Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1951 — Page 13

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Bunker Hill Base? "No Students but War Surplus Material Is Estimated at $4 Million to $7 Million

By DAN KIDNEY : “Times Stal! Writer WASHINGTON, Mar. 2—Whether the Neverobeitgted Bunker Hill School of Aeronautics was crowded off the Bunker Hill Naval Alr Base by 1300 acres of soybeans or its ever-mounting war surJia matefil is to be further explored by the House Committee on : Expenditures. : At the close of hearings, which until 11:30 p. m. yesterday, Chair- — man Herbert C. Bonner (D, N.C.) of the subcommittee announced they will bring in the bean-grow-ers at some future date.

began at 10 a. m. and lasted

son, Indianapolis, are subcommittee members.. The latter joined ‘with Rep. Clare Hoffman (R. Mich.) in questioning designed to It took all day yesterday to|help the witnesses defe themm-1 hear the school promoters and|selves.

there still ‘were six witnesses left] Most of them were from Mr.

ces QL CWE BAL fQEILET Democratic Walsh: Anderssp.| weighing 1,200,882» pounds fd)

OVO It ANB ES 0 FB 2 Hoftma 's district. It was brought Blames Beans

Prexy Late last night, James E. Short, Hamlet, Ind., businessman and. first president of the school —which never had a scholar— gave his views of being evicted from the base and setting up at Freeman fleld in Seymour, before they washed out completely. Heé blamed the soybeans. He sald Wayne Ladd and former Base Commander Henry Curran Jr.,, ordered the school off the place which they operate under a dollar-a-year lease under

out that so much surplus received by the school from the War Assets Administration is now stored at Niles, Mich. that it would take “10 men 30 days to make an in-| ventory.” Clayton C. Harrah, Niles and South Bend businessman, is the principal investor in the defunct school and he is handling its disposal. He listed some $98,576.10 in debts and said if anything is left over. after that it: will go to

GOAL IN SIGHT—M/Sqt. a high school diploma.

Australia Replaces Ambassador to U: S.

. CANBERRA, Australia, Mar. 2 (UP)—Prime Minister R. G. Menzies announced today that Nor-

bassador to the United States

the State of Indiana.

the| The committee launched the in-|

Bunker Hill Corp. He and two|VeStigation upon a General Accolleagues own one-third of tne|COUnting Office report estimating |

corporation, through Factors Internationale, Inc., South Bend, but the Ladd-Curran interests have the other two-thirds. . Mr. Short said he thought that they wanted the school out of the way so they could plant 1300 | acres of soybeans which Mr. Ladd processes. Also they rent some of thé buildings to other concerns he said. Then he added sadly: “There was no use taking the, case to court because’ Mr. Ladd

is too powerful for us to get any to know what else he could have had the place decertified with form. { purchased and where

* Justice in Miami County.”*

Surplus Piles Up He 4180 said he had talked his

Rep. John R. i who to. Kim. thet" Shee wha “enough goods to get action” but then just walked away. In fact hé couldn't remember the oneterm Congressman’s name without prompting. ;

the surplus received by the school | at from $4 million to $7-million.

Test Pilot Testifies All this was rounded up and delivered by Howard L. Pemberton, former Indianapolis test pilot and now a garage owner at Kalamazoo,. Mich. He got 14 months’ travel expenses and” a note for $6568 back salary, which never has been paid, he testified. He intended to continue to be the school's purchasing agent, he sald. Chairman Bonner wanted

it. could have been put. i The GAO. report shompad. that He “got” froh 'WAA 55,000 items

Sura OCs Pes of property, Included was everything from plane engines to radar, Harvey G. McComb, -Indianapolfs, testified he had certified the school as an officer of the State)

thes may have vivlated a WAA

since 1946 and leader of the Australian delegation to the United Nations, has been replaced by| External Affairs Minister Percy) Spender,

ments as a witness.

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Anothér thing that caused” Mr: McComb to become “skeptical” was the lack of any plans for students at the school. When he asked the promoters of the project | about this they told him they in-| tended to bring in some from Brazil—South América, not Indi-| ana. That did it. Mr. McComb

WAA. . The school never hadi qualified for certification with the! Veterans Administration or the Civil Aeronautics Administration.

Chairman Bonner Jaintaing)

contract in disposing of the items that have been sold. They contend this was after a three-year limitation had expired and pro-

man J. 0. Makin, Australian ara-|

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iA young soldier from Hicksville, {(WAA. He verified the nonpay- 0. has discovered how to get a

high school diploma through the Army's educational program.

Pvt, Carl E, Kallsen was called!

to duty with his National Guard outfit while still a junior in Hicksville High School. Fearing he could not complete his education after service, he began inquiring how he might study while in uni-

Officers in his outfit, the 101st|

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