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1. MJ SECTION TWO-JACK SIX Tho OREGON STATESMAN, Solosu OngoxC Sunday Morning, November 23. 1943 I : r. Wave Big German Shepherd Important Member of Crew Of Naval Ship in SW Pacific (The following story was written by Sergeant Ward Walker of Chicago, IH-, a Marine Corps combat correspondent) SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC-(Delayed)- The tiny US naval 'essel lifted her bow to the threatening skies, shuddered down one of the South Pacific's bigger waves, rolled onto her side ... ' German shepherd dog. picking her way swiftly. A bound, and she j 'or owrMnental r" hit the sea-swept main deck, raced Revised State Setup Talked For Missouri By DON DOANE (AP Features) JEFFERSON CITY; Mo. Mis souri's constitutional convention is proving to be a hotbed of new along the pitching surface, and reached a naval officer just step ping out Xf a companionway It was Wave, nine months old, whose destiny has been linked to the vessel since she was six weeks old. The ship is her home and the men aboard are her masters and chums. The ship was built in Cleveland, Ohio, and while she was a -build ing. Wave was born at the Beach Cliff kennels of Mrs. Irma Wer ner in Westlake, Ohio. xne men on the crait were hunting for a mascot. Mrs. Wer ner heard about it -and offered Wave, whose pedigree is as long as she is big. That was Decern ber 26, 1942, and since then the ship and the dog have covered nearly 16,000 miles fair weather and fouL Wave has been a lot of work for the crew. First, Pharmacist's Mate First Class Alfred Maitre, 23, of Somer ville, Mass., gave her rabies shots and laid in a supply of dog medi cines, Boatswain's Mate Second Class David T. Mimms, Jr., 24, of Nash ville, Tenru, built her a kennel in the mess hall and patiently un dertook to ship-break her. Ship's Cook Second Class Sam uel A. Smith, 22, of Rainelle, W. va, brushed up on the proper care and feeding of a . dog and Wave's continued good health and magnificent coat bear testimony to his study, But has she been worth it? Let Signalman Second Class Charles E. Dwyer, 20, of Kansas City, Kan., explain: "You're standing a lonely, cold watch in the middle of the night on a gun post tired and a long way from home. Snddenly a cold nose nndges your hand, Wave braces against your leg, , and she'll share an hour or two f your watch." Some of the crew accuse her of being gold-braid conscious, for she seems to fancy Lieutenant Jacques Chevalier, 30, of 456 Mir amar Avenue, San Rafael, Calif., a former San Francisco free lance artist and newspaperman, who is the commanding officer. But outside of that, Wave plays no favorites. She's learned to play hide and seek. Shell stand patiently at the fan tail, looking at the sea and forcing herself not to peek until one of the crew has a chance to hide. A sharp whistle and she's off. Since Wave knows every inch of the ship and the number of hiding places are necessarily lim ited, the game would soon be over If she really looked. But she'll go right by her playmates, ostenta tiously looking the other way. Her tricks and her antics oc cupy at least half of the crew's conversation when everything is lashed down for the night and they're sitting around the galley drinking black coffee and spin ning yarns. They claim she doesn't know she Is a dog and tell of her sur prised "Woof!" the first time she saw one when the ship was tied up at a wharf. Her hackles rose and the other dog scooted. Fatalistically, the crew suppos es that some day that situation will change and on the off chance they've insisted that "Doc" Mai tre study canine obstetrics. It would be a brave rat that would come aboard when the ves sel is tied up in port, and so the rodents haven't been a problem. She also makes a formidable aid to whoever stands the gangplank watch: no one can come aboard unless accompanied by one of the ship's company. ; When it's too rough for the crew to negotiate the decks and play hide and sees, wave will spar; with any volunteer in the galley. Her jaws and mighty teeth snap and clash but, with one excep tion, they've never done any dam age. form. Most of them seek to "stream line" the state's complicated cov- ernmental structure or to take politics out of its administration. Ordered by the voters last No vember to revise Missouri's 68- year-old constitution, the conven tion in its first month of session That time the roll of the ship threw her playmate at her and has received such proposals rev L .1.. 1 A. ' s I k- tr ur j-w tioseu 100 quicsiy. tus olutionary in .this state as: arm was cue ana ine sauors say it was several weeks before she'd play again. Naturally, Wave has a life jack et and a service record book that shows her misdemeanors and achievements. She's part an in tegral part of the ship's crew. 1. A one-house legislature. 2. A cabinet form of adminis tration with only one or two elected officials. 3. Non-partisan election of leg islators. 4. A streamlined judiciary shorn of hundreds of minor courts. 9. Simplified county govern ments with as few as four in stead of 12 or more elected of ficials. Party Basis Now TOLEDO, Ohio OP) The army Missouri's government, only jeep may "go to blazes" after the slightly altered since the consti- war is over. rution of 1875, now has five offi- Willys-Overland Motors has rig- cials besides the governor, a 150- ged up the diminutive vehicle with member house of representatives a 500-gallon a minute pump to and a 34-member senate, all Jeep to Be Used For Fire Fighting fight fires in parts of its plant that cannot be j-eached by standard- j size apparatus. It also carries 375 feet of regulation hose and other equipment S. E. Gregore, chief of the com pany's plant protection force, pre dicts a brisk postwar demand for elected on a political party basis. From this framework has been hung a patch-work ef 82 unco ordinated boards, bureaus, com missions and departments. The idea of simplifying that compli cated structure is prominent in amendments proposed by the 83 the car by small communities that convention delegates. cannot afford the upkeep of large fire trucks. He also believes big cities will find it useful as auxil iary equipment. Now They've Started Collecting Garbage CHICAGO - (P) - Two women stepped into a big truck today, drove away to collect garbage, and thus earned incidental men tion in the story of these topsy turvy times. The ladies the first employed for such work in this region at east are Mrs. Anton Stonfel, 46, five feet four Inches tall, and over 200" pounds; and Mrs. Wini fred Hopp, 29, five feet three, and an even 200 in weight. They said they liked outdoor work. Policeman Given Bird But Not Turkey KANSAS CITY-Utt-Other po licemen viewed with envy today a big basket left at headquarters for Patrolman Ben Sanderson. Al though the basket was covered. they could see a turkey head pro- j trading from one end, a couple of turkey feet from the other. Stratford Lee Morton, Clayton republican, offered the most com plete streamlining plan and also the most completely non-partisan proposals. He would elect only a governor, who would appoint an administrative manager and 12 department heads. He would take politics out of the patronage by putting all their employes under cvnl service. Unicameral Legislature Two forms of unicameral legis lature were proposed, both much like the Nebraska plan, with a single law-making body of not more than 75 members. Morton offered one of them, and here again he followed through on his non-partisan theory by proposing to elect legislators "on a separate ballot bearing no party label." The county governments and even the courts would be streamlined by some of the pro posals. There are 114 counties in Mis souri, and even the smallest of them are burdened with at least a dozen elected officials. One dele- I gate offered avmethod for several counties to consolidate. Another proposed limiting small counties to four officials, with not more than six for any counties, except inose containing large cities". State Court Council One new court plan, backed by TTlpn Rflnrtrsrn ram in onH tock a peek at the bird he'd been ?e. ?tete Bar association and Ju given. The bird is right. It con sisted of two bricks to which were tied the turkey head and feet aiciai conference, would elimi nate the hundreds of justice of the peace courts and set up an ad ministrative council to supervise and coordinate all state Missouri's supreme and appellate judges already are under a non partisan plan of appointment - x" wuvenuon, wnicn some members expect to spend nearly a year fitting these proposals into a new constitution, is composed oi z democrats and 41 republi cans with the extra democrat approved by the central commit tees of both parties. Under the present constitution the question must be submitted to xne voters every 20 years: "Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution?" Last November th voters said "vm " tk.- j a .tiy vuitrti MANHATTAN, Kas.-C-Some likewise in 1922. But they adopted 1-A fathers have clubbed to- only seven minor ammHm,t. E ether, calling themselves the the 22 the "Broershood of Pre-Pearl Har- Anything this convention adopts bor Papas. Their chief purpose must run the same hazards at the is to give members a rousing polls before it rvnnW " ucpdri tor me i new supreme law, Army. Cheap at Half The Price, Buddy LONDON After getting married to a girl in London, the soldier asked the minister, in private, how much the wedding cost "Two shillings, sixpence," the clergyman said, and added, "And your entire salary the- rest of your life." New 'Last Man's Club' Is Formed 7'A'J ,7:V i i - V: - w I - " D 0 M B E It tl OS E?.larr Howard, songstress; examines the nose sectioa of a bomber at a plastics exhibit la New York City. The .Tsar waste fat" drive has for one of Its objects salvaging " - - material for soaking tbo plasUo bomber-aoses. . Hold Your Hat, Major, Here We Go Again U1UJ5ANS (JPh It took nine weeks of hypodermic shots Hrptre a major at the army bomber base for a prospective as- oigiiuinii overseas. They were for typhoid, typhus, tetanus, cholera. vfllm not to mention revaccination for The immediate The major felt fit, robust, hearty pamouc. ao ne dropped in at the blood bank and gave gen- cruusiT or ni ninnrt . Thereupon the army medicos, laving neara oi it, ordered him to take the whole nine weeks of shots over again. Soldier Gets Hotel: Room Due to Sentiment NEW ORLEANS UP 5nti. ment prompted Pvt William Rees iTosser to spend his furlough at crowaeo st Charles hoteL , The clerk said he was sorry but i "wwerenoroonu. ; ; - , "1 was born In this hotel years ago," said Prosser; Vhfle my parents were on a minstrel tour and spent a month and m hi nere men. Sentimental, perhaps, out i nave been wanting , to come oacK nere for a long, long time.' Golden Eagle In Captivity Laziest Bird AP Features BOULDER, Colo Malcolm Jollie says there may be a ser- mon, of a sort. In the story of his Smokey, the American gold en eagle. Smokey comes from a fabulous breed; In its natural state the American golden eagle is about the most ferocious thing on wings, legs or fins. "But in captivity Smokey has become the laziest thing that ever shook a tail feather," says Jollie. Smokey is perhaps the world's only incubator golden eagle. Jollie, a graduate student at Colo rado University, and Verna Mace, another student, captured the golden eagle when she was but an egg in a nest high in the pinnacles of a front range cliff of the Rocky Mountains. The egg was taken by the two students to Boulder and placed in an incubator to hatch. That was more than five months ago. Smokey was reared, delicately, by hand. She's been fed by Jollie and Miss Mace ever since she was born. Recently she has been turned loose for exercise. "Instead of soaring ecstatically over the foothills, 'for hours at a time, as you would imagine she would want to do, she takes a five Specialist Advises No Manual Guidance KANSAS CITY, Mo.- () -Now there's even a new term for spanking. It is "manual guidance" among the experts, Dr. Willard C Olson, director of research and child de velopment at Michigan universi ty, told a meeting of mothers of pre-school children. Children will be glad to hear also that Dr. Olson believes the wise parent can avoid "manual guidance" to a great extent. How ever, he didn't rule it out entirely as a disciplinary measure. Everybody Wanted To Help Raise Ship - ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. ALGIERS -(JP) Cmdr. William A. Sullivan who directed salvaging of the fire-gutted liner Normandie in New York, told today of the many letters he received on how to do the job. One. he said, proposed that all New York cocktail parties be call ed off for one week and that ice cubes saved be placed in the Nor mandie's hold. The theory: Since ice floatsJt might have-floated the ship. minute flight and then perches in a tree.' says Jollie. "That's the signal that she's all through flying for the day. She .won't even try to catch her own food. Sho waits to be fed." Bright Future Hollywood film directors have picked Jean Strasser (above), 22, as the "show girl of 1943 most likely to succeed because of "beauty, poise and personal ity." She Is a graduate of Bev erly Hills, Calif high school. British Investors Buy Peace "Stocks LONDON (fl5) The trend of the London stock market would indl cate the public; which was once Investing in war, is now investing in peace. The index number of ten lead ing war production stocks. In June 1940 was .100; by June 1942 it had risen to 200. During the same pe riod peace -stocks had risen from 100 to 134. . Since' June 1942, however,, the index for peace stocks has climb' ed to 179 while that for war stocks has dropped back to 194. Enlists Herself" FORT OGLETHORPE, G. 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