Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1943 — Page 9

} WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1943

Hoosier Vagabond

SOUTHERN SICILY, July 21 (By Wireless).—On 4 SU morning in Sicily I stopped to chat with the of a big howitzer which had just got dug in 1d cameuflaged® The invasion was only a few hours a but in our sector it was nearly over. This gun crew was digging foxholes. 'The ground was hard and it was very tough digging Our soldiers were mad at the Italiens. “We didn't even get shot,” one of them said disgust. Another gangplank that means. Their attitude expressed the disappointment of lots of our solaiers. Our troops had been through such keen and exhaustive training they were worked up to a violent pitch and it was an awful letdown to find nothing to take it out on White of Middlesboro, Ky., and his comofficer were in the first wave to hit the A machinegun pillbox was shooting at them avd they made up hill for it, about a quarter of a mile away. They used hand grenades Three of them got away,” White said ke three went to heaven.”

to fire a in real

“They're —whatever

one said, soldiers”

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shore

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Fields of Tomatoes

SINCE THE invading soldiers of our section didn’t have much battle to talk ahout thev looked und to see what this new country had to offer apd you'd never guess the most commented-upon dfscovery among the soldiers that first da: No, It wasn't sighoritas. or beer, or Mt.

was that they found fields of ripe tomatoes!

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

ALEX GORDON has been spending his evenings lately in front of his 16-tube radio, listening to broadcasts from Germany of messages from American prisoners of war. Mr. Gordon, legislative chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, mails the information to relatives of the prisoners, all over the country, and some of the relatives send back notes of gratitude for the information that their soldier boy is still alive, though a prisoner. Alex has received so many prisoner messages that he has had to prepare form cards to mail out. The messages are broadcast by a woman—Midge—supposedly an American girl working for the Nazis. She intersperses plenty of axis propaganda with Alex disregards this in his mesIncidentally, “Midge’'s” Amerrearing is pretty much in doubt, Mr. Gordon says. noticed that she has difficulty in pronouncing many words familiar to Americans, such as Shenandoah, Ligonier and Tucson.

Bothered by Rabbits?

A TIP ON HOW to keep rabbits from damaging Vit on gardens has been passed on to us by a lawyergardener. “Plant soy beans—the edible variety—in vour garden next vear.” he says. This year he planted all varieties of beans—bush, pole, lima, wax, etc. including the edible variety of soy beans. And the rabte) In't touch a thing except the soy beans. Sounds {

messages, but s to the relatives.

like d insurance for a garden. , . . Maj. Winfield K. (Denton, the Democratic nominee for secretary of stald: 11st year, is home on leave, calling on friends at house and around town. He goes from here . . Paul Nugent, 644 Eastern

the state to Wright field, Dayton. ,

In Africa

\LLIED COMMAND POST. North Africa, July 21 (By Wireless).—I have met British officers who have not been home for three years. Many Americans I have met over here have been away more than a yea. Few have any prospect of getting home before Germany is defeated, perhaps not until Japan is licked. For the sake of saving lives and finishing the war as soon as possible the best chance lies in pushing air warfare to the fullest extent. Sicily is showing what the bold use of air power can do. The beach landings there had been dreaded as likely to be the most bloody kind of operation. But hecause of the heavy use of air power in advance, the landings were relatively easy. Sicily also is demonstrating that enormous guantities of men and supplies can be moved in day after day, operating the vast amount of shipping necessary for that purpose, with negligible The air cover has made possible all naval and ground operations with few casualties. Evacuation hespitals made preparations for thousands of casualties but the expected rush of the wounded has not materialized. In the case of Sicily air warfare seems to have further fulfilled the hopes

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Something Has Been Added

IS OBVIOUS to the layman that something w hss been added to the character of warfare. takine full advantage of our opportunities in the we may be able to offset some of the difficulties pra otherwise would make the defeat of Japan a long and tedius struggle. It is to be hoped that the rosc@ilities now being demonstrated in Sicily will be exploited fully in our bigger campaigns to come. Our present air superiority over Sicily is simplifying the whole campaign and speeding it forward in

My Day

SEATTLE, Wash, Tuesday.—This morning my daughter and her daughter came with me to the U. S. naval hospital, where Capt. Joel T. Boone is now in command. I had seen this hospital only last spring, but the expansion has been tremendous in : these last few months. I saw [ .uallee. * come of the boys that I had seen before. Three of them were marines from Guadalcanal. Two of them told me they were ready to go back to duty and they would like to get back with my son, James, . I am glad to say that he will also be back in active duty within a week, so perhaps these boys will find themselves together again, but I hope that it will not be in the southwest Pacific, for the doy 1 seems to have been too much for them ali 1

doWi there. Perhaps, the northwest may be kinder. is quite remarkable to me how comfortable these temporary buildings, which are being erected to take care of the increased number of patients, can be made. They are painted white inside and have plenty of windows so they are both light and airy. The equipment in this hospital in every department

By Ernie Pyle

did they eat them! T heard at least two dozen speak of it during the day as thought they'd found gold. Others said they found some watermelons, too, but I coulan’t find any. I hitched a ride into the city of Licata with Maj. Charles Monnier of Dixon, Ill, and Sgt. Earl Glass of Colfax, Ill, and Sgt. Jaspara Toarmina of (94 Starr st) Brooklyn. They are all engineers. Toarmina is of Sicilian descent. In fact, his father was born in a town just 20 miles west of

Licata and for all he knows his grandmother is still}

living there, The sergeant can speak good Italian so he talked to the local people on the streets. They

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told him they were sick of being starved and brow- |

beaten by the Germans and the reason thev put up|

suchh a poor show in our sector was that they didn't want to Sght.

Nazis Locked Up Wheat

THEY SAID the Germans had lots of wheat locked in granaries in Licata and they hoped we would un- | lock the building and give them some of it. | Before the sun was two hours high our 1roops | had built a prisoner-of-war camps out of barbed] wire on the roiling hillsides and all day long groups! of soldiers and civilians were marched up the roads] and into the camps. | At the first camp I came to about 200 Italian | soldiers and the same number of civilians were sit-| ting around on the ground inside the wire. There were only two Germans, both officers. They sat] apart in one corner, disdaintul of the Italians. One| had his pants off and his legs covered with mercur-| ochrome where he had been scratched. Civilians even brought their goats into the cages with them. After being investigated those who were harm- | less would be turned loose. The Italian prisoners’ seemed anything but downhearted.

ave, employed in Allison's tool department, is spending a wasted vacation. Last Sunday. the day before his vacation started, he stubbed his toe on the back steps while sunbathing. Now he’s hobbling around on | canes.

Youngest Patron LIBRARIANS at the Riley room of the central] library nelieve they have the youngest regular “pa-| tron” any library ever had. The “patron” is a baby | girl, less than a year old. About once a week, the, infant's mother wheels her into the library and parks | her in her carriage just outside the door of the Riley | room where the desk attendant can keep an eye on | her. The little girl already has made friends with a | score of library employees, and children going there for | books are delighted to find the added attraction. , . A New Yorker who is visiting relatives here insists | that more cars pass the intersection of 59th and Col- | lege than any comparable spot in New York right now, l But just wait until our gas rations are cut. { Around ithe Town A WOMAN visited rationing board 49-9 the other | day and asked for some additional gasoline. Asked | why, she held up a slip of paper on which had been penciled: “Mergenc case.” “Yes,” said the clerk, “but what does that mean?” “Can't you read?” the woman | retorted indignantly, holding up the slip of paper | again. Further questioning elicited the information | she wished the gas to visit a sick relative in another | city. Verdict: No gas. . .. Chided by a male patron | because he didn't get around until about 3 in the) afternoon, a suburban milkman blamed his delay on | some of his feminine customers. The milkman, a| good-looking voung chap, complained: “They're al- | wavs calling on me to be a handy man. Why, they | have me doing everything from moving the furniture to feeding the cows.”

By Raymond Clapper

the most hopeful manner. Every day reconnaissance planes bring back photographs showing what traffic] is on the roads, which is little if any now, what the enemy has on his airfields, where his shipping is,! if auny. | Sometimes just before a mission goes out they send a plane over to make quick photographs. In, the first stages of the invasion of Sicily medium] bombers were taking off soon after the photographic plane brought back target pictures.

The whirlpool of water used in hydrotherapy -has proven a great boon in the Here Pvt. Roy M. Smith, Houston, Tex, who was wounded ip the hand at the battle of Buna Mission, receives treatment.

rehabilitation of injured bodies.

Injured From Zones Reha

The Indianapolis Time Soldiers Refitted

Fighting bilitated by

Modern Medical Skill

By VICTOR

PETERSON

The phrase “fit to fight” might well be written ‘“refitted to fight” at Billings General hospital in the physical

therapy department. For there it is that som

e of America's fighting sons,

crippled in service, are rehabilitated and made ready once

again for active duty.

Today the tide of wounded men is flowing into Billings from all fronts, and bodies, seemingly beyond repair, are reconditioned to withstand the rigors of war.

One of the nation’s mos being done by women know some of whom eventually are appointed to the medical department with the relative rank of second lieutenant. Acting head of the Billings department 2d Lt. Esther Anderson of Decatur, Ga, who pre-

viously was stationed at the Walter Reed General hospital, Washington. While the department guarters here are relatively small, they nevertheless are capable of accommodating approximately 200 patients a day. Some casualties,

AXIS MANPOWER POOL DWINDLES

Russian Writer Says All Countries Drained Dry Of Soldiers.

MOSCOW, July 21.—Total mobi-| These recon- lization in Germany and the oceu- | raissance photographers are a story in themselves. pied countries produced no more,

Col. Elliott Roosevelt heads one air force photo- than 1,500.000 to 2,000,000 new sol-

graphic group in North Africa. The photographers go out in unarmed planes to

get pictures of every town, perhaps mapping pictures, to the most recent Soviet estimates

perhaps a closeup shot of a group of buildings, railroad | yards or harbor works.

P-38: Jack of All-Trades |

|stressed, because it {last possible means of reinforcing

diers for the Nazi army, according

This figure is important,

troops to fight the Red army on

this front and to stand guard along

WE ARE ABLE to use every kind of plane over Sicily and thus have under the most favorable conditions a laboratory of air warfare such as we have not had elsewhere. We are giving a workout to other | planes besides the Fiyving Fortress. The most versatile plane is proving to be the P-38, | which once Gen. Arnold was having trouble defending against criticism. This plane has become a remarkable jack-of-all-trades. i Another one in action with spectacular success is the little A-368 light fighter-bomber, created out of! the Mustang type. Finally the medium bomber B-26, which was so much criticized in the United States, especially because of its high landing speed, is proving itself fully here. One made a belly landing this week without injury to the crew. The “Coughin’ Coffin,” just retired, several times came all the way home on one engine. Our various air weapons are proving out here to be highly satisfactory and improvements are coming along steadily. We have remarkable pilots and crews. | All of which seems to make air war our natural specialty.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Is very excellent. Their X-ray machines, operating rooms, dental clinics, physiotherapy work—in fact, | every technical branch which may be needed for the! care of any disease, is well developed and equipped. | More WAVES are going to work as hospital corpsmen | and as laboratory technicians, and those they have] are doing a very good job. Mast of their nurses are reserve nurses, with only about a dozen of the oldtime service nurses. A group of officers’ wives were working for the Red Cross in the nurses’ quarters, making dressings and bandages. I am sure that if so many willing, hands work one full day every week, as they are now doing, they will turn out all that is needed for cheir own hospital. We went through the tuberculosis wards, where] there were men from the northwest and Alaska and] the southwest Pacific. The two extremes of heat and cold seem to be equally bad for anybody with any tendency to bronchial or lung trouble. Fortunately, however, most of these patients, who usually have a rather tedious recovery, seem to be on the mend. I am sure that the fact that the navy discovers cases early, is one of the reasons for the quick improvement which so many of them seem to show. I need not tell you that our days are busy ones, but doing things with my daughter is pleasant, Tomorrow I shall leave tn return tothe east.

the whole European coast (the invasion of the united nations.

‘sons of German extraction,

against

As calculated by academician Eugeny Samuilovich Verga, editor of World Economics and World Poli- | tics,” this new group includes 500,-

[000 industrial workers fit for army |

service, who were freed {rom their | jobs, and 550,000 members of the! 17-year-old class, which was recently called up.

Hard on Germans

In addition, there are af estimated 200,000 volksdeutsche, or pe:in the occupied areas and a similar number of mercenaries, recruited in the occupied territories and Spain. Transferred by the Nazis from | less essential to industrial jobs, | Verga estimates there were 1,000,000 housewives and former Ssrvans] 500,000 employees of banks, retail] stores and hotels, and 500,000 handicrafts men, as well as 500,000 to 1,000,000 new foreign workers. | The reservoir of foreign workers | now, likewise, is drained dry, Verga says. It is indicated that these drastic | measures, which were instituted | after the catastrophic Stalingrad | defeat were accompanied by the! greatest hardships for the average | German. For they mean the end of almost all industries and establishments serving consumer requirements.

NAME ESCORT SHIP AFTER NEGRO HERO

BOSTON, July 21 (U. P.).—The

destroyer escort Harmon, the first!

U. 8S. warcraft to honor a Negro, will be launched Sunday at the Fore river yard of the Bethlehem Steel Co. at Quincy, the first naval district announced today. The craft honors the late Leonard R. Harmon, mess attendant (1c) who was awarded the navy cross posthumously for “extraordinary

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t important tasks, the job is n as physical therapy aides,

however, must be treated in their beds in the wards,

Often confused with occupational therapy, the two therapeutic treatments, none the less, supplement one another.

Physical therapy attempts to rehabilitate the injured body in a mass way and to restore normal functioning. Occupational therapy. in a general sense, takes up where the other leaves off ®and strives to redevelop full co-ordina-tion and dexterity. A second aim is to develop future occupational skills and hobbies, Included under physical therapv

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to Fight at Billin

SECOND" SECTION

To strengthen his leg which was fractured during battle in Tunisia, Pvt, Harold Yates, Findlay, O., uses a leg pulley under the supervision of Lt, Esther Anderson, act-

ing head of the department at Billings General hospital,

An ankle injury received when thrown from a bulldozer in North Ireland has sent Pvt. Bernard Lundin, Norway, Mich., back here to the Middle West for treatment. Riding the stationary bicycle strengthens the injured ankle,

are treatments by heat and massage, hydro and electrotherapy

Cartoons Help Young Boots

Remember Their Training

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By gradually increasing the resisting pressure on the shoulder wheel, Pvt. Thomas Bianchini, New York City, has regained the normal functioning of his arm which was injured during service in the southwest Pacific area.

Known as the “creepy crawler,” the notched hoard is used fo regain control of finger movement, Using the device is Sgt. Robert Smith, Mexico, Mo., who was wounded in the arm while on his third mission as a gunner on a Flying Fortress,

treat the

and therapeutic exercise. Often the trail back to good physical condition is long and ar-

duous, but the men under ment at Billings swear heneficial results.

Thief Nets $54

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Virtual Gag Put on Farm | dashing out of their house, ! No fire, they returned to find '44 Programs Through o fire ey returnec

someone had entered and taken Act of Congress.

$564 and their ration books. Mr. Steinmetz, who operates a tcher shop at City market, wa WASHINGTON, July 31 (0. By. Dutcher shop iat Cityiimarke. wis About 200000 stat d tv 3 counting his money when the cry oh y Shatte anc Sony om | came. He took most of it with iployees of the agricultural adjust- | {ment administration today are pro- | hibited from attempting to publicize |

him when he left the house but had scooped $37 into the desk their work or to influence congress | on farm legislation.

A CRY of “Your garage fire” brought Mr, and Mrs. Edwin

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Observe the rules of safety when handling - explosives,

Booby-the-Boot always his bucket to windward.

empties

Times Special

NEW YORK, July 21.—-Two months in boot school for primary training and a month of gunnery all he has to know about sailing through war zones. But remembering his lessons is something else again. So Lt. Frederick Airis, responsible for the performance of an armed guard gunnery crew, drew a series of merry reminders, poster size, and put them up in the boots’ quarters and messroom.

instruction teach a landlubber

“I figured it might save me some work,” explained Lt. Airis. The navy's armed guard, 10 to 30 enlisted men and one oificer on each of the merchant marine tankers and cargo ships in service,

handle the guns when enemy planes or U-boats appear.

I'hey come

from all sorts of jobs and places—a great many of them from farms.

Eventually they turn

into skilled gunner's

mates, boatswains and

coxswains. “But when they come aboard for their first voyage, they

sure are landlubbers,”

remarked the officer.

“Maybe I exaggerated a little with that picture of a gunner with

head turned—but not with the one about

handling explosives. They

tell me the bucket cartoon has kept quite a few seasick boots from

going to the windward rail.”

Lt. Airis studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin, ;He was a spare-time painter and manager of a retail lumber and fuel business at home in Eau Claire, Wis., until he joined the armed guard and shipped to North Africa and England,

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Booby-the-Boot takes careful aim, then turns head and closes eyes.

SEATTLE, July 21 (U. P.).— Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt told an injured flier at the Seattle naval hospital “it was all luck” that her son, Col. Elliott Roosevelt, had escaped a similar injury. She told R. L. Carmine, 19, aviation radioman third class of San Antonio, Tex, that she had received a letter from her son de-

heroism” while serving aboard the uU. S. 8. san Francisco,

scribing two close shaves he ex-

Rough handling caused Boobythe Boot’'s phones to fail just when he needed them most.

Mrs. R. Tells of ‘Elliotts Luck

“Fifteen minutes after he landed in England, the tail droppd off his plane,” she said. “And then on the return trip to Africa the wind blew his plane into a transport ship, demolishing it. Elliott escaped safely each time.” Carmine escaped injury in one Aleutian plane crash last month only to break his leg in a second crackup three days later, A

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An audit of the financial condi«

WAVELL SELECTS HIS TITLE FOR NEW POST.

LONDON, July 21 (U. P.).—S8ir | Archibald P. Wavell, who is to be- | come governor viceroy of India this | fall, has chosen for his title “Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and neha it was reported today. His choice follows the precedent of y } sevefal British military men who| VM Setting married—can you have included their great victories give her some specs and dress in their titles,” ~~ + °° | her up like a schoolteacher”