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TEH THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE AUGUST 3 1942 From the Tribune Area Civilian Defense Calendar INTERIOR OF NEW CURTISS COMMANDO Peru Peru Railroad Machinist Found Gravely Injured Three Others Hurt In Auto Accidents i Peru municipal airport, -will i paid back J1S7.50 which he had I paid the city of Peru for lease of the property for part of th i year, it -was announced by the city Soard of works. On 1, the city turned the airport I leases over to the United States Navy for use as an auxiliary land! ing field in connection with Peru jJJaval P.eserve Aviation Ease. Mr. RuzicV.a is now manager of Kokomo airport. Tipton isia.se ui.

County Four-H Club Fair To Open Monday Reports Cash Stolen Omer Whybrew, route 5, reported; to city police late night that' Peru. Aug. 2. (Tribune 12 in currency was stolen from the; Three-Day Event Scheduled at Park Tipton, Aug. 2 fTribune unconscious at the S' ove compartment of his Specis.1) --Girl's and boys of bottom ol an engine pit in the bile while it was parked near a con-; Tipcon county Four-H clubs ound- fectionary at the corner of Main begin the; will! Monday, August 3 Auxiliary Police, technical train-' ing, third meeting, 7 p.

Police! 'courtroom, city building. Instructor, 1 Swope, i Dejinonstration and sound pictures Fighting Fire Bombs, 7:30 p. i Roosevelt school. Tuesday, August 4 Air Raid Wardens, technical: training, third meeting, 7 p. i r.ciuncil chambers, city building.

i Rescue Squad, technica.1 i third meeting, 7 p. Room 310, school building. I Demonstration and sound picture Fighting- Fire Bombs, 7:30 p. Studebaker park. Wednesday, August 5 I First aid instructions, ttoird meet-i Chesapeake Ohio railway round- lecuonary at tne corner of Main De gin the annual exhibition of their ing, 7 p.

Washington house shortly before noon an streets. The lock on the farm products at Tipton park Mon-1 Demonstration and sound picture Carl Durkes, 43, 252 West was forced open, ne day. The three-day event will open 1 on Fighting Fire Bombs, 7:30 street, machinist in the railway'sjsaid. employe, was reported in a -serious condition in Wabash Railway pioyes' hospital here tonight. He Uiin 1Ui had not regained consciousness early Ibis evening, and was under treatment for head injuries and a fractured left wrist.

Fellow employes found the unconscious man, who was taken to the hospital in the Drake ambulance. it was presumed that he had stumbled into the pit accidentally, William Hines, 69, 312 West Seventh street, was injured at o'clock last night when struck byj an automobile while walking across West Main street Grant street.I He was taken in the Alien amhu-1 lance to ZJuke's Metnoria 1 i where he remained toni treatment; for head injuries and an injured shoulder and knee. He was unconscious when picked up, hut later revived, and it was not be- i girls' exhibits of clothing, can-jMcKinley school. ning and room-improvement Mon-j Baking and food-preparation exhibits follow on Th 5 Alr Raid Wardens, technical, Two Are Injured In Aulo Accident Near Frankfort Kirklin, Lebanon, Men in Hospital Frankfort, Aug. Aug.

2- a Judging of clothing will be Monday traral fourth 7 p. afternoon, baking and foo i-prepara. tion Tuesday and m.nt and canning Wednesday. council chambers, city building. room-improve- Re cue uad technical i fourth meeting, 7 p.

Room 310, I high scjioDii builiiinsr Boys' products, except colts, will Demonstration and sound picture go on display Tuesday, at a on Fightinff Fire Bombs 7:30 southeast of the auditorium hool will be judged by B. E. Fultz, of Rensselaer. These include Iambs, August 7 hogs, garden products and poultry. I First aid instructions, fourth Beet and dairy cattle and colts will i meeting, 7p.

Washington school, be judged Wednesday. Prizes will! demonstration and sound picture paid in war stamps unless on Fightling Fire Bombs, 7:30 p. ners insist on cash. Sorners park. Oakford Man Hurt At Swimming Pool Frank May.

S3, Oakford, was admitted at St. Joseph hospital Sunday afternoon with two fractured vertebrae after he was revived from near-drowning at Seashore swimming pool. May suffered the injury to the small of his back as he s'lid down a slide, police officials were informed, and was dragged from water by life guards who came to bis rescue when he was unable to swim. The city first aid crew responded to an alarm, and after firemen and life guards revived the victim, removed him to the hospital, whore X-rays showed the fractured bones. Last Veteran Dies Craw-Eordsville, Aug.

Funeral services will be held hero tomorrow for Dr. Edward H. Cowan, surgeon-general of the Grand Army of the Republic who died Saturday in Dallas, at the home of a daughter. Montgomery county's last Civil War veteran, Dr. Cowan was 95.

Girl a i a I Aug. 2-- Special)-Samuel te V- Kirklin, route 1, and Walt-, er Richcy, 62, Lebanon, route 5, arej scheduled park pavilion champions from the six For (urt her information call 27142 townships of the county will com! pete in the dress revue which is William B. Fisher, route 1, Sharpsville, reported to city police as having, beer, the driver of the car which struck Hinca, saying the man stepped directly into the path of the vehicle. Fisher was not held. Two.

Mrs. Vera Hcrrell, 27, 128 East Second street, and her daughter, Penelope Jane. 2, were treated ut a physician's office after Mrs. Heri-ell's car figured in a collision at tho corner of Main and Wabash streets at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. 'Police said they apparently suffered no Injuries of consequer.ee.

The driver of the other car, Everett Earl Fessler, 51, of Columbus, who escaped Injury, was detained for questioning by city police, but later released without charge. Joseph C. Haste, 46, 32 West Warren street, faced a charge ol driving an automobile while intoxicated, tvfter having been arrested by stalo- police. He was reported released on bond pending arraignment In city court. William G.

Davis, 43. route 4, and Clarence F. Lomand, 49, of Fort Wayne, forfeited cash bonds of $1 each In city court yesterday when they failed to appear for arraignment on charges of Calling to have a driver's license and speeding, respectively. carcinoma. Mrs.

i in 1907 from where she was born Feb. IS, 1877. She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church and the Women of the Moose. Surviving are tho husband, two daughters, Mrs.

Hazel Faucctt of Kirklin and Mrs. Ruth Obermiller of this city; a son, Charles Bacon of Crawfordsville; two sisters, Mrs. Hattie Barfel! of Attica and Mrs. Louise Bell of Lafayette and a brother, Harley Harrington of Danat her home at 7 o'clock this morn- vlUe 1U ing. Funeral services will be con- Funeral services will be held ducted In the Allen funeral home, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in War Hero's Slater Dies Mrs.

Louise Finn, 52. wife of Stephen P. Finn, 60 East. Main street, died suddenly of block the treatment of injuries which they suffered when their automobile and a 4,000 gallon gas tank truck sideswiped on state road 39, Friday night. Doughtey and Richey, driving to their homes, were traveling south when they mot the large truck, go- Ing- north, a short distance south Woman Token to Home Mrs, James Cummings, South Bend, who was rescued from the storm Thursday morning while she was about half-conscious at the roadside on state highway 31, was returned to her home by her brother and brother-in-law late Fri- of the Hay Boycr farm, a few day night, Sheriff Burl Lilly said.

miles south of the Frankfort city limits. In attempting to avoid the crash, the truck driver, Lyman Mayville of New Harmony, turned sharply and ran off the highway and more than 100 feet into a corn Both men suffered numerous cuts about tho head and face, with Richcy being the more seriously injured of the two. Grace Clifford Dies Mrs. Grace Harrington Clifford, 65, wife of Timothy Clifford, 450 North Jackson street, died in the hospital here Saturday noon after Lilly said that the woman objected as strenuously to leaving the jail as she did to entering it and departed without volunteering any information that would solve the mystery of her strange-presence at the roadside, prostrate during one of the worst storms of the year. at Indiana university must pass a merit examination, the university announced Monday.

Starting salaries for the majority of secretarial, stenographic or clerical positions range from $70 to $100 per month with the possibility of promotion for a few up to 5150 per month. The minimum requirement -or stenographic and clerical is graduation from EOI accredited high school with a major in the field of business education or its equivalent in specialized training Wines Made Stiitc Detective Kenneth A. Wines, state policeman of this county for th(! past six and a half years, has been made a state detective with headquarters at the Pendleton barracks. Wines was notified of his promotion Saturday, following a meeting of the an illness of months with state police board Thursday. His promotion was earned through coin- came to this city petition with 64 other members of Fountain county the state force at an examination held at Indianapolis three weeks ago.

68 East Third street, at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. W. Herbert Drake, pastor of Adams A Wesleyan Methodist church, will officiate and interment will be in Mt. Hope cemetery here, Tho deceased was a sister of Edward C.

G. Gaffrey, who was the first Miami county soldier to be killed during World War I. He met death In France, July 25, MIS. Tho surviving husband is an official at Hialcah rare track, Miami, during the winter season. They were married in November, 1033.

Surviving also the mother, Mrs. Julia Gaffrey, and a brother and sister, Mrs. Lloyd Ray and William Gaffrey all of Pern. Born in Peru, April IB, 1890, the deceased was a daughter of the late Gustave Gaffrey. Mrs.

Charles Ernest Dies Mrs. Susa Mae Ernest, 65, wife of Ernest, 18 Ridgeview, died of paralysis at Dukes Memorial hospital here yesterday afternoon. Funeral services wil! be conducted in the residence at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. Father R.

D. Taylor, retiring rector of Trinity Episcopal church, will officiate and interment will be in Mt. Hope cemetery here. The body was taken to tho Hammond- Moeck funeral home, whence it was returned this afternoon to the late residence, to remain there until after the services. Survivors include the husband who -is a Wabash railway locomotive engineer, and two sons, Edgar Ernest and Clelean Cronninger, both, of Toledo.

Surviving also are two brothers, Clarence Cronninger, of Butler, and Charles Cronninger, of Elkhart, together with seven grandchildren. Born in De Kalb county, Jan. 1, 1877, the deceased and. the surviving husband were married June 4, 1901. She had lived here since 1900, and was a member of the Methodist church and the Ladies Axixiliary to the Brotherhood- of Locomotive Engineers.

Cashlus Clay Dies at Mlcr. Cashius M. Clay, 75, died of heart disease today at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Nancy Hullinger, at Mier, in Grant county. Survivors include the daughter, a sister, Mrs.

Millie Ann Burgncr, of Lafontaine, and four grandchildren. Funeral arrangements had not been completed tonight. Postmaster for Denver. The town of Denver, nine miles northeast of Peru in Miami county, has been scheduled for a third-class postoffice, it was announced yesterday. Applications are being sought for the job of postmaster, which will pay $1400 a year.

A part-time postoffice has been operated In the E. R. Long store, with Mr. Long in charge. He has served on a part-time basis for 19 years.

Buzicka Money Back John Kuzicka, former manager At his new job, "Wines be one of two detectives serving the 11 counties under the control of the Pendleton barracks and will be one I.U. to Hold Merit Exams for Workers persons who al, stenographic, wish secretar- clerical work United States infantrymen occupy specially designed scats alongside mobile equipment in new mndo transports being built by Curttsf-Wright to shuttle soldiers, jeeps, field artillery, and supplies Comma to battle zones. This photo, retouched by order of war department, "is first of its unproved for publication. Delphi Third of Delphi H.S. Graduates Plan Advanced Training; More Join Navy Delphi, Aug.

2. (Ti-ibune Special)--Nearly a. third of tho 1942 graduates of the Delphi high school are planning to enter schools for advanced training this fall. Several of a seven pound daughter, born have applied for ratings; in the naval reserve, and a few boys are reported to be undergoing tests for admission into the naval air corps. Several of the class are taking N.Y.A.

defense training with a view toward entering the armed forces as specialists. Three girls are to begin nurse's training this fall. One boy, Eran Julisn, has already joined the army. Others of the class have and experience. The minimum rei "found employment in neighboring fiuiremcnt for secretarial positions is college graduation or its equivalent.

If you wish to take the examination, please follow on the alternatives below on or before the day of the examination. Admission for the examination be by card. 1. Fill out an application form at the personnel division, Room 60, Administration building, Indiana university campus. Blootnington, and you admission.

be given a card of 2. Write the letter giving personnel division brief resume of of 24 detectives of the sta.te police mailed to you. your education and experience. A card of admission will then be force. He will retain his home here where he began his career after serving a few months in Grant county.

He was appointed state policeman in 1835. It has not been nn application You may fill out form immediately succeed him the Goodwin chapel with the Rev. W. B. Hordeman of St.

Mary's church officiating. Burial will be in Bunnell cemetery. before or after the examination. A small picture of you taken the last two years is required. 2 Persons Injured In Auto Collision Clifford Talbert, 53,: and his half sister, Grace Waits, 49, both living nails where they in at South Lafontaine street, were taken to the St.

Joseph hos- announced who will here as patrolman. Bartender Leaves TOWIII George Messenger, 49, bartender, who was accused of scattering roof- ture automobile tires, has left town Fourth Doctor Called to Army. at the invitation of Judge Frank Dr. William W. Jones, Frankfort B.

Russell with the promise of physician, has been commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the Army and will report for active duty Monday, Aug. 10, at Arlington, Texas. Dr. Jones is the fourth Frankfort physician to be called for service with the Army, the others being Drs. Bruce Work, T.

A. Duykhuizen and George Hammersley. Ueut. JTrankenfield Recovers. Lieut, Emerson Frankenfield, formerly of this city been confined to a suffering a broken and who has hospital after back Jan.

13, has been released from the hospital and ordered to active flying duty at Naper Field near Dothan, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Frankenfield of South Main street are parents of the flyer. Mrs.

Crain Leaves Hospital. Mrs. Harry L. Crain, who for the past six weeks has been a patient in the hospital here for treatment of a fractured hip, was removed Saturday evening in the Goodwin ambulance to the manse on West Clinton street. making his absence permanent.

After two weeks in jail, following his arrest for the alleged attempt to puncture the tires on Mrs. Laura Padgett's car, Messenger was arraigned before Judge Russell and given his choice of leaving town or accepting trial on the charges against him. Messenger chose the former but the been dismissed claim they will returns. ital Sunday evening for treatment of injuries received in an automobile accident at the intersection of Pumpkinvine pike and the Isaak Walton road, southeast of Kokomo. Talbert was thought to have suffered some fractured ribs and received an injury to his leg, while Miss Waits had a severe cut above the right eye.

They were taken arrest him if he charges have "Vioti to the hospital in the S. C. Moore and authorities! ambulance. Occupants of the other car which figured in the collision with the Talbert car were Ray Herr, Kokomo route Mary Green, 30, and Anna Green, 11, who live in Apt. Gateway Gardens.

The latter was the only one requiring first aid. Sheriff George Scott and Ray Bergman, deputy sheriff, investigated the accident. Attempt Safety Record Terre Haute, Aug. drive to extend the present safety record of 4,255,277 work hours without a lost-time accident beyond the accepted championship seven million hours total will launched this week at the Wabash river ordnance plant. 'GHOST' KILLER Surgeon General Of Grand Army Dies Crawfordsville, Aug.

2. --Dr. Edward H. Cowan, 95, surgeon-general of- the Grand Army of the Republic, died last night at tho home of a daughter, Mrs. Lewis B.

Ferguson, at Dallas, Texas. Dr. Cowan, who was Montgomery county's last Civil War veteran, had been in ill health for a year. He had wintered in Texas as had-for the past 20 years, but did not return to his home in Crawfordsville this spring as was his custom. Funeral services will be held in the chapel at Wabash college Tuesday morning.

At Vs request, American Legion members will have charge of the services. Dr. Cowan was born at Frankfort. and was the son of John Msv- well Cowan, who -was said to have been the first white child born in Indianapolis, Training Plane Downed Richmond, Aug. 3--(UP)--D.

L. Forbet of Romulus, was treated at a hospital here Sunday for injuries received when the small army training plane he was piloting made a forced landing southeast of the city. Enroute to Patterson Field, the plane narrowly missed two houses. Continue Fellowships Bloomington, Aug. 3 --Exchange fellowships -with Latin American schools will be continued through the academic year of 1912-43, Indiana University and the Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs have announced.

Mathew Cornish, 59, after admitting 'the slaying of Philip Peters, 73, in Denver, and hiding- for nine months after slaying in the attic of the victim's home, raiding neighbors' homes at night for food. NEA Telephoto). Playground to Have 'Big 'Circus' Friday "Hey, Skinnay! The elephants are coming! The biggest, most colossal circus is coming!" All the city playgrounds are observing "Under the Big Top" week, beginning Monday, under the direction of the Kokomo recreation department. The week's program includes a parade Friday afternoon and a circus Friday night at Kautz Field. There will be "well groomed" animals and special entertaining acts.

Stories, poems, posters and every other playground activity in each club will have "circus" as a theme throughout the week. RADIO PROGRAM 8:00 Amos 'n' Andy, Wbbm. Pleasure Time. Wlw. Maior Hoople.

"Wenr. ol the World. Wiuao. Charro Gil Trio. Wbbm.

Sports. Wan. 6:30 Vausrhn Monroe'a Orch. Wjr. Melodies at Suneet.

Wlw. News. Wowo. V. KilMnbora, newt.

Wraaq. TiOO'Cal Tinnw. WEB. Vor Pop. Wbbm.

Cavalcade of America. Wtnaq. Earl Goodwin news. Wowo NinetSeo Kevue. Wbbm.

True or False. WIs. Lew Diamond's Orch. Wgn. The Teleohone Hour.

Wmaq. Heatter. Wen. Victory Theater. Wbbm.

8:30 National Radio Forum. Wenr. Dr. I. Q.

Wmaa. 9:05 Contented Hour. Wmag. Norman Corwin Series. Wbbm.

Gram Swing. Wen. Beatty, nen-a. Wowo. Counter Soy.

Woiso. 9:30 Vaughn Monroe's Orch. Wbbm. Music That Endures. Yto.

Lands of the Free. Wmaa. 11:45 Whafn New in Wenl. 10:00 Fred Warine. Wmaq.

Wlw. U. S. Marine Program, Wowo. Wffn.

10 :45 Johnny Orch. Wjr. 11 :00 Doc Wheeler's Orch. Wowo. Art Orcb, Wen.

Birth-Bogn rd us Capitain ana Mrs. F. S. Bogarclus of Alexandria, are the -parents Study Bus Restrictions Indianapolis, Aug. diana Railroad employes at Richmond, Fort Wayne, Anderson and Indianapolis will hold a series of meetings this week and next to study new wartime restrictions on bug operations.

defense plants, on farms or in business houses. Students granted admission to Indiana University J'or the term opening Sept. 3 are Esther Beeke, Carl Shaeffer, Mary Clawson and Mai'y Lee Zinn. William Little is already attending Purdue, and Gene Lowe is in training there in the civil service radio school. Margaret Ramey is to inter Purdue Aug.

20, and Robert Balser is still undecided between Purdue and Northwestern. Norma Adams is to begin study Is as a doctor's technical assistant in I South Bend. Mary Messick enter nm-se's training, as will Betty McKinley. Those who intend to take work at business colleges are Doris Clawson, Phyllis Craig, Betty Ci-ipe, Roberta Shaffer and Joan Sieber. Jerome Parker lias been admitted to Wabash College, and Howard McCain to Franklin College.

Marion Hathaway and Elizabeth Smock will go to DePauw University. Mary Jean Hildebrandt will attend the Evanston Collegiate Institute. One boy, Don Crowden, intends to enter the marines, and boys attending N.Y.A. school in South Bend, Carl Spear, Keith Coble and James Shaffer, are applying for admission to the naval reserve. July 27.

Mrs. Bogardus is the former Joyce EikenbeiTy Flora. To Demolish. Bridge Bedford, Aug. of an old bridge spanning White river south of here was scheduled to begin today and County Auditor Donald Smith es- tims.ted that nearly 100,000 pounds of siteel would be salvaged from the structure which served travelers from 1878 to 1930.

400 Enter Marines. Indianapolis, Aug. Ralph E. Boulton, in charge of marine enlistments for Indiana, has announced that the state enrolled 400 "leathernecks" during July, the figure since Pearl Harbor. Dies Of Industrial Injury Fort Wayne, Aug.

Xlf.R)-- Stoyan Koshcrko, 47, Wayne, died a hospital herp yesterday of injuries suffered July 9 while at work at the Bass Foundry and Machine Company. He had 'been crushed by hca.vy met.E:J. 1NOW! 2 FEATURES! 3FIBST TIM1S IN TOWN I A Just Cool Enough! Today Thru Wednesday! Two Howlarious Hits! You'll Laugh Yourself Silly! What Fun! Several Enlist in Navy The following- Carroll county boys have enlisted in the navy for service at the Naval Reserve Avia- 1 tion Base near Peru; Jesse Junior Heiland, 22, son of Jesse Judson Heiland, of Flora, enlisted as seaman first class; Dean Ward Sanderson, 20, son of Evan T. Sanderson, Flora, route 1, seaman second class; Malcolm Andrew Parse, 24, married, enlisting as an apprentice seaman, has been sent to the United States Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, 111. Men who nave been sent this weelt to the training station at Great Lakes, 111., as apprentice seamen after completing navy enlistment include the following from Carroll county: Lester Leon Thompson, 17, son of Cleveland Thompson, Cutler, route and from Delphi the following men have all enlisted for assignment to the naval reserve aviation base near Peru: Robert Franklin Barnhart, 19, son of Frank Barnhart, seaman second class; Carl Daniel Burget, 20, married, seaman first class; William Lendel Davis, 20, son of Mrs.

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