Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1943 — Page 5
OPENS NURSERY
Pre-School Children of War Workers to Be
._Cared For.
Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind. April 5. — The Y. W. C. A. at DePauw university has established the Commercial Place Saturday - Morning nursery to release parents of preschool children for war work. ‘Modeled after the British system, the school draws a minimum of 15 children each week. It is directed
by Miss Patricia Worley, Stamford, |
Conn., and Miss Nancy Richards, Chicago, » » 2 DePauw’s 40-piece symphony orchestra under the direction of Prof. Herman Berg will present its annual spring concert at 8 p. m. Tuesday in . Meharry hall. : t J » 2 . Contributions to .the DePauw alumni fund for 1942-43 have reached $14,053 to double that of last year’s gifts. Robert E. Crouch, director of alumni relations and executive sec‘retary of the fund, believes that the increased contributions lie in the understafiding of alumni of the needs of the university in time of war and their own higher wage levels. 28 ” Miss Beryl Peterson, Chicago, has been tentatively cast as the lead for ‘DePauw’s Little Theater production of “The Famous Mrs. Fair” to be given April 16-17. The comedy revolves about a Mrs. Fair, a major in the Red Cross mobile unit in France during world war I. ” 2 2 . Miss Ann Bishop and Miss Sue Alvis, both of Indianapolis, have been pledged to Gamma Beta Tau, senjor women’s social honorary at DePauw. . :
s ” ” Miss Helen Valencourt, Milwaukee, is the newly elected president of the DePauw university German club. Other officers are Sam Boswell, Evanston, Ill, vice president and secretary, and Miss Helen Davidson, Kirkwood, Mo., treasurer.
LA FOLLETTE PLANS FT. WAYNE SPEECH
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5— Rep. Charles A. LaFollette, Evansville Republican, announced today that he has accepted an invitation - to speak in Ft. Wayne April 12 under the auspices of the Allen county Committee for Victory and Enduring Peace.
Harold Banta Thomas Banta
Serving with the armed forces are two sons and one daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Banta of Southport. Corp. Harold Max Banta was graduated last week from the factory training school operated by the army air forces technical training command at the Republic Aviation Corp. at Lynbrook, Long Island, N. Y. He was recently promoted to corporal. Before entering the army last - August, he worked at Allison’s. He is a graduate of Indiana Central college. v Now at Camp Helen Banta Livingston, La., is Sergt. Thomas E. Banta. He has been in the army since April, 1941, and formerly worked at Theodore Losche Co. An army nurse in a hospital in England is Second Lieut. Helen Banta. She enlisted in July, 1942,
McCord Promoted
Richard B. McCord, son of- Mr.
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sergt. Mc-
He formerly attended Purdue uni-
versity.
FJ ” ” Pvt. Walter A. Allen, husband of Mrs. Helen B. Allen, 3007 N. Delaware st., is in basic training at Pt. Riley, Kas. He formerly worked at Allison's. ” o ”
Auxiliary Graduates
Auxiliary Dorthea 8. English is one of 26 new mess sergeants who have been graduated from the
: |bakers and cooks school at the
WAAC training center at Daytona Beach, Fla. ” t J " Qualified now to help “keep ‘em flying” are two local men who have been graduated from the aviation mechanics course at Seymour Johnson Field, N. C. They are Pfc. Donald O. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Irvin T. Smith, 817 S. Woodrow st., and Pfc. Martin J. McGrayel, son of Mrs. Anna McGrayel, 2239 N. Talbot st. Pfc. Smith formerly worked at the Lukas-Harold Corp. and attended Ben' Davis high school. Pfc. McGrayel attended St.
John’s high school and was in-||
ducted in the army last October. s » ”
leaving her position as house physician’s secretary at the Methodist hospital. She is a graduate of the Methodist School of Nursing, and at one time taught in the grade schools of Southport and Glen’s Valley. | : All three are graduates of South-
port high school. - 8 ” 2
Local Men Transferred
Local men transferred from Ft. Harrison to other camps for their basic training are: Atlantic City, N. J.~Ambrose Hayden, son of Mrs. Julia Hayden, 1125 Church st. Gadsden, Ala.—Walter O. White Jr., son of Mrs. Golda White, 1610 Lawton st. Ft. Sill, Okla.—Willis Barrett, husband of Mrs. Ovie Barrett, 2164 N. Olney st. Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md.—Kenneth E. Stephens, son of Mrs. Florence Stephens, 1116 N. Capitol ave., Apt. 51A.
Ft. Riley, Kas.—Frank L. Bartee, husband of Mrs. Frank L. Bartee, 1235 | Oliver ave. |
Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.—Robert IL. Stevason, son of Mrs. Eleanore Stevason, 191315 | W. Washington st.: Richard H. Hawley, son of Mrs. Mildred Stewart, 3841 w, Michigan st.; Kenneth Kreiger, son of K. F. Kreiger, 2010 Singleton st.; Miles A. R. Hobbs, son of Mrs. Bessie Hobbs, 1406 E.
The commiitee, he said, is non j partisan and anti-isolationist. F.
B. Shaoff, Ft. Wayne, is chairman. |of Mrs. Eisie Albert, 1844 Zwingley ave.
Rep. LaFollette is the outstanding member of the Indiana delega-
tion in congress in supporting the husband of Mrs. William -Brown, 1830 post-war internationalists viewpoint| 47°V ave.
as expressed in the Republican party by Wendell L. Willkie and Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota. x He appeared on the platform with the latter when he spoke in Evansville a few weks ago. Rep. LaFollette said he was delighted to accept the Ft. Wayne in- ' vitation because the Willkie-Stas-sen viewpoint is being opposed there by the Republican Ft. Wayne News Sentinel.
400 WILL RECEIVE DEGREES AT PURDUE]
Nearly 400 students will receive degrees at Purdue university's spring commencement exercises to be held April 18. Certificates marking completion of advanced military courses will be awarded to approximately 400 men students. A special luncheon at noon Saturday, April 17, for alumni, faculty, parents and students will be followed by the annual business meeting of the Alumni association. A special Easter music convocation is: planned for the evening. Open house and a loyalty luncheon are scheduled for Sunday. Registration for the summer term will be
held April 26 and 27, with classes sts on April 28.
FIND 2 LETTERS OF - WASHINGTON IRVING
- NEW YORK, April 5 (U. P)— Two apparently unpublished letters from ‘Washington Irving have been 3 d in an antique doll’s bureau, 4 was disclosed today, the 160th anniv of the writer's birth. * "The Istters, written while Irving was American minister to Spain, | were addressed to “Thomas H. New- | bold, Esq., New York,” and “Madame | Storrow, No. 4 Rue De La Victoire, ' a Paris.” E They were found when the bureau was delivered to a shop where donations are received and sold for charity. The driver of the delivery van did not remember where he ‘ had received the bureau, which did not list the name of the donor.
of | other ranks.
Mary Brickley,
Kelly st.; Robert Brickley, son of Mrs. 1144 Fletcher ave.
Camp Hood, Tex.—~Roy E. Albers, son
Camp Lee, Va.—Jack S. Thornton, son
of Mrs. Ida Thornton, 1214 W. 30th st. Camp Robinson, Ark.—William Brown.
Camp Crowder, Mo.—Paul V. Story, son of Mrs. R. V. Story, 2146 S. East oy
St. Petersburg, Fla.—Carl R husband of Mrs. Camden st.; Roy W. B and Mrs. F. Babbs, 802 Elm e, husband of Mrs. Velma F. I. 3. Cloverdale; Francis E. Tucher, Mrs. Joseph Tucher, 1464 Bates. st.; Eugene Wilkerson, son of Mr. and William Wilkerson, 629 N. Beville ave.
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Draft board 2 recently inducted the following men into the army:
Robert Thomas, 1619 N. Arsenal; Roosevelt Caldwell, 705 N. Senate; Carl Jones, 2010 Hovey; Milon Madry, 2227 Columbia;
we, 2944 Alvord: David Brook,
E. 17th; * Oliver Adams, 1406 Roose3 te Radford, 2445 Yandes; Nathan Harper Jr., 2429 Sheldon; Walter B. Maholland, 2368 Highland; William Ray, 2802 Paris; Jesse Dearman, 1826 Martindaie; Charles P. Ragan, 2147 Martindale; Nolan Young, 3005 N. Arsenal; Morris Mason, 2758 Hillside; Bernie Jones, 1712 Martindale; Frank Johnson, 2514 Columbia; John Hayden, 2216 Yandes; Robert Black, 1638 Sheldon; James McLucas, 2942 Martindale; Clarence Webb, 2045 Sheldon; Jewel John. son, 2601 N. Temple; Robert Lovett, -1513 Martindale; Preston Hickman, 2745 N. Oxford, and George Hill, 2362 Yandes. 8 8 =»
Albert B.. Payne, son of Mrs. Margaret Payne, 2237 Northwestern ave.,, has been promoted to corporal
at the Dyersburg army air base, Tenn. fd 2 2
Now Air Mechanics
Roy McCalister, son of S. S. McCalister, 1432 Reisner st., has completed an aviation mechanics course at the Amarillo army field, Tex. 2 FJ 2 George R. Cannaday, 388 S. Audubon rd., has been promoted to technical sergeant at Camp Crowder, Mo., where he is teaching in the signal corps school. £ f » ® 2 Pvl. Gerald F. Osborn, 5446 Hib‘bens ave., has been transferred from Ft. Hayes, O, to Camp Millard, Bucyrus, O. . : 2 FJ ” Second Lieut. Catharine Brown of Chicago has arrived here to take over recruiting service for the In. dianapolis office of the WAACs. An auxiliary, Florence Truesdale of Cleveland, O. will assist her. WAAC recruiting for Marion county previously was handled hy the regular army. The office is at 429 Federal bldg. 2 8 ” Two sailors who have begun training as storekeepers at the naval reserve armory at Toledo, O. are John Knight, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. I. Knight of Beech Grove and Edward Holecek of Lawrence,
95 ‘AUSTRALIANS DIE IN JAP CAMPS
SYDNEY, April 5 (U. P)—
announced today that messages from the Red Cross show 95 Australian soldiers have died in Japanese prison camps. The messages, he said, set Australian prisoners held by the Japanese at 597 officers and 1463
Deputy Prime Minister F. M. Forde |
Two school
former Shortridge high students are back in the classroom, facing one of their former schoolteachers. Aviation Cadet John R. Day and Theodore A. Feucht are taking a course in aircraft maintenance engineering at Yale university, and their instructor is Gordon Johnson, former Shortridge drafting teacher. Cadet Day ‘is the son of Dr. and Mrs. John T. Day, 541 E. Maple rd., and a graduate of Purdue university. Cadet Feucht is the son of T. W. Feucht, 3247 N. Capitol ave., and a Purdue graduate. He formerly worked for the Continental Optical Co. Mr. Johnson is a civilian instructor in military administration at the army air force technical training command school at Yale.
In Pre-Flight School
Among student officers in the army air force pre-flight school at Maxwell Field, Ala., are Second Lieut. Joe Robinson Cavanaugh, 427 Berkley rd.; Second Lieut. Merrill G. Tucker, and First Lieut. John Edward Goory Jr., 1858 N. Talbot st. Lieut. Cavanagh is a former stident at Purdue and Butler universities, and a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He was a field engineer for the Indianapolis Power &
h| 1ight Co. when he entered the .| army on Dec. 29, 1941.
A graduate of Indiana university,
f| Lieut. Tucker was an accountant .| when he joined the army on May
26, 1942. He is a m=mber of Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity. Before entering the army in April, 1941, Lieut. Goory was an engineer and designer. He is a graduate of Purdue university. i » » 2 Training fo be an aviation cadet at Erskine college, Due West, S. C., is Warren W. Griffith, husband of Mrs. Jane Griffith of Greenfield. ” E ”
Transferred to Utah
* Second Lieut. William B: Kriel has been assigned to chemical warfare service at Hill Field, Ogden, Utah, Before joining the service in January, 1942, Lieut. Kriel attended
Butler university and an Indian-|.
apolis Power & Light Co. school. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta and Alpha Phi Omega. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin B. Kriel, live at 5630 W. Washington st. ” "n 8
Begins Training
Pvt. Charles Wycoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wycoff of Southport, has begun training at the army air forces technical training command at Atlantic City, N. J. A graduate of Southport high school, he was employed by the Vonnegut Hardware Co., before entering service Feb. 27. 8 » EJ . Lieut. Charles DeBow, whose parents reside at 2843 Boulevard pl. has reported for duty with the army
and Mrs. J. B. McCord, 4221 Car-|: rollton ave., has been promoted tol: the rank of technician fourth grade|: with the Antilles air task force at
Cord joined the army in May, 1940. |:
Fred Shelton Robert Shelton
The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shelton, 901 N. Belmont ave., are now stationed overseas. Sergt. Fred H. Shelton is with an armored division in North Africa. He enlisted in November, 1940, His
wife now lives’ in Chicago. Pvt. Robert Shelton is on duty in a hospital in Hawaii. He enlisted in September, 1941. . Both men attended Washington high school and formerly worked at the West Side bowling alley. ” EJ »
A former lieutenant of police for united nations depot 13, Dale R. Felts has completed his basic training at Davisville, R. I, and Port Heuneme, Cal. . Aft present he is visiting here before going to his Dale Felts , ‘hone in. Roches. ter. He is a ship’s cook third class. ” ” ”
Become Navy Cadets
Two more local high school students have been sworn in as navy air cadets. They are William H Wilcox, 2234 N. Delaware st. president of Technical high school’s senior class, and James M. Crawford, R. R. 8, of Southport high school. ” » #
Now ready for active duty are Pfc. Ropert Jim Daglish, son of Ray H. Daglish, 2223 Duke st., and Pfc. Marion L. Hettel, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mitchell, 419 N. Noble st. They were graduated Saturday from the B-24 (Liberator) airplane mechanics school at Keesler Field, Miss. 8 » ”
First Lieut. George Levi Knox of Indianapolis has reported to Selfridge Field, Mich., for duty. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood C. Knox, and his wife live at 435 Douglas st. He attended Indiana university and was graduated from
air forces at Selfridge field, Mich.
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George Samuel Neuhaus is now a technical sergeant at the army air force bombardment base at Will Rogers Field, Okla., where he is an airplane mechanic. He formerly lived at 1129 S. Sheffield ave. and was employed by the American Aggregates, Inc. His wife now lives at 1218 Union st.
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