Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1942 — Page 6

Veteran Filipino Warrior, Is

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SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA last American seaplane tender hoisting anchor in Cebu when plump-figured, dark-visaged Fili0 in his late 50's emerged from trees aleng the shore. Running athlessly across the beach, he jumped upon the pier and came out where the mooring lines were taken off. i “He was waving a grimy, muchfc ded sheet of paper. It was a navy “OSC” or continuous service ‘certificate, “Take me with you. I don't care ere you're going, I want to go

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with the navy,” the Filipino pleaded. Capt. John L. Pratt and Capt. PF, D. Wagner, commander of the patrol wing, hesifated. The pleader was dressed in old pants and white shirt. But there was something attractive about him. He was clean, neat and, although eager, was unafraid. They questioned him and found out who he was. They took him along. And the navy has been glad ever since. For “Pop” Olmedo is what

.the fliers whom he tends to, call a

“fine old Filipino gentleman.”

When the fleeing PBY Catalina pilots reached Ambon-—the Dutch

eastern base protected only by a few

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aged Brewster buffaloes—pop turned to and made things as comfortable as possible. He took old cloth and rigged matresses for the patrolweary fliers. Service under our flag was nothing new to Pop Olmedo. For nine years he had been in the Philippine army and, moreover, was retired in 1936 after 16 years in the navy. He even had the right to wear the Nicaraguan campaign ribbon for he had served in Nicaragua, too. Pop had written the naval commander at Cavite from his island home asking to be returned to active duty to fight for Old Glory. But his letter disappeared somewhere during the

Back in Service as C Borhbardments. of the burning Cavite navy yard.

Just as the American plane tender

was about to depart from the docks his wife came running down to the pier to see what he was doing.

“Momma, you go up in the

bondox,” said Pop, using the tagalog word for town. till I come back.”

“You wait there

Momma obeyed. - And like Ba-

taan’s and Corregidor prisoners, she is still waiting.

" Pop served through the hard days

when the fliers were going out and not coming back, in face of the tremendous superiority in numbers of

FOR NAVAL SERVICE

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U. P.) — Jackie Cooper, juvenile film star, was sworn into the navy yesterday under the V-1 program for general service. Cooper, 20, will enroll in February at Loyola University, taking a navyapproved course leading to a commission as a deck officer or qualifyfying him for naval aviation training. He announced he would end his screen activities when he entered

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“Marche,” in which Alice Ann Capron, Betty Billeter, Patty Gruber, Dorothy Reagan, Joan Carey and Illa Belle Barnes will dance. Appearing in “Danse Arab” and “Dragee” will be Louanna McCreary, Dorothy Schoneker, Alice Greene, Joan Russel, Marilyn Snyder, Mary Jo DeVatz, Debby MacDougall, Betty Lee Curry, Jackie Foltz, Betty Sutherland and Anne Schaffner. - Mrs. Kathryn Swan is directing the “Dance Russe Trepak” featuring Sally Peterson, Peggy Aspinall, Joan Fogle, Barbara Smith and Marnita Dietrich. Mary Heath will be featured in the Chinese dance and Jackie Karsh will dance the “Danse de Mirlitous.” The ballet will appear in the finale, “Valse des Fleurs.” It includes Elizabeth and Eleahor Lovine, Joan Carey, Dorothy Reagan, Mary Heath, Marilyn Fleming and Illa Belle Barnes.

CALL 7 DOCTORS T0 ACTIVE DUTY

Members of I. U. Hospital Unit Will Train 500 Enlisted Men.

Seven members of the general hospital organized for the army by 4 Indiana university are scheduled to go on active duty in a few days at Camp Bowie, Tex., to supervise and train 500 enlisted personnel for general hospital No. 32. They are Maj. Fred Cheney, graduate of Indiana university and active practioner in Indianapolis for several years; Maj. James F. Brown-

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ing, also a graduate of Indiana university and in active practice in Indianapolis for some years; Maj. Neil Garber, graduate of Indiana university, resident at the Hospital for Ruptures and Crippled in New York, and an exchange fellow at Manchester, England. Capt. Fred Reynolds, graduate of Washington university with active practice in Indianapolis; Lieut. Howard Romack, graduate of Indiana university with post-graduate training at the Royal Victoria hospital in Montreal; Lieut. Jack Carr of the dental corps, who recently returned from post-graduate work at the army medical school in Washington, and Lieut. Richard Benson of the medical administratative corps. These men will be joined at Camp Bowie by Maj. Paul Fouts, who has been on active duty doing special research work on malaria at the army medical school at Tallahassee, Fla., and was formerly with the Eli Lilly research laboratory at the Indianapolis City hospital; Capt. Carl Culbertson, who

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Hoosier Among

197 Held by Japs

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U. P.).—The war department today made public the names of 197 American soldiers held as prisoners by the Japanese in the Philippine islands. Interned from Indiana was Capt. Paul E. Moore, son of E. V. Moore, Bunker Hill.

MUNICIPAL JOBS NOT UNDER WLB

Board Decides It Has No Jurisdiction Over City, State Workers.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U, P.).— The war labor board has ended & major controversy over the extent of its powers by deciding unanimously that it has no right to intervene in disputes between states

The decision, announced last night, came in a resolution which specifically rejected union demands that the board take jurisdiction in controversies involving New York transportation workers and city employees of Newark, N. J, and Omaha, Neb. Officials of several other cities were interested in the ruling and appeared at public hearings to argue that federal intervention in state and municipal labor disputes violated state rights and city charters.

Two Members Explain Votes

The board said merely that President Roosevelt's executive order cre-

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next two months. - Lieut. Col. C. J. Clark is the unit director and chief of the medical service, Lieut. Col. Charles F. Thompson is chief of the surgical service, and Lieut, Col. Glenn Pell is chief of the dental unit which was sworn in recently at the medical school of the Indiana university.

has been on active duty at the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D. C.,, and Capt. Ebner Blatt, who has been on active duty at Ft. Knox, Ky, and practiced in

pital will be activated ‘within the ilabor relations act nor in the fair

ating the WLB did not give it power to issue regulations governing state and municipal agencies, but one member, Employer Member H. L. Derby, added in explaining his vote: “It also is clear to me that there is nothing contained in the national

labor standards act nor is there anything to be found in the constitution of the United States or any federal law or through any enactment of the state of New Jersey which would give this board authority to take jurisdiction in these cases.” :

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Indiana state legislators who are serving in the armed forces will not be given furloughs to attend the 1943 legislative session, the war department informed Rep. Louis Ludlow

had inquired regarding the case of Wilbur H. Grant, 44-year-old Negro Indianapolis attorney, who was elected a Republican member of the house in November but is in the

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sergeant in a southern camp. is a hold-over senator. The ruling asked for by Rep. Ludlow came in a letter from Col. Russell B. Reynolds, director of military personnel of the war department. It reads:

Legislators in Army Denied Furloughs for 1943 Session

intensive training, which requires the uninterrupted attendance to duty by all personnel of the military service. Therefore, the war department feels that extended furloughs should not be granted to such personnel for the purpose of performing legislative service. “The selective training and service act of 1940, as amended, provides for the deferment from training and service in the land and naval forces of the members of the

AT BALL STATE

~ W. E. Wagoner Made Acting Head.

MUNCIE, Dec. 16 (U. P.).—Announcement of the resignation of Dr. L. A. Pittenger as president of Ball State Teachers’ college and appointment of W. E. Wagoner as act ing president was made today by John H. Heller, Decatur, president of the college board of trustees. Mr. Wagoner is controller of the college at the present time. He will serve until selection of a permanent president next April. Mr. Heller also announced that Dr. Pittenger had been elected president emeritus of the school. He will be the first to hold this honorary position in Ball State’s history.

Health Is Poor

Dr. Pittenger, who is 69, has been in poor health for more than a year, He recently submitted to an ope eration, from which he has not fully recovered. A native of DeSoto, Delaware county, Dr. Pittenger attended the Lebanon, O., normal and was graduated from Indiana university in 1907. He came to Ball State in 1922 as a professor of rural education. He became president in 1927. Dr. Pittenger was a Republican member of the Indiana house of representatives from 1923 to 1927 and served as a member of the state board of education from 1927 to 1932 and from 1937 to 1941. He was president of the American Associa« tion of Teachers’ Colleges in 1937 38. He holds honorary doctorates from DePauw and Taylor universie ties and Franklin college. As president emeritus, Dr. Pittene ger will continue to serve in an ade visory capacity. He and Mrs. Pitten= ger will live at Selma, six miles east of here. Son in Air Force

A son, Arthur O, is vice president of the Bookwalter-Ball-Greathouse Printing Co., Indiamapolis, but is now serving in the army air forces at Tallahassee, Fla. His daughter is. Mrs. Mary Josephine McCracken, wife of Branch McCracken, Indiana university basketball coach. Mr. Wagoner, an I. U. graduate in 1912, came to Ball State in 1924. He was a high school principal for two years in Shelby county and towne ship principal for five years in Ane derson township, Shelby county. He is a former superintendent of schools of Rush county and served as state school inspector for two years bee fore coming to Ball State.

EX-GERMANS HOLD REUNION IN KHAKI

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Dec. 16 (U. P.)—Privates Fred Oettinger and Max Florsheim spot ted one another at U. S. O. writing desks and held their first reunion since they quit jobs in a textile house at Frankfort-on-Main, Gere

many, to come to the United States, They expressed hope of returning to Germany together with the army “to take care of Hitler.”

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legislative bodies and certain other selective officials of the several states. In accordance with this provision, the war department has occasionally permitted the holders .of public offices which are within the purview of the selective training and service act, who are in the military forces, to be -discharged from the service for the convenience of the government, upon their request, if they desire such discharge in order to perform the functions of these civil offices. “Therefore, the war department will not look with favor upon the proposed request of Pvt. Grant for a furlough for the purpose of serv-

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