant today. . i
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States Senate, served in with the Air Corps. He since has visited the Pacific and said he doesn't blame any GI for not wanting to return there. “It would be more pleasant to . stay home and get rich with a lush, political war contract” he concluded. BLE para
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30, about $6.5 million below the balance on the same date last,
{been expected.” |. The balance was revealed to- | {day by State Auditor James | Propst, who said it compared with 96.7 1049. .
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Channel Record 1949 Legislature and state offici-
(als had expected the general fund to drop much more because of the
DOVER, England, Aug. 9— new taxes or increase exis
m the English Channel and
| “I am heart broken,” Mr. Aber-|he Youngest person in history to|penditures.
{tando sald. “The English coast |,
seemed so near for such a long {time but the sea was too strong! {for me. I have never felt the cold s0 keenly before.” i Miss Chadwick, who had bat[tled the same cold earlier, said {she was “very surprised’ that [Shirley May France, 17, of SomerIset, Mass.,, had failed to complete {the channel grind on her second { try. | Shirley was hoisted into an ac{companying hoat five miles off {the Dover Cliffs yesterday in“ a state of exhaustion and shock lafter a valiant, but losing battle {against nausea, cold an
ed by five miles.
| But state gross income tax rev{enue, while it dropped during the
I was in the water more than|past year, did not fall as much
13 hours until my coach, Harry Boudakian, made me quit. I guess!
maybe I was exhausted, but when saw - him watching me and shaking his head I knew what he had in mind. I tried everything possible to show him that I wasn't as tired as I looked. ' But he knows best and when he refused to answer when I asked how far I haif“to go, 1 knew it was all over.
Legs ‘Felt Like Lead I looked at Bill Irons, my
weary- rower, and asked him if 1 would;
jas had been expected. Air Waves Stormy
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‘erate storm conditions will prevail today for short wave radio, (forecasters at the National Buireau of Standards stated here {this morning. Listening conditions will be fair through Friday, {improving thereafter to good or very good, with the next severe {storm not expected until Aug. 20.
ing tides. Shirley also failed last Make the tide that would bring) : summer. Her father announced Me on to the English shore. Bill How Happy
{in Massachusetts that she would ®hook his head. After that Ii
not try again. ; | “I sincerely believed she would succeed this time,” Miss Chadwick said. “I am sorry she didn’t because one takes something like that so seriously at her age.” Miss Chadwick also disclosed
~ithat “terrific currents” almost:
forced her to quit within sight of her goal. ! “The cold was: nothing,” she said, “but the currents near the English coast were terrific.” - | “The last six miles I really had to give the best of myself and one jmile from shore I thought I was ‘going to have to give up,” she) added. “But I gathered cll my! strength to fight the current and {landed safely.” | TOWN INCORPORATES VALPARAISO, Aug. 9 — The ‘town of Pines was an officially incorporated community in Porter: County today after ty -com-| missioners approved the report of a special election. .g» i
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could barely lift my arms. My legs felt like lead. That was the end. I don't remember anything after that until I found myself on the big pilot boat. I guess I was hysterical. The big dream of
Is a King?
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any swimmer could ever have— was gone. I tried my best and I only hope my friends will believe this.
Even though I didn't make it, I had a good feeling when I
'heard what a wonderful swim
Florence * Chadwick made, It made me proud of America, and I certainly want to congratulate her. I'm very happy that it was an American girl who broke the record, and that the record is American property. She's truly a great. swimmer,
VALPARAISO BOY DROWNS VALPARAISO, Aug. 9 (UP)— Elwood Evans, 10, Valparaiso, drowned in Flint Lake Yesterday,
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