Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1943 — Page 9
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NORTHERN “TUNISIA (By Wireless) —At
least there's one thing we can’t complain about. as * the Tunisian war draws toward its close, and that’s ' the weather.
«The Trains are over. The. cold is gone. Everything is. green, and flowers sparkle over the countryside. The‘’sun is up early and bright, and it is a ‘blessing after all those dreary months of wet and wind. It’s now + like June in Virginia. - For a while we:were camped in an. apricot grove,.on ankle-high bluegrass. Then we moved to a gum-tree grove and set up our tents again. One Sunday morn-
ents left to visit an airfield, leaving our little camp deserted and a perfect place to accomplish a lot of writing. But instead of doing my job as I should have, I fell into one of my carpentering spells and worked from breakfast to midafternoon building a washstand onto a tree, cutting up a five-gallon gasoline can for a wash basin, cleaning my mess kit, and wiring up a broken chair I had found on a dump head, so we could boast that we actually ‘hada home with a chair in it. I at write a line all day; but I sure had a wonderful e :
He's a Mosquito Barometer
otinrs ‘CUNNINGHAM of the United Press and 1 are sharing a tent, and he says if I don’t quit being so housewifey he’s going insane. I guess Chris is doomed, for the. spring: puttering days are upon me and I can’t help it. We've -not- yet. been -issued summer - khaki, but
there's a rumor it'll be done soon. Actually it isn’t too
[hot yet for our heavies. They say the cruelly’ hot ‘weatHe :
r doesn’t come till June. Mosquitoes. are beginning to show up. We watched for the first. mosquito as we used to watch at home
By Ernie Pyle
for the first robin, but not with the same spirit of welcome. I'm the mosquito barometer for our group, since a mosquito will travel days and days to find me. I got my first bad bites down in Central Tunisia and am now anxiously sweating out the malaria incubation period. The army hasn't yet issued mosquito head or bed nets, but there’s a rumor along that line. They've started giving us semi-weekly atabrin tablets. I'm being very bad and not taking anything, since atabrin throws me and -quinine makes my head feel con- iq stantly as though I were shouting in a barrel. So I suppose the next torture on your, list will be ‘having to read about me having malaria. ;
Writers Live in ‘Luxury ing most of the other correspond-
WE CORRESPONDENTS are winding up the Tunisian war in comparative luxury. The old rough-and-tumble days of last winter are gone. The army’s public relations branch is now all set up like a travel-: ing circus, and we are well- looked after. We are so close to the front lines we can base permanently in our own camp and still get to the firing line in half an hour. German raiders come over
daily, but our air superiority is so great now that
‘oftentimes we don’t even look up. We are living in two-man tents, and there" are several bigger tents for the kitchen, mess and stock-
room. ‘We. ‘have stolen tables from a bombed-out | ~ :saloon‘in‘a nearby village. We have electric lights in
our tents. “And instead of digging our own slit trenches, here the Arabs do it—their pay being a Pack of cigarets for a day's work. We take off our clothes at night now. We sleep. in
folding cots, have our Oowm mess, and even wash our}
faces of a morning. It is all so different from our miserable winter. I'm telling you all this so youll understand ‘why. these columns have been so bad lately. Warm weather and a taste of half-civilized living have
‘undermined ‘my: character. I've just been too comfortable to think.
Inside Indianapolis By] Lowell Nussbaum
JOHN ROLL, chief’ 4tate conservation officer, was out on a roitire inspection trip Thursday night and,
among other places, took a look at the Oaklandon '
reservoir dam, where there was a réport of quite a few waterfowl. On his way back to town, he made : : : a wrong turn. And the first thing he knew, he was captured by an advance patrol of troops from Ft. Harrison on night - maneuvers. ° They took him out of his car, “marched him with his hands up nearly a mile cross country to field headquarters. There he identified himself. teously escorted him back to his ‘car and guided Him off government property. . A visitor at Billings general: hospital noticed a wounded "soldier, with his leg in a east, expertly strumming a guitar. It was‘ a sad rendition 6f “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.” Double billing at the Tacoma theater: “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” and “Three Men From Texas. .
A Letter From Oran DURING THE OTHER: world war, many Ameri-
cans “adopted” French war. orphans, sending money
Sane to France for their support. Among those adopting orphans was Miss Eleanor Dickson, now Mrs. Otto Frenzel. Mrs. Frenzel lost track of her orphan in 1920. “Ihe other day she received a letter from Oran, North Afsiea. «Jt as ffom- ‘her ‘orphan. «He. ssid. he’; had ‘been in the ‘French army for some’ time, and lives: in Oran, and he inclosed a picture of his wife and baby. The reason he wrote, he said, was to learn if, perchance, Mrs. Frenzel might have a son in the army. and over in Africa. If so, he'd like to do something for him to repay Mrs. Frenzel’s kindness... The Frenzel’s only son happens to be much too young for the army. Incidentally, the etter was addressed in Mrs. Frenzel’s own handwriting, and was addressed to Miss Dickson.” The orphan had clipped the return address from an old letter and pasted it on the
envelope.
‘Food’ WASHINGTON, April 26.—Reports are current in international circles here that the food conference at Hot Springs will discuss more important business than something to eat, vital though that subject is. caning: as it does on top of publication of the rival British and American plans to stabilize’ currency, plus the fact that several financial authorities . —among them Dr. Ladislav Feierabend, Czech minister of finance—will attend, many believe. the conference will broach post-war. financial matters "of © world-wide importance. Frankly, I have not been able to ‘confirm this report. But I am
reporting. it because, under the
- circumstances, the mere fact that
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Around the Town
FRANK: BODWELL, American Airlines’ local traffic manager, stopped at a North side refreshment stand the other day with a companion and ordered a couple of chocolate sodas. He was out of the car talking’ to some friends when the sodas were delivered and placed on a tray fastened to the car door. Returning, he carefully opened the door, ‘got in and then slammed the door ‘shut. That two sodas spilled all over Frank. .,. Some time ago a pupil of School 20 (at 1849 Pleasant Run, S, Drive), found a dollar bill on the street and handed it to his teacher. No one claimed it, so it has been sent to the Red Cross. . .. There seems to be an epidemic recently -of young second lieutenants pointedly: asking
. fellow’ patrons of taverns. who are wearing civvies:
“Why aren't you in the army?” ° Maybe it’s just one second loocey; who gets around a lot, that’s doing the questioning. : Anyway, several folks have reported being embarrassed by the questioning.
Eligible Bachelors
' ONE. OF OUR. AGENTS reports there were so many complaints out at Butler about married soldiers dating coeds without mentioning their marital status that the dean's office asked for and received a list of the unmarried soldiers stationed ‘at the school. This list, of eligihle was posted on the bulletin board. “vx Capt. El od, director of the public branch “at * “Our Soldiers Speak.” In fact, 10 pages of the book are devoted to excerpts from his world war I diary. . Since Camp’ Atterbury was opened, there have been five generals stationed there and, curiously enough, the last name ‘of each begins with the letter: : M. The present. 83d ‘division ‘commander is Maj: Gen. Frank W. Milburn, who succeeded Maj. Gen. John Millikan. General Milburn’s present assistant, Brig. Gen. Robert 'C. Macon, succeeded Maj. Gen. McMahon. And the artillery general under Gen. Milburn is Brig. Gen. R. M. Montague.
By William Philip Simms
under the heel of the axis, will also be missing. France is still probably the richest of the European states, and Austria. has been and may be again the leading: financial and ‘Industrial center in. southeastern: Europe. Sooner or later, it is pointed out, the decisions taken at Hot Springs will come up for ratification or. execution by nearly:every country. in the world. They will: want: to know how these. decisions were reached. Nations which had no hand in them may refuse-to be bound.
Congressmen Onis Secrecy
ONCE DEFEATED, of course, the axis powers will
be made to do as told. But what about the others? Even here, members of congress are saying they do not intend’ to buy any international pigs in a. poke.
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tories of the war.
One of those bluffs was my first insight into the character and personality of this wiry, thin-faced man who wears the black beret of the British tank corps.
It was six months ago, and Montgomery's bluff was one of the cleverest since the Greeks ‘ built 8 wooden horse outside the gates of Troy. His bluff saved the valley of the Nile for Britain and helped forge ‘the first series of blows that sent Marshal Erwin Rommel reeling westward across Egypt and Libya. This is how it worked:
‘Built Dummy Trucks
IN THE FRONT lines, where the Germans had fought themselves to exhaustion and “barely missed a break through to the ‘Nile, Montgomery built thousands of dummy trucks made from sack cloth, while his own newly ar- - rived tanks ‘and guns were | still far behind the lines. | ° The Germans saw the dummy trucks but no tanks or guns such as Montgomery Deeded op an of=
“supplies ara io a miracle of Supply. work. :Mont- - ‘gomery’s “war equipment-~largely American-built — began to move up and ‘one night the real. tanks and trucks and guns were moved into the cover offered by the camouflage equipment. And in the rear, where the real ‘equipment had been, Montgomery built new dummy tanks and guns. It was a thorough job, typical of the leader of the British 8th army, and Rommel never knew what had happened ‘until the ‘British
CURB IS LIFTED ‘ON INSECTICIDE
Small Gardeners Now May Purchase Rotenone For Plants.
Times Special NEW YORK, April 26.—-Marking a sweeping concession to victory gardeners, federal restrictions on
8th Army Leader Gave Men One Order. & Kill a German a Day’
This is the first of three dispatches on Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont- . The behind-the-front story of the man who now is delivering the death blow to the axis in North Africa. It was written by a United Press staff correspondent who spent many months with the British 8th army in the desert and who. knows Montgomery ntmally.
By RICHARD D. M'MILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent
; LONDON, April 26.—He promised to break through the axis. lines at El Alamein, and he did it. He pledged a victory at the Mareth line, and he won it. He told his men they would drive the Afrika Korps through Gabes, and they did. 7 Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery—*“Monty of El Alamein”—has carved a career out of confidence—confidence in ‘his ‘own judgment, confidence in his 8th army and the ability to instill that same confidence in his soldiers. His amazing personality has sparked the biggest allied vice
The keystone in the arch of success he has built from the gates of Alexandria ‘to the Tunisian tip is thorough preparation for an offensive. ‘While he is preparing his army for an offensive he sometimes uses bluff—plain, oldfashioned ‘poker players’ bluff—to stave off the enemy.
hit him at El Alamein, starting the 2000-mile axis retreat to. Tunisia. ’ » ” ”
He Was Tireless
HOW WELL HE fooled Rommel was made clear by a German prisoner who later told me: “Mein Gott! we were bluffed; we thought you had nothing left.”That was the way I saw Montgomery operate in the North African desert for many weeks. He was an austere, tireless and rather grim figure who might be found
. squatting in a front-line dugout
talking to his “soldiers.” He never refers to them as his “men.”
. He ‘might be seen riding in’ the
turret of - a desert-stained tank, as I once saw him, watching axis prisoners trudge toward the rear. He might be discovered trudging _ along a ridge where he once came ‘upon & group of British soldiers digging trenches ‘behind El Ala-
mein when things looked dark: for
the allies. “What are. you doing?”
‘asked. “Building defenses,” a husky
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Ante Meant. It “PEEN STOP IT Montgomery
* snapped. “You will never need them. "wy Or he might be sitting at his headquarters camp beside the
Mediterranean where I saw him - . the first - time, balancing a fly
swatter on ‘a finger that never wavered and telling us what he was. going to do. . “I am going to knock Rommel for six,” he said, using cricket slang which is about the same as knocking a pitcher out of the box in baseball.
Workers
By Science Service CHICAGO, April 26.—A new aid
to protect the hearing of workers in noisy industries, such as ship“{building, and which promises to be “the solution for certain industrial ear. problems”’ is reported by Dr. David A. McCoy of Boston in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical association here.
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“I'm going to knock him out of North Africa.” Then he told us just how he was going to do it. In that time of low tide for the British empire, newspaper correspondents were almost shocked by his words. As we walked away I thought over his predictions and remarked: “This man is either a fool or a military genius.” Later, Montgomery's battle spirit and his unquenchable determination spread through the 8th army, which a few days before had been discouraged, demoralized and exhausted without the slightest hope for a victory in
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One German-a Day
I FOUND out' why the battle fire-in Monty's eyes was contagious when I heard him talk to bis- soldiers on. thie battle eve. you fo ill one (German evesy day,” he;
them. And then he turned to is loaded W
chaplains and added: ¥And as for, you—TI'd like to have you kill two every Sunday.” Thus the 8th army's battle cry became: “Kill Germans!” Monty gave them that battle cry. and showed them. how .to - carry it out. A defeated army in six months became perhaps the greatest fighting force on any war front. I watched that transformation, step by step, from a dispirited re-
Plastic Ear Molds Protect in Noisy Plants
ening, but lets the wearer hear people talking without" trouble. 5 A further advantage of this plastic ear mold is that it shuts out the flying balls of hot slag which are a danger to the ears of-welders and chippers. The new ear mol were tried for two weeks by 30 ers, chippers, burners, buffers andl other workers in the California Shipbuilding Corp., Dr. McCoy reports. All the
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treating army, snaking along the desert trails toward the Nile, into
the 8th army that opened an un- .
precedented offensive at the Hill of Jesus, near El Alamein. A touch of showmanship typical of Montgomery—the wild skirl of bagpipes as the Highlanders charged through’ the dust of battle—marked the return of the 8th army to lifé and to victory. The transformation took Montgomery three months in which he operated under the direction of’ Gen. ‘Sir Harold Alexander and with the priceless aid of Britain's great supply expert, Lt. Gen. Sir Wilfred Lindsell as quartermaster. . Factories in America and Britain gave him the tools of war, many of which were American tanks diverted to the 8th army on orders of President Roosevelt. Slowly,
then with increasing momentum,
the desperately needed trucks, tanks, gans and supplies -of fuel ¥ began’: aly ith, tanks was
tit “finally . 120,000 * lumbered into the desert line: » u ” 1600 Miles iin 80 Days
EQUALLY fantastic amounts of fuel, food and ammunition poured in for this army on wheels—and wings—until. it was possible to provide 4000 tons of supplies every day. of battle and to keep the
OREGON YIELDS
Beryllium: Find Expected to Play Important Role in War Effort.
SACRAMENTQ, Cal, April 26 (U. P.).—The world’s largest known deposit of beryllium ore, shimmer-
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army speeding across 1600 miles in 80 days.. ’ Then Montgomery completed his job of rejuvenating the 8th army. He scrapped old tactics. © He instilled his own Cromwellian spirit in the troops. He never asked them to do anything he could not do—usually better. He moved, grim and dust-covered, about the front, talking, instructing, telling his soldiers that hey were going to “kill Germans.” {ie He - made them familiarize themselves with the Nazi war machine. He set up sand models of every part ‘of the line to be studied by thé troops before battle. He gave them pedometers to measure distance in the darkness. He made them study the stars to aid their night patrolling... He worked ‘out « system of lights and beacons to guide them at night through mine fields. He taught them how te fight tanks. ; But above all: he instilled con.
fidence; confidef ' themselves: : and in the It was a 4 fiipendous job thet 3
and. “kill Germans.” After the battle of El Alamein there was no longer any question in my mind whether Montgomery was fool or genius.
NEXT: Montgomery's educat! for warfare. ”
Plenty of Rum, = But No Bottles
WASHINGTON, April 26 (U. Pa ~—Admirers of those long, rum drinks need have no Toe an immediate shortage in th favorite thirst quencher; but scarcity of bottles and casks n which to ship rum may become 1 “bottle neck” eventually. A . According to Robert M. Lovett, government secretary of the Virgin Islands, plenty of rum f still available. “But merchants have had to resort to
transparent plastic lucite, made to fit each worker's ear. This custommade feature provides a good fit with no. leaks of noise and' one which is comfortable to wear all
ing like emeralds, has been discovered in southern Oregon, it was revealed today. " Beryllium is the fourth lightest
workers found them satisfactory and about 500 have now: bought them without any advertising by the ear mold company. Workers who used them report
: They, too, want “open convenants arrived at.” > Just now :it begins to ‘look as if the White House may “be relenting somewhat. Judge Marvin Jones, chairman ‘of the "American ‘delegation, is trying to
in casks because of a lack of b tles,” he said, “and the cask ply is diminishing, too.” : Mr. Lovett declared that ev
use of rotenone insecticides have ‘been removed ‘for small buyers! : ‘The change is in an amendment
: it is ‘being talked about is significatit. True ¢ or not, ~it is arousing uneasiness among the uninvited. ‘nations; thus demonstrating from another angle the folly of tog much secrecy about an
or Tot, are harmful.
international gathering of such. magnitude. The mere fact that reporters. are .to be barred from | the hotel housing the conference, not to mention the ' B ,000-gere’ park surrounding it; has: given: rise to ons-ih foreign “circles which, whether justified
Whole World Is Hitorested
THE HOT SPRINGS discussions necessarily concern the entire world—even if only food supply end distribution are taken up. Europe, especially, is vitally interested, yet Europe will not be fully represented. Enemy countries, of course, will be barred. But go will the neutrals, like Sweden, Switzerland, Spain,
Portugal and Turkey. Argentina, the world’s greatest
r of meat and one of the greatest exporters of wheat and other cereals, will not sit in. Nor will France, though the real France is, to all intents and purposes, an ally. Austyla, ‘the Sst to be crushed
My Day
1.08 ANGELES, Cal, Sunday.—At 8:30 last Friday morning, with several members of the war relocation authority staff, we left Phoenix, Ariz, and drove: to Gila. This is desert country which flowers only when water is brought to it. Water is available if you work hard enough to irrigate the land. The war relocation authority has leased some of this land for the Japanese evacuees from the Pacific coast. The contractors who built the barracks to house the fourth largest city in Arizona, simply scraped everything away, temporary barracks set down in a field of sand and hard baked © ground. : When the wind blows everything is covered with sand. The sun beats down on these rows of barrack
Stel which are divided into spaces about 25 by 20 ‘in
fligse spate, families hate begin {eit a bave made screens: out
so there are
play the whole: thing down. He ‘says the president was only “jesting’”: when he told. his press conference’ he hoped; newspapermen’ would be ‘barred at Hot Springs. He says people. have: ‘been "making a mountain out. of a molehill.”,
‘as matters stand. now, reporters will be admitted only
to the cut-and-dried opening and closing sessions but will be barred from both hotel and grounds in between. This means they cannot talk with delegates even when the delegates are free—a state of affairs that has never existed at any international conference I have attend, and :I have attended most of the major ones from Versailles down to now.
Judge Jones says he is confident a way out will be found. But, many are asking, what's the difficulty? If the president was only jesting, why not end the joke by announcing that Hot Springs may be covered in the usual way? Then even the molehill would dis-.
appear.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
of anytihe they conld find available, and these are used to. create privacy. The people work and around almost every barracks you can see the results of their labor. Sometimes there are little Japanese gardens, sometimes vegetables or flowers: bloom, sometimes bushes transplanted from the desert grow high enough to afford a little shade. Makeshift porches and shades have been improvised by some out of gunny sacks and bits of wood salvaged from packing cases. There are several industries going on to aid the war effort. To take part in them, you must be an American citizen, and you must be checked .by the FBI and the war relocation authority for loyalty to the United States. The city, itself, can employ’ ‘a good many people and the 7000 acres under cultivation for the community require much work and attention. ; When the war came there were in the United States about 127,500 Japanese, two-thirds of whom were American born and, therefore citizens. 112,000
dated April 17 to the war production board's . conservation . order M-133.: It applies to- present: stocks of packages of one pound, one pint or. less. :
of rotenone to a small specified list of vegetable crops and insect: pests. He no longer is required to sign a statement of the intended - use,
chased and riate. Labels Not Necessary The seller is relieved, on the small packages, from labeling the goods with a statement of the restrictions, requiring a signed state_|ment and demanding such a limitation Jf mses. All the restrictions continue in force: for. larger packages, customarily used by the large commercial growers. - Rotenone .is the active insecticidal ingredient extracted from the roots of derris, cube, barbasco, tuba, timbo and other plants. Like pyrethrum, it has the unique quality of killing cold-blooded life, particularly insect pests, while comparatively harmless to humans and
Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies cut off the chief source of American importations, leaving United States agriculture dependent for rotenone largely on South America. ; Y :
HERBERT HILL TO SPEAK ‘Herbert R, Hill, assistant managing editor of The Indianapolis News, will speak on “Will This’ War Be the Last?” at the Y’s men’s club
were on the Pacific coast. The center at Gila. happens| luncheon tomorrow in the central
to liave mers asicultual Jat Shan some of V8 other centers.
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day. The ear mold reduces the intense
and high-frequency noises, which are Sstacing, painful - and * deaf-
On ‘such small packages ‘the| buyer no longer must limit his use|
Your Blood Is Needed
April quota for Red Cross Blood Plasma Center — 5400 donors. aE Donors so far this month— 2422. Saturday's quota—200. Saturday’s donors—92. You can help meet the quota by calling LI-1441 for an appointment or going to the center, . second floor, Chamber of Commerce -building, WN. Meridian
Scrap Used or Style Show Hats
A MILLINERY style show, with all hats made of salvage material, will be a feature of the
social night sponsored at 8 p.m.
Thursday by the Women of the Moose in the Moose temple, with winners receiving war stamps. The ladies’ drum and bugle corps will have a birthday party today. A ¢ard party will be sponsored at 8 p. m. Friday by Mrs. Bernice Hargraves and her Red Cross committee, and a public party will be sponsored Sunday, May 2, at 8 p. m., with Miss Anita Ebaugh, ways and means
not vonly that the molds shut out the intense noise but also that as a result of not being-distracted by it, they can do more work in a day.
RADIO ROBOTS MAP GURRENTS FOR NAVY
By Science Service ! ~ WASHINGTON, April’ 26.—Ocean current surveys for the navy will be made this spring on the Atlantic coast by floating radio robots—boatlike metal buoys with radio masts 15 feet high. A streamlined meter containing a
{compass will be suspended from each buoy to record. the velocity and di-
rection of the current. It automatically broadcasts this to the mother ship. At the receiving end, the radioed impulses of the meter are recorded by a robot mechanism in groups of three, the distance between two of the “ticks” giving the velocity and the location of the third between them giving the direction of the current, © Dr.L.C. Colbert of the U. S. coast and geodetic survey told members of the American Geophysical union here today that the new radio current meter decreases the number of vessels needed for such a survey, as simultaneous observations can be made at several current stations. Another advantage is that the streamlined current buoys can remain at their posts during bad weather and in strong currents with less difficulty than a ship anchored
under similar conditions,
element known and a metal important to the war effort. It can take: the place of tin in' many alloys.and when alloyed with aluminum and magnesium it will produce one ‘of the strongest and lightest metals ever made by man. * The deposit was found in the mountains 20 miles north of Gold Hill, Ore., by a grizzled prospector, Charles Lull, who has sole claim to the property.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 26 (U. P.).—A deposit of ore rich in tantalum, a metal scarcer than gold, has been discovered in New Mexico by a private geologist, the office of war information has reported.
Beeause tantalum is noted for its extremely high melting point and its acid-resisting qualities, it is suitable for special carbides and electrical equipment essential for war equipment. ' In past years much of the tantalum used in the United States has ben imported. The geologist will realize $3.50 a pound, or $7000 a ton.
ARRANGE FAREWELL FOR MAJ. H. M. BANKS
The Methodist hospital medical staff will hold a “bon voyage” dine
Columbia club for Dr. Horace M. Banks, hospital pathologist, who has been commissioned a major. in the army. gor way . Dr. Banks has been the hospital pathologist for 15 years. He reports for duty May 6. Dr. John A. MacDonald, chairman of the laboratory committee of the staff, heads the group arranging
though regular shipping has b
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cut off between the mainland the islands, the mechants the people are “rallying ably” to meet the crisis.
2 LOCAL SOLDIERS HELD BY GERMAN
Two Indianapolis men are amo the 156 U. S. soldiers listed as p oners of the Germans by the department. They are Col. Thomas Drake, 21 Adams st, and S. Sgt. Rob t Mumaw, son of Roland Mutaw, 2046 College ave. A Others from Indiana are 2d John Doddridge, Richmond; 2d Lt Orson Pacey, Chalmers, and Sgé Robert Stevenson. {1
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