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SECTION TWO-JACK SIX
Tho OREGON STATESMAN, Solosu OngoxC Sunday Morning, November 23. 1943
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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
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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
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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. (JP)
As a civilian clerk-typist in the
Dallas : WAC recruiting station.
Maribeth McFadin interviewed
applicants and typed enlistment
papers ! for hundreds of women
joining the service., Then one day
she typed out an application and
enlisted herself.
Official Hitch Hikes
DEADWOOD, SD JF) - "No
gasoline, ruled the rationing
board so Neil Simpson, president
of the South Dakota , junior cham
ber of commerce, revised his plans
for an automobile tour of the
state's junior chambers. He hitchhiked.
Vfealcer Sex Routs
Would-Ba fiTiieyes
Va.
The
Norfolk
weaker sex? j
Mrs. Ella Slade and Mrs. M. A.
Simmons 'weref ialone'l In their ic
cream parlor Kvhen j thre young
men entered and tried to rifle the
cash- drawer. -Jjj : j ; ' j , . 1 ' j
. Mrs. Slade socked; one on, the
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head with an
mons swung
the second, i
young
handed j
iron hook
4 j butcher
Mrs. Sim-
knife at
men fled f- empty
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iKINGSPORT. Tenn.0D
Martha Juanita Bareer.
man's daughter marked
i-acy jkuqcl -j.ine ,iru;nister was a
iireman anaiau attendants were
firemen. . i
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twi cue axoif
as the ialUr. j
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ere said in
with the f
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Va. (jpi
Miss
a- fire-Fireman
Kings-
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The
wedding bells I havent been ring
ing as ofen ia Virginia! the past
si?c months.' Bureau of k.'ital sta
tistics figures show hatj marriag
e reported for th sik months
enuing juiy su totajea 10,324 as
comoared witH 19.76i9 for the rnr.
rsponding pef jfod of 1942 a de- f f
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