MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE.-MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1942.
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BY FIRSTOF YEAR
First of Sex Take Over Old
Fort Des Moines Big
Parade Scheduled Later.
By George S. Mills
Fort Des Moines, Iowa, July
21 JF) Fifty-five hundred
women will be manning vital
army posts by Jan. 1, it was
disclosed today as the first
women soldiers in the nation's
history took over this old army
post.
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, di
rector of the Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps, here for the
opening of the WAAC training
post, said in a press conference
20 companies of 150 WAACs
each, a total of 3,000 women,
will be on duty at army posts
by the first of the year.
To Watch Skies
In addition, 2,500 others will
be assigned to the aircraft warn
ing service along the Atlantic
coast. She said they will work
under the first fighter com
mand and will live in units of
50 women each.
Mrs. Hobby's announcement
emphasized the speed with
which officers and auxiliaries
will be trained at the school,
which will have a peak capacity
of 7,000 women.
By night, approximately 800
members of the Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps were to be
housed in the red brick bar
racks, started on their way to
military careers.
The big parade of WAACs
was not scheduled until today,
but nearly 200 who reported
last night got their first real
taste of army life at 5:45 a. m.
today in the you've-got-to-get-up
reveille bugle call.
Soon Dressed
Fully dressed 20 minutes lat
er, they assembled in front of
the barracks. At 6:35 they
marched off to morning mess.
Nine WAAC uniforms ap
peared yesterday, and the prin
cipal wearer was Mrs. Hobby,
who arrived from Washington
last night. Early arriving
WAACs donned the other eight
uniforms, chiefly to accommo
date newspaper photographers.
Today's processing program
Included routine physical check
ups, innoculations against ty
phoid, tetanus and smallpox and
assignment to companies and
barracks. Each WAAC was is
sued four handkerchiefs, two
neckties, four dress shields,
three bath towels, one tooth
brush, one comb, medical can
teen, cup, fork, spoon and first
aid packet.
CALENDAR
COLEADS US
NEED OF DEFENSE
FOR FE ATTACK
Club' Hears Chemical War
fare Officer of Camp
Citizen Training Urged.
Tuesday
6:30 p. m. Methodist church
potluck dinner honoring pastor
and family at church social hall.
7:30 p. m. Medford Dupli
cate Bridge club, Medford hotel.
8:00 p. m. V.F.W. post and
auxiliary at armory.
club
Girls
Wednesday
12:30 p. m. Mistletoe
covered dish luncheon,
Community clubhouse.
1:00 p. m. Get-Together club,
dessert luncheon, card party,
Eagles hall, public invited.
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ment postcard, crossed out the
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Lieutenant Colonel R. A. Eads
declared Monday noon that all
able-bodied adults should be
trained in emergency measures
to be put Into effect in the event
of an incendiary raid from the
air.
Lieu tenant Colonel Eads,
chemical warfare officer for the
91st Infantry Division at Camp
White, told Kiwaniani and
invited guests at the club's week
ly luncheon-meeting in the Hotel
Medford that "a trained citizen.
ship, with every household pro
tecting its own property" was
the only solution to a fire prob
lem that would occur should the
enemy launch an incendiary at,
tack and start hundreds of con
flagrations within short space
of time.
"Fire extinguishers and sand
boxes with shovels .should be
kept in readiness at all times,
he warned.
Methods Explained
Explaining the methods to be
employed in controlling a mag.
nesium bomb. Lieutenant Colo
nel Eads said that water should
be sprayed onto the bomb from
a distance of from 10 to 15 feet,
and that if a spray nozzel was
not available the jet should be
played onto the bomb using a'
fire extinguister or a fire hose..
Buckets should not be used to
pour water onto burning ther
mite or magnesium bombs, as
this would likely cause fragmen
tation of the burning metals and
the burning particles of metal
would not only spread the fire
but would endanger the fire
fighter, he emphasized.
"While water will not extin
guish the metalic bombs, ther
mite and magnesium, it will de
crease their burning time from
approximately 20 minutes to
two minutes," he said, and added
that water also tends to control
the fire resulting from the bomb.
Five Points Listed
The chemical warfare officer
listed five important points to
remember In controlling incen
diary bombs, namely; (1) mag
nesium bombs are not explosive,
(2) they burn with extremely
high temperature, (3) they must
be handled carefully, effectively
and Immediately. (4) neither car
bon tetrachloride nor carbon di
oxide extinguishers should be
used in attempting to extinguish
magnesium bombs, because both
form deadly gasses, and (5) do
not run from run to the scene
of attack, grabbing a fire extin
guisher on the way.
After tracing briefly the his
tory of incendiary warfare
which, he said, had its beginning
prior to the dawn of written re
cords. Lieutenant Colonel Eads
analyzed the different types of
fire bombs, the incendiary phos
phorous leaflets, phosphorous
30-pounders, two-pound magne
sium bombs. 33-pound thermites
and the oil bombs.
The leaflets, he said, are sat
urated with a solution of phos
phorous and solvent and can be
disseminated by the thousands
from an airplane, starting fires
in grasslands, ripened grain
fields or forests. He explained
that oil bombs present no ser
ious problem unless they . are
very large, and that the thermite
bomb, although producing the
highest temperature of all bombs
developed thus far, has a disad
vantage in that it bums out with
in one to three minutes.
. . Magnesium Effective '
'The magnesium, sometimes
called the electron bomb, is the
most effective incendiary bomb
ever developed," Lieutenant Col
onel Eads stated. "The most pop
ular size, weighs approximately
two pounds, enabling a large
bomber to carry 2.000 units."
Major General Charles H. Ger
hardt, commander of the 91st
Infantry Divisiun. gave a short
talk in which he praised the com.
munity for being "beautifully
organized" to cooperate with the
military. "You have taken us in
and made us welcome, and there
are not many communities like
this." he declared.
"For our part,' he said, f'we'll
let nothing interfere with mak
ing the 91st division the best
combat unit possible. We'll work
hard and play hard, but we'll
play clean." In this latter con
nection he said he had asked
the city authorities to take
charge of two soldiers who be
came involved In trouble recent
ly,- and added that he hoped
they were properly punished.
"We will not tolerate this sort of
thing," he said.
' Another engagement forced
the general to leave the
meeting during Lieutenant
Colonel Eads' speach, but before
he left he stated: "If a plane
from a Jap sub should bomb
Camp White, you will not see
another Pearl Harbor. We'll be
ready, and I hope you civilians
will be too."
L. E. Francis, president of the
club, acted as master of cere
monies. W. E. Thomas, program
chairman, introduced both speak'
ers .
terests, and women, it was point
ed out, constitute the half of the
OREGON LEADS
Portland, July 21. AP)1-The
human race especially interested j Portland navy recruiting district
in conserving life and given to I led the nation for enlistments In
thinking in terms of human, June, signing up 113 men for
rather than material needs. 'each 100.000 residents.
BLADINE IS ENSIGN I KERR IN ARMY
Portland. July 21. (AP En- Portland. July 21. (AP)
sign Philip N. Bladine, former Thomas Kerr, president of the
editor of the McMinnville Tele-1 Portland grain exchange, has en
phone Register, assumed duties I tered active duty as a first lieu
as navy public relations officer tenant in the army'i transport
for Oregon yesterday. service.
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MAJOR HART OF .
CAMP WHITE IS
NEW LIEUT -COL
Promotion of Lieut. Colonel
Scott P.-Hart from the rank of
major was announced here to
day at Camp Headquarters.
Camp White. Lieut. Colonel
Hart's home prior to active
service was In Helena, Mont.
Called to active duty as a
major, Sept. 26, 1941, after
serving in that rank on the staff
of the Montana National Guard.
Lieut Col. Hart was assigned to
headquarters. Fort Ord, Calif.
Upon activation of Camp White
he was transferred here and
assigned in charge of all camp
supply functions.
He served as a captain In
World War I with the 146th
field artillery, 66th F. A. Bri
gade with the A.E.F.
Lieut. Col. Hart, a civil engi
neer, received his engineering
training at Oregon State college
at Corvallis, and has for some
years been in charge of mainte
nance of all state highways for
the ' Montana State Highway
Commision.
Lieut. Col. Hart, his wife and
two daughters reside In Medford.
Mrs. Kurtz Appointed
On Music Committee
Zonta International
Mrs. Effle Kurtz of 204 North
Ivy street, has been appointed
a member of the national mu
sic committee of Zonta Interna
tional, according' to word re
ceived here. The appointment
was made at a post convention
meeting of Zonta International
held In Toronto the first of the
month.
. Inclusion of qualified women
in future peace parleys was
urged by the membership of
Zonta International at the or
ganization convention and wife
of the Chinese generalissimo.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, was
Zonta'l first suggestion. In the
belief that a permanent peace
should be determined only by
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