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War

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riors-including a grim 5000 healed
OF wounds suffered ION Saipan-re-
lent'essly closed in on Japanese
sarr!sons bereft of all outside aid
The Marines and doughboys held
the northern quarter or Tinian and
It's 4,500foot Ushi airfiled, rated
one OF the best in the Pacific.
Seek Airdrome
On Guam TO the south they also
bid for another sirdrome from
which the l. 5. can mount its com
ing offensives against the Japanese
homeland, the Philippines and Chi
mas coast. This airfield was or
Orote Peninsula, on which a
trapped force OF japanese battled
for It's life. The Americans ad.
ysnced 5000 yards out onto the pen
insula TO the outskirts OF Sumay
town.
The Guam invaders. with $500
dead japanese accounted for, wild
ened their beachhead OF IL miles
OF Guam's west coast. including the
shoreline forming priced Apra har-
Dor.
On Tinian three days OF slaughter
left 1855 Japanese dead. including
band OF 400 who sulcidslly threw
themselves against the Orote trap.
Join Comrades
Five thousand Marines wounded
on Saipsn rejected a chance TO take
il easy in hospitals and Joined
their Tinian comrades They are
now among the most hard-hitting
OF all the Tinian invaders" said
APP Correspondent Rembert James.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's men
maintained the trap holding thou
sands OF Japanese on northwest
New Guinea. New bresk-out at
temptS were repulsed.
In China the L. 8. 14th air force
stung the Japanese trying 10 take
Hengyang. downing or damaging IA
planes in q battle over Yochow.
A hope began to glimmer in Chung
king stories that the enemy might
be forced to abandon his offensive
10 seize all the Hankow-Canton
Railway. Hengyang teetered on
the verge OF capture, but its dough
" defenders and General Chen
nault's filters were making the price
high. In the Yochow battle no Am
orleans were lost.
The British inflicted more loss
es on the Japanese fleeing India
and ChineseAmerican troops inched
deeper into Myitkyina.
The Sabang raid was repeat
performance OF the April 10 task
force raid Sabang lies at the north
eastern end OF the Malacca Strait,
the narrow waterway which thrusts
between Sumatra and Malaga down
TO stories Singapore.
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Daily Market Report

CARRoTs-No. /. doI. punches,
1890.
PoTAToEs-No. l, 100 lbs, Il.7S-
2.07.
RADISHES-White, No. l, doE.
bchs. 75c-Sl: red, No. l. dor.
bchs. 75c.$1.00.
BEANS-Green, No. 1, bu.. 2S lbs
$2.50-3.00.
BEANS, Wa1-2slb. bu.. Non l,
$250-3.00.
cUCUMBERs-sllcerS. bu, $2.1b-
$50.
DRY ONIONS-5O lbs. s2.OO.I95.
GREEN ONIONS, No. /, doc. behs.
60-S5c.
PEAS-No. /, 2s ID. bu, {2.50-3.OO
PEPPERS-Green, peck, $2.0O-2.SO.
SQUASH. summer, n bu. 5O-65c.
TOMATOES, dollhouse. No. l, "a
NJ lbs, s3.OO-3.50.
TOMATOES, outdoor. No. 1, IA lbs.
S150-1.75.
RAsPBERRIBS, black, No. /, "a
at. crate. S9.45.
RASPBERRIES, red, No. /. "a at.
crate, $10.17.
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StOrk Calls

Son To Mr.. and Mrs John Adam
lex. SIS Dwight ST., wednesday, at
Bsyef Hospital: weight seven
pounds II ounces.
Daughter: To Mr.. and Mrs Loren
Faulhaber. Willis. Wednesday. At
Boyer Hospital; weight seven
pounds nine ounces.
Daughter: To Mr.. and Mrs Fred
Shuda, 95S r. Cross St, Wednes-
day, at Boyer Hospital; weight six
pounds four ounces.
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Detroit, Mich, July AZ

DelIollI mlCn.i July IL
CATTLE: In the absence Of
strictly drylot cattle, actual top
rested at $500. A truck load OF
steers fed grain on grass brought
$500 and about four loads OF well.
wintered 1851, 100-lb. Southwest
grassers sold from s13.S5-15. 90. A
few fat around /, 400-lb. native grass
steers earned $14.0O while most
common and medium grassers
cleared from sl0.00-13.00. Cutter
and common light grass steers,
mostly dairy type kinds, again had
TO be peddlsd at $7.50-s.50 as the
supply considerably exceeded de-
mand. Medium and good cows were
very scarce, common beef cows
bulked at ss.00-s.50 and Gamers and
cutters returned $6.00-775. But on
late rounds, thin light Gamers were
down to 1925 rather frequently.
Bulls sold downward from S11.00,
common and medium kinds FREEDOM
mating at Ss.00-10.00.
CALVES-Salable receipts, 400.
Good and choice vealers again
bulked at $500. Few at the $3.50
top. Common and medium vealers
$11 .0O-15.00: little culls and com
mon grassy calves down to 800 and
occasionally below.
HOGS: Good and choice 10000
Id barrows and gifts sold At their re-
rows and gifts sold at their re-
spectivs ceilings OF s14.90 and
1415, the weight dividing line being
240 pounds. These prices were
steady with Tuesday on all except
100000 Id. weights which were I'M
evenly 15-4Oc higher. Good and
choice 140-lb. to near 160-lb. lights
ruled strong to 25c higher at S12.75-
1915 and sows moved up another
25c to bulk at $12.76-1325. Popular
price on stays was s11,00.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-A very
few good and choice natl g spring
lambs topped at 314.00 with bucks
discounted 800, some medium
and good springers made $1l.O0 to
$1,000 and common kinds ranged
downward from $500 with little
culls salable as low as $500. Odds
and ends OF plain shorn yearlings
sold down from 81, shorn slaughter
ewes going at $2.00-5.00 according
to grade.
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Municipal Court

Traffic violation charges proved
to be the principal business at court
today. For failing to appear TO
pay fine when he was ordered,
Harry Leonardson paid a total of
S25, after being given a choice OF
paying the money or serving a 20
day Jail sentence. For excessive
speed, Ray NJ. Dickson and Ether
idge NJ. Price paid SIS and $40 re-
spectively.
Wylie Henderson was charged
s25 for being intoxicated and dis
orderly.
Hearing OF charges brought
against Mrs. Hester Goings, Willow
Village. for assault and battery
was set for August 2. Mrs. Co
ings paid $50 bond
Total receipts Wednesday were
s26.
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Employment taxes jumped S239,
ss7 4o2-from 81 49S sos o23 70 ST..
T5s.S72435
Some ~ the miscellaneous taxes:
transportation seats and berths)
tl52,6s2.607. up s6s,55OS73: bowl
ing alleys and pool tables, S2,2OS,-
AZ MP S355757; CLUB dues and
Imitation fees, t91s1,5ls, up 81.
es1,6z5; admissions 70 theaters,
concerts, cabarets, etc, S206, 2S9,-
015, up S50,sSs,3O2.
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Argentina

Continued from Page One)
gentina automatically is based en-
tirely on war considerations, the
Department official said. DESERVING
the Allied cause" was the charge.
No hint was given a. to wheth-
err this government Is prepared to
take determination to isolate Ar
gentina automatically Is based en-
tirely on was considerations, the
department official said.
No hint was given as to whether
this government is prepared to take
ecomnomic measures against Ar
gentina backing up It's vigorous
condemnation.
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WARRANT ISSUED

Kalamazoo Mich. July ZAP
Police were searching today for
Marry Chappell, 50-year-old Kala-
mszoo landscape gardener, so they
eoHld serve him with a warrant
charging attempted murder Ac-
cording 10 Acting Police Chief Os-
Ger Netherell, Chappell is occused
OF airing three shots from a revolv-
er At William Davis. two ot which
grazed his elbow. Wetherell sand
the shooting followed Davis refus-
al 10 allow Chappell 10 talk pri-
vately with Mrs. Davis, a former
friend OF his.
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PRODUCE
(NsWman's Grocery

wASHINGTON-AP- A Demo
cratic attempt to revive legislation
calling for federal grants to pub
lie schools raised prospects today
OF new congressional battle over
that controversial issue. Senator
Stewart (D-Tenn.) cited a 1914
Democratic platform declaration
favoring aid to education admins
tered by the states without inter
ference by the federal govern
ment" as official support" by the
party for new bill he said he
would offer next week.
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PLUMBERS STRIKE

Bay City, Mich July 27-UP-
Residents with leaking water pipes
are out OF luck today-Bay City
plumbers are on strike. All plumb
ing installations and repair work
was halted by the strike reported
ly on outgrowth OF wage Contro-
Yersy. Employees seek l2i2 cent
hourly increase. but employers con
tended they cannot grant the raise
without War Labor Board authori-
zation.
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Deaths
INFANT FRYE

Grayesioe services were held In
Highland Cemetery for the infant
son of Mr.. and Mrs Marvin X.
Frye, 1918 s. Congress ST, Mon
day afternoon. Rev. William r.
shaw ofiiciated Among the sur
viyors are the paternal grandpar-
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Frye,
this city.
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HEADS sHERIFFs

Traverse City. Mich. July II
AP-Sheriff Ferris z. Lucas OF st.
Clair County was elected president
OF the Michigan Sheriff's Associd-
ton at the conclusion OF its goth
annual convention here Wednes-
day. Other officers for the ensuing
year are Hugh VI. Blackjack. Kent
County. vice president. and Char
les Miller. St Joseph County. who
was reelected secretary-treasurer
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on THE EIGHTH ARMY
FRONT IN ITALY -AP- King
George vi OF England stood In an
post in front OF new
ly captured Arezzo today and
watched British artillery shell the
Little Church Of Campriano. 5000
yards away. while American built
sherman tanks and Indian infan-
try worked their way up hill
side toward a Mani stronghold in
the basement OF the church.
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National BroSdeastInG Company
RED NETWORK-WLW 200. WV
$50. WHAM 1850, WMAQ $40.
BLUE NETWORK-WXYZ 1870.
Columbia Brosdeastlns Company
WJR $50, WBBM $50. WCKY 1880
WFBM 1860. VICAR 1880. WBNS
1850, WOOD 1910.
Mutual Broadeastinp Company
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LONDON-AP-Ths cabinet Of
the Polish government In exile APP
proved today a plan to send Pre-
mier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk TO Mos
COW to confer with Premier Stain,
and 1t was reported the British
were trying to arrange the trip as
part OF their effort 10 effect a COM
promise between the rival Polish
fAct innR
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Republicans

Continued from Page One)
byunt OF the COP drive In seven
key states where he predicted the
Republicans will put up good
campaign
In two ~ these states. Missouri
and Kentucky, the Republicans
have toothold with the governor
ship. Others he listed included Okla
boma,. tennessee, North Carolina.
Virginia and Maryland.
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LONDDN-AP- In stark COM
mout on Paul Joseph Goebbels' as
sertion that total mobilization
would relieve the reCcding German
front. H.iler's own newspaper said
TO-DAY I'VE openly declare that nev-
or since the beginning OF the war
have our nerves and hearts been
exposed 10 heavier trials, The com
ment in the Non,k.scheg Beobach-
ter. Berlin organ OF the Nszi party,
appeared beside report Of the
speech o. The newly appointed
Reich pieiuipOtentiary for total
Mobilization"
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SEEK MORE PRODUCTION

Detroit. July 27--AP- National
and regional War Production Board
officials opened a two-day confer
ence with War Manpower Commits
sion representatives here today on
ways OF increasing production in
forges and foundries to meet new
requirements for Army trucks.
tanks and other heavy implements
OF war.
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Detroit Cash Grain
-HEAT-Eo. z red, $1.47.

Detroit Cash Grain
WHEAT-Eo. z red, $1.47.
OATS-No. 2, white. S0-Slc-
Mailing BARLEY-range. 31.44
1.52; barley needles, sl,2S.
Vegetables
BEETS-doE. bchs. 50-60c.
BROCCOLT-No. l, II Blu. $2.2.5o.
TURNIPS-Eo.. 1, doz. bchs., soc.
1.25.
CABBAGE-No. /. bu, 40 ID. bu)
S1.00-125.
CAULIFLoWER-No. !. f2.5OS.o0
doZ.
RED CABBAGE-50 lbs. bu. $3.50.
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In The Sick Room

Miss Meta Neubert is conyalesc-
fns satisfactorily following an ap-
pendsctomy At Boyer Hospital, Mon
day.
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YpsiIanti Briefs
Books Disappear

John Karchunes. is w Michigan
Ave. reported 10 police Wednesday
that Elk Toad rattan hooks had dis
appeared from the bsckbar OF his
place ~ business. same address.
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Bslno Questioned

Police have taken into custody
Sanford y. Stanbery, a roomer at
125 y. Hamilton St, for question
nag after Mrs. Hazel Coates, land
jAdy AZ that address, eompla
that several NJ her roomers had re-
ported thefts n money and srti-
eies from their rooms.
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Pick of the Air Today

BLUE NETWORK WLW 700.
RED NETWORK WLW 100.
CKLW SEQ. WJBK 1890 WGN 100.
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Tonight
TALKS 49, BLU 7:45 Chester
Bowles OF OPA:
BLU-S:3O Town Meeting from
Palo Alto, Calf, What New
Deal Measures Should be
Strapped"
NBC-6:3O (repeat 800 Charlie
Chan;
500 Those We Love;
800 Bins Crosby summer finale;
$3.50 e. z. Horton Comedy;
1000 Harry Savoy Comedy.
CBS-S:00 Suspense Drama Black
Shawl;
800 Major Bowes Amateurs;
$3.50 Corliss Archer;
1000 First Line Drama;
1890 Larry Douglas and Joan
Roberts.
BLU-7:O0 Musical Mysteries;
Sis Lum and Abner;
$3.50 Harry James Band
~ 4. OU OlOp VI GO Win JUG r..
Brown.
MBS-S 80 Human Adventure;
$40 Antonini Serenade;
1880 Army Air Forces.
Friday
a. m. Daytime Classics;
100 p, IN. Sketches in Melody;
6:15 Serenade TO America.
Bernardine Flynn;
400 Broadway Matinee;
6:15 Lyn Murray Music.
BLU-9 a. m. Breakfast Club;
1:45 .. m. Little Jack Little;
4:15 Don Norman Show.
MBS-12:30 392nd Army Band;
400 The Smoothies Sing:
430 Army-Navy r Award.
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YpsiIan+i Markets
Buying Prices)

(YpsIlanu Farm Bureau)
GRAIN
Evening star., 1944-03-06
80 TO 50 Planes Destroyed
In Allied Raid on Hainan
BY the Associated Press,

CHUNGKING, Mar. 6-American
Mitchells of the 14th Air Force, es-
corted by fighters, destroyed from 80
to so enemy aircraft in the air and
on the ground in a raid on Kingshan
airdrome in the northern part of
Hainan Island Saturday, a commu-
nique from 1t Gen. Joseph w
Stilwells headquarters said today.
The Mitchells also struck the air.
drome at Chengmai in Northern
Thailand today and destroyed eight
twin-engined and one single-engined
aircraft on the ground.
Fighter pilots of the Chinese
American wing claimed 13 Japanese
planes definitely shot down in the
raid on Hainan while American
pilots were credited with four, be-
sides a number damaged.
Other Mitchells on q Lightning
escorted sweep up the Yangtze River
sank a freighter and a tanker and
shot down four more japanese
fighters.
Japanese airmen bombed an ad-
vanced American airdrome near
Suichuan, the communique said. One
Allied plane was lost in all the op-
erationS.
Evening star., 1944-03-06
Cathedral Handyman
Indicted on 6 Counts
In Reardon Staying
Speedy Action Token
By Grond Jury in
librorion's Death

Acting with unusual speed, a
District grand jury today in
dicted julius Fisher, colored,
31-year-old handyman at Wash
ington Cathedral, on six counts
charging first-degree murder in
the Staying of Miss Catherine
Cooper Reardon, 81, assistant
librarian of the Cathedral.
Miss Reardon's body was found
last Thursday morning in a pit
below the basement room where she
worked Fisher, arrested that night,
signed confession saying he had
killed her around noon Wednesday,
according to Maj. Edward j. Kelly,
superintendent of police.
After confessing, Fisher took de-
tectives to his room and gave them
"a William and Mary college ring,
set with garnet, which he said he
had taken from the librarian s
finger. He was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage Friday and later
in the day was held for the grand
jury by coroner's jury.
The first three of the counts on
which Fisher was indicted charge
him with three methods of murder,
respectively: BY choking and
strangling Miss Reardon. by hitting
her with piece of wood and caus-
ing fracture of her skull, and by
hitting her with piece of wood
and thus causing her to strike her
head against a sharp object, result
ing in a fracture of her skull.
The fourth, fifth and sixth charges
repeat these same methods of mur-
der, but allege that they were en-
ployed in connection with the act
of robbing.
The charges were presented to the
grand jury by Sylvan Schwartz, as
sistant United States district attor-
ney. Fisher will be tried on the six
charges before Chief Justice Ed
ward c. Eicher of District Court.
Observers here pointed out that
only five days had elapsed between
the finding of Miss Reardon's body
and the indictment of her killer.
Evening star., 1944-03-06
Big Force Of u. S. Heavy Bombers
Attacks Berlin for Second Time;
Americans NowFighting in Burma
Heavy Toll Inflicted on Jops
By Yonks' EncircIing Movement
Gen. StiIweII's Forces Join Chinese
In Pincers Around 1000 Enemy Troops

in the Southwest Pacific, but by the
colorful Brig. o. G. Wingate, who
last year made a long range pene-
tration into Burma.
Gen. Merrill's troops, part of 1t.
Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell's command,
completed their preliminary train
lining in Central India and then
polished it off in the jungles of
Northern Burma.
They had their first brush with
the Japanese more than week ago,
but not until today's penetration far
behind the Japanese lines was their
presence made public.
Airfields Attacked.
American heavy bombers carried
their explosives to number of jap
anese airfields in Southern Burma
last night, starting fires, while fight
arS. fighter-bombers and medium
bombers attacked wide variety of
targets in the last three days.
Mediums hit Shame town last
night. Fighter and medium bombers,
in Northern Burma swept damaged
locomotives, freight cars, river craft
and camp areas, destroyed a bridge
at Kumnyen, heavily damaged a
runway at the Shwebo airfield, and
demolished several warehouses.
Divebombers and fighters attacked
enemy positions on all Burma fronts
in support of the Allied troops in the
last two days,
Evening star., 1944-03-06
Oil Industry Assai|s
Ickes' Pipeline Plan
As Fascist Approach
White Paper Sees
Postwar Power Politics
In Arobio Project
By the Associated Press.

An oil industry white paper"
today applied the term Fascist
approach" to Secretary of the
Interior IckeS' plan for a petro-
leum pipeline across Arabia, and
said the project "is a sign post
Of the new highway of interna-
tional power politics not yet re-
vealed to and approved by the
Senate of the United States"
The Petroleum Industry War
Council, an advisory group created
by the Petroleum Administration for
War, which Mr.. Ickes heads, issued
the document. 1t was prepared by
George A. Hill, jr., Of Houston, Tex.
council member who also is a leader
in the Independent Petroleum AS.
sociation of America.
Mr.. Ickes recently announced the
Government pipeline project in his
capacity as chief of the Petroleum
Reserves Corp.
The council said the plan to run
the 1,000-mile line through three
foreign nations between the Persian
Gulf and the eastern end of the
Mediterranean" was IAN invitation
TO international incidents rife with
germs of another war" and consti-
tuted the Fascist approach-the
cooperative state, with its lust for
imperialism-the shackling of free
American enterprise, not to better
serve, but to displace private enter
prise, at not only the risk, but with
the certainty, of international
political involvement"
Asserting there is no Axis owner
ship of any oil in the Middle East at
this time, the paper said: This is
an interallied postwar dispute in the
very midst of the present war"
1t was suggested that "if the
United States is legitimately con-
cerned" about the future availability
OF Middle East oil, there should be a
Qualification of what nations are
expected to be bound to us as
Allies in the next war;" what nations
prospectively will participate in COL
lective security, what world areas
this country will be called on tc
police in the interest of peace and
what world bases and supply depots
will be required for such task from
an overall standpoint.
Evening star., 1944-03-06
Soldier Who Escaped
Courthouse Cuuqht

One of the three men who escaped
from the cell block of District Court
Friday has been arrested, the FBI
announced today.
He is Robert H. Mckinney, "a,
a soldier, who had pleaded guilty
to transporting a stolen automobile
across State lines. He was re-
arrested last night in Wheeling
w. Va, according to FBI headquar-
ters.
Inspector Robert j. Barrett, chief
of detectives, said his men are still
looking for the two colored men
Edward c. Ware, 81, and Cecil Diggs
81, who escaped with Mckinney
Each had pleaded not guilty te
burglary charges.
Evening star., 1944-03-06
At Least One Killed
As Officer Runs Wild
Two Wounded on Coast,
z Others Reported Slain
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCldl6u HIGSS.
RIVERSIDE, Calf, March 6.-At
least one person was killed and two
critically wounded when an Army
officer from nearby Camp ANA ran
wild with a .45-caliber pistol last
night, police reported early today.
Army authorities clamped a CEN
sorship on the whole affair, but
Police Chief Nestor Brule said he
had reports that two additional per-
sons had been killed inside the Army
camp.
The Army officer, not identified,
was reported to have shot and killed
Riverside. policeman named Simp-
son, after having previously seri-
ously wounded Ray Schliegel, River
side. in attempting to commander
an automobile The Army officer, a
lieutenant, then was shot and critic
ally wounded by Policeman E. S.
Cole.
Riverside police said the Army
officer, after the shooting inside the
camp. took a staff car and fled from
the post later forcing M. Schliegel
off the highway and attempting to
seize his automobile. Military au-
thorities would make no statement.
Evening star., 1944-03-06
Three Boys, Two Girls
Die in Truin-Auto Crash
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
BRIDGEPORT, Ind, Mar. g.
Three boys and two girls were in
jured fatally as a train struck their
stalled automobile on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad tracks here last
night.
The dead were Mildred Schultz
II; Nancy Sering, II; Harley F. Ais
man, Is; Robert Kershaw, 10, and
Hughey Hughes, IT. All except Ker-
shaw were pupils at nearby Ben
Davis High School.
Miss Schultz died today The
others died in the accident.
Pvt. Clarence M Alsman, 18: Har-
ley's brother, home on convalescent
furlough, was injured.
The bodies were strewn along the
tracks for about 200 feet.
Evening star., 1944-03-06
Train Stalled in Tunnel
Asphyxiafes 509 Italians
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NAPLES, Mar. GA total of 500
Italian civilians were asphyxiated
early Saturday when the freight
train on which they had hitched
rides stalled in a railway tunnel in
Southern Italy.
Allied railway officials conducting
an investigation said several hun
dred civilians apparently had climbed
aboard the As hr train in the dark
ness while it Wis halted at station
before entering the tunnel.
Only about SO of those caught
aboard the train when it stalled on
"a per cent grade in the tunnel
escaped with their lives. The rest
apparently met a quick death as
carbon monoxide generated by the
engine spread swiftly through the
tunnel.
All members of the crew except
the fireman were among the dead