Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1942 — Page 8

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VGINEERS ARE JBYAN HEROES

From Mines.

By RICHARD MOWRER

ht, 1942, by The Indiznapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

WADI BACUR, Nov. 2) (Delayed). Britisher went up on a mine a apponcd half an hour ago. h was an explosion and a burst black smoke. We sent one of our

ears back for a doctor. The ambu-|

dance has come and taken him away. We don’t know if he will live. We : 't. know who hé is. If he surres he will be lucky. If he dies... There are lots of heroes in this ya Sometimes it’s the fliers who ti out. Sometimes it's the intry in attack, or tapkmen. Always, it’s the truck drivers who ring what's needed up to the front: e or ammunition, for ex‘ample, which blows up when hit by

3 gnything.

| ghent are, collectively speaking, the . engineers. Without thera the Brit48h 8th army's advance would not be ~ @s rapid as it is. Without them loss | of life and material would be serl-

‘ous. As it is, thanks tp British gappers, the 8th army is pursuing

| the enemy and cannot ba stopped

for long. The Germans in their re-

| treat, have been methodical after

[Bets first frantic dash back into bya. They have evacuated what

* they could from Tobruk. and other

* fime to do this, for when the 8th |. army broke through their El Ala-

They have evacuated the population. They have had

"mein line and the Americans landed "in French North Africa, they knew

_ they would have to go back a long,

way. They have had time, also, to blow up bridges and roads, to lay mines in places where they thought the Brit would come. The engineers are the men whose job it is to locate these mines and render them harmJess. It's a tricky business and al-

ways dangerous. : ~~ | Watch for Booby Traps

If next time you grab a strap in @ streetcar you say to yourself, #Suppose this strap had been a booby trap”; or, if next time your

‘ feft front wheel goes off the road

# little, when passing another car, ‘you say to yourself, “Suppose there ‘had been a mine just where I went

| off the road?” youll get the idea

somewhat.

: ‘Sappers, of course, know a good

‘deal about mines, explosives and booby traps. They learn iow to handle those things the way you Jearn how to handle a live crab. * But there are all sorts of variations to mines which off and on make for deadly surprises. We've seen a good deal of the 8th &rmy’s

royal engineers on the job. We who

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have been tagging along behind them throughout the British advance across Cyrenaica, probably owe our lives to them several-fold. Probably we have been lucky, too. But we don’t have to personally Anvestigate these infernal machines.

~ The royal engineers do.

the Merchants’ association will be ; ted tomorrow. Former practices in regard to gift boxes are not

wifected.

" The announcement was made by Murray H. Morris, the association manager. He pointed out that the ‘move was in keeping with wartime

Sloat Youle WAR BONDS

For temporary machine gun ems placements and for scores of other uses, the sand bag plays an impore tant role. Thousands upon thous sands of them are already in use in our seacoast cities and town for protection to buildings against bombing.

The bags are 16 by 24 inches , are made of mildew proof buriap

cents each, the overall cost of the thousands needed runs into money. School children, buying 10 cent stamps, and women's clubs and other organizations can finance this essen-| tial war equipment by their pur-| chase of war bonds. INVEST AT LEAST 10 PER CENT of your income in war bonds every payday.

WAVES SEEKING MORE OFFICERS

Techhicians for Hospital, Personnel for Shore Duty Needed.

Officer candidate ranks in the WAVES have been re-opened, the navy announced today. Qualifications. call for physicallysound women between the ages of 20 and 50 who have college degrees, or two years of colleges and two years of professional experience. Ensign Mary Richmond, WAVE procurement officer for this area, said that additional enlisted personnel also is needed, due to the

increasing demand for replacement of men now at shore stations.

Need Hospital Workers

' She said there is a great demand for hospital technicians of all kinds. Two years of professional. experience may be substituted for two years of high school education required for enlisted personnel. The list of WAVES recently enlisted include the following from Indianapolis:

Virginia I. Cornefix, 121 E. 34th st.; Ruth M. Lane, 1124 N. Tacoma ave.; PaIrigy E. Linemann, 4068 N.. Capitol ave.; Louise Bolyard, 4642 Cornelius ave.; ence B. Kramer, 1475 N. Delaware st, and Ruth M. Funk, 438 N. Beville ave. Other Indiana WAVES include: Dorothy May Spurling, Columbus; Georgianna I. Pfefferle, Marion; Doris Jean Miller, Danville; Anita Stultz, Clinton; Irene Ruth Burden, New Augusta; Lanore Corbin and Martha W. Forsyth, Bloomington; Ada Pauline Reed, Pennville; Ida Beth Miller, Crawfordsville; Mildred Weinert, Evansville; Genevieve N. O'Halr, Greencastle; Marjorie N. Bryant, West Lafayette; Dorothy M. Webb, Muncie; Mary E. Prasch, Beech Grove; Jean Sanderman, Huntington; and Ethel A. Noblesville.

NAZIS CLAIM FRENCH GROUP OPPOSES U. S.

. BERLIN, Nov. 26 (German broadcast Recorded by United Press in London) —Reports by the DNB German news agency from Paris yesterday said that a group of French intellectuals had issued a proclamation supporting defense of the French empire in collaboration

Murphy,

EDUCATION DAY’

SET BY OFFICIALS

An annual “Education day” will climax the three-day convention of the Indiana County and Township Officials association convention, Dec. 2 to 4, at the Claypool hotel. John Strohm of Chicago, assistant editor of the Prairie Farmer, will show colored films of Latin Ameriea, Other guest speakers will be Edmond C. Foust, Hoosier Farmer editor; Hassll E. Schenck,. Indiana Farm bureau president; Fred W. Totten, Bedford, State High School Principals association president; Frank M, Cory, Hagerstown, head af the state association of city superintendents of schools, and Dr.

M. O. Ross, Butler university president. A luncheon in the Riley room will precede the program in the assembly hall, The event is being sponsored jointly by the association and Dr.

. Clement T. Malan, state superin-

tendent of public instruction.

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TED Sa 3 Zooming out of a sky filled with U. S, anti-aircraft shellfire, a crippled Jap plane, indicated by arrow, starts to burn just before plunging into the sea off the Santa Cruz islands. A U. 8. aircraft carrier and warship are seen steaming into battle. .

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U, P.). — Senator Alexander Wiley (R. Wis.) charged in a senate speech today that President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull have ignored the constitutional mandate that treaties must be made by and with the advice of the senate. “In ‘America the functions of the senate — constitutional ‘functions — must be reclaimed in practice in order that the peoples of earth and ourselves may be the beneficiaries of a job well done,” Wiley said.

“I mean the senate must have its part in the producing of the treaty. That is what ‘advice’ means.” Wiley urged action on a resolution he has introduced to establish an advisory council on international affairs. Members would be the secretary and undersecretary of state, “technicians” to be designated by the state department and the chairmen and ranking minority members of the senate and house committees on foreign affairs.

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with the axis. The proclamation, the Naz report said, was signed by Abel Hermant, member of the French academy, Dr. Ernest Francois Fourneau, member of the medical academy, and the writers Jacques Boulenger, Jacques Chardonne, Pierre Drieu Larochelle and Ramon Fernandez.

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