Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1943 — Page 27

‘Editor's Note: This is apother of the favorite

printing while Ernie is on vacation. This ene PT. ERIE, Ontario.—"We have at this track some of the oldest horses in North America,” said my friend 85 we watched them parade out for the first race. ~~ "One of my favorites used to be a horse named Egad.’ He was a honey. They turned him over to a

x glue factory last year, and now I the

Ernie Pyle columns from past years that we are rewas written in 1936, Le

china pig.

don’t come to track much any more." The story of my friend's affection for Egad is a touching one. My friend was on a train somewhere up here in Canada, and a n porter named George told him he had it straight that a horse called Egad was to win that day at Ft. Erie. My friend happened to be read- ; the comics at the moment, a and just as George said “Egad.” my friends eyes lit on the word “Egad” from the ‘mouth of Major Hoople. So he put two and two together and decided this was Egad's day.

| Bootblack Named Tony

HE HAD to call his office in Buffalo on some busi- | Mess, so while he was at it he told the man on the Other end of the wire to lay some inferior sum for him on Egad. Now, while this was going on, a bootblack named | Tony was shining the Buffalo fellows’ shoes, and Tony overheard that end of the conversation. He then bustied around the building and told everybody that the boss had something absolutely sure | on Egad. : ‘The news spread like wildfire. Work practically geased. Everybody was trying to borrow money.

radius of five miles had his wad down on Egad. There were 10 horses in the race. ninth,

He Was Consistent

MY FRIEND BECAME the louse of Buffalo Stenographers hated him.

until somebody explained,

the rave. Ever) day, that is, until the last day.

But not Egad. He didn't even know it was rain could stay him on his appointed rounds. some other direction.

My friend was the only man in America still bet “ting on Egad.. He made a small fortune that day.

so badly when they took him to the glue factory.

8042 Carrolifon ave, has the food situation pretty well under control, The 7-year-old dog, “Ribs,” has been visiting a neighborhood grocery the first thing every morning for the last three years or so, Whenever someone opens the door, he slips in, walks over and says “hello” to the cashier, makes the rounds of the other employees, then sidles over to the meat counter, The butcher gives him a bone and he scoots for the door. One day recently Ribs came in not once, but several times begging for and getting a bone each time. Finally, employees became curious and followed him. -They swear they saw him carry a bone outside = the store and give it to a little black and while cur. (P, 8. The grocer asked us not to identify the store), . ., Earl Porter, personnel “director for Aero Mayflower and Hogan Transfer, has been admitted to the Society of Automotive Engineers as an associate, ... J. E. O'Brien, who used to be Eddie Ash's first lieutenant in The Times’ sports department, now is one of Uncle Sam's first

“honor of Marc G. Waggener, retiring publicity di-

- successor, Marc has moved out to Stewart-Warner.

Don't Get Lost

IF YOU GO sightseeing in Franklin county this fall, better carry a compass. ‘That's the advice of Norman Worth, the grocer at 12th and Illinois. Mr.

brother, Dr, Willard Worth, and they went for a ride in the country. The scenery was so entrancing that the Norman Worths and Dr. Worth decided to go for a stroll through the wooded land. Mrs, Willard Worth

wo Meutenants. down at the Harlingen Aerial GUONery. ,o.inined. in the car with ‘the children: At dusk; the school (HAGS), Texas. Hes just been promoted strollers realized: they were thoroughly lost. Dr. . from second looey. . Worth, a former boy scout, became separated from Around the Town the others and finally managed to find his way to

the car by listening to his auto horn, impatiently tooted by Mrs. Worth. Then he got a flashlight and rescued the others. .,. Tom Ochiltree, the! former Indianapolis newspaperman, is on the Associated Press cable desk In New York, rewriting the stories from both the Russian and Italian fronts, reports Mrs. Ochiltree who is back home visiting relatives, :

THE MOST idiotic traffic .violation in a long time was observed at New' York and Meridian sts. the other day. A woman, carrying a large baby in her arms, struggled across Meridian against the red light, narrowly escaping being struck by several cars in the heavy traffic. . .. A military policeman directing traffic at Illinois and Washington found him-

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Three of the five senators who have just returned from a tour around the world - visiting our global fronts held a mass press conference here to tell what they had learned.

Although very little had been heard about them : ~during their trip, many legends were left in their trail, such as the one reported from North Africa by John Steinbeck about an une named senator posing for protographs in simulated prayer at an American soldier's grave. I stopped off in England coming home just after the senators had left there on their. way to Africa, Their visit put a strain on the officers in the European theater who did everything pos- ; sible to anticipate senatorial wishes. Klaborate tours and entertainment were provided, not without some night casualties of a minor Dature. A trail of headaches was all that the committee had loft behind in England, : You wonder whether it is worth it for senators to take such trips and that is why I went to the press conference held jointly by Senators Russell of Georgia, Mead of New York and Brewster of Maine. The other two senators, Chandler of Kentucky and Lodge of Massachuseits were not yet back in Washington. They talked for an hour and a half and at the end

By Raymond Clapper

standing of this war and the problems it creates. - America must break out of its shell politically. We have had to do it in a military sense, But politically, we are still an insular people. Many senators and representatives have not been abroad. But: out soldiers are mixing with foreigners. American soldiers have had to mix with foreigners twice in a generation. Today they are mixing with foreigners all around the world literally. These five senators have talked with them—talked with them in Iceland, in England, in Africa, Sicily, Egypt, around the burning rim of the Persian gulf, in Karachi snd Calcutta, in Assam, in New Guinea, in the Fiji islands, in Samoa, on Christmas isiand—to hit the high spots, That's how our soldiers are having to tour the world. ; ; Travelling abroad doesn't make them sell out to foreigners. © That is an idea that occurs to people who have never been abrodd. don’t know anybody who goes abroad without returning to appreciate America more than before. You ¢an’t know how good a place this is until you have seen all of the other

Bring Back Issues

THOSE SENATORS come back with two immediate specific interests. One is to urge that the

¢ power,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

couldn't quite compete with their appetites, but that was just as well since it gave me time to talk and to -listen to them and, finally, to sign “short snorters,”

If I expostulated, they said: “It's one way of being sure we won't spend it and we'll have it after the war.” Money has little value out there,

Pyle

sneaked . home and robbed the baby’s

The downtown bookmakers got so loaded up they

, and up and down the streets. | 2:30 that afternoon everybody in Buffalo within

Egad finished |

Fathers accused him of robbing them. He didn't know what i ‘was all about,

So, just to vindicate himself, more than anything] else, he kept on betting on Egad all through the Ft. Erie meet. Bui Egad was consistent. Every day he ran ninth, even when there were only seven horses in}

That day, just at post time in Egad's race, a violent! thunderstorm came up. It shook the Canadian heave ens and drenched the track. ‘The thunder and light] | ning were frightful. There was pandemonium among the horses. Some of them ran backwards, and some the wrong way, and some just jumped up and down.

ing. Not wind, nor rain, nor dark of snowy night He just went loping around the track at his usual dull pace. He came in first, because all the other horses had run

That's the reason he loved Egad so much, and felt

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

+A BRINDLE bulldog owned by Mrs. Charles Alling, seif in a military predicament. Just as he raised his “arms, one east and one-west; fo shut off the. Now of. traffic, along came an army car with two officers! in it, The MP hesitated a moment, uncertain what to do. Finally, he decided to let traffic go hang and} took time to make an ultra snappy salute, Then he went back to trying to straighten out traffic, ... A hubcap came off the wheel of a Ford car about 1:20 p. m, yesterday at Ohio and Meridian, narrowly missing & woman standing on the sidewalk. An MP picked it up and headed for the Circle, Jooking for the car from which it came, but finally gave up the search. . + + Conservation department officials and employees Rave a party at the Press club Wednesday night in

rector for the department, and Arthur Tiernan, his!’

and Mrs. Worth went to Milroy Sunday to visit his}

Richter, awa h child, Juanita Hogue, to her father, Carmel Hogue.

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1820

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Girls Sought

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to Release

Replacements for 1820 Indiana Soldiers Killed

By JOAN HIXON

Indiana has had 1820

It is a simple plea, as simple as the life of the woman soldier in service, a life not 80 different from yours and mine, Being a WAC is “a tough job for a girl who loves her country,” a WAC commanding officer said,

Hundreds Tackle Job

HUNDREDS OF WACs are doing a tough job at the Indiana bases—Ft. Harrison, Stout field, Camp Atterbury, Freeman field and Indianapolis recruiting headquarters.

le Most of them are doing cleri-

cal work, a few are in specialized work as draftswomen, postmistresses; laboratory” technicians, electricians and radio repair

women, They get up at 6 a, m. and eat

world’s battlefields, and Indiana needs that many to let other soldiers replace them. “Uncle Sam Needs You,” poster words of James Montgomery Flagg in the last war, now applies to women.

Needed: 1820 swell gals to help out Uncle Sam.

soldier heroes killed on the WACs

breakfast, They go to the office and work dll day and then return to the dormitory to clean up for dinner, They have-dates, go to x movie, write letters, attend classes and take exercises to keep them fit, “We need good clerks,” one base officer said. “It often takes two women to fill a man's job. There is no glamour to it—it is work in just another office, in a uniform, and life in a dormitory with other girls.” This same officer still has 240 of*his 340-man company:in “WAC work." a 2 » : “WAC WORK” at Stout fleld means lots of things. For Sgt. Amelia Thalasinos of Claremont,

N. H, it means controlling stock

WACS

guard; in on duty. sits .

3. There's nothing the WACs can’t and don't do. Ple. Margaret Bhilai

« «1 looking over the weather maps which guide Stout field’ Cpl. Nadine J. Rodenbangh of Neweastle, Pa. . ; 2. This young lady helps keep peace and order at Ft. Harrison. Second LL Betty J. Christiansen, ‘assistant director of internal security, looks on while Pe. Henry Farquhar,

s planes on their precarious journeys is WACO

a member of the main gate

thie Treasure Island pageant at San Prancisco's world's fair before she Joined the army. Now she's an assistant at electrical wiring and is shown working on the new master switchboard at Fi, Harrison,

4. The first wintry blasts call for a refitting of the WAC's 0. D.'s. master repair shop, having their uniforms marked for alteration by

Cave, are, left to right, Pfe. Mary Swearingen, and T, Sth Gr. Bessie

for the post exchange. The third sergeant in her family, she was A cashier In civilian life, An example of the “perfect clerk” is Sgt. Stephanie Kowal of New York in the headquarters squadron orderly room, Her own commanding officer said “she is the acme of what a WAC should be.” Other WACs take observations in the weather room, work in operations, radio, the tower and photo lab, The “C. 0.” of 100 WACs at Stout field is Lt. Elnora Garlow, a “maid with a mission.” Lt. Garlow, who was at Pearl Harbor and “held dying men in my arms,” has more than a score to settle, i “I am here to see that my girls lead a clean, healthy, normal life with regular hours and no regimentation,” she said,

Model Mess

WACs ARE the same all over Indiana—at Ft. Harrison under Lt. Mary M. Devlin they have the “model mess” of the post. They work in the telegraph office, registrar's office, hospital supply room, dental clinic and at the switchboard. Pvt. Elizabeth A. Hotchkiss, for-

J. Goad, Pvt, Mar tha Handler,

mer magazine artist, creates the safely posters seen at the fort, Plc. Nan Rice, is a draftswoman now as she was in civilian life; and Pvt. Freda Martin, postmistress, also was posimistress at Woodmont, Conn. before she Joined the army, Pvt, Caroline Pollack, former stand-in for Marlene Dietrich, has exchanged grease paint and bright lights for test tubes and chemical formulas. She is learning to be an X-ray technician at the station hospital laboratory, Fifty-two women hold motor pool jobs driving jeeps, trucks, stafl oars, reconnaissance cars, peeps, cargo trucks, carry-alls and dump trucks, ” » » AT CAMP ATTERBURY, T 4-¢ Audrey Buford of Dallas, Tex, tells how she came to be called “Miss WAC.” Because she was the first WAC to hold the job of surgical technician at the station hospital, the soldiers and nurses were skeptical, But now she is “Miss WAC,” having proved that her reputation was secure, Handling one of the biggest jobs of keeping 300 vehicles in running order are five WACs, and Pvt,

Here in Ft. Harrison's quarter.

Mrs. Mary C, Miller and Mrs. Delpha Gayle, T. 5th Gr. Leota Pijanowski, Pvt. Elles

motor pool dispatcher, knows where every driver and every vehicle is every minute of the day, ys Eleven WACs are in the post locator section forwarding mail to soldiers who have moved on and holding it for those coming in. Knowing the thrill of “mail call,” their continual plea is for mothers and sweethearts to put the soldiers’ serial number after his name. » Campaign Begun ALL THESE jobs are what 1820 Indiana women are needed for. The state-wide campaign will last till Pearl Harbor day, and the Indiana group will train together, wearing the state's name on their shoulders and carrying the state flag in parade, The campaign has just begun, with. Governor Schricker and Mayor Tyndall as nominal heads, The mayor was to appoint an executive committee which names sub-committees so that every prominent local and county ore ganization is behind the recruits ing program, Prospect cards for future WACS will be sent to the 10 state res cruiting stations and then the work for 1820 clerks and specialists really begins.

PROXY’ CHILD GOES T0 FATHER'S HOME

visiting Detroit jurist, d permanent custody of the

Previously the child had been

./bed or wheeling a patient to the

ia 10-hour training course in the

If you happen to séé your minister wearing a white coat, making a

surgery in the Methodist hospital, it won't mean he has resigned the church but that he has offered his services as a volunteer aid. Nineteen Methodist ministers in Indianapolis have agreed fo take

duties of orderlies and give one eight-hour-day ‘ per week assisting the nurses. The ministers volunteered after hearing Dr, William C. Hartinger; hospital pastor, describe the labor shortage in the institution. High school boys were employed

Yankee General

Becomes 'Queen’ LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (U. P.).

Nellie Veremko of Pittsfield, Mass.

'WOUND-RIDDLED

of FL Worth, Tex, dunced fn

19 Methodist Ministers Volunteer as Hospital Aids|FOR PAPER WORKERS

'SEEK 56-CENT HOUR

| HOOSIER DECORATED GUADALCANAL (Delayed) (I. : : {P.) ~The purple heart medal has MONTREAL, 1 (U, P)~—| ha Sa Establishment yin pulp and pa- been awarded a Van Buren, Ind; \per industry of an average hourly naval officer for multiple wounds in & predicament, wage of 56 cents will be sought 85 suffered when his ship was bombed theif study under Miss Bertha Pul. "timated last night by John P..,oiq off this island. The award.

rke, president of the Interna- ...4. to Ens. Cliff Bedford len, superintendent of nurses and (jong) Brotherhood of Pulp, Sul. J ns, Cliterd Beton

her assistants, Miss Kathryn Nelson phate and Papermill We {navy transport. He is rec and Mrs. Ethel Polsgrove. The Rev.| Burke, at the end of a five-day from shrapnel wounds but cbs 4 : ne with otieials trom _— the Rev. Mahan is secre- ves Vari- go vas made in {ary of the ministeria} volunteer ous interested unions, said that the mospital na uy aid group. They have organized 56-cent rate plus the cost-of-living . in order to arrange to. have at!bonus, which is fairly uniform in least two of the aids on duty each Ontario. had created dissaiisfaction day. in Quebec, Nova Seotia add New Plans for the aids were set in Brunswick mills, where the current) motion at & recent meeting of the rate is only 45 cents an hour. Arthur Huggins, president of the |

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