Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1942 — Page 15

g goes. Wrong. friend Helen Richey, the girl

ions Pa, has already flown 10 types of

pps, 2d ts now in the second efage, dn

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nd words. It’s a fish

e through soft: butter, 2 bullet through the here simply never was

e, ever before. Helen says its like 1 I groan,

grat

. The other |d ay Helen delivered a Spitfire

a a they handed her a Walrus to take to an-

flown one, anyway.

to extinguish a. small

"and she can deliver Spitfires right up behind the Times,

There is a definite prejudice against women y oie fattened on the menace of Japa-

important flying over here, just as there is at home. nese land and sea forces, typhoons :

The girls just have to make the best of it. and -jungles was told’ today by i It don’t worry: Helen. “She. is a realist, and gets|heroes, who closed their log of adout of it exactly what she wants—which is neither ad-|venture “with much: relief and revancement of the woman's “cause,” nor a big perma- ljoicing.” nent shelf in the aviation world for herself. She loves

They ‘were Capt. William Lloyd|

living-and she loves flying; and she’s doing both right {Osborne of Los Angeles, an infantry |

now in a way that suits her fine. She wouldn't miss over here for anything of Winder, Ga, air corps flier. in the world, but she does hope to get heme for a} Capt. Osborne and Lieut. Gause couple months in mid-winter when the weather is,. 4s the British would say, highly. improbable.

officer, and Lieut. Damon J. Gause! :.

fying | escaped separately when the Jape-| |

She wants to go along on a raid over Germany, | move. south through Japanese-in-

but isn’t sure it can be fixed up. She's looking for-

ward to the day when the second front is established | C, Jungles and between islands

with the aid of a small motorboat.

“The two officers arrived in Aus-{ |

{tralia Oct. 11 browned and heavier| « than when they left Bataan. They| immediately notified their wives|

that they were safe. : Capt, Osborne was serving with a

Filipino unit on Bataan peninsyla,} :

ekg. garage adjoining the rear of a in

3] yesterday. As one fireman tlimhed

ge roof, a woman leaned out. a second: | story window and politely asked: “Would you: please. ‘s

hand me that slipper? I¢ fell off my ‘window . sill. onto the roof. a The fArenman complied. . . . A’ new sidewall: is being laid in front. of the Water Co. offices. Nope wasn’t a water leak; just that the

old walk was to rough. .,. There

‘are some new houses on Clarendon road just across the street from new Crown Hill cemetery.

The builders: ‘Bridges & Graves. sh

. .. George A. Henry and Glenn Funk, both: former ‘Republican candidates, were calling attention

"on the street \yesterday. “We ought to make the . front page with these,” giinned George.

Around the Town ROBERT LECKNER, a ‘member of the machine ‘ shop class that meets at Mantial H. S. from 10:15 p.m, to 1:15 a. m, walked into class last Friday y night, just after the ‘dimou, we're told, smelling like ¥ & camphor factory. “S'matter? Been sick?” a class- ' mate said. “No,” owr informant quotes Bob as re- ! plying, “I was putting some hair oil on my head dur- ‘ faig the dimout and got the camphorated oil bottle by mistake.” ; . . Jewell Young, assistant football coach { at Southport H. S. and former basketball all-Amer= dean at Purdue, 4s recupefating at St. Francis’ hos- ' pital after an emergency appendectomy Sunday. . .. Bpeaking of operations, one of our columns got clear sdown fo Columbus, Ind. the other day, and Don A. ey of the Columbus Evening ‘Republican takes. us. task about our recent reference toa “tonsillectomy. :

12 ] Washin gton

Front a national point to have appeared in the away. That is the issue

- WASHINGTON, : : of view only one issue elections now just two of good men, , i. No real ‘national policy; issue has developed. Every-

© too many preconceived notions. “make . decisions without worrying too much about

But Youll ‘Have. to Vote!

“the more. modernistic. ‘plotures.”

‘the surgical Tetnoval of ton- tained a rowboat for an 18-hour

Tonsillectomy « x _|journey that carried the four men

+ Looks like you's can. take your choice, Don,

x % _ ; 2 ‘ x 2 Heading toward a 1 scene of. tropical : lendor, where lurking Japs may hide, VU. S. marines alse their fanding - bryos: toward toe Shere of. Florida anid, The landing » was made in the initial stages of ‘the battle for he. Solomons.

to a place of refuge near the Taal{

“{volcano. ‘There the men separated,|

OUNGSTERS, d ;|with the Filipinos going to a native : ves ino the ast rs village and Capt, Osborne remainhe o seid’ their: teacher i“ ie to begin two months of planning ioning by: ‘puzzled ‘museum ARendanty : ‘Captured, But Escapes

Lieut. Gause was helping to move supplies up ‘to the front lines at Bataan. without knowing that the Japanese had broken through when

> ie he encountered an enemy armored ‘tral’ Park. ‘Said ghes Y hed to sts down and look truck on the Lamao bridge.

at the Buddha to calm’ myself after seeing .some of He hid in the river bed all’ that

+. « Dan Kidney, whe ‘house for The Times and now night and the next day, although ‘hou the Japanese troops came within a spondent, is back in town. for few feet of him as they washed WL Sh an election campaign on, he their mess kits. ‘| ‘Some fime later Lieut. Gause was

Turning the Tables captured “by three Japanese soldiers as he attempted to reach the

THE TOWN’S BOYS, from 3 on up, are the: most [interested spectators at the army war show's battle A Boe genial ana pus depot on the war memorial plaza. - The youngsters 300 other Americans. A short time swarm all over the cannon, tanks, jeeps and other afterward he made a break for freeequipment, asking questions faster than the, soldiers dom. Reaching thie beach, he swam in charge can answer, The tables were turne he out. to an anchored: boat, ducking other afternoon, however. An eagle scout, {rifle fire as he héavy with merit badges, walked up to a $ regidor asked a question. “The corporal answered, looked Yat{I0u he owed 0 Cor or val the merit bafiges, glanced down at his own chest} que rowboat bore 0 machine gun (minus decorations) and then spent the next 15 min-|pujiet holes when he arrived. utes asking the scout all about his scout decorations. Several other soldiers edged up and listened, “too, as Storm Upset Boat +) the scout patiently answered.

eyes. of the mummy in the Egyptian’ room. er William P.. Hapgood ‘took in the museum's interna-| , tional water: color: show the other day and reported modernistic. ” The only “nice”

. peared imminent Lieut. Gause got underway again. This time he commandeered a native banca. A storm upset the boat and he struggled {ashore and started for the mountains in his bare feet. He found a hiding /place in the hills and rested for a week. Finding another banca, he sailed to an unidentified island. ' Natives told him that there -was another American officer on the island, but he didn’t find Capt. Osborne. until to] & month later. ‘In’ ‘mid-July the two officers planned their escape. . They: found an old native-built motor boat with an obsolete diesel engine and loaded it ‘with all ‘the food and fuel it would carry. An SHSTEopcY sail

was rigged. - IVE BEEN SPEAKING about men. I mean wolnen,. 100. “Women will be important: inthis elec. Fired on From Plane tion because so many men will not be on hand to| - On Aug. 15 the men started south vote, They have an especial responsibility this time, [With the American flag flying from Women have had the vote for 25 years «but they the mast, haven't produced political leaders. Few women of| Lieut. Gause had studied seviga.

By Raymond Clapper

in facing new emergencies. Nobody can draw blueprints now. We don’t know “much about’ the shape of things tp come. We'll have + to ‘meet the future largely on a “catch-as-catch-can ‘basis. The next congress will need men who can do that, men who won't go at these new questions with

* Ifi these mencare intelligent, independent, able - their. re-election ‘chances; that is about all you can

‘ask. ‘Indeed well be a Very lucky nation if we can get that kind of congress.

. res] distinction have been elected to congress. Most tion ‘at Randolph field, Tex., and

husbands.

of | them have inherited their seats from -their plotted a course that took: them to within 15 miles of ‘their specific obMrs. Edith Rogers of Massachusetts is one of them. jective: ‘The only equipment he and she has become a most able and important mem, | had was. a: National’ Geographic sober of the house, a credit to the minority side. If the|clety map and a small compass. | men had shown the intelligence that she has shown,| Frequently they stopped at small congress would not have suffered so much criticism, |islands to patch their sails and Congress needs more women like that who can stand obtain water. They were also con‘on ‘their own feet. : stantly forced to plug leaks in the

Government, andl ‘the’ shaping of Amiens” pe rotten hull of their vessel and fe

NLS

in’ the world, are’ never going to be the simple business {vent the seams from spreading, ‘In

e be stung. In Howard Brubaker's phrase,

again that they once were, If you think Washington | addition, the ancient motor required |

is a madhouse, the whole world’ is a madhouse and [constant nursing. Once a twinit will take the best brains we cay send to: Washing- engined Japanese plane circled and * ton to make any sense out of thing: now machine-gunned them far 15 min. But you will have to get out and vote you may | Bes, 2 aid iu i is an : intense lack of excitement over this election. +A light’ vote: means that ‘the machine, not you, control. |

un want People, will hay them |P oe [2 Jou Wane Sd. yo. Ye lo i [Biter are sepecea to” sen unl

‘When the fall of Corregidor ap-|-

Vill A Log Cabin Emergency’ Hospital

By LELAND: STOWE Copyright, 1942, by The Indiunapo is Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine,

+ WITH THE RED .

MY ON THE RZHEV FRONT,

—It was thoroughly Russian from. first to last. At one moment we were stuck on the side of a'hill and it looked like we would spend the night shivering i in our onefunger

car.

Then the log cabins on the hilltop Shovel to be a tem: porary front sector base hospital and the medico from Novosibirsk had ushered us into his cabin headquarters

and the: tall, blond: girl in; uniform had the samovar

purring and somebody brought: in’ a couple of

‘stretchers for extra beds. And here is where the Russian touch reached its climax. At 2:30 o'clock. in the morning. here: we all “ were—Ilya Ehrenburg, Maj. Arapov, Capt. Emma, the medico

and’ myself—sipping tea by the light of the kerosene lamp. and i

listening to the Red army lieutenant playing on his accordion

that popular Russian song ‘about

“My Beloved Village, May You Sleep Peacefully. » The lieutenant sat on the edge of the cabin’s. only bedstead pumping sad songs and gay songs out of his accordion. The light

flickered up now. and then, just:

enough to reveal the crevices which fatigue had carved in the strikingly sensitive, kindly.face of

Dr. Lojken, the medico from No-

vosibirsk.. Then a sprightly Si-

berian folk dance rippled out

from under the accordionist’s agile fingers.

re » 8 The _Little Girl Dances JUST BEHIND me on a maitress in the corner lay a pale‘faced little girl. Awakening from a ‘sound ‘sleep she had greeted us with coy smiles as much as to say, “what fun to have company in ‘the middle of the night.” The little blond girl had a bandage around” her head. When Capt. Emma gave’ her a piece of chocolate from our supplies, she nibbled at it. slowly. Every so often she

flashed her couquettish: smile and - thén hid her face for a moment

under the blanket. ‘Now, however, this Siberian folk

dance. was too much for her Rus-

sian soul. Suddenly she popped out of bed and skipped gracefully across the room twirling lightly

on her thin bate feet—and as | 1 suddenly, with ‘a merry.laugh she.

covers.

ducked “back under. the

ny. curled ap in his army overcoat on the floor. He had thought Td rést betler if 1 slept alone. In incidents like this you learn what Russian hospitality is. I still don’t know where our host, the tired and gentle medico, slept that night, but I know he should have. slept ‘where I slept and that he needed sleep much more than ‘an accordion. concert ‘at. 2:30 in the morning. Yet it was the medico: who summoned the lieutenant with his accordion ‘and it was:he who new: what would make a perfect ending lo .a difficult day.

. In the morning Dr. Lojken took

us to the next door cabin to ‘see some of his wounded. They all belonged to his own minethrowers battalion and had been " wounded in fights of the last few days. Except for one or two head cases, their injuries were entirely of the hands or feet. :

The first soldier I talked with

had ‘been: wounded two days before. He was a big Siberian. He grinned broadly “Fritz?” he said. “Oh, he’s running fast and when ‘Igo back na Tun faster. "

Plead for Help “

“YOU DON'T ‘look’ as if you thought Hitler would win the J war” I remarked. When ° Bhrenburg: translated that, there was general laughter. Then a broad-shouldered Ukrainian of 30, Lieut. Alexei Kutz spoke ' up: “We fight,” ‘he said, “But we need: help.” Then . he: asked ' me . whether “Were would: be a second front this year. I answered honestly that it didn’t look -that way and I ‘ouflined, ‘as ‘best I could, the reasons which apologists for the British-American delay in creating a second. front-have been. putting forward ever since July. That ‘was all th anybody fad on that

/ FUNNY. BUSINESS

subject—while we were present, anyhow. After all, it was not what: these Russian wounded men said. It was what you saw in theif faces as they listened. Yet there wasn’t the | slightest defeatism about them. . Nevertheless, for all their restraint and pronounced good manners, anyone with an. eyelash of observation or intuition could ' see that these Russian soldiers felt that they hat been let down. They did not want to talk about their individual exploits. They wanted to know about ‘Britain,

: the United States ‘and ‘what the

‘allied peoples: were thinking and doing. As for them: - soon ‘going back to the front and the Red army was going to take Rzhev. The Russians would still shower Fritz with unpleasant 'surprises.

VI asked if anyone would like to send a message to America and

the Ukrainian lieutenant was the first to’ respond. He: stood very

straight and spoke very seriously

‘as if ‘he were addressing President Roosevelt and the American ehief of stan in pesson,

Want to Meet Yanks

“THE FIRST thing I want to

‘say to American soldiers is that

we have a great desire to meet them, and as soon as possible,” decldred Lieut. Alexei Kutz, Then he added: “This year of 1942 is worthy of marking the end of Hitler. In the name of the Rus-. sian soldiers, I must also say to

Americans — you are also brave men. With your aid, we can es-

tablish justice in the world. To your health. And”—turning directly to me — “tell them once more. that we are waiting for them. Not to meet them here, of course, but in Germany.” I asked a private from Kuban if: he had something else to say. “The big thing is what Kutz has already said,” he replied. Buf.a wavy-haired sergeant from white Russia, immediately volunteered: “I like to add this. Even if the American people donot give their hands to our common cause, even if they should do nothing at all to help us, our people are going to keep on fighting until we win. We shall never . put down our arms.” It was all spoken very straightly ahd spontaneously and there were

nods of approval from all sides.

These ‘were the newly wounded

“and I met. them: Purely by accident

"They ‘were =

—thanks chiefly to Ivan the T rible. : In the early morning

* on that nearby-hillside, Ivan had

produced a chef d'oeuvre, Ivan had walked up, down and | 3) around ‘our car exploring navigational problem - of terrain Then he had backed our r wheel into the very hole he had just walked around. Only Ivan could do a thing like that with such unerring aim, But ‘we had had a wonderful night in the bast hospital cabin’ and now it was time to shake hands with these young Russian ‘wounded. I couldn't rrr - promise, “we'll be, with you as ‘for “good luck,” it see pretty empty expression under the circumstances but that’s about all’ there was left for me to say. And when I did," the big blond Siberian by the doorway, the one who’s going to make Fritz run faster than ever, grabbed my hand in a terrific grip and Teplied:, “Thanks for the honor you've paid us. ” TAR ‘The honor? I walked back to the car thinking that. the only honor Americans can pay th

Russian soldiers is to make sure

that we meet them inside Ger many—and to start in time 80 they'll be glad to speak to u when we get there. :

Tomorrow, in the ninth of his dispatches. from the Russian . front, Leland Stowe will unfold the story of “Capt. Emma, the Red army’s: first front line ‘woman .commissar” . . . of her son Viadimir, now 17, who fights with her “as a soldier . , , and how, bef: her husband was killed, all went into battle side by, side.

EDEN AGREES T0 TR HESS AT WAR'S EN

LONDON, Oct, 21 (U. Py eign Secretary: Anthony Eden the house of commons today ha the ‘government ' presently treated Rudolf’ ‘Hess, former No. 3 a prisoner of war ‘but Saw no reasol why he shouldn’t: be dealt with other war criminals, after the war, He said no request for Hess’ mediate ttial had been recel

suggested an’ bite trial,

.|the - newspapers Pravda: and

Star, sechoed the demand