Hope Star in Hope, Arkansas

Twelve year old boy starts free shoe shines for troops

Wayne Rainbolt, twelve, from Myrtle Point, Ore., sets up a shoe shine stand in Portland to aid the war effort. He offers free shines to service members but has yet to attract a customer, while earning about $3 daily. In Denver, Stanley Field saves shoes by keeping an old pair he found in his basement, as doctors order rest after wasps nest is found in an old shoe.