Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1943 — Page 6

in mudholes, battling day and night

To Our Boys i in a North Africal

: By PHIL AULT © . United Press Staff Cocrospondont.. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North ‘Africa, April 15. — Letters from home now and then remind American soldiers at. the: front in Tu- _ nisia that somewhere in the past they. lived like human beings. .. But it is ‘only a brief reminder that back home is something more lan a vague memory. . Because out in the front lines| ~ they live like animals in caves or

for a chance of survival and an- . other crack at the enemy. Men who lived in apartments or _ their own homes, slept on mat- _ tresses and had a corner drug store “handy have adapted .themselves ~ with astonishing ease to being cavemen. :

They Can't Shave

They go without a shave for ‘Weeks. Their ‘clothes are ragged. ~ They get used to dust and mud and _ rainstorms. They spend their days and: nights in the midst of a clanging roar of fire and a whirl of steel. They've gone on like that for three months or more—thousands of them. Now they are hardened enough so they can stretch out in a ‘hole and go to sleep with bright flares lighting night skies, guns banging and airplanes dropping bombs. In the early days at the front, from which I have just returned,

fragmentation bombs that scattered into foxholes and fired field guns all night Just to keep them awake. The. Americans: fell: for it. for a while. There were excited alarms

and much shooting. ‘But no more. They. Just roll over and go to sleep.

“3 Drone All Night

The * ‘night ‘after the ‘Germans made a tank attack at El Guettar lon March 23, they tried to wear out] the Americans by sending relays of planes on nuisance raids. Gunners

to prevent rev positions. L The German planes droned all night. along the Gafsa-El Guettar| road, dropping bombs and flares and spraying ‘machine gun fire along the highway. But not an answering shot was fired and American trucks rolled on steadily. . The hardest thing the men had to learn was how to sleep. Finally! théy found the .one answer—exhaustion. ‘A worn-out soldier with a little experience, enough to make him g hard-bitten fighter, can sleep anywhere when his job is done.

CLUB TO SEE FILMS Lloyd. H. Hully, branch manager of the International Harvester Co., will show two films, “The Marines

Miss Air Force’

| bloited by the Germans who dropped :

weére told not to fire on the planes|§ =

Sgt. Juanita Wittenmyer Meet “Miss Air Force” of Indianapolis. . She’s Sgt.. Juanita Wittenmyer.” She received the title during recent ceremonies here. Sgt. Wittenmyer was selected for the honor by Maj. Walker W. Winslow, commander of the civil air patrol in Indiana, as “an outstanding and typical example

sof devotion to duty, enthusiasm

and efficiency” of members of the CAP. Sgt. Wittenmyer lives .at 1142° N. Pennsylvania st. and is employed at the Indiana state employment service.

Have Landed” and “The Strong Shall Be Free,” tomorrow at the luncheon of the Exchange club in

_8&reen American troops were ex-

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"Strict investigation of relief cases) to eliminate from the rolls recipjents who are receiving outside in. come or have relatives able to support them, has been ordered by the | new Marion county welfare board. A statement of general policies was issued by the board yesterday | at its second meeting since its organization a month ago under a 1943 law which gave appointment of the board to Judge Mark W. Rhoads of juvenile court. The board reported that naming tof a permanent welfare director will be delayed probably another month, pending receipt of an opinion from the attorney general's office on a discrepancy found in the 1943 law regarding the list of eligibles from which an - appointment can be made.

Temporary Director

Meanwhile, “Miss Helen Guynn will remain as temporary director. The board’s statement of policy declared that “asssitance to the aged, blind and needy children will be rendered strictly upon a needs basis. “Careful attention shall be given

legally liable under the law for support of children and the parents,” the statement said. “Violations of these laws will be reported to the prosecuting attorney.”

PLEDGE TO AID DRAFT REJECTS

Stat 1 B. Association to; Work With Selective

Service.

The Indiana Tuberculosis a ciation yesterday pledged continued co-operation with the state selec tive ‘service ‘office in the rehabili‘tation of draftees rejected ‘because of ‘tuberculosis. | The pledge was included in reso‘lutions passed at. the closing ses sions of the annual two-day meeting in thé Hotel Lincoln... . Another pledged: the ‘orgaritzation would, during the emergency, “bend every effort toward retaining gains. achieved in public health and in maintaining a healthful civilian population as an adjunct to win. | ning the peace.”

Gallmeier Elected

“sj The Rev. A. H. Galimeter of Peru

was elected president of the asso-

; ciation to succeed Dr. Thomas I.

Owens of Muncie. : : Other officers elected were Dr. James S. Spigler of Terre Haute, first vice president; Prof. Myron McCurry of Franklin college, sec-

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ond vice president; Mrs. George Moser of New Albany, secretary: Dr. C. J. McIntyre of Indianapolis, treasurer; Dr. J. 8. Stygall of Indianapolis, assistant treasurer, and Otto Hughes of Columbus, Dr. M. R. Lohman of Ft. Wayne, Dr. Paul

"|D. Crimm of Evansville, Msgr. Ed-~

ward J. Mungovan of Hammond,

' |Dr. Mary C. Turgi of South Bend,

Mrs, Willlam Gremelspacher of Logansport and Karl Johnson of Kokomo, members of the executive committee, Dr. Edwards W. Custer’ of South

Indiana Trudeau society at a meeting held in conjunction with the tuberculosis association convention. Dr. Frank L. Jennings, superintendent of the Marion County Tuberculosis hospital at Sunnyside, was named president-elect for 1944.

‘Heads Secretaries

Other officers elected were Dr. Samuel Wineberg of Marion, vice president, and MurTay A. Auerbach, secretary-treasurer. At a meeting of the Indiana conference of tuberculosis secretaries, Miss L. L. Bon Durant of Ia Porte was elected president. Other new officers are Mrs. Virginia Brunswick of Terre Haute, vice president; Mrs. Maurice Barr of Lebanon, secretary, and Miss Frieda Rickard of Peru, Miss Grace Ewing of Columbus, Mrs. J. R. Mitten of Linton and Miss Mary Meyers of Indianapolis, members of the executive committee. . Miss Doris Platts of Central high school, South Bend, was selected as the grand prize winner of the ane nual poster contest conducted by the tuberculosis association. She was awarded a scholarship to the John Herron Art institute here.

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