Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1944 — Page 2

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‘Local Yank Tells How Sub Hung Between Surface | : And Bottom. ; With a nonchalance that comes

Beach, pharmagist’s mate 1.c, 1326 E. Southern sve, today recounted how his submarine hung between 5s : the surface and (TTT the bottom, out J : of commission, as units of the Japanese fleet bracketed it with depth charges, “I can't tell you when, where or e the name of the! ERE © 8 sub” he said, == “but for 25 hours = we sweated it out Raymond Beach oc our mechanics and machinists worked on / ‘the engines. Our air was good for 40 hours. “The engines were temporarily knocked out by depth charges. The Japs knew they had hit us and tried to finish off the job.

Their Alternatives

“We could have surfaced, but ‘then we would either have been ‘shelled and machinegunned or) _ taken prisoner. We could have dropped, but then if the “engines couldn't be fixed there would have been an awful lot of water over us. “Se we sweated it out. Then they got the engines fixed and we crawled away. That's all there was lo it.” : A Greyhound bus driver in civilian life, Mate Beach was made into 8 navy pharmacist. “I guess because we had to know something about first aid es a driver,” he said.

He Does His Share

He never has found himself in ‘the predicament of the pharmacist's mate who had to perform an appendectomy or major operation, but he has done his share of patching up the wounced, removing bullets and high caliber shells, Entering service in September, 1941, he is now spending a 30-day furlough at the home of his sister, Mrs. C. H. Perry of the Southern gave. address,

On continuous sub duty for 26 months in the Pacific, Mate Beach | was in on the landings at Tarawa, Saipan and Blak. : His mother, Mrs. Flora Hiner, lives at 444 8. Alabama st.

Mrs. Baumann Joins Staff Here |

MRS. NORMA BAUMANN, a | graduate of the institute of medi- | cal technology, Northwestern uni- | versity, has been named chief record librarian of I the department of medical records at Methodist hospital, Dr. John G. Benson, general 8 U perintendent, announced today. Mrs. Baumann formerly was hi record librarian at the Method- Mrs. Baumann ist hospital, Peoria, Ill, and at the Childrens hospital, San Francisco. She succeeds Miss Bernice Kinfiemon who recently resigned to become assoefated with the West Virginia school of medicine.

TWO-WAY LIBRARY CONCLAVE PLANNED

The annual conference of the Indiana Library association will be held Jointly with the Indiana Library Trustees association Oct. 19-20 in the Lincoln hotel. Principal speaker at the annual banquet to be held the closing night of the conference will be Sigmund Spaeth, well-known author and “tune detective.” He wil] speak on “Music Goes to War.” J. J. Weadock Jr. trustee.of the Lima, O., public library, will ad-

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RED CROSS SPEEDS

A direct communications service | between Red Cross field directors in | France and the Home Service de- | partment of the American Red! Cross has been arranged in an ef- | fort to speed transmittal of emerBency messages from service men in France to their families at home. Previously it was necessary for the messages to go by way of London. Emergency messages sent through the Red Cross by families in this country to men in France will Sofilintie » be relayed through

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