Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1944 — Page 4
DYESS WON ETS 4TH MEDAL
Bataan Hero Again Honored Posthumously for Dying ‘To Save Friends.’
MARCH FIELD, Cal., March-7 (U. " P.).—Mrs. Marajen Dyess, widow-of “Lt. Col. William E. Dyess, Bataan hero who “followed the American . tradition ‘to lay down your life for your friends,” had another medal
_ to add to the collection won by her
-Jate husband. It was the soldier's medal, awarded posthumously to Dyess, who was killed last Dec. 22 when he crashed his crippled P-38 fighter plane to “avold hitting motorists in a street below him. Maj. Gen. William E. Lynd, commanding general of the 4th air force who awarded the legion of merit and bronze oak leaf cluster’ to Dyess’ distinguished flying cross only 17 days before he was Killed, made the presentation to Mrs. Dyess at the regular daily retreat ceremonies here yesterday. “Without hesitation, he followed the American tradition ‘to lay down your life for your friends,” the citation said. Dyess was one of the survivors of the “Death March of Bataan” and escaped {rom a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines only a few months before he was killed.
RAIL AUXILIARY TO MEET
Monumental division 128, auxfliary to the Brotherhood of Loco-| motive Engineers will celebrate! their 52d anniversary at noon] Thursday at a meeting of the social ¢lub in the home of Mrs. Robert] .Abbott, 2609 N. Gale st.
'Gig' Collecting Times Reporter Finds
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at the club. Other booths were
filled with WACs and soldiers, tables were crowded with bottles, potato chips and crackers. The air was full of laughter and good times. Lights in the barracks went out at 10 p. m. Bedcheck came at midnight. I arrived back at the barracks ey 11:30 p. m. Upstairs most of the WACs were already asleep. Downstairs in the washroom about 10 of us congregated to cold cream our faces, put up our hair and brush our teeth. Here was where I learned that when a woman joins the army, she spends just as many hours trying to be beautiful in khaki as she did when she wore frilly blouses,
Ever Grow Up?
While we were there, Sgt. Angela Gamaldi of Brooklyn, N. Y. and Pfc. Jo Crowe of Boston, Mass., stopped to chat before they shoved off for their “graveyard” shift at the weather station. I had just stretched out on my cot when someone leaped out of hers with a scream, “Someone's put pebbles in my bed.” Then a handful went sailing through the air toward the other end of the barracks. Wisecracks issued from all areas
| until an irate WAC if one corner { grumbleds “Why don't you girls
grow up? Don’t you know somebody wants to sleep?” Somebody called, “Wet blanket!” Someone else groaned,
“There’s one in every barracks.” I fell asleep, The bright lights of the bare racks shone in our eyes at 6 a, m. Some of us were up immediately;
others still snoozed. I didn’t rush; in fact, I poked so much that someone else did my details, and I got two gigs (black marks) instead. ; When I returned from breakfast, the girls were laying,out my uniform. I had asked for a size 16, but a ‘G. I 12, belonging to Pvt. Bilby, was~a better fit About ‘7:45 a. m. I hiked with Cpl. Strittmatter to the hangar where most of the WACs work. I watched them go through their daily duties in the weather station, radio unit, personnel office, classification section, filing room, public relations office, photog raphy section.
Wears Coveralls
A petite blue-eyed blond, Sgt. Rosalie Tokarczyk of Detroit, Mich.,, was wearing coveralls, a flying jacket and a stocking cap for her work as a radio technician as she climbed in and out of the huge cargo planes to test the radios. Pvt. Francis Jean Squires of Morgantown, W. Va,, was running the mimeograph in the file room, and Pvt, Betty Fisher of Robjnson, Ill, was pounding a.typewriter in the public relations office. In the parachute packing department was soft-spoken, grayhaired Pvt. Mabel Lang of Orlando, Fla. She has one son in the marines, one in the navy and a daughter in the civi] air patrol. Before she joined the WACs, she was ‘a civilian parachute rigger
at a Florida army field.
With the wisdom that comes with age, she regards being in the army as a safe and sure wartime job, pointing out’ that women army veterans will receive. the same post-war job preference as the men.
At noon we ate roast beef, spinach, rice, jello, carrot and raisin salad, and tea, For the next two hours I lounged on “my” cot in the barracks. Nearby Sgt. Alma V. Brown of North Bergen, N. J, was checking up on her correspondence, Cpl. Victoria Cherry of Long Island, N. Y., was industriously “G. I.-ing” her area with mep and pail, while . Cpl. Elsie Strizhak of Brooklyn was looking
. for someone to do hers for 50
cents. Sgt. Terrace:was hanging by her heels to wash the outside of the window by her bed, and Cpl. Alice Turnquist of Belmont, Mass, was doing a first-class job of heckling everyone. About 2:30 p. m, Pvt. Bilby made the mistake of coming in while still in uniform. She was given the bum’s rush to the P. X.
to get hamburgers, cokes and po-
tato chips for all of us. - - A close order drill at 3 p. m. found me going one way and the WACs the other. Then came an hour of physical training. The WACs were in wonderful condition, I took two deep knee bends and collapsed. They handed me a discharge,
Proud to Be WACs
Here's what I learned about the WACS. They are very proud to be in the army, Most of those at Stout field joined when the corps was still an auxiliary and stayed in when it became part of the army. Take Pfc. Florence O'Shea of
New York City. After seven months as a WAAC, she dropped out last August. In November she re-enlisted at Stout field because she was restless at home
HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Stout Field WACs Mix Fan With Work,
Keith Kinsey at Craig Field, Ala.
AVIATION CADCT KEITH (CHUCK) KINSEY has ‘reported to Craig field, . Ala. to begin pre-flight pilot training after visiting his parents, Mr, and Mrs. William H. Roberts, 4832 Carvel st, and : his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, Charles F. Schlegel Sr, 4615. Winthrop
Cadet Kinsey ave. A graduate of Technical high school, he enlisted March 9. Cadet Kinsey is a former member of the civil air patrol here.
and couldn’t face her friends until she rejoined the army. The soldiers’ main compiaint about the WACs is that they lose
their femininity when they don |. the khaki. But even so, the
WACs are not ignored by the soldiers. Most of the Air WACs date men at Stout field. The WACs are average women. As one soldier pointed out, if you take 15 civilians and 15 WACs, youll get the same percentage of good and bad, agreeable and disagreeable. Stout field officers, some of whom were dead set against the WACs at ‘first, are the first to praise them. Naturally, the women aren't always as happy-go-lucky as they seemed in the short time I was with them. They have to fight homesickness, throw off the blues that come with wearing the.same outfit day in and day out, and overcome the weariness of war, But they are courageous, independent women who selected their wartime job and are sticking to it, They're good soldiers,
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Strong Vice President Seen "As Issue for Conventions
Sor Charles Curtis of Kansas for the yice presidency. How cut-and-dried the process usually is can be demonstrated by the fact that it has taken only one ballot for the nomination of a vice presidential candidate in“32 out of the 38 major conventions since the Civil war. The “fix” usually sticks. The second place has gone usually in recent years to one of the “favorite son” candidates. Jim Farley, then more naive about national politics than later, wrote some interesting comments on this subject to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, in a letter from San Francisco when he was on that famous trip in 1931 lining up delegates for the governor. He had been urging state politicos against committing themselves to favorite sons,
Want Names Offered “I have told the different people
jalong the line that we do hope they
will not in any case instruct for their governors or United States senators in the hope that lightning might strike,” Mr. Farley wrote. “It has been brought to my attention that the reason a number of these senators and governors want their names presented to the convention as presidential candidates is because they feel it is the only way that they can be considered for the vice presidency, believing that it their names go before the convention in such a manner they might have some luck.” Jim added: “Governor, the presidential job
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