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i.e." ihv i 1 ii.rv!i- i I vi I HP! fU ,1 1 if 7U II II CAN Evening EPUBLI TELEPHONES Newt Room 4424 Business Office 113 THE WEATHER Not much change in temperature. Occasional showers. WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE COLUMBUS LEDGER IM 1 f.I jit. i Hi; I Mill i--'-h V- Hi COLUMBUS, i INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1942.1 Axis Sub's Victim Goes tol Watery Grave Established 1877, 65, CORONER LAYS MAN'SDEATHTO BLOW ON CHIN Davis Finds Mashburn Died of Hemorrhage -at Base of Brain. DEPUTY' NOT LOCATED Stranger Who Aided i.

Fitch Still, Missing Probe Continues. i lll.m niMiip.1 lj. Wn.J. C-i'M. I.i-..

i 1 'I' I ilrvif i r.i bi ri The death of James Howard Mashburn 24, of St Joe, here Monday night, was caused by intra-eranial hemorrhage. A medical "autopsy conducted Tuesday at request, of Dr. Marvin R. Davis, county coroner, disclosed a blood dot at the base the brain which apparently was A U. S.

tanker, torpedoed and shelled off the South American coast, casts a heavy pall of smoke skyward. the cause of death. i 1. Coroner Davis found that "death was caused by intra- cranial hemorrhage at the base of the brain as the result of a blow on the chin." J- Mashburn died on Washington street near IThird a few minutes after i he had engaged in-an altercation -vith Sgt.i Alonzo Fitch of the police department and an unknown man who had been deputized by the officer to help take Mashburn to jail on an intoxication Stranger Not Located. While on way jail, Mashburn was struck three or four times by the man who had been deputized.

This assault occurred in front of the Gamble store, where Mashburn died. yi Efforts made so far by police' to locate the unknown deputy have He volunteered to help Sergeant Ftitch while the officer was scuffling with Mashburn in front of the Meyer cigar store on Fourth street. Tokyo Admits Loss! of Alr- craft Carrier and 35 Plane's. FISH FOR INFORMATION Jap Reports Exaggerated semblance U. S.

Losses Beyond Re-of Truth. i June 10 Iff A. Navy spokesman) countered Axis claims of Japanese occupation of Aleutian island bases with categorical assertion today that "none of our inhabited areas, islands or rocks are troubled with uninvited visits jat thip time." Asked for a comment on Axis claims that Japanese had destroyed positions in the Aleutian is-, lands, the spokesman added, "we have no Information concerning Alaskan Boil." The Navy declined to make any comment on Japanese claims that two United States aircraft carriers and a large transport had been sunk in operations around Midway island and Dutch Harbor, Alaska, pointing merely to American communiques which admitted damage of one carrier and loss of a destroyer. X-Naval spokesmen indicated to day they i regarded the Tokyo claims as another "fishing expedi tion." i By the Associated Pre. Imperial Tokyo headquarters sought to! minimize the gravity Of the Japanese naval disaster at Midway today but acknowledged that United 1 States forces had sunk an aircraft carrier, heavily damaged another carrier and damaged a cruiser.

Official i United States reports have listed 16 and possibly 18 Japanese warships sunk or damaged before tie enemy fleet limped off in retreat, Moreover, an eye-witness account by Ensign; George H. Gay, 25-year-old XX S. JTavy flier, declared three of Japan's aircraft carriers, including two jof Ithe Kaga-Akagl class, were seen to burst into flames under attack by American torpedo planes. Tokyo dd not specify the class of -the carrier i admitted Tokyo headquarters also reported that Japanese army troops were used; in attacking the U. Aleutian islands off Alaska on Sunday, Tokyo time (Saturday, Alaska time) three days after the i.

Dutch Harbor raids-sand declared they "are i continuing operations In this! area." No Details on Invasion. No details wefe given as to whether it was a sizeable inva- sion of the strategic chain of islands which stretch across the Bering sea from Alaska, toward Japan. 1 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of Ithe U. S.

Pacific 'fleet, described jthe situation in the Far North, as "confused" several days agoj, but there has been ho hint from any source other than Tokyo of any Japan ese, troop landings in tians. the Aleu- "On June 7," a Japanese communique said, i ''naval units in closest cooperation wth troops of the army destroyed of enemy positions on tian islands and are a number the Aleu-continuing the operations in this area." Japanese planes raided Dutch HOME ON FURLOUGH. Sgt. Andy K. Smith if Camp Forrest, Is home on a 7-day furlough.

Sergeant jSmith was recently transferred from Camp Shelby, to the Tennessee One other soldier from this section, Sgt John H. Bozell of Edinburgh also was transferred Irom Shelby to Forrest -II i Serjeant Fitch said he had never i seen the man before. Other -witnesses to the affray was able to identify him. The authori ties said they were convinced he was a stranger in Columbus ana was i possibly a Camp Atterbury worker. He disappeared after the altercation on Washington! street.

Investigating officers said the evidence they have collected shOws that Mashburn was under th- influence of liquor and that ha was resistinsr arrest at the time of the altercation, Body To Joe. iNo finding has been made by authorities 1 setting out the cause of the' intra-cranial hemorrhage Whether it was the- result of blows received in the fight or was due to some other cause has not yet been shown. William A. Conner, prosecuting, attorney, said today that- the vestigation of the case was being continued. PRICE THREE CENTS Harbor in the! Aleutians on Wed nesday, Jus if 1 1 i Underestimate Losse.

Belatedly lifting tha veil of at secrecy on the battles of Midway and Dutch Harbor, (the Japanesa command gave its first versionf of the conflicts, with its scoresheet bearing no relation! to the account of staggering Japanesa naval losses as reported by United States war The Tokyo i communique i acknowledged the loss Of onlyj a single i Japanese aircraft carrier and damage to two other 1 warships, while claiming hat two U. S. aircraft carriers and, a large transport were sunk, i i Tokyo headquarters said two U. S. aircraft carriers of tha iKn--terprise and Hornet types," each normally carrying 2.072 men and about 100 planes, were sent1 to the bottom in the battle off Midway The Uf.

S. transport was listed as sunk at Dutch 'Harbor, i I 1 Don't Claim Victory. Significantly, however, the Japanese for the, first! time did j. not claim victory- over the S. ns val forces which Tokyo many weeks ago declared were ''wiped out" I 1.

1 Other developments In the Far Pacific struggle Included: li Battle of Australia Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters announced that Allied flien had. won a lS-to-2 1 victory over Itha Japanese yesterday, registering the greatest bag of enemy- fight- ers ever reported In a single action in the Southwest Pacific! United Nations airmen also at' tacked Japanese-occupied bases In New -Guinea and Portuguese Ti mor, setting big fires, 1 DEFENDERS HOLD PORT CITY II, Extract i Huge Enemy Toll in Battle Bv the Associated Press. Adolf Hitler's field headquarter asserted today that Germanx troops had stormed deeper Into thefortl-cations of Sevastopol, last Soviet" stronghold in the Crimea, whlleHhe Russians said they had litteredjjth battlefield with 2.5001 Nazi dead li vesterdav's fighting alone, i ill Soviet dispatches said the Red armies had not yielded "a single to the. Germans although jthe flght was growings-hourly more! Intense, with the Nazis incessantly attacking by land.

and air. Red Star, the Soviet army newspaper, conceded that German infantry had penetrated to a hilly sector, where it was trying to Capture two heights, but declared that the battle generally still raged at the approaches to the city without major change. IM Today marked the sixth day, ef i furious assault by German forces which have besieged the great i Black sea naval for more than seven months, i Down 26; Plane. A Soviet communique said Sevastopol's defense batteries scattered a German Infantry regiment, killed many of its men, knocked out two dozen German tanks and 126 planes, "and checked the Nazi offensive. i i I i On the North African front, both the German and Italian communiques acknowledged that Lieut-Gen.

Nell Ritchie's 1 armies, supported by American-made tanks and planes, were heavily counter-atUcking. i I i j' i British Imperial I headquarter said an eleventh Axis assault on Bir Hacheim, southern anchor of the 50-mile British defense line, had been driven off despite the fact that German Field Marshal i Continued on page 21 re Reichsprotector yet Bohemia and Wipe Out Whole Towns. Figures of the toll-being! taken in occupied Yugoslavia rarely lira seen in print, but travelers tell Of talking to persons on trains ho offered to act as guides to villages where virtually the entire population has been wiped out because patriot j' troop! were found to have been quartered there. i. The extent ofi the resistance against the Axis in the Balkan is indicated by the Italian casualty list for May.

j. i It said 475 Italian were killed, 783 were wounded, and 28, wer' missing that month in the Balkans a loss, higher than the Italian reported from; any of the active war fronts. j' '1 i il Executions and -I long" prison term have extended even into Germany proper, covering" charge from: high treason to forging ration book coupon and listening to foreign broadcasts. 4 i RAF To Help AVG. I i Chungking, i June 10 UP -Part' of the RAF personnel which Escaped Into China jfrom BurnuM I staying in this country to take ground Job with the American volunteer group which will ibe.

absorbed in the United SUtes (Continued on page two.) is RUSS Around Sevastoppl. No. 1 137 II: 1 Conti Search; For-t yy inue Missing Naval Plane Pensacola, June i 10 UP) Navy! plane continued, searching for i.ja jitarge; Navy psctrOl plane, missing with 10 men aboard since Friday, although officers announced yesterday i the craft ls. 'presumed! post; "The (piane'l was on routine training flight from the Naval air station A' search wasii instituted when the ship failed to -return1 atf suridiown1. i The Navy "said next of.

kin of the pikjtj Ensign Malcolm! W. Bird of Pensacolav five other crewmen and fotjr; i enli st'ed stud en aboard have been no tinea, MJ? Meni DraWfFines City Court on Intoxica- lion unarges. I I I Ti Threw women who were oraerea off th (street bV ponce Monaay nieht reported at police headquart ers Tuesday; night at tne: request of the officers, Thev I were warned i that- any questionable! -activities on! Colum bus streets i in tnel luiure woum remiit i llirti! charges being i against If them. 1 Charles! Decker. 55.

i of. Co was fined $5 and costs on hi nlea of Rruiltv to a charge of public ii intoxication when arraign ed before Mayor rea uwens in citvi' court this i morning. Me was larrestea oy i jwuw ucoa-y nieht at 10:55 o'clock at Fourth and Brown streets, i ii Three men "who appeared In city court Tuesday, on intoxication charges were each lined $1 and costs. They were KoDert ts. jonn- son, 4m, or Columbus: Herschel Adams, bf a Flatrock drive, and Robert I Whitehead, 20.

near Co- 1 TWO TESTIFY IN EASTWOOD CASE Deputy Oneal and Detective Boll Before Federal I Grand Jury. 1 Two ilocal officers were In dianapolis Tuesday to testify be fore the federal grand jury in the case of Virgil Eastwood, suspected of counterfeiting. i il The local officers were Deputy Sheriff Walter Oneal and Ray mond-Boll Indiana state police 1 i ji Eastwood, i 23 years old, was arrested: March- 23 and 1 brought here 1 from Martinsville. He was later turned; over i to! thei federal authorities, i l. A search for him was begun after the authorities found counterfeiting inj- an) apartment in a farm home on sRoad 7, southeast of Columbus, which Eastwood and his 20-year-old wife, Violet, i had.

occupied: for.i several j' L-l: Eastwood and his wife left their apartment in this county and went to the home of relatives near Mar-tlnsville. They were i arrestedi there and turned over to the local authorities. 'I' Will iiauniK Mighty U. S. Cruiser Santa iFe Today Camden; N.

June 1 10 UP) The mighty new U. I S. cruiser Santa Fe, i whose keel was laid only a i year and three days ago, was readied i for launching today at the New York shipbuilding corporation yards. The christening of the great craft was planned war-time economy of ceremony. Only Navy workmen and a few guests, most of themj members of a Sante Fe, N.

Official party, were asked to attend. i "i i examined again at the end of a year. and might be called Jnto service in case of dire need. I i Dr. Davis and Hart did not learn i ofi their failure; to meet the physical requirements until I they went to Fort Harrison, expecting to be commissioned.

1 ij Answer'! CalLji I' In rallying! to the i aid of their country; i members of. the medical profession inj Columbus made an unusual i Recommendations had been 1 made that doctors 45 years and under apply for commis sions in the service, i Everv doctor 45 and under In Columbus i complied with the i iwhlch came i from i the Americal Medical association and the military. i This has not been true in many cities over i Indiana. In some of the neighboring cities ithejyounger doc tors applying i have been, jew ana far between. One nearby city with a population nearly as great as Co lumbus has had oniy one aoctor to apply.1! i.ipK I ilj fimivri! I -J Three! Columbus Dr.

E. W. Williams, Dr. George W.iMacy and Dr.i B. i K.

Zarlng have received their army commissions and brders to report for duty this month. Dr. HJ'i JJ Norton (also has re ceived commission and is waiting for his orders to report. jf- A 1 1 Tin rtholomew coun tv doc tor also! has- been commissioned. He is Dr.

Marvin Hawes of HartsvUle. thre pii GET liWARHINGS hour CAMP I PAYROLL HELPS TOPUSH RETAIL SALES Haif-million Weekly at At- terbury. Felt in Colum- i bus SOLDIER IS NEXT Further Boom in Many Lines Js! Predicted Jobs Offered. With more than a half-million dollars being! paid weekly to Camp Atterburyj workers and with Columbus payrolls fat an all- time high, this City is experiencing one I of the greatest sales booms in its 'history. And.

it appears that the boom will last as long I as merchants, pressed i by "freezes land curtaued Kproaucuon, have articles on their shelves to sell Almost everv afternoon Is Sat- urday in Columbus and the mar Jority of the merchants who are on Wed- keening their stores open nesday night, as well as Saturday night, report they "are oomg a big business. jf j- -'l ij I After the construction workers ui are gone wiji come tne suiuieia and some Army officials moving in here predict that on the basis of what has happened? in other mmn area i Columbus will nave from 4,000 )to 6,000 soiuiers in town every i weekend. I i Some of these same Army on- iciala have "expressed surprise that Columbus has not done more ift the way of preparing for the soldier i it ji $200,000 in Payroll Checks. "Why, even a shoe! shining par lor will coin money," said one of ficer. iiM 1 i 's yy At the present more than $200,000 is I going through the i local banks weekly in payroll checks of 1 those companies which have their accounts here.

Although the construction pay- roll will disappear -within a few months, it will be replaced by thousands of dollars placed in the hands of kers and bury. Already permanent ciyilian wor- soldiers at i Camp Atter- number of i Columbus people have obtained civilian Jods at the camp and manyj more are expected to4'. be i employed there when the amp gets! into full op-; eration. i i i Some men are being hired for the post; exchange stores, which serve the soldiers- inside the cantonment area; I-- 1 1 I i i Hired to Unload Other men are being, hired at the U. S.

Employment service office i here to assist in unloading supplies from freight cars at the camp. These men are being employed i by the! camp quartermas I 1 In addition to the payroll to the many civilian camp employes, many of whom probably will move Into the camp area from distant localities and need housing, thousands of dollars will go to concessions granted inside the cantonment area. Ji Part of i this money will go to coal i dealers supplying the camp, dairies which will be called upon to supply the soldiers with huge amounts iofj wholesale gro- eery houses and other wholesale houses selling to the exchange stores. i fjji': 'Mi The present sales boom in Columbus has moved into high gear tin the last i three weeks and, al though the 1 profit margin is not as large as in the past, the volume at many stores- has hit an all-time high. 1 A k- i Clothing Business Booms.

A check of the group of Colum bus stores which i are staying open on Wednesday night as well as Saturday jj night revealed that almost all the clothing stores are doing a big Wednesday night business, i which has increased on each of the three Wednesday sights thei stores have been open. However, ii a few of the other type stores in the group have not had a good response to the Wednes day night opening. i 1 i This is explained by the fact thati the, big itenis on the camp worker's list of wants are clothing and "entertainment, Business has been so: good at Franklin starting this week, stores there are staying open on Monday night as well as on Friday1 night j'V i .1 The volume of business done by four of1 the Columbus merchants who stayed open ilast Wednesday night totalled around- $2,000. if the; Best j' i.i Columbus merchants are finding the camp workers are pleasant customers and ioften buy the best items they canf find, regardless of the price. i -iH; jtl i i Many of the workers' wives shop in downtown stores during the afternoon.

They are hard to tell from any other customers ex cept the ones, from the deep South with their southern accents, i Topping the list of business in- creases owing to tne camp, are those reported by grocery stores and itaveros. Both i tavern and grocery! store business has i increased from 25 to 60 percent- since camp construction hit its full stride. All types of entertainment i Continue i ion page two.) FIGHTS WITH GUARD, HELD A Camp Atterbury worker' who allegedly' engaged In a scuffle yesterday afternoon with Roy Mink of this city, ai camp guard, taken! to the Franklin jail. The affair took place inside "the camp- grounds wnen sBiink inter- ceded in fa dispute over a pay check, i Neither of the men was I Mashburrfa body is to be sent to i (NEA Telephoto) sinks slowly as its burning cargo i ill! ROOMS APPEAL IS ISSUED HERE C. of C.

Asks Landlords to Open Quarters to Mar- ried Couples. As Army officers and other men with wives continue tq apply at the Columbus Chamber of Commerce for living quarters, an appeal was issued today for local landlords to open their rooms to working! wom en and married couples, The local Chamber of Commerce has a long list of available sleep ing, rooms for men, but most landlords are reluctant to accept women or a man and wife. i As a result, it is becoming Increasingly difficult to find places for the women and the Chamber of Commerce rental service asked today that all i persons who have listed sleeping rooms or other quarters for men only re-consider. Asked to Notify C. of Those that decide they caii accept women or a man and wife are asked to call the Chamber office as soon as possible and Inform worker there so that their cards can be revised, listing the rooms as available for either men or 'women.

"Women are as necessary to the war effort as men," Robert Seward, secertary of the Chamber of Commerce, said today, "and if It is possible to i provide rooms ifor women or men and their wives; we appeal to the people to do'iso." Rooms not only are being sought by Army officers and camp construction workers but also by people employed at local defense plants. i A number of other young women are expected to arrive in this area later this month. These women will be emnloved in the permanent of fices being set up at Camp Atter- huT-w anil manv ot tnem win neea housing facilities. Want to Brinr amines Manv of the Army officers to be stationed at Camp Atterbury want to keep their wives or families with them as long as they are in this country, i "Soon many of them will i nave in era on foreign duty." said Mr. Seward, "and it is our patriotic duty to provide all the housing facilities we can to keep tneseiiam-ilies together as long as possible." At the present time, Mr.

saewara said, local citizens are i responding in a remarkable way in maKing apartments in their homes ana providing quarters for -the jwar workers. i A number of both houses ana apartments for rent have been listed with the Chamber office in the last few days. The i houses i and apartments, xor. the most part, will be takens by Army officers who will continue to arrive; in the Atterbury area irom now on until fall. i Allied Flyers Destroy 13 Japanese Planes Allied Headquarters, Australia, June 10 UP) Japanese-occupied areas of New Guinea and Portuguese Timor.

were fired by General Douglas MacArthur's airmen yesterday and; 18 enemy fighters were destroyed or damaged In a loss of two Allied planes, a communique said todav. A deck-gun attack by a Jap anese i submarine against an! Al lied vessel off the southeast toast fnrobably In the as man jsea) was reported to have been unsuc cessful. Will Start Recruiting 1 ftt i Women Army vnicers Washington, June 10 WP) The War i department announced i to-dav that the Women's Army Aux iliary Corps would begin recruiting a limited number of officer candidates tomorrow; the aircraft warning service volunteers. i I The commanding general of; the first fighter i command will select 65 of the Volunteers in East coast states, i the department said, choosing them on the basis of demonstrated ability and leader ship, i v- iii'i i-. i I i i i QUARANTINE LIFTED The i home of Mr.

and Mrs. Roy Ei Graham i at 1636 California street i has been released from Quarantine. A daughter, Judy, has recovered from scarlet fever, Rickenbacker Says U. S. 1 Needs 200,000 Pilots I Tampa, June 10 UP) Captain Eddie Rickenbacker says the United Nations will have maintain "after the war an "aerial police force, world wide in scope, for the next two or three gener-ations." I I I The World war I ace and Eastern Air Lines executive made the prediction last night in an address at the University of Tampa, which awarded him; an doctorate ofi science.

He said the United i States air force for the current conflict "should have at least 200,000 combat pilots, 100,000 Instructorf and 3,000,000 technicians." WOMAN FORGER i STILL AT LARGE Joseohine Pollard. Who Floated Checks Here, Finds New Josephine Pollard the smoothest article engaged in the check forging racket in the midwest to- day is sought by has succeeded in ties for a month ing business. state police but eluding author! and is still do- Josephine Pollard is the woman who paid iVisiti to Columbus a month ago and succeeded in picking ut $50 in change and a free ride to Seymour. I i Then she 1 visited Franklin and obtained the tidy sum of $100 and a free ride to Indianapolis. Later she stopped off in Frankfort and left that city (with more Cash than she had when she arrived.

Poses as Trained Nurse. In Columbus and Frankfort she posed as a trained nurse. She visited the hospitals and made application for employments Then she stopped in the business districts and cashed checks, using the hospitals for reference. I At Franklin she opened negotiations for purchase of a house. She comtletd a deal and gave a $500 which proved to be worth less, as a down payment.

Then, using the relator as a reference, cashed $100 'worth of checks 1 and had him drive heij to Indianapolis, i Monday night and Tuesday she pulled the prize deal Of all. i She called at an undertaking establishment in Ohio, and told a story of. her sister having been injured in an auto accident near Terre Haute. She employed the undertaker to take her to Terre Haute to get the sister and return her to the Ohio city. Before starting she asked him tq cash a $100 check for her for expense money.

Luckily for the undertaker he did not have that much cash on hand so 'he said he! would pay the expenses on the trip. Package for! a Friend. The undertaker got out his Cadillac ambulanca and, accompanied by his wife and Josephine Pollard, started for Terre Haute. They stopped in Indianapolis Tuesday for a meal. After I the lunch Josephine said she hadj a package to leave with a friend.

She said she would be gone only a few minutes. She did not return. The undertaker notified the po lice but no trace of Josephine was. found. 1 i Detective Raymond Boll of the state police has been working on the case.

-iji. j- After the press associations carried an account of her check forging activities in this city. Detective Boll received a letter from a Lebanon, Ohio, merchant. He had read the i story, and informed 'the detective that the same woman worked the same racket in Lebanon a year ago. i He seat the officer the $25 check which he had received i in the deal.

FORMER AZALIA MAN APPOINTED Washington. June 10. UP Secretary of Agriculture Wickard has appointed D. I Nicholson deputy administrator of Rural Electrification Administration. i Nicholson is a native of Azalia, Ind and has been an assistant solicitor in the agriculture depart- ment.

13; OF 82 ARE PUT IN CLASS 1 I 1 i' 'i; Draft rJases Reviewed Yield Possibilities for Army Service. Of the 82; draft registrants questionnaires were reviewed Monday night by rthe draft board, 13 i were placed in Class 1 and will! be -called up for physical examinations at a. later date. This ratio figures at' better than one Class 1 man out of every six questionnaires reviewed by the board! or 15.8 percent. i The board went through the first 100 order numbers Monday night! as.

the start of its! plan'to review the questionnaires of all its i registrants, placing those men with I only partial dependency in Class 1, later to send them into" the Army jif they, pass" their phy sical (examinations, jr The, board also is reviewing the questionnaires and 1 making any changes in classification which have been made necessary through a Change in the 'status of the registrant since; his question- naire was first filled out. Men to Class- 1. On the basis of the first review, many! of the present Class 3A who were deferred because they assisted in supporting their parents br other relatives or whose wives were employed1; win be placed in Class. 1. The? names i ofi the mert whose cases were reviewed Monday night! have been i.

placed outside the draft loffice at the Columbus armory, but i ohly those men whose classifications were changed will he sent i notices. The men whose classifications were not changed will not be sent notices. Thei board i went through 100 questionnaires Monday night, but approximately 18 of these men already are in the Army. Of ithe 82 who are not in the Army' and whose questionnaires were jrevjeixred, 57 are in Class 3A, 13 were placed in Class 1. 7 are in Class 3B.

one is in Class 2B and are in Class 2A. The board also i- posted the names of thiree new Class 1A men, who have passed their preliminary physical fexamlnation'-i and are ready for their final exams, and the names of four who failed to first exams and were pass their placed in Class -4F. Also posted is one man in Class 1 who registered i on I Feb. 16 and will be called; up or first examination. i i Class 1A Men.

The new! Class 1A men, all three of registered on: neo. its, are Lawrence W. Malcolm T. Nugent and John t. Mills.

These three men now have' ten days Sn which to file appeals. If appeals' have not been filed at the end of that period i tney wiu oe Subject to induction. final examination and The, Feb. 16 registrant who has been placed in Class 1 and is rea-Ay for examination is Herman Theodore ii 'j. The! 13 other Class 1 meni who formerly were deferred but who were placed in Class 1 Monday night by the draft Doard are: i Roscoe Harry Williams, Delmos Whalen Holmes, Cleal Gerald Eddy, Lee Atchinson Rhoades, Lee Albert Dion, Joseph Bink Collins, Donald Cloud, Floyd Theodore Hacker, Athol Jarvis Lomax, Irvin Tnfiscrd Khune.

Warren Ardell r-iHiii Forest Ray Harris 1 and John Robert McCoy. y-j is Younsr Roosevelt Lands In London on Navy Business London, llune 10 P) The ar rival bf Lieut. I Franklin D. Roose- Velt, yr, m. business" for the United States Navy was announced today, The! President's son was a guest last night I at a party given by Rear Admiral Alan C.

Kirk, United States! naval i attache i and chief of Staff to Admiral Harold R. Stark, commander! of U. S. Naval forces in i European waters, for a group of Laiin American ijiaval officers visiting Britain. i.

SENT TO CAMP CHOWDER i JHubert L. Smith; who went out inthe May 18 draft, has been sent to Camp Crowder, Mo, where he has been atUched to Company p. 27th BatUlion, in the i replacement! I training I He! li the son 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Smith, the home of his mother, in St.

Joe, where funeral i and burial services will be held. The body has been at. the Hathaway home. The St. Joe man had been around Columbus for about a week.

His wife, Dorothy, came here two months ago to accept employment at the county hospital. She and his mother are his immediate survivors. MORE SHOWERS MAY HIT CITY -More; scattered showers were forecast 'for tonight and Thurs day in the wake of an inch rainfallVin the- 24 hours, preced- img 7 a. m. today which brought te month's total rainfall to 3.16 inches.

i Rainfall this morning was too small to measure. The mercury at 1 o'clock this afternoon stood at .82 degrees, while the low Tuesday night was 70." The "high Tuesday was 88 de- grees. The weather forecast for and Thursday is "not much change in temperature." Three Doctors Fail to Czechoslovakia Village Pass Physical Tests New York, June 10 Cff A ra- dio report from Europe today aid 'German authorities bad destroyed an entire village In Czechoslovakia after shooting all male Inhabitants and deporting the women. The report, heard by CBS, was said to have been broadcast first by the Prague radio 'and relayed through London, i I Bern, Switzerland, June 10 (P) With 275 Czechs already slain in retaliation, the Germans made known today that the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich would mark the beginning of new, sweeping punitive measures not only in dismembered Czechoslovakia but throughout all the restive occupied countries, Continuing attacks against occupation armies In the north, west and east confront Germany with a second or third front and require vigorous counter-action, distpatches from Berlin said. Prague, Paris, Amsterdam, and all Poland and Yugoslavia were regarded here as likely! to" feel first the effect of thei Increased death penalties.

"jil, Executions up to now have been averaging! ten a day irt occupied France, Czechs have been shot In groups of 25- or more at a time since the attack which took the life of Heydrich, I Gestapo hangman who became -acting Columbus sighed with relief today at that three of Its doctors who offered "their services to the Army have been turned down for to meet rigid physical requirements." The three are Doctors Marvin Davis, Robert B. Hart and Dewey D. Yoder. Dr. Hart and Dr.

Davis went to Fort Benjamin Harrison for a report on their physical examinations and were Informed they had been Dr. Yoder, who is. a veteran of the first World war, in which, as he put it, he served as a "buck private? in the rear rank," received of his rejection Sunday when he went to Fort Harrison. Shortage Already Felt. Possible i loss of these three doctors to the armed services In addition to the four local doctors who have received commissions, had led to fears of a critical shortage of doctors In Columbus.

Failure of the three to pass will go a long way toward relieving the shortage. Local doctors already are rushed and are working; from 12 to as many as .18 hours a day. Owing to the population Increase, even though no more Columbus doctors are taken into the Army, those who remain here face a tremendous load 1 in taking care of the city's sick. Dr. Yoder, who suffered a foot Injury in 1939, was told by Army doctors that he probably would be.

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