Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1942 — Page 11

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Women Can Enlist In Army Auxiliary If Congresswoman’s Bill Is Passed

By EVELYN PEYTON GORDON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 —Back in 1817 a former Boston debutante

got an idea that may soon move American womanhood to whack off the long, lacquered fingernails, to clip the sleek pompagours and to

forget the new mink coats. Edith Nourse Rogers—now a veteran Congresswoman—had gone abroad with her husband. the late Rep. John Jacob Rogers of Lowell, Mass. While he was in France on special missions and lateét with the Army, she was working on early-morning duty at the Eagles’ Hut in England. She was serving hot breakfast to the young men of Englands dawn patrols; terribly young men who went cheerfully forth each day not knowing whether they'd return across the Dover cliffs. During those days in England, Mrs. Rogers saw the effectiveness of women in organized war work. I talked to Mrs. Rogers in her office at the Capitol. Since those days in England she has sat in her late husband's seat in the House for 16 years. For a long time she has been trying to prepare the way for an official womens voluntary service with the Army. -She started working out her pian in peacetime, and recently she introduced a bill providing for a Volunteer Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps such as she had seen working in England. It is up for vote in the House today.

Mrs. Rogers believes it will pass.

MRS. ROGERS has long been noted as the “prettiest” Congress-.

woman. She is always well-dressed, always wears a fresh flower on her trim suits. She’s quite feminine. But she sees the value of an auxiliary corps, directly under Army discipline and subject to the same orders that govern the men of our Army, thus releasing more men for combat. . England has such a corps. Russian women have long had their “Battalion of Death.” Polish women took up their guns to fight the Russians in 1920; Spanish women fought with the nonchalance of old campaigners. China's women have been fighters since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese war. = = = SO, GIRLS, it looks as though you might soon be able to join the Army, starting with regular Army base pay of $21 a month. There'll be none of those handsome Carnegie-designed uniforms which Mayor LaGuardia wants for his civilian defense workers. You'll take what the Army provides and like it, even as your brothers and husbands and sweethearts are liking it. %

Mrs. Rogers said she didn’t want the group proposed in her bill to ~

be confused with the American Women’s Voluntary Services. “That organization is good but it runs itself,” she said. “The Volunteer Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps will be run directly by the Army.”

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“Many have written that they would si ve without pay,” Mrs. Rogers said, “if only they could serve. All they want is quarters, food and a uniform.” # “Women in writing to me don’t seem the least concerned about what kind of uniform they will get,” she said. “They are concerned only with the service they can perform. They are not after thrills.”

2 2 2 2 ” 2 IN DRAFTING HER BILL Mrs. Rogers had three things in mind: 1. Replacement of men for combat service.

2. Protection of women volunteer workers who now have no official status and therefore will not be eligible for hospitalization if wounded or for pensions. : 3. The good of the service—“the war department needs women and their special skills.” . The War Department, she said, will ask for 12,700 volunteers in the near future, 9,000 immediately, if the bill becomes law. Most of them will go right into air raid warning work—the basic warning sy~tem Operated by the army, not the civil defense organizations. Volunteers would be accepted from the 21-45 age group only and would have to be women of “good physical condition and moral character.” The service period, unless lengthened by the Secretary of

War, would be one year. W. A. A. C. members would live in barracks under the supervision

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of directors, assistant directors and officers, operate on a 24-hour basis just as soldiers do, eat army rations and obey army rules and regulations. Recruits would receive a soldier's pay—$21 a month to" start. Mrs. Rogers said the War Department had indicated that W. A. A. C. members could aspire for officers’ ranks as high as colonel. She added that many colleges had offered to institute W. A. A. C. officers’. training systems comparable to the R. O. T. C. for men. ,

” ” 2 ” 2 8 3 W. A. A. C.’s as the corps members inevitably will be called, would ° serve in any non-combatant capacity “recommended by the Secretary : of War and approved by the President,” from switchboard service to truck-driving. Women now working without pay as air raid warning volunteers, if ° circumstances made it impossible for them to join the corps, would be . replaced by W. A. A. C.’s, Mrs. Rogers said, because the warning system “has to be mobile.” It is quite possible, she added, that many W. A. A. C. members would serve, on foreign soil before the way is over. The War Department is eager to place its women volunteers and certain other workers on an army footing, Mrs. Rogers said, because of the need for 24-hour control over them and for reasons of security. “Some of the work women do is mighty confidential,” she said. “We're at war.”

8 and 40 Group

Cancel Annual Events Because of War

To Hear Report

The Riley Hospital Cheer Guild

Voters to Hear Talks on

Members of the Marion County

Society—

Wartime Service Tomorrow

Salon, 126, Eight and Forty, American Legion Auxiliary, will hear, Mrs. William Weimar, Pouvoir delegate, give a report on the State Pouvoir,

Forty, American Legion Auxiliary,

decided at a recent meeting to buy six $25 defense bonds; to donate $100 to the Riley Hospital to supply

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Bundles for America Is Moving Into New Headquarters This Week

IN ANTICIPATION of the extension of its war relief work, Bundles for America is moving this week to larger quarters. The office, formerly located in the In-

surance Building, is being set up at 39 W. Ohio St. There the organization will have a street entrance, windows for display and that added touch. a sign. If the women get what they want, and they usually do, there will be several partitions making a shop up front, a little room for clerical work and, eventually, a room where work can be done at headquarters. But come what may, expect to be open for business as usual on Thursday. The organization recently changed its name from Bundles for Bluejackets to Bundles for America. It had been doing knitting only for men in the navy. Now it will extend its services to include all branches of the armed forces and the United States merchant marine as well The organization also is planning a project to raise funds for fts free wool fund. Through contributions and funds raised, yarn will be made available for those knitters who can give service but who can not afford to buy their own varn. Also under consideration is a special presentation service of scarfs to men at the Radio School in the Naval Armory. Work on these articles is being completed and as soon as the collection is complete, plans for the event will be announced.

Martha Morrison Will Be Married Saturday

MISS MARTHA MORRISON: of Chicago, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Morrison, will become the bride of Frederick Arthur McLaughlin of Evanston in a ceremony to be performed Saturday afternoon in the McKee Chapel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Mr. McLaughlin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. McLaughlin of South Berwick, Me. Miss Morrison was graduated from the University of nlinois where shé was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority. Mr. McLaughlin was graduated from the University of New Hampshire and received his: master’s degree at Northwest- . ern University. He is a member of Lambda Miss Morrison Chi Alpha Fraternity. Miss Mary Morrison will be her sister's only attendent. Joseph C. Beveridge will be Mr. McLaughlin's best man. = = s 2 = Mrs. Ralph K. Brafford and Mrs. Henry L. Moffett will entertain tonight at the home of the former with a kitchen shower in honor of Miss Jane Cooling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Parke A. Cooling, who will be married to Dr. Thomas A. Brady Jr. Feb. 15. Guests will be the Mesdames Cooling, Charles C. Brandt, Emma Draper Lutz, William P. Cooling, George D. Hayes, Joseph W. Barr, John S. Lynn, William J. Kinnally, Gordon F. Cantelon, Robert Mor4

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Delta Theta 3 Tau Convenes

This Week-End|

The Alpha Province Convention of Delta Theta Tau Sorority, which will be in session at the Hotel Lincoln Saturday and Sunday, will be climaxed by a “Victory” breakfast Sunday in the Travertine Room.

Highlighting meetings of the Indianapolis League of Women Voters for the month of February is one tomorrow at which Mrs. Richard Edwards, Peru, director of wartime service for the Indiana League, will B explain why League members are fitted for special service in the war ‘emergency. The general meeting will be at 10 a. m. in the West Room of the World War Memorial Building.

Miss Jrene Sweeney, field secretary for the Indiana League, will talk cn “How We Are Going to Render Special Service.” Mrs. Thomas D. Sheerin will discuss “What Democracy Has at Stake.” The talks have been planned to correlate with the enlistment drive

for the wartime service training]: state |:

program planned by the League. “America Organizes Medicine” will be the subject of Mrs. John Goodwin at a meeting of the Government and Economic Welfare group at 2:30 p. m. Thursday in the home of Mrs. C. B. Durham, 3345 Washington Blvd. Mrs. Durham will report on the work of the Defense Housing Committee. Monday at 2 p. m, Mrs. D. A. Hathaway, 4202 Cold Spring Road,

will be hostess to Foreign Policy

Group 1 in her home. To Consider Taxes

A review of the League, “Know Your ‘Local School System,” will be given Feb. 11 at a 10 a. m. meeting of the Government and Education group at Mrs. Arthur Medlicott’s, 5879 N. New Jersey St. The Government and Its Operation group members will discuss taxes at a 1:30 p. m. meeting Feb, 12 in the home of Mrs. C. R. Myers, 2323 College Ave. Feb. 16, Foreign Policy Group 2 will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Merwyn Bridenstine, 520 Berkley Road, at 2 p. m. Mrs. H. S. Adams, 4925 Carrollton Ave., will be hostess at the same time to the Foreign Policy Orientation group at which the discussion will be “Major Global Foreign Policy of the United States.” At 2:15 p. m. the same day, the Government and Social Welfare group will meet at the home of Mrs. Fred Bates Johnson, 4115 N. Illinois St., with “Health Insurance” as its topic.

To Discuss Price Control

Mrs. C. B. Blakeslee will lead a discussion on price control at a meeting of the Government and Economic Welfare group Feb. 19 at 2:30 p. m. at Mrs. Durham’s. Mrs. John L. H. Fuller, 5225 N. Illinois St., will be hostess to Foreign Policy Group 1 at 2 p. m. Feb. 23, and Mrs. 5361 Broadway, will entertain the Government and Its Operation

dinner meeting room tonight at 6:30 o'clock.

Sunnyside Sanatorium.

held in Terre Haute recently, at a in Feeser’s Tea-

As a part of the group’s welfare program, Salon members have been selling articles made by patients at

will meet at 8 p. m. Thursday in the home of Mrs. Mary Berry, 2445 College Ave. to hear Mrs. Arthur J. Miller, Pouvoir delegate, report on the state meeting which was held in Terre Haute recently. The Salon purchased a defense bond last montn,

equipment for the admitting room, and to give a check for $5 to the Infantile Paralysis Fund.

The annual Founders’ Day Tea in April and June breakfast were canceled owing to the war emergency.

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Group Feb. 26. At the latter meet-

gan, Hall Cochrane, Donald Sturgeon and the Misses Jean Grumme, {ing members will continue their

Jane Allison, Dorothy Braden and Doris Wheeler. Miss Mary Jane Simons and Mrs.

Mrs. Coffin to Be Music Commentator

THE SEVENTH of 10 pre-concert luncheons and explanatory music talks sponsored by the women's committee of the Indiana State Symphony Society will be held in the Athenaeum at noon Friday. The luncheon-lecture will precede the Friday afternoon and Saturday night concerts by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of its conductor emeritus, Ferdinand Schaefer. who is making his annual appearance as guest conductor during the mid-winter vacation of Fabien Sevitzky, regular conductor. Reservations for the luncheon, for which there is a nominal charge, must be received before 5 p. m. tomorrow at the onchestra’s Murat Theater headquarters. No reservations are necessary for the music talk which is given without charge. Mrs. Lenore Coffin will be the music commentator on the prograin to be played that afternoon and Saturday.

Southern Club Auxiliary to Hear Talk on Hands

MRS. MARGARET TROMBLEY GERARD will give an informal talk. “Off-Hand.” Friday following a 1 o'clock luncheon of the Southern Club Auxiliary in the home of the president, Mrs. Toner M. Cverley. Mrs. Gerard. who has made a study of hands for the last 10 years, will invite the participation of members in discussing their own hands. Mrs. Overley’s assistants will be Mesdames M. V. Bailey, Kennedy Reese and C. E. Stevens. = = » 2 2 2 Mrs. LaFayette LeVan Porter, Greencastle, state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, will speak Feb. 12 at a 1 o'clock luncheon of the Irvington Chapter in the Columbia Club. Hostesses will be the Mesdames Hugh Leaming, H. B. Rose and Frank R. Baker. A delegate to the Continental Congress of the organization, to be held in Washington the week of April 13, will be elected. = = = = 2 = The monthly meeting of the board of the Suemma Coleman Home will be a luncheon at noon Friday in the Home. Mrs. J. William Wright. the president, will preside. = = » = 2 =

The Fortnightly Literary Club was to hear two papers at its meeting at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon in the Propylaeum. The first, “Now I Ask You,” was to be read by Mrs. Charles M. Wells and the second, “Our Light-Hearted Laureate,” was to be presented by Mrs. Francis W. Dunn.

Stephens Alumnae Dinner Is Thursday

THE STEPHENS COLLEGE ALUMNAE CLUB will attend an informal dinner at 6:30 p. m. Thursday at the home of Mrs. John Blam, 5544 Guilford Ave. » » » 8 2 » Speaker at a luncheon meeting held at 12:30 p. m. Thursday in the Indianapolis Athletic Club by the Wells College Alumnae Club will be Dr. William Weld, president of the school. Miss Judith Preston will preside. During the afternoon ciub members will give a tea for prospective students and their mothers at the home of Miss Margaret Wohlgemuth. ® ® = » 2 2 Miss Nancy D. Goodrich, daughter of Mrs. Louis H Haerle a member of the scenery crew for the next production by perimental Theater at Vassar College.

Russell Anderson, assisted by Mrs. |

J. L. Richardson, Miss Catherine Brewer and Miss Mae Diiliner, will be in charge of breakfast arrangements. Following breakfast, a visit will be made to the Light Therapy Department at the Riley Hospital. The department was endowed by the Indiana Chapters of the sorority. Guest speakers at the banquet, to be given in the Travertine Room Saturday evening, will be Col. Walter S. Drysdale, commanding officer at Ft. Benjamin Harrison; Homer Capehart and Russell W. MeDermott. ‘Mesdames Maurice Johnston, Harry Anderson, Herman Klinge and the Misses Gladys Hoffman, Dorothea Redelman, Hazel Patrick and Geraldine O'Rourke are completing plans for the banquet. In charge of the dance following will be Mrs. Virgil McCoun and Miss Consuelo Zickendrath, cochairmen, assisted by Mesdames Oscar Burgan. Clifforq Carr, Kendall Kelly and the Misses Marjorie Shaffer, Irene Moran and Helen Daugherty.

Bride

'discussion of the “Tax Kit.” Yesterday, Foreign Policy Group 2 met at the home of Mrs. Richard Lieber to talk on “Organization for Peace” and the Foreign Policy Orientation group met at Miss Mary Catherine Wright's to discuss “U. S. Foreign Policy Toward the Far East.” The League’s board meeting was to be held at 10 a. m. today at the 38th Street Branch ‘of the Merchants National Bank.

Parties Honor Miss Forrest

Mrs. Elmer Gilson Jr. will entertain tomorrow evening with a miscellaneous shower for Miss Jeanne M. Forrest, whose marriage to Russell Powell will take place Sunday in McKee Chapel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. The guest list for the shower includes Mesdames Victor Guio, Meredith Pressor, Robert Lauth, George Vickery and the Misses Jean Knight, Josephine Forrest, Geraldine Getz, Peggy Burell and Grace Huffmah. Miss Mennel and Mrs. Vickery gave a linen shower recently. Attending were Mrs. John Forrest, mother of the bride-to-be, Mesdames Fritz Mennel, David MecQueen, Ethel Stratton, Norman Grauel and the Misses Mary Roberts, Jo Ann Keller, Forrest, Getz and Burell.

Miss Getz was hostess at a mis-| i

cellaneous shower for Miss Forrest in her home last night.

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Mothers Will Hear Talk on Co-Operation

The ' Mothers’ Club of the 48th Street Kindergarten, Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society, will have a covered dish luncheon at 1 p. m. tomorrow at the kindergar-

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Mrs. Mildred Levey will lead a discussion of “Co-operation of Parent, Child and Teacher.”

Entertains Sorority Beta Chapter, Phi Beta Delta, will meet at the home of Mrs. James Butler, 3217 E. North at 8 p.

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