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i if i li- i' -V i I r- S-MH 'f'Jl a- A rV -f MWll'ii Evening hi i i ii i i I il 1 I'll. I 1" MM! i- iilifriilfi 7. I THE WEATHER Local thundershowers. Not Re PUBLI CAN IN I'M 1 iWlt WHICH IS COMBINED THE COLUMBUS LEDGER WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942. Stepmother in Fight for Child Mil DOTE immmi 1 1 1 1 FROM OUTS 1 i I '-I-- i- i- i IF 1 COLUMBUS, INDIANA, Mother Center bf a Chicago courtroom aw.

Mrs. Ware Dockery of Chattanooga, left, attempted to take the stepmo4her, Mrs. Florence Ware bailiffs and fled from the court with the drama of tears and struggle was 6 of Chicago, center, during custody Plans of U.S. Found on A Former Coast Guardsman Nabbed By Federal Authorities, i New vnrir. Tuiv is a or- man-born i former, merchant coast i Tne Nazl equipment, he said, in-gu'ardsmah with a fancyhame andi clude(i explosives, clothing, shovels a i loose tongue was held in and documents.

Previously it had 000 bail i today: on espionage i been learned that the Germans charges. Drought enough explosives, incen- Assistant -FBI Director P. E. diaries and fuses for a two-year Foxworth said the accused campaign of I terror on the indus-Washington Glendale SpiegelbergJ trlal front. In addition they had 35 had on his person plans of the; plans to guide them to the most B-24 typei bomber when arrested: vulnerable places, lists of contacts a Long Island bar Sunday, i i to aid them, land $176,000 in cash.

Established 1877, Vol. 65, STUDY SCHOOL SHIFTS TO MEET CAMP EFFECTS Trustees and Superintendent Prepare for Opening of Term. NO TEACHER SHORTAGE Enough Qualified Persons Believed on Reserve to Fill Needs. With school opening only seven weeks away, the township trustees of Bartholomew county are giving considerable thought to the effect of, the Camp Atterhury location in the community on the school ation. Two of the Nineveh township schools Kansas and Reccrds and the Precinct school In Union township have been abandoned because they are inside the camp area.

The Renner school of Nineveh, which is located in the Bniall area of Nineveh township not included in the will act operate. School equipment and school bus bodies of Nineveh township have 'been 'stored in the Renner building. To German Township. The few school children, probably seven or; eight, who still re-' side in Nineveh, will in all likelihood attend school next fall in German township. Remaining landowners' of Nineveh have petitioned the county to consolidate the area with German township, Estimates are that 40 grade and eight high school pupils still reside in Union township.

The grade pupils are to be cared for at the Lowell school 'and thcuhigh school students will come "to Columbus. township, all hough a small part of it is in the camp area, will operate its schools in the fall along the same line as in the past. i According io Forrest' Carmich-ael, county i superintendent of schools, the rural schools will open for the fall semester on Sept. 7. the same as Columbus.

Favor Later School Hour. The township trustees are strongly in favor of Columbus high school beginning classes at 9 o'clock in the morning instead of during the that Central War Time is in effect. A request for the later starting hour will likely be made to the city school board by the trustees. The trustees point out that with war time in i effect it would i be necessary; for many rural; chil- dren to start out "before daylight to catch busses -for Columbus high, if the time schedule is not changed. 'MM-.

Another matter receiving the attention -of the township trustees in making: 1 preparations 1 for the school opening is the teacher situation. i Although there- are some vacancies, Superintendent Carmich-aej asserted that the shortage is not serious. Some teachers have entered the service and others have taken war jobs. 40 or More, on List. As a result of survey made In the spring, i Superintendent Car-miChael has on hand, a list of between 40 and 45 persons residing in the community who are not teaching school although qualified to do so.

From this list it is expected that several of the vacancies will be filled. The two county high schools, Hope and Clifford, are without basketball coaches for the coming year. George Johnson of Hope has entered the service, and Harold Phares has resigned his position at Clifford, Superintendent Carmichael said. The. county superintendent called attention to a state regulation providing that jobs are to be kept open for.

school teachers who enter the service. Any teacher going into the serviee may obtain his job back if. he makes application within 60 days after discharge. MRS. STAFFORD PASSES AWAY Mrs.

Rosanna 75, widow of John S. died at the home a mile south of Shelby-ville on Road 9 at 2:30 o'clock Tueday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at the Lewis Creek Baptist church Thursday afternoon, at 2:30 in charge of the Rev. R. C.

McNee-ley, pastor. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Enemy Repulsed from Voronezh in Bitter USING MORE RESERVES Soviets Acknowledge Situation Still Remains Very Critical. Moscow, July 15 (JP) The Germans, stopped by a last ditch defense at the outskirts of Voronezh, have attempted Bto ehcircle the city but were repulsed on the north and hurled back on the south to the point where they crossed the Don River, Russian dispatches reported today. The Russians said that a breakthrough accomplished by large numbers of fresh German troops and hundreds of tanks supported by a heavy artillery barrage had carried, the inviders almost to the edge of the town before they were checked by jthe spirited Russian stand.

I I The dispatches did not give the location of the break-through, but it' was indicated that it occurred at the western approaches to Voronezh, iii The Russians said! that in forcing the Nazis back they recaptur ed a small railroad; crossing and in another sector applied such strong pressure that the Germans fell' back across a small bridge and destroyed it. Entire Division Depleted. The fighting described as reach ing the height of jits -fury with Germa nlosses so terrific that the third German motorized infantry division, which appeared in the battle line only yesterday, was re ported depleted and replaced by the. new 168th motorized division af a single day of combat. Invasion gains in the Voronezh area were declared to have cost Germany more than 35,000 men.

killed and wounded, in ten days, and the Soviet information bureau tacitly brought up again the issue of -establishment ofj a second front in western Europe by indicating German forces there were being weakened. "The Germans are being forced to bring up reserves, hurriedly from the rear to take the place of their units which hfeve i. been put out of action' a communique saidl "Several (divisions which arived from France and Belgium only a few days observed." Fighting about ago have been Voronezh, 300 miles i south of Moscow, was reported attended by "varying suc cesses. Soviets The situation remained grave, but a Rusisan dispatch said the Rusians summoned strength for several counterattacks and recaptured one important position west of Voronezh, together with a forest. The battle was Said to be at the height of its fury.

Without specifying the exact locality,) the information bureau said Soviet! soldiers, had repulsed' an enemy drive and followed this up with a counterattack. "After losing li tanks and; hundreds of officers and men, i the Germans were forced to i withdraw," it reported, Soviet soldiers defending the Big Bend country south of Boguchar, on the Don 130j miles below after- af series of withdrawals easteward 150 miles or so from the Kharkov sector, were reported to have stopped a regiment of Nazi infantry and wiped out more than 700 of its effectives. Governor's Youngest Son Will Enter Great Lakes Indianapolis, July 15 Henry F. Schricker said today his son, George 18, will report today to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station; as a recruit. Young Schricker was i a June high school graduate.

An older brother, Henry joined the array in January. i TELEPHONES News Room 4424 Business Office 6112' PRICE THREE; CENTS mm Although the1 Red Army counter blows in the Voronezh area were increasing in force, Soviet dispatches pointed out that thers was no reason for easy! optimism as to the city's fate. They said the Germans hourly were, sending fresh troops across the Don to develop the battle spreading out on the east bank. "The emenace is grfeat, said Pravda, ths Communist party newspaper. Descriptions of the 'battle said thousands of soldiers were fighting from behind every natural barrier and i ground obstacle; while i tanks charged over a battleground ablaze with fire and plumed with smoke.

j. 'i German; dive bombers continued attempts to break the Red Army formation, but Russian dispatches sair the Red lair force stil was showing considerable strength in the whole km valley battle area. I i BRITISH FACING CRISIS IN INDIA 1 Nationalist Party Promises. Uprising If English Rule Not Ended. Wardha, India, July li OP) (Delayed) The executive of the nationalist all India Congress has adopted a resolution agreeing to the retention of Allied I forces in India but at the price of immediate end of British rule? in India, it was reported today.

I It threatened that if Its appeal for home i rule failed it 'would bs "reluctantly compelled utilize air the non-violent strength it might have gathered since 1920," informants said. It called a meeting of ths all-India Congress committee August 7 at Bombay to give a final decision on its resolution, agreed on la final form after days of discussion the working committee ojf the Congress, or executive, denied any intention of jeopardizing the defense capacity of ths Allied powers and agreed tor the stationing; of Allied forces in India to ward off agression and protect China.f But, informants said, i then emphatically expressed the opinion, in name of the Congress, that British rule in India knust end at once. It concluded; it; was said: ''Should, however, this appeal fafl. Congress be reluctantly compelled to utilize all ths noh-violent strength it might have gathered since 1920. widespread struggle would be inevitable under the, leadership of Mohandas K.

Gandhi. To Meet Aug. "As the issues raised are most vital and most far-reaching to the people of India, as well as to ths people of the United Nsetions, and working committee refeifs them to the all-India- Congress icommittee for final decision. i "For this purpose the all-India; Congress committee will meet at Bombay August 7 'M Gandhi, spiritual of tha Nationalist movement, said at', a press conference that room now was left for negotiations wlthi Britain regarding' 1 "Either the British recognize the independence of India or not." he said. so, many otier things can happen including negotiations regarding what But, he added, a free India would begin to function) from the day British relinquished Its rule.

Gandhi would not speculate on the likelihood of British acceptance except to comment that the British were human beings and that there was thus always hope. Mass Movement. But the alternative to acceptance of nationalist he said, would be a mass movement on the widest possible scale, i although without violence and without the Continued on Dapei Our i light bombers, fighter- bombers and fighters made large scale attacks on enemy forces," said the bulletin jointly issued by the RAF and Army headquarters, i "Direct hits were scored on tanks and troop-carrying vehicles. "In one i attack on a convoy of 15, made up of armored cars, trans port vehicles and one tank, all but one of the vehicles! were de stroyed. Other! tanks were destroyed in further attacks, during) the day least four enemy aircraft and at were shot down by our fighters.

Attacks Tobruk. i i "Last, night our medium bomb--! erS attacked Tobruk in force, starting a row of red fires which later; merged into one big Are." In ji all these air thrusts, including defensive patrols-oyer Malta in which! three enemy raiders were shot down, the British said their own i losses were three planes, one of whose i pilots landed isafely. (Af dispatch! from Harry Crockett, at the. battle line! said the Germans' tried all day yesterday to crack the Australians on the northern front and wheat the Aus-sies didn't they, tried to break through the South African Hi GOES TO I WORK I IN I ARMY CAMP Full Service is Offered Offi cers! and Men in Can- tonmerit. i ELLIOTT PUT IN CHARGE 1 Several Changes in Colum bus Office Are Made As Several changes and additions jn the personnel; of the Columbus postoffice were announced today by Postmaster Clarence A.

Thompson, as a i branch of the local I postoffice went into operation at Jc amp, Atterbur-j. The postoffice opened today in the i I camp cantonment area and all types' i of servici were offered to the enlisted men and officers how stationed at the camp, WilbUrn O. Elliott, former clerk at the I local office, I has been apr pointed! acting superintendent of the I new Atterbury branch and was I atj the camp; office today; ilohg with C. F. Swaffar of Cincinnati, postal departrhent repre-i who haB been in the local 1 atea for some time, assisting I inj 1 establishing the i Army camp branch of the Columbus of fice, Li! fi i To Transfer Betty Another member of the local of fice has i been transferred to the Atterbury branch, 1 while a new employe also will go to the camp.

They Will start wprk Thursday. They are John Beatyj local car- rier, who has been to the I camp office as Owen S. Percifield of transferred clerk, and 804 Cherry street, who has been a truck op erator for the Pennsylvania railroad, and who will be assigned to the Scamp branch as a substitute! clerk, -r A Others employes will be added to the! camp branch i from the civil service! rolls as fast as they are needed, Mr. Thompson said. He estimated that from 15 to 20 clerks -will be needed at the camp when it is full of soldiers.

Addition" of the branch also is necessitating changes in the local office, which will handle all financial and other records for the Atterbury branch. 1 To Start 48-Hour Week. The Columbus postoffice will go frorri a 40-hour- week a 48-hour week 3 Saturday and postoffice em ployes Iviil no longer gfet a iweek day holiday.) ii Richaird Malloy. who has been serving as a utility i carrier, 1 hand ling the) different I routes, on the days' -other carriers were will take over Route 1 8 formerly carried by Beaty. i Arthur L.

Brown of 222 Eighth street, district manager for the Indianapolis News, is being placed pn the local office staff as a substitute clerk and wiife.be employed -full time. i Another change will be the moving; of Morris McCIihtic1 from his position i as substitute carrier to clerk 1 in the local office. 1 I Camp Atterbury mail will be picked up from each -mail I train at the Pennsylvania station in Columbus by Army trucks I and will be taken directly to the camp, where' it will be sorted by the pantip branch office and then distributed to fthe men in. the companies by the Army mail organisation. i Mi i I Mi GETS 37 BU.

TO THE ACRE Perrv 1 i Thomnsnn rk wvn township i has renorted a irflH of i or uusneis or wneat to the acre in a io-acre field which jbt threshed, A. V. Keesline coiintv acpnt revealed today. i mother high yields so far reported in the county include an estimated 40 bushels to the acre in a 5acre field which Ben i ehmeier combined in Columbus trwnship. i To date, the iunusuailjf low yields have fajri outnumbered the better than average yields, Mr.

Keesling said, arJ I many insurance claims are i peigj paid onl i wheat at the present time. -number of farmers have re ported fields ef only 5 bushels to the acre 2,500 Pound Bell Sought For Scrap Metal Drive ii New Albany, IndL, July 15 (IF) City Attorney Kirke H. Field yes- terday ed a replevin suit in: mag-court against! Marshall istrate Smith, sesS la curio collector, to Tepos- fire bell Which city! the! offjic ials plan to donate to scrap metal was placed in Smith's The bell custody by i the city council in 193S after its removal from a fire stati on. The city claims i that unaer it can time.t provisions of an ordnance regain possession at I any The hell! was cast in flrei company. 1852 for a and icon- volunteer tains the metal i of 3,300 silver dollars contributed by citizens to improve its tone.

INCREASE STATE AID TO TEACHERS TO S800 I Indianapolis, July 15, tTV-The state board of finance jvoted unanimously today to increase from to $800 the annual state aid for each teacher tn Indiana, i The board i consists of Richard James, jstate auditor, James Giv. ens, I state treasurer, and Gover- nor Schricker. y- i M. Local school officials mar ao- ply the increase to teachers' salaries oil may reduce contribution of the focal funds toward teach POSTAL BRANCH No. 166.

hi MUMjp By Trooper I A Bartholomew circuit court jury this afternoon returned a verdict in lavpr? ox vrrei Tafflineer. state policeman. the defendant In a $10,000 dam- age suit, T1i auiif hi- I went to ithel jury at o'clock and i the verdict was announced later. iemi than an ii hour' i in tne suit 10,000 damages hv. I.Tnseoh I II.

were sought ailegod falsef TRUCK COMPANY MOVES TO CAMP Will Assist! Mobiiizitiori for Quarters ii Demand ues A truck! com'paay, believed in. -4--: 1' thaal'oO Army trucks, elude more moved north pn! Road 31 to Camp Atterbury this) lj Two colored soldiers were in each of the trucks in the convoy, which ulso included a few jeeps. I The truck conjpany will assist witn moDiuzation; 01 me xxoops coming into the; itew camp, ii More officers are arriving sit the camp daily (and five i officers' messes are operating the pres ent lime. 1 --j i Requests fori living quirters I through i the i local Chamber of 1 Commerce office slowed dcwn; some today after 1 a big rush Tuesday, but the demand is stir i many times greater than the available rentals. I The rental service has practical ly, reached the ibottom its list of modern rentals and one Apartment listed 1 this i was reported rented 15 5 minutes 1 after it reached! the market.

The Chamber office; has several rural noni-modernl quarters for rent, but ofj the fofficerr andi noncommissioned! officers seeking houses and apartments fear their auto tires wil. nt last and jwant to be located where there will be bus service to and from the camp. AMERICAN HERO DAY PLANS MADE I I il J. 1 i' 1 1 Homer Percifield to Speak at Ceremony Here; Friday5 Ii Homer I (Red)' Percifield, member of the crew of the 1 U. S.

cruiser Marblehe.ad, be the principal speaker' at the American Heroes day lobservance to be conducted atj 8: "o'clock Friday night at I the I War bond display west of the city hall, i Honor (jwill be paid i Columbus's sons missing fn action in the war, and the War( bond thermometer will be formally dedicated. 1 Corp. Ray jW 1 Sgt Albert It, Weibeli chief machinists mate, Richard A. Regan and Frank Sachleben, members of Uncle Sam's fighting forces: who have beeto listed jas missing will be hohoritd at the observance. Expect rowd of Ray Hendersons whd I headki the committed in chifget of 1 a -aJ i iJu menw ior program, saiu short and Bnappy program Is ing prepared I an4 efforts ajrie be-be- ling made to have 1 a crowa 01 up- wards of ance.

I 1,000 persons 4 irt attend- -fd 1 Members of the local American Heroes committee are MrJ I Henderson, chalrmaq, Marshall, Armstrong, A. H.f Parker, William H. Dobbins, Miss Murray, Mrs. Edwin Crbiich, Mayor 1 Fred C. Owens, Edwin S.

Anderson and' "Vernon Meyer, The War bond poster display and thermometer i was erected with volunteer help and the materials were furnished by a -number pf local i concerns, (' With the thermometer the per centage of the monthly war i bond quota for Bartholomew cbunty inai nas been reached will be shown weekly. ft Will Station Detachment of Soldiers at Evansville i IndM July 15 (iP) A detachmeht of soldiers from Camil BrecitenHdge Ini I Kentucky will Ibeji stationed In Evansville permanently! after Aug. 1, Police. Chief Norman Hooei said yesterday. I Ii I i 1 i-; third, $1 fo 25c; sixth.

25dy Hl -It'-i! hi. bicycle parade.j all be i decorated-i-flrst. Patriotic bikes must seeon li fourth, 50c; mm, aoc; sixtn zoc. Pony race, lap around track first, second, $1-50; Ihlrd, $1. 3' 1 Bpys foot race, See 1 8 to! 11 first, i ii second 50c; thirdj 25c.

Boys foot age 12 to; 14 first, 1 thirdJ 25c Girls foot! taci, i age 8 i 103-first, $1: secondi 50c; 25c Girls foot race age 11 andj 12 ttrst, second, 50c; third 25c Boys pie eating contest-f-flrst; 75c second, 50c I 25c i Girls watermelon eating contest first, 75c; second, 50c; third; 25c Sack race tor 14-H members first, $1 second.1 50c; third, i 25c. i with, mosff tf reckles 51. i-Girl with 1 most freckles $1. i year old Bobbyi Ware. His mother, boy from his father, right, and suit.

Later the stepmother eluded boy. jr i Bombers Are ccused Agen display before the military court. Maj. Gen. Frank R.

McCoy, president of thej military commission said in his evening statement yesterday that the proceeding was "expected to continue for several days." MM i DEPUTY SHERIFF BARROWS QUITS Resigns Place on Sheriff's Staff to Take Job at Atterbury. -L- ji; 1 Lowell Barrows, who has served as a deputy sheriff in Bartholomew county the i last sixt months, submitted his resignation i to Sheriff Elmer H. Nolting Tuesday. Barrows resigned to accept a position, at one of the post exchanges at Camp Atterbury. Milt is understood his work at the camp will be the management of a delicatessen in one of the exchanges.

ii Barrows was -added to the sheriff's staff early this year when the commissioners made' ii available funds for the employment of additional deputies. Prior, to that, he operated a store in Tiaylorsville. He recently sold his farm in German township but continued to reside in Taylrsville Sheriff Nolting said I that no art- rangements had been tnade fof tne vacancy. Former President of Argentina is Dead Buenos Aires, July 15 UP) Former President Roberto; M. Ortiz of Argentina, who resigned his post June 24 after being inactive for nearly two years; because of ill health and near blindness, died today.

He had received extreme unction early this morning from Bishop Temnos Miguel de Andrea. Ortiz, who iwas 55, had suffered from diabeites for several years and his condition became serious yesterday after an attack of bronchial His condition was further complicated by a kidney ailment, it was said. G. 0. P.

Seeks Reduction in State Property Tax Indianapolis, July 15 UP) Two Republicans who hold the balance cf power onii the state, board of finance announced yesterday they would seek ja reduction of one cent and possibly two in the state property tax rate. State auditor Richard T. James and state treasurer James- T. Giv-ens joined in; the announcement that they would recommend the reduction which if two cents- would bring the property tax rate to 12 cents on each $100 of taxable property, the lowest figure since 1900. i DRAFT BOARD OFFICIAL ENLISTS IN NAVY Portland, July1 OP) A draft board official preferred flght- imst rt.r thn ndinf others to do it.

After having signed up hundreds of draftees fpi military service, Carl Heringj Jefferson county draft board chairman, drafted himself recently intoj the Navy not the Army. mH; 'Tve always wanted to enlist In the Navy and besides lone gets tired of seeing others always leav4 ing for the big sboW.f paid Hering in his resignation letter. SAWMUX HIRES WiOMEX. Toledo, July J5 i (IP) Two women have been employed attha sawmill plant; here. If they can handle the jobs, as many as 60 may be put to work.

NOT PERTURBED BY OIL FREEZE Road and Street Officials 1 i Here Little Worried iii jlfy Ruling. Despite the fact that ah order "freezing" road oil has been issued by. the federal government, city and fcounty'street and highway officials here are not especially jpertjurbed by; the situation. Kenneth! Jackson, county highway superintendent, stated- that by July 22, the last date onwhich materials "ion hand may be used, between 75 and 80 percent of the county's blacktop road program for 1942 will be completed. Charles Quinn, city street commissioner, i asserted that in his opinion the city would still be able to get oil and asphalt despite the f'freeze." The only change will, be the necessity; of going through a lot of formalities and securing approval from i the Indiana i state highway commission and i the Bureau of Public Roads.

5 Carloads on Way. Jackson ii stated that the county highway, department now has five carloads of road i oil on the way here. This material will be used in finishine: the surfacing of the Easl Trinity I road and a strip of the' Burnsjvilie pike between -the Road 31 biy-pasa fand Road 7. He expressed belief that this work finished by July 22. would be After the work is finished next week, he stated i that it is not any new blacktop will likely that be put down the county this year, Regulations governing the use of road oil by cities and counties is understood to; be largely due to the transportation problem rather thah a shortage of The country's asphalt supply is said ito be abundant.

Jackson jj stated I it was his un-derstanding that; new road building projects would be confined exclusively to defense roads. rM All Out Every Member of Pryor Family in Service of Uncle I Sam. The enfJre Joe Pryor family of Hope (father, mother and two sons-4-ar (now working for Uncle Sam.l jj: Last year Noble Pryor enlisted in the Navy and i just recently Mr. Pryott and son, joined the CoastjitJuardM i. Th farriily went all cut for the government Monday when Mrs.

Pryor became i Bartholomew county's Jjone female mail taking over her husband's route! at Hope. Noble, ho is 1 a seaman, sec-ond-class, left Tuesday to rejoin his, ship, jthe U. S. S. Indiana, which i wis launched last November ai Norfolk, in a ceremony i attended by Gov.

Henry Schricker and other prominent Hoosiers. Mrj Pryor and Bill have not received their Cfoast Guard as-signmentsj i The i Prjyors ihoved to 1 Hope last winter froni Nashville. Advance Bookings So'- that more Camp Atterbury families may be accommodated, the rental servicp department of the Chamber of Commerce asked today that persons with' houses orj apartments now rented to camp construction workers please notify the department now of yhen the quarters will be vacant. If notified in- advance of when theltroperty will be available, renftal service attaches pointed out, the office will be able to tent the property for occupancy at a i future date, thus; taking care of some of the many families which are now i seeking illvmg xacuiues In Detroit, where he was known: as plain. Alex Spiegelberg, a.

part-; ner in the Donelly Engineering; Corporation, said last night that; the spy suspect "had full access to! all drawings" of the four-engine; bdmber, manufactured by Ford; during his employment as a process engineer with the Donelly firm for the first four months of this year. 1 The Donelly official, Alex Sob-! pdpski, said Spiegelberg spent his entire time there Jn work; on the Ford bomber plant machinery and "was in between Ford and us and had full access to all drawings and everything else." Soldier Gives Tip. The prisoner, born in Berlin while his father was in the TJ.i Si consular service and therefore an American 1 i citizen, was found in possession of 18 plans, diagrams, drawings or blueprints of essential bomber parts when seized i in Hempstead, N. drinking place on the tip of an army corporal who overheard him talking about them, Foxworth said. The FBI said Spiegelberg was a fisherman, miner and sailor in Alaska from 1929 to 1935.

He enlisted in the coast guard in! 1928, Foxworth said, but was ousted the same vear when the government found he had beeh convicted of passing a $95 bogus check in Los Angeles the previous vear althoiitrVi hfi Viari "sworn i he had no criminal record. Trial Continues. i July 15 UP) Trial of i eight Nazis accused of landing from submarines to sabotage American war production proceed-ed! today with their equipment oh General Court-Martial For U. S. Naval Officer San Francisco, July 15 UP)--General court-martial will be for Maurice N.

Aroff, U. S. N. through whose hands passed i scores of applications for N-vy commissions in this area. An announcement yesterday frim Vicet Admiral J.

W. Greenf- slade, i commandant of the 12ths Nival district, said Aroff would bei tried on these four charges: "1 Scandalous conduct tending to the destruction of good morals. ''2 Conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline. 3 Violation of a lawful regulation issued by the secretary of the Navy, i i "4 Falsehood." May Use Indianapolis For Emergency Hospitals Indianapolis, July 15. (IF) The Army is making a survey of Inr dianapolis hotel facilities, officials announced yesterday.

It was pointed out, however, that no i move to take over the private establishments soon was expected. The survey is being made merely to furnish the Army with statistics on quarters available in case or an emergency. 1 jmrormauon sougnt; concerned converting i some of the hotels into emergency hospitals or billets. Believe Italy Completes Battleship London, i July 15 UP) Official British circles said today the Italians possibly had completed the battleship Roma, on which work was started June 12, 1940, but it; was very doubtful that a jsistership, the Impero, was in commission. A Stockholm dispatch said both vessels had joined the Italian Mediterranean fleet, The British circles said this report might have been planted by the Germans.

I i British Withstand TTiird Successive Nazi Assault Children 's Day Contests For Fair Are Announced Cairo, July 15 UP) An Axis attack on Tel El Eisa with tanks and infantry, the' third successive enemy; assault in the British-held height; in Egyptfs corridor battle zone, was, launched at dusk yes terday and lasted into -the pight, British headquarters announced today. (Rome reported strong British reconnaissance units were repulsed eastward in the southern sector of the Egyptian front.) Again the RAF played a major part in the fighting, destroying some Axis tanks and sending its medium bombers; back "in force" against Tobruk last night, the bulletin said. While the heavy clash of ground forces occurred jin the north, on the coastal end of the line, patrols and columns fought minor actions further Inland ih the central and southern sectors of the front between the Mediterranean and 1 the Qattara depression some 70 miles west of Alexandria. Pound Nazi Vehicles. The communique did not indicate the outcome of any of these engagements but said the RAF still! was dealing the Axis heavy blows i to their hard-to-replace mechanized and armored equip- ment.

With arrangements for! the annual Bartholomew county fair, whch opens Sunday near completion, plans were announced today for 'the children's day activities on MTuesday.U F. M. Overstreet i secretary of the fair, stated today that, following the annual custom, Tuesday would be- children's day i and all boys and girls 14 and under would be admitted A children's day program, to he held at 2:30 in the afternoon in front of the grandstand, will consist of a number of contests and events. All prizes will be In War savings stamps and all children of the city and I county "are invited to take part and compete for the attractive awards. The list of events 'and the War stamp awards are as follows: Pet parade, any kind of pet eligible first, $Z50; second, 410; ers' wages, ii iMMO- 4-fe.