Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1944 — Page 2

Proposed

The legislative welfare investigafion commission today recommended that the selection of welfare personbe taken from the state personboard and vested in a new state board, the creation of which | last week in recommending

to the 1945 legislature, ssion said in its rethat if the giving of examinations is left ds of the state personnel t the preparation and the examination papers y category of employment] be done by the new state

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board, (The new board would be composed of three full-time members

bers who meet monthly to confer with the welfare administrator, Thurman A. Gottschalk),

States Reasons

State Personnel Director Dudley A. Smith said that the commission's, proposal, if put into effect, would split the state merit system in two!

the state welfare board and the one operated under the state personnel act. He said that, under an attorney general's opinion, ‘the legislative eommission’s recommendations could be put into effect without passage of a law. The attorney general has held, he said, that it is discretionary with the state welfare board as to whether the examinations for welfare department employees shall be given by the board, Up-to-date, the state welfare board has chosen to have the personnel board conduct examinations for the selection of its employees,

Recommendations Made

The legislative commission also! recommended today that: The number of rules and regulations issued by the welfare board “be - radically reduced” and that when a regulation is issued it contain a definite reference to the law which warrdnts the issuing of the rule. That all regulations be, made available to the public the same as any law under which the citizens are bound. That the lien provision (repealed in 1041) be restored in the welfare law in a modified form, providing for a claim against the estate of the deceased for welfare monies received which shall be preferred as against all claims other than

those now preferred under the statutes of Indiana, :

Welfare

"Board Choose Personnel

That the law be strengthened to permit the conditioning of a grant in any case where, in the opinion of the county welfare board, this

18 necessary. - This would permit! ’

the county board to specify for what the welfare money could be spent and would be put into use

"| chiefly in cases where the recipients

spend most of their relief money

{for liquor.

That the law be “revised to require the welfare department to bring court action to compel children, who are able, to support their indigent parents,

Refers to Decision

“The law now is that children who have attained their majority must contribute to the support of indigent parents, if able to do so, but according to a recent decision of the supreme court, ‘this mandate shall not apply to children who have not lived with or who have not been supported by their parents when such children were minors’,” the commission’s report said. “It is the apparent view of the| oourt that unless children were supported by their parents during all their minority, they cannot be compelled to support their parents in later years. This should be changed.”

Film Dog Star Is 20 Years Old

BOSTON, April 8 (U. P).— —“Mike,” the English bull terrier with a black-ring eye who frolicked through countless “Our Gang comedies,” observed his 20th birthday yesterday in a hospital recovering from injuries sustained in an automobile aceident Mon-

The dog's owner, George F. Foster of West Newton, had planned a birthday cake made from dog biscuits and topped by 20 candles yesterday.

MRS. BROWDER WINS IN BOARD’S RULING

WASHINGTON, April 6 (U. P.) — Justice department officials said today that Mrs. Earl Browder, Rus-sian-born wife of the American Communist party leader, must obtain state department approval of her preliminary application for an immigration visa as a first step in the process of becoming a legal alien resident of the United States. The department of justice announced late yesterday that the board of immigration appeals had withdrawn its 1940 deportation or der banishing Mrs. Bowder to her native Russia. Mrs. Browder has been living in New York.

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ARMY DAY ONE "OF HARD WORK

Heads of Services Thank Their Troops for

Devotion.

WASHINGTON, April 6 (U. P.).— The parades and demonstrations of former years were missing today as the growing U, S. army observed Army day—anniversary of American entry into world war:I—with intensive training and preparation for the coming invasion. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall, banning the customary celebrations and public inspections, said, “the necessities of war make it inadvisable to transport and divert troops for this purpose.” “This year,” said Marshall, “like any other day, April 6 will be one of -hard wprk to carry us that much nearer to victory.” But it was also a day for soldiers and WACs at home and overseas to receive the tribute of their chiefs.

Owe Gratitude

“To every man and woman in the army,” said Marshall, “we owe on increasing debt of gratitude for the fortitude and spirit with which their duties are being performed.” Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson sent greetings and “my personal gratitude .for your courageous and unselfish service.” “The trust of America lies in your accomplish ment of the great tasks which lie before you . . . you will not fail that trust,” he said, Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson sent his best wishes, and a personal pledge that "I shall work with all the resolution and determination at my command to help mold our nation at home and our forces abroad into an unprecedented unity of thought and action toward the victory that we can achieve through that unity alone.” Lt. Gen. A, A. Vandegrift, marine corps commandant, sent greetings and the “salute of the marine corps.”

Record of Courage

“Since war come to this country over two years ago,” he said, “you and your command have been faced with one of the severest challenges in history, Of the manner in which those difficulties have been met, the American people are justly proud; it is a record of vision, courage and

resourcefulness,”

Army day, two years and four months after the country was plunged into world war II at Pearl Harbor, found nearly half of the army of about 7,500,000 men overseas. Stimson said last week that 5,000,000 would be overseas by the

end of the year.

7 ram INDIANAPOLIS TIMES — The Romantic South Seas— Knee-Deep Mud, Gunfire|

LIFE, 1944-STYLE, in the romantic South seas . . , sweltering days

anid cold nights with rain that never stops . . . knee-deep mud that

clings and hardens . , . always the sound of gunfire in the distance

+ + « K-rations for bfeakfast, dinner and su

When Mrs. Christine Pruitt, 1515 E. 62d st, asked her son, Cpl

Charles W. Paris, what it was like

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Jack Paris Donald Summers '“You leave your boat, and step

in the South Pacific, that was his answer, : . In the Pacific more than two years, the 23-year-old marine is with the first marine division, working on the reproduction of aerial map photography, He had his taste of front line fighting on Guadalcanal. From there he went to'New Guinea-and now he’s at another Pacific base, In his letter of Feb, 10 he described the way the men lived the first few days of a “recent” ‘ week. - : off into waist-deep water. , . . The

grea} rolling white sanded beach you have read about turns out to be a debris-riddled black sanded 10-yard strip seemingly pushed back into the ocean by a jungle so dense your visibility is limited to 20 yards.

“It starts to rain—not the gentle rain we knew back home but a-

deluge. It is the first time you realize there is weight to rain. It

seems to beat you into the ground.

“You march to a prearranged area for bivouacking. The sand, cut by the troops which landed that morning, is a bed of mud. . ..

By the time you reach the to foot, . , :

area you are covered with mud from head

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A cartoonist’s view of the high-

speed activity which

takes place in the bivouac area when the air raid siren sounds in the jungle night. The drawing, which Cpl. Paris said is “not exaggerated,” was made by a fellow marine. ’

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“You clear an area to set up your hammock . . . the most useful article conceived to aid men fighting in the jungles. It consists of a regular hammock with a rubber roof over the top. Mosquito netting

makes it one unit. four pounds.

“You begin to notice the mosquitoes.

. . » The whole thing is watertight and weighs about

There are droves of them.

If you could hold your hand still g0 seconds, you could count 15 or 20. They simply cover you when you remain motionless. “You sit down to eat. Your meal is K-ration. , . , canned meat, biscuit, beverage, a stick of gum and four cigarettes.

“It is dark and you are tired from the strain and excitement, All this time it has been raining: Stripping off the wet and muddy clothes, you crawl into your hammock. Having left your blankets with your heavy gear in order to lighten your load and because everything you own is wet, you sleep naked. Several times dur.ing the night, you are awakened by gunfire—sometimes so fierce you wonder if your lines are going to hold.

“Reassuring yourself you drop

off to sleep. Later you awaken

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shivering from the cold for in the early hours of the morning it gets cold even in the tropics. ... Until daybreak you spend the time in fitful sleeping. ... “Daylight dispels some of the anxiety and miserable feeling of the night. It is still raining and you dread getting out of the sack to pull on wet, muddy clothes. However, there is work to be done. “After breakfast, which is another K-ration, you set out to look for your boxes of gear. The job is somewhat easier than the

Keeps on Move

“For six days these conditions prevail, Wet clothes day and night, K-ration until you are sick of it. . . . You would give most . anything eat.

for something hot to

Pvt. Charles Paris

‘| “The straw that breaks the camel’s back is that you move four times in those six days—tear= ing down and setting up each time. This finally ends when you reach your objective and set up permanently, “These conditions pertain only to the administrative troops. The front line troop conditions are three times as bad. They can't set up hammocks, They must live in foxholes, often half full of water, for 15 to 20 days on end. “Yes, indeed, this is the romantic South Seas!”

2 Brothers Serving

Mrs. Pruitt has two other sons: Pfc. Donald Summers, now on his way overseas with the infantry, and Machinist's Mate 3-¢ Jack Paris, who is making his eighth trip with the Atlantic fleet. Mate Paris took part in the invasion of Sicily and the landing at Salerno. At Sicily he was at his battle station 72 hours, with only sandwiches and coffee to eat, he told his mother, Mrs. Pruitt’s husband, Capt. Harry W. Pruitt, retired this week after almost 24 years as a fireman. -He was the captain at station 13 for nine years.

HULL TO ADDRESS NATION ON SUNDAY

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U, P.).

~—Secretary of State Cordell Hull! will deliver a long heralded radio! address on foreign policy next Sunday evening,

it was announced

Y. It will be broadcast over the entire netwark of the Columbia Broad-

casting system from 5:30 to 6:30

p. m., Indianapolis time,

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| HOLLYWOOD, Aprfl 6 (U. .

in selling butane conversion units without priorities. - The butane gas tank, the

Among the car owners he listed Bob Hope, Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, Eddie Cantor, Gary Cooper, Producers William Goetz and Leo. Spitz, Barbara Hutton, richest girl in town, and Louis B. Mayer, head of M-G-M and recipient of the nation’s highest salary. i , 3 Some of the asserted purchasers said they wouldn't know a butaine

* unit if it bit them.

The FBI investigation came at the personal instigation of Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who toured the West recently and wanted to know why butane consumption was up to 8,000,000 gallons a year. Driving a butane-operated car takes no more gas coupons than cooking a pot of beans, and most of the purchasers said they thought it was just-as legal. There was some doubt on that point, John H. Hamey, War praduction compliance chief, said it was entirely possible that buyers would be prosecuted. It wasn’t clear what statute would apply in their case.

Board Kind to Hope

Zonker was accused of diverting strategic materials from the war effort, Hope's brother Jack said the comedian investigated the butane arrangement, found it illegal, and stuck to gasoline.

G-Men Lift Hollywood's ~ - Hoods, Hunt Butane Gadget

| Grant spoke for his wife,

Mayer was on a train east and not available for. “but Miss Hutton.- it

like anybody else.” : Cantor said he never knew there was such a gadget and Errol

“I~-or rather my automobiles run on gasoline,” he said. “Apparently somebody just thought it was about time I showed up in court again.”

(TIRPITZ LEFT AFIRE BY TWO RAF RAIDS

LONDON, April 8 (U. P)~The 35,000-ton German battleship Von Tirpitz was left burning amidships after two forces of British Barra. cuda naval planes scored hits with heavy and medium-sized bombs as she was about to leave her anchor age in the Alten fjord of northern Norway Monday, the admiralty an. nounced last night. : The Barracudas, escorted by fighters, took off from aircraft carriers near dawn. The first flight laid bombs near the bridge, amidships and forward. German attempts to screen the Tirpits with smoke failed to prevent the second

force from making additional hits, The British planes encountered anti-aircraft fire from the Tirpitz and shore batteries but no enemy aircraft were sighted. Three Barracudas and one fighter plane were lost in the action, the admiralty said.

STREETGAR SMOKER VICTOR BY A PUFF

. Sgt. Alex Dunwoody, public ene-

my No. 1 of Indianapolis smokers, came out on the losin g end today a “streetcar” smoker,

fined $1 and costs in municipal court Oct. 12 but he appealed the

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butane was a waste product and certainly didn't know it was illegal. i gas, he said, to work. Goetz Calif

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