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plan" blew up ammuni'inp Naples Overjoyed Lieut. George Wildhack Makes News FOREIGN SERVICE dumps, riamaied several '(vps, hatteiies and in flirted heavy losses on German and Rnmanian tronns in attacks e-lci These Days Instead of Reporting It pjjj JJ(J((ff 4 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR MONDAY, MAY, 1D4 I. RUSS AIR ATTACK TAKES HEAVY TOLL As Saint's Blood Finally Liquefies By DAN MrGURE. Aboard a Torpedo Bomber Leaving Hnliandia. April 21.

(I'D This tor pedo plane circled Hoilandia for almost two hours during the Bill Would Broaden Or- dav and last night at ihe besieged Crimean port. Moscow announced tonight. Germany's high command hinted that ted army troops already had narked axis lines when it told of frustrating strong Soviet at arks "in a fluctuating battle" around the fortress which has hen undpr So American invasion without drawing fire from a single Jap anti-air-l craft, position. ganization for Postwar Duties. Mpakpning the resistance of the -hoie tronps.

It is believed th Russians Mill attempt tn clean up the tjny avis foothold on the southwestern tip uf the peninsula before they launch fresh offensives in Romania, old Poland and northern Russia. Continued axis resistance S-astopol, however, would not necessarily tie down a cnn-ideranle led army force. It is possible that Russian army units already have been transferred to 1he mainland in anticipation of a red army push timed with an allied invasion in the west. Moscow's broadcast-bulletin, recorded by the Soviet monitor, said Russian planes had strafed and bombed enemy troops in Sevastopol and concentrated on German-Romanian firing points in one of the most Intensive seriees of as U.S., Canadian War Weakens as Reds Pound City. Washington.

May 7. A pt- Naples, May 7. Church-1 oells rang out in Naples today as; it was announced that the blood of St. Januarius, patron saint of the) city, had liquefied at 2:20 p.m., 22! hour after ihe annual solorryv ceremony of the liquefaction had; bet'un at the Cathedral. Pious Neapolitans, who regard the phenomenon as an augury for; jood.

were elated, for. although the! liquefaction came late, they main-! tained it was better this way than! had it not taken place at all. Had there been no transformation, or as Neopolitans i.ay, miracle! of the liquefaction, the people, would have regarded the failure as' viet artillery fire since mid-April. The Germans and Romanians holding Sevastopol are isolated ex-rept for tenuous ship and plane contacts with Romania, and Moscow said its Black sen surface units and naval air arm had taken a terrific mil of both axis ships and planes In the area, steadily I hnr tlPDri? Vonl- of an(1 suggestion JLdMOI iltcUlS Uteh to build the State Depart- ment's foreign service into a nw, O. 'I 17 much broader organization to han- OiriKC WaVe a Rly increased American responsibility ir.

the postwar worH sr Th iMTr.n has been laid before Congress. London. May 7. Russian planes, in a possible prelude to a final red army land drive against Sevastopol, destroyed 22 German i tst-r I I -1 1 United States and Canad ian war; The House foreign affairs com saults on the fortress since the Cri mittee has started work on the program which Assistant Secretary of State G. Howland Shaw described a5 a foundation builder.

In Shaw's words, the key to the Not a single Jap plane has been seen in the air lo'iay and only one was spotted yesterday when the planes of our huge task force began the job of softening Hoilandia for the invasion. I ajn cramped in the turret and Lieut. George A. Wildhack, 27 years old, Indianapolis, a former reporter for the Indianapolis News, is at the controls of this Avenger bomber which supported the invasion forces. Bomb Concealed Barges.

On our third trip around the bay an armv observer on the ground notified' Wildhack that the Japanese had concealed barges along the shore of Jautefa bay to the south. Our plane glided down to 1,000 feet over Jautefa bay, where we dropped our bombs, I saw two tremendous explosions that looked like hits. Then we circled crocodile-infested Sentani lakp while other planes joined us in formation. We watched the smoke pouring up from Hollandia's airfields. Completing the mission our bombers and fighters swung into line and mean operation began April 8.

Claim St Kuss Planes. The Germans declared that Soviet planes were shot down during the battles over the ruined citv. and acknowledged further a sign that unhappy Naples, already devastated by war, would suffer even more in the year to come. --1 fl'l .1 whole program is what looks sim- labor officials sought Sunday night to end a wave of labor disturbances which swept from New York state to the Pacific coast, idling at least 33,000 workers and impaired war production. Strikes in the Detroit-Windsor, Ontario, area affected 28,000 workers, principally in Ford Motor Company and other automotive nlants hilt 9 VW1 smnlnvx at the Soviet attacks on ships, of ply like a salary increase bill on the surface: Chairman Sol Bloom forecast that it would be reported out next week.

The measure applies particular FORRKST HACK LEY son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Hakley, 711 Fenton avenue, has departed for fialveston, where he Is serving with the 2(2d F.mergeney Rescue Boat Squadron of the I'nlted States Army Air Forres. He was accompanied by his wife, the former Iaura Raymond, and their l-year-nld son, Raymond Conrad. He was here on furlough.

Many explanations have been of- fered for the annual phenomenon) of the liquefaction of what is saidi tf be the blood of the martyred I ,1 .1 i .1 I which Moscow said were sunk last Wednesday and Thursday. Minor Russian land attacks were declared by Berlin to have been hpHl.cn off north of Iasl in Romania, east of Polotosk and south of Pskov In north -central Russia opposite the Latvian border. DeSoto Motor Company voted to. ,0 the hundreds of clerks in return to work Mondav morning American diplomatic offices abroad, and the first steps were taken to! Average pay increases cf $300 each I tjiT II mm are recommended. saint, inciuning ine ineory tnai.

inm process takes place because of the generation of heat in the crowded Cathedral, but Roman Catholic return 14,000 Ford Motor Company of Canada workers to their jobs. Clerks Quit. etfetL In addition to the United Auto- Shaw and Lawrence C. Frank, 6 mobile Workers (CIO. membersjchief of divjsjon of' fore, in me automotive pianis.i a avo members of the Foremans' authorities have re jected he theory of a heat-induced trans-! formation as inadequate.

Among those who witnessed lhe change were a number of American soldiers. Some accepted it as a miracle. Others said they thought to Spring's Activities VUil 11 III LI. til A3 '0 TV, tk ah ciation of America continued headed through the fog for our carrier. i i IC Li ci ia iJiT iiiCil win.

ftCU Yt rrr rlnna" ara I i cca icli A4 Leaders Sec Meeting Between Gandhi, Wavcll, to Unite India War Effort New Delhi, May 7. (I') A meeting between Mohandas K. Gandhi and the viceroy of India at the earliest possible moment, with the objective of marshaling India's potentially vast military strength in the struggle against Japan, was envisioned today by Indian political union. At a Bnggs Manufacturing Company plant, CIO workers re- jnfl fused to cross a FAA picket Hnc.LmM arB nT a nxr nanrf.lllt FORMF.R NEWS REPORTER. Lieut.

George A. Wildhack a it. might be due to natural causes. But. all agreed the solid substance had liquefied.

former member of the swim-, steel Workers' Strike Ends 4 with the foreign service employes ming team of the Indianapolis Aliquinna. 450 sa'. 'he British. At Resignations are frequent. Shaw members of the United Steel leaders closest to the Indian Nationalist leader.

The shoes we are proud to endorse with our own name MAROTT'S CHALLENGERS. We give untiring effort to incorporate in these shoes the finest styling, the best of quality, the most perfect of construction that's why they are the best buy in town. The conference would he con- tlngent. upon Gandhi's full reenv. India, In an attempt to reconcile reported that one entire consular office of clerks quit.

The draft has taken 125 of the department's important, officers. All this adds up, they say, to a weakening of the American position in a field which is growing Workers of America (CIO) returned to work at the Jones Laughlin Company blast furnaces and 700 miners voted to return to work Monday at a Curtisville (Pa.) mine. A strike of 30 mine supervisors at the Ford collieries ery from his illness. Devadasihe differences between Great Gandhi said his latest informationnritain and India and thereoy from Poona indicated his father's swing a united India Into the war. condition was "much less alarm- That India as a nation is not ing" than it appeared a few days! wholehearledly supporting the war to in volume of business and in im ended, enabling 1,050 miners 1,000 Killed In Berlin Stockholm, May 7.

At least 1,000 persons were killed in today's American air raid on Berlin, a dispatch from the German capital said tonight. The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm paper Morgnn Tidningen added that Germans now were talking about the capital being "condemned to death" Hy the allies. A Scandinavian telegraph bureau dispatch said the effect of Ihe bombings were Impressing Berlin-ers less and less because "targets are getting scarcer," Athletic Club and co-captain on the Purdue University swimming team, entered the Naval Air Corps in June, 1941, after completing three years at Purdue University. He is a brother of William Wild-hack, a reporter for the Indianapolis News. Lieut.

Wildhack also was employed by the News during the summer months while a college student. Lieut. Wildhack, is Ihe son of Mrs. Donald S. Morris, 524 Buckingham drive, and the hushand of Mrs.

Mary Stuart Wildhack whose home is in Santa Monit, Cal. A daughter Marsha Stuart Wildhack, whom he has never seen, was born two and one-half months ago. flK0, effort is obvious. portance. For Women Intimates of Gandhi said It is Indian armed forces number un it foregone conclusion lhat he will wards of 2,000,000, all volunteers, return' toj work.

A two-week strike of truck drivers, members of the AFL teamsters' union, which tied up trucking in Idaho and Utah, was meet with Held Marshal Viscount 1 hut there Is nothing resembling Archibald P. Wavell, viceroy of1 total war. Polilical considerations Hummer Corporation plant, a subsidiary of Montgomery Ward war greatly in the minds ended but. a wildcat, strike atl.Co., at Springfield, 111., continued their strike against what thev Jamestown, N.Y., idled 1,500 work of many men who compose the i nation's Influential groups. 0WI Says Gestapo ers at the Marlin Rockwell Corporation bearing plant.

More than 450 machinists at the termed the company's unfair labor policfes in refusing tn recognize their union despite a WLB order, Crash Kills 6 Is Setting Snares To Lure Patriots Concluded From Purp, One. Washington. Mav 7. (It The Cncnl 1 dimkllM Gestapo has loosed a war of trirk-l rZ icry on the allied underground anri anbnl Mason. Deputy movement in Europe, trying lo: sheriffs, Indianapolis police and lure allied sympathizers into ex- soldiers from Ihe Station Hospital posing themselves and being Fo Bpnjamin Harrison als Setting the Scene for Summer liquidated before the invasion! Hoops roll (irfen In ChRr- The Ollice of Wnr Informal ion Dr.

Myron H. Green, a deputy 'reported today lhat Ihe Nazis and county coroner, took charge of the Illicit- satellites have issued false investigation. "orders" In the name of the allie? Mr, Huffman, who had lived in Indianapolis approximately 20 i dropped bogus leaflets from planes wit RAF markings and had Nazi i years, had been employed as a masquerade as allied welder and lathe operator several liers" trying to escape from Ger- years for the Electric Steel Casl- Informal, Summer Tablecloths i lade of serviceable soft cotton crash imany. ings Company in Speedway Citv. 4i TO A tm FIRST TIlO effort to brim' nalliolS DIM His wife hurl onri-nlorT a volon.

miimi me open iih mm lor tie century Biscuit Com-heen marked, OW1 snid, by Hie is- inny the last 18 years. simnce of "resistance directives Melllng them what to do when the! Noblcville and Mrs. Huffman of launder, requires little ironing) in white with woven bands of color invasion comes, tne circulation oi Carolina. Both were mem-J fake underground newspapers nr 1nn christian jlhe launching of spurious "resist -1 jnnce movements," employed in the I 111- L' III IIIIL'1'11 ii-h .,111. 1 TO Company, MO lempi hip iiiuicrgrounn to uis- close itself apparently has become a fnvorile trick in both France and Denmark.

Similar incidents in mail order house, was to have been married May 15 to Corporal Horace John Ferguson of Indianapolis, slalioned in North Carolina. Surviving Mrs. Huffman besides her daughter are her father and The Netherlands prompted the Dutch radio Orange transmitter in London to caulion Hollanders: "Be urn your guard, only tne uonnon brother, Harry White, both of No- radio with the well-known voices, 'hl)p Huffman's sur For Men Ms your mainstay." ivivms besides the daughter are his Air Mail Prisoner of War father and a sister. IMibllc School Pupil. Marilyn Meais, a pupil at public school No.

67, was born in Indian Letter-Sheet Designed Washington, May 7. tl'i An Yes, the nlr mnil letler-shoet, designed to Imeel Ihe objections of German au-'thoritios to the appearance of style you apolis, Survivors besides her parents, both critically injured in the accident, are three brothers. Walter Meats and Herbert Meats, both at home, and Richard Menrs, on duty with the navy In the Farinc war zone, and a sister, Barbara Mears, al home, Mr. Dell was employed by the. Allison Division of General Motors Corporation and was formerly member of the Sheridan fire 'de- SZkW MM 'united Nations victory slogans in Islnmps or cancellations on mail sent to war prisoners, will be issued by the government.

the comfort you The sheet folds into an unsealed envelope which es Into an outer jcontainer marked "Postmaster Prisoner of War Mail and on i partment. He owned a filling sta- need and value all the town i which no stamps or cancellation tjon there. i appear, the War Department said Mr. Dell, Mrs. Apple and Mrs.

Thistlethwaite were brother and in an announcement, inday. me usual 6 cents an ounce postage for sisters. At Sheridan it was report-1 I air mail is The letter- hails as the best! ishret will be dlstriouled through post offices beginning in the next week or 10 days. S.M 669 S.9? 69 69xW4 7.9 69121 S.9S Mo'cAi'nj Napkins, )7I7 39c tnch the Moh, I2is T5c oca Linens Fifth Floor. ed last night they had driven to Indianapolis to visit another sister, Mrs.

Madge Gray. Mrs. Apple conducted an insurance agency in Sheridan. Mrs. Thistlethwaite was the wife of a farmer near Sheridan.

Mr. Dell was the father of a Necrology Washington un -aii- daughter, Phyllis Dell, 13, and two MIRAL WILLIAM 1 RODGERS, James ueu, 13, and William Dell 18. retired. who commanded the Aan na's Adrift was the mother oj da Apple, and Mrs. Thistlethwaite had L.

S. AYR COMPANY 111 1l1f 1 I iMCiin in Second Floor I tw daughters, Margaret Helen iRetliesda. at the age of 84. Thistlethwaite at home and Mil Third of his family to hold high dred Jean Thistlethwaite of Indi- naval rank. Admiral Rodgers be lanapolis.

and a son, Gresham iThistlethwaite in the Coast Guard. came Adriatic neer ranninuun For Boys and Girls after serving three years as' com Miss Davis died of injuries suf- mander "train" tankers ner oi me M. i of the other supply vesseis-ot tne L' Atlantic fleet. passenger, driven bv Henry L. i Admiral Rodgers served as a member of Hie advisory committee at the Washington conference on limitation of armament in 1921.

Keller, 4907 Ralston drive, crashed against an abutment at the end of Mann road where it enters Ind. 67. She suffered head injuries and Appearance to please long wear and the correct support so vital to young feet. He retired in 1924 and devoted tne remainder of his life to writing about ancient naval warfare. compound fracture of the right I lejr, while Mr.

Keller suffered chest and arm injuries. The body was released to the. Other deaths follow: THOMAS H. BALL, 85. for i-oren H.

Davis funeral home in. mer member of Congress and well- known attorney at. Houston, Tex. iHe was a delegate io tne Demo Shelbyville. Funeral arrangements: have not been completed.

Atherton Urge Postwar i International World! Montreal. May 7. t.Vt Rav Ath cratic national convention ot liru 'and 1926 and a delegate-at-large to $7.45 convent ions fiom 1900 to 1920. He served as floor manager of the convention in 1912 which nominated Third Floor purify to. Aifo due neatly decvutfvt jUipzd AtMty OH 3.95 IWoodrow Wilson.

erton, United States ambassador to Canada, said today that "the postwar world must achieve Interna SWART BALLANTINE, 46, In- ventce of the throat microphone, I an organizer of the Institute of tionalism or go down Into the chaos of darker ages than we have yet known." I Radio Engineers, ana presineni or Ballantine Laboratories, ai Morrlstown, N.J. Asserting that education Is the only means of eradicating Fascism permanently, he said such education must produce Rn "international plan," adding that, "if the evil i Former Race Driver Hurt Fatally In Wreck Seymour, May 7. G. L. Oldham.

53 years old, of Harts- Ideas, the sins of Nazlism live on, it iney penetrate our own society, if we permit Intolerance and bigo try and unthinking prejudice to color our lives, then the Nart ohil ville. a former dirt track rare dr'ver, -Aiti in a hospital here tonight of Injuries Buffered Thurs osophy shall hava triumphed after day in a train-auto crasn..