Dale News, Volume 6, Number 1, Dale, Spencer County, 19 February 1943 — Page 1

THE DALE NEWS

VOLUME VI

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1943

NUMBER 1

JACOB POTH PASSES AWAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS

Recruiting Offices Opened To Women’s Reserve Applicants

TWO MONTHS OLD BABY DIES OF PNEUMONIA

Jacob Poth, 79, died at 10 o’clock Sunday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lydia Whitten, after a long illness. Surviving are two other daughters, Mrs. Raymond Hartley, Dale, and Mrs. Leonard Walker, Monterey, Calif.; four sons, Donald Poth, of Vincennes, Pvt. Delbert Poth of Sioux City, Iowa, Pvt. Woodrow Poth of Temple, Tex., and Frank Poth of Dale; 14 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

More than 500 Navy Recruiting Stations located throughout the country will be utilized beginning February 15 to speed-up the induction of volunteers for service in the Women’s Reserve of both the U. S. Naval Reserve and the U. S. Coast Guard Reserve.

After these forms are filled out they must be sent by mail to the nearest Office of Naval Officer Procurement.

Jane Harper, two months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Harper, died at St. Mery's hospital at Evansville Tuesday night of Pneumonia.

Volunteers for enlisted ratings will receive from the recruiting stations the various preliminary application forms and are to return these, along with a birth certificate, three letters of recommendation, and other necessary material, to the recruiting officer. After a study of the applicant’s papers, they are to be forwarded to the nearest Office of Naval Officer Procurement and if the applicant appears to be acceptable, she will be provided government transportation to that office for final examinations. If accepted, she will be enlisted and returned home to await call to active duty. When a volunteer is called, she will be sent to a primary training center. At the end of six weeks’ training she may be assigned to duty immediately or, if aptitude tests show her to be qualified, she may be sent to specialist schools and trained for a specialist rating. Among the opportunities open to women are a number of ratings in aviation work as well as training to become radio operators, yeomen, storekeepers, pharmacists’ mates and cooks.

Surviving besides her parents are three sisters, Dorothy Ann, Betty Lou and Patsy.

Screening tests and other preliminary phases of the applications received from volunteers for duty as enlisted women are to be handled at the recruiting stations, while the stations also will issue forms on which officer-candidates must apply for commissions. Other steps necessary to complete the enlistment of enlisted women and the enrollment of women officers will be carried out at the 37 main and branch Offices of Naval Officer Procurement, which heretofore have been required to handle all work in connection with the women’s program as well as process all male applicants for reserve commissions.

Funeral services were held at 10 o’clock Thursday morning at the home, Barthol Rogers, pastor of the Methodist church officiating. The body was removed to Clarksville, Tenn., for continued services and burial.

Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the United Brethren church, with the Rev. 0. A. Beanblossom in charge. Burial was in the Dale cemetery.

Republicans of the Eighth congressional district will hold a Victory meeting in the Coliseum at Evansville Monday night, Feb. 22, beginning at 7 p. m., to which the public is invited. Speakers will be Congressman Charles LaFolletxe of Evansville ana Governor btassen of Minnesota. Governor Stassen’s speech will be broadcast beginning at 9 p. m.

In another column of this paper you will note that the Acme Canning Co., Dale, Ind., is now taking applications for tomato acreage. From what information we have the Government is setting the price on tomatoes this year and urging every one to grow some who can do so. No doubt the prices will be high and those who grow them can not only make some money for themselves but will be doing a patriotic duty by producing a food that is so badly needed by our Armed Forces. Just another way you can serve your country on the Home Front.

The new set-up will permit acceleration of efforts to bring into the Naval Service women who can relieve men for duty in combat zones, and at the same time will lighten the heavy work load of the Offices of Naval Officer Procurment.

C. L. Springstun and E. C. Reinhart were in Indianapolis last week end and moved the household goods of the former's daughter-in-law to Dale. Mrs. Springstun and small son will reside in the Leila Gudgeon house in Stringtown. Her husband Lester is with the armed forces. Dale welcomes Mrs. Springstun and baby.

The Women's Reserve, U.S.N.R., was established six months ago today. During that period more than 5,000 women have entered the Naval Service. From those already trained, replacements for 1,200 men officers and 500 enlisted men have been assigned to active duty in all types of shore establishments.

The Sunday Star of Washington, D. C., says regulations are to be relaxed to permit any person needing a new automobile to buy without a ration certificate convertibles with soft tops, cars costing more than $1,500 and 1941 model of any type and price. Moreover, the paper says, all holders of “C” gasoline ration cards, regardless of whether they are in essential work, will be eligibly to buy automobiles of any price if they demonstrate that their present ear is no longer serviceable.

Because of the highlv successful replacement of men by women, the Navy Department-during 1943 4,500 women officers and 31,000 enlisted women for the Women's Reserve, U. S. Naval Reserve, while 4,000 officers and enlisted women are to be sought for the Women’s Reserve, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. The recruiting stations and substations in cities where there are no Offices of Naval Officer procurement are authorized to give preliminary screening tests to women applying for enlistment. Officer candidates, however, may only obtain the necessary application forms at recruiting stations.

Officer candidates wishing to apply first through a recruiting station rather than one of the 37 Offices of Naval Officer Procurement may obtain application blanks, preliminary physical examination report blank and other papers. When these are filled out, they should be mailed direct to the nearest Office of Naval Officer Procurement. All screening of officer cants will be done at these central offices and a qualified candidate will be brought to the Office of Naval Officer Procurement at government expense for the final examinations. If successful, she wifi be sworn in and returned home to await call to active duty. In large cities where Offices of Naval Officer Procurement are located, both officer and enlisted aplicants will be referred directly to that office by any recruiting stations in that city after the applicant has been given a copy of the recruiting pamphlet.

Carrie Hufnagel has been notified by the war department that her son, Private Jerome Hufnagel, has arrived safely at an unannounced destination. He has been in the army since Sept. 14, 1942. Mrs. Hufnagel has another son in the army, Private John E. Hufnagel, who is stationed with the air corps at Atlantic, N. J.

A federal income tax man will be in Dale, Ind., on February 24, to help people fill out their tax forms, if help is needed. He will be at the postoffice.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clell Spurlock on last Thursday a baby daughter.

The Post Office will be closed Monday, Feb. 22nd, in observance of Washington's birthday.

Lew M. Bannon, 78, editor of the Corydon Democrat, died at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis, Tuesday, after an illness of eight weeks.

Aloysius 0. Stallman has been transferred from Ft Benjamin Harrison, Ind., to Qamp Bowie, Texas.