Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1942 — Page 2

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Bureaus to Cut Down

On Personnel. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U. PJ).

The war department today made public an order cutting down the fumber of army officers engaged in public relations work and cen-

izing in the department's bureau public authority to clear almost

The directive was dated Aug. 14], “one day after Secretary of War

L. Stimson decried the “protion” of army news which he indicated was responsible for circula-

ion of a false story about ground|

markers allegedly pointing the way for enemy sky raiders to find vital par installations. Stimson promised then that the Humber of officers engaged in pubdic relations work, but not attached

to the public relations bureau,|

Would be slashed.

The New Setup 9

! ‘Under the new setup, an office of technical information with a personnel of four officers and eight enlisted men or civilians, will be ‘established in each of the head‘quarters of the army ground forces, Bir froces and services of supply in lieu of the public relations offices

“will plan and recommend press ac- ~ %vities, but the actual dissemination of news will be carried out by

Sets Personnel Limit

“! Other military installations such ~ @s training centers and schools, . whose strength exceeds 5000 men, 8 coil operate their public relations - activities with the services of not ‘more than two officers and two en-

. Military organizations having less than 5000 men will employ only one ~ officer and one civilian or enlisted

. The directive states that these a orders must be carried out not later than Oct. 1, and that the personnel ~ allotments cannot be exceeded = without specific authority from the war department.

PILGRIM SHRINE TO MEET

Pilgrim Shrine 12 will sponsor a garden party at 7:30 p. m. Thurs- | day at the home of Daisy Carlisle, ~ B20 N. Bradley ave. worthy high

for a picture with Second Lieut.

By ROSEMARY REDDING

The “look at the birdie” business is picking up. The fact is, it’s practically booming. You can credit it, along with a lot of other things, to the war. For it is today’s soldier boy who is having his picture taken to leave with mom and pop or the -girl friend. In some of the volume studios,

they're as busy as in the June bride

priestess.

season. And display windows once

DOWNSTAIRS 2 AYRES |

= | pictures. | allowed. They have commissioned

ADVANCE

Lieut. William V. Kingdon of world war I donned his old uniform

Victor Kingdon of world war II

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Pictures like this are among the prized possessions of most families.

‘Look at Birdie' Business Soars Because of the War

(filled with girls all done up in white

satin and orange blossoms are now giving way to men posing in khaki and navy blue.

Last War Was Better

One of the city’s photographers doesn't believe the business has reached the proportions of the last war though. He can recall working in his father’s studio after school when it took him 10 minutes to fight his way through the mass of soldiers in the front of the shop to the workroom at the back. In those days photographers could go on the camps and other military reservations and canvass for In this war that's not

E | studios, though, on the reservations E |and those photographers get a lot E | of the business. But the town shops = | have their share.

Mothers Are Sad

For instance, there is the reluctant sailor or private who comes in

E| towed by his girl friend. She does

the speaking. He's home on fur-

=|lough and is having his picture = taken for her.

Then there is the mother-son

Sometimes it even ends up with

3 the whole family posing for a group = photograph.

Officers Pose, Too Then there is the officer type.

: Most are dignified but once in a

while it takes a bit of subtle handling on the part of the photogras

E | pher to get those “straight shoul-

ders” to relax. The “aloners” often want a “hur-ry-up job.” Like as not they are from out-of-town. They're comply-

4 ing with a request from mother = | away out in Washington. They want

the job done so it will be on its way before they, too, are on thelr

E | way—someplace else.

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Sometimes there is a nostalgle

/Britain’s Weather Seems

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ILEF.

Hardest Thing for Yanks to Take.

LONDON, Aug. 18 (U. P.).—Six

months after the arrival of the first|w, units of the new AEF, the problem|=

Training ¢

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 18 |

T0 BRITISH LIFE toms os the precision work which g°

make giant bombers, the Aircraft Co. has found in ing over the records of giz! help make the flying fortress: A girl who has lugged, around a restaurant three ni day, six. or seven days a Ww:

; -catned to steer ‘between tables and, A typical et waitress at the Boe- + wito put the ee on the. countering plant is Erna Behm, 27. Three instead of in the customer's lap. The ~~. .¢. ago, she was carrying trays same theory of putting the right bi thing in the right place with a in a Seattle restaurant. Today, minimum of waste motion lies slipping wires into tubes in the behind much aircraft work. fuselage of a flying fortress, she is The ex-waitresses like it, too. The|a much happier girl. hours dre shorter, the pay: about| ' Miss Behm crawled out of a plane three times as much. And there |to answer a couple of questions. are no dyspeptic customers to deal| “I'd rather do this any day than with. work in an old restaurant,” she

said. thing. My boy friend and most of the other boys I know aré in the

ing them out.” i “Do you ever think about the job these planes are going to do as you work on them?” she was asked. " “I sure~do, and I send a little prayer with every one that goes _ out. ”

used to being on her feet: §

of adjusting thousands of Ameri-=

cans to completely unfamiliar can-|s | ditions has gone a long way, thanks|§ to the friendliness of the average Britisher and the sanity with which|3

U. S. military commanders have at- E

tacked the problem.

The problem revolved around a|E few big differences and thousands)

of smaller ‘ones—economic, political, racial. it has now shaken down to such

issues. as cold beer vs. warm, cen-|S tral heating vs. coal grates, Ameri- BS

can sunshine vs. British rain. Dislike the Weather

The average American Will still E

refuse to trade his weekly commis-

sary ration of five cans of home beer E and five packages of American| =

cigarets for all the “bitter” beer and

straight Virginia “ggspers” in the = British isles. He still—quite rightly|s

—thinks British weather is terrible. His opinion of British coffee is

But one way or another, he is| getting along with the local product where he must.

He drinks with ordinary British :

soldiers and civilians, and seems to get along with them, although there have been a few minor riots,

Saturday night’s on main street. Gob’s Visit Recdlled

Londoners are still talking about|= the contingent of American gobs|= who got twb days’ leave with sev-|S eral months’ pay, touring the city|S in cabs and drinking a few score|=S west end pubs dry, but with seven|= exceptions - the sailors managed to} =

rejoin their ships.

Pay is probably the major prob-|§ lem—the unmarried British private|E with his half grown a day obviously|E can’t compete with his American|=

counterpart.

But American officers believe that| = deduction for dependents, volun-{= tary savings, and the official en-|& couragement of war savings will do|E

much to reduce the difference.

Keystone Kids Will Build Zoo

Money obtained from a childerns’ circus presented by the vouth councils of the Keystone and South Side community centers will -be used to ‘construct a childrens’ zoo at the Keystone community center. “To be called the Keystone Kiddie Zoo, it will have as its “guests” several monkeys, a South Amerisan sloth, dogh; cats, pigeons, rabbits, guinea pigs, ducks, a goat, a lamb and a baby pig. The children at the center are pretty busy every afternoon building the cages to house the animals. The boys are doing the carpentry. the girls the painting. When they're ready they are going to hold “open house.”

MATHEWS TO SPEAK

Comm. R. H. G. Mathews, officer|} in. charge of naval recruiting for|s the Indiana area, will speak at the|E

noon luncheon tomorrow of the Co-

operative club in the Columbia club. = A question and answer period will E

follow.

note. Father will come in with son. |= He does a bit of reminiscing about|= world war I when he was a first| =

“looie.” Also the Women

There is a pickup, too, in the por-|& trait business among women. Much|g of it is in pictures of mofhers ands

sweethearts: of service men:

You see it everywhere. They stand |= in line outside the four for a dimes booths. They crowd into the studios|=

which go in for the volume business.

They wait in the carpeted waiting

rooms of the quality places.

Yes, sir, it takes a lot of little s

birdies in the business these days.

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