Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1945 — Page 2

‘On Junketing | Congressmen

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN . United Press Stat Cor

respondent ASHINGTON, Oct. 8. .... —Pals, your welcome is. running out. 1 mean you congressmen who have been traipsing around the world. «+ Your involuntary hosts are fed up, ‘gefinished, and through with hauling out sirloin steaks for junketing lawmakers. I know one army post in a far ‘corner of the globe (name on re‘quest to congressmen with travel folders in their pockets) where the next senator or representative

who shows up gets arsenic in his oatmeal. That's a promise irom the commander.

” nr » THESE people came here” he sputtered, “and you'd have thought We were running a summer resort. ‘Work bad to stop while we took “emt on personally escorted tours of the local sights, “We had to help ‘em buy sduVenirs, feed em in de luxe style, pour ‘em our whisky--which fs

hard énolgh to come by In this’

hole. "We almost had to keep their noses wiped. “All this wasn't so bad, though I still cannot understand what good they did by coming here,

» w ” “80 ONE of the gents, a fat one, tells me to call my boys together 30 he can make a speech, “I Hned"up the post on the parade grounds and this character Stood on a box and began flailing his arms and yelling like he was making a campaign speach to his constituents. “My boys,’ he cried, thumping his chest, ‘you can trust me, your friend, Congressman Throttlebot« tom, to get you home to the good old U. 8. A within the next month,’ » » » 4 “80 of course the ladd cheered. Then this, this person gets on an airplane and that's the last we hear of him, “And here I'm stuck with a post full of G. 1's who can't understand what happened to their travel orders. Some think I'm the villain. “Morale has sunk to as new low and the next congressman who stitk: his nose in here, so help me, gets that arsenic.” This was no isolated case of an unhappy host.

Wherever I went on the ATC's

six-day flight around the world last week, the first officer who climbed into the plane wondered whether any congressmen were aboard. Upon being assured that none were, he relaxed. y ” ® MOST amusing story of conKressmen having a fling, perhaps, came from a sergéant in Casablanca (I have his name, but I'm telling nobody). The lawmakers were escarted to the Villa Maas, where an elaborate dinner was served them in a dining room with plate glass windows overlooking the south Atlantie. Arab waiters served the meal, from soup through beefsteak to

peaches, cream, and home made | {ture locale 145 of the 40 and 8 so- |

cake, As the well-stuffed congressmen went out, they had to file past the sergeant, whose job It was to collect 25 cents each for the meal, wv » A “ONE OF these Joes gets sore, the sergeant said, “and says the army will collect: no money from him. I tell him it's only 25 cents, a kind of a token payment’ like, to keep the records straight. “He says he wants me to know that he's a congressman on offi- ~ cial business and that he pays for nothing. “He says it's not the money, it's the principle of the thing" He didn't pay, either. Only way the embarrassed ser« geant could bring quiet back: to the’ North African night was put up the quarter himself,

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| ANDERSON, Oct. 8

'REBEKAH, 1.0.0.F, CONFAB OPENS

Delegates Here.

Governor Gates informally weélcomed representatives from through-

out the state this morning to the 61st annukl session of the Rebekah assembly at the Hotel Lincoln, Mrs. Raymond Pressell, Marion county district deputy, gave the welcome address this morning and officers, 10 be introduced and installed tomorrow, were elected this afternoon, Following the annual session of the Rebekah assembly will be the 108th annual communication of the grand lodge, I. O. O. F. of Indiana to be held in the Odd Fellows building Thursday and Friday. 8 Speakers Heard The Rebekah assembly was opened last night with a dinner in honor of Mrs. Victoria K. Shirer of Rensselaer, president. Speakers included Mrs. Shirer, Mrs. Hazel Brust of Sullivan, incoming president; Murray L. Gordon of the grand

Governor - Welcomes State!

army command by Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower for being too slow in

Gen. Patton Says Farewell to

BAD TOELZ, Bavaria, Oct. 8 (U. P.).—~Gen, George -8. (Old Blood and Guts). Patton Jr, and the famed 3d army~—which he led from Normandy across France and Germany to victory—have parted company. He turned over command of the army to Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr. at a six-minute ceremony in

the gymnasium of the former 8. 8. military academy here yesterday. Patton becomes nead of the skeletal 15th army and a general officers’ board studying the European zampaign, Bpeaking in a husky voice, Patton addressed 400 selected officers and men of his former command as “comrades” in a 50-second farewell address. “The best thing that ever came to me thus far is the honor and privilege of having command of the 3d army,” he said. Although removed from the 3d

lodge, I. O. O. ¥.; Keith C. Thompson, grand patriarch, I. O. O. F.; Elmo Gustin, department commander of the military branch; Miss Etta Lou McClure of the Theta Rho girls, sentative of the Junior Boys, Mrs. Opal Foltz of Indianapolis, |} secretary,

K. Miller of St. Bernice, treasurer; H. E. Roesener of Indianapols, grand secretary; Dichard Shirer of Rensselaer, grand junior warden, and the Rev, Doyle Mullen of Rensselaer,

Expect 400 Delegates

Representatives of more than

will attend the 100th annual com

for 26 years. The present mem

more than 2000 are in military serv ice.

City in Brief

A native Hoosler, Maj. J, C Brown, Bt. Louis, will speak on

| Warren hotel, | The

tral ¥, W. C. A, 3290 N. Pennsylvania st. Speaker will

Also speaking were Mrs. Florence |}

400 subordinate lodges in Indiana |

bership in Indiana is 25,000 of which |

“Lessons from World War II” atl the noon luncheon of the American | | Chemical society tomorrow in thel|

American n Ameciation of So- |} | ela] Workess® will®join with the In{dianapolis social workers’ club for |i dinner at 6:15 p, m. today at Cen-|}

be Miss|; Leona Massoth, executive secretary! ®

Robert Matlock, repre- 4 and

Army He Led Across France

removing Nazis: from office in his Bavarian occupation zone, Patton carefully avoided any mention of the circumstances surrounding his transfer. The 15th army is a “paper” unit of several hundred headquarters troops serving the board which is

compiling the history of the American headquarters is in the French occu« pation zone. .

campaign in Europe. Its

Truscott, who formerly com-

manded the 5th army in Italy and recently has been serving as Gen. Isenhower’s personal representative in Europe, briefly paid tribute to Patton as the man “who has writ ten one of the greatest pages in military history.”

MOVE TOJO TO PRISON : TOKYO, Oct. 8 (U. P).—Gen.

Hideki Tojo, sufficiently recovered | from his attempted suicide to be | Ritelicn; Po, Rovert L Hayden’ 8 moved, has been transferred to James ’ * : Omori prison from the 43d division general hospital in Yokohama, the 8th army announced today.

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{ciety have been installed: Olarénce Scott, chef de gare; Joe W.| Btutesman, 1st chef de train: John | L. Clark, 2d chef de train; Floyd H. Kirlin, commissaire intendant; Ra-

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| William B. Bolen, cheminot and Joe [openia house committee,

Joe Higgins of the commercial {department of WIBC will speak { tomorrow noon to the Gyro club at the Indianapolis Athletic club club,

DIES OF INJURIES WU. Pl Marion Effer, 30, Anderson, died last night of injuries received Saturday when his truck collided with another truck and an automobile near | Huntsville,

IN INDIANAPOLIS

EVENTS TODAY oi Twelve club, luncheon, 12:12 »p. mm,

a Washington. Afternoon clad, lunch

ne onrd, con

convention

a. p. m., Hotel Washin oii "Aeronautics Authority

farence, Olaypoosl hotel, Nations! Medical society, Claypool hotel,

Rebekah State Assembly, convention, Odd Pellow building.

EVENTS TOMORROW

«Rebekah State Assembly, convention, Odd Peliow building. Women's Press club of Indians, luncheon, 12:30 p. m., Hotel Washington tor Constructors, meeting, 1:30 p. m.; Hotel Washington, McCammon course, Motel Washington,

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THE INDIANAPOLIS. TIMES

13 LOCAL MEN ARRIVE IN U. §.

Role to. to Atterbury - For Processing. °

Thirteen Indianapolis men are listed as arriving in Boston to be processed at Camp Atterbury, * Two men listed as arriving today aboard the Laconia Victory are Pfc. Claude M. Hardwick and 8. Sgt. Kenneth D, Eitham, Five men were scheduled to arrive yesterday aboard the 8.) 8. Kokomo Victory. Tiky are Pvt. William E. Boughton, Pvt. Russell R. Jones, Ist Lt. Philip B. Reisler, 5749 BE. New York, T-4 Walter D. Hughes and T-5 Clancy E. Barnes. Six men gvere listed as having

arrived Saturday aboard the Vassar Victory. They are: Cpl. Louis L.

S. Sgt. Sam L. Harrington, 1433 Shepherd; T-3 Harold H. Buttz, 1854 Bugar Grove, and Cpl. Pete M.

Alexander, 221 W, Vermont,

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8 (U. P). ~The bodies of Dr. John H. Mans- “| feldt, 47, and Mrs. Vada Martin— the young nurse whom his wife killed in trying to force an admis-

.|ston of stolen love—awaited burial

today. Dr. Mansfeldt committed suicide

‘rather than face the shame of his

wife's action. : Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt, 45, paced the floor of her room in the psychopathic ward of the San Francisco hospital where she was taken from the city jail. Her red hair was disheveled and her eyes were rimmed from weeping. “I killed him,” she . cried. killed my husband.” Mrs. Mansfeldt was charged with murder for the fatal shooting last Thursday of the 36-year-old nurse. The nurse denied with her dying breath that she had a love affair with Dr. Mansfeldt. Mrs. Mansfeldt had seen her in the doctor's automobile early one morning as the PURSE Walled ia go on ‘a ease Wit

Mansfeldt's body was found early Sunday in the front seat of his au-

tomobile beside a lonely cliff at

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Police had searched for Mansfeldt since Friday night when his wife said she feared he would take his life. The San Mateo county coroner's office said Mansfeldt had apparently taken a poison which lulled him to sleep and allowed him to die painlessly. George Lewis, owner of a nearby

resort, said he first noticed the au-!

tomobile Thursday. Lewis said at that time a man was sitting in the back seat of the car--a Buick sedan, the same one in which Mrs. Mansfeldt had seen the nurse. “He looked as though he were meditating,” Lewis said. “He saw me and got out of the rear seat. Then he climbed into the front seat and just sat there. He Seemed to be thinking.” The automobile was stil! there Priday and Saturday, but Lewis thought nothing of it. Campers and fishermen frequently park alg the road for several days.

. MONDAY, OCT.'8, 1945

~ Love-Slayer’ s Fishand Commits Suicide

A passerby looked into the automobile yesterday and saw the body slumped in the front seat, The Mansfeldt's children, one son, John, 14, and two daughters, Irene, 15, and Terry, 12, were taken to Marin county by relatives to protect them from the publicity of

i jthe tragedy.

They were -told quietly that their father was dead. The Mansfeldts were both socially prominent. He served as a captain iv the army medical corps until he was discharged recently.

‘OPTIMIST WEEK’ BEGINS HERE TODAY

Calling for: “mere . cheerfulness, friendliness and co-operation among

individuals and groups in facing our’ post-war problems,”

Mayor Tyndall today proclaimed this week as “Optimist week.” The week marks the ninth ane

nual observance’ of the Optimist service club organization, this" year is publicizing an app for good will in the problen winning the peace.

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CARUTHERSVII (U. P.).—President car today for the 1 try of Tennessee. him, an idea for hs tion's waterpower national system «¢ navigations aids ar tion, Rain threatened tial motorcade lef Foot lake, Tenn, a

- dianapolis time).

Mr. Truman's establishment of regional authoritie the Tennessee Vall be outlined when new Kentucky ds system in a speecl Ky., Wednesday. Schedules 2

Meantime, the I for two days at (Tenn), fishing Mrs. Linda R. Mc widow of the form for the Reelfoot area. He was sc the rustic hideaw noon today. Mr. Truman bi end visit to soutl a climactic finish he appealed in a { race track speec! and internationa co-operation and surpassing anythi! during the war, Stresses Ce

“We must co-C than-at any time this country,” tr He addressed his to his friends an home state, but t and corporation the leaders of the of the world. The dam the 1 at Gilbertville V marily for flooc control, with its facilities a secon The spot picke: for a two-day re is one of Americ: sprawling body fresh water crea sippi river valley In that early y history, the Mi versed 'its course cleft in the ea known later as I

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