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Vas mm:s . g s : Russian Question: When Will U.S. Help? be 7 (This is the 19th of a series of articles) : : By LELAND STOWE : Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. WITH THE SOVIET ARMY ON THE RZHEV FRONT. —Wherever we have traveled up and down the Rzhev front, the Russian army asks only one question: “Why?” ~The keen-faced young major in the artillery battalion’s “headquarters dugout fired his .question at me almost as soon ‘as I sat down: . “When are you Americans going to help us?” Ts I had already learned from the men who fight in them ‘that such American tanks as. have yet seen action in Russia are the most inflammable and in many respects " jumped at the chance to talk : the poorest, tanks in use any-| with an American, Like the whole where on either side of “thel Soviet army, he had only one dom-
R GC front | inating interest in any American usso-German iront. or Englishman at the present mo-
I also knew that the number of , : ; . If youre an En lish-speak=-Airacobras or other first-class Amer- ela need to bring your ican warplanes available to Russian i. vino cap with you if you're gopilots is still comparatively small thinking cap A i These facts explain why the ing to visit the Russian army these phrase “Ameri-§ TR days. ‘can help” really means only one
known as “G for George.” Spencer disliked the name and ‘changed it
pletely unanimous from the bottom rank to the top. «It’s clear that Hitlerism will be defeated,” boomed Lieut. Col. Smirnov. “But the whole world will never pardon America if she has no real part in the defeat of the Fascists.” On the second morning after riding all night, we had breakfast with the major-general and the brigade commissar in a snug tent tucked away in a grove of pines. The general is fighting his third- major war. You don’t meet commanders with-
MEET THIS WEEK
Dr. Mayo, Miss Abbott Headline List of Speakers At State Conference.
Dr. Leonard W. Mayo, dean of the school of applied sciences at Western Reserve university, Cleveland, and Miss Edith Abbott, head of the school of social service administration at the University of Chicago, will headline the program, for the Indiana State Conference on| Fe Social Work this week. The opening general session | is scheduled for Thursday night in the Claypool hotel. William A. Hacker, the conference president, will preside. Fourteen study courses have been scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday. These institutes will serve as “refresher” courses for practicing social workers.
Plan ‘Refugee Party’ County welfare employees and
board members attending the 52d annual meeting will be guests of
LONDON, Nov. 3.(U. P.)—Pilot Officer Cyril Spencer of Peterbor- : to “G for Gremlin.” He drew
ough, crew leader of v Halifax funny, mischievous-looking gnome. J bomber, who is now a prisoner of on the cockpit to represent the © war in Germany, was revealed to-|“Gremlin.’ rae ea day as the discoverer of the| Before taking® off for raids on “Gremlins”—the small gnome-like Germany each member of the Halijinxes which are said to fly along!fax crew solemnly saluted the with all R. A. F. crews. “Gremlin” ‘mascot, asking it for Spencer's bomber originally was! “safe passage.” er
ices in Immediate Need Of Trained Operators.
By Science Service
WASHINGTON, Nov.. 3—Women are in demand for radio jobs in eh eight different branches of the out opinions in the Red army—|ywayr service, a survey by George W. nowhere that I've been, at any rate.| Bailey, chairman of the Radio And More Questions «| Section, Office o Scientific ReSo we sat in the tent with the search and Development, has re
vealed. The jobs are open to womguns rumbling along the front andjen who know enough code and devoured huge Russion pancakes|theory t0 pass amateur radio opstuffed with chopped meat and the erator’s examinations. general and brigade commissar asked
1. Women are needed as junior aircraft communicators by the Civil “Why?” and also spoke their minds. Lack of ships? Perhaps the need
Aeronautics Administration. = The CAA offers a six-months course of of more American motorized divisions?
instruction for ' this work. Pay during the training course is $1440 Why, Why, Why? “Haven't the British got an army a year with an Myre os 4 “ i ‘of 3,000,0 ’ e; in-|of training ).. Applications A > oot arte oe for OD or hin are handled by Civil Service. 8 RCo Co ¢ I didn’t try to answer that one— —and every man in the gun CreW ;; seemed something which ought
Women Instructors was watching my face intently as
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2. The Army Air Forces are using
American expeditionary force fighting on European soil. In the lull be- Bg: tween rounds of j firing a young Mr, Stowe corporal from Krasnodar, mander of this particular
he spoke.
that you in American want to help E | us, but we don’t know how or when.”
com- | mander. Lieut. Col. Anatole Smirgun'nov, ma
to be relayed to London. I merely pointed out that the American army had to start the war with very few professional officers and perhaps some time had been needed to complete the training of our reserve officers. com-| “The best education for officers in | wartime is war itself,” remarked {the general bluntly.
“We are fighting and we know
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de his outfit's inquiry com-
JOAN CRAWFORD In the M. G. M. HIT : "REUNION" "Coming Soon To LOEW'S
women for instructors. Student instructors can make $1620 and experienced radio women can get $2000 at four schools—Scott Field, 111., Chicago, Sioux Falls, S. D., and Madison, Wis. Apply to Civil Service if you are interested. 3. The Signal Corps General Development Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N. J, is taking women from 16 10 50 years old. A six-months training course is offered during which students are paid $120 a month with employment at the end of the course at $135. Applications are handled by Lieut. John T. Freeman, gereral development laboratory, Signal corps, Fort Monmouth, Red Bank, N. J. 4. The Navy wants trained women for the radio section, Bureau of Ships. Applications are handled by Lieut. I. B. Wheeler, Room 2N-21, Navy department. 5. The Naval ordnance laboratory, Navy department, attention Mr. Ralph Cautley, is also employing trained women.
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8. The Naval Research laboratory, Anacostia, D. C., attention Mr. Fred A. Pierce, can use the services of women. 7. Outside the Government, the Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has a few openings for qualified women. Information about them can be obtained from Dr. F. W. Loomis, 8. The WAVES offer radio assignments to enlisted women. But the WAACs do not enlist women directly for such assignments. They do plan to use women in radio in the future. } Although women desiring radio position must first learn the radio code, jobs as code operators just do not exist for women, Mr. Bailey said. The armed services use teletypes entirely for most radio communication, Code is tapped out only in the field in the front lines where women are not sent. It is necessary to learn code, however, in order to obtain an amateur radio license, and this license is a stepping stone to most radio jobs. To prepare for the license exam-
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ination, you can go to a commercial or Goverament sponsored radio school, take a correspondence course from a commercial school, or, vou can study at home. Mr, Bailey recommends for home study a small library of books which can be obtained for a total of $1.75. These include a “License Manual,” “Learning the Code,” “How to Become a Radio Amateur Operator” and “The Radio Amateurs’ Handbook.” All are published by the American Radio Relay League.
YOUNG CHURCHMEN TO HOLD INSTITUTE
The Young Churchmen of the Indiana Episcopal diocese will have an institute on “Christian Marriage and the Christian Home” Friday, Saturday and Sunday at All Saints’ Cathedral. Sessions will begin at 4 p. m. Friday and end Sunday morning after breakfast. Miss Florence Smith, 1941 Ruckle st., is taking registra-
and Marion county will close at 10
hold a regular business meeting at
ELECT OFFICERS
Spurs, Ministerial and Catalytic Clubs Name Leaders for Year.
Leaders have been chosen for three Butler organizations and will serve until next June. . Miss Carolyn Pickering is presi dent of Spurs, sophomore women’s honorary. Other officers named recently include Beth Henderson, vice president; Gretchen Edwards, secretary, and Ione Colligan, treasurer. Robert Seet, a freshman, was elected head of the Catalytic club, an organization of the chemistry department. Other officers are Janet Mitchell, vice president; Joan Ranstead, secretary, and Joe Sharp, treasurer. Paul Dean Hill, a graduate student, will direct activities of the Butler Ministerial® association, assisted by Eugene Brown, vice president; Robert E. Banks, secretary, and Frank Albert and Vernon Kullowatz, co-treasurers.
FUNERAL PARLORS TO CLOSE EARLIER
Funeral homes In Indianapolis
p. m., effective today, to conserve fuel and electric power in keeping with the federal program. The move was indorsed by the Indianapolis Co-operative Council of Funeral Directors and was announced by Bert S. Gadd, president. John H. Blackwell, president of the Indiana Funeral Directors association, said the closing hour was being adopted throughout the state. Member mortuaries in Indianapolis and Marion county are:
Aaron. & Ruben, W. D. Beanblossom, Blackwell's, Walter Blasengym, Roscoe Conkle, Farley's, Feeney & Feeney, Finn Bros., Flanner & Buchanan, A. V. Francis, Bert S. Gadd, Grinsteiner’s, G. H. Herrmann, C. C. Hensley, Hisey & Titus, Jordan’s, Kirby’s, Kreglo & Bailey, Lauck’s, Charles Leap, Little & Sons, cNeely & Meyer & Abdon, Clyde C. MontMoore & Kirk, H. W. Moore, , J. F. Reynolds, Royster & Askin, Roy Tolin, E. E. Tyner, G. W. Usher, A. J. Voight, Wald's, J. C. Wilson, Stevens & Sons and Shirley Bros. :
COOPER IS NAMED PRISON TRUSTEE
George A. Cooper, Republican, of South Bend, was appointed yesterday by Governor Schricker to the Michigan City prison board of trustees, succeeding Frank F. Flynn, Republican, also of South Bend. Mr. Flynn resigned, effective Nov. 1, to enter the naval services as a lieutenant, junior grade. He was a member of the Notre-Dame university faculty. Mr. Cooper, for 25 years physical director of the = South Bend Y. M. C. A., will serve out Mr. Flynn’s term, which expires July 19, 1946.
FIDELITY REVIEW TO MEET Fidelity Review 140, W. B. A,, will
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (U. P)— A girl gives up a good job at home and comes to Washington because she thinks it will be adventurous. Then she becomes discouraged by the endless confusion of government offices, the long rooms filled with pounding typewriters and restless girls, and decides to leave. That's the picture in all too many cases, according to Mrs. E. M. John-
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ston, head of one of the capital's leading eraployment agencies. «Girls with stenographic jobs in private industry think this is the time for them to see something of
the country, and Washington, is where they can do real war work,”
she said. “Many are starry-eyed until they realize Washington's. high
Girls Seeking Employment In D. C. Often Discouraged
Mrs. Hannah Hiatt is president.
ployment for both the government and private Washington business firms. “They tell her that in many government offices there are so many girls who are unable to do the work assigned to them, that the competent ones have to. work overtime while the others “read magazines and powder their noses.” | But the government demand for women workers has given private employers “the biggest headaches in Washington today,” she said. Some of them are: offering as much as $2400 a year for stenographers, compared to the top government pay of $1800 for such work,
the health activities group.
the State Department of Public Welfare and the local chapter of the Red Cross at a ‘refugee party”
tomorrow night at an “undisclosed | evacuation center.” Major problems of social work | in wartime will be taken up at di- |
| vision conferences on Thursday aft-|
ernoon and Friday morning. The meetings on health activities and Social treatment will hear Dr. | John M. Saunders, regional medical | consultant for the children’s bureau, department of labor in Washington. He will discuss “Some So0cial Implications of the Shortage of Doctors.” Discussants will. be Dr. E. O. Asher, New Augusta, and pr. C. O. McCormick, practicing physicians. Dr. Daniel C. Barrett of Bloomington will preside.
Discusses Mental Hygiene
waukee county guidance clinic, Milwaukee, Wis., will speak on “Mental Hygiene Problems of Children in Wartime” at another meeting of
Miss Frances Kearby, director of the women’s division, Marion coun-
Mrs. Montgomery S. Lewis, a member of the volunteer service department of the Indianapolis council of social agencies, will serve as discussants following a talk by Miss Helen IL. Ludwig of Cincinnati, at a meeting of the division on volunteer service. Miss Ludwig, executive secretary of the Women's League of the Cincinnati community chest, will discuss “The Help of Volunteers in the Present Emergency.” Otto F. Walls of Knightstown, representing the child welfare division of the American Legion, will preside. :
Features Panel Discussion A panel discussion of personnel problems in the present emergency, is to highlight the program of the division on social administration. Prof. Ford P. Hall, member of the faculty of Indiana university, is to preside. Speakers will include
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Dr. Sara G. Geiger of the Mil-|
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Rowland Allen, personnel director, L. S. Ayres & Co.; Joseph E. Baldwin, director of the Lake county department of public welfare, Gary; Mrs. Walter S. Greenough, vice chairman of the Indiana merit system association; Floyd J. Hemmer, superintendent of the Indiana state farm, and W. Leonard Johnson, state personnel director. Miss Emma C. Puschner, director of the national child welfare divisjon—ef™ the American Legion, will preside during another panel discussion before 2 joint meeting of the divisions on volunteer service and on social administration. Topic for the panel is “Organizing the Community to Meet the Problems of Youth.” Discussants will be Albert L. Doyle, referee of the juvenile court, South Bend; William Floyd, principal, West Lafayette high school; Raymond A. Hoyer, field recreation representative for Indiana, office of defense health and welfare services, federal security agency; Virgil Martin, manager of the united war fund, and Miss Maxine’ Millikin, executive secretary of the Muncie girl scouts. Robert F. Nelson, general secretary of the family welfare society, will preside at a meeting of the division on social treatment. Miss Fern Lowry, a member of the fac-
ulty of the New York school of social: work, is to talk on “Simple Case Work Methods.” Discussant will be Miss Helen Sanders, assistant professor of social work, Indiana university training course for social work.
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