Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1940 — Page 10
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES a WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1940
DOCTORS OF U, S$. When ‘Witch’ Points Down, Count the Wags DUAL-LANE ROAD Army and Navy Rush Work (10 COLLEGIANS T0 PREPARE FOR And You've Found Water, Contractor Says BIDS RECEIVED On New Alaskan Bases PICKET WHITE
MEDICAL M- DAY Mr. Featherston § Toys with
Idea His Fork May Follow State Group’ s Lead; Find Oil, Too. Selection Plan for Duty | By JOE COLLIER To Be Sot Up. “Why, a fellow not long ago had
dug 48 feet for a well and had a dry Following the lead of the Indiana hole,” said James Willard FeathMedical Association, representatives erston. “So he had me come and Sy nation's organized doctors witch it for him and six feet from Vill meet Friday in Chicago to bring where he was drilling I witched him alive a medical M-day program. [a wonderful well at 38 feet” mT . . 3 rey i | ri i ki , phe program outline was adopted| ‘Witching water is an old trick| at the last American Medical Ass0-| with him. says Mr. Featherston, It's cation meeting in New York, and it! only been in the last few years that ollowed, in form and substance, the he has discovered that he can witch Pian adopted a year earlier by U e for gold and silver and lost articles. Indiana association Right now, he's toying with the idea Co-operating with the national of witching oil. but he's not sure. nd state organizations in the pre- It is true that occasionally the paredness plans are dental, nursing forked green stick which he uses is and technical organizations. And pnable to tell distinctly which witch vdvising the whole operation is the is which. But this is only a minor Army [annoyance and occurs generally I'wo Goals Outlined when he is making a demonstration
The meeting in Chicago will be for fun and isn’t in earnest, he says.
ttended by physicians presiding as It's a Gift chairmen of their corps areas. They will have before them for action: 1. The moves that can be made by physicians to make it easier for the military forces to select and assign doctors to services if and when Mday comes E 2. The moves that can he made by physicians to assure’ adequate and
When he's witching seriously, the stick is always right, says Mr. Featherston, who is a contractor and lives at 6511 Carrollton Ave. He apparently wasn't in earnest vesterday for he tried to find some’ money we had hidden in his front yard. but it didn’t quite witch out. He was two ” i orderly case of civilian patients and but A ny 5 aly sey Hy - of public health work by those not good strong pull, at that.” called to the service “T used to be in the well business Questionnaire Sent Out (right smart,” he said, “and I suppose I've put down 200 to 300 and Both the Indiana and the DNa- neyer missed one. I don't know tional associations already have Cir- what power 1t is. I guess it's a gift culated questionnaires to member thats all. Just a gift.’ physicians, collecting ages, special-| Mr Featherston cuts a forked ties, experience, preference of serv-istick from a tree—anv kind of tree ice, and other pertinent information. these days although a long time he More than 500 replies to the thought he had to have a peach Indiana Association's questionnaire tree. Then he cuts a long straight now are on file in the office here stick, also green of Thomas A Hendricks, the assoclation’s secretail The replies Indicate a willingness In the general vicinity of where to do what needs to be done. Most a well would be convenient. Mr. of the physicians 50 or younger Featherston stalks up and down. have indicated a preference for one back and forth, to and fro, grasping #gain—there sh
Just Count the Wags
Jame mes
Willard Featherston
e is. Whatever you |
or another branch of service, and the forked stick with the crotch up. have counted is the number of feet some much older also have Physi-| When (and if) the crotch of the deep the vein is, and I haven't been
cians 50 and over have generally stick irresistably points to the more than two
indicated they thought home duty ground, water has heen found, he Mr. Featherston says he amuses | would be more in line with their says. The next problem is to find members of his family by witching Iii TT
ace and abilities out how far down. This is easy for for money they
feet off anytime.”
hide from him and
Mr. Featherston that on occasion hé has found lost
Doctor, 81, Is Ready He pets
his long, straight stick articles of jowelry. He witches for However. one doctor 81 vears old and squats over the place where he relaxation after
a hard dayat work
it ought to witch for oil.”
4.5 Miles Will Be Built New Airline Brings Land TO Oppose Publisher's Plans Upstate; Elkhart Within Seven Hours of k For U. $. to Aid Allies;
Firm Is Low. Nearest U. S. Port. | Rap Conscription, JUNEAU, Alaska, July 17 (U.P). § Si ie OHICAGO, July 17 (U. P)
Continuing its policy of building : as much dual-lane highway as pos- —-Alaska, faraway northern terri- $5 i i, i (Dressed in convist suits and sible, the State Highway Commis-| tory, suddenly has entered another [ls oe : widow's veils, 10 vBung men and sion yesterday, received bids for the phase of its vivid history and be- ; ¥ Ef |women picketed William Allen construction of 4597 miles of such Nasty ‘War DAbY, re : ¥ | White's committee to defend pavement ih La Porte and St. Jo- ¢0Ome a Justy war baby. 7 | Ameriea by aiding the Allies vese 'seph Counties Until the German army marched a EL 6. | terday, The project calls for the construc- into Paris, Alaska was farther re- : 4 | The picketers, members of thw tioh of two 22-foot lanes extending | moved from the nearest United : : 2 | youth group of the Keep America from the junction of Roads 2 and | States por(, in transport time, than : [Ont of War Congréss, marched up 120 to bhe mile east of the La Porte-| was Germany itself. Today it fis id and down in front of the Stevens 'St. Joseph County line, The low | Seven hours from Seattle, less than > Hotel for half an hour carrying Ibid of $358,591 27 was submitted by 24 hours from New York and Wash- E. kb Ee posters reading lthe Bontrager Construction Co. ington, over the aerial seaway just a | “1am 21. William Allen White Elkhart. [opened by Pan American Alrways 2 fs 72 | | Alaska Clipper. “The hand that rocked the cradle The La Porte-St. Joseph County Over the Clipper route, until it a [makes the bombs.” project was ohne of eight on which |. Cased by the subarctic ‘winter : a” | “Conscription ih peace Tien froma og FY gat prof. | in mid-October, Army and Navy Dr. Ernest Gruening, . . . “We slavery in war” erday. Low bids on I” officers and engineers are movin [ “T used to support mv moths lects Yotaled $917.37417, approxi-| northward to supervise ration mes] Vroups WAH Pum, Wir WI before 1 went Ro y mately $117,000 below the engineers’ | or the tremendotrs fortifications and MAVY bases, hut above all, roads, Mr, White Was Hot 8 this cams estimate, commission officials sald. | jaranse works just authorized by Wifports and planes,” mittee's headnuarters, Clark Eichel The Middle West Roads Oo, - gangress berger, director, safd 'dianapolis, submitted the low bid| mye two “bridges from Asia” triple Alaska's previous military “This is fine for business. Wa of $127980.49 for esuraen & T4 whieh might make possible inva- strength. [ought to sigh up 50 members from [miles of state highwavs in UUIeY, sion of Alaska, Canada and the . aw | the bystanders Miami, Huntington, Wells and Mad-| Tnited States by ‘Way of ‘the Rleu- |, 1 he defense centers now Wn-| “yy Crrazel Whitten, field see ish Counties tian Islands. trot Russia by way | der construction, three are for the retary of the voith group, said of the Seward peninsula, are being [Navy and two for the Army | pickets, all 21 or 22, eollege students [protected by an effective serfes of | The Navy's program consists of a from all over the country, velin
) ret : teered to picket “to bring cot . S Gets 34 Pere blockhouses in the form of first $6,500000 wir base, plus Arty de- Ll os Ven rank submarine, air, naval and fon delegates’ attention to youth's Army bases fenses at Kodiak; $2,500,000 air base apposition to the Burke-Wadsworth Bearded Monkeys : [at Sitka: $2,900 000 submarine base Conscription Bill’ Five Major Centers [at Dutch Harbor, out on the eastern " y of t { NEW YORK, July 17 (U. P) | Northward also over the new sea "Dw ARH ari al | WEALTHY YOUTH WELD | The freighter Cathlamet docked \airway are moving Americans and | PITCH 30 neres of] HARRIBON NY. July 171 yesterday from a 110-day round [Canadians interested ih the crea- Alaska as cited by Governor Ernest| DFARRISON, | Ey trip to the West African Ivory tion of one of the greatest Wigh- Gruening are “troops and guns, air — William Alexander Stewart, weal | ‘Coast. with a cargo of 34 brown way projects in the world's history, [hd havy bases, but above all, roads, thy, 18-year-old cripple, appears in | Bearded Diana monkevs, 28 white- to connect the United States north | (airports and planes Police Court today {obo ahswar faced chimpanzees, three white- through Western Canada and the | ‘Th all Alaska,” he says, “there fs charges of assault ih connection nosed monkevs, four white-necked | Yukon with its rich and strategical- not one first «class airport, We have with the injury of a 17-vear-nid storks. and various motustached [ly vital territory of Alaska, no landing fields for large ecommer- | girl when she jumped from his [immonkeys—not to mention two Five major defense centers are cial or fighting and bombing planes. ousine. redheaded manquebys. inder construction in Alaska, to The Army is working three shifts | . SE The American -West African (employ, as the work accelerates, daily to complete its $4,000,000 air| NYA ALLOCATES $26,240,281 | Line ship, carrying more than 400 more than 5000 men training station at Fairbanks with-| WASHINGTON, July 17 (U, P), monkeys, birds, and shakes in The regular defense force of the fn a year. Primary purpose of the National Youth Administrator Ave charge of Warren Buck and con- territory, consisting principally of [station fis to accustom American brey Wiliams allocated $26,240 281 | signed to J. W. Hampton of New |fwo companies at Chilcoot Barracks, fliers to northern flying conditions. among 48 states, the District of Cos
y \.g | ~ % { i114 ¢ g Which “witch Is ‘Witch? | York and Philadelphia, was [Skagway, Is being increased ~any-| Largest single military project lumbia and island possessions (hs
“| brought tnhto port by first Mate 8, [fold. The Army will not reveal the ih Alaska is the Army's great new day for operation of the =ziudent
“Neither do I rightly,” he said. | 8 Mace Capt. Frank Seay of [eventual personnei figure, but ad- base at Anchorage, for which $9,- work program during the 1040-4] “If ‘it
witches for water. seems like! Brooklyn had died of a heart at- mits that a single *ransport recent'y 000,000 has been appropriated. {school veal He said the money tack aboard ship after the Cathl- [arrived at Anchorage from eattle] All the suddenly-intensified ac- would provide means for more than amet left Dakar, French Senegal. with enough men in the one move to tivity in Alaska is not American, | 500.000 students ,
stated he wanted Army service and has discovered the vein of water,|as a carpenter or whatever line of |i
jonored the space marked for home holding the tapered end of the stick contracting he happens to be work- |
vice. Another appended a note In both hands horizontally over the ing at at the moment
he had sent two sons to the Spot No one else war and had taken over the “First,” said Mr. Featherston, “the to be able to
in his family seems witch. His ‘wife is
home-doctoring of twb towns stick will wag back and forth. Then very much impressed with her hus-
Indiana physicians who conceived it will start wagging up and down. band's prowess
and formed the M-day preparation Every time it goes up and down, “Have you ever witched for oil,”
plan, new in either medical or mili- you figure it's a foot. All you have she asked him, tary experience, were hoping to to do is count ‘em “No.”
void the disorder, both civil and “Then, when she stops going up, “Don’t see why you couldn't,” she
litary, that occurred in medicine and down, and starts Roi 18 SIAEWAY'S said. ing mobilization for the World Br ——. pr ——
: tt time, mary otters (Cpe Mighty G. A. R. Ranks |
and then, after drilling anc
De Dwindle to 40 in Indiana
physicians for service in the Medi11 Corns By heing able to present the mihauthorities with records ot lassifications, the phvsicians hope tn save valuable dayvs inh getting the enlarged medical corps in order if mobilization occurs
Of these 40. hardly one is under receive a pens 99 and most of them are over 93
intant general of the Indiana G
hove “wha wore the blue” within hinger sald
GOLF MEET PRIZES the next five or six years several years
He savs, however, that some of
until they reac Dr. Joseph B. Henninger, ad- $50 a month thereafter “This pension is the best paid by A. R. himself 92, predicts that any government on earth and we REALTORS TO GET death will claim the remaining Old soldiers are grateful,” Dr. St “I was in England ago and discovered eterans are paid only The Indianapolis Real Pstate {je “drummer bovs"—those who @ comparatively small fraction of
that their old v
The Indiana Grand Armv of the) The Union veterans are paid a Republic, once 18.000 strong, today pension of $100 a numbers 40 men Federal Government. Their widows ion of $30 a month
month by the
dh
h the age of 70 and
Board ‘will hold its third 1940 golf were 12 or 14 at the time of the the amount we receive.”
tournament tomorrow at the Hill- gtmgole—will live to see 1950
crest Country Club. Golfers will tee| mie Indiana ‘G. A. R. reached EP NG + . “oe 11] y 3 i off at noon and prizes will be yo peak in membership in 1892 WE | awarded at a 6:30 p. m. dinner
Henry L Richard, chairman ot Ven Jad gp Cuan ANG PRAY FOR WAR DEAD
on its rolls the meet, is assisted by Henry L. ...po have diminished rapidly. In Simons, ‘vice chairman Joseph J 1930 only 1300 members remained PARIS, July Arcus, John H. Elam. Richard T. np, jy 1937 only 138 members were Berlin Hill. Willi»m V. Kingdon. John B oh ‘the ‘tolls \ of weeping wid I.nokabill, M. 'C. Mackey and Robert The membership fell below the
3 Movnal B. Moynahan 100 mark during 1938 and on Jan y 1. 1939. only 97 were left the battlefields
KINFOLK
Hen-
16 (Via air eourier to
delayed) (U.P. Hundreds
ows and mothers at- |
tended a hich requiem mass today | for hushands and sons who fell on
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THIEF GETS $4 Fifty-four were alive at the start The only sounds as Celestine Car-
A thief entered the home of Mrs. of 1940, but death already this year dinal Suhard
prayed for the dead
John Conwav, 2421 N. Delaware St, has reduced the number to 40 and the resurrection of France were | last night and escaped with a purse The G. A. R.,, however, does not sobs and dull explosions in the dis- | containing $4. include all the Union veterans in| tance, possibly bombing raids on the |
Indiana. There are several vet- English Chann
Radio Repairing erans who have not joined for vari- The services
ous reasons and an effort is being white towered.
Expert Radio aw, made now tn get the names and, Heart Church
el shore.
were held in the byzantine Sacred
overlooking Paris.
L1-6789 tor a guaran. addresses of all the Union soldiers More than 1000 persons, includ-! arman soldiers who
teed service on any ‘make ‘or ‘mod rl in the state to find out exactly ing a few G
WUE POIN DELAWARE how many are alive, Dr. Henninger stood silently and ) & MADISON said \
the background, attended.
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