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than 100 feet of vine the size that
use to swing from tree to tree. ; 1
keeping an eye on them. There's no telling when they might take a notion to start expanding some night. : .
If all goes well and they stay normal, Mrs. for
Burris is going to convert them into ple. Orig-
inally she was hoping for a couple of pumpkins|rapidly gaining in She also/ROW It : any o never figured on having the grass in her backyardiyynited : recently opened enlistments to boost 1ts| activation of the post in the first “I guess we'll have to be satisfied with what strength Until National Guard outfits, Ordered by the War first from Indiana Ohio, moved in for maneuvers recently Camp Atterbury was prac-
when her husband planted the vine.
covered for the summer.
we've got and hope the vine has run its course,” mused Mrs. Burris. I noticed the vine was poking a tip through a picket fence and for the street. Mrs.
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PLENTY OF VINE—Mrs. Hugh W. Burris holds one of the fwo squashes that have more than a 100 feet of vine aftached. The vine al-
most squashed the squashes,
Keep It Fair
NEW YORK, Aug. 30—We have just induced— I. won't say blackmailed—several thousand young men into joining the Army, by offering them a shorter term of service than if they hang around for the draft. We will shortly be Selective Serv-
icing’ some several hundred thousand more. *bands”
‘We owe some sort of guarantee to these youngsters, in the form of constancy in draft administration, to assure the volunteers that they haven't been big-dealed into the service, and we sure owe the draftees, and the potential draftees, an as‘ surance that subsequent guests.of the government will come to.work under the same specifications. : My interest in the last draft became purely academic ‘after a short time, since I had already yielded up the fair white frame to Uncle Sugar, but I seem to remember an awful lot of ndindchanging and policy-switching. The draft became a great gamble. According to the temperament of national officials and the local boards, they snagged everybody but nursing mothers in some localities, while in others hale bachelors miracu-
* Jously continued to wear tweed. You had a fresh
headline, every week or so, reversing former stands and remodeling the rules of that deadly matriculation, until a subject for involuntary heroism was perpetually sizzling on the anxious griddle.
New One Is Fuzzed Up Too ALREADY THEY are beginning to fuzz up the new one. On June 28, Army Secretary Royall announced that induction would start Sept. 22. On July 21, Boss Lewis Hershey proclaims ‘No draftees until Oct. 1.” On Aug. 9, Royall is on record ‘again: “Seleéctees face delay to Nov. 1.” That has since become official. Mr. Truman, for positively no. political reason whatsoever, has recently proclaimed that husbands will be exempt, as well as other types of heroes. : That last kicker just popped up the other day.
New Look Costly
WASHINGTON, Aug, 30—Any woman who will wear her fur coat inside out this winter can save her husband 20 per cent of its cost. And that, fellow payers of the bills, is about the only good cheer I've been able to squeeze out of the style news for the forthcoming season. I borrowed a lady to translate the esoteric prose of the fashion females: (whose scrivening makes government gobbledegook sound like MecGuffy’s first reader by comparison) and I can report that the new look is headed for the rag bag. This, gents, "is- going to be costly. What this country needs is more dresses designed by Congrefsiien. They're the arbiters of fashion who made the bargain fur coat with rueing the day. Little did-they realize when they gave the ladies an inch (of fur) they'd take the whole coat. This sage of the fashion world began soon after the war when the ladies howled, as only they know how, about the 20 per cent tax on fur coats. Worse still, said they, was the tax on furtrimmed coats. The raisers of mink and the manufacturers of jungle dyed mink-muskrat agreed this tax was a shame,
A Trick in Language of Law
'S0 THE LAWGIVERS, with one eye on the tax returns and the other on the female vote, left the tax on fur coats, but took it off of fur-trimmed coats, The language of their law was tricky. How much fur did a fur-trimmed coat need before it became a fur coat, costing one-fifth more? The official interpretation said in effect that so long as more cloth was visible to the naked eye than fur, it was taxless. Haw.. The manufacturers began whipping up fur-lined coats, which actually are fur coats with the cloth
The Quiz Master
For what is Bayreuth famous? ‘ . It is noted for the annual Wagner music festival held in the Festspielhaus, a theater plannedWagner, and opened in 1876. : [
Wha first referred to Ireland as the Emerald Isle? * “Dr. William Drennan, an frish physician and the first to use the popular name. .In entitled “Erin,” published in 1705, he of “the men of the Emerald Isle.” Drennan the name was original with him. -
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heading Burris said it Wasn't growing fast enough to tear
up the fence. housekeeping You know, the vine might be a handy thing for stationed there to keep the post people who hate to mow the grass. Just get yourself a seed from Mrs. Burris and plant it next year. You'll have a green yard and no worries about pushing the mower unless the vine pushes you out in the street. What a vine story that would make. k \ thought it haunted.
on a stand-by basis. had been so desolate, lonely and
young soldier, killed accidentally
By Robert C. Ruark(by artiiery re shortly after. the
with seems to be straining at the buds “to 1 Fi Cs AE was Colossal column. TT First of Two Articles bear- It's probably my imagination, but after poking ™ gy JACK TH TT
IT IS LOGICAL “fo presume
screwed up but even I don’t know|that any plan to shift the administration of A Armed Forces night include Indiana. And this. is jortie out by the transfer of 83d Infantr the 10th Air Force Headquarters THE SQUASHES GIVE every indication thati, pt Benjamin Ha a The state boasts a number of|frankiin, ' Edinburg, Columbus and other nearby communities.
tically deserted. Only a smalliterbury
detachment was
IN FACT, the big reservation
The story that the spirit of a
has gone the rounds of
(however, the ghost will probably Harrison, or both, might con-i_, its bags and seek a more
lonely spot; for a large advance . party is expected to.come to. Te Ind Nn a ot Hoosier camp soon to put it into = equi fo n condition for the 1ith Airborne
plastic
The post had one of the few prisloner of war camps in the coun-|
erans went through Atterbury
activated next year, scenes like this will be commonplace again.
« If it hasn't done so already,
$ 4 Following the anticipated re-
quarter of next year, recently ent, this division will begin the job of training draftees.
» ~ THE REVIVAL of Camp At-
trained there. Amazing feats of surgery were performed at Wakeman General Hospital.
try. More than a half-million vet-
separation: center. First to be conditioned for ovrseas duty at Atterbury was the 83d Division, which held a reunion here recently. It arirved
June, 1944. In the two months that followed it broke through the 8t., Lo-Coutances highway, captured St. Malo and taped 20,000 Germans in the Loire Valley. crossing the Rhine,
83d seized enough vehicles at Hamm
pletely motorize itself, then raced to the Elbe, capt
ting|terbury was a combat team 365th Infantry 507th Field Artillery Battalion, in Italy
of seizing
The 83d landed in Normandy
After ,» & railroad center, to com-
24,000 Germans and liberating 75,000 Allied prisoners on the way. ; | ss IN TRAINING at the same time as the 83d Division at Atof the 92d Division, comprising the and the
Composed of Negro Selective Service troops, the team landed] with the rest of its division in the latter part of 1944, After fulfilling its first mission Mt. Cassala, a
on the reservation in July, 1942 continued northward to take Ales. and was garrisoned there until September, 1043. :
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a and Turin. Next to come to Atterbury was the 30th Infantry Division, Known
REMEMBER THE THUNDERBOLTS ?2—This picture, taken back in July, 1942, shows some of the soldiers in the y Division during their first retreat at Camp Atterbury. When the big central Indiana reservation is re-
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at Atterbury was the 106th “Golden Lion” Division, which also had a recent convention here. It reported for duty in April, 1044, there until October of
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As a result, there are guys already in khaki who are kicking themselves for jumping too soon, when if they'd waited they might have married Sarah Jane, and stayed clear. Other young men, hurriedly marrying Betty Ann, will be lousy soldiers, and spouses, if a future reversal of the “no husrule casts them into the arms of a sergeant. There were all sorts of interesting contradictions in the last lottery. Muscular young athletes, under contract to ball clubs and fight managers, suddenly discovered the swaybacked foot and punetured eardrum as fool-proof escape hatches. Freed of Mability to Mars, they continued to rip off 90-yard runs, stretch doubles into triples, and knock the ears off opponents. And this was while we were recruiting women for clerical chores, to free men for battle.
Some Developed Amazing Immunity
CERTAIN segments of the population developed amazing immunity to the siren song of the draft board, not altogether due to that handy ill, the ventilated eardrum. Many a papa was taken from his kids ‘and popped on transports bound for Destination X, while single youngsters with no dependents bayed happily at the heels of Washington stenographers. Washington was a city in which a right connection could produce more indispensable junior executives than Jap-bait.
They never got it laid out neat and orderly. In some spots, a rumblossom on the nose was an exemption-—in others they'd take a torso. Fathers got clipped in some spots, exempted in others. They had a running quarrel about the draftability of cops and firemen, with reversals. They were forever reversing previous stands. Seems to ‘me we owe it to these peacetime soldiers to write em out a set of rules, announce all the codicils at once, and then stick by the bargain.
By Frederick C. Othman
lining on the outside, They object to this language, but facts are facts, and a fur-lined coat has as much fur in it as a fur coat. Only you can’t Ses it and hence it costs a whopping 20 per cent ess. So it is that women everywhere, with the exception of congressmen’'s wives (who don't dare), are buying out the fur-lined coat stocks. No wonder. A $500 muskrat coat with the fur on the outside costs only $400 whén the same fur’s on the inside. Congress, unfortunately, has not considered other articles of feminine attire. Any lady who wore big floppy hats last year, must wear neat
little ones this fall ands as far as I can discover, Count
it is impossible to cut down a hat to size.
It's Different This Year, Gents
LAST, YEAR'S NEW LOOK meant simply, longer skirts. Many a lady got around that by sewing a ruffie on the bottom. Others slid their skirts down on their hips and covered the gap at their waists with wide belts. The new look wasn’t as costly, consequently, as many husbands had been led to suspect. This year the look is different. The s still are long, see, gents, but’ the wily fashion mentors have pulled the plug on shoulder pads. A lady this winter has got to have round, sloping shoulders, the way nature made her. And a dress which was built for shoulder pads is a mess without same, It is’ inclined to droop and there is nothing that a lady likes less. Removing the droops from the shoulders of an old new look dress, from which the pads have been snipped, is a major tailoring operation, which few women would attempt. ° Only alternative, fellow husbands, is a new wardrobe, This year we're really stuck.
97? Test Your Skill ?7?
When may the United States flag be shown in advertising? ay It may be shown in government advertising— as for Liberty Bonds; it is against the law f
commercial companies to show the United rarer Gen. Hodge's Mother Iii
flag in advertising.
® © ¢ What was the fate of the first nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic? Harry Hawker and his within a comparatively few yards of the
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crashed to Carbondale,
Perish in Falls, Three
end
16th St. The victim, who was]
was thrown from his sedan. Four
and treated and released at General Hospital, Anthony L. Miles, 16, of 1028 Newman St, driver of the other car, was charged with failure to have a drivers’ license and improper. license plates. Police Miles’ car was headed east on 16th St. : Truck Overturns In Jasper County near: Newland, Green Reisner, 30, of Rensselaer, and Bruce Whittaker, 32, of Wheatfield, \died when a semitrailer turck plunged into a 12foot {irrigation ditch beside a rural road. Police said they apparently drowned when they were pinned in the truck cab. "Robert Norris, 26, of Hebron, was injured fatally when a truck in which he was riding overturned near Boone Grove In southwestern Porter County.
jumbus, O., was killed when she lost ‘control of her car and it skidded over on U, 8. 30, west of Plymouth. Lester Johnson, Chicago, died in a three-car crash on a Narrow bridge on-U. 8B. 41, south of Evansville. Swings Off Road Roy Harbaugh, 18, ‘Beaver Dam, Ky. was fatally ‘injured when his car swung off the road near Waterford, in La Porte
y. Gerald Tebo, 24, South Bend, was killed when tossed from his doorless “hot rod” car as it ran into a ditch at South Bend.
Hoagland's, Ditch near Lake
Socialite Lawyer Leaps to Death
Roswell P. C. May, 51, prominent socialite lawyer, leaped to his death early today from his office
Life Bidg., police reported.
police to his office where two other notes were found, one to
lciates in the firm of Bleakley, Platt, Gilchrist and Walker.
said, when he left their home yesterday morning to go to his offi
band had been in poor health from-an attack of pneumonia.
HONOLULU, Aug. 30 (UP)— Lt. Gem: ‘John R. Hodge, former
was flying by special plane today Ill, where his
coast in view of land and were rescued.
imother, Mrs. Melissa Hodge, 85, is seriously ill.
ccidents in State Kill 177 Over Week-End
Eight Die in Traffic; Four Drown; Two
driving south on Cornell Ave, =
Mrs. Sophia Loveman, 22, Co-|W
Drowned while swimming in}
NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (UP)—|
on the 30th floor of the Equitable A note in his pocket directed] |
Bis wife and another to his gsso-|
: Register, | | was last seen by his wife; police]
ce. . Mrs. May told pdlice her hus-| | recently and had just recovered)
military governor of south Korea, .
in Plane Crashes
t were killed in trafic four drowned, two perished in fatal falls and three in plane nal 5 In In lis, Francis KE. ‘26, of 565% Warren Ave.
dianapo died of a skull fracture and brokpn neck yesterday in a twocar collision at Cornell Ave. and 0,
afer was 10-year-old Dale n of Kewanna, In
an ‘motorboat capsized. Other wn ing victims were Frahk Moody, 45, New Castle, who died in a gravel pit on a farm near his home, and William Oyler, 89, Ianident of the White County the Aged, who drown in Lake Shafer. a, Killed in Crash
Mr. and Mrs. George Thrasher, n; Ariz, were killed Baturday. when the plane piloted by their son . crashed near Thorntown. ‘The pilot, George Thrasher Jr... 33, owner of the Maple Grove Airport at. Thorntown, was seriously. burned. The plane struck & power line and burst into
passengers in his car, including{drowned in Dewart Lake, near three children, were hurt siightiy|W
‘flames during a takeoff,
Emil Pretchel, 22, of Schnellville, died in a Huntingburg hospital ‘of injuries received in a plane crash near Kyana Saturday. Ernest Hoep!
of Mr, and Mrs. Louis y Hartford City. The youth fell from an apple tree onto a glass coffee jar on the ground, severing his jugular vein. He died in Blackford County Hospital, Hart.
10-year-old Niki Orendorff, son Orendortt
Expect 200 at Parley Here . Sept. 9-11
Seventeen persons met violent deaths in Indiana over the week-| wos hundred delegates and : guests of the. 1947 Craftman's Club and >
pected to a " vention at the home office’ of American United Life Insurance Co. Sept. 9 to 11. Business sessions will be held each day in the auditorium } of the American United Building at 30 W. Fall Creek Blvd. from 10 a. m. to noon, Thomas KE. Samuels of Memphis, president of the Craftsman’s Club, will introduce Leslie ident. hy Anierican United presOther & ill greakers Will itiude dent and man
torney. Will Lead Session
Friday's session will be led by thee
Norman L. McCready, presiden of the Indianapolis Field Club, who will present Frank J. Trave
Hartford, Conn, associate director of the Life InAgency Management As-
The final session on Saturday will be conducted by Ever M. Spence, vice president and director of agencies for ‘American
ford City. *
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