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SECOND NEWS SECTION A I -mm Mm -mm Mvw For Want Ads Only Call ATIantic 6125 Other Departments ATIantic 6100 MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1943 Sunday Morning Chow Goes Over Bia at Canteen fill fr ianks in England Heady for Invasion By Charles F. Danver War Correspondent WITH A FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION, U. S. IN ENGLAND, Aug. 29.

(By Wireless) I have "It returned from a 600-mile trip through a section of Eng- where American troops are stepping up the last phase invasion drill. Whatever President Roosevelt and Prime jmister Churchill decided in Quebec about launching an lack on Europe units I saw are fit and ready. Even now our forces are on the move like athletes farming up before a contest. Rehearsal for battle goes on WHA Proves Old Way to Heart Adage True of Service Men 750 From Pitt and Tech Breakfast Each Sunday at Bellefield Avenue Canteen; Dancing Proves Popular Too By Edith Rosenblatt Fott-Gazettt Stall Writer If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, no wonder the Pitt aviation cadets, members of the Army Specialist Training Program, and Tech engineers keep going back to the Y. M.

A. canteen on. Bellefield avenue for breakfast every Sunday morning. Over 750 soldiers dig into the five-course meal every week. Fruit juices, cereal, fried eggs, toasted muffins, griddle cakes, coffee and doughnuts disappear as fast as the cooks, and hostesses keep 'em coming.

and night. It does no good any more in inquire for a rticular unit unless that unit happens to be headquarters Vii I -f- in ip- li-v The fact that 60 dozen eggs' 3,000 flapjacks, 50 dozen doughnuts and 150 quarts of milk are consumed every Sunday reflects what the fellows think of the food. All the fellows at the canteen agreed that "the' food's swell." They keep coming back every week for the hearty breakfast which has the added beauty of being served until noon so that the soldiers can sleep in. About SO women, all volunteers, shopping list are gifts for rela tives and friends. "Sometimes we write letters to parents telling them how their sons look and how they're getting along.

We find rooms for visiting wives and sweethearts too." Harold Bello of Ossining, N. who was stationed at Pitt until recently and is now at Nashville, was passing through Pittsburgh yesterday on his -way home and stopped in to see the old crowd, "They're agreat bunch," he said. "The best part of this place is that it's like home. Everybody speaks to you when you come in and makes you feel so welcome. I've been all over the country and this is the best place I've come across." The canteen, which is about five months old, is sponsored by the as part of the Jewish Welfare Board which is affiliated with the USO.

The hostesses register through the Central YWCA. 59 Chatham street, and the YM WHAwhere Meriam Ephriam ia director of activities. are connected with the preparation of the food, according to Mrs. Louis J. Abrams, 1200 Malvern avenue, who is chairman of the canteen.

Many are wives of men overseas. "We're open on Saturday from 9 until midnight and on Sunday service company or security elements left behind. "They rt on maneuvers" you will likely be told or "they are in field." ield" is hundreds of square miles of rolling countryside vividly ar.d lovely. It encompasses little farms of crazy quilt patterns Veered by hedges, toylike villages, arehed stone bridges and virgin forests of midnight density and stretches of landscape where -sjcy ponies kick up their heels and tawny-coated rams stare v'ulantlv at intruders. In miniature, "field" would be something Ijd put under the Christmas tree.

jiils Go And They Stay Gone It does no good to wait in camp for a particular unit to return ause it may bivouac for a night or week. Alternative is a Vibling search over narrow twisting roads bordered by high dgerows, thatch-roofed cottages, through picture book villages of -possible turnings and into open country where heather spreads its vse-colered rugs on the slopes. i didn't care to wait in camp except overnight hard cots in officers huts are much softer than the soil of England jnd thus much of the time was spent traveling in lumbering weapon carriers, reconnaissance cars and jeeps. Some of the roads were but serpentine asphalt paths walled by higher than the army's two-and-a-half-ton cargo carriers, of these my driver, a chunky Indiana lad, laughingly remarked, hope we don't meet a big Greyhound bus coming from the other We didn't, of course, but farther on we did meet two mobile guns drawn up behind a hedge with their long, black like pencils poised to write death across the sky. Beyond, in wide roads, we passed detachments of troops on the ziKii.

Everywhere here there is endless marching. You'd no longer recognize the kid next door. Underneath he is the same youngster you knew a year ago but the roundness of his chin has vanished and he wears a new armor wrought by his invasion training. lie is clear-eyed, alert and fit. He has no illusions about the business at hand.

He has been taught to kill or be killed and he doesn't intend to be killed. In this there's reassurance to those at home which is not found 2 memories or have not seen any Germans but have seen ihan prisoners and the sturdiest warriors of our allies English, Canadians. Australians. New Zealanders, French, Belgians, Poles, Norwegians. Russians and our boys are now as tough as any.

lit Day and Night Training Now Hardening process goes on day and night. At remote points on the -ast they splash to the beach from landing barges and scale steep Regardless of temperatures they swim creeks with full equip- I was awakened in an officers' hut one chilly morning by the, 'erring of a young lieutenant who was pulling up bathing trunks. tell me you are going swimming," I said. 'Yes," he replied. not because I want to.

It's all part of i the job." Then he added lightly, 'But it won't be so bad. I will kave all my clothes on." I shivered and snuggled back under the blankets reflecting Sher-was only partly informed. At another station I saw landing nets strung along the front row so-story barracks reaching the ground porches. "Men have to climb them if they want to get in or out," an offi-e explained. "It keeps them in practice." I spent some time with an artillery unit which had dug in under camoflage nets In a windswept area where damp, rocky mil was overgrown by dense clumps of thorny brush.

Before dsrk some of the men already had gone to bed, wrapping them-wles in their single blanket oiv the ground near an ancient stone uall. 7 It not so bad when you get used to it." one husky told me as goodnight, "and I am beginning to feel as though I had never '4 anv ofher wav." from 9 a. m. to 9:30 p. when the cadets have to be back," she said.

"Besides the Sunday morning breakfast, we have free ciga-rets, chewing gum and candy for them and we serve about 12 gallons of ice cream over the weekend." But the canteen does more than feed the men. A juke box plays music, sweet or swing, while about 30 junior hostesses working on four-hour shifts dance with the soldiers. The fellows -might get tired marching and drilling, but according to" Mrs. Abrams, they never tire of dancing. To give them more time to enjoy, themselves when they are free, and to relieve their minds of a lot" of little details, a meeting and shopping service has been set up for the soldiers under the direction of Mrs.

David Wolf, 1917 Wightman street. In a corner of the lounge, hands are busy mending rips, shortening GI trousers and affixing insignia. Post-Gazette Photoi Former Burgess Dies in Dra vosburg Thomas David Watkins, 84, burgess of Dravosburg from 1924 to 1940, died suddenly of a heart attack yesterday while attending services in the Amity Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member. Funeral services will be Wednesday afternoon atv the church, following services at his home, 107 Euclid avenue, Dravosburg. Burial will be in Richland Cemetery.

Born in Johnstown, the son of David and Sarah Hughes Watkins, he came to Dravosburg as a child and lived there for the next 79 years. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, Lode No, 207, and was the husband oi the late Susan C. Martin. Mr. Watkins is survived by a son, John M.

Watkins; a sister, Mrs. Edward Charles, -both of Dravosburg, and two grandchildren. Carnegie OCD Starts Probers to Visit More Strip Mines Tin Can Collection. Receptacles for donations of tin cans have been placed through Carnegie borough under sponsor The legislative committee studying strip mining operations in the bituminous fields will visit Greens-burg, Connellsville, Uniontown and "Mom" W'olf, as her boys call her, said, "We have nbout 40 to The busiest time of the week at the canteen in the YMHA, Bellefield avenue, and the most popular time for the aviation cadets studying at the University of Pittsburgh and the engineers at Car- negie Tech is Sunday morning. After "sleeping-in" the cadets pour into the canteen for a five-course breakfast, starring flap-jacks.

Two of the volunteer workers who do the cooking week after week are Mrs. Joseph A. Brooks, 582 Darlington road, preparing the griddle cakes, and Mrs. Harry Perrin, 5834 Forbes street, frying eggs, upper left. Below are some of the 750 cadets who are served in three hours every week.

Many of the hostesses are wives of men serving overseas. In the upper right picture, Mrs. I. J. DeRoy and Mrs.

David Wolf are shown in a corner of Ahe lounge where they and other committee members of the mending and shopping service sew for the boys and take requests for shopping which the cadets don't have much time to do. This service also finds accommodations for visiting wives and sweethearts. ship of OCD auxiliary police. 50 for rnending, over the Week-end. The boys also bring us Residents have been requested to place their used tin cans, properly prepared in the receptacles for their watches to have repaired Pittsburgh districts, September 1, The group, headed by Senator J.

Fred Thomas, Republican, Mercer, also will inspect workings in Northern sections of the state the following day. regular collections. A house-to-house collection of about 10 every week-end. We shop during the week for things that the boys don't have time to buy Many items on the tin cans will be conducted in Pittsburgh. September 12.

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