The South Bend Tribune from South Bend, Indiana • 11

i 1 i I MUSEIIAWAEIA HEWS ItttIK 9mm TO CLASSIFIED i ADS. 9 I SECTION TWO. SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1M4. SECTION TWO MILL Women-of Marini Corps Reserve Study Carburetors at Bendix. SHOWERS DUE i-J THIS WEEK TO REVIVE CROPS Thunderstorms and Continued Warm Predicted.

Heavy rains are due here this week in sufficient amount to end a drought dating bade to June 23, the United States weather bureau said today. i The good news for farmers and gardeners was carried in a long-range forecast which, coupled with local weather conditions, as sures enough rainfall to revive crops wilted by hot sun and lack of moisture. The heavy precipita-ition will be in the form of Feathered thundershowers which will persist through most of the long- range period today through Fri' iday. The southern section of the state, which has been suffering jeven worse drought conditions. will have only moderate rains, ac- cording to the forecast.

ay- i V- duel which is the center of the' the marine corps women' re-' base, and are part of a group Pbotpa by Tribune Stall Photographer. lid if marines. They are members of Point, S. marine corps air South Bend and. vicinity can ex- pect partly cloudy and continued warm weather through Wednesday with scattered afternoon and IT'S AN AIRCRAFT carburetor, and not a household gadget absorbed interest of these three serve, stationed at the Cherry THESE FOUR MEMBERS of the marine corps women's reserve are hard at work inside an aircraft gun turret in the turret school of the Bendix Aviation corporation.

"Hope we can find a place for all the pieces." laughs Private Jane Szulczewski, of Milwaukee, shown at right. Others in the group, left to right, are Private Arlene Trulson, of Edgerton, Pfc. Dorothy Schmitt, of Kansas City, and Catherine Murray, of Brooklyn, N. Y. They are here on detached duty from the Cherry Point, S.

marine base to study in the Bendix turret school. is: .1 VICTORY GARDEN WINNFRS NAMED mmm Judging Completed; 1944 Program Praised. Winners in the South Bend vie tory garden contest were announced by districts today on the heels of completion of judging Monday. F. O.

Schoeppel, chairman of the victory garden com mittee, said the judges saw hun i here on two weeks' detached duty to take specialized instruction in the Bendix Aviation corporation's carburetor school. Left to right, Sergt. Anna Smith, of Long Island, N.Y.; Sergt. Wan eta and Pfc. Mildred Miggins, of Springfield, Mass.

Seven Mechanics Profess Love for Wa time Jobs BY PEARL E. IIAFSTROM. Tribune Staff Writer. From icing cakes in a bakery in her home town to repairing guns and gun turrets on combat planes is the record of just one of seven young women of the United States marine corps women's reserce who are training in the Bendix Aviation corporatipn's carburetor and turret schools here. But it is typical of the change that has come into the lives of all the group With their entry into the feminine branch of Uncle Sam's fighting leathernecks.

BRIBE DEFENSE ANGERS JUDGE to Cretck Tale of Hemans to Court in Michigan. By-United Prs. MASON, July 11. De fense attorneys today continued a blistering cross-examination of Major Charles F. Hemans, at tempting to crack his story of how he paid nearly $4,000 to 17 Hurd, of Santa Monica, The Lyons Den.

BY LEONARD LYON'S. The house which was the set ting for, Daphne du Maurier's story, "Rebejcca," is called "Men- 1 11 at Fowey, on, the coast near Cornwall. She spent her child-hood at her mother's cot tage nearby And Miss dii Maurier take walks near billy," some- times leaping" the waH and Leonard ltons. entering the grounds, until the nrF3 ACTION ON BUS TAX INCREASE Move 1 Force Fare Up, Says Seebirt. Consideration of proposed higher taxes tobe paid by Northern Indiana Transit, and the South Bend Bus company on their city busses was tabled indefinitely by the city council Monday night after It was indicated that an increased assessment would be followed with a demand from the bus companies' for increased fares, probably a straight 10-cent rate.

A representative of the South Bend Civic Planning Association, original proponent of the plan to have the bus systems taxed on a percentage of gross revenue, said following the meeting, however, that efforts to have bus 'assessments increased "had only begun." He declared a seven-year fight to achieve the association's end "would not be excessive." The planning spokesman and Attorney Eli F. Seebirt, represent- ing the local bus companies, who told the council that the South Bend bus systems would be willing- to be taxed on a revenue basis as in Hammond, if a straight 10-cent fare could be had here also, engaged In a lively debate as to the aspects of the question. It was brought' out in the session that bus lines in Hammond, whose transportation tax structure 7 has been used as a model by the local planning association, already charges a straight 10-cent fare. Bus riders in South Bend may buy three fares for a quarter or for 50 cents. Would1 Increase Revenue.

Although the planning spokesman pointed out that a tax based on percentage of revenue could be expected to net the city $25,000 Instead of the $2,500 fee now being collected rough calculations madcln the meeting indicated the straight 10-cent fare would increase by approximately revenue to be collected from the bus-riding public as compared with the net profit of $22,500 to the city of South Bend. Speaking for both the South Bend bus company, which operates the Rum Village and West- aotm ai'cniiA linen oorl NTrTt Vi r-n ci it i i iinvi wivi Indiana jt ransit, wmcn operates the remainder of the city's bus sysjte'm, Mr. Seebirt admitted the prosperity of his clients in war years but declared that "if we cannot build a surplus to buy new equipment after the war we again will go into receivership and reorganization." It was explained today that Northern Indiana Transit, and the South Bend Bus company are two distinct corporations, which, are operated by the same persons. The two companies were not joined when local bus lines were reorganized, it was said, the provisions of the receivership provided only for operation and maintenance and not for the acquisition by one company ir. the other of; existing lines.

Must Cut Expenses. "We I don't want to have to cut said Mr. Seebirt, as he recalled depression years, "but if we are to survive in postwar years we must cut operating expenses to the bone. This is no time to increase taxes which may endanger the bus systems' post-w-ar position. We want to be able to keep our companies afloat, profitable and to be able to employ people after the war.

Every time you load a dollar on the ConUnae4 oa Eight, Column Four. I I'M ft. if Beve Lienisr. president of the M7Y COUNCIL SHUNSI Hi-Spot Gets a of to members of the I 1939 legislature! pair phases, the first group of now being tried with five finance in the armed forces to en- of splendid gardens which, for the two men, whom he named were not entered in the contest. and described as follows: bearing out previous statements Werner Lohncs.

19: five feet, fby garden-wise men and women 'nine jnches tall: weight, 150 that, this community has a fine-'nounds: srrav eves: brown hair. company officials on charges of ter any lockl ar plant for train-criminal conspiracy. ijncr The cross-examination, which "Garbed in mannish coveralls began Monday, was marked byanj shirts, styled for service rath- nctory garaen program going compiexion gamekeeper came to chase orders from Judge John Simp- trespasser away JllSS QU Maurier never forgot "Menabilly," and used it in Last winter, the author became weary the London bombings, and "ent year. The first, second and third place winners and honorable mention listings for the five districts were reported as: Northwest District. Norman W.

Beckwith. 1S29 Portage avenue, first: Hugh Bennett. 701 West- Rex street, Isecond; Maurice Summersgilt. '1918 North Johnson street, third. land A.

N. Hepler, 1806 Kessler and Arthur VanOoteg-i hen, 1720 North College street, honorable mention. Northeast District. Wilbur E. Pullin, 2412 Myrtle avenue, first; Kicnara u.

Anaer Nazis Fleeing Prison CamP bought Here South Bend agents of the federal bureau of investigation today were searching for two German prisoners of war who reportedly headed in the general direction of South Bend after escaping at 3 a. m. today from a prison camp' near Sodus, Mich. Percy Wyly, II, special agent in charge of the Indianapolis FBI office, issued an announcement asking all citizens in the South area to be on the lookout George Brylka, 20; five feet. seven inches tall; weight, 160 pounds; blue eyes, dark brown hair: fair complexion.

When they fled from the camp the men were wearing either blue or" khaki work uniforms inscribed with the prisoner of war identification letters, "PW." Details of the escape were not: disclosed. 300 More Will Harvest. By Ur.itcfl Prss. BENTON HARBOR. July 11.

An additional 300 German prisoners of war were expected here today to assist in harvesting Berrien county record iruit crop. Bj International News Service. IONIA, July 11. Five youthful nazi prisoners who es- a Drusn tnicKet last nignc dv a an effort to learn whether they had been aided lit their escape by women living near the camp. Three other prisoners, who escaped at approximately the same time Sunday from a prison camp at Fremont, 20 miles northeast of Muskegon, were still at large." Credit for the capture of the Lake Odessa fugitives went to Deputy Sheriff George who trailed them "like rabbits" when he found they had stolen a car and abandoned it.

He said the prisoners left a trail through the fields by crawling on their bellies under fences. A note in feminine handwriting, found in the effects of the fugitives, provided grounds for belief that women employed in canning factories or on farms In the vicinity might have given the prisoners assistance. SUGAR STAMP NO. 37 VOIDED So many persons have mistakenly sent in sugar stamp No. 37 instead of spare stamp 37 in applying for sugar rations for home canning purposes that the office of price administration has voided the No.

37 sugar stamp. Revealing thi today, a spokesman said local war price and ration boards are receiving an average of 50 i sugar stamps a day with home canning sugar ration applications. I Printed plainly on the application form, available at fire stations, is the instruction to send spare stamp No. 37. Applica tions with the wrong stamp inclosed are returned unfilled.

i Fowey. fehe learnea inaijthey were attending sessions of "Menabilly," closed for 12 years, the legislature. was for Forty of Its 47 Under Cross-examination by son, 701, Northwood drive, second; The new arrivals will be sta-WiHiam; R. Rasmussen, 737 North-, tioned on the property of a former wood drive, third; Mrs. Raymond national youth administration White.

126 Paxson park, and Tru-xamp near here. man Yoder, 1125 East Lasalle ave-! nue, honorable mention. Five Prisoners Captured. evening showers. Hot weather will continue through Friday with temperatures above normal for this section.

Heralding the advance of the wet front, a mild thunderstorm passed over the city from 4:24 to 5:25 a. m. today but produced only a trace of rain, which -lasted from 4:35 to 5:44 a. nu The thermometer reached a high of 90 degrees and is expected to reach 93' or 95 today. The thermometer registered 90 degrees at 12:30 p.

m. U. S. TO ENFORCE TAX STAMP LAW More Than 200 Face Penalties for Violation. If More than 200 motorists! today faced penalties for violating the federal automobile stamp law following the opening Monday of a vigorous enforcement drive by agents of the South Bend; office of the internal revenue bureau.

Despite repeated warnings that the government would enforce observance of the June 31 deadline for use of stamps for tle first half year, many motorists were taken by surprise when revenue agents began handing out violation tickets here. The new federal automobile use stamp costs S5 and is valid through June 31, 1945. It is on sale at the post office and at the internal revenue office in the federal building. Ralph W. Cripe, head of the local revenue office, said the motorists ticketed Monday iare being given an opportunity to go to his office and make a Compromise settlement.

Failure to settle the offense renders a violator liable to prosecution in federal court, where the usual penalty is a S25 fine. Strict daily enforcement of the stamp law is likely to continue and may be combined with sev eral intensive campaigns, Mr. Cripe declared. SPEAK IN CITY Members of the St. Joseph Council of Republican Clubs composed of the presidents and secretaries of the various republican clubs of the county and of the republican city chairmen in Mish-awaka and South Bend, met last evening in the office of the chairman, Charles Hahn, 404 National Bank building, and I discussed T.

the district meet in Potawatomi park. It is hoped to make this one of the outstandingg Third congressional district events of the political campaign. The speaker will be Gov. Dwight H. Green, of Illinois.

Mrs. E. E. Mangold, president of the St. Joseph Republican Women's association aid H.

Ray Walker, president of the River Park Republican club, were made co-chairmen of Grant day. Announcement was made that Mish- awaka republicans will have a Pic nic in Lincoln park, Mushawaka, July 22. This will be especially for the nominees "on the repub lican ticket and will be open to all republicans and those desiring1 to affiliate with them. i The South Bend Young Republicans club will elect officers at 8 p. m.

today on the ninth floor of the Tower building. Truman Yoder, 1125 East Lasalle avenue, is president of. the club, LIONS TO HEAR JOB TALK. Miss Bernieee W. Maxwell, assistant South Bend area director of the war manpower commission, will explain details of pew labor controls at the weekly luncheon of the Lions club Wednesday in Hotel Hoffmann.

Southwest District. Mrs. Frank Haid, 709 South Fair rnn strppt. first: Balaban. 2025 South Taylor street, second; W.

from the ke Odessa pris- Hasbany, 934 Garden lane, taiI1P WCIC Mrs. Helen Jacobs. 718 Hoosejtoday after being apprehended iny HRFFN WILL rrmrr and Tinia W. Bukowski. 902 mtircUi on? West Thomas street, honorable deputy sheriff, mention Tne prisoners were being ques- 4.

i tioned by Capt. Garfield Camp- Southeast District. beU commanding officer at the Mrs. Major Crispin, and agents of the FBI in The seven young marines came here the last week in June from the marine corps air base at Cherry Point, S. where they are stationed in the airplane as semDly and repair shops.

They are here on detached duty to fur- ther their skill in specialized re er than beauty, their hair held close, in nets, and their hands smeared with motor grease and grime, the seven mechanics still managed to look utterly feminine as thev stopped lone enough to tell a Tribune reporter of their iwrrk Ve Just Love "We just love it," one of them trilled with a merry smile, and another added, "It's loads of fun, all of it." They were sitting in a classroom, away from their me-chines, as they answered questions concerning their careers, and there were rueful looks on their faces when one murmured an apology for the grease on her hands. But the moment they went to their training shop to demon- state what they do, they dropped all signs of embarrassment and jumped into the job like veterans. All seven girls left peacetime careers after Pearl Harbor to enter war plants before they enlisted in the marine corps reserve. Sergt. Waneta Hurd, of Santa Monica, whose peacetime job was in a government office on the west coast, entered wartime aircraft job as a metalsmith after Pearl Harbor.

"They" called us tin benders out there," she said. Pfc. Mildred Miggins, of Springfield, who enlisted in the corps last October, was buyer for the domestics department of a Springfield department store and became a job trainer on magneto repair in a plant in that city. Sergt. Anna Smith, of Long is land.

New York, left her peace time work to take an electrical job in an eastern aircraft plant before she answered the call of the marines. Private Catherine Murray, of Brooklyn, worked in a distillery, then scame an armature winder in the iFairchild aviation plant in New York. Private Arlene Trulson, or i.a- gerton. did peacetime work in an Edgerton shoe factory, and after Pearl Harbor went into ord nance work in the Ogden, Utah, air depot. Leaves Bakery Job.

Private Jene Szulczewski, of Milwaukee, did assembly work on a punch press for the Milwaukee Cutter and Hammer company. i- Pfc Dorothy Schmitt, of Kan sas City, Mo, left her bakery cake icing job to become, a tool and die finisher for the Lake City Ord nance plant in Kansas City, and now finds her marine corps work on gun and turret, assembly and repair "far more interesting than mixing sugar for cakes." "We have; steady liours of work at the Cherry Point air base," one of the girls explained. "But it never get monotonous because we have so many different kinds of planes to work on, and we can vary our work from assembling Coatloaed Jfrngm Eight Colama Oh. Army Captain Killed D-Day; Three Hurt fA I 34 CAPT. STEPHEN M'GREGOR.

J. A. BALDONI. H. VAN DUSEN.

Army and navy casualty lists today carried the names of four South Bend servicemen, one as dead and three as wounded, Capt. Stephen McGregor, 39, husband of Mrs. Alice i McGregor, 311 Laurel street, was killed in action on D-day June 6 in France while commanding an amphibious tractor according to a telegram received by hi- wife from the war department. McGregor was an army veteran with 20 years service. Previously Mrs.

McGregor received a wire reporting that; her husband was seriously wounded, then came the telegram thajt ha was killed in action. Born in Texas July 23, i904. he joined the army for a career and was sent to Culver Military, academy. Culver, from iFort Bliss, Texas, 10 years ago. On Sept.

4, 1937, he was married in St. Casimir's rectory here to Miss Alice Buczkowski, who survives with two children, Stephen II and Michael, both at home, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Ash, of Lewes, Del. i He was made a first lieutenant No. 1 1940, and sent to Fort Hayes, Columbus, and from there to the cavalry replacement center at Fort Riley, and later to Charleston, S.

Soon after Jan. 1, this year, he sailed to England. Of the three men wounded; one Coatiaitatl fac UcUk Coiwaa "tw. 1 $1,024 Check. i frequent objections by Special Prosecutor Kim Sigler and numer- UC1CI1SC II1CU1UU3 Ul tA amining Hemans.

Hemans described a third! as a group of lobbyists hjuse genate Harold W. Bledsoe, defense at Hemans denied that he was being treated as a "chronic alcoholic" during the 1939 session and that his memory had been dulled "by excessive drinking. Took Some Baths. At one point, Bledsoe asked "Did you think your dealings with the defendant legislators were decent "Well, 1 can answer that in this way," Hemans replied. "I went away for several weeks and took a good bath twice a day." I "Isn't it true that you could have stayed under a shower for a year and still not have been clean," Bledsoe asked Hemans: "Certainly not," Hemans said as the prosecution objected stren uously to the defense lawyers line of questioning.

Defense Attorney Maurice Shill- man aroused the ire of Judge Simpson when he attempted to read to. the -jury a divorce docu ment signed by Hemans approximately 10 years' ago declaring he was unabie to support his wife Continued om Pace- Eight. Coltuna One STATE TIGHTENS RULES COVERING CIRCUS TENT USE By Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, July 11. State Fire: Marshal Clem Smith has written all Indiana fire chiefs asking rigid fire-control measures on locations Where tent shows will be playing this summer.

Citing last week's Hartford circus fire. Smith asked that members of the, fire department be assigned to each performance of the shows, that smoking be prohibited, in crowded tent areas, electrical wiring checked regularly and adequate exit facilities be established. State fire inspectors make a preliminary examination of tent shows whenever the state office receives a notice of an appearance, Smith but the inspectors are unable to attend all performances. Fire Inquest Opens. By United Prees.

I HARTFORD, Conn, July 11. Connecticut made its first legal move to fix responsibility for last Thursday's circus fire when Coroner Frank E. Healy i opened a closed inquest into every circumstance attending the catastrophe which claimed 160 lives. rooms are sealed up. She signed a lease, and now lives In the build ing which was the setting for her most successful, best-selling book.

The army has ruled that no straw-vote polls on the presidential election may be taken among the troops John LaTouche, author of "Ballad for Americans" and of the lyrics for "Cabin in the Sky," is getting a dis charge from the navy. He will write the lyrics to the Leonard Bernstein-'Adolph Green Betty Compton musical When LaTouche "joined! the seabees, the classification officer was puzzled about how to classify the writer-poet- "Did you' ever do anything besides writing?" LaTouche was Cootlaoed oa Far Colomn Serea. wj i it Hi-Snot nfo-ht rln ttast ox street, nrsi; Carl B. Thompson, 1090 East Calvert I street, second; Mrs. Joseph Mes-jter, 1917 East Calvert street, third; Walter Lommatzsch, 1014 East Oakside street, and L.

P. Sear foss, 1922 East Randolph street, honorable mention. River Park District. Lawrence McHugh, 1101 South 31st street, first; William N. Hend-rickson, 939 South 30th street, second; C.

L. Annis. 2501 Misha-waka avenue, third, and Louis M. Rugee, 1201 East Bronson street, honorable mention. A special award was made to men of fire station No.

4 for their group enterprise garden at Thomas and Walnut streets. The judges for the final review and scoring were Mrs. W. Scheib, George Hoffman, E. C.

Bird and Herman R. Judd. War bonds and stamps will be awarded winners. OLIVET PASTOR ASKED TO STAY Rev. Edward B.

Williams, D.D4 pastor of Olivet A.M.E. church, has been requested to return as pastor of the church for another year. The request was adopted unanimously by the stewards, trustees and other departments of the church, it was reported by the presiding elder. Dr. R.

Francis Washington, who also returns for another year. I The fourth quarterly conference of the church was held Monday and reports showed the church to be in a prosperous condition, ac cording to Dr. Williams aged boys and girls, receives from Mayor Jesse Favey a check the clubls share in receipts from a recent city-wide collection of waste pajer. The check was presented at a first anniversary party in the club Monday nirfjt. (Story on page eight, this section.) PhotoIyrllun Sua Ptotographer..