Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1943 — Page 15

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get only three out of every 10 men,” he told the senate ‘education and labor committee late yesterday. 3 7 Soft and Flabby Despite the fact that the youth “of the Rockies are the healthiest, Rowntree said that “young .men

. going into our army are soft and|

flabby.” He urged a physical fitness program for high schools. ‘He pointed out that while onefourth of the 18 and 19 year-olds ana about one-third of all draft men are unfit for military , only 10 per cent of Sweden's men would be turned down. He _proposeed that a physical fitness program among pre-in-duction youth be instituted in high

schools to toughen up young meny

before. ‘they go into the army. w, he said, the first few weeks youthful inductees are in the ~_ army ‘have to be spent putting them into condition—even at their age. : Rowntree’s testimony was offered in rt of the office of education’s “attempt to get $8,000,000 from congress to start a high

& school victory corps program, in-

R 0. T. C. AWARDS PRESENTED AT I. U,

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 16. —Several Indianapolis students at Indiana university received awards yesterday in the final R. O. T. C. review of the semester. . Cadet Col. Robert A. Health receiyed a silver cup as the most proficent cadet officer; Hollace A. Chastain, a Gen. John J. Pershing medal for excellence as a rifleman; + Sidhey A. Hargreaves and Davis W. +bronze medals as best drilled sshmen cadets; Gerald E. Kasting; a silver medal for faithful servca on. the varsity pistol ‘team, and: ard Bu Joseph. -

Se redals Tor proficiency the R. O. T. C. band.’ Denver E. Davis-was given a oni cago Tribune medal as one of three ors who had shown outstanding proficiency in R. O. T. C. work dur-

. ing the semester.

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Thompson of Sharpsburg, Ky., curls tects him both from bombing and

the lookout for axis snipers.

PRESENT PICTURE OF ~ WIFE OF JACKSON

WASHINGTON, April 16 (U. P.). —The Daughters of the War of 1812

today presented to the White House a copy of a portrait of Rachel Donaldson Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson. It will be hung in the east wing along with the wives of other past presidents. The copy was made from an original in the Tennessee legislature. It was presented by Mrs. Rutledge Smith, national president of the Daughters of 1812.

REPORT GREEK RIOTING

per Ny. Dag sald 300 persons were killed or wounded in rioting at Athens and Pireus, occupied Greece, which} started when the Germans tried to carry out their foreed labor regula-

tions.

In the slight shade of a slit trench in North Africa Pvt. Ernest G.

Reminder of the foreign Jogi movles they'd seen Back home was this old French fort encountered by Americans at Gafsa, Tunisia. These soldiers of the 1st division advanced cautiously in this area, on

ment for special academic ‘courses

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: P.)—Director Oveta Culp Hobby of the WAACS revealed lust night that

up with a book. The trench prothe desert sum.

N. D. T0 SUSPEND CLASSES 2 MONTHS

SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 16 (U. P.)—The Rev. Hugh O'Donnell, C. S. C., president of Notre Dame university, said yesterday that all regular campus activities, including classes, will be suspended for two months starting May 2 to coincide with the arrival on campus of 1851 apprentice seamen. : He said the senior class would ‘be graduated on schedule May 2, and the opening of the next semester, scheduled for May 28, would be

postponed until the first week in “WASHINGTON, April 16 (UP. | daly. : | -that a

The. sean. were assigned to Notre Dame by the navy depart-

under tke’ V-12 program. . Father O'Donnell said the suspension would in no way affect the naval midshipmen’s” school operating on campus.

| Age Not Planned yt ° WASHINGTON, April 16 . :

Stimson declared yesterday that the army is not considering lowering ‘the draft age from 18 to 17

Director Hobby, Writers Witness Retreat Parade | "Sm, var a. on At Ft. Des Moines. Yosl tia the present manpowes

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Methodists to Train for| . ath Work in WarTorn World,

| CHICAGO, April 16 0. P).~The Methodist service committee planned today to enlist thousands of ] ‘youths and adults for training i rehabilitation and relief work in war-torn nations after the war. ‘The contmittee said its Hlans embrace more than-800 different service projects at home and abroad which need workers immediately to carry religious ministry to the armed forces, to war industry communities, to children in Negro, Mexican and Indian schools and to natives in 15 foreign countries. Volunteers as doctors, nurses, teachers -and ministers are needed in foreign ministry fields in Africa, Belgium, China, India, six South American countries and three Central American countries, it was announced. .

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“= HOPES FOR CONT TOR CONTROL | “OF COMMON GOLD

* NEW YORK, April 18 (U. P)~— lor. ‘Oswald H. Robertson, . Univer ‘Isity of Chicago professor of medicine, today held out hope of controlling the common cold and other air-borne inieciions by sterilizing the atmosphere in. buildings with triethylene glycol vapor which “smothers” the bacertia scattered by sneezers and coughs. Dr. Robertson told the Harvey society last night in a lecture sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, that experiments showed that triethylene glycol vapor, which kills air-born bacteria, in a few seconds, is not toxic to human beings. ie

yesterda; They Y tneised the first retreat parade of the season at the Ft. Des Moines WAAC training center. Dinner with the trainees and a tour of inspection followed. Members of the war writers board included Jack Goodman, advertising manager for Simon and Shuster; Katharine Brush, fiction and syndicate writer; Sally Kirkland, asso“Yogue”’:

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