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ADS. CLASSIFIED The South Bend Tribune. SECTION TWO SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1945. SECTION TWO. THOUSANDS FAIL TO BUY CAR TAX STAMPS Total Eclipse.

This picture of the sun in total eclipse was taken at Saskatchewan, scientists in exof Franklin Institute university, of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. This picture was transmitted from Regina, Saskatchewan. The Lyons Den -BY LEONARD ABOARD A B-17 OVER FRANCE: I was minding my own business, which was picking up my reservation for an ATO flight from Marseilles London. planned a twoday rest in London before flying home after a month of unusual experifences through 'European theater. YesLEONARD LYONS.

terday I had been at the wheel of a speedboat on the Mediterranean cruising with some GIs down the Riviera coast along Cannes and Nice and Antibes, trying forget my not too disastrous failure to break the bank at Monte Carlo. Last night I was at the Marseilles waterfront where, at the Red Cross club which was the Bistro du Port, the Countess Ina Belline, niece of Igor Stravinsky, works in the green suede boots she once designed, for Charles Boyer before the nazis came and halted the shooting of the picture "Corsair." I stood at the crowded street junction at this port, which Caesar used for launching, his invasion. There, in the shadow of Notre Dame de la Garde overlooking the Chateau d'If, where the Count of Monte Carlo shouted, "The world is mine," I distributed all the. sweets and concentrated foods I had to children whose ages were those of my own three sons. Their suspicious mothers, accustomed to the huge black market which flourishes in this Cicero of Europe, nazis once had to blow up the Casbah Vieux Port to crush the deserters and their black market sponsors, first demanded of me.

"How much do you want I had been to the GI dancehalls, the MP courts, the staging areas where a half million men are redeployed, and rode in the riot squad car with MP's who cocked their pistols and readied their clubs in anticipation of the outbreaks which occur too frequently. So there I was at the airport when I was notified that my plane seat would be surrendered to a high priority officer whose business in London was urgent. I was advised to drive to Istris field near Martigues, where the Eighth Air Forces' 40th Combat Wing might have a plane for London. A squarejawed, blue-eyed youngster, Lieut. W.

G. Golden, of Long Beach, volunteered: "I'm taking my ship up to the UK, I have room for a passenger." Continued OP Page Eight. Column One INCREASED BUS SERVICE SEEN IN MAPLE LANE Transit Company's Aids Meet With Residents. Appreciably increased bus serv- I ice for additions adjacent to Edwardsburg highway, hortheast of seems certain by 1 a spokesman for the Maple Lane-Wilmette Civic association said today. Representatives of the People's Rapid Transit company, of Kalamazoo, Mich.

and now incorpoin Indiana, appeared at a meeting sponsored by the civic association Monday night in the Stuckey school and discussed plans for increased bus service with more than 150 residents of the area. Only final approval of the company's Indiana franchise and office of defense transportation approval of equipment and schedules is necessary for institution of the added service, the spokesman said. Start From Terminal. As planned the bus service would run from Union bus terminal in South Bend to Granger, this county, via the Edwardsburg highway. It is planned when circumstances are more favorable to run the routes through the Morningside, Lane and Wilmette Park additions, The number of daily trips rests on ODT approval but the spokesman for the civic association said it is appreciably more than the present three busses a day, The company representatives discussed the need and the best ways of meeting the need for bus service with the residents at the Monday night meeting.

The civic association will assist the com-1 pany in any surveys or information needed to determine the best schedules or possible future extension of the service, according to the spokesman. CLAXTON BOUND TO TRIAL COURT ON TWO CHARGES Roscoe Allen Claxton, 38, of 8321 South Michigan street, arraigned in city court today on charges of assault and battery with commit murder and grand larceny, was bound over to the September term of the seph county circuit court. Bonds, on the unfurnished, first were fixed at $5,000 charge and $1,000 on the latter, and 'he was remanded to the sheriff. The assault charge against Claxton is On the complaint of Jerome Walker, South Main street, with whom Claxton is alon leged South to have engaged in street a Michigan last Thursday night. The larceny charge was filed in behalf of Jeanne Lanning, 1224 South Michigan street, and involves the alleged theft of a top coat from her rooms.

SHOE REQUESTS MUST BE VALID Shoe applications filed with the St. Joseph county war price and ration boards through the rest of July will be reviewed critically in the light of fact that a new shoe stamp becomes valid Aug. 1, a spokesman for the boards announced today. Supplemental shoe rations will be granted, the spokesman said, only in cases of extreme emergency or to, replace defective, shoes. The stamp becoming valid next month is airplane stamp No.

4 in ration book No. 3. ACCUSED FINED $50 IN LARCENY Conrad Sinner, 36, of the Milner hotel, 104 East Broadway, was found guilty In city court today on a charge of petit larceny and was fined $50 and costs of $10 and sentenced to serve 60 days on the state penal farm. He was arrested on the complaint of Kenneth Bogar. claimed 2014 that South $70 Main was taken street, who, from his room.

several days ago, Sergt. Mishawaka Tom M. Hickman, street, Elkhart, was back home today in a distinctly unpleasant state of mind for months a 30-day furlough after 13, overseas. When Sergt. Hickman left Camp Atterbury, Monday by bus for South Bend, he possessed a wallet containing $300, some German money, a shoe stamp and other papers, enough clothing to last him during his furlough and a variety of souvenirs which he had picked up on the battlefields of Europe.

When Sergt. Hickman arrived in South Bend Monday night, preparatory to taking another bus to Elkhart, he still had his wallet and the $300 but he was lacking his clothing and souvenirs, which had been taken off the bus by mistake in Logansport, Ind. Yank, Home for Furlough, Loses $300 and Clothes But when Sergt. Hickman was ready to leave South Bend at 11:30 P. m.

for. Elkhart, he aslo was lacking his wallet and the $300, which dropped from his pocket between a bar in the 100 block of North Main street and the Union bus station. So the sergeant face a pretty slim furlough. The bus company had not been able to find his clothing a and souvenirs by this morning, and his wallet, also German souvenir, with the $300 was still missing. And that's why Sergt.

Hickman, who wears three battle stars for helping chase the Germans from Normandy back to their own country and may be able to wear a fourth and a fifth star soon, is feeling pretty low. today. Can anybody help him out? Boy Late in Appeal for Dog But Maybe There's Another When 12-year-old Paul to The Tribune, he didn't Jack, the honorably discharged death in the Mishawaka Heppner, of North Judson, wrote know that a home had been found for coast guard dog. that twice faced dog pound. But if Jack isn't available, R.

C. Nowak Dies in Nazi Prison Camp Private Raymond C. Nowak, aged 24, of Douglas street, who was reported missing Dec. 18, 1944, in Luxem bour died Dec. 20 of wounds in a prison camp in Germ a according to information received today by his do Mary Ann.

A Studebaker corporation aviation worker before entering the service in October, RAYMOND NOWAK. 1943, he was sent overseas in August, 1944. He was born in South Bend Feb. 15, 1921, and was graduated from Hedwige's parochial school. His widow resides parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John Bennett: Also surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nowak, 720 South Main street; two brothers, Seaman Francis and Pfc. Louis, both in the south Pacific, and five' sisters, Mrs.

Camille Schwartz and Mrs. Alice Strozewski, both of South Bend, and the Misses Pauline, Henrietta and Lucille Nowak, all at home. $70,000 ASKED IN BUS MISHAPS Rider Blames Firm for Injuries and Loss of Leg. A total of $70,000 damages have been asked "by Edward M. Meredith, 1609 Portage avenue, South Bend attorney, in suits filed in superior, court No.

1 against the Northern Indiana Transit, of South Bend, for injuries. allegedly resulting from two similar accidents aboard South Bend busses. The original suit was filed some time ago and seeks $50,000 for injuries Mr. Meredith allegedly received quick start of the bus knocked him to the floor of the aisle and injured a partially crippled right leg to the extent that it was amputated. This accident, according suit, took place on Feb.

19, 1941, Main street and Colfax avenue. In the second suit, filed today, Mr. Meredith claims that while using crutches in recuperating from the amputation he boarded a bus at Michigan street and Washington avenue on July 1943, and before reaching a cant seat the bus was started and stopped quickly, throwing him against a rail and injuring his right hip and sciatic nerve permanently and preventing use of an artificial leg at a later time. He asks $20,000 damages for the latter accident. ELKHART PLANT PICKET FINED; TWO CLEARED Union Official Tells of Disregarding WLB Order.

The Tribune's Special Service. ELKHART, July Stack, one of the union pickets at the Northern Indiana Brass company arrested June: 23, was fined $60 and costs of $20 when he was found guilty by City Judge Forrest E. Hughes yesterday of ASsault and battery on A. C. Arbogast, superintendent of the strikebound plant, and Julius Hoffman, a nonstriking employe.

Fines were $50 with $10 costs for assault on Arbogast and $10 with $10 costs in the case Hoffman. Paul Jones, 405 Massachusetts avenue, and Marvin Wagner, 504 Wolf street, who also were in the picket line of members of local No. 326, United Construction Workers, affiliated with the United Mine Workers of America, were acquitted of similar charges. Jones also is charged with malicious trespass. His hearing is set for Monday.

The three arrests were made after Ross Martin, president of the firm, which has been idle pute over wage raises and adsince June 2 a because of a disjustments, signed affidavits against the men. Break Picket Line. Martin and 35 foremen and workers had broken the picket lines at the main entrance to the plant June 23 in what they said was their pot attempt to follow a war labor board order to return to work on materials for the army and navy. A skirmish followed: Vern Griffith, vice-president of the striking union, was called to the witness stand for the three men. questioning by Prosecutor D.

Russell Bontrager, he declared the union had not been officially notified of the WLB telegram, by Edgar L. Warren, chairman of the regional WLB, which ordered the back to work. Griffith stated that a rump session of about 25 men was held in the street adjacent to the struck plant to decide the union's action. "It was decided that it would be impossible to notify all the men of the union and also that we should ignore the order," Griffith testified. 1,500,000 A WHEAT GOAL FOR STATE'S FARMS By Associated Press.

WEST LAFAYETTE, July farmers will have a goal of 1,500,000 acres of wheat for harvest in 1946, it was announced today at a conference of Purdue university agricultural authorities, the Indiana AAA committee of the soil conservatipresentatives The 1946 rye goal will be 130 acres, the same as that seeded last year. The wheat goal last year was 1.350,000 acres but Hoosier farmers exceeded it by seeding 000 acres and the abandonment of acreage was only two cent, thus giving the state one of the best wheat crops in many years. Added Red Cross Service. 29 $5 Miss Avanelle Paul, 1059 Portage avenue, avails herself of Red Cross services at the postoffice in preparing a package for mailing to her brother, Delbert, in the United States Third army in Germany. Mrs.

A. A. Dahlgren, 1211 East Dayton street, of the staff assistance, corps, lends a helping hand. The booth is manned daily from 1 to 5 p. m.

-Pheto by Tribune Stall Photographer. Taps at Pyle Memorial. DRIVERS FACE U.S. PENALTIES, SMITH WARNS perhaps some other dog Paul explained the situation like this in his letter: "I am a South Tribune carrier. I would like have Jack the dog who has no home.

But I have no way of, getting him. I promise that will him a good home. My dog was killed last winter. "My dad is dead and my mom works and we have no car, but I am willing to pay for his transportation out of my earnings. I 12 years old.

Please let me have the dog." Jack was rescued from the dog pound Sunday by a Mishawaka fruit and vegetable grower, but Paul's needs sounds pretty acute. There should be a few dogs around in need of a good home. Fateful Day Puts Marine In Hospital June 17 is a Stachowica, of long day Pfc. Nester P. 653 Lawndale averemember.

June 17, 1943, he n- tered the rine corps; 1 7, 1944.1 he was wounded on Saipan, and between, June June 20, 1945, he was wounded for a second time on Okinawa. 'He' is now recuperating in a hospital on Okinawa. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jo- N.

STACHOWICZ. N. STACHOWICZ. Stachowicz, the marine, prihas five battle his They are for the Marianas, Saipan and Okinawan Two stars, one for: ofand the other for defensive were awarded the Okicampaign. The South Bend attended Central High before entering service.

A First Lieut. Norbert J. a was recently, transfrom to Fort Fla. Topeka, 4-F'S FILL ONE MONTH'S QUOTA 20 Per Cent' Taken in; Hitchcock Reports. By Associated Press.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 10: Four-F's accepted for armed service, fallowing reexamination may provide enough men fill Indiana's quota for one month, Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state selective service director, said yesterday. His estimate came as a result showing that approximately 20 per cent of the 4-F's (who have been examined thus far have been accepted for induction. examined in. the first week in July, more than 250 have been passed for noncombatant duty.

i If this continues, the men accepted will fill- a month's quota, but inductions would be spread over several, months. All the 18-to-25 age class and most. of them have been rejected previously or put in limited service, because of disabilities which can be remedied by treatment men reexamination, the Approximately 6,000 of these colonel said. The men would be assigned to noncombatant duties and would replace combat veterans who are being discharged. LIFE OF BABY SAVED BY TWO Quick action on the part of Patrolman Charles Borowski and Mrs.

John C. Rozycki is credited with probably saving the life of Mrs. Rozycki's month-old son, Ralph, at 8:25 a. m. today when the child was given first aid after he had regurgitated and was suffocating.

The officer then rushed the mother and child to Memorial (Epworth4 hospital. After a the child was returned to its home. HUSBAND FINED $50 IN ASSAULT John Buddy White, 36, of 1526 West Coltax avenue, charged with assault and battery on the complaint of his wife, was fined $50 and costs of $10 when found guilty in city court today. He is said to have slashed her shoulder with a knife during an argument Sunday. GAS COUPONS STOLEN.

Theft of gasoline ration coupons for 200 gallons Monday afternoon while he was working in the rear of the garage was reported to police by the proprietor of a filling (station at 3221 Western avenue. Enforcement Drive Opens Wednesday Morning. Thousands of South Bend motorists will face federal penalty beginning Wednesday unless they purchase the required $5 federal auto use tax stamps before midnight today and display them on the windshields of their cars. An intensive drive to round up motorists who have failed to purchase the stamps will begin Wednesday morning, according to Will H. Smith, of Indianapolis, United States collector of internal revente for the Indiana district.

He Three blow taps correspondent, memorial, exact spot April 18. Cool Due buglers of the 77th infantry division, U. 8. 10th army. has assigned a corps of 250 after a permanent memorial to Ernie Pyle, beloved war luties to the task of placing was unveiled on Ie Shima, near Okinawa.

The ers on all cars which do not erected by the 77th division, has been placed on the play the tax stamp. Owners where Pyle was killed Japanese machine gun automobiles so marked should Pyle was a native of Dana, home of his father. port to the address which appear in the notice, If the has been purchased and not Weather CITY OPENS WAY them. played The they internal should take revenue it imposes fine of $25 or to HoldFOR LAND SALE: days, onment or for both, not for more violation than of requirement. After Storm A large mass of cool air was victorious in a sky battle with warm and humid currents over the in a thunderstorm Monday night and temperatures two to four degrees below the normal daily average of 74.7 degrees are predicted through Saturday as result.

Quite cool weather is due to continue through Wednesday under fair skies. Thursday and Friday will be a little warmer, with scattered thundershowers due Friday. Saturday will be cool, according to the United States weather bureau's long-range forecast. The thunderstorm broke out at 7:34 p. m.

and lasted until 9:55 P. refreshing the area with rainfall. The -storm developed after the heat reached an 83-degree intensity at 5:30 p. m. and rain clouds shunted across the sky most of the day.

By 6 m. today the mercury dipped down to 56 degrees as the cool air mass took control of the skies. The temperature at 12:30 p. m. today was only 65 degrees and maximum temperatures of 70 are predicted for this afternoon and Wednesday.

DRIVER FINED; CRASH LAID TO RECKLESSNESS Raymond E. Shafer, 56, of 432 North Taylor street, charged reckless driving, was found guilty in city court today and was fined $25 and costs of $10. He was Arrested 3:30 p. m. Monday after his car alleged to have struck at, another car, driven by Joseph J.

Tirandani, of Puritan, Mich, at Western avenue and Dundee street. He told police that he was looking for an address, and unwittingly got over the center line on Western avenue, sideswiping the other car. Walter L. Wilburn, 49, of Lincoln Way East, charged with failing to signal a change of direction and operating car without a driver's license, was fined $5 and costs, costs suspended, on each charge Edward Davidson, 49, of 1210 East Altgeld avenue, charged with permitting an unlicensed driver, his son, Charles, 15, to an automobile, was fined $5 and costs of $10, costs suspended. Arthur B.

Davis, 21, of 1621 Sibley avenue. charged with speeding 45 miles an hour in a 30-mile zone, was fined $5 and costs of OPA RENT OFFICE CHANGES HOURS The South Bend defense area rent control office, 502 Pythian building, will not remain open Saturday afternoons, Walter L. Clements, director, announced today. The change results from the reversion of most federal offices to a 44-hour week. The rent control office hours henceforth to 5 daily and Saturdays.

The change also affects sub-district offices in Laporte and Valparaiso, Ind. CIGARETTES $28 ARE TAKEN Fifteen cartons of cigarettes, valued at $22.50, and $28 in currency and change were taken from his barber shop at 1305 East Calvert street, after 6 p. m. Monday, Frank Daniels, 722 East Washington avenue, told police today. GIRL, 14, MISSING.

Her daughter, Dorothy Jean, 14, has been missing since 4 p.m. Saturday, Mrs. Mamie Yates. of 1218 West Huron street, told police Monday afternoon. She said the girl may in the company of a 17-year-old girl.

depstick- disof rewill stamp diswith code impris30 the Street Department's Yard May Be Put on Block. The city council Monday paved the way for possible night the street department's yard and property near the 300 block East Lasalle avenue when under suspension of rules it approved measure authorizing appointment of appraisers by the circuit court and subsequent sale. Described by city officials as inadequate for the city's needs, the property, if sold, would be replaced by more ample facilities which would be erected on property purchased by the city some years ago on North Niles avenue at the old gravel pit. Proceeds from the sale of the Lasalle avenue property would be applied to moving and the construction of new facilities. Cash Transfer Approved.

Following a public hearing the council approved interbudgetary transfers totaling $2,700 to meet the cost of additional con and heat necessitated, by the severe winter. Another $400 was transferted for emergency insurance needs of the street department. Councilmen Stanley Korpal, Walter A. Bishop, and William J. Richardson were appointed to special council committee to meet with the mayor, department heads, and employes' committees to work on wage adjustments in the 1946 budget.

New Traffic Lights. The special committee was contained in recommendations of the council's fees and salaries committee at the time of the consideration of the 10 per cent wage increase for city employes for the remainder of 1945. The council discussed wage adjustments, reiterating its stand some sort of wage adjustments are needed and should be reflected in the 1946 budget. The board of public works and safety was also instructed by the council in a motion passed proposal by Melton O. Brannan after instruct the city traffic to proceed with steps to install.

traffic lights at Twyckenham drive and Mishawaka avenue, scene of several fatal traffic accidents in recent years. WOMAN FALLS IN HOLE DUG FOR NEW RESIDENCE Mrs. Veronica Horvath, 45, of 2201 South Catalpa avenue, told police Monday night that she tripped on clod of dirt and fell and then in trying to rise again fell into an excavation adjacent to the home of Louis Vida, 2003 South Catalpa avenue, where a house is being erected. The accident occurred at about 10:45 p. m.

as she walked along the sidewalk. Neither the piles of dirt adjacent nor the excavation was lighted. she declared. Police took her to St. Joseph hospital.

She was treated for abrasions and bruises on both legs. Only 20,321 of the stickers have been sold in the South Bend post office, according to available at noon today, whereas 63,425 motor vehicles are registered here. In the 10-day extennon of the original July 1 deadline the local -post office has sold 8.803 stickers. seph vate credit. Tinian, campaigns.

fensive action, nawan marine, school brother, ferred, DEMPSEY SEEKS TO SPEED CITY VET AID OFFICE Mayor F. Kenneth Dempsey said today he would confer with the citizens advisory committee 7:30 o'clock tonight on hastening citizens advisory committee 7:30 o'clock tonight on hastening the opening of the veterans service commission office recently authorized by the common council. Pur. pose of the commission and office is to assist members and ex-mem. bers of the armed forces and their families to realize the maximum benefits intended for them under all existing laws.

The mayor also announced today the deferral until next week of a meeting of the city's postwar planning commission to take up the matter of hiring an engineering Arm to prepare plans and specifications for completion of the sewage disposal system, the dty's No. 1 postwar public improvement. BANTAM STRIKE AT STALEMATE A strike of 500 employes of the Bantam Bearings division of the Torrington company continued today with neither labor nor management indicating any developments toward a settlement of differences which led to the walkout June 11. Wilbur Whitinger, president of the union, local No. 590, U.

A. C. said the status of the strike would be up for discussion at a meeting of the union at 7:30 p. m. Thursday In Studebaker unionhalll, 919 South Michigan street.

SWIM TICKETS SALE AT END Children up to 14 years of age inclusive who have not secured their swimming tickets for the Playland pool may purchase them up to 6 o'clock this evening only in The Tribune business office. A coupon necessary to be presented to obtain the tickets appears in The Tribune for the last time today. Nearly 300 tickets have been disposed of. YOUTH'S HEAD CUT. Jack Gowen, 18, of Osceola, this county, was treated in Memorial (Epworth) hospital Monday afternoon after he lacerated his head when a car trunk door slipped as he was closing it, according to hospital attendants.

HOUSE PERMIT ISSUED. John R. Waiz has been issued permit to erect a $7,500 house at 3602 South Michigan street. according to city bullding commission records. Hospitality Centers to Aid Foreign Brides of Yanks By International News NEW YORK, July centers are about to be organized throughout the country to cope with the homesickness of 60,000 to 10,000 foreign brides of G.

due start arriving in large numbers soon. "Few of these war brides ever admit that they are lonely with their new in-laws." said Mrs. W. Henry France, national director the English-speaking union which, with the American Red Cross, la sponsoring the hospitaljity centers. "But we know they will welcome the opportunity to meet other young women from seas who have similar problems." Her organization also will help the war brides obtain apartmenta and jobs and aid them in shopping, rationing and budget problems..