The Republic from Columbus, Indiana • Page 1

ning Republ THE WEATHER Somewhat warmer this afternoon and night. Light rain southwest portion. TELEPHONES Business Office 61U ws Boom 4424 WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE COLUMBUS LEDGER Established 1877, Vol. 65, No. 61.

COLUMBUS, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942. PRICE THREE-CENTS fo) fo) MM Eve ICAN IE SMOKE ROLLS Louis and Willkie Sit One Out U. S. PLANES AID AS! PIPE FALLS 1.100 ACRES IN COUNTY CUT OUT OF CAMP AREA STOPPING The fire ijlepartment was called aftkr shortly midnight this morn-residence of Mrs. ing to thj COUPLE BADLY HURT AT ROAD 7-9 JUNCTION Michigan Man and Wife in Hospital On Way Home from Florida.

OFFI Newton, 1038 i California ATTACK Id iranions FROEITS Marjorie JAP street, wh are a furnace pipe had and the I house was down fallen smoke. filled with ki no other damage. There PAflAT Property Along Driftwood; North of Tannehill Bridge i Excluded. Enemy Says Allied Navy Has Disappeared from Surface of Pacific. HILL PAUL British naval squadron" In tho E'TOWN IS BLACKED OUT r'dmrprq- im nr.uT Germans Admit Lines Areistem Mediterranean i VVA 1,850 ACRES IN JOHNSON PASSES AWAY Being Penetrated Around mand said waves of Italian tor- rx pedo-carrying planer scored VrCI on three British cruisers hits and Electric and Telephone Ser-1 vice Disrupted as Car Hits Pole.

Local Resident Dies After Two Guesses Oifered for Revision of Reservation Boundaries. Defenders Must Get More to Stop Steady Drive of Invaders. I probably sank one of them 1 An Italian submarine was ac- Long! Illness Funeral 1,500,000 'MEN IN DRIVE Kged'mng8 Triday. The German version of Mediterranean battle listed tho fivo Residents of l.K'O acres in Bartholomew county and ene Hill. this city.

Paul Eii By the Associated Press. Heavy U. S. Army bombers were credited today with crippling at least part of a Japanese invasion Armored Divisions, Infantry Participate in Battle to Break Lines. o'clock yesterday after- died at 5 British cruisers as damaged three hit by Italian torpedo planes, another by German bombers, and the fifth hit twice by Nazi U-boat torpedoes.

Adolf Hitler's high command. Madison State.1 hospital. He noon "in i 1 had been 1.850 acres in Johnson county whose" land' was inside the ci i-iginal 'projected boundaiies for Atterbury were gradually learning today that they ai'e now on the outside of the camp look Two Michigan people were badly injured in an automobile, accident at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the junction of Roads 7 and P. six miles south-cast of Columbus. A utility pole was knocked down, disconnecting telephone and electric service in the Elizabeth-town vicinity.

Mrs. Anna Kilburn, 62. of Route 2. Leslie. was the armada sailing down the coast of i New Guinea toward Australia, while in Toyko, Japan's Premier i for eight years.

Is at the Flanigan, Hull funeral home. The body By the Associated Press, Reed and in a special communique, said Gen. Hideki Tojo boasted that Al The Russians were reported in 1 German submarines oneratintr in vices will be held at 2 where sea' Frfday afternoon. Kurial o'clock will be Wendell Willkie and Pvt. Joe Louis, usually in the center of take it easy as mere spectators at a Navy relief boxing show in 1 New York City.

made in Garland Brook cemetery. lied sea power had been crushed London today to have hurled 90- north and central American wain the Far Pacific. odd armored and infantry divi- ters had sunk 17 more merchant A British broadcast quoted im-'sions, perhaps 1,500,000 men, totalling 109,000 tons, mak-perial Tokyo headquarters as ac- a great offensive on the southern jng a total of 772,500 tons sunk knowledging that three Japanese front from Taganrog on the sea by Nazi raiders off the American ships had been sunk or beached of Azov to the vicinity of Khar- coast. his father, Clar- Surviv ence Hill fof Alert; fpur brothers, Martin D. aha John W.

Joseph and Rjoss Hill of of Indiana" ing m- There has been no official an-j nouncement of the exact houn- Idary changes or of the reasons for jcutting off another 2.950 acres of! 'the camp area. The new reduction the second will reduce the camp to around 37.000 acres. i The1 change which is being planned will leave a considerable) irhunk of Nineveh township o-i' the c'imp area. As originally ji" up, the camp boundaries took all (Nineveh township except approxi- i mately 20 acres in the southeast corner at Tannehill bridge. The.

knd a Mrs. Man- Bids Opened Today on Other Sections of Camp nger of Alert. He was of Martin Hill of this Sardenia, ford Eidd a nephew county. The German communique also reported that. U-boats sank three ships in the Windward British West Indies.

$5,000 DAMAGES ASKED IN SUIT and six others damaged, including kov in the upper Ukraine. a cruiser, in landing operations on Simultaneously, they were heav- Australian-mandated New Guinea. ily attacking in the Orel sector "The main fleet of the United some 250 miles above Kharkov States and Britain has already dis- and 200 miles south of Moscow, appeared from the surface of the and about Staraya Russa, the Pacific," Tojo asserted, in a speech area where the 16th German celebrating the conquest of the army is encircled below Lenin-Dutch East Indies. grad. 18 Tons of Bombs.

In the Orel fighting, the Ger- In Washington, the Army report-'man high command acknowledge ed that eight big United States their lines had been penetrated bombers dealth a staggering blow northeast of the city. All of this to Japanese ships Tuesday in New indicated the Soviet command Contracts May be Awarded A fl fi TH 48 Houl-No An: HI1ULHOUI1 I in HOMER PRUITT DIES SUDDENLY nouncement Lively. most seriously injured. She suffered a broken a severe scalp wound, and minor cuts and abrasions. Her husband, Harry A.

Kilburn, 65. driver of one of the cais, received a severe head laceration. Gene Hall Sisson, 39. of Louisville, driver of the other car, escaped with minor bruises although he was thrown out of his car. Car Loaded With Oranges.

Mr. and Mrs. Kilburn are in the county hospital, where their conditions were reported as "fair" today. The Michigan people were en route home from Florida, traveling north on Road .9, north of Klizabethtown. They were in a 1936 Ford coach, the back seat of which was loaded with oranges and lemons.

According to Deputy Sheriff, Walter Oneal, one of the investigating officers. Kilburn drove into Road 7 in the path of the Louisville car which was traveling toward Columbus. Sisson's area west of Driftwood river and north of Tannehill bridge in Bai-Itholomew county which will be left out of the camp area under jthe naw plan is all in Nineveh township. The land which is bc-, ing excluded on the east side of Driftwood river is in German 1 BE AIR WARDEN Elizabethtown War Veteran Is Appointed to County Post by Amick. Margaret Lazzell Files Action Based on Accident Injuries.

Station Operator Is Guinia waters, dropping 18 tons of. bombs which left two vessels sinking, four in flames and another stranded on the beach. The American forces returned intact. Service Heart Bids for the remaining sections of Camp Atterbury construction were he opened today at Louisville through the Corps of Engineers district office and it was believed here that the contracts had embarked on the greatest offensive action since the beginning of the Russian campaign. Russia's armies were reported to have broken through German lines guarding the direct ap- Attack Victim in township.

Hartman Glad of It. Outbuilding. This was apparently the same at Harry Hartman. manager of might be awarded within thenext Driftwood -amp, north of Oolum-Us hours. tack which a Royal Australian Air proaches to Smolensk, key Nazi force communique described as stronghold 230 miles west of Mos-having been carried out by "our! cow, and front line dispatches Pruitt.

53. i of 720 Homer died suddenly at stfeet Brown Floyd Anderson of Elizabeth-town, a veteran of two wars, today was appointed county air raid warden by Marion Amick, bus. was glad to hear of the boun- word had been received here dary change yesterday, but aid this afternoon on the bids. )that under the original plan his' A boom in and con-Icamp would been affected in the cantonment area thi3 morning at his 10 o'clock home. planes." Other ships of a.

strong enemy convoy were reported moving down the New Guinea cost. said German positions in the whole vast region north of Smolensk were now endangered by the Soviet counter-offensive. Red army troops scored anoth- His body only slightly, he original noun- i is expected to follow sriortlv after defense council. was found crumpled in an outsidei toilet, the rear of the house. the corner aary iook me camps waiernoiu wnrU an the re i- An Australian government car, a 1941 model Plymouth located to Mr.

Anderson accepted and said he would start at once form- jalong the east side of Drift wood maininp SOc.ti6ns, as "they are for riVPr. ItVic m.ninr nnrtinn nf it ho fflnin' Members fit -his family found the spokesman declared the assault er important break-through north was "only the beginning" of Allied of Lake Ilmen on the Leningrad counter blows to snag Japan's front, it was reported, smashing body about Apparently orders for the 700 including- troon in a county-wide organization. an booir after) he had building. the gone toi threatened invasion of the vast strong oerman aeiense positions. dary change came from the gen- barrarkS- More men are expect- He also plans to attend, a cral staff office in Washington.

ed to be hired on these- sections pcho1 for alr rald warden ln" High Army officials were hereitnan the of the nfoiect com- structors to be held March 27-29 Dr. Mar in R. Davis, county coro- Soviet front line dispatches said Astralian mainland. However, Japanese A suit for $5,000 damages for personal injuries, has been filed in Bartholomew circuit court by Margaret Lazzell of Shelbyville against Edna Pearl Manlon, Nineveh township. The suit is based on an automobile accident June 27, 1941 at Norristown on Road 9 in Shelby countjr, in which several young people were injured.

According to the complaint, the car in which Miss Lazzell was passenger was struck from the rear by ofte driven by Miss Manion. The plaintiff complains that in the accident she received a facial disfigurement, her teeth were broken, skull fractured, and other injuries of a permanent nature sustained. Miss Manion is charged with carelessness and negligence. The several participants ln the accident were returning to Columbus from a party in Shelbyville when the accident happened. death appeared to be the the remnants of 96,000 German bombers ner, said result of heart attack.

services will be conduct- Funeral raided Port Moresby, the capital soldiers trapped ln tne fataraya and major port, on the south coast i Russa sector, below Lake Ilmen, only 300 miles from Australia's were bolstering their dwindling Cane York and caused slight dam-; fod supplies with horsemeat and lueauay aim 'Ant n-puiLt-u iu Dined. Their period of emplov- ln ult- i.ulci have insisted that they know thement howevei, probably will be exact boundary at once. The shorter. I Mr. Anderson was born in boundary change was subsequently Announcement iUHv Elizabethtown and has spent all ed at o'clock Saturday after- noon at the Hathaway funeral rev lea: u.

his life there with the exception burial will be made in home and age yesterday. that suicides were increasing among the beleaguered Nazis. of time in military service, hrst i nere naie. rjcen io tutssfs T1. Garland Brook cemetery.

May Get Beachhead. local persons on the' 1 The trapped 16th Army, which Unless the air. naval and land offered by reason for Mr. Pru tt operated a Standard the change in boun- strenrih of Allied forces, assembled had already lost 12,000 men, was rvice station on Eighth street ment or the letting ca i ne new icontiaets for. as yet, Si War dc-jpaitnient.

possibly for military dary. "One of these is that thp War iffar Brow n. in Australia is materially greater I "aid to have suffered additional than was employed in the battle thousands of casualties in the Surviv of Java, any major Japanese army Flora; oni include his wife, son, Paul; two daugh-Ruth: Ogilvie and Finland War-Weary. is running snoii tu i got the contracts for sections of funds, as costs of a 1 projects are i I I the camp on which construction is soaring far above estimates. Some those who submit this guess be- now under Way' ters, Mrsl Finland is reported war-weary; Norwegian resistance to Nazi rule Richards, all of Colum- Mrs.

Isla bus; one The law firm of Shinn and Lien- in the Spanish-American war, then at the Mexican border in 191H, and finally in the first World war. He organized old Company here in 1917 and was first-lieutenant in it. He later was commander of Battery of the 139th Field Artfllery at Camp Shelby and overseas. He was captain of the first national guard unit formed here after the war. Mr.

Anderson was a rural mail carrier oiit of the Elizabethtown pnstnffice from 1902 to-'l934, in brdther, Emery of Indi- striking there, or even upon the! Australian coast, would have a I good chance of establishing anoth-1 er beachhead in the series executed southward form Luzon. -i In addition to the fact defenders; is such as to call for repeated berger represents the plaintiff. ind three sisters, Mrs. anapolis coupe struck the Michigan car near the rear. Both Traveling Fast.

Both vehicles apparently were traveling at a high rate of speed, officers said. Both spun around following the crash and when they came to a stop, each was facing the direction from which it had come. The Kilburn car. went 65 feet after the collision and crashed into -a utility pole at the side of the road. The, pole was broken off and the electric and phone lines were severed, giving the surrounding "territory an unscheduled blackout and interrupting communications.

The utility service was restored after a short time. Sisson's car went approximately 100 feet before coming to a stop. He was thrown out on the berm of the road when the door of his car came open while it was in a spin. "Each car was damaged to the extent of about $200. Have Trouble Calling Help.

Because of the break In the telephone line, considerable difficulty was experienced in getting help to the scene. A Hathaway ambulance made the run and took Mr. and Mrs. Kilburn to the hospital. Sheriff Elmer Nolting.

Deputy Walter Oneal and two state policemen made the investigation. Officers did not state whether charges would be filed against either of the drivers. James Zegl It and Mrs. Edna Colurflbus, and Mrs. uicipiiiiiAi numnfl.

juajur an and naval operations already are under way such as the British or Romine of Java were outnumbered by lieve that if the War department! lne nrst actual connrmauon or gets additional appropriations later (the awarding of contracts will the camp area will be returned 'probably come when the contrac-to its original size. move in and go to work, The, other i3 that the1 A number of local persons Army will move men out of the planned to attend the opening of country so fast, sending them to bids today, but as far as is known the hundreds of places in the here no Columbus companies Homer; Phillips of Seymour t- TDoio'r-i torpedo-plane attack Monday on FOURTH JOINS CAMP STAFF Lieut. E. C. Clemens of Cannel- Peter Gerbrandv of the Nether-, the GeJman battleship Tirpitz lands government in exile disclosed north of Trondhe.m and a Ger-.

man report that fleet action had CARS IN TWO "IT" Sed -nk. a Soviet freighter at Bear ton has joined the. staff of Cap- World where it will be necessary 'planned to enter bids for prime which vear he retired. i tain W. S.

Arrasmith at 'the local ROAD 31 WRECK to East Indies waters was less island- tboi Free Europe, international I armory, working on the army to have troops, that large tiacis contracts. Some, however, may j0 nas always been active and rlf land will not be needed for seek subcontracts. 'interested in patriotic movements, training purposes in this coun- Some of the companies already Amick said his selection of try. working on the camp project were Tr Anderson was based partlv Two cais iwere; damaged in an i review published in London, said 1 camp. Japanese naval detachment-head- Kn.

nft.pnaiv in Lieut, Clemens will be an assist accident ajt 8:10 o'clock this I morn ed bv 14 cruisers which protected ing at; th Road 31 and Kansas the west should have a good ant lo Ptain Arrasrniin. wno is his instructions to select a thf invasion convovp. i enclneer. He is a eraauate or road intersection south of Edin- (- I'f III. MIC.

hll I 1.1. Premier Hideki iojo to ow ronrrntratpfl in the i Blinois university and was called the concentrated in burg are Some who hold this view are expected to enter bids today on 'of the opinion the Army is find-jthe remaining sections-, O'DriscolI ing that it will not need as many land Grove of New Yiork. which i Army camps pr it had first thought, I has the Section A4 contract and owing to the large number of men i has started work, was the low to be sent overseas, and that, if hidder on Sections Al and A2 when pan i net, assembled to ceieorate into active duty in the Army re lu- TT.aKt oriiibn -isles presumauiy man with the following qualifica-; tions Ability to acquire readily the i intensive training at the state 'air -warden instructors school; lability to teach what be has learned; energy, time and will- The iaccjident occurred as Carl Stine of ltdinburg, going south on Road 31 a 1941 Plymouth se- Indies, that "all enemy strongholds than those the Germans in the Southwest Pacific" had been have arrayed from Norway to the cently. There are now three lieutenants on Captain Arrasmith's staff. They are Lieut.

Gordon Iddles, Lieut. Edward Baldwin and Lieut. Clemens. work had not already- been start- the miginal bids were opened. dan, struck the left rear of a car captured, but the war was not yet Arctic action by Britain and Clark T.

Henderson of ed on Atterbury the whole i The remaining sections, bids for driven by won. i the United States might supply project might be dropped. 'which ut tn he nnfned tfidav to return home and or Lai. which had been pulled off to the right side of Road 31. TDri.

Ijust the assistance the Russians in an announcement of Prime Min- They point out that the Army were two sections. Al ganize and instruct the finish training its men at the and A2. "but when bids 1 were open- tecrs for this activity. need to turn the whole German ister John Curtin that Australia just south; of the Kansas road. A truck, going! south on Road 31.

northern flank. places. mey are pemg sent out- fi the government dull e- 1 1 rr a rnr ail i riH i i side the country. I Pt contracts for these sections. Both these are only guesses, but i3trr asked that bids be sub Weather Halts Offensive of RAF on Ruhr Factories London.

March 12 CP) Bad weather forced a halt in the Royal Air Force offensive last night after the Ruhr had been pounded for three straight nights, inform- APPEAL FAILS DUKE LEAVES LARGE ESTATE. London. March 12 i.T The Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria, who died last Jan. 16. left an estate valued at 150,677 it was announced today.

was between, the two cars and when -it urned right onto the Kansas rqad Mr. Stine. who was following, did not see the Henderson car ati the side of the road in time to aivoid striking it. Heavy new blows agarnst the Tr.oooo people of Japanese-occupied; 1 Jl Allies at sea were claimed bv the Singapore an effort n'n'e Axis today, with the Germans as-proper feeding of Australian Ps- thfat g23 200 tons of phip. on15- ping had been sunk in American Proper feeding of prisoners UM, the captors responsibility under oiia great it is evident that the War department often finds it nccessa.ry to change its plans.

Chillieothe Case Recalled. mitted again and the two section were subdivided into four sections each. The subdivisions' are Ala. Alb, Ale, Aid, and A2a, A2b, A2c, ed sources said today. These changes are often hard on A2d the individuals who are involved.

The presumption is that the First to Go From Local Draft Board to President Refused. such as some of the local farmers first bids on the two main sections who have made plans to move wcr(, foo hicrh na tnat the War international law. Long voyages presumably will divert ships and seamen from the Australian war effort. But the Japanese get along on a rice and fish standard and that complicates the prison camp problem. Biggest Trailer Clamp So Far Is One Qt Hartman 's Leader Doesn 't Agree With Indian Settlement from their homes and now find department divided the section so they aren't in the projected area.

smaller companies could en-Still, there does hot seem much tpr Dicj3 an(j the cost reduced, that anyone can do about it and Work Picks t'p- the farmers for the most part are i -ivork nicked ud agaiin today in i trying to cooperate with whatever the cantonment area of the camp follows night. I will not make im The first draft appeal from this county to go before President Roosevelt has been returned to the local selective service board and the board's 1A classification upheld. The appeal case was that of Howard Donald Stewart, 27, of Wardha. India, March 12 UP) Despite the British government's announcement of plans for post war dominion status for India, the supreme leader of Hindu nationalists, Mohandas K. Gandhi.

rfi rxo ctr 4 ..1 oaa r- oirrn rf tne war aepanment nnus neces- ancj some grading was: being done. sary- Grading was halted during the Evidence of the uncertainty in first part of the week owing to projects which must be made to the muddy ground, but: other parts fit ever-changing conditions is the of construction went oh. pertinent suggestions by way of practical steps. Their (the British) conviction of the wrong will show the way." At Bombay, Mohammed Ali Jin-nah, president of the all-India Moslem league, reiterated that the only solution of the Indian prob Rugby. Stewart, whose wife is army camp at Ohio Swollen waters of Sugar Creek i dead, has a 4-year-old daughter r-jdiii.

ior ine tamp cit announc- aiso ndered work oii the new California Women Form Manless Ambulance Corps Los Angeles, March 12 Some 400 women, rebelling against masculine discipline in the women's ambulance and defense corps of America, organized a rival group from which men will be barred. The action was taken last night amid conflicting' shouts of "the trouble with the corps is men" and "don't think we can live without men God knows we can't." The latter remark was made in evident appeasement to a male reporter only man present at a gathering of 200 women here. Another 200 met simultaneously at nearby-Pasadena. The WADC has 1.800 members ln Los Angeles county. and appealed from the local boards classification on the grounds that the daughter was dependent on him for support.

The local selective service board set out that its investigation showed Stewart had contributed to support of the ed. cancelled, confirmed again and bridge on Road 252 and the bridge then cancelled again. i being built for the railroad spur. At last reports the camp was xhe track for the railroad spur completely out of the picture. Dur- I has been put down on the east ing the confusion over plans for sjde of Road 31, extending from the camp, two Ohio newspapers the road to the Pennsylvania main rah stories the same day.

one an- Mine. Freight cars full bf ties have moved oijt in November. The trailers of the army camp workers-to-be started coming in last month and the camp has grown steadily in size. Mr. Hartman, who is a county commissioner, said that he believed thajt, )f needed, the camp was roomV pnough to accommodate 100 to i25 trailers.

Most of the trailer folks ar from Indiana', but: some are from neighboring states and one family is from The majority of tjhe: men are carpenters, although i few are tractor operators. Thje tradtor operators are employed bn the camp project at the preserjt Trailer Life Interesting. Some cjf the men formerly worked orj the Jefferson proving grounds project at Madison and at the Kingsbury shell loading plant. I Their trailers range ln size from to 3 rooms. Life inside Twenty-six trailers are now established in the Driftwood camp Harry Hartman on Road 31 north of Columbus, making it the largest trailer camp in the area around Camp Atterbury.

In addition to the trailers, Mr. Hartman has rented seven of his 14 camp cottages. Occupants of the trailers and cottages, most of them Hoosiers, are working, or hope to be working soon, on the" Camp Atterbury project. Children from the trailers play-on the playground equipment of the. Driftwood camp, washings hang on lines from the trailers to the big trees, which shade the camp, and the menfolks who are not working on the Atterbury project pitch horseshoes or do odd jobs about their trailer residences.

Hope to Get Jobs Soon. All hope to have jobs soon, the sooner the better. Thev realize they'll have to wait until grading and excavating work on the army camp progresses further and good- weather comes. Some nouncmg me camp was to be built been moved onto part of the daughter, but that part of the and the other announcing it would new spur. The ties willl be used PUpport had been given by the I'Ul- iy UU11L tor completing tne spur on.

west-1 grandparents ward into the cantonment area, Stewart appeal went first to The Road 31 run-around has been! the district-appeal board at Law-lifted and traffic is crossing over! renceburg Dec. IT, 1941. The the rails which have; been honVn imheld the local YOUTH PLACED ON PROBATION down in the road. settlement lor tne maian question. The frail little man who renounced the title of Mahatma (saintly one) and even formal leadership of the all-India Congress party, said in an interview that Britain must confess "the greatest crime against India" which he defined as imperialism and undo it.

Replying to the question, "what should the British government do immediately to settle the Indian problem?" Gandhi said: "You put a difficult if not awkward question. I hold extreme views about the British connection. "In spite of my love for the British, I think their imperialism has been the greatest crime against India. The Immediate thing therefore that the British government should do is confess the wrong and undo it. No Sign Yet.

"Of the undoing there is yet no sign visible in the Indian sky. Yet I cannot help thinking that be-' fore Britain can claim moral superiority she must take this first board's classification and Stewart Work also has been started on A 14-year-old Cuba lad, who ad- lem acceptable to his organization would be "India's division Into separate, autonomous Hindu and Moslem states." Jinnah, leader of India's minority of 77.000.000 Moslems, made no direct reference to the forthcoming visit of Sir Stafford Cripps as special envoy of the British war cabinet to determine whether the cabinet's plan for eventual dominion status for India will work. He asserted' that the British government "must not be stampeded into adopting a settlement which will prejudice or militate in any way against the Moslem demand" for India's division. Sir Bijoy Prosad Sineh Roy. president of the national liberal federation who has urged Indians to join the fighting forces, expressed considerable disappointment over Prime Minister Churchill's statement before the House of Commons yesterday, and.

said it meant only further defer-mentvof the solution of the political deadlock. mitted breaking into the' Breeding installation of wells for the camp appealed to the President through state selective service headquarters on Jan. 27, 1942. In order that the appeal might go on to the President it was necessary for Charles W. Long, local appeal agent, to sign a statement defending Stewart's appeal.

The final appeal decision was received by the selective service board today, continuing Stewart's classification in 1A. It w-as signed with the signature of Brig. Gen. Louis B. Hershey, national selective service Australia Sends Food to Singapore Prisoners Canberra, Australia, March 12 (JPi Premier John Curtin announced today that foodstuffs were being sent by Australia to Japanese-occupied Singapore in an effort to insure the proper feeding of Australian prisoners.

"We were asked to send the stuff," the premier said. "It was put to us very straight that it had to be for everybody, including the native population. It goes into the common pool and the distribute it." i a trailer jooks interesting, out I concentrated. Every inch of space is (utilized and often the 'same inch is used for more than ione thing, In the average trail-: er the bedroom and living room are. combihed and there are a small toilet and kitchen.

Kero-j sene stoves are usually used for cooking ajnd the trailers bulge hardware store at the south'edge of alel gu'J- Edinburg in this county, has been placed on probation and turned over I to the county welfare department i KOOert DOSCn, (jerman by Judge George W. Long in the ni QO Bartholomew circuit court. inventor, uies at OU The youth also admitted the theft Berlin (from Germjan broad-of an automobile at Edinburg fori casts) March 12 -tP Robert A. a joy ride. i Bosch, 80, German inventor, in- Sheriff Elmer H.

Nolting said the dustrialist and founder of the Breeding store had been broken in- i Bosch manufacturing died to on more than one occasion re-I today after a short illness at centlv Most of the loot which con- Stuttgart, where his fiitm made the sisted i of tools and bicycle parts weH known Bosch magneto and was recovered other automotive machinery. tnougnt tney would go to work this week, but the heavy rain and snow caused a delay The Driftwood camp, the site of a golf course, camp cottages and picnic ground, has been equipped for some time to accommodate trailers and there were several trailers in the camp last summer. The lasf of these with gadgets and all sorts of inventions rjgged up by their indi- 1 (Continued on page two.) step. "Then all else follows as dayj.