Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1941 — Page 26

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Rome Reports British W , Last Ethiopian City. After Long Siege.

~ ROME, Nov. 28 (U. P.).—Condar, north of Lake Tana in northwestern | Bthiopia, the last Italian stronge hold in East Africa, surrendered to British Imperial forces yesterday, the High Command said today. The city had been beleaguered for more than six months. | Gondar surrendered at 2 p. m. yesterday after several days of British artillery and air attack. Last week the British captured the outer defenses at Culquabert and Celga. Deserters captured by Ethiopian troops said Italian troops in the {Gondar defenses had refused to |obey orders to launch ‘a countere i attack, reports from Nairobi said. The Italian High Command said the Gondar comma decided to cease hostilities in order “to spare the useless waste of- life of both ——————— Bi ’ ah natives and Italians.” . | The Italians had a long line to

| = offe ® NE VA rotect and before they surrendered, Billings General Gives Visitor Chey"had been cut of rem contac Slight Case of Amazement

with Lake Tana, headwaters of the, Blue Nile. - : So long as they held the Gondar area and controlled Lake Tana the: Italians represented a threat to When they build a hospital in the own. Qariers jo 2 hillame Vertical Egypt and British interests. g my they don’t waste time. Six|wi e hospital buildings, barrac ——— & i Ph after they dig the founda-|style. And they work hard. 12 2NDON, Nov. A hd P) pose : tion the patients move in. There are also civilian -clerks and ny surrender ‘of: Gondar. wold J That's the time it took to con-|stenographers. The Army likes to ran tho ds of British and struct Indiana’s largest hospital, the | free soldiers from this work as Jo case taal DS the oot Ag U. S. Army’s 1000-bed Billings Gen-| much as possible. . Soen Toons for the Libyan pli eral Hospital, on 56 acres of farm-| pro. ‘significant about his uns 2s - land just east of Ft. Harrison. usual hospital—unusual from the P ign . British r rded the fall of The civilian’s conception of a hos-| .: :.: : e ega. e 1all oO : pital is a huge, multi-storied, elab- civilian point-of-view—is the im- Gondar as representing the final reorate building permeated with the |PreSsive —ageregation of medical} conquest of Ethiopia, a region of odors of anesthetics and disinfect |SKill and equipment and the utter 350,000 square miles. ants and inhabited by brisk, white|13CK Of unnecessary ornamentation Military experts said that if ever phantoms who keep hurrying in and which emphasizes the institution’s| the British were forced to withdraw out of silent rooms. single-minded purpose. \ from Egypt, they could fall back So it is not with Billings General.| This sprawling, jig-saw puzzle on the Red Sea coast of the Anglo~ structure, in which a stranger could Egyptian Sudan without danger of Resembles Barracks lose himself for hours, houses the attack from the rear. gh Billings is huge.” But it is not| finest medical science has. It holds| &= elaborate. Its architecture is 1941] a King’s ransom in equipment, American barrack style. And it has| Its laboratories are plain and the wholesome, clean aroma of|bare, but they are equipped to the freshly sawed wood, like a lumber| last detail. : 1 ; j yard. The best x-ray equipment, the 1 2 ? < Its appearance is deceiving. It| best ultra-violet equipment, the best 3 : doesn’t look like a hospital, It|array of surgical instruments that fre looks like a barracks floating in a|can be had are in this hospital. .. 9 om AYRES’

“ British Confident of Crushing Axis Resistance After

Firmly Establishing Junction Between Tobruk wo And Rezegh Forces.

._ CAIRO, Nov. 28 (U. P.).—A military spokesman said _.today that British forces were fighting “in a spirit of com- = plete confidence” to crush Axis resistance east of Tobruk “and tha} a New Zealand column was driving into strong enemy opposition west of the Tobruk zone. The spokesman said that in addition to the New Zealand column pushing west from Sidi Rezegh, there were Brit-

: : ish, Czech and Polish units “N AZ S NE ARER “forging westward” from To-| Te 3

bruk after having firmly established a junction beGermans East of Defense Line on North, South,

tween Tobruk and Sidi Reports Indicate.

Rezegh. ; The Italian Bologna Division just LONDON, Nov. 28 (U. P.).—Mos‘cow radio reports admitted today

east of Tobruk was “elimirfhted,” " ‘that {the great German- offensive

he added, and German pockets of has pushed closer to the Soviet cap-

resistance in the same area are being attacked. This fighting, he emital in fierce attacks that included ‘a major break-through of three

phasized, was no longer a tank bat- . .divisions “east of the Klin sector,”

tle but an infantry battle which, incidentally, enabled the British to|- - about 50 miles to the north. The break-through was achieved

salvage much of their own and the enemy’s disabled mechanized equipby a force composed of one infantry division, one motorized division

ment. (In London, a British spokesman and one panzer division. The Germans failed in an attempt to turn

said that final judgment was not southward against the capital.

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NAVY OFFICER HURT "BY HIT-RUN AUTO

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28 (U. P.). : | =Lieut. Comm. Delos Parker Heath, ‘ | 54, attached to the naval aircraft { | factory here, was reported in critical condition at Methodist Hospital after being struck by a hit-run motorist near the Navy Yard. Mr. Heath, former Detroit manufacturing executive, was found" unconscious on the roadside last night amid fragments of headlight glass and a piece of an automobile grill.

sea of mud. . But it has everything] The wards are plain, barracka Dospital has—and then Sqms. it rooms, but light, warm and cheerou get close 1 lings an ful. Billings has everything. That’s baffles you. ‘Luckily, there’s a sentry why they call it a General Hospital. Saige Who shows you where the| Army General hospitals are places 1S. where long-term treatment is proBillings rambles all over the place |yiged. og sm who must be Dre —350,000 square feet of buildings|fineq longer than 30 days are sent sprawling over acres of ground and there from Army units where hosconnected by corridors that seem to | piialization facilities are limited. run for miles. Billings, one of the nine new] Built in Hurry Conseil Sosit provided for this . ; year in the defense program, serves thre Hospital is frame. Y, Iooks 88 the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Corps| hurry It es It had to 2 areas, covering about 10 Midwest

They dug the hole for it last Jan. states.

: : Soldier patients at Billings receive 2. ene 5s o ntingent of patients everything that physicians, psychi-

The patients found nurses, physi- atrists and dentists can give them.

‘Battle Raging in

Rostov Area

~ BERLIN, Nov. 28 (U. P.). — The High Command admitted today that Russian forces “with heavy air and tank support” are engaged in a ' ‘wide-scale counter-attack near Ros“tov and in the Donets Basin. “~ For the second day in succession, the High Command took note of the Soviet attack on the southern leg of the long eastern front and again declared 'that the Russian forces

mm oe 1. The light-lunch room is the clubhouse for patients and attaches at the U. S. Army’s new Billings General Hospital at Ft. Harrison, biggest hospital in Indiana. 2. Billings has the finest laboratory, surgical and therapeutic equipment made for its soldier-patients. - Staff Sergt. Floyd B. Hall, in charge of X-ray, adjusts the X-ray table. : 3. Ultra-violet treatments are the order of the day for some patients in the physio-therapy clinic. Nurse Mildred Heap treats a soldier.

yet possible but that dispatches indicated the British had cut off large German armored forces east of Tobruk and were close to success: in their drive to “destroy Axis striking power” by wiping out these elements.) ‘ British Are Confident | The operations in the zone east Nonetheless, the danger of encirclement from the flanking drives of Tobruk (between Tobruk -and the “north and south of the capital| Egyptian border) were described by “was steadily mounting. the spokesman as follows: .. The Germans now appear to bel 1. A main battle area west of east of the Moscow line both to the| Sidi Rezegh, which lies 18 or 20 north and south. miles southeast of Tobruk, where The southern flanking drive in the|the British are confident of success. direction of Stalinovorsk, 125 miles| 2. A moving front against a southeast of Moscow, was halted in| “badly beaten” German . column heavy fighting when the Germans | moving in the direction of Gambut. found themselves unable to advance | This column was part of an Axis further against the main Russian | raiding group that was driven back positions. from the Egyptian border area. - .. However, there half a dozen other| 3. A second group from the raid‘danger spots on the semi-circular [ing column now moving westward 30 front of about 250 miles which pro- | miles south of the Gambut zone and “fects MOSCOW. facing British tanks. Germans Lack Supplies Dispatches indicated that the Germans were severely handicapped by destruction of their fuel and supply bases due. to British infantry advances. The British armored columns seemed to be holding the fields of battle and thus were able to salvage their damaged equipment. There was no new information regarding the most advanced British column which moved 200 miles across the desert to the Gialo oasis region, overpowering the Itallan garrison there and putting it-

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had been beaten back “with heavy

Soviet casualties.”

The High Command said that at some places on the Rostov front fighting is still in progress, an apparent indication that the Soviet

attack is still -in progress.

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self in a position to strike northward at the Axis rear lines and supply bases west of Derna.

Bomb German Ships

The main battle front, however, was still in the Tobruk-Sidi Rezegh area. : The spokesman said that the German raider columns now in the Gambut area had suffered “very heavy” casualties An R.A F. contmunique said that 11 enemy aircraft were destroyed and that British bombers scored hits on enemy ships in the central Mediterranean where one was believed to be sinking. The ships apparently were carrying reinforcements to Libya.

NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (U. P.).— Private dispatches reaching the

{United Press today reported that

about-100 French planes were flown from French airdromes in Tunisia during the past“week to join theAxis forces in Libys pd

BIG FOUR BRAKEMAN. LOSES LEGS IN FALL

A Big Four railroad brakeman was in critical condition at Methodist Hospital today after falling beneath a moving freight car in the Beech Grove Yards last night and losing both legs. The victim was Charles R. Wendell, 34, of 1147 Perry St. Police were told he was standing on the brake platform of an 1ll-car train which was being backed in the

cians, laboratories and the finest equipment waiting for them when the Army ambulances brought them up to the door. The beds were turned down. The gray pajamas and maroon pajamas were ready to be issued. That’s the way Army pecple who build hospitals work. Fast.

Patients Wander Corridors

When you go to Billings, you come down with a slight case of amazement, unless you're immunized to Army General Hospitals by previous contact. 1 Inside, it looks less like a hospital than it did outside. The patients in thei rmaroon bathrobes over gray pajamas wtih unlaced Army shoes on their feet wander around the corridors, chatting pleasantly. - They sit in the lunchroom over ice cream and soft drink. Life at Billings isn’t in any particular

There’s nothing fancy about Billings. There are no lighted humbers/flashing off and on. No stagewhisper voices come out of the walls to summon physicians. Everybody seems to know what to do without being reminded,

No Clicking of Heels Nobody dashes anyplace. Nobody salutes or clicks heels. The 321 men (including 32 men of quartermasters’ corps) and their 56 officers who are physicians of high rank work together in an easy camaraderie. The officers, the men and the patients behave as though they all belong to the same fraternity and

The patients understand that when they are discharged from Billings everything that science can do has been done for them. ‘ In a bare cubby office directing operations is Col. Harry L. Dale,

1Commanding Officer of the hospital.

He planned, organized and set up its myriad functions while the Constructing Quartermaster was building it. He’s assisted by Maj. Guy A. Ows-

Either they

will give The first alternative almost .is

concrete apartments, public buil they would have an ideal winter headquarters ‘for operations designed to crush the last resistance in Russia. It was the burning of Moscow in September of 1812 that started Napoleon on his disastrous retreat. There was no way to house or maintain his army in the devastated and looted capital, where four out of five buildings had been destroyed. Josef Stalin has shown so far his determination to leave nothing of Wrecked in-

ley, adjutant, who occupies the cubby. office next door. Outside these quarters, is a long, narrow room where the civilian clerks and typists work. - And beyond that, the hospital begins—four million feet of bare, unpainted boards enclosing an institution boiled down to the essentials of a hospital.

Billings General Hospital was put

War Moves Today

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst In their scorched earth policy, the Russians face a bitter choice if they are forced to abandon -I cow to the German invaders. ;

would have to destroy the ancient

capital which nearly a decade of ceaseless effort has converted into a great modern city, pride of _thie Soviet Union, or abandon it virtually intact to the Germans in the hope that the fortunes of war it back to them some day.

unthinkable to the Russians. Yet

if the ‘Germans take the city as it stands, with its acres of steel and

gs, hotels, hospifals and ‘theaters,

BUY ARGENTINE TUNGSTEN BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 28 (U. P.). —Argenting and the United States reached an agreement yesterday whereby the United States will pur-

chase Argentina's entire production of tungsten for a period of three years.

together in a hurry because the Army was expanding in a hurry. How. long it will be there no one can Say. co ; . Army hospitals like this one are not permanent. They mushroom in time of war and disappear in time of peace to fit the needs of the nation. : Today those needs are great. And

there is Billings.

JUDGE D. A. ROGERS

IN CONGRESS RAGE

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.,, Nov. 28 (U. P.).—Judge Donald A. Rogers of Monroe Circuit Court has announced his candidacy for nomination for Seventh District repre-

sentative on the Democratic ticket. The announcement came as Judge Rogers’ first acknowledgement to to political sources that have long predicted his entry into the race. Nominations will be determined in primary elections next May. Affer graduation from Indiana University Law School in 1937, Judge Rogers began his career by serving one team ‘as prosecutor of the 10th Judicial Circuit. He was elected judge of the circuit in 1932. In 1938 the Legislature granted Monroe and Owen Counties a separate circuit and Mr. Rogers was re-elected judge of Monroe Circuit.

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value to the invader. dustries and smouldering towns and cities have met the Germans so far. The Germans so far have subjected Moscow to only perfunctory aerial bombing, designed more strike at the city’s morale than to cause extensive destruction, Destruction of Moscow (by the Russians themselves would be do easy task. If the Germans break through the defense rings, the Russians are de=| termined to defend the capital street by street. : Within the city there are more Stockings Front rings, the five belt line boulevards Fo A which stretch out from the central Kremlin. They might be taken one AYRES’ by one, but at heavy cost. The destruction of Moscow would : be no new story to the Russians. ; @ : : ’ Since it was founded in 1156 on the ! site of the Kremlin, it was invaded and burned repeatedly by conquerors. When it was taken by the Tartars in 1382, some 24,000 persons’ were Killed. Moscow now covers 27,000 acres and has a normal population of more than 4,000,000, :

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