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officers commented about him in terms not meant for ¥ ied compu , bit the young lieutenant said nothAd >. The phone rang every few minutes. Other: com- : mand posts would be calling in to report or to ask Fa instructions. Now and then the 3 chief post, 15 miles back, would call and ask how things were going. Officers and enlisted men kept appearing from down below or over the hill asking about things. One sergeant came to inquire where: a certain post was, saying he had two jeep tires and a tire for an anti-tank gun that he was supposed to deliver. 5 ‘Another sergeant, wearing an : overcoat, came up the hill, sa“Juted’ formally, and reported that a certain battery _ setup was ready lo fire. They told him to go ahead.

A phone rang. A captain of an ack-ack battery said the enemy had his. range and asked permission to move. He was told to go ahead. All the conversation Was informal and unexcited. ‘. " A phone rang again. An officer at another com- ¥ tana post was asking for a decision on whether to move forward. The young lieutenant, apparently not. i wishing fo give direct orders to a higher officer, solved the problem by putting his words in the form of ‘advice, sprinkling two or three “sirs” in every ' sentence. I thought he handled it beautifully, ’

“Grin and Bear It

“NOW AND THEN the lieutenant would phone i some other post. All the posts have code terms such : as “Hatrack” and “Monsoon” and “Chicago.” I've

* just- made up those as examples, since naturally I

can’t print fhe real code names: © '‘ Once -the lieuténant phoned fo a rear command Post and bola them to sénd some trucks to a town

By Ernie Pyle

where two tanks had been disabled Sa moming. Several times he phoned other posts to check up on a colonel who was wandering around the battle area in a jeep. You could tell they were very fond of the

_ colonel, and that he apparently paid little attention

to danger. There were no planes in the sky when we arrived, but that morning the Germans had been over and bombed and strafed our troops badly. ‘The command post had called for air support, but somebody at the other end said the planes were busy on other missions and “You'll Just have to grin and bear it.” The men around our ‘post spoke cynically about that remark all afternoon, “Grin and bear if, eh?” they would say. “Well, we'll -bear it but we won’t guarantee to grin.”

At Last the Planes Came

BUT IN THE late afternoon our planes did come. First we didn’t know they were ours, so we all took to the foxholes. Finally after they had flown overhead a couple of times without doing anything, somebody yelled: “They are definitely ours!” So we came out. The planes circled for about 10 minutes hunting for the correct spot in the bushcovered mountainside. They seemed to take their time at it, to make sure, and then finally they started peeling off. one at a time and came diving down at a hillside a mile away. _ They'd dive and then wheel back high into the sky and dive again, ‘Apparently’ there was no enemy attack for there were no:black puffs around the planes, We could

- hear their machine guns, and their cannon shells

bursting. They kept diving and shooting for about 15 minutes. Pretty soon an officer came running up the hill and said:. “Do you see that? The Germans are mixed up and strafing hell out of the Italians!” When we told him they were our planes he said “Oh!” and went back down the hill,

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

i. ‘BEEN IN A supermarket out in Broad Ripple: * State Treasurer Jim Givens standing in a long lineup ‘in front of the cashier. Jim’s only purchase: A f package of toothpicks. . . . In the same store was | Harry Anderson of the. schoel board offices. He was commenting on the fact that no

one was buying butter that day.

because there was a huge stack of it and a sign saying “three pounds to a customer”, If the sign had said only a half-pound to the customer, everycrie would have bought. . are mighty few and far between, the auto agencies are turning to various other sales items. The North Side Chevrolet office has : a sign on the window reading: ! Fresh eggs daily from our Stony ! Creek farms—45 cents. . . . At least one woman - around town has such a squeamish stomach that . she won't eat beef in a restaurant. She can’t con- ¢ vince herself that it isn’t horse meat. S'truth.

The Heat's Still On :

: F ONE OF OUR agents who is in a position to . know tells us that scores of slot machines, placed | in storage the first ‘of the year when the new, ad- + ministration went into office, are being: taken out ¢ of storage and pped out : “ently got tired of waiting for the “heat” to be “turned off” and decided to seek a return on their slot machine investment—in somé other city. . . . About mas the feminine applicants. for city hall jobs apply

# ‘for work as “file clerks.” The sad part of it is that

¢ ‘there aren’t any such jobs. The filing, what there is of it, is done by clerks, secretaries, stenographers and other workers as part of their routine. . . . Street

men to go to outlyitig restaurants and other places and process tin cans, Harry Calkins, secretary to the mayor, tells us. Quite a few food spots have notified the city they have large stacks of tin cans, most of them the gallon size, but haven't the help to process - them. The crew will carry hatchets and flatten the

ashington

~ WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The new American commander of the European theater, Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, says his first job is to increase the bombing of Germany and soften it up. It we were Just about six months ahead of where we are, the chances of laying Germany out cold in short order . now would be very great. If we had the planes, the crews and the fuel to give Germany a Cologne ‘raid every 24 hours now for a while, the state of mourning that ' took place over the disaster at Stalingrad would have to be indefinitely extended.

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. «+ Now that auto sales °

Commissioner Luther Tex is organizing a crew of -

cans in quick order. Needless to say, the crew cannot and will not attempt to prepare tin cans for householders.

Ratiening? Let It Come!

A ‘CERTAIN PROMINENT businessman, we're told, gave nis“Hilor the trousers to 34 suits to be altered. And while he was thinking about clothing, he just up and picked out the material for eight more expensive suits. And here we were just congratulating ourselves on owning two suits. Someone’s always taking the joy out of life. . . . Lieut. Scott Waldon, who used to cover the statehouse for The News, left yesterday for his new assignment after a short leave here. Asked where he was going, he told his friends: “Moscow.” Then added, in a whisper, “Moscow, Idaho.” He's going to a navy radio school, probably in an administrative job. . . . That reminds us of a suggestion that’s always good: Write one of the boys in the armed forces. Do it today. It's a mighty small task that. gives .much pleasure to the recipient. You don’t have to write a long letter, nor a clever one. Just write!

Vox Popoff Dept. ON THE HEELS of the recent blackout comes an

indignant letter which (with names deleted) fol- “ lowsk “On Bf town. The boys appar- in ‘the

f. the heels of the lower type appeared

of the store: requested that everyone please remain seated ; And not smoke during the blackout. Everyone

‘readily complied ‘except (censored), 6400 block, Broad-

way, who very emphatically declared the whole affair silly and demanded the cashier give him his change right in “the middle of the blackout. As if she could see to’ make change and could ring the cash register." He finally left without paying his check and openly displayed contempt to:all the help employed in the store. Now is this the spirit of true Americans? Let's give him a roasting; maybe he will wake up.” All right,” Mr. (name censored), consider yourself roasted.

By Raymond Clapper

At the peak of their triumph ts went to pieces, and then were easily driven out. Tolstoy, searching for an explanation, thought that the French soldiers who had fought bravely and effectively to. get to Moscow were suddenly, under guerrilla - harassment, overcome with panic fo get home. Discipline went to pieces. By the time they reached Smolensk, the French soldiers were sacking theif own stores and killing each other. - Just as they had once had all their amhitions and desires and hopes pointed to Moscow, now they had only one frantic desires—/ to get back to France.

Every Bomb Helps Blast Morale

in most. ‘Fecent dimout on Friday night. Feb. 5" When thé" siten ‘sounded, Hook’s drug store at 63d - and College was full to capacity. The man in charge

Sevitzl

By RICHARD LEWIS Not many people know that Fabien Seyitzky was

once a movie star. This in addition to his roles as sachem of the Blackfeet Indians, deputy sheriff of Lagrange

county, Indiana, honorary docter of music (DePauw university, 1940) and conductor of the Indianapolis. _sym-

phony orchestra.

22 years.

But Stokowski never took

for art’s sake. sian cinema in 1915 and it |

was rough. Sevitzky was cast as an or-

the beating Sevitzky- took It was Rus- 8

Sevitzky beat Leopold Stokowski to the cameras by Stokowski, you may recall, appeared in “The Big Broadcast of 1937” and more recently you saw his silhouette in Walt Disney’s “Fantasia. ”

chestra conductor, prophetically fi

enough, in an epic called “Steven’s Symphony.” Our hero encounters a mad composer who tries to throttle him. In the end, the composer winds up in an asylum. Sevitzky, who doesn’t get the girl, ‘winds up in the hospital, which is not in the script. The director had shot: seven “takes” of the throttling scene, none of which were any good. So

cided to give it the works. The mad composer threw Sevitzky against a table with greaf violence. Well pleased with this bit of realism, the director cut and told Sevitzky to get up. Sevitzky didn’t get up. He didn’t get up for three weeks. His s spine had been injured. » Ld »

Only a Sideline

ACTING HAD been a sideline for the young musician, who had come to Moscow to attend the university there in the hope of becoming a physician. : He had completed a course at the Petro-

he entered at the age of 13 on a scholarship, playing a double bass bigger than he was. He had also attended a dramatic school. Attracted by the stage and the new movie industry, he had no difficulty getting a part. He was a handsome young man of 21, with a resemblance to Valentino. He became the most extraordinary extra the Moscow film moguls met in many a day. His first part was so insignificant that he refused to accept any pay for - it. : When the studio executives recovered from the shock, they gave him major parts which he continued to play until the climax of his cinema career in “Steven’s Symphony.” The mix-

him cool toward the movies and he returned to music, which is fortunate for us. » » t

Family Was Musical

HE WAS born Fabien Koussevitzky Sept. 30, 1893, of a musical "Russian family. His father was widely-known in Russian musical circles as a teacher and musician. His uncle is Serge Koussevitzky, Boston symphony orchestra conductor, and one of the most powerful figures in American music today. At the St. Petersburg conservatory, Sevitzky studied under such masters as Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazounow. Two of his fellow students were M. Bakaleinikoff, now Hollywood musical director, and Boris Morros, independent movie producer. In 1915, he went into the Russian infantry. He received his preliminary training in Moscow where he was able to work in the Imperial theater in the evenings. From September, 1916, until the revolution, he served at thé front as a dispatch rider. He also ac-

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grad Conservatory of music, which .°

up. with the mad musician left, can flims.

Sevitzky and his fellow actor de- 3 +

Sevitzky rides ‘his bicycle seldom. Blowing up the tires with the portable pump takes all morning and he saves time by walking.

"quired considerable ability as a

marksman and remains.today an accomplished skeet and trap shooter. When the Soviets came in power, he returned to Moscow where he was accorded recognition as an artist. He played in the state theater until 1922 when he decided to leave Russia.

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Went Hungry in Warsaw

THERE IS is a story that he slipped into Poland under the hay of a peasant’s cart, which seemed to be a popular method of leaving Russia in that period. In Warsaw, he went hungry much of the time. He had a job for a while playing bass fiddle in a Warsaw movie emporium which showed AmeriOne can imagine him sawing away at his bull fiddle through the “William Tell” overture as cowboys and Indians raced

‘across the screen, with subtitles

in Polish. His fortunes improved. He was engaged as first bassist in the state opera and in the Warsaw

. ‘philharmonic orchestra. At the

opera, -he met a talented young soprano, Maria Dormont. . They ‘were married New Year's eve, 1923, which may partially account for the fact that Sevitzky never forgets a wedding anniversary : ” ” »

Visit South America

BETTER KNOWN at that time he, Mrs. Koussevitzky (he didn’t amputate his name until they came to America) secured contracts for both of théem for a South American tour. Then they came to Philadelphia where Sevitzky got a job playing bass in the Philadelphia orchestra, Maria Koussevitzky sang in the Philadelphia~ and Pennsylvania grand opera companies. Sevitzky knew exactly what he

Baby Is Named ‘Adolf. Hitler’

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‘SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA-—II

! A gun enthusiast, the maestro is rated a crack shot. During the last war, he won medals for marksmanship and today he is an en-

thasiastic skeet and trap shooter.

Handy with pistols, too. He is

‘immensely proud of his guns which he cleans and oils himself.

wanted when he came to America. He wanted a musical career, but he wanted it as a citizen of the

country where musical opportuni-

ty was unlimited. He became: a citizen in 1928, five years after his arrival. In 1925, Sevitzky and other members of the orchestra organized the Philadelphia chamber string simfonietta. It was a tribute to his talent for organization

~ 8nd direction that 25 musicians, all older than he, chose him as

their leader. He still conducts the Stont: etta,. now the oldest permanent string orchestra, in the country, traveling to Philadelphia in the spring. ] ®' »n 2°

Takes Boston Offer

As he broadened his reputation as a musician and conductor, Sevitzky received ah offer to con-

“duct the orchestra of the Metro-

politan theater in Boston. He

‘tripled his ‘salary by going there, i

but he earned it. There were five shows a day, seven days a week, and no vacation. Yet he found time to run a contest for young American musicians who aspired to play in the orchestra, to organize a chorus, to set up the New Hampshire festival of music which opened .the door to many young and gifted musicians, and to re-or-ganize the Boston People’s orchestra. During this time, Sevitzky and t about which some fanciful stéries Rave grown up. There are now indications of a rapprochement which ‘will be a happy event in musical circles, i» » 2

Acquires Lake Cottage

SINCE HE came to Indiana,

Sevitzky has acquired the first piece of property he has owned in America. It is a cottage on the . shore of Lake Oliver in Lagrange county.

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The county lost no time in having him appointed a deputy sheriff. He received a badge which he wears proudly along with his cowboy hoots and 10-gallon hat, souvenirs of western trips, when he’s in an outdoor mood. The praperty acquisition was an outgrowth of Sevitzky's interest in the Limberlost music camp, which had been started years before in the country made famous by Gene Stratton Porter. He became musical director of ' the camp last summer and the climax of the season was his production of “Cavalleria Rusticana” out-of-doors. It had been raining all day, but it stopped for the production, and then continued immediately afterward. Sevitzky, it seems, has a lot of things on his side. His ideas for the camp are

“grandiose. He has hopes of. help-

ing to make a ‘second Interlochen out of it. : + When . the ‘camp _ closed in ‘August, to make way for a collegiate football team which used the place for pre-season training, ' Sevitzky bought the cottage and he and Mrs. Sevitzky proceeded to dwell there for several months. The life was idyllic, though interrupted now and then by strange happenings. : ee»

‘ Rescues His Dog

IN OCTOBER, a violinist came down from Chicago to try out for the orchestra. Heé was jittery and refused the lunch Mrs. Sevitzky made for him, so Sevitzky took him for a row in the lake to calm his nerves. The Sevitzky’'s wirehaired terrier, Felix, went along for the ride. When they got into deep water, the dog suddenly dived overboard probably to take a bite out of his own reflection. Anyway, Sevitzky, sure Feiix was drowning, went in after the dog, leaving the violinist to man the oars. The difficult part was getting back into the boat. The water

Legend of Foss

It’s not Valentino, it’s Sevitzky as a movie actor in Moscow in 1915. He took a beating for art.

For his contribution to American music, our conductor was robed an honorary doctor of music by DePauw university in 1940,

wasn’t very cold, but it" was 98 feet deep. P. S. The violinist didn’t get the job. ;

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Champions u. S. Music

AMONG AMERICAN conductors, Sevitzky is outstanding for his championing American music which he defines as any piece of music written by an American. He envisions this country as a great citadel of music after the war. He is also the founder of the annual festival of American music sponsored here by the Jordan conservatory, whose orchestra: he directs. The Sevitzkys live quietly in an apartment building on N. Meridian st. which contains, in addition fo the double bass and musical paraphernalia, a considerable armament. ‘A gun enthusiast, Sevitzky has some deluxe weapons of which he 1s vastly proud. Once, the members of the or- : chestra chipped in and. bought him a fancy holster, expressing the hope that he wouldn't take any pot shots at them, in view of the fact that he is a dead shot. : He takes exercise sporadically on ‘a rowing machine and also has . a bicycle which has all the equipment on it in the catalog. He doesn’t ride much, though, because of the difficulty of blowing up the tires with the portable tire pump that fastens neatly under the bar. His hands are phenomenal. They are so powerful that he can replace the cork in an opened bottle of champagne by squeezing the ends of the cork together with his fingers. Try that sometime. Tearing up phone books is child's play by comparison.

Tomorrow: The orchestra.

STORMS TRAP, THEN

Remark Spreads c nt, t 1043, by Th OP The Ohloago Daly Newolis Times SOMEWHERE IN NEW . ‘GUINEA, Feb. 9.—The legend of Joe Foss, a ,Sloux Falls, 8. D, filling station attendant who y Slane in the marines’ defense of Guadalcanal, still walks the skies above Lae and Salamaua although the marine ace has never flown there. As new fighter pilots come and go, they tell, in their grasscovered alert shacks by fighter strips, the story of Joe’s taking out a novice into the first Jap ground fire. The fledgling asked: “Is that stuff coming up at us, ack-ack?”

ON GAS RATIONING

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P.)—

The OPA wants to know what people think about gas rationing. At the OPA’s request, a sampling poll is being conducted in two “typical” areas outside the no-pleasure-driving zone—Cleveland, for the urban viewpoint, and Clark County, Ohio, for the rural semi-rural and small-town viewpoint. The poll is being conducted by the agriculture department’s division of progress repcrts. Thirty pollers are interviewing 200 A-book holders}, and 200 B and .C-book holders in each of the two areas, Typical questions:

‘Unquestionably Germany is shaken inside. The odd behavier ' going pn there, the funeral dirges, the ge silence of Hitler, the frantic note in: the voices of the ‘once cocky propagandists, and the hurried dashing about of the general-staff people in the Balkans since Churchill visited Turkey, all add up to:a homefront echo of the bad news from the whole Russian front. or a

Payallel With Napoleon

| SO MANY strange parallels have occurred between Hitler's war on Russia and Napoleon’s war 6n Russia. that one is tempted to think perhaps another parallel - 18 about to be found. 1 After Napoleon won the battle of Borodino and had: thus opened the way into Moscow, he had the . Russians falling back and everything looked easy. But strangely the French army began to disintegrate. | Russian guerrilla warfare began to spread con-

THREE: CHINA CITIES

CHUNGKING, Feb. 9 (U. P).— Nearly 100 Japanese planes. bombed three widely separated Chinese cities yesterday, marking a resumption of large-scale enemy air activity after a four-month lull, Chinese dispatches said today. The Japanese raids followed an American announcement. that Curtiss Warhawk Fighters made strafing forays into eastern Burma last Thursday and Friday, raking enemy trucks and troups in the Kujkai-Wanling-Kengtung area. "The heaviest Japanese raid yesterday was directed against Kweilin,

SAVE COAST CUTTER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. PY) .— The navy today released the story of a coast guard cutter and three storms. ; The first storm locked the cutter in an ice field and held it there for 30.days. The second broke up the ice field and released the cutter. The third saved the cutter from an axis submarine pack, which had surrounded the vessel, by forcing the U-boats to dive. The, story was: told by Norman Thomas of Portland, Me. Thomas said one crew member, Lawrence Wright, 19, seaman 2/c, of Chattanooga, Tenn. was operated on for appendicitis during a gale. The pa

IS ANYTHING like that happening in Russia? For the moment, the news out of there begins to suggest it, although we cannot be too certain, for the Germans are just now back approximately to the line from which they began their advance last June. But the Nazi structure is so built around Hitler's personal prestige, his claims to infallibility, that no one can be sure it will stand very long against such a national disaster as has overtaken the Nazi armies. We can be prepared for anything in Germany now. Every bomb" we can drop in Germany has double force now. It does its physical destruction. And it adds its blow to the German spirits that are low over the defeat in Russia. ‘The idea that Germany could be defeated from the ‘air has never heen ‘seriously held except by a limited number, but it is accepted that a daily raic ‘of Cologne size would sc completely disurganize ani Seprass Germany that it would bring her haltway to efea : Russia now is doing the ground job. She may not

NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (U. P)— Joseph Mittel and his wife were busy explaining to curious neighbors today how they had happened ‘to name their seventh chill in nine years “Adolf Hitler Mittel.” A former woodworker of Aus trian-German descent who has received $14 weekly from the state insurance fund since 1941 becatise of a leg injury, Mittel explained: “Yes, sir, the baby’s name is’ Adolf Hitler and it’s not a jo While the child’s mother stood silently at his side, Mittel told reporters that admiration for an ' ex-paperhanger named Schickelgruber; alias Hitler, did not inspire the name.

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weeks the victorious French were in collapse and ‘had their disastrous retreat. The: ‘French had not been defeated in battle. at all.

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PORTLAND, Mabie Monday. —To contig a Tittle

“along the lines of yesterday's column. I have

tter from a boy enrolled in the army civilian aeronautics authority war training program, in which he tells me that life has been made very difficult for - him and for many others who are taking-8 similar course. This is “a program which the ‘war department requested be made available to individuals who are unable to meet the qualifications of the army for combat pilots, but who would qualify for co-pilots,

liaison pilots, ferrying pilots and instructors.

© These boys are given only board and lodging and no recompense for their services during the train-

ing period. Lately, they have been uniforms left from the ci ;

finish it. There may be ground work for: us to .do before it is over, but every bomb we drop now will do the work that American soldiers Sibewise. will have to do on the ground later.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

The families of these. - boys frequently minke’ a sacrifice while they are training, because some of the

boys ‘leave positions in which they are earning good salaries. It is highly unfair that they, or the boys

In necessary clvilisn. opcupstions, should be made fo

feel unhappy. We are ready to stast’ out bright and early this]

~ morning and shall Have a busy day, but I cannot ‘tell

you more about it until:tomorrow.

/1 have a letter from & man who is interested inl. hia the education of our ‘young people: for the future.| } His plan has been placed before educational author-|" ities in Great Britain and her dominions, ' ‘He sends| it to me because he feels that we, like Great Britain,

must have a spur to release our greatest efforts in oe bye. This spur must be the Tove of creative wor So He feels that in all the. ¢ one o th ~ econemic | ‘by giving ;

‘What kind of driving have you had to give up? What do you think is the main reason they are ra{tioning gas? Do you _ expect you will be able to get new tires when these wear out? Do you think many people are getting a bigger ration] than they deserve? Have you heard of people getting os Goupons from friends? SL

JAPS SAY U.S. TRIES i ‘SWALLOW US’

‘The Tokyo. hgisyrag ‘said - Ee yusicriay]

that the United States and Britain for shortage

He said that he had decided: on it months ago and added: : “I don’t think the name will be ‘a handicap, because after all there are lots of people named after persons in the same category as Hitler, such as Napoleon, “Caesar and others. He'll grow up. and be a 000, man Yespii od name.’ ”.

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DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 9 (U. P)—(|® the growin

ortages of food, somebody ai . all Tight by himself st the farm of V i Heftington,

capitdl of Kwangsi province and

225 miles northwest of Canton.

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. By Beclence Service

NEW. YORK, Feb. 9.—A potential |

new ‘weapon for chemical warfare

| against influenza is announced. by {Dr. O. H. Robertson, Dr. Theodore |T. Puck, Dr. Henry F. Lemon and Dr. Clayton G. Loosli of the Uni-|® Yersity sof Chicago's 'depatiment of 2 -} in, the eurrent. issue. of

- |tient and the doctor, Lieut. Edward

B. Gall, formerly of the U. S. pub= lic health service and now statio! at the marine hospital in Galves ton, Tex. both were strapped: the table during the operation.

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