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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1941. 4 Traffic Victim's Funeral Tuesday Henry Dorman Services Held HOUSE NEAR VOTE ON HUGE TAX BILL Homes lrns Jertersonville Mayor F.B.L Foils Plot to Bomb Arms Plants 'IS AIMED AT KIEV Last rites for Henry Dorman, age JEFFERSON'VTLLE, Aug. 4 they authorized a contract a few STATE WEEK-END TRAFFIC TOLL 12 Continued from Page 1, Part 1 year. The toll was 018, an increaso of 18 per cent. The committee report showed the June figure to be ninety deaths, the (Spl.t Mayor Homer G.

Vawter. ofeeks ao that was not Just what' sixty-three, proprietor of a furni-J ture store at 551 North East street I thirty years, were held Sunday aft- I Jefferson viile. said today he would, mousm members of the Jeffersonvilie "As I understand it, Jeffersonvilie Continued from Page 1, Part 1 city council at their regular mee itmgjwas to get 14 per cent, of rentals units Te describeQ as "elite troops! charged I la lieu of taxes and, in' cf Rorthern Kalian provinces! the wouid fire' i Rocsevclt Supports Drive Eliminate Joint-Return Provision tonight that he was "very muc nuch: NEW YORK. Aug. 4 fUP ernoon in the Aaron Ruben funeral Edgar Hoover, director of the fed-h0me.

Burial was in Beth El cem-eral bureau of investigation, saysieterv. i in tne puduc ouua- iur4 wyuii iuuuai ic with excellent equipment. uild- turn, city furnish evrerf lings administration's $243,000 de- ana ponce protection, trash disposal; I isame as a year ago. it was in the fense housing project which Is near-! ana ouih conveniences. Finns Bombard Hango.

ing completion In the eastern parti Vaster 'Pointed out -but as it turas; HELSINKI, Finland, Aug. 4 AP) cf the city. out the taxes collected will be di- today in an article written for the Dorman. a resident of Indi-American magazine that organized anapolis forty-two vears, died Sat-saboteurs planned a mass attack; urday night after a long illness. He or defense industry plants lastiijved at 4059 Central avenue.

Mr. May, including bombing of factor- I Dorman was a member of Beth El preceding five months the increase was registered. In the six months 432 were killed 'When at first plans were made vided up among county, state, school- 'T to erect a housing project In Jef-i and other units. i. viin in rural areas.

186 in cities. Vawter said he under-- Ui les irom private piane. Zedek Temple and Zion Lodge. I lersoavuie. representatives or tne i v.

orr sen? crrrpn mrprr, niis nn t. --iv tii'qi. i i PBA pictured to me fastidious little stood that the average rent for ZZ" KJTi V. i survivors include the widow, Mrs. cottages with clingin vines and Jof the seventy-five units would run The FussT ans have bee-d I A1 Dorman- two daughters.) i homey little atmosphere truly a I around $30 a month, making Lhf the headjnfs 5 ne's" Rose and Lillian Dorman; two sons, i little blue heaven' of some sort." total of $27,000 collected -r erEnarat uorman and Dr.

Jack Among the cities of more than 70,000 population Evansville had the i lowest death rate. Ft. Wayne was 'second, Indianapolis third. South jBend fourth and Gary fifth, i Among counties with no traffic 'deaths reported were Floyd, Dubois, Jefferson, Owen and Switzerland. WASHINGTON'.

Aug. 4 AP) The ayt and weans committer decided thU afternoon against making any effort to rai-i additional compensating revenue if the hoirte hould eliminate from the $3,523,200,000 tax bill the provision requiring all married persons file join income tax returns. It was estimated that elimination of the provision, criticised by President Roosevelt, would remove from the bill estimated production of revenue. But what have we?" the mayor Jeffersonvllle's share, according V- iDorman. aRd two brothers, Jacob the mayor Jeffersonvllle's share, according th 00Q racionea aoicuers VJUd.iUi.i-g and A'pvandpr TVirman Tnrttanan.

(this plan, would total about Tere AugS 1 It gathered annuajy, thaf Tarcro mmhY exclaimed. "Earracics iiaycr vawter fald he ga id he uiuiuuuii at lui ices. "The reports were accurate. They caused considerable speculation. Three weeks earlier, startling in-iIRS But as it works out." the mayor tanks and armored cars had been said, "the cuy wm receive yearly des Just a little more than fr tprritr, th.

EDNA JOHNSON formation from reliable sources had Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Tne Jeiiersonviiie city neaa saiaiTra from conversations with the housing officials that the whole setup would go to make a very attractive subdivision for the city and would be sold to working men with moderate Incomes following a letup in defense activity in the area. reached the F. B. I.

that organ Johnson, age fifty-three, inai housing contractors were afc the end ofj saboteurs were planning George mass attack upon vital defense in-(will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday in lw -wv. 1939-40 war were told today to electricity and then use electricity rt th local refu relief head. dustries during the long Decora-; the Flanner Buchanan mortuary, TA7io would want to ourchase without complying with a city ordi Services for Charles Ft.

Kidwell, XT" "Joi toe Ko! with burial in Crown Hill cemetery I nance. quarters for permits to return to their homes, following reconquest of the land. VASIIINGTON. Aug. 4 AP Pa.vsage by nightfalfof the 200 000 tax bill, ttiffest in national I barn-liite buiidTngs like these for luse as private homes?" he asked.

"There's coal bins in front of the followed. First, certain individuals! Mrs. Johnson, whose home was at i age twenty-four, 546 North Traub "City laws prohibit a contractor form wiring and using the city's were to be inside the factories to 3612 Winthrop avenue, died Sunday ivenue, who died Sunday as the Three Aurora persons were killed late Saturday night and a fourth was injured as a convertible coupe went out of control and overturned in U. S. 50, two miles west of Aurora.

Teen-Age Girls Killed. Killed instantly were Melita Cole, age eighteen, and Janice Duncan, age nineteen. Julius Grieve, age twenty-six, driver of the car, died in Milan Hospital a few hours later. Edward Gardner, Aurora, owner of the car, who suffered minor lacerations of the head and body, said he was ntletp and could not explain the cause of the accident. Miss Duncan's parents are on a vacation trip in Kentucky and Tennessee and state police have broad- sn c-i- 4 Awt vf- 1 to 1- Vi Axis Pressure on Turkey.

fci.story. a the goal or house leaders houses and about everything else electricity without first depositing today but President Roosevelt 8WS to make a home unat- $25 for a license. So far, this ordi- stop production bloodlesslj', talking an automobile accident in Methodist Hospital after a brief; result of pars to have ttrengthened chances tractive. The buildings seem to me! nance has been ignored and I have! LONDON, Aug. 4 (AP) Authori- advantage of the holiday absence of tative sources said today there was many employes.

If this failed, a certain amount of axis pressure saboteurs in private planes would for elimination of the provision re-i" proper loundatlons instructed the public service com quiring ail married persons to sidewalks." destroy thi factories by bombing. Joint Licome tax returns. 1Tie niayor said he also would ling officials Rav abided by mr.r. intonco "Airplane and ammunition fac in an eleventh-hour appeal to the tJ the councilmen that he and aaw," the mayor asserted Saturday near Brownsburg, will be held at 2 p. m.

Tuesday in the Conkle funeral home. Burial will be in Floral Park cemetery. Mr. Kidwell was a native of Washington, but had lived in Indianapolis twenty-one years. He was an employe of the Dean ing the last forty-eight hours.

illness. She had been a resident of Indianapolis twenty-eight years. She was a native of Batavia, 111., and was a member cf Batavia Methodist church. Survivors include the husband, E. B.

Johnson; a daughter, Mrs. Marian O'Haver, Indianapolis; a sister. Mrs. Carrie Duf fey, DeKalb, 111., and a brother, Bradley George, Chicago. house ways and means made public Saturday, the chief! nance committee would commence executive suggested three changes; a studv of the hill r.n win9 200 PLANES FIRE Traffic Heavy in the revenue measure, including provided it had passed the house, of the Joint-return as to exempt income modification provision to and would begin public hearings Friday.

He said he hopes to fin- Brothers Pump Company, Inc. nnari WiH-Pn oca tuntv. JAMES P. McNEALEY Survivors are his mother, Mrs. f0UTt 545 North Traub avenue, died A A MAN Mary Byers: a stepfather, Frank in City Hospital Sunday from ln- tories were to be the principal targets.

On May 27, three days before the holiday, the F. B. I. confirmed the reports from foreign sources. The information was transmitted instantly to all field offices, to military and naval intelligence services, to the treasury department, to local law enforcement agencies and to the factories marked for destruction.

"Precautionary measures were immediately taken to meet any eventuality. Word reached the newspapers and headlines shortly were blazoning a warning that America's defense industries were ringed with steel. i "And nothing happened. juries suffered Saturday when his Burial in Floral Park cemetery followed iinal rites for James P. Byers, and a son George.

actuauy earwa oy euner nusDanasjish the hearings in ten days but or wives, but the committee rejected other were net so optimis-all three proposals by "decisive; tic. Indications are it will be well inajoritir-s." linto September before the leglsla- inTormed legislators tion reaches President Roosevelt for forecast that as a result of the Pres-i signature. Ider.fs action, the already strong! jn its Dresent form, the bill wmilri in East Despite Curfew on Gas Continued from Page 1, Part 1 bridges and through tunnels was reported about normal. Throughout New England, the McNealey, age sixty-seven, this afternoon in the Speaks Finn down- pQ DdrTtclQC town chapel. Continued from Page 1, Part 1 ninety German ships totaling nearly 200,000 tons in northern waters alone, according to British reports.

In June, thirty-nine R. A. F. attacks bagged thirty ships totaling between opposition to the Joint-return provl-j virtually treble the tax bill of indi- automobile went out of control and crashed near Brownsburg. A broken Railway Express -Agency, and the steering knuckle is said to have caused the accident.

When his truck was in collision with a fire department rescue truck at Ft. Wayne, Joseph Anderson, age fifty-seven. Ft. Wayne, was crushed tion count on picking up additional Mr. McNealey, a machinist in the Beech Grove shops of the New York to Crops Widens Central railroad, died Saturday in the Colonial hotel, where he lived friendly flicker of service station in Marion County A native of Shelbyville, Mr.

Mc viduals In the lower and middle income brackets. For Instance, a married man with no dependents and $2,500 of taxable income would pay $33.50 under the pending measure, whereas he would pay only $11 under existing law. The bill would raise $1,152,000,000 votrs Mr, Roosevelt also suggested committee revision of the excess profits tax to as to hit certain types of wealthy corporations harder, and the lowering of existing Individual Income tax exemptions from $800 for neons was missing from darkened national alertness and widespread Nealey had been a resident of In hiehwavs. and compliance with publicity may have circumvented a dianapolis most of his life. He Continued from Page 1, Part 1 disastrous outbreak of sabotage." a member of Moose Lodge 60,000 and 70,000 tons, it wasi reported.

The offensive has not been without cost and last week the Briti ish admitted loss of fortyrsix planes but claimed their flyers brought down seventy-six axis aircraft, Gregory Augustus Daymond, LoS Angeles, twenty-year-old "baby" of the American Eagle squadron, brought down a bomber yesterday. fringe persons to. $750 and from according to Horace M. Abbott, county agricultural agent. Even rain Survivors are three daughters, Mrs.

Nellie Greuling and Mrs. Reva individual incomes and Ickes's request was considered just about 100 per cent. Traffic along highways leading to New England beaches and mountain resorts was, if anything, heavier than usual and In some places the $2,000 for married persons to $1,500. 900,000 from corporations. The lat- the house already has today or Tuesday would not help Hoag, Saginaw, and Mrs, Dorothy Kramer, Washington.

ter would come from higher surtaxes 5 per cent, on Incomes up to the 10 per cent. to death. He was a driver for the rescue truck was en route to revive a heat victim. Paul v.L. Converse, age eighteen, Elkhart, was injured fatally when his motor scooter was in collision with a car driven by Arnold McDowell, age thirty, a neighbor.

When his car was forced off the road near Goshen Sunday, John Payne, age twenty-one, Goshen, escaped injury, but his passenper, Miss Betty May Holmes, Fairville, was killed. The car overturned. Lewis Carr, age twenty-seven. Furthermore, the rate of damage His personal total is three German $25,000 and 6 per cent, on those MRS. DOROTHY CLARK planes and the squadron's is five.

above that figure and from stiffer WHEAT INVASION UNDER SUSPICl Continued from Page 1, Part 1 agreed on drastic parliamentary procedure for consideration of the bill and this will preclude direct action on any of the President's suggestions. Under the rule adopted, the only amendments that can be voted British patrols have captured the worst traffic snarls of the year developed. Stranded cars were numerous in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and is increasing rapidly as corn is in the critical stage. Many farmers iri the county are being forced to haul water to supply their stock, excess profits taxes. In addition to boosting the profits Services were held today in the German vessel Frankfurt J.

C. Wilson funeral home for Mrs the admiralty announced today. levy up to 10 percentage points for It said the North German Lloyd with shallow wells dry and many freighter was intercepted "while creek beds dusty. Dorothy Richards Clark, age twenty-nine, who died Friday in her home, 1805 East Minnesota street, follow trying to run the blockade," but did Cause of this extensive damage which is rapidly growing worse, can not tell when or where. It w-as re on are those recommended oy tne ways and means committee.

The one exception la the agreement for a separate vote on the Joint-return provision, but here the rule allows only acceptance or rejectionnot modification, as Mr. Koosevelt suggests. each bracket so that instead of ranging from 25 to 50 per they would range from 35 to 60 per the bill also would revise the method of computing such profits so that firms no longer would be allowed to deduct their excess-profits taxes In computing their normal taxes. The Richmond, died Saturday following a collision of his automobile with a watermelon truck in U. S.

35, near Dayton. Two other persons were ported here, however, that ing a brief illness. Burial was in readily be seen in one of the most prolonged shortages of rainfall for freighter had been in South Amer lean ports and left Rio de Janeiro many years. Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs.

Clark was born in Indianap olis and attended schools here. injured. Connecticut and in some cases motorists hired horses to haul their stranded gasoline buggies. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia and Florida reported similar In Atlanta, the Georgia Retail Petroleum Dealers' Association distributed cards bearing Ickes's picture and worded: "Sure, Secretary Ickes, we'll co-operate." Through the southeastern states, as elsewhere, police stations received states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska or Kattsas. According to a statement from the protest group a party within two miles of the home of Haven S.

Davis, of Tippecanoe county, vice-president of the Indiana group fighting the wheat penalty, declined to go to see him-, although told with a cargo of nitrate last June 29 Thus far this year, only 14.73 Joe Huseman, age twenty-one, Informing the President of the rate for the latter remains at 24 per Survivors are the husband, inches of rain have fallen, 9.74 inches below normal. The record Southern Italy Raided. committees decision to make no cent. Charles M. Clark; the parents, Mr.

Shelbyville, was in critical condition in City Hospital today, suffering from injuries received when ROME, Aug. 4 (AP) British for July made the drought worse, and Mrs. Paul Richards; two sisters, The balance of the new revenue would come from new or higher ex planes machine-gunned southern Italian airports at Catania and Reg- the month having a rainfall of only 1.21 inches, compared with a normal cise taxes on a wide variety of com- oy one ci nis neignoors he was his motorcycle struck a hole In the street at Southeastern avenue and Rural street Saturday night. The July precipitation of 3.34 inches. modlties or services designed to gio CalabF.la' tfg some damage and then at his home.

Mrs. Alice Cain and Mrs. Ethel Rosebrock, and four brothers, Quen-tin Richards, Lewis Richards, Paul Richards, and Earl Richards, Indianapolis. casualties, the Italian high com The shortage this year has come produce about $830,100,000 and from numerous calls rom motorists seeking aid to get gasoline or reporting they would have to leave their cars in the street for the night. mand declared today further changes in the bill.

Chairman Robert L. Doughton N. eald he had been "very greatly surprised" by the executive's criticism of the measure. Specifically, Doughton told the President he was "surprised to learn that your views are antagonistic to those expressed so emphatically by the treasury" regarding the lowering of Individual income tax exemp O'Harra said with regard to the excursion that while the admitted paid agents of the AAA appeared to machine skidded 100 feet before throwing Huseman to the side of the road. Catania Is a Sicilian air base and Reggia Calabria is across the strait on the heels of an exceptionally dry year in 1940, which ended with 11.18 inches below normal.

This makes a total shortage in the last nineteen months of nearly twenty be a numerous segment of the party higher estate and gift taxes estimated to yield about $151,900,000. Willkie Would Go Farther. RUSIIVILLE, Aug. 4 (AP) of Messina in southernmost Italy DEWEY AID INDORSED BY and while there were a few large wheat growers in evidence, there FACTORY WORKER DIES OF The high command said Italian planes renewed their bombing of J. A.

Sutherland Burial Wednesday inches. were many actual farmers who had TAMMANY FOR D. A. RACE Wendell L. WUlkie, 1940 Republican the British naval base at Malta.

tions. such a small wheat acreage that they were not even entitled to vote A British broadcast heard today on that point, the President had nominee, asked for NEW lYORK, Aug. 4 (AP) said "mcst Americans who are in comment today on President Roose HEART ATTACK AT LUNCH Thomas M. Green age forty-five, 613 Eastern avenue, an employe of the M. A.

Hofft Company, stoker manufacturers at 441 West Georgia MAN FOUND DEAD IN BED J. L. Shaffer, age sixty-one, 1521 at the quota election. Reason Doubted. Tammany Hall has indorsed an aid to racket-busting, Tammany-bait by C.

B. S. said Germany had sent strong aerial reinforcements I to North Africa to meet the challenge of intensified British air opera velfs suggestion that husbands and wives be exempt from filing joint East Seventy-second street, was ing Thomas E. Dewey for Manhattan district attorney. Last rites for James A.

Sutherland, age seventy-one, a life resident of Indianapolis who died Saturday of a heart attack in Montreal, Canada, will be held at 3 p. m. Wednesday in the home, 2636 Sutherland income tax returns on earned in "These men professed to be paying their own way," said Mr. O'Harra, "but what in the' world would induce a man growing as little as found dead in bed today by his street, died while at lunch at widow, Mrs Bessie Shaffer. Death! elafnt' was believed to have idied of a heart attack.

A deputy was believed due to a heart attack invest. lira t.H voh come, declared, "the provision re It approved Frank S. Hogan, a Hie Italian war bulletin said axis bombers scored hits on two British destroyers at Tobruk harbor and quiring joint returns be made by He had been ill for a week. I employed there since 1935. five acres of wheat to spend $50 or shot down four British planes husband and wife should be com pletely eliminated." registered Democrat who never belonged to the ancient New York county Democratic organization, once assisted in prosecuting a Tammany district leader on policy racket charges.

Hogan is one of four aids whom the Republican prosecutor suggested as a possible In East Africa, the war bulletin said, Italian forces in the Gondar region of Ethiopia counter-thrust more out of his own pocket to come over here on a jaunt of this kind?" "A friends of ours who talked to me presidents suggestion was avenue. Burial will be crown Hill cemetery. The Rev. Thomas White, Pendleton, will conduct services. Mr.

Sutherland was born in Indianapolis, December 24, 1869, the the lowest Income, brackets are willing and proud to chip in directly" to help finance the defense program "even if their individual contributions are very small in terms of dollars." Mr. Roosevelt was most emphatic In his recommendation for elimination cf the so-called average earnings method of computing corporation excess profits, contending that many firms which had been earn-lrg as much ns 50 per cent, on their invested capital for the last several years would, under that plan, be able to escape any Increase in excess profits taxation this year, ftenate to Speed Rill. Under the invested capital plan favored by the President, corpora made Saturday in connection with consideration by congress today of three of the farmres at Anderson into encircling British lines, seizing arms and causing British casualties. reports to us that their acreages the $3,529,200,000 tax bill. according to their own stories, were successor! wnen ne announcea earlier this week he would not run five, ten and eight a total of twenty-Three acres of wheat for Willkle, spending a vacation In Rush county where he owns five farms, said the President's proposal son of John and Mary JUizabetn Reith Sutherland.

He had been in Montreal several weeks on a business and pleasure trip. Sutherland avenue was named for his great again. the three men." Three British Bombers Claimed. BERLIN, Aug. 4 (AP) Three British bombers were shot down by anti-aircraft fire during attacks by the R.

A. F. last night on western Germany, it was reported today. "does not go far enough and is not INDIANAPOLIS MAN HELD CASH PRIZES founded In logic." grandfather, John Sutherland, who at one time owned property in the A statement from the protest group today said that although one of the announced purposes of the trip was to induce midwestern "ir earned income is exempted then all Income should be exempted," he added. "There is no FOR MANN ACT VIOLATION Garret 'a.

Beall. age thirty-eight. neighborhood. Several sections were said to have He was a member of the Second been attacked, but damage was de was arraigned today before Fae Pat scribed as unimportant. Fresoytenan church ana was a charter member of the Indiana farmers to withdraw two suits filed in federal court at Dayton, seeking to prevent the collection of the fine on wheat growers, Indiana farmers said they had received in rick, United States commissioner, on a charge ot' transporting a twelve-year-old girl from Somerset, to Thoroughbred Breeders Association.

tions would be allowed a profit of 10 per but if their earnings were higher than they made in the base period from 1936-39. inclusive, they would be subject to excess prof-Its taxation regardle.w of whether they were less than 10 per cent. The committee plan would allow firms the invested Capital Willkie Says Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Daisi-belle Sutherland; a son, James IokIc in any distinction between earned income and income derived from property whether accumulated from earnings or otherwise acquired. "To require women to return earned income or income from property in Joint return with their husbands is a throwback to the dark Indianapolis for immoral purposes.

Beall, who told authorities he has Thornton Sutherland; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy J. Grossman, Yonkers, been a resident of Indianapolis ior formation from Ohio that the westerners, while near Dayton, apparently made no effort to contact the men who had filed the suits. or several years, was arrested Sat N. three grandsons, Jeremy Fel- urday night in North New Jersey land, James Fell and and David Fel- No One Fears Thomas Debate RUSHVILLE.

Aug. 4 (AP) street by Julius Wicnster, united First Prize SOOOO Awarded by Parenls' Magazine Second prize 200 103 prize each 25 50 4h prizes each 5 100-5 prize each 2 392 CASH PRIZES IN ALL States marshal. land, Indianapolis, and three granddaughters, Joyce Grossman, Nancy Grossman and Mary Elizabeth Grossman, Yonkers. On failure to meet a $1,000 bond. Bges.

One of the historic struggles of women In their fight for emancipation was for the right to manage their own property and receive the income from it. "The United States today is bend Beall was remanded to the Marion Prosecutors to Meet Aug. 15 County Jail. Wendell L. Willkle was asked here for comment on a statement made method 8 per rent, profit on the first $5,000,000 of invested capital nd 7 per cent, on any excess.

Those preferring the average earnings method would be entitled to exemption of 95 per cent, of their average earnings for surtax purpose during the base period. While the house strove to complete rcticn on the measure today, at the other end of the capitol. Chairman Walter F. George (Dem, Ga.) announced that the senate fl- TPftm 01 1 mil tci CPTCCO SERVICES ARE HELD FOR yesterday by Norman Thomas, 1940 ing all of its efforts and spending of its substance to preserve liberty in this world. It would be both absurd and paradoxical if, at the same time, we deprive women cf one of I to I onuii otLLUitto James O.

Ballou, Ft. Wayne, Allen SMARTER THAN AVERAGE county prosecutor and president of the Indiana prosecuting Attorneys WASHINGTON. Aug. 4 (AP) Association, announced today the DR. LESLIE E.

BROOKS Services for Dr. Leslie E. Brooks, Socialist presidential nominee, that the G. O. P.

leader was "afraid of his own case" because he refused to debate war issues with Thomas at a meeting in Elwood. "Norman Thomas earnestly and age forty-five, an optometrist, were An "extra complement of intelli-j organization's annual summer meet their basic liberties." ing will be held August 15 and today at Danville, 111. gence" is! helping selective service; trainees their new duties; at French. Lick. He said much of) Brooks, a native of Danville, aiea fcatoraay at the Marion Coun sincerely believes that if any person refuses to debate with him, it is ty Tuberculosis Hospital at Sunny- because such person is afraid side.

He attended an optical col more quickly and thoroughly than; the program will be devoted to dis-had been anticipated, the adjutant- cussion of laws passed by the 1941 general's office said today. general assembly. George N. Beam- Intelligence and aptitude tests er, attorney-general, will be a administered to 130,000 trainees speaker. Willkie said.

"I do not know of lege at Peoria, 111., and practiced at Mattoon, 111., and Danville before coming to Indianapolis ten years ago. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. INDIANAPOLIS POST OF any one who is afraid to debate with Norman. "As I said the other day, I came to Indiana for a vacation and I hope that I may have it without the Interference of political publicity stunts." i have demonstrated in effect that the average draftee is smarter than the average citizen, it was reported. As a result of the examinations, the men are fitted readily into jobs for which: they are best suited.

HEADS' Margaret Brooks; one sister, Mrs. LEGION ELECTS ttnei ogdon, Madison. and WITH THE Charles O. Holton was elected; two brothers. Philip Brooks.

Skokie. 111., and William Trent, Danville. NEW YORK, Aug. 4 (AP) Wendell L. Willkie was accused of being part of an "open or tacit conspiracy of administration spokesmen to fool MAJOR TRANSFERRED TO GENERAL DEPOT IN UTAH commander of the Indianapolis Post of the American Legion recently.

He is head of the church loan department of the Railroadmen's Federal Savings and Loan Association. The following officers were also CHILDREN'S NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPH CONTEST Starts Today HOW tO CntCr your Simply have fws or picture taken (if 14 years or under) in our studio for as little as one This picture is yours. A duplicate is automatically entered in How the prizes are prizes are awarded on the basis of character and personality as portrayed in the photographs. Every child has an equal chance to win as prizes are not given for mere "prettiness." Have your child photographed I Nationally famed Bing Crosby, film and radio Joe Kelly, of Quiz Rids; Angelo Patrl, child care expert Ireene Wicker, of radio famej Tony Sarg, artist, marionette creator Maud Tousey Fangel, famous child artist; Mary ET Buchanan, of Parents Magazine Ralph Ellsworth, of Parents' Magazine. the American people into total war" Ma ior Thomas F.

McGovern. of in a statement Issued yesterday by the United States chemical warfare Norman Thomas, national chair- service, has been relieved from duty; chosen: Albert B. Lamb, first vice man of the Socialist party. at the chemical warfare storage commander; Charles B. Crist, sec-; warehouse at Indianapolis and as-'ond vice-commander; Dale L.

I the Utah general depot, White, adjutant; Dr. M. B. signed to the war department announced finance officer; Reverend Ernest F. OF KENTUCKY'S FINEST BOURBONS A'- (g! Thomas asserted that Willkie's recent statement in refusing to debate him on the invitation of the mayor of Elwood.

was "palpably absurd" and said that "Mr. Willkie's excuses suggest that he is afraid of his own case. Roesti, chaplain; Earl L. Carter, today. The department also announced historian; Mike H.

Cain, service officer, and B. P. Rizzo, sergeant- that Captain Orville J. Clymer, of the quartermaster corps, has been assigned as assistant to the con ai-srms. il Delegates to the state convention are Holton and White.

Alternates structing I quartermaster at the Kingsbury! Ordnance plant, Laporte.jare Lee M. Ingiing and Cain FORMER CRAWFORDSVILLE GROCER DIES AT AGE 78 295 3 A pictures Contest Offer Haoe your child photographed now CRAWFORDSVILLE, Auir. ME 4 tSpU Charles M. Miller, ase seventy-eight, retired grocer, died Proofs submitted regularly 3.9$ today at Culver Hospital. Mr.

Miller was born near Shannondale, Montgomery county, and had lived here WANTED TO TAKE OVER PRACTICE IN INDPLS. if Creas "7v rrs of his life. 1 BLOCK'S PHOTOGRAPH BTUDIO THIRD FLOOR He was a member of the First Christian church, the Masonic and STATE AGE, EXPERIENCE and OTHER QUALIFICATIONS ADDRESS BOX 8213, NEWS Elks lodges. Surviving are two daughters. Mrs.

Laurel S. Kirtley and Mrs. Joe Agremlspacher, Craw-fordsviHe, and a son, Raymond GREASELESS UUim PAIN D0I5NT STUN i tOOOBu-BICH B0UBB08 ZSSZ Miller, Indianapolis. I.

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