The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

They're coming IN last, tneSe tales
Of drama, pathos and pure, unadul-
terated fun, as the vets dust off their
memories and put down their eXpe-
riences on paper in The Times con-
test.
A first prize Of SO is offered for
the best story of the week and
prize of SIS for the second best. The
Times will print all that space will
permit, so hustle yours in. The first
weeks contest ends tomorrow night
then we'll take q fresh start Mon
Gay, for the second set of prizes.
Here's todoys opener,
where q brGggdrt DouJdnt
dorm. It's told bg Thomas C..
Shepherd, Route G, NashvjJie,
md, who lCdS aOith Company
L, Sirtieth infantry:
XXTHEN I was in training there
w was a certain buddy from
Texas who was always Dragging and
talking about the great things they
had there. He said if Texas was
on hinges and was raised and laid
down south it would cover South
America. and If it was turned over
and laid up north it would cover
the United States and Canada.
He Dragged and talked so much
that he became a burden TO his
buddieS. He kept them awake at
night talking about his home state.
The boys got tired of him talking
and Dragging so much about Texas
so that they got some land turtles.
When he was out fooling around the
camp one evening, they put them in
his bed and fixed the cover over
them so he couldn't see them until
he was ready for bed.
1t wasn't long until he told the
boys he was ready to go to bed.
When ne threw the covers back, he
saw the turtles and he turned
around and said, Boys. what do
you call those things2"
One of the buddies said that they
we're bedbugs that his aunt had sent
him from Indiana so he could show
the boys what big bedbugs they had
in the Hoosier state.
The Texas boy looked straight at
them for a while and then he said,
Boys. they must be young bedbugS,
for they are nothing compared to
the size of the bedbugs we have
down in Texas"
Arthur UlImHn, 1902 Mont
calm street, Thjrty-tbjrd Sel'U-
ice company, Signal corps,
put some romance IN his Of
ferlng:
MONSIEUR HENRI BECQ was
1Fk the proprietor Of the will
lame Tell" where the talleSt glass
of beer in town could be obtained
for two sous. and he had two daugh-
ters-YVonne and Helene-which, of
course. is nothing unusual in
France. The unusual thing was that
these two pretty daughters, partly
of their own accord and under the
watchful eye of Papa Becq, would
not date up" the soldatS Ameri-
Gaines.
SergeantS Verigan and Rinehart
had spent beaucoup francs and
many hours in vain conquest of the
comely sisters. Steven and took
mental note.
Singular says Steve, "the brains
and talent the capting can find to
make noncoms out of. There's old
Sam Verigan who ran an elevator
in Chicago, and Bareback Rinehart
was a brakeman. Both of 'em
been In uniform for years. They
been tryin' to get Yvonne and
Helene out for three months. Let's
show EN- how it's done in exclooSive
circles"
Check" says I.
A pair of hip boots purloined
from a huge supply dump set me
jake with OLD man BeCq. How he
such boots in francs would have
cost a million.
Steve farmed out his services to
the ''Y" secretary, body and soul
How pious and devoted he was to
the coffee mugsi And what COM
ment it aroused among the heroes.
Two weeks rolled around. Every
night Steve came in carrying little
boxes, sometimes one, more often
three or four. But on the same
night he took them away again.
Sunday nights the show at the
cinema changed.
Steve asks Sergeant Sam, Coin
to the opery tonight?"
~Yes,' says Sam, III be seem
you"
Gus two gallant knights escorts
the Becq daughters TO the show
tonight. Get ready Steve tells me-
get.
OF course we Steered 'em up 10
the row of boxes in the back where
the better seats were. and in
cidentally. where We knew Sam and
Riney would be parked.
We all got there about the same
time. Sergeant Sam threw his over
seas cap down and Stomped it.
Bareback said, 'I'll be damned"
When we headed for the barracks
I asked Steve how he did it.
"Chewing gum said Steve, Il
gave them enough to keep their
grandchildren chewing for forty
years"