Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1942 — Page 9

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NEERS ARE BYAN HEROES

From Mines.

By RICHARD MOWRER

right, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily ern Inc.

JADI BACUR, Nov. 20 (Delayed). 3ritisher went up on a mine

+ happened half an hour ago. ffiere was an explosion and a burst black smoke. We sent one of our back for a doctor. The ambuce has come and taken him away. don’t know if he will live. We 't know who he is. If he surhe will be lucky. If he dies .. . ere are lots of heroes in this , Sometimes it’s the fliers who id out. Sometimes it's the intry in attack, or tankmen. Al- , it’s the truck drivers who what's needed up to the front: ne or ammunition, for exe, which blows up when hit by thing. . Nazis’ Retreat Methodical

. But the heroes of the present moshent are, collectively speaking, the ‘engineers. Without them the Britsh 8th army's advance would not be ‘rapid as it is. Without them loss | life and material would be seri8, As it is, thanks to British sappers, the 8th army is pursuing e enemy and cannot be stopped * long. The Germans in their ret, have been methodical after efr first frantic dash back into bya. They have evacuated what they could from Tobruk and other jlaces. They have evacuated the Ttallan population. They have had time to do this, for when the 8th army broke through their El Alamein line and the Americans landed

: {n ‘French North Africa, they knew they would have to go back a long,

Jong way. They have had time, also, to blow

up bridges and roads, to lay mines

: in ‘places where they thought the

_ British would come, The engineers

“are the men whose job it is fo locate

~ thesé mines and render ther: harm-

fess. It's a tricky business and al‘ways dangerouge . Watch for Booby Traps

If next time you grab a strap in @ streetcar you say to yourself,

. %Suppose this strap had heen 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 years of high school education req

booby traps. They learn how to handle those things the way you learn how to handle a live crab. ~ But there are all sorts of varia-

‘tions to mines which off and on ‘make for deadly surprises. We've

geen a good deal of the 8th army’s

I royal engineers on the job. We who

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

4nvestigate these infernal machines. . The royal engineers do. :

WRAPPING OF GIFTS

: . TO END TOMORROW

All gift wrapping of customer purchases in stores associated with the Merchants’ association will be ted tomorrow. Foriner prac-

{ tices in regard to gift bois are not ~ uffected.

The announcement was made by

bv policies of conservation.

Murray H. Morris, the association

manager. He pointed out that the ‘fiove was in keeping with. wartime

_ HOLD FIRST AID SESSION ~ District 47 of the OCD will spongor a meeting for persons interested

in first aid and those who have first

|" mid training at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow

in the Little Flower cliurch. A new

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Etat WAR BONDS

For temporary machine gun emplacements and for scores of other uses, the sand bag. plays an important role. Thousands upon thousands of them are alréady 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 burlap and although they COSt only a Iew 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 essential war equipment by their purchase 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 college 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 v

She said there is a great demand for hospital technicians of all kinds. Two years of professional. experience may be substituted for two

uired for enlisted personnel. The list of WAVES recently enlisted include the following from Indianapolis:

Virginia I. Corneflx, 121 E. 34th Ruth M. Lane, 1124 N. Tacoma ave.; tricia E. Flick, 133 Spencer ave.; L. Cauley, 902 Mills ave.; Linemann, 4068 N. Capitol ave.; Louise Bolyard, 4642 Cornelius ave.; Florence 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’Hair, Greencastle; Marjorie N. Bryant, West Lafayette; Dorothy M. Webb, Muncie; Mary . Prasch, Beech Grove; Jean Sanderman, Huntington; and Ethel A. Murphy, 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 with the axis. The proclamation, the Nazi report said, was signed by Abel Hermant, member of the French academy, Dr. Ernest Francois Fourneau, memsber of the medical academy, and the writers Jacques Boulenger, Jacques Chardonne, Pierre Drieu Laro-

chelle and Ramon Fernandez,

EDUCATION DAY’ SET BY OFFICIALS

‘An annual “Education day” will climax the three-day convention of

Officials association convention, Dec, 2 to 4, at the Claypool hotel.

editor of the Prairie Farmer, will show colored films of Latin America. Other guest speakers will be Edmond C. Foust, Hoosier Farmer editor; Hassil E. Schenck,. Indiana Farm bureau president; Fred W. Totten, Bedford, State High School Principals association president; Frank M. Cory, Hagerstown, head of 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 superintendent of public instruction.

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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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