Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1943 — Page 7

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Don't Get Idea That Boys Are Dining in Style on Our Sacrifices. By GEORGE WELLER

WITH KZ ADVANCED AMERICAN TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA, April

6 (Delayed).—One American air]

‘man was killed and another wounded last week by stray Japanese soldiers still living a vagabcnd existence in Jungle dugouts near the _ portable hospital with forward be American troops where this writer is at present confined under treatment. But the most disturbing _ ~phenomenon during convelescence under a torrid ‘tent in northern Papua is not the possibility that the Japs may surrounding

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\ jungle seeking food and knock off

your correspondent on his canvas cot. It is, rather, the plain American G. I. dogfaces re similarly obsessed. with food problems who surround the writer's cot, can

openers in hand, and peer through

the tan mosquito net demanding: «Is this that jerk correspondent who wrbte all the so-and-so about the rich French food we are supposed to be getting here? ' “We're looking for that liar.” It is a combination of circumstances that has evolved this peculjar situation that, while salvageminded American civilians apparently reach with delight for every

. ‘tin can, the American soldier’s re-

action is to wish to kick firmly in the teeth the next man who offers him one. No ‘Luxury Living’ Canned willy and broken crackers and water flavored with orange extract are part of the war scene and accepted as such. What gripes the slouch-shoul-dered, green-clad, dog-faces who are fighting off malaria, bush typhus, anemia and hookworm is being told” by either letters from well-meaning relatives in the United States or handout thinkers in Washington, or able trenchermen covering the Papuan war from «somewhere in Australia”’—American correspondents in New Guinea now total in round numbers two— how luxuriously he is living in’ the jungle and what sacrifices are being made by the American and A.stral-

"jan public to keep him fat and jolly.

" Meat may be scarce and expensive in America, as letter writers, tell us, but it is not because the, army in Papua is living from Fridjtof Nansen’s famous diet. Fruits and vegetables may have upped in price in Australia, but it is not because the American soldier in New Guinea is eating them up.

Temperatures Rose

One of the wardmen in the.next thatched hut received today a letter from his girl saying, “tenderloins have almost disappeared in America, but we are glad to make this

small sacrifice for you to have

them.” When he read this passage to fever patients, they were impelled to rise and do something violent, but only their temperatures rose. The catalog of fresh food that has reached your correspondent during the past fortnight may be interesting to those who think that the American soldier is eating them out of house and home. In 13 days, your correspondent has gluttonized on the following uncanned provender: One piece of meat, one egg, - two apples, one pear, one beet, one dish of cabbage, two split plums, 12 individual grapes. One of those apples was obtained dishonestly but the rest was regularly acquired.

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Everything else was canned. Tre situation is not without some hopeful signs. An agricultural expert recently arrived in New Guinea

to plan the beginning of those gardens which are a standard part of

nl the Jap peasant army’s procedure.

. Mike Lyons of Syracuse, who possesses a growing hand nearly as able as his poker hand, has started several gardens among the air corps establishments. ‘But the general reaction to those beatific statements from the United States about how delicious denatured food can be is summarized in what one dogface said yesterday afternoon, as the writer and himself listened to a USO crooner singing the popular melody, “Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie.” “I hope,” said this G. I., morosely, _ “that I don’t get a letter from her tomorrow saying that she has sent it to me already—canned.” ? co——————————————————— SCHOOL BANDS TO COMPETE Four Marion county high school bands and orchestras will participate in the Central Southern Indi‘contest tomorrow in Danville, Ind. They are Decatur Central, Franklin Township, Speedway and Southport,

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