Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1939 — Page 6
ALLNEW PUPILS
But - There ‘Will Be Recess Oct. 26.
Here’s bad news for 60,000 Indianapolis boys and girls: The . public schools will reopen Sept. 5—just two weeks from tomorrow. : : As school activities were announced, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board secretary, urged par- . ents to see that all children have a clean bill of health. before schools reopen. He urged smallpox vaccinations for first graders, diphtheria immunization for all children not immunized, a general physical examination and a checkup of teeth. 2500 to Begin
School Board officials estimated that the enrollment will include 2500
beginners in the first grade and|%8D
about 3000 high school freshmen. Pupils will get their first holidays Thursday and Friday, Oct. 26 and 27, during the State Teachers Association meeting. The brief Thanksgiving vacation will be Thursday and Friday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. The Christmas vacation will extend from Friday Dec. 22 until Monday, Jan. 8. Other school holidays will be Washington's birthday; the spring vacation from Friday, March 29 to Monday, April 8, and Memorial Day. The first semester will extend from Sept. 5 until Jan. 26, 1940, and the second from Jan. 29 to June 7. A teachers’ meeting is scheduled for 9 a. m. Friday, Sept. 1, at Tech .High School with Supt, DeWitt S. Morgan presiding. The speaker will be Dr. D. S. Robinson, president of Butler University. .
New Classrooms Ready
High school teachers are to report to their principals at the seven high schools at 10 a. m. that day. Elementary teachers will repori tw their principals at the 85 buildings at 1:30 p. m. Eleven new classrooms, an audi-torium-gymnasium and a cafeteria at Broad Ripple High School will
be among new facilities put to use|
this year. , School 91, now under construction at 51st -and Baltimore Ave., may be ready for use by the school opening date, but occupancy may be delayed because of a jurisdictional labor dispute.
REOPEN MANGANESE MINES SUSSEX, N. B., Aug. 21 (U. PJ). —Mining of manganese is being resumed in Kings County this summer after & lapse of 44 years. Mines
opsned recently in Markhamville have yielded the richest samples ever found in Canada, according to Canadian and American geologists.
1918— Best U.S. Soldier”:
1939—Pension Raise Lost
6 Nations Honored Woodfil Once but Now He Is Jobless.
By NED BROOKS Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.— The fading glory of the World War's heroes is typified in the story of
Capt. Sam Woodfill, to which Congress has just added another chapter. A few days before the session ended, the Senate passed a bill to increase Capt. Woodfill’s retirement pay by $11.25 a month. It was one of some 200 measures jammed through in the pre-adjournment rush. Probably not a half dozen Senators ih the chamber recalled the honors which an adoring nation two decades ago heaped on the man described by Gen. Pershing as the “outstanding American soldier.” But the bill didn’t become law. A companion measure was bottled up in the House Military Affairs Committee after War Secretary Harry Woodring registered opposition on the ground that the captain’s gallantry already had been “duly recized” in an award of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Retired at Indianapolis
Capt. Woodfill, a native of Madison, Ind., was wounded and gassed in the encounter on the afternoon of "Oct. 12, 1918, in the MeuseArgonne sector, when he killed 19 Germans and took three prisoners single-handed. In the fever of excitement at the close of the. war, he was accorded honors unmatched by any other enlisted man. Six nations gave him decorations. Congress adjourned in his honor, the New York Stock Exchange suspended business for three minutes when he came on the floor, he sat with President Wilson in a box at a Washington theater, he was a guest of Marshal Foch in New York. - | Today Capt. Woodfill is without
la job. After his discharge cere-
mony at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis in 1923, he moved with his wife to Ft. Thomas, Ky., where he had first enlisted in 1901. Until 20 years ago he served as a member of a disabled ex-service men’s board in Louisville. Illness in his family forced his resignation. He is still an expert marksman and attends the annual national rifle matches at Camp Perry, O. In two previous Congresses the Senate has passed bills restoring Capt. Woodfill to his wartime captaincy rank and raising his retirement pay from $138.75 to $150 a month. Both times the measures have been killed in the House by adverse recommendations from the War Department. The first bills proposing his extra retirement pay were introduced in 1929.
Advanced to Captain
Capt. Woodfill entered the war as a master sergeant and later received emergency commissions as first lieutenant and captain. Following the war he reverted to his enlisted
status as a sergeant. He retired as
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Capt. Woodfill . . . retired in Indianapolis. ;
a sergeant major in 1923 and under an act of Congress in 1932 was advanced on the retired list to the grade of captain but without the increase in pay. The “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity” for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor occurred at Cunel, France, when, as a lieutenant, he led his company against heavy German machine-gun fire. Approaching one machine-gun nest from the flank, he shot down four Germans and killed the fourth, an officer, in a hand-to-hand struggle. Citation Quoted
At a second nest, still preceding his company, he captured three prisoners and killed the rest of the crew. The official citation tells the rest of the story: “A few minutes later this officer for the third time demonstrated conspicuous daring by charging another machine-gun position, killing five men in one pit with his rifle. He then drew his revolver and started to jump into the pit when two other gunners only a few yards away turned their gun on him. Failing to kill them with his revolver, he grabbed a pick lying nearby and killed both of them. “Inspired by the exceptional courage displayed by this officer, his men pressed on to their objective under severe shell and machine-gun fire.”
ASKS FARMERS’ AID IN TRAFFIC SAFETY
T. A. Dicus, Highway Commission chairman, today appealed to farmers along State highways to cut tall corn, weeds and other vegetation growing in fence corners at road intersections. Many farmers on state highways take pride in keeping tall crops out of fence corners, he said, giving motorists greater visibility and safety. There are some who disregard the safety of others and allow vegetation to grow, he added. The Commission annually spends thousands of dollars for STOP and other warning signs at intersections, he said, only to have. weeds and crops hide them. A number of accidents and several fatalities have resulted during recent weeks .because of this.
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|Three Hoosier Projects Get
U. S. Aid for 1421 Miles of Line.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Three Indiana Rural Electric Membership Corporations today had been alloted a total of $1,371,000 by the Rural Electrification Administration to construct 1421- miles of line serving 4525 REMC members. : Tipmont REMC, Linden, got $480,000 for 510 miles of line to serve 1673 members in Fountain, Tippecanoe,’ Montgomery and Clifton Counties. A $200,000 allotment previously had been made to this project for line construction and $6000 for house wiring. White County REMC, Monticello, got $446,000 for 450 miles of line to serve 1398 members in White, Pulaski, Benton and Jasper Counties and Kankakee Valley REMC, Wanatah, $445,000 for 461 miles to. serve 1454 ‘members in Porter, Starke, St. Joseph, La Porte and Pulaski Counties. The latter project had a previous allotment of $170,000. :
MARINE CORPS GROUP TO MEET TOMORROW
The Indianapolis Marine Corps League will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the World War Memorial to hear Maj. A. W. Paul, U. S. Marine Corps inspector-instructor from Washington. Julius Wischer, U. S. Marshal here and an exMarine, also will speak. Members are urged to attend because of an important announcement concerning the League's quarters.
MANICURIST EXPERT SHOT CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 21 (U. PJ). —Miss Marvel St. Aubin, a manicurist. shoots a pistol—and expertly —because, she says, it steadies her hand. “I started shooting in Florida last year,” said the girl, a team captain of the suburban Lakewood Police Pistol Association. “It’s great fun and I think it improves my work as a manicurist.” '
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Root to Tassel 5
Times Special Ti ; CENNES, Ind, Aug. 21.— Tall corn—the kind that. made Iowa jealous—will again be king here Sept. 2 when Knox -and Lawrence County farmers compete in the annual long-stalk derby.’ As usual the winner will receive’ cash at the rate of a dollar a yard. * The stalks be measured from “tassel-tip to tap root” and’ especially large ears don’t count. The contest is open to landowners, tenants, or farm workers, provided that the latter tend the corn entered. Local corn fanciers slyly revealed a few tips: Don’t dig up the stalk until the day the contest closes. Shrinkage of several inches may result. Protect the tassel top. The difference of one seed-may determine the winner. : Fasten a tag to the stalk which bears the entrant’s name and address—otherwise entries won’t be eligible. ¢
LIST 7 FROM HERE AS CULVER GRADS:
Times Special CULVER, Aug. 21.—Seven dianapolis students are among those who were graduated from the navy, woodcraft and cavalry schools of Culver Military Academy, following the close of the summer session. They are Jack E. Lilly, Harry Rybolt, navy; Howard woodcraft; Perry Griffith, woodcraft; Robert Dedaker, woodcraft; George Mayer, woodcraft, and John R. Brant Jr., navy. " Company IV, commanded by Perry Lewis, Crawfordsville, was awarded the Tuxis cup, given each summer to the company having the greatest number of winners of the Tuxis medals for all-round achievement William Schacht, Huntington, was named best all-round trooper in the cavalry school, best horseman and
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BOBBITT URGES FOES OF NEW DEAL UNITE
Times Special : HAGERSTOWN, Aug. 21—A strong union of all persons who are opposed to the New Deal is nec-
ernment is to survive, according to Republican State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt. x Speaking at a 10th and 11th District Republican Editorial Association meeting, Saturday night, Mr. Bobbitt declared that “party leaders recognize the necessity of a strong union of all persons of all classes— of whatever, race, creed or color—if our government is to survive and be} maintained. “There is no place in the Republican Party for class hatred or intolerance,” he said. “We will win in 1940- on a platform which ade vocates principals which are not sectarian, religious or racial.”
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