Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1943 — Page 13

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ily was. a. new country for me I figuredsI might as’ ‘get: sick right away and get it over with. So on th day ashore they threw me into an ambulance . we, went ‘hunting for a hospital. } We were looking for a certain clearing station, and we couldn't find it because it was moving forward while we were moving back, and we passed on different roads. We drove 75 agonizing miles over dusty gravel roads, and then found the hospital all set up ready for business within four miles of - where we had started from in the first place. _ The clearing station was a ea small tent hospital, a sort of flag x stop for wounded on the way back vom the lines. The first regular hospital was about 15 miles on back. ; | ‘The average patient stays in the clearing station only a few hours at most. But once the doctors got '& squint at me they beamed, rubbed their rubber gloves, and cried out: “Ah! Here is the medical freak We'll just keep this guy 1 ‘play with him a while.”

Had ‘Battlefield Fever’

“So they put me to bed on a cot, gave me paregoric and bismuth, aspirin and codine, soup and ‘tomato juice, and finally wound up with morphine Land: a handful of sulfaguanadine. The only thing I n say on behalf of my treatment is that I am well ind hearty again. ‘They kept me in what is known as a semi-comatose condition for about 24 hours, and then began to get Be At first they thought I had dysentery, but little’ "laboratory showed no dysentery. Then they

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

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vate. ». Write your own wisecracks. . . . Lt. John Spicklemire is home on leave from Ft. Murphy, near Palm Beach, Fla; He: used to snap pictures for The Times.

Now he’s a signal - corps instructor... . Lt. (j.g.) Jim Tucker, the former secretary of state, has been promoted to full lieutenant. He's with the navy at a Sicilian station. .+ + We hear that Bill Walker, the accountant (Carter, Bailey, Kirlin & Walker) now is a major, ,over in, England. . One of the girls confides her ‘pet peeve. It’s to go " into a candy store, how much certain candy is, be told it’s a dol- ? lar a pound, order If a pound and then—and not until then—be tou: “Sorry, all we can let you have is a quarterWhy, she grumbles, can’t they tell you that “gn the first place.

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Xs ject: “Generals I have known.” Xe

'SPAPERMEN NEVER ‘know where the conational ball is going to land when they enter a Tr conference in the mayor's office. For instance, Mayor Tyndall got to reminiscing Monday about his days as a major general, and discoursed on the general called Gen.

cArthur as: having a fair for the spotlight, even

bh ack in world war 1 days. And as for old “Iron Pants”

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Pafiton, currently shining over, in Sicily, the mayor \Yecalls him as being impulsive, prone to act on the spur of the moment. “One day,” he reminisced, “Pat-

_ ton came to headquarters at Camp Shelby wearing a

| bright green uniform’ with’ shiny brass buttons and a + gold: helmet, and with his favorite pearl-handled re1 volver strapped to- his. side. He said he'd had the uni-

in London

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8 ir a m to the humiliating conflict

that em “4 a are not similarly found wanting with regard to

LONDON, Aug. 11.—(By Wireless)—As we sée now . ‘regarding Italy, one of the allied problems that will | accompany victory everywhere will be to find a way to launch self-government in liberated territory. Our lack of preparation caught us shamefully unready for Mussolini's resignation and led in American broadcasts, with OWI calling the king of Italy moronic and at the same time Gen. Eisenhower commending him for ousting Mussolini. The policy of using the allied commanding general in the Medi‘terranean theater as an outlet for “psychological - warfare: handouts seems open to question. Why should the general in command of 5 a big operation like this have to be

a moisplese. for political warfare?

"What have all our mystery boys around Washington doing all this time, that we come up now i ee whether to call the king of Italy names or try to do business with him? Fortuhately we have time to profit by this awkward - exposure | of allied policymakers sound asleep when tirst big opportunity knocked. Especially should g experience cause us to be sure’

g for the liberation of France. That may r off. ht hours after Mussolini's capitulation Gaulle broadcast that no allied settlement

i as could be valid or lasting without French # heb

This was a plain warning to the allies to end th ‘policy of ignoring the French committee

em I am going up to a meetplo at 3 whol si Edgecomb

afternoon. The er:

needn't worry upon reading that they were ill.

By Ernie Pyle

thought 1 had malaria, so they called in.a couple of Italian malaria experts from down the highway. They chatted in English, punched my finger, took blood specimens, and reported ‘back later I had no malaria. By that time I was getting better anyhow, so they decided that what I had was a nonconforming and just now fairly common illness which they call “battlefield fever.” With this you ache all over and have a very high temperature. The doctors say it is caused by a combination of too much dust, bad eating, not enough sleep, exhaustion, and the unconscious nerve tension that comes to everybody in a front-line area. You don't die of battlefield fever, but.you think you're going to.

Pays $100 for a Mattress

They put me in a corner of a tent, and in this corner at various times were three officers with similar feve Their illnesses were brief, like mine, and. they all left before I did, so their families

Another fellow-sufferer was Lt. Richard Van Syckle of Sewaren, N. Y. He used to be in the automobile business at Perth Amboy. He is married to Clare Raftery, a delicious former Powers model, and he carries magazine-cover pictures of her in his map case. The third was Maj. Ellzey Brown of ‘Okmulgee, Okla. Maj. Brown used to be president and general sales. manager of the Cleveland Tractor Co. He is a tough outdoors man, and he was so thoroughly disgusted at getting sick that it made him even sicker. He’ celebrated his 44th birthday just before entering the hospital. Maj. Brown distinguished himself in our midst by paying a flat hundred dollars to the station’s chaplain for a $14 air mattress. His own gear was lost in the original Sicily landing, and, as he says, money means nothing over here anyhow so why not pay a hundred dollars for something that will help a little?

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form failored to represent his idea of what a tank commander ought to wear.”

A Mere 8 Per Cent

THE GAS FLAME, house organ of the gas company, has decided that the 20 per cent withholding tax isn’t as bad as it seemed at first. We quote: “Tinsel

Miller says that the total amount of income tax de-|-

ducted amounted to a little under 8 per cent of the total payroll. In other words, the 20 per cent withholding tax, in our case, instead of. being a scary fifth, averages a modest 8 per cent.” , . . Continental Optical Co. employees who have been on the job

every flay for three months received a nice memento|

the other day. They were awarded 37 mm. shells (imperfects) donated by the army ordnance department. Of 397 employees eligible, 111 received the shells. Many missed by as little as a half-hour’s tardiness.

Alp, Alp, Mr. Matterhorn

SOME OF HIS friends are calling Milton Matter “Mr. Matterhorn” these days. Mr. Matter, a member of the state conservation commission, has a home in Brown county which he has named Matterhorn. He hes the name on his station wagon. Milt and a friend were having some refreshments in Murphy's down at Nashville, and the friend offered to pay. The waiter, who felt he knew Mr. Matter, said: “Oh, no, Mr. Matterhorn paid the bill.” . . , The Red Cross camp and hospital committee is having difficulty in obtaining some of the articles needed for the comfort’ of soldiers in the hospitals at Stout field, Ft. Harrison and Camp Atterbury, Many electric fans are needed. They can use all sorts of new ‘and used musical instruments, including even broken or wornout radios. They need furniture for day rooms, and they still have a shortage of coat hangers. If you can help out, phone Miss Mary Foster at the Red Cross, Li. 1441, and if possible, arrangements will be made to pick up your contribution,

By Raymond Clapper

matters except General Giraud, who is generally subject to the control of the French committee of national liberation, the existence of which we do not recognize. The absurdity of the allied position in that respect will become more than academic the moment Italy quits. Actually it is more than academic now, because every day’s delay is losing time and adding to the resentment which might make the future more difficult and which certainly hampers those Frenchmen who are preparing the machinery for a resumption of self-government in France, The committee members are middle-of-the-roaders, concerned with preventing dictatorship and with making - preparations so that elections will be automatic. They need the help now of allied recognition for the committee.

A Limited Recognition

IT WOULD be well if recognition were limited and conditioned. The committee limits itself, on the basis of letters from Giraud and De Gaulle, to exercise its functions until. “the day upon which the state of liberation of territory shall permit the formation, in conformity with the laws of the republic, of a provisional government to which it shall hand over its powers. At the latest this date shall be that of the total liberation of the territory of France.” ’ Recognition could well be limited ta the boundaries which the committee sets out for itself. Unless the allies succeed in giving sufficient strength and prestige to such efforts for setting self-governing machinery in motion, we must be prepared for a de-facto assumption of power by De Gaulle. If the allies fail to support machinery for the rebirth of the republic, 80 tha plans will all be. definitely ready to be acti-

By Eleanor Roosevelt

lalions have been shifted about, that millions of families have been driven from their homes, and Shelr hotties and land summed ove: to and to

the aging of Nas var 4nd the gen 4nd peer

Thats 8 ver accurate picture While much be destroyed i ry aid

In All Cadets Lives Spirit OfAcademy

(Third of a Series)

By JESS STEARN Times Spécial Writer WEST POINT, N. Y,, Aug. 11.—~When they ‘speak of the spirit of West Point here they mean the men of West Point—at peace and at war, wherever they may be. Once, studying the seal of his class ring, Brig. Gen. Philip E. Gallagher, °’18, commandant. of cadets, solemnly told some graduating cadets: “As the years. go by and that seal grows smooth, the letters that wore off that ring, I am sure, you will find engraved on my heart.” What he meant, of course, was that West Point, its tradition of duty and honor, gets inside a man, becomes part’ of him, and wherever he is, whatever he is doing—on the football field or the battlefield——that man stands as a symbol of West Point. While there was little time. for Gen. Gallagher to get overseas in the last war, a roommate of his at West Point managed to get across and, by. a stroke of great valor, emerged from battle as the Rock of the Marne. While all around him Frenchmen were breaking before the furious assault of the Germans, this stripling held his sector, turned back the charge and saved a large share of the day. ‘But for years, even with intimates, he refused to discuss that terrible night or reveal the emotions stirring through him in the face of the German waves. | os ” 8

Relives Night

FINALLY, YEARS later, in a mellowing moment, he relived the night confiding: “Yes, 1 felt fear. Maybe I would

have broken, but do you know what kept running through my

OWN FIRST: AID SAVES LT, MUTL

Badly Wounded, Local Pilot Tends Wounds and

Returns Safely.

Lt. Tom Mutz, & marine corps fighter pilot in Guadalcanal, today owes his life to first aid. The local pilot, son of Mr. and Mrs, Frank M. Mutz, 706 N. Riley ave, was struck in the leg with Jap machine gun bullets, peppered with shrapnel in his shoulder and back and had the skin of his right hand torn away by a bullet during a scramble with two Jap zeros over Bougainville. But he stayed in the fight and the: Jap went down with his plane.

Applies Tournequet

To stop the loss of blood while he returned to his base, according to a report of a marine combat correspondent, Lt. Mutz cut off the leg of his flight suit and applied a tournequet to his leg. The 22-year-old marine almost was left out of aviation altogether when he first entered the service. New qualifications however, raised the height limit for pilots to 6 feet 4 inches and then Lt, Mutz transferred from the navy to the marines. He is 6 feet 3% inches tall,

. Once Ensign in Navy Before entering the marines, he had enlisted in the navy in October, 1940, and was commissiohed an ensign before Pearl Harbor.

and a student at Indiana university for two and one-half years, Lt.

ville, Fla., and

A graduate of Tech high -school|

=| Muts received his aviation training| ]as Pensacola, Miami anil Jasksond i Quantico, Va.- In| January, 343, be ‘went on diy in,

Gen. Doug- _ las MacArthur (left). as he ‘was when he - _. was a cadetat "West Point. - Below, . Capt. * Colin‘ Kelly.

mind? Not the Germans. I didn’t even see them, but the words Duty, Honor, Country—they kept drumming on my brain. ' Duty, Honpr, Country! And then I thought of my father, who had been to West Point before me. And that,is why I held on.” In a crisis this is the creed

which brings every West Pointer

to the fare. In the early stages of the Morocco invasion Col. Demas T. Craw, '24—Nick Craw to West Pointers—was the first man ashore, trying to persuade the French commander to surrender. This effort was fruitless, but Nick Craw pleaded for another

chance to convince the Frenchman of his duty to save lives. Again ‘Nick Craw went ashore, and this time he was met with a hail of bullets. He died so. others might live, and at, West Point Nick -Craw’s spirit lives on. When news came of his death Maj. William L. Kost, secretary of his Academy’s Association of “Graduates, sat down and wrote Col. Craw’s widow: : “We and your husband have all been schooled in the same mold. To' all of us has been given a creed in our motto—Duty, Honor, Country. If one of us is: called to make the supreme sacrifice is it not as though he had left us; he Has simply, bécome a member of that long gray line ‘which stretches through the years of a century told.” His spirit will aiways be with us.”

Maj. Gen. Francis R. Wilby

MacArthur's: Pledge

AND THE spirit of the Colin Kellys, the Frank Andrews, the Jonathan Wainwrights — men who have sacrificed in battle — will always be dear to the Point, which spawned and nourished this spirit, For Gen. Wainwright, the hero of Bataan, languishing as a Jap prisoner, there is a special place in West Point hearts. But while the head of Wainwright may be bloody, it is still unbowed — this they know —and some day, they know, Gen. Douglas MacArthur. will fuifill his pledge to reclaim his comrades on Bataan. Meanwhile they recall smiling Colin - Kelly as the southern boy who . was too slight “for varsity “ football but ran the quarter“mile, boxed, sang in ‘the cadet, .

choir: ‘and Was - forever arguing” giao: Field, Chicago; “and the

that the South had won at Get-' tysburg. Typically, .the men shining in athletics at‘ West Point have ex--tended the -same brilliant flash of courage: to the battlefield. Football,’ as other * competitive sports, is considered as part of the curricula at West Point, and officers feel it is as good a proving ground as any for the greater test: ahead.

OPA to Issue Ration Tokens To Facilitate Point Banking

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (U. P.).— A new ration stamp book, yet to be issued, would contain stamps to be

exchanged for plastic or glass ration

tokens, the office of price administration indicated today. Louis Kroeger, OPA rationing official, .announced yesterday in Chicago that use of tokens in making

Dorsey's Dogs Get $4070 Bill

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 11 (U. P.). —Mrs. Tommy Dorsey today said her landlady’s complaint that the. bandleader’'s dogs had misbehaved $4070 worth was a libel on the dogs. Mrs. Al St. John sought the damages for furnishings she says were Tuined . because . the dogs were either Tmpgisive ~ or not housebroken. Mrs. Dorsey maintained the. dogs, “two cocker spaniels’ and one plain ‘every day dog,’ are educated and “follow the lie oe of canine etiquet.”

rationed food purchases would begin about Jan, 1. Tokens would be in

two denominations for each food

classification, five-point tokens be“}ing * approximately the size of a quarter and one-point tokens about the size of a nickel. OPA spokesmen said that the

plan is a ‘means of easing the|

burden of grocers swamped with

ona bridge.

Gen. Philip E. Gallagher, commander of cadets.

“If we had to,” a general remarked, referring to transportation difficulties, “I ‘would still want the army-navy game played if there wasn’t a single person in the stands.” o ” »

Cast Shadows Ahead

IN THE STRAIN of competition on the gridiron men cast their shadow ahead, West Point feels. When Lt. Col. Emmett

. O'Donnell Jr., a member of army’s

great "26 team, was graduated his class yearbook prophesied: “In the last four years he has been an important factor in army athletics, and in the next 30 he will be as important a factor in the machine of war.” This is what Rosy O'Donnell has done to justify the forecast: Prior to Pearl Harbor he led & secret flight of bombers to the Philippines over an uncharted route and won the distinguished service cross; a few .days after Pearl Harbor he damaged a Jap cruiser and destroyer with bombs,

- winning another DSC, and two

weeks later was again cited, this time. downing four zeroes and . blasting two transports. In the same aggregation as “Rosey” O'Donnell were Quarterback Art Meehan, who has led a raid on Wake Island; Tackle La Verne (Blondy) Saunders, & leader at Midway, and ‘All-Ameri-can End Tom Trapnell of the Phillippines. In the first days of the tiagie retreat toward Bataan, Major Trapnell fought on, rallying his men as if he:once more were at

Navy ahead a touSitawE, “Major Toapnéll,” .. special ' communique said, toi albn between the hostile force and his own troops and set fire to a truck ; He waitéd under fire till the ‘bridge was in flames. before : leaving the scene. He then retired slowly. with the rear elements of his organization, picked up wounded . soldiers and rallied his men.”

QUESTION: WHO DISCRIMINATES?

Industrty Job Favoritism Made Public, but Secret

For Government.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. — The

thousands of ration stamps which President's committee on fair em-

they must count and bank.

Under a token system, the shopper

would present a ration stamp of

large denomination, possibly worth

an entire month’s allotment of ra-

tioned food, in making the initial purchase in a ration period. Tokens

would then be given in change and

would constitute negotiable ration

currency for the remainder of the period.

YY YOUTH, 15, HIT BY CAR

‘Charles -Elliott, 15, of R. R. 13, Box 552, was struck by an automobile driven by Robert Cauchat, R. R. 13, box 635, yesetrday in the 6500 block of Evanston ave, He was taken to City, hospial,

FUNNY. SUINGSS

ployment practice, established to end certain discriminations in war industries, is doing a little discriminating itself, it was disclosed today. - Msgr. Francis J. Haas, committee chairman, said that under present rules when unions or employers are cited for alleged discrimination in employment because of race, creed or color, the hearings will be public. But, if a government agency is cited for such a practice, the hearings will be secret. An effort to explain this discrimination was made by George M. Johnson, assistant chairman of the committee and former law. pro-

fessor at Howard university.

Mr. Johnson said that, from the start, the White House had insisted that the intra-governmental discrimination cases be kept secret. Father Haas sought to explain

| that in wartime such secret proceedings were permissible within

the government.

ACCIDENTS INJURE | FOUR YOUTHS HERE

Four children were injured in ac-

lcidents while at play yesterday.

| Margaret. White, 11, of 226 8.

1 | aadison st, was seriously injured | [when struck by- a baseball bat |ttrown by youths at x Soutn side |

Cites Grid Career

IN GIVING Trapnell his Distine guished Service Cross, General MacArthur gave football its due, saying: “He matched his brilliant pride He iron career with outstanding ex: ploits on the battlefield.” While West Pointers afield are carving their names deeply in the

, nation’s history, others must remain to train the Kellys, Trap=

nells and. O’'Donnells of tomorrow, While half of the original com=

plement of officer instructors ab West Point are already afield, re= placed in some cases by commis sioned civilians, others still serve at the Academy, where the need for the future is great. In, the last war Lt. Gen. Jacob Devers, ‘09, training artillery men at Ft. Sill, Okla., wrote, wistfully, a few days before the armistice: “I am not far now, I hope, from a regiment and France.” Today, Gen, Devers, taking over from Lt. Gen. Frank Andrews, who was killed ‘on duty, is chief of American operations in the European theater.’ Menwhile, Maj. Gen. Francis R. Wilby, '05, in the thick of the fighting in the last war, come manding the fighting First Engi neers in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, is serving as the academy’s - 39th superintendent, succeeding men like Lee, MacArthur and Eichelberger. - Gen. Wilby, in years past, mapped the" itions of Core regidor and Batagh | or the war department, and, y fighting man with &' dozen cita«

‘tions for bravery, he would have

liked to have fought for those fortifications. But West Point mist carry on, and none know this better than its “Supe,” “A lot of us, I guess, would like to be in the thick of it,” he said, “but we have a big job here—a job that is as big as any.”

Tomorrow: ‘Wings of West Point.

Tin Can Pickup Business Good

MORE TIN cans—seven cars loads—were collected on the North side during the past two days than ever before, Luther E. Tex, city street commissioner, said today. “More people are saving cans for the war effort,” Mr. Tex said. City trucks began a two-day canvass of the area south of 16th st early this morning,

TWO LOCAL MEN TO TAKE BASIC TRAINING

Two Indianapolis men have been

assigned to the basic engineering

section of the army specialized training unit at the University of New Hampshire. They are John F, Gigax, son of Mr. and Mrs. J F,. Gigax, 37 Johnson st., and Howard E. Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs, Estill Mitchell, 2034 Boulevard pl. Gigax, a graduate of Howe high ' school, attended Tri-State college at Angola. Mitchell, a graduate of Crispus Attucks high school, graduated from Boston university where he received a B. S. degree.

FREIGHT IS WRECKED ! ‘KOKOMO, Ind, Aug. 11 (U. P), —A break in the wheel of a freight

car derailed 21 cars of a Pennsyle

vania freight train five miles southe east of here today. No one was ine

HOLD “EVERYTHING