Evening star., 1943-09-19
Army Trainers Hope
To Keep Bond Show
Dogs After War Ends

Dogs After War Ends
Soldiers who are displaying tn,
Quartermaster Corps dogs at tn,
Army War Show don't know wha
will happen to the K-9 Corps mem.
bers after the war but they hop,
they will be able to take them home
with them.
II figure that if I take my dos
overseas with me and 60 through
everything with him and bring hin
back, we ought to stick together.
Sergt. Robert Schoembeck declared
U don't think after all that time
6ny one else could train him."
s'1 don't know what the Arm,
plans to do with Wolf" sergt. Ralph
Wallace, spoke up, "but I would sure
Qke to take him home with me,
Sergt. Wallace and Wolf, a Ger
man Shepherd, have been constan,
companions for almost nine months
and according to the sergeant.
friends, are frequently found hav-
ihg long chats together. Wolf seems
to understand everything his mas
ter says and Sergt. Wallace never
has to raise his voice to the dog.
Dogs Like to Play.
what would like to have under
stood about the war dog" 1t
Thomas Du Bois, who commands the
squad on duty at the Back the At
tack show, declared. "is that the
trainer can play with the dog as
much as he likes off duty as well
as on. OF course, he can't take
him out of bounds to go down to the
beach for a swim, but he is per-
mitted in the bivouac area any
time"
Asked whether he thought an
Army dog would be able to go back
to civilian life, especially the sentry
and attack dogs, he replied:
THAT depends on the dog. Some
Of them will forget all about their
military training. Frequently we
change trainers on them and after
week Of isolation they are certainly
meek enough and willing to go to
almost any one.
During that week of isolation the
only contact the dog has with the
men is when they are fed or when
their kennels are cleaned. Some
times they are given little exercise.
Yesterday the men were rehears-
ing their dogs for the show and
during the rehearsing OF the down
and stay" trick where the dog sits
some distance away from his master
until he Is called, never moving
whatever the distraction may be,
one of the dogs seemed to be having
. f1eld day at disobeying the COM
mand for he ran toward his master
almost every time the dog next to
him moved.
Hes smart enough" a soldier
said, "and he knows that he's doing
wrong. But at the show the dogs
cannot be corrected, and he figures
that because he got away with it
yesterday, he can do 1t today. The
other dogs know they aren't in the
show because there aren't a lot of
people around"
"All these men had experience
with dogs before they entered the
Army?" the reporter asked.
A great many Of the soldiers had
never had anything to do with dogs
before assignment as trainers" 1t.
Du Bois said. I'm order to get them
into the -xight spixjt. and to under
ktand thexa4araeteFtefics Of the A6Gs,
the soldiers, during their first two
weeks Of training do nothing but
tour the kennel area, with q shovel.
] know, I md T. kesiaughed. Fhen
The dog. and Ibis new master begin
Sheir training together as recruits
Ind graduate together.
H. Postwar Plans Uncertain.
Mrs. Milton s. Erlenger, consult
ant on dogs for the Quartermaster
Corps, and founder of the Dogs for
Defense program established shortly
after Pearl Harbor, agrees that
while postwar plans for the Army
dogs are not definite, every endeavor
will be made to let the boys who
have become so attached to their
.K-9 soldiers take them home with
them.
! OF course, part of them will
!remain with the K-9 Corps for
ipeacetime duties, such as guarding
,prisons and borders and working
with forest rangers and State police,
sshe said.
! those who gave their dogs as
10 patriotic gesture are q very small
group" she added. "The greatest
percentage of donors were those
swho wanted to get rid Of the ami
smals or who had to dispose Of them
.ibecause they were entering the serv-
Ice or they were moving and could
mot take their dogs with them. Many
Of those who wanted their dogs
Back have Fundamentally agreed to
At the soldiers have them when they
Mhen they learn how attached the
1wo have become"
g Gen. Ingles to Speak.
s. Maj Gen. Harry c. Ingles, chief
Hignal officer of the Army, will speak
st this afternoons Army War Show,
where more than million people
have seen the Treasury sponsored
Exhibition of war materiel, boosting
The sale of War bonds during the
SChird War Loan Drive.
= Today is Signal Corps Day at the
show The corps will present a
1pecial showing of Signal Corps
8evices and procedures Immediately
after the White House guard mount
display at pm.
z With Gen. Ingles will be Breckin-
Midge Long, assistant secretary of
.6tate; James L. Fly, chairman Of
Akhe Federal Communications Com
Omission; Brig. Gen. H. M. McClel-
sSand, Army Air Forces; Col. Gar
Land G. Black, Army Ground Forces
0ignal ofhcer; Rear Admiral Joseph
-. Redman, chief of communities