Speedway Flyer, Volume 14, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1945 — Page 3

John Ray Ruddick Passes Away Had Been With The Bell Telephone Co. More Than 39 Years fl jgi JOHN RAY RUDDICK John Ray Ruddick, 5645 N. Delaware street, national treasurer of the American Legion and former secretary and treasurer of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, died Friday, July 13, in his home after an illness of several months. He had been in the Bell Telephone System more than 39 years and retired July 1. Mr. Ruddick began telephone work with the Chicago Telephone Company in December 1905, as a clerk. He came to Indiana as division auditor of receipts for the Central Union Telephone Company, predecessor of Indiana Bell Telephone Company, in 1912. He was elected secretary and treasurer in 1938 and also was personnel director

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In 1853 the Leatherneck complement of Commodore Perry’s squadron accompanied Mm on a visit to Okinawa. The Devil Dogs, in the current assault, found the long narrow island made up of plateaus and ridres Most of the population of 443,M0 is engaged in a substandard of agriculture. Centuries of being kicked around, in the game of power polities, has produced a mixed race with strains of Malayan, Korean, Chinese and Japanese—a people completely ignorant of the United States. Photos above show the natives after the American invasion.

from January, 1939 so September, 1944. Born in Shawneetown, 111., on June 21, 1880, Mr. Ruddick was a veteran of the Spanish-Ameri-can War and World War I, when he was a captain in a signal battalion in France. He had been national treasurer of the American Legion since 1935 and formerly had been a district adjutant in the Indiana department of the legion. He was a charter member of Bell Post No. 134 of the legion and served as post commander in 1936.

Grotto Sponsors Baseball Game To Aid Charity Group WiU Be Held Aug. 7 At Victory Field The Marion County Society for the Crippled, Inc., will be the winner of a baseball game at Victory Field Tuesday, Aug. 7, between the Indianapolis Indians and Minneapolis, when Sahara Grotto sponsors the event for the benefit of the organization. Members and all the uniformed groups of Sahara Grotto are endeavoring to pack Victory Field that evening. The band, drum corps, drill team, cast, revelers, Glee Club and American Legion Post will present “Sahara on Parade” bedecked in their brilliantly colored uniforms, for baseball fans and well-wishers of the Marion County Society for the Crip-

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‘ With infantrymen hanging on superstructures, powerful Red army tanks rumble through devastated streets of Berlin under a pall of smoke from burning buildings, This photo was radioed from Moscow to New York to Chicago and shows the damage done to the heart of Germany’s greatest city. Much of the city was left in ruins.

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pled, Inc. This is a non-profit agency which furnishes assistance to both adult and children who are crippled. It is located at 3001 N. New Jersey street, where treatments are given. Sahara Grotto clowns, approximately fifty strong, will play a clown baseball game, said to be tops in comic baseball. The committee, Stephen Fullen, Luther Manly, Carl Shea and all officers and past monarchs promise a gala evening of fun and baseball from which a percentage of the proceeds will go to help a very worthy organization. Tickets can be obtained at the Grotto clubhouse, 4107 E. Washington street, 81. 2414. Luther Manly is ticket chairman and he advises that tickets should be bought early to avoid disappointment. Wife: Every time I get down in the dumps I buy a new hat. Husband: I was wondering where you got them.

Russian Army Invades Berlin

I KNOW SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT YOU .. . Wouldn’t this old world be better, If the folks we met would say: I know something good about you, And then treat us just that way! Wouldn’t it be fine and dandy, If each hand-clasp warm and true, Carried with it this assurance I know something good about you! Wouldn’t things here be more pleasant If the good that’s in us all, Were the only thing about us, That’folks bothered to recall! Wouldn’t life be lots more happy If we’d praise the good we see! For there’s such a lot of goodness In the worst of you and me. Wouldn’t it be nice to practice This fine way of thinking too; You know something good about me, know something good about you!

SPEEDWAY AERO CLUB invites all aviation enthusiasts to their weekly meeting each Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Speedway Town Hall. The Committee.

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Mrs. Dixon: I forgot my umbrella this morning. Mrs. Swimson: How did you remember you forgot it? MTs. Dixon: Well, I missed it when I raised my hand to close it after it had stopped raining.

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All of a sudden there was a big splash. Voices shouted: “Man overboard—man overboard!” and imagine my surprise when I discovered it was me splashing around in the water. -

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