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9 WALLACE SOUNDS Retire NA7IIQM IVADMIMRi From Diredawa HUTCHINS DENIES Bridal Fred C. Bockstahler, Auto Salesman, Dies DR. SMITH CITES DCnDI ACK WAD Succumbs Here 4 STEPS TO GOD nnt-iium nniimiiu I LUI LL noil HMIl THE INDIANAPOLIS ST Alt, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1941. RAYMOND COOPER 2d Floor Occidental Cor. Illinois and Washington Concluded From Page One.

Christian Advocate Edi END OF MONTH SALE British Columns Push On In Ethiopia, Pursue Foes In Eritrea. Enjoins U.S. to Remain Unyielding In Address To B'nai B'rith. Educator Adds U.S. Must Become Totalitarian To Defeat Axis.

tor Preaches at Last Service of Series. Ac in i By Th ASSOCIATED FKLSS. Cairo, Egypt, March 30. The British forces in eastern Ethiopia speeded their advance on Diredawa called him to fill the position of judge of a newly created judicial district in 1911. The presidential election of 1912 saw Judge Brid-well as a candidate for judge of the Sullivan Circuit Court.

He was elected and six years later voters gave him a second term. Long Party Worker. Judge Bridwell was his party's nominee for the Appellate Court judgeship in 1922, and was tendered the same honor in 1930. He was renominated by acclamation in 1934 and 193S. Long a loyal party worker, Judge Bridwell served in several capacities as a member of the Sullivan county committee.

He was a mem Whether It be in the midst of the African bush or the cultured university circles of great American cities, men are seeking God, Dr. Roy L. Smith, editor of the Christian Advocate, said last night in a sermon at the Roberts Park Methodist Church. Dr. Smith spoke at the last of a series of meetings sponsored by 11 today as in an Italian communique, reached Cairo that the Fascists had abandoned the city and were retreating westward toward Addis Ababa.

Diredawa, with a population of 30,000, stands in a crook of the Chicago, March 30. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago said today that America should fight now if President Roosevelt's recent remarks about "total victory" over "the enemy" mean that the British, Chinese and Greeks "are our allies." "If this is so," he said, "it Is immoral to let them die for us while we sit safely at home. We should have been in the war from the Indianapolis district Methodist! Addis Ababa-Jibuti railway, some 35 miles north of the ancient walled Mohammedan city of Harar Price churches. His subject was, "Four Steps to God." which fell to the British last week. The railway is the onlv one link l'he speaker said, "The first step toward God is described bv an old-! ing the Ethiopian capital with the sea.

fashioned word called the start." Asserting there was a chance) that the President's remarks were! for foreign consumption, Hutchins said that Mr. Roosevelt was mistaken if he was moving toward) Every man must feel a need of The British in Eritrea were FRF.D HOC KSTAH1.F.K. Fred C. Bockstahler, 40 year something to complete his life. He marking up similar successes, a communique said, as thev Dursued the Italians from Cheren to As ber of the Sullivan Methodist Church, the Indiana Democratic Club, the Odd Fellows, the Elks.

Indianapolis Exchange Club and the Masons, being a Knight Templar, a Shrlner and a Scottish Rite Mason. Ho also was. a mem old, an automobile salesman in Indianapolis 20 years, died early yes mara, the capital, in a drive to the terday is his home, 3113 Carson Red sea where they would vir war with "the conviction that the people want him to." And, he added, if the United States were "to proceed through total war to total victory over venue. Mr. Bockstahler had lived here tually encircle the Italians in Ethiopia.

all his life. He was a member of totalitarian states. It will have to St. Mark's Lutheran Church. Mr.

Capture 3,775 Prisoners. "We have captured 3,775 pris Backstahler was an employe of E. W. Essie Motor Sales. must feel a lack.

First Step Tlui Taken. "He must feel that, he is, somehow, wrong that ho is pursuing the wrong objectives, working for the wrong purposes, or moving his life In the wrong direction. To have come to this position is to have taken the first step toward God. "The seond step Is also described by an old-fashioned word, called 'repentance. This Is more than remorse, and something very different from a regret for wrong doing.

Any man who hopes to find ber of the American Ear Association, the Indiana State Bar Association and the Sullivan County Bar Association. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Elsie Bridwell, and three brothers, Curtis Bridwell of Terre Haute, Frank Bridwell of Pasadena, and Samuel Bridwell of Sullivan. Survivors are his father. Charles Chicago.

March 30. (U.P.) Vice-President Henry A. Wallace charged tonight that "Naziism Is endeavoring to dominate the vorld" and enjoined the United States "to remain unyielding and unflinching." "It must be remembered that when Nazi control takes place no one at any time or any place is safe against Imprisonment, degradation, torture and death," he asserted. Wallace adressed the triennial convention of B'Nal B'rith, a Jewish society. The speech was broadcast nationally and by short wave to South America.

He said that "Nazi terrorism in terms of suffering to Europe" had shocked America into "clear thinking about the meaning of democracy," defining it briefly as "belief in the dignity of man." "Trje emphasis of constitutional democracy, which I trust will embrace the whole hemisphere, must be on education and toleration," Wallace declared. "We must not allow a Gestapo or cheka to get a foothold anywhere in this hemisphere." JN'azllsm Would Flourish. "We must remember that If England loses, the Nazi scheme of things will, unless proper safeguards are taken, come Into control within less than a year In certain of the Latin American republics." Referring to the Importance In democracy of racial and religious minorities, he declared that "the central core of both democracy and religion is respect for the dignity of man." "Any civilization, in order to endure," he said, "must recognize that every Individual has placed in him or hera spark of the divine. "The most deadly of all sins is for a majority group to look down on, despise and persecute a minority group." Challenging the Americas, North oners, Including 68 officers, and a number of guns," the communique F. Bockstahler; a brother, Edward H.

Bockstahler, and a sister. Miss Hazel Bockstahler, all of said of the chase to Asmara. Thus, military observers said, the British may complete their conquest of Premier Mussolini's East Funeral services will be at 2:30 Funeral services will be at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the o'clock Wednesday afternoon In African empire before the torren become totalitarian, too. "If we are actually to press on to total victory, we must light. We are not justified in hoping that the axis will suffer total defeat without full American participation in the war." "Xo Mandate for War." Hutchins spoke at the regular Sunday morning service In Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the university.

The address was carried by the Mutual Broadcasting System. "The country wants to defend Itself, aid Britain and stay out of C. Wilson Funeral Home. Burial the Billman funeral home at Sullivan. Burial will be in Center will be in Crown Hill cemetery.

God must not only he willing to admit that there is something Ridge cemetery there. wrong with his life hut he must tial equatorial rains set In in May. The British calculated that the Italian commander of the Duke d'Aosta, must have got away with 26,000 to 31,000 of his Cheren force. Observers believed the Italians would attempt to make a stand be Floral Company also be willing to do something about, it. Thai is the second step, Spring Costume Suits 3 Costume Suits, orig.

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"The third step Is nn old-fash President Dies innen experience cnilea consecra The President cannot literally moan that we are to fight on tiil the four freedoms ring everywhere. The President cannot his means a focussing of Mrs. Louise Pahud Asperger, 57 war, he declared. We nave neon told over and over again that we could do just that. The pas all lire on one on ectlve.

It means mean this, for It is a program of that anything that Interferes with years old, 3407 Boulevard place, president of the Pahud Floral Company, and sccretnry-t eas perpetual war. Mr. Roosevelt sage of this (lease-lend) bill gave er of Asperger's Memorials, the search for God must be sarr llced." Faith HrliiK Peace. must mean that by defeating the axis we shall rid the world of died yesterday in St. Vincent's those governments at present most Hospital.

She had been ill four "As the fourth step," Dr. Smith aggressive in their attack on the da vs. said, "he must have 'faith' that Mrs. Asperger was born In Indi four freedoms. "If we enter this war, we shall anapolis, the daughter of Paul A.

God will treat him fairly, justly fore reaching Asmara. The advance on both fronts was accompanied by heavy aerial attacks by the RAF, the South African air force and the free French air squadron. The Addis Ababa-Jibuti railroad, motor transports, troops and buildings in the various areas were bombed and machine-gunned. Head for Addis Ababa. Two other British columns in Ethiopia which left Mega and Dolo and took Neghelli a week ago are also moving on Addis Ababa, while in the west other troops were advancing in the Gondar region, north of Lake Tana.

The general headquarters communique reported no change in Libya, but the RAF command said the British raided the harbor of Tripoli Friday night. lose what we have of the four and Adelo Pahud. She was a freedoms. We shall lose the hope of realizing them. What we have, graduate of St.

Mary's School. She was married to Otto A. Asperger and reasonably, He must trust God to be God. As he does so a peace and spirit of serenity comes Into the President no mandate for war. The people want peace." Then he asked rhetorically: "If we go to war, what are we going to war for?" "We cannot use the word democracy to describe every country that is or may be at war with the axis.

If Russia Is attacked by Germany, will she be welcomed into the choir of the democracies? "We are stirred, but not cnlight-ened, by the great phrase the four freedoms which the President has used as the general statement of our aims. Freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom from in this country, is hope. War, for 1911. She had been associated his life that defies all ordinary this country, is a counsel of despair. It Is a confession of failure.

It is national suicide. explanation." and South, to "band together to with the floral business at 34th street and Boulevard place nearly all her life. Mrs. Asperger was a member of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, the Indianapolis Lieder- The.

Indiana Central College choir, directed by Miss Esther "America has been called the maintain the sacred essence of democracy and religion," Wallace asserted that "no doctrine of state" is higher or broader than the doc arsenal of democracy. It has been Pecker, presented several muslca selections. krnnz and the Woman's Society of Indianapolis Florists. called the larder of democracy. Let us make It the home of democracy.

trine of "the fatherhood of God Ten Indianapolis Methodist churches joined in sponsoring the want and freedom from fear if Survivors are her husband; two end the brotherhood of man." This is Americas destiny. series of meetings. sons, Otto A. Asperger and Harry II. Asperger, and three brothers, Charles G.

Pahud, Alfred X. Pahud and Harry F. Pahud, all of Indianapolis. runeral arrangements have not Newsmen Sec Sabotage On Ships; U.S. Action No Surprise to Italians been completed.

with hand drills, sledge hammers, chisels, axes, and files. The cylinder heads were smashed, connecting rods broken, gears, bearings, and pumps slashed and pounded. The boilers were drained and fires kept going, to burn out the tubes. The wireless, sealed ulnce the vessels' arrival more than a year ago, wan not disturbed. YOU CAN GET THERE Claude StefTey, Barber, 33-Year Resident, Dies New Orleans, March 30.

,1 Ofllcers and crew members of Clyde ateffey, r9 years old, a barber in the Hotel Warren bar bershop, died Saturday in his two Italian freighters seized here today apparently expected the United States to take over tho vessels, said the const guard officer who led the party making the BY HORSE AND BUGGY home, Z302 West Walnut street. Mr. Steffey was born in Hamil seizure. ton county. He had lived in Indianapolis 33 years and was a member of the West Michigan street Methodist Church.

-szr-(ri MOTOR CAR IS BUT A -JzB Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Machinery on both ships, the Ada and the Monflore, Imd been systematically wrecked. "The ofllcers of the ship seemed not at all surprised when I told Democracy Peril Seen by Willkic Says Totalitarian Ways Would Undermine U.S. Living Standard. Goldle Steffey, and two nieces and two nephews.

Funeral services will be at 2 Baltimore, March 30, CI') Newspapermen and photographers saw smashed engines and machinery on one of two Italian freighters seized In Baltimore harbor today by coastguardmen, who refused comment on the possibility their crews may have planned to lira the vessels. During the tour through the (5,1 40-ton Pictro Campanella, a Const Guard olllcer picked Up a small can stuffed with kerosene-soaked waste and threw It. into the bay. Similar pieces of waste were observed in other parts of the. ship.

Asked If it appeared the Italians had planned to set the vessel allre, the guardman said: "I don't know, but you can try to figure out Just about anything you want 1o." A sledge hammer lay on top of the still-waim engines of the Pictro Campanella and cylinder heads had been unbolted and smashed, along with pistons. Ml lad With Cinders, Clay. them I had orders to take over," o'clock tomorrow afternoon In the Conkle funeral home. Burinl will be In Crown Hill cemetery. The Set tyfucA fflette.

declared Lieut. E. J. Roland. "I told them I wanted the crews mustered, and they Just said something Rev.

R. R. Cross, pastor of the church, will oflielate. like 'All and hnd the first ofllcers line up the men. MBS.

MARY Fit IS. Mrs. Mary Frlsz, 80 years old, a native of Germany and a resi dent of Indianapolis 30 years, died yesterday in her home, 704 South "The crew seemed ready to go. "All of them were very pleasant and very happy that they'd done such a good Job on the engines. I don't think there's a piece of machinery aboard that Isn't damaged." Lieut.

Roland said the coastguardmen "went over the ship with a flnc-tooth romb" searching New Jersey street. She had been ill three months. Mrs. Frlsz came to Indianapolis I A II iiiiiiiii from Teutopolis, III. She was the One cylinder block was filled for a possible time bomb, but New York, March 30.

CP) Wendell L. Willkie asserted today "that our very prosperity and standard of living the pre-requi-sites to the continuance of our democracy cannot be maintained in a world where totalitarian methods of trade prevail." "One also knows," he said, "that with tho triumph of the military autocrats our own land would become an armed camp and we would consume our substance and liberties In its sustenance. And above all, if we turn our cyeg inward, we shall lose our soui by abandoning to its enemies our most precious heritage liberty. "That is not America's answer. America must and will uphold the hand of Britain." Willkie spoke under the auspices of the British War Relief Society.

widow of George Frisz, who died 30 years ago. Mrs. Frisz was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church and the Third Order of with cinders and fire clay, a guardman said. St. Francis.

The steam steering apparatus found nothing. Tho Italian crew apparently spent days, possibly weeks In destroying the ships' working apparatus. Propellor shnfts of both likewise was smashed with another sledge hammer lying near by. wevm vessels, 14 Inches (hick and made Gears wer broken, axle rods bent, with the steam Intake pipe knocked of the hardest steel, had been cut tiirougn ny hacksaws. There was no electric power aboard.

loose from tho machine. Evidence of the hurried departure of the Italian seampn was Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Kiser and Mrs. Antoinette Frisz, both of Indianapolis and Mrs. Mary U.

Gelsert of Terre Haute; two sons, John F. Frisz of Springfield, and Joseph H. Frisz of Vincennes, and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Deileth of Indianapolis and Mrs. Martha Maschino of Terre Haute.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Burial will be in St. Francis cemetery in Teutopolis. From the anchor winch to the boilers, the men had gone to work mm mrm seen in canins, ourm cjuaneis aim rnessroorns. Lieut.

W. C. Capron, acting port csptain, led 4: heavily armed gunrdmen when they swarmed nhoarrf. the Pictro Campanella and the second vessel, the Euro, anchored side by sidp. "We had no trouble," Capron said, "because we made it plain we meant business." Crew Tack Sea Bags.

Mrs. Sadie Beck Dies Downstatc Washington, March 30 (Special) Mrs. Sadie Beck, 76 year old, widow of William Beck, former local businessman, died last night. Funeral rites will be Tuesday afternoon at the First Christian Church, with burial here. Surviving are three children, the Rev.

Robert T. Beck of New Castle, Evart Beck and Doris Beck of Washington. Mrs. Beck came from a pioneer Washington family that had been active In insurance circles for half a century. Edward T.

Egan, 72, retired B. O. Railroad engineer, died here yesterday. The funeral will be Wednesday morning. Surviving are the widow, Ida, and sister.

Mrs. Jennie Catherine Riley, 70, died here today Last rites will be Tuesday afternoon. Surviving are three children and a brother. Crewmen hastily packed sea bags with belongings and were taken ashore, after which newsmen were permitted to Inspect the damage. Partly filled wine glasses and coffee cups in the officers' mess gave evidence of an interrupted meal.

On the wall was a color picture of Premier Mussolini. In the seaman's mess pictures of both Mussolini and Adolf Hitler were tacked on the wall. On a table was a half-eaten dish of spaghetti and bread. No damage was seen 8bove deck, where winches and other loading mechanism were rusty from disuse since the freighters tied up here when Italy declared war on England and France. rTT7TiT7TfTrrrrntrmTi'rn ClTi (TTfr (TP CTTT ITTTp There's a "Self-Starter Too, in an Clectric WATER HEATER YOU wouldn't think of keeping a "one-hoss shay" in your garage, but the home in vhich you live may be harboring a water heating relic from horse-and-buggy days.

Your water heating system is old-fashioned if it hasn't a "eelf-starter" to turn the heat on and off as needed without any effort on your part. It's wasteful if it heats more water than you need and allowg it to cool off in an uninsulated tank, and it'a aggravating if it doesn't heat enough. It's inconvenient if you can't have hot water without running up and down staira. Enjoy modern living with an Electric water heater, and save money with low-cost Electricity. Yes, a great change, in funeral procedure.

It goe much farther than the replacement of th ornate hore-drawn hearse by the refined funeral coach of today. The funeral of today is a service for the living, a service which not only honors the departed, but becomes a source of comfort and consolation to those who remain. This type of service Is exemplified in the new-day memorial developed and rendered at Peace Chapel. Morgenthau Asks Reports On U.S. Security Holdings Washington, March 30.

JV Secretary Morgenthau called ioday for detailed monthfy reports by banks and insurance companies of their holdings of securities issued Chicago Politician's Daughter Dies In Dixie See the Westinghouse Eiedxic WATER HEATERS Miami Beach, March 30. or guaranteed by the unitea CP Mrs. Mary Nash Ross, 30-year-old daughter of Patrick A. Nash, prominent Chicago political figure, died early today at her winter home here after an illness of three weeks. Survivors include her husband, George F.

Ross; her parents, a son, Gtorge Nash Ross, and two brothers, Tom and John Nash of States. In a letter to 6,500 bankers and 1,000 insurance executives, the Treasury head said that such reports were necessary to conduct the defense financing program with greatest facility. The data is not obtainable from present Treasury records, he said, explaining that it was wanted for his "confidential use." fiMdyuinioonG PIICI CMML 2050 MICHIGAN ST. CHERRY 602(1 aTifir VMtt Al ABVhftt The body was sent tonight to Chicago..