Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1942 — Page 5
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Most 8 Beautiful
U. S Narse i in
Australia Busy and Happy
By GEORGE WELLER
Popyright. 1942, by The Indianapolis Times A The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
: BO IN AUSTRALIA, Nov. 10.—The flying fortress meehanie with ‘his arm in" a sling pushed back his khaki cap and said: “What's the idea of wasting your © time talking to mugs like me?
“Why don’t you go and find the most
beautiful. American nurse in Austraiia?” Asked who she was, the mechanic Baid: “Everybody knows that. It's Winona Schmidt.” Your correspondent crossed a street lined with small villas converted for hospital usage, and rang the bell ‘where the most beautiful army nurse was said to live.
It was answered by*a blond with sort of contrasting eyes. Maybe they were hazel; you forget to remember the color. “I understand you Te - = you're =
Miss Schmidt looked at the visitor with cool inquiry. “I understand you're one of the busiest nurses in Australia.” “We're all busy,” said Miss Schmidt pleasantly. “Will you sit down.” Your reporter sat down and began over again. “How does it feel to be so b-b-b ® « = = - = 50 busy.”
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i “Oh, we love it; at least I do.”
“Like being in Australia?” “Oh, yes.” This was something to which Miss Schmidt responded immediately. “I get all kinds of chances I never could back home.” “What, for instance?” Miss Schmidt folded her long, slim fingers ecstatically: “Oh, they let me do intravenous injections and treat bacillus cases. I even get a chance to do spinal injections. I never had an opportunity to do spinal injections back in Chicago. She is beautiful, too. Why they wouldn’t let her do spinal injections in Chicago was pretty hard to see. “I live in Logan square and went to Loyola university,” said Miss Schmidt, adding sweetly: “But I do not see why you possibly want to know that.” As the visitor moved toward the door, the telephone trilled. It was probably somebody else who wanted a chance to look at Miss Schmidt, even if he had to .submit to a spinal puncture to get her attention.
40 HURT IN BUS CRASHES NORTH BERGEN, N. J., Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Between 30 and 40 persons were injured last night when three busses collided during the supper rush hour at a busy intersection in
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YANKS HOLD ON] GUADALCANAL
Entire Division of Marines Joins: Island Defense, General Reveals.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. P. — Lieut. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, commandant of the marine corps, reported today that Americans holding Henderson field still outnumber Japanese troops trying to recapture
island. Gen. Holcomb, who appeared at a press conference with Secretary of Navy Frank Knox to describe a recent tour ‘through the entire Pacific area, added that the Guadalcanal situation is “shaping up” rapidly in favor of our forces. Marines on Island He disclosed that one marine division is on the island, aside from army forces. The size of a division is a military secret.
BERLIN, Nov. 10 (Recorded by United Press in New York).—The Berlin radio broadcast today that Henderson field on Guadalcanal island was in Japanese hands.
Gen. Holcomb reported that on the day he left Guadalcanal, Oct. 23, marine fighter planes and antiaircraft guns brought to 310 the number of Jap planes shot down in combat over the island since it was occupied last Aug. 7. ’ He said U. S. forces have lost 62 planes. during the same period, making the ratio five to one. Gen. Holcomb said he saw an entire squadron of 20 zeros destroyed Oct. 23 with no American losses,
Americans Superior
“The American marine and American soldier individually is better than the Japanese soldier,” he said. He added that the same goes for American aircraft. American land forces were reported last night continuing their offensive east of Henderson airfield, and air: and naval were striking harassing blows, including a torpedo hit on one enemy destroyer.
SURVEY FINDS NEED FOR 48-HOUR WEEK
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. P.). —An immediate increase in the working week to 48 hours and the addition of at least 6,400,000 workers to the labor force is called for in a study made. public by the Brookings institute. An armed force of 9,500,000 men by the end of 1943 is assumed in the report. The additional workers, Brookings said, “would have to come largely from women, children and older persons. It would also be necessary to reduce the amount of goods and services produced for private use by one third as compared with the 1942 level.” It is assumed that the number of unemployed will be reduced to a minimum of 1,000,000, the report said. .
HOW WILL HITLER MEET UL. S. MOVES?
LONDON, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—What Germany will do to counter the American offensive in Egypt still was subject of speculation here today. There was some belief that he will try to shift air power from France to North Africa. However, that presumably would strip Nazi air defenses in Northern France and lay the region open to easy attack by the royal air force
and U. S. planes in Britain.
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HE fact that the United
States is a nation of travel-
ers is largely due to the efforts of
the railroads to increase passen-
ger business by cultivating
‘desire to go places and providing
attractive transportation to
there. It is therefore surprising to find the railroads withdrawing accustomed passenger services and urging the American people to refrain from unnecessary travel. This, however,isbeingdoneand will be doneincreasingly. The reasons for this nove need to be recog-
nized and understood.
The passenger transportation required by our armed forces is enormous and is in- + creasing every day. This must be met in full
and will be, come what may.
Civilian travel essential to winning the war has also grown tremendously and will-
continue to grow. For this the
‘provide’ transportation to the limit of their
ability to do so. ’
After these comes the movement of ci-
the
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tailment of this kind of travel to make way for war transportation.
Changes are being made in
railroad passenger services. Seasonal trains to Florida have been ruled out. There will be no chartered cars or special trains except for military business. Second sections of established trains will not be operated except where they have been operated regularly in the past. Passenger schedules are being lengthened to accommodate longer trains and more stops. Suchchangesare being made to insure that the
railroads continue to provide all the passenger
Knowing it is railroads must
vilians whose travel, however important to themselves, is not an indispensable part of the war effort. So far the railroads have done about all they have been called upon to do for these travelers. However, the time is at hand when there will have to be an increasing cur-
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transportation that is needed to win the war. This will call for some sacrifice by all of us. It will mean giving up, possibly for the ~ duration of the war, the cherished privilege ~ of going whenever and wherever we please.
for our national war effort, we
all should and will respond willingly, cheerfully. In so doing.we shall be contributing to the ultimate victory wherein lies our hope for preservation of the American way of life.
that vital base on Guadalcanal]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. P.).— Officers’ wives are traditionally nontalkative about military action, and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower is no exception. You have to ask her point-blank how she feels about her husband being in North Africa in command of American troops, and then you get this answer:
“Ask any mother or wife in America who has a son or husband at the front how she feels. My answer would be the same.” Mrs. Eisenhower has been an army wife for 26 years, and this is the first time she has seen her husband off to battle. She says she listens to the radio for latest news flashes from the African front, works at the American Women Volunteer service canteen serving food to soldiers and war workers and entertains friends at her apartment, which she shares with Mrs. Harry C. Butcher, hower’s naval aid.
Home Never Permanent
Actually, Mrs. Eisenhower seemed more inclined to talk about her life as an army wife since she married “Ike” Eisenhower at San Antonio in 1916. Since then she has lived in France, the Philippines, Ft. Lewis, Wash.; Ft. Sam Houston, Tex.; Ft. Myer, Va, and Washington. ’ “It is fatal to put up the last curtain,” she said. “It’s a sure sign we are going to move again.” Mrs. Beatrice Patton, wife of Brig. Gen. George Patton, - who commands American forces landing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, is a veteran of more wars than Mrs. Eisenhower.
from her husband for some time. ‘We're Old Soldiers’
“I think when a man is busy fighting for his country he’s not going to have time to write letters home,” Mrs. Patton said. “Besides,
FRENGH EMBASSY EMPLOYEES WEEP
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. P.). —Gloom settled over the Chateaulike French embassy today as more than 150 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and France came to an end. At the embassy chancery, French employees wept. On the broad lawn of the embassy, Ambassador Gaston HenryHaye played with his Dalmatian dogs and waved to friends who were held outside a police line thrown up yesterday by FBI agents. Within two hours after HenryHaye was handed his passport, the FBI was stopping all visitors at the embassy in an action more drastic than that taken at German and Italian embassies when those countries followed Japan in declaring war,
CANADA AND MEXICO BREAK WITH VICHY
OTTAWA, Nov. 10 (U. .P).— Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced last night that Canada had broken diplomatic relations with the French “German puppet government” of Pierre Laval at Vichy. King said the decision was taken at a cabinet meeting last night and that Rene .Ristelheuber, French minister to Canada :was informed immediately of the action.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 10 (U. P.). —Mexico has severed relations with the Vichy French - government, President Manuel Avila Camacho announced last night. -
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Mrs. Eisenhower, in Army
Wife Tradition, Won't Talk
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Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower and his brother, Milton, follow the general's forces by radio.
it's the third war for both of us. We're old soldiers.” Gen. Patton is a veteran of the Mexican punitive expedition and the first world war, and bears the nickname of “Blood and Guts.” In 1935, when he was transferred to Hawaii, Mrs. Patton accompanied him on a 52-foot schooner he bought and learned to sail especially for the trip.
Mrs. Patton admitted she “took the other two wars pretty hard.”
“why I think it is important for the wives of men at war to realize the importance of facing the situation with courage.”
“That is one reason,” she said,|
RUSS TIGHTEN
'NALCHIK GRIP
Report Nazi Offensive at Stalingrad Has Exhausted © Itself.
MOSCOW, Nov. 10 (U, P.) — Front-line dispatches tcday said the Russians had seized fhe initiative in the Nalchik area of the Caucasus. These reports said that the German offensive against Stalingrad had exhausted itself, and that only occasional and small groups of Germans attacked now. The Russians were enlarging their initiative there and improving their positions. Squtheast. of Nalchik, where the Germans have been stalled for more than a week in a drive toward the Grozny oil fields and the Georgian military highway at Ordzhonikidze, the initiative ‘was reported to have passed to the Russians. Repulse Nazi Infangry
Soviet communiques for several days have reported Red army forces “conducting active operations”’—attacking—southeast of Nalchik. The Soviet noon communique said the defenders had repulsed an infantry and tank action on one sector of the Nalchik front, disabling two tanks and inflicting heavy losses on enemy infantry. “In the Stalingrad area, the Rus-
i sians fortified their positions, bat-
tled small enemy groups and repelled enemy attempts to infiltrate a factory area,” the noon communique said. “Up fo 100 of the enemy were wiped out. “Northwest of Stalingrad, there was small-scale fighting.” Northeast of Taupse naval base, in the western Caucasus, the Germans succeeded in crossing a water barrier at the cost of heavy losses, it -said. Soviet forces counterattacked, killed 200 of them and threw the rest back across the water.
SABOTEUR TO TESTIFY
NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (U. P).— Ernest Peter Burger, one of eight Nazis who came to the United States in submarines to sabotage America’s war effort, testifies for the government today at the trial of Anthony Cramer, naturalized American of German birth, charged with treason. ——————————————————————
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LONDON, Nov. 10 (U.P.).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today that President Roosevelt “is the author” of the American offensive in French Africa.
and pick up some weight.” ”
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On Missing Ship|
- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN FRENCH NORTH AFRICA, Nov. 10
«| (U, P.).—United Press staff corre-
spondent Leo 8. Disher was aboard a ship that was sunk during landing operations at Oran, it was revealed today. : The lack of information from him did not indicate that he was lost or had been taken prisoner.
Disher, a native of WinstonSalem, N. C. joined the United Press in 1940.- He left the New York cable desk to become a correspondent with the Atlantic fleet and subsequently was assigned to the London bureau of United Press.
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FATHER KNEW PLANS!
i Africa close to its home bases.
CHICAGO, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—The government tries to show today that Hans Max Haupt, father of one of the six executed Nazi saboteurs, knew of his son’s mission in the United States.
Haupt and five other Germanborn Americans are on trial for allegedly giving treasonable aid to zn eight-man sabotage mission by sheltering and helping his son, Herbert... Herbert and five saboteurs were executed at Washington Aug. 8, and two received prison sentences.
The prosecution hopes to intro-
duce a statement made to federal|
bureau of investigation agents by the elder Haupt last summer, in which he allegedly admitted knowledge of his son’s purpose in return-|g ing from Germany aboard a submarine. The jury yesterday heard a similar statement of Herbert's mother, Mrs. Erna Haupt. She acknowledged that she and her husband knew their son had landed in the United States with large sums of money, but said she was unaware of the nature of his mission until his arrest.
DOOMED MAN FREED, TRIES TO JOIN ARMY
NEW YORK, Nov.,10 (U. P.).— Frank Davino, 30, who has been a prisoner nearly four years and spent 18 months of that time in Sing Sing prison death house, finally was freed of a charge that he murdered a man in a holdup. He was trying to enlist in the army today, “to get some sunshine
Air Raids Divert Luft-
waffe From Africa.
; LONDON, Nov. -10 (U. P.).—A strong force of royal air force bombers dropped a “considerable tonnage” of explosives on Hamburg and several other targets in northwest Germany during the . night, the air ministry announced today. > It was the first allied night raid on Germany since Oct. 15, when British bombers raided Cologne and the Rhineland, and followed exfensive daylight operations in a wide=spread offensive which pinned potential German air aid for North
Sub Base Pounded \
In daylight sweeps yesterday, American flying fortesses and Liberator bombers struck heavily at the Nazi submarine base at St. Nazaire, on the French occupied coast, while British planes raided Le Havre. . The air ministry announced that 15 British planes were lost during last night's raid, during which the . formations encountered widespread cloud formations and icing conditions which probably forced some of the missing planes down,
the strength of the raiding formations, but the air ministry’s communique described it as “strong,” term it had used in the past to ote upward of 300 lanes.
It was announced that a German fighter plane was destroyed over the English channel this morning.
made a “nuisance” raid on western and northwestern Germany, causing slight casualties and property damage. It claimed that at least 15 ombers were shot down. The raids marked the return of powerful British night forces to
| Germany after an intensive period :
of concentration on Italy,
U. S. WINS CHICAGO, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—~The government yesterday won a twoday fight to introduce as evidence in the treasontrial of six naturalized Germans t.e allegedly complete confession of Mrs. Erna Haupt that she and five co-defendants knew of |
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