Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1941 — Page 1
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The Wounded Don’t Cry—No. 2Laughs at Nazis From Front Seat in Flanders
Author Has a Closeup of War With Pierre and Andre \ And Watches a Dogfight.
By QUENTIN REYNOLDS PIERRE LAUGHED and said, *The fools, they missed again. That
is" 205 shells today. »
We were in an advanced observation post on a hill and some distance away was another hill. A German battery was on that hill. It kept firing at the farmhouse in the valley. The farmhouse had a red roof ‘and its sides were pure white, Only the chimney had suffered, but the farmhouse wore its crooked chimney in a vary jaunty manner, as an amiable drunk wears a batteréd hat. This was a gallant farmhouse, perhaps, because it knew that it had a whole German division
worried.
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“We could see the flashes of their guns.”
Our little concrete-and-steel observation post was fooling everyone but the sun. It had been dug into the side of the hill and evergreens had been placed over the steel and the concrete. Sturdy scrub oak
and fir trees had been planted in
front of it. For the momen} this
post wes the eyes of the army; at least of that part of the army that was defending this sector. Behind us were heavy French tanks and light, quick tanks, machine-gun detachments, heavy 155’s and
lighter 75's.
We knew what was behind us all right. We knew, too, that the Germans were in front of us. We could see the flashes from their guns and sometimes through our glasses we could see something move for a moment, but against the dark green foliage of the woods we.
couldn't tell whether we had seen = ” »
Sup in : Pillbox
a tank or an ammunition wagon. $ s & »
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- TECHNICALLY: we were in what army people still call No Man’s:
+ Land. But we:
| Were: very: snug: and comfortable in our little pillbox
“and very safe’ too: Pierre sat on’ one side of me and Andre on the
other. Bright young
.artillery sergeants, these two, There were two
slits’ through the: steel and the concrete. Each one was a foot long and 10. inches Wide: Pierre and Andre talked and ‘laughed but their
JUVENILE HOME BRANDED UNFT
3 Agencies Condemn. te ‘Health Menace, Fire Haz- |. ard,’ Morgan Says.
* [Marion County’s Jirvenile Detention Home, 538 W. New York St. was condemned today as u housing children by three agencies, e State and City boards of health d the State Fire Marshal’s office: r. Herman: ‘C: + Morgan, : City Health Board ‘secretary; formally notified Judge Wilfred ‘Bradshaw of Juvenile Court that inspection by itary engineers and fire inspecshowed the building to be a 1ealth menace and fire hazard.” Mean Bradshaw, who said that he had been trying for two years to get a new detention home, presented the report to County Commissioners, who have the responsibility for providing county government housing units. He said he would urge “immediate action.” | Fire Inspection Critical {Pat Hyland, chief inspector of e State Fire Marshal's ‘office, rerted that the general condition of the building was “bad” and “is a fire hazard.” {B. A. Poole, chief engineer of the State Health Department’ sanitary bureau, reported that thé plumb-
ing “is in extremely bad condition”
and that the dormitofies are “congested,” prguidin g no adequate segregation o tes with contagious| of infectious diseases.” County Commissioners rented the w. New York St. building more than
t. The County has been ia of si Ser Br St. building.
New York said they had
’ a new detention been “considering for some time but that “no
suitable ee been found.”
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t’ for’ with him. He laughed and poured
-eyes’ never. strayed from ' those
slits. Hardly ever. I mentioned
‘that our little nest was fooling
everyone but the sun. ; Andre said, “In English you say it like this, you say it is hot like heli?” “You said it, kid, it is hot like hell.” I wiped the sweat from my forehead. Andre laughed and then Pierre laughed as though they shared some secret joke. They did share a joke. A swell joke. Pierre got. up and went back through “ the dark tunncl that led to another part of our observation post. : Pierre . came back. He had a -large aluminum ¢anteen with him and its sides were gleaming with. cold sweat; He had three tinh cups
wine into the cups. I had met
«Pierre and Andre an: “hour be-
fore. but we were pals now, _They had accepted me. “To what shall we. drink?” Pierre said. ! “To the little farmhouse,” I said, and we all laughed and drank fo the little farmhouse. . We looked and it was still almost ihtact. The wine was cold and it was beautiful, tJ
2 Ignorance Is Bliss
WE SAT IN companionable silence watching the scene below us. We knew that a division of Germans had orders to break through. A division is 15,000 men. That’s a lot of men. \ They were all there in front of us, Seme were to the right, thousands of them. were. behind the hill from which the battery was firing. ‘Thousands were to the left. The French guns were firing (Continued on Page 1, Section 2)
LOCAL FIRM GIVEN $104,000 SHELL JOB
Times Special, WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—The War Department today announced’ the awarding of a $104,000 contract for shells to the R. D. Eaglesfield Co. of Indianapolis.
The R. D. Eaglesfield Co. is located at 357 S. LaSalle St., and has been a ag ufacturer of welding equipment for several years. duction on defense work is expected to start soon, it was said. »
Pro-|to get the regular employ- { menk. Chiet Eo hj on a #
HEALTH ITEMS |
FACE ‘SURGERY
BY TAX BOARD
Chairman Waisman, Who Helped Prepare Them, Explains Estimates. The 1942 City Health Department
placed en the County Tax Adjustment Board's day with Albert F. Walsman serv-
patient. As the City Hospital business manager, Mr. Walsman, who prepared the $744,699 hospital budget for 1942, explained it to members of the tax board, of which’he is chairman. As adjustment board chairman, however, he did not propose any cuts, Intent on getting a full picture of the proposed health ' budget, adjustment board members postponed any attempts to “operate” on the request until afternoon.
Increases Explained
a $146 tax rate for next year— 20 cents above the current rate. Explained in some detail was the $90,000 total increase for health. This amount includes a $40,000 boost in salaries paid to clerks, janitors, laborers, matrons, investi~ gators, guards and others at the hospital. It also includes a $45,000 increase in health services outside the hospital, the bulk of which is being asked by tke newly-created dairy inspection service.
Board from making any deep cuts in the record budget.
Civil City Rate Stressed
Board ‘began reviewing the budget Mayor Sullivan’ presented -argu-
budget cannot without jeopardizing services next
$149 but this was cut three cents by City Council last month. The] proposed $1.46 rate is 20 cents higher than the current $1.26 rate on each $100 of taxable property. In. his opening statement to the Board, the Mayor described the ¢ivil| city budget and rate as the most
facing Marion County taxpayers.
greatest daily contact with every household,” the Mayor said. ‘We employ by far the greatest amount of labor in our extensive services. “It is my opinion that no other _ (Continued on. Page Four)
TREATY LEGALIZED HERBS, INDIA INDIAN SAYS|
Shows old Peace Pact in Defense of Practice.
The erm of an early treaty between the Government and the Sioux Indians were used today as the basis for the defense of ‘a Marion County Indian, Chief Brown
medicine in violation of law. Attorneys for Chief Eagle, who first pleaded not guilty in Criminal Court’ to practicing medicine with= out a license, presented what was claimed to be a photostatic copy of an Indian treaty.
rights regarding fishing, hunting and use of herbs for medicine.
herbs. for medicine as his ancestors did. However, deputy prosecutors contend that the chief ran afoul
and sale of herbs to patients. Deputy prosecutors said Chief Eagle would have the right to use the herbs himself but that the law
public.
while Sinef Eagles friends.
budget request of $918,000 was|* “operating table” to-|’
ing in the dual role of surgeon and |
The City health appropriation is! one of the larger units in the pro-| posed $9,100,000 Civil City budget] for next year. The budget calls for].
City Hall is making a determined} effort ‘to dissuade the Adjustment|.
For two hours yesterday as the
important, single financing problem : “The City is the unit with the
Eagle, charged with practiciig herb |.
It gave the. Sioux Tribe certain
Chief Eagle contends that under {Sh the treaty. he has a right to use|
of the law ‘on medical practice] 0 because of his alleged prescription Sam
prohibits the sale of them to the}
The ‘tase was continued until next | Le ion month by Judge Dewey E. Myers Gua C arrange |
with its. proposed $1.46 tax. rate, A BY ments. designed to show that. “ine i i 1 bereut subst YI
As 8s BE JOS) io ‘by:City offi- x cials, the budget carried a rate of]
Vetethns Toispay Power After Hearing Pleas to * . Aid Defense Effort. en Prew 1 Three and 11)
P). ~The’ American Legion, 50,000 strong, paraded its power at its 23d ‘annual ‘convention ‘today. With President ‘Roosevelt, Secre{tary ‘of the Navy Knox, Gen. George 1c. ‘Marshall, Chief “of ‘Staff of the u. 8, Army, ‘and Mayor Norello H. LaGiardis: “of New York, Civilian Defense Director, all calling, upon
tional emergency,
strength witnessed by an estimated 1,000,000 Spestators.
The paride started at 9s. m., . escort,
Eo ak purvIoe. waite, now on active = duty,
parade; Air Cadets on Float ; A float: ‘with two: Arimy “flying
the. Legion. for .service: in the na-|
representatives} of its 1,100,000 members strutted]. their in a brilliant ;show|
stand at 3 :
which customarily th
| Public Inforication ‘Will Cost
. Of State Employees, Schr
* Public intoxication on the part of any State employee under his con:
trol will be grounds for immediate!
dismissal, Governor Schricker said today. *
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He anhounced this policy in alP 2 meeting of 21° State Department
heads and instructed them to take this word back to their employees.
In a press conference later, the to
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U.S. ‘NAVY ORDERS
Under One Flag Is Aim.
| ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (U. P.). A Navy Department announced
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‘ma, {today that it has contracted : for
31. ships, every vessel auth
Tigh by law, under a $7.234,262,178 pro-
“I gram calling for “creation of the|-
fob greatest array of fighting ships un-
moving
der one flag. the world has ever
) Maines survey showed that $460,000,
| being expended fpr expanding or fe, and public shipyard fa-
: “0 Tiste 968 ‘ships of all classes d Gesign under construction.
21 NEW VESSELS
on ‘Greatest Array of’ Ships’
| Route to: lcalandd Protooted; + Biddle. Opens .. Colonial Ports to U.S. Ships.
"By LYLE Cc. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (U. P.). —The United States: Navy was believed today to be inaugurating a North Atlantic escort. service for Lend-Lease = shipping co-incident with an. administrative ruling which opened vital ports to American ‘flag ships bearing war: materials for the British. The new ruling opens far-flung routes ‘for munitions: cargoes which the Axis wants to. sink. . These developments, ' ‘in’ effect, are designed further to: open ocean channels : to . aid-to-Britain . munitions for. which: President Roosevelt will: ask anew: $5,985,000,000 : lendlease appropriation Thursday, :The . Administrative ruling! announced last’ night. permits Ameri-can-fleg ships to carry war materials: and passengers: to - African and Asiatic ports of the British Empire from which they previously had been barred under terms of the Neutrality Act. : The State: Department announced that Attorney General Francis Biddle; in ‘his first major ruling in that
‘|capacity, had: ‘held that President
Roosevelt's . proclamation: that a state of war existed between “Germany and the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, New Zewland and the Union of South Africa”
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| the WAR
thro ugh an expert’ eyes
war can
be a mass of men and equip“ment in a sea of confusion. Or it can be’ a series of planned moves with the faje of a Gonfinoniod. werd pers.
haps—hanging: on their Sesesution, : “To follow Fhis war sirategically, to grasp the plans
= PLAN FORESEEN :
"East of Dnieper; Shah Ahdicates. 0
On Inside Pages
Details of ho Pentti Lease-Lend Aid Pledged. ivan Nazis Shook Hostages, Ge viraah
; " U. S. ‘Maneuvers. .
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor -
Hitler's armies striking eastw from the lower Dmieper River cre ated the gravest threat of the wae
to Russia’s chief industries today and spurred efforts to increase .
{flow of British and American ald 4
the Red Army. 3 German ome spar by the Luf e and units, broke bitter ‘Russian’ ance at unspecified points on Dnieper and then Roped toriously on a broad’ front,” accord ing to the Nazi communique. x Russians had no comment; but don took a grave view of the ad vance as a threat to the great De netz Basin war industries. bi Berlin also reported in a special
.lcommunique that 18 Russian divie
sions, presumably about 270,000 men, had been destroyed or defeated the Lake Ilmen sector, where the Red Army had been fighting to res lieve bombed and battered but still unbroken defenses of Leningrad. =
Week’s Tanks Promised
These developments, while net necessarily impairing. the ability « the Russians to fight on through th winter, indicated that the Red A counter-offensives Had died out the time being at least. : How grees might be but in London both American British ials - were intens Sitonts | to: @ spied material aid tha to. convince Moscow. a, would be avoided. tp toh
halves with the Army on available materials. All this week’s tank production will to the Soviet Union. These prom were said to have resulted from ter complaints by Moscow over. meager results of British-Amei aid in the first two months of
Allies Move on Tehran
Arrangements also were ‘made facilitate use of the supply across Iran, where British and F sian troops advanced to the ov rt of Tehran today and forced the: ag dication of Shah Riza Pahlevi: cause his eosoperation was’ slow hesitant. British military commental generally regarded Soviet war ° velopments of the last few days w unusual gravity. W. Averill Harriman, who is head the American delegation the Moscow conference on ‘aid Russia, said, however, that he not believe ‘that American opinion | had been much affected by the G man crossing of the Dnieper. suggested that the United 8 had been lulled to a false sense security in the apparent belief t) Russia could cope with the G attack with little. outside assists
German Ports Bombed
London believed that the Germ have been forced to move about h of: their ‘estimated force of 600,00 to. 750,000 men from the occup! countries to the Eastern Front, sibly replacing them with reciu and older men from the Reich: The Royal Air Force made one its ‘biggest atacks on the much: bombed German port of Ham and after hours of bombing left. fires burning in shipyards and way areas. Wilhelmshaven Cuxhaven, two other big Reich p and Le Havre, German-held F harbor, were raided also. At the same time the Cairo suffered what was ‘believed to its worst bombing raid, resul the death of 30 persons and jury to 93. It was believed,
lever, that Cairo: itself was:
bombed, since the British have sai Rome would be bombed if Cairo is In the Egyptian desert the British smashed Axis
eCONNa;
‘strong a) | columns back to the Libyan ror
“GIFT. T0 ROOSE
_ WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 ¢ — Presid