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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28, 1943

SEEK DELAY ON 0 AMENDMENTS

Senators in No Mood for Changing Constitution During War.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 28 (U. P.: —Senate judiciary committee members are in no mood, to amend the % constitution until the war is won. | They remember the resentment of

soldiers in the last war “wd fv

prohibition amendment wh adopted in their absence. The committee's - attitude was summed up today by Senator Carl A. Hatch (D. N. M.),; chairman of a special subcommittee in charge of ne pending proposals to amend the ay Hatch said he asked the full committes whether his group should proceed with hearings and make recommendations. “The sentiment seemed to be that »

e committee wanted nothing done * . al . $2 ; » the Rhee time,” Hatch said. Corps Given Credit for Cut In Juvenile Delinquency Rate did not call out as youngsters usually

> Recalls Past Experience The decision covers not only the nine proposals already introduced, ; uestions as bu sch eomsoveratal 4 A big reason for the 50 per cent drop in the last year in the juvenile h f repeal of the poll-tax and an equal (do, Mostly they stood near fence delinquency rate in Indianapolis are the youth activities sponsored by | | posts as if ready to run. the auxiliary police corps. The youth program is one of the two functions of the corps; and guard duty,

rights amendment for women, Both volunteer adjunct

Auxiliary Police Study First Aid

| WEIGHT OI OF WAR

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Civilians in 7 Coptired Town Gaze With Awe on

Yank Armor.

By ROBERT W. RICHARDS United Press Staff Correspondent WITH U. 8. 4TH ARMORED DI-

| VISION, WEIDINGEN, Germany,

1 | |

no one can complain honestly that

‘without towns, One case in point 1s Weidingen. It lies limp astride the road toward Bitburg, seven miles to the west. It lies sprawled: like a dead nian with broken legs, broken arms and a crushed chest which long ago was too pained for breathing. ‘Blond-haired women, perhaps with husbands dying at the front, stood staring today, - fascinated by the overwhelming strength in steel and wheels moving through their village. Tanks, tanks and more tanks. Little blond boys stared, too. They

damaging any

First aid is a “must” on the training program of the newly-or-ganized auxiliary police corps, Above, Harry H,' Houghtalen, civilian chief of the corps, left, makes notes as Sgt. Kenneth Luke, of the police school, behind the dummy, and Sgt. Golden L. Reynolds, police

department, director of the core, explain the functions of parts of the human body.

Near a muddy high road, a weary the | G.I. stood with a carbine slung over | his shoulder.

Obviously Homestick

are expected to be introduced yet! this year, Senator Albert B: Chandler (D. : : Ky.) summed up the committee's Reorganized Jan. 1 reluctance to act with this argu- police department, the ment: . consists of 156 members organized | “A constitutional BnERament into - a city-wide battalion com- | units Word RR a on manded by Harry H. Houghtalén. people = ; ; : : when the fullest expression can be] The corps was born as a part of |sypervised by an officer of the parthe civilian defense office to help ent auxiliary corps.

obtained. “With millions of men and women authorities. cope with wartime! junior police serve as eves for of the village.- and they worked Nine hundred volun- [the regular policemen. Their ob- slowly and deliberately.

out of the country any attempt to emergencies. $ t in wartin were enrolled in the group . apt a amend the constitution ne 8 A] F have been useful ini" one of the girls stared sidewise numbers of investigations. at the G. I, but he maintained his

would not be a true reflection majority views. "in other ways: When stubborn gaze at the ground. If he wr ‘walking spoke to her in boy and girl lan-

other being police traffic

as a to the Indianapolis

| He stared from beneath his tin polie Liat at the ground, obviously homein the sick.

Fach “is closely| Two women and two girls were [pulling water from a well and he | was guarding them. They appar{ently were getting water for most

corps now |—— - There five with a sixth. |organization stage,

are junior

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servations countless

casioned trouble in the past. prohibition amendment is an ‘ in 1 to

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ie FEEL [Killing Men 'Ain't. ie Right in Opinion of Yank “Sniper

{Feb, 28 (Delayed) —After- this war |

German

By ROBERT VERMILLION United Press Staff Correspondent” WITH TTH ARMY IN ALSACE, Feb. 24 (Delayed). —8gt. Horace Theodore West squinted along the barrel of his Springfield rifle with the telescopic sights and made a° minor adjustment. : The weapon was 8poflessly clean. There were no notches for the 10/ Germans he killed with it

to boost his official total to 130.)

enemy dead since the Sicilian campaign.

“He has been shooting Germans, running, sitting and - standing, since his old_division, the 45th, landed in Sicily July 10, 1943. West,

hair is gray and thin at the. front. His skin is tanned the color of a smoked ham.

As TI talked to him at a bat« |

His |

talion command post he fiddled |

with the telescopic sight, embarrassed by the attention ‘but | proud of his skill. = A

“A man shouldn't be too proud

of killing another man,” “I allow it ain’t exactly right. But

| " |the allies permitted an armistice { the Germans. started. it.

he. said. |

West hails from Wagoner, Okla. |

In the nearby used to shoot squirrels and rabbits on the run,

Cookson hills he |

“I reckon I must around 120 in Sicily,” he ‘But that was close fighting. The killing in Sicily didn't take skill as much as fire power and most of the time I was using a Tommy gun.”

have killed | said. |

In the last month in the Alsace, |

| he killed 10 more with his rifle, West missed combat in Italy.

because he was assigned to the

"| 100th division as a rifle company father of two children, | | looks older than his 35 years.

headquarters handyman.

Explaining -how he became 'a |

sniper in this outfit, West said: “Coming up here on a from South France: I rode with a young boy I got to like. I told him as much as I knew about war—the right and wrong things to do. “Bud, I told him, ‘never “get out of a hole once you've got a good one. Do that and a Jerry sniper has done got you.’ “Well, I guess the kid forgot. About a monthrago he got out of his hole and sat beside it—and there was another gold star mother back in the United States,

train |

“1 didn't know about it unt! that afternoon when the captaif poined to a rifle, with telescopio sights, leaning against a tree. It was the kid's rifle. “ ‘West,’ the captain says me, ‘can you shoot that rifle?’ “‘I reckon s0,’ I told him. “Then he told me about this boy and it went plumb against my liver, = #4 talked to the boy's buddy, found out where ne had been sitting and how he had been hit, I figured awhile and decided the sniper must be in a tree about 300 yards away. “I just sat and watched tha spot until I saw something move, Through the sights I saw a Jerry standing behind a stump. I killed him. The captain let me keep that. rifle.”

“Experience shows that it has @ 4 PEE e_he would have been liable to 4

ample.” “who “velumigared.. [the corps after 1s the police department. Those Wit The senate committee now has the highest scores were selected. pending proposed amendments Incorporated Jan. 10, the corps is | which would: financially self-sufficient. The - only corps, before their assignment to las 5 omnes y GIVE the District of Columbia ,ontribution required of members duty, must pass comprehensive 3S 3 representation in congress. is a $5 % equ fee. However, tests in first “aid and other police a almost at ELIMINATE the electoral college members must buy their own uni- | Subjects. They are trained at the in presidential elections. forms and other equipment. {police school "by .its director, Sgt. | : : Co ae oo PERMIT treaty ratification by a| How the corps has helped de- |senne h Luke. : ma jority vote of both houses of con- crease crimes among juveniles is| Last month the corps put in 1236 EX- ‘OUR GANG STAR gress instead of a two-thirds-vote reflected in the records of the manhours of work—relieving regu-| TO ENTERTAIN HERE

of the senate. juvenile court and the police com-| lar police of traffic and guard duty | Ito the extent of about 614 man-|

Nine Now” Pending

Members of the au:

their | fingertips, but, they neither see them nor speak to them,

REQUIRE that not more than one plaint files. _ | Freckles Ruy, orignal juvenile member of the President's cabinet! The corps uses no magic; it sim- hours. The corps members are sta- . : ply encourages youth to look upon tioned throughout the downtown star of Hal Roach’s “Our Gang

be a resident of any state. {shopping district Monday "nights, | comedies, will be guest entertainer

PERMIT the President to veto in- @ Policeman as its friend. dual it | . {principally on trafic posts, and at a luncheon meeting of the Individual tems in general appropria 15,000 Boys Enrolled {they do similar work at the Coliti bills. | Estate Board tofons | Unique among youth programs:is séum hockey games, basketball OUTLAW closed shop union ¢on-| he corps’ junior police organiza-|tourneys and other events that at-| tracts. |tion—15,000 boys of grammar and tract large crowds. LIMIT the term of President to! junior high school age. Its mem-| a single six-year terrn, limit sena- hers play “cops” in a practical way. a part of the civilian defense prep- will preside tors to a single six-year term and = “These-boys learn that it's fun to|arations; the present auxiliary | : representatives to a total of three he on the right side of the law.’ '|corps is a permanent body. | Tuli: . two-year terms. explained Police Sgt. Golden L.! When the war ends, Indianapolis | TEMPLE"NO. 7 TO MEET FORBID any individual to hold Reynolds, full-time director of the will continue to draw in emer- | Myrtle Temple No. 7, Pythian the office of President for more than ‘auxiliary corps who was detailed gencies upon the services of the Sisters will meet Friday at the hall,

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morrow noon. Carl G. Seytter, vice president, : will have charge of the program, Unlike its predecessor which was and’ Wendell M. Hicks, president,

two elective terms. ~- 'frpm the police department, trained auxiliary police corps. 1230.F. Ohio st., for initiation.

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