Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1943 — Page 11

. Vagabond

TISOMEWHERE IN SICILY (By Wireless) —Every day at the front produces its quota of freak wounds hd hairbreadth escapes. Almost any wounded man missed death only by a matter of inches. Somea bullet can go clear through a man and not hurt ‘him much, while at other times an infinitesmal fragment of a shell can pick out one tiny vital spot and kill him, Bullets and fragments do crazy things. Our surgeqns picked out more than 200 pieces of shrapnel

from one fellow. There was hard-. ly a square inch of him, from :

head to toe, that wasn’t touched. Yet none of them made a vital hit, ¢ and the soldier will live. I remember one soldier who

had a hole in the front of his leg

: Just, below the hip. It was about the size of a half dollar. It didn’t look bad at all, yet beneath that little wound the leg bone was shattered and arteries were. severed, and the surgeons were working hard Wo go the: arteries closed so he wouldn’t bleed to

fpangments White Hot

ANOTHER FELLOW ‘I saw had caught a small shell fragment in the wrist. It had rey at a shallow angle and gone clear up the arm to the elbow, and remained buried there. The skin wasn’t even broken at the elbow, but right over the spot ere the fragment stopped was a blister as big as a n egg. The blister had been generated by the c heat of that tiny piece of metal. . +. That's one thing most people don’t- realize—that ~ fragments from busting shells are white hot. I re-

By Ernie Pyle

member an impressive example that happened on our ship during an air raid just before we left Africa. A heavy bomb hit about 100 yards away. Among the many fragments that hit our ship was one about half as big as a tennis. ball. It first hit a bronze water pipe along the ship's rail, then tore through a steel bulkhead into the radio room, hit a sailor in the shoulder, turned at right angles and went through a radio set, and finally ‘went through one more steel bulkhead before it stopped. When we picked up the fragment it had a quarterinch plate of solid bronze welded onto one side of it. The fragment’s intense heat had simply welded on a sheet of bronze as it went through the waterpipe at the rail. It was welded as solidly as though it had been done on purpose.

German Facilities Good HERE IN northern Sicily it is all hill fighting, as

“it was in northern Tunisia, only worse. Getting the

wounded out is often. a problem. We had one wounded man who had been lowered by ropes over a sheer 75-foot cliff. Me said he wasn’t so concerned about his wounds, but the thought that maybe the rope would break gave him the worst scare of his life. . German medical facilities are apparently as good as ours. Medical supply dumps that we captured show that they are well supplied, with the finest stuff. We know that. their system for collecting their wounded and burying their dead is good, for it is only after the most sudden and rapid advances on our part that we find their dead unburied. We have captured several big Italian medical dumps. Our doctors found our surgical instruments far superior to the Italians’, but both the Germans and the Italians have bandages and compresses that are better than ours.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

BILL BOOK of the C. of C. and Virgil Sheppard, Fed Cross chapter executive director, have been exchanging boasts over their gardening prowess for some time. The other day, Bill decided to prove his boasts, 0 he loaded a basket with some fancy samples from his garden and took it to Virgil. The next day Virgil sent to Bill a basket containing wormy sweet corn, potatoes the size of a quarter, a dwarf variety of beans and other ignoble examples of his victory garden -and put a sign in the basket reading: “The awful truth.” , . . Governor Schricker accompanied Mrs. Schricker the other evening to HER victory garden which is in the vicinity of 37th and Clifton. While Mrs, : Schricker industriously hoed weeds, the governor stood around swapping yarns with the neighbors. When someone asked why he wasn’t help- @ his wife work, the governor remarked sagely: FE in the world better than having your vicgarden ‘in your wife's name.”

Never Is a Long Time

. WHEN IT PIRST was announced that women bus drivers were to be used, a certain Indianapolis wi nan swore she’d never ride with one, and she n't given up yet; although most everyone else now takes the feminine operators as a matter of course. This woman stands at, the corner of 11th and BelleX

Fai a male operator, she gets on the bus. If it's oman operator, she steps back and refuses to get The ‘men who ride the bus regularly watch for her each morning and snicker loudly when she refuses to get aboard. . Calleen Webb, the phone operator for the state r Shserviion department, is at home recuperating from an emergency appendectomy. . Thé telephone company has been having trouble with vandals recently. Soemone has been around stealing phone ‘books and those stiff-backed covers, which cost something like $2 each. In one of the : hoe at the traction terminal, someone x most

F lying Senators

ALGIERS, Aug. 17.—The visit of five American geilators to the North African theater, which ended yesterday when the five left for Cairo, met with a decidedly mixed reception from American soldiers in

lp 2 area. Senators Russell, Meade, Brew-

ster, Chandler and Lodge, accom-,

panied by two brigadier generals, paused a few days in North Africa. They wanted to see how the army, the navy, the air force and American civilian, diplomatic, economic and political agencies are functioning. Lodge was the only one to go to Sicily. Shortly after arrival in Algiers, the senators, at a press confer- ; ence, stated that they had been iE unfavorably impressed by the 4 t liberality with which gasoline is being used fv civilians. As a matter of fact, no gasoline is vailable for civilians. There is a black market in ga ite obviously. Some civilians are able to it there but they always risk arrest if Hiscovered.

“Two Planes Stand Idle for Days’

THE COMMENTS of our senators, which appeared in “Stars and Stripes,” American army newspaper, 8 certain amount of comment from the

hil congress is on vacation, and the armies go ‘without respite, these intrepid reprethrough the air with the greatest of

. That they should burn up tens of thousands

of the gas we have been told is precious the oil which is so needed, isn’t enough. No. se’s the time taken up of those who must stand t and hang on every one of their words, wo planes stand idle for days while they, in -filled od rooms, go_into huddles with themselves

aine at 5:45 mdst every morning, waiting forthe. ersville bus Wiieh thebus doors open, she looks in.

- white bread and cigarets now. I have.

of the brass screws: from the “hinges on the folding door. Militarily Speaking PVT. BILLY THOMSON, the hockey player, writes from Florida that he dropped into the service men’s pier—“one of the finest in Miami”—and noticed a plaque on the wall stating that “this recreation center was furnished largely through funds donated by the P. R. Mallory & Co., Inc., through their athletic association.” . . . Capt. Bill Engler writes home from England that he “went to London to see the sights and sure enough met one—Maj. Jack Harding.” . Pvt. Ham Welling (Times photographer) has been transferred from Keesler field to the army signal corps’ photographic school at Long Island City, N. Y. His wife has received word she’ll be called soon for WAVES officer’s ‘training and probably will be stationed at Hunter college, also at Long IslandCity. . . . Lt. Cmdr. John W. Ferree, on leave as state health board director, reported recently at Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, for eight weeks,

Cut Out the Noise

LESTER HUNT, assistant editor of the International Teamster, returned from a combined businesspleasure trip yesterday with two observations: (1) In Memphis there's an anti-noise ordinance that really works. Mr. Hunt, who was in Memphis visiting his son, Pfc. Sargent Hunt of the marines, said he stayed in a hotel in the heart of the business district and in three days heard only eight auto horns. The quiet hurt his eardrums. When he fold us about this, we went to the corner of Illinois and Washington and in ‘the first minute counted 21 auto

and trackless trolley blasts, (2) He added that getting good auto mileage is easy if you know how. En route from Memphis to Chattanooga, in rolling country, he averaged 27 miles to the gallon in his 1940 Packard 8. He did it by coasting down every hill. - Lester swears he coasted 119 out of 270 miles between the two cities. His youngest son, Harvison, 13, sat beside him with pencil and paper, checking the Sheedometer by tenths of a mile during the coas

By Helen Kirkpatrick

and with our officers, who must, out of courtesy, attend. : “Should men and cargo and mail for the guys who are fighting be left waiting on the field while these planes stand about? “One has a chance to see the war at first hand when he tried his isolationist best to make us unprepared for it. It's fortunate we have had a chance to tidy up the North African theater before they arrived. “Hangars are repaired, fields in good condition, docks repaired and 'b s rebuilt. We aren’t in shelter halves in the d now. Some of us have There are those who haven't. If the senators pretend that they know a damn bit more about anything when they return, they are off the beam. Meanwhile, they consume time and money which could certainly be put to more effect in the war.

They I'mpair Soldiers’ Morale

“THEY'VE DONE more tearing down of soldier morale in their grand manner than even they . . . realize. Realization may come when they listen to the 44 election returns.” Private T-5 is less explosive but asks “I being one of the local yokels they came to see, deign to ask a question: Why did the senate postpone the necessary measures for drafting fathers until after elections? This group of lawmakers have a debt of honor to pay ..+ » small as compared with what some boys paid at JSasseririe [pass and Hil 49 (in Tunisia) and in the And so on, The boys were perhaps struck, as were some of the press, by the fact that it took 22 staff officers and several planes, not to mention a nuinber of cars, to shepherd the five senators about. They may: have been even more impressed by the conclusions which the senators rather hastily drew from Se erticil siucy ot all Ws prosiema in Sis large

Bul’ sho Times and The

By Eleanor Roosevelt

NORWAY ROE |

Occupation: Authorities Resort to More Stern Measures.

LONDON, Aug. 17 (U. P.).—Norway and Denmark were reported today to have become trouble-mak-ing problem children for Nazi occupation authorities, who have resorted to stern measures in an effort

Norway was said to be under virtual martial law, with German authorities and their Quisling puppets trying to wipe out" patriot elements in advance of a allied invasion. Swedish reports state that the Germans had heavily reinforced frontier guards in a move to prevent Norwegians leaving the country. Norwegian quarters in London were confident that many army officers would escape from Norway despite the German order for their arrest and deportation to German prison camps.

Report General Strike

A Stockholm dispatch reported a general strike including public utilities and postal workers at Esjerg in western Denmark last week, protesting an 8 p. m. curfew imposed on restaurants, theaters. and business places. The curfew was said to have been applied after repeated clashes between Danish civilians and German soldiers. ‘The Germans lifted the curfew after the strike had been in progress four days and the workers returned to their jobs. Cement workers at Aalborg, Denmark, were said to have struck for three days because Danish Nazis were used as anti-sabotage guards in the plants. The guards finally were withdrawn after they had fired upon workers.

Expect Pope’s Message

Sabotage has been reported almost daily in Danish shipyards, including those at Helsingoer, Aalborg and Nakskov, according to word reaching Sweden. . A Berlin dispatch of the Scandinavian telegraph bureau reported that 26 German Catholic church officials were holding the annual bishops’ conference at Fulda today. It was believed that an important message from the Pope ‘would he delivered, for reading in all Catholic pulpits of Germany. (Speculation in Quebec, where President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were about to meet for their sixth war conference, suggested that an invasion of western Europe would be among the first tangible results of their meeting and Norway and France were likely places for attack.) Premier Vidkun Quisling proclaimed a new emergency law giving his personal storm troops organization virtually unlimited powers over Norwegian lives and property and creating special courts to deal: with all patriot activity, a Stockholm dispatch said.

* Police Chief Killed

The “special courts” were described as courfs-martial in fact if not in name. Gunnar Eilifsen, chief of the Oslo civil police department, was executed yesterday after being convicted by one of the new courts of “disloyalty to the occupation power.” No appeal is allowed from the decisions of the courts. Nazi occupation troops, Gestapo agents and the Quisling police were rounding up an estimated 1500 Norwegian army officers for removal to prisoner camps in Germany. Radio London suggested that the arrested officers would be held as hostages in case of an allied invasion.

LOCAL ‘MAN SENDS WORD BY CLAPPER

Times Special ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 Rays mond Clapper, Scripps-Howard columnist, returned from the European war theaters foday and| 83M brought greetings to the “home folks” from an Indianapolis officer. The officer is Maj. Homer J. Sandusky. Before the war Maj. Sandusky was employed by the New York Central railroad ‘in Indianapolis, Now he operates a broadgauge railroad for Uncle Sam at one of the mammoth supply bases in England. ve, "Maj. Sandusky told Mr. Clapper that he keeps posted on the home front because he “gets The Indian-

2,666,500 w NAVAL ' SERVICE, KNOX SAYS

Teprted

of Navy today that the naval serv- ; Marine SOIT Bd ons ha a total of 2

NAZI PROBLEMS

to keep those countries subjugated. |

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Fortresses Off t to , Bomb. Germany _ ou

Climbing. above: #5 tigicts blanket of cloils: this Bight of 0. Fiykug Fortsssses kts sn Tpromive picture of the U. S. 8th air force’s growing strength. Part of a five-squadron flight, the B-17’s are

pictured on their way to bomb Kiel and

1286 IN SERVICE MADE CITIZENS

Persons in in Armed Forces Naturalized Abroad in Unique Ceremonies.

—Hundreds of men and women in the armed forces today jold American citizenship after ique naturalization ceremoni board ship, in wind-swept Iceland and on the shores of the Mediterranean.

The justice department has just received an interim report from Henry B. Hazard, immigration and naturalization . service - official, who left continental United States last spring to - conduct - naturalization proceedings for members of . the

tions. : The only previous naturalization of military : personnel outside the country - was. conducted in the Caribbean area early this year:

Naturalizes 1286

At the time Hazard filed the report from a makeshift office on the shores of the : Mediterranean, he had naturalized 1286 non-citizens.

Enroute to Iceland, Hazard wrote, he naturalized 17 and in Iceland itself an additional 275. Hazard provided few breakdowns in his figures, but while in England he’ gave the oath of citizenship to’ 244 persons, including six army nurses, all second lieutenants. Those naturalized in England also included a number of soldiers removed from North Africa to recuperate from wounds suffered in the While at the Mediterranean base section, Hazard naturalized 750 persons; including one woman. Of the first 326 ‘naturalized, he reported,

axis or axis-controlled countries, . Headquarters at Canastel He had his headquarters at Canastel, ‘about’ seven miles from Oran.. At the time he filed his report he was preparing to proceed to Casablanca, Constantine and Mateur in Africa, and back sgain to London before . returning the United States. : Hazard described his Canastel headquarters thus: “I haye been pleasantly quartered in the Casino (a former well-known gambling resort) on a cliff . overlooking the Mediterranean. . have been furnished with an t out of doors consisting of a hospital tent, about 16, by 40 feet. During extremely hot weather this. tent has| was been : uncomfortably warm, and owing to the dusty 1 and con-

operation that I have “received; without exception, from the theater, er men in caring men” in out: his work. :

WASHINGTON, -Aug. 17. (U. PJ.|

armed forces at distant battle sta-| ' i jmore professor. of. economics, ‘was |

150, or 46 per-cent, were natives of |

and Wilhelm shaven.

Law Rules Out

Professors,

They Stay as Advisers

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY « Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—That

old Salvation Army slogan, “A man

may be down but he is never out,” was applied today to some of OPA’s

professors.

‘ Carrying out the letter of a law passed by congress, Chester Bowles, new OPA manager, shifted three profs from the price-policy field and

The three will remain with OPA as economic advisers, however. Mr. Bowles said some of his best friends were professors, or college presidents, and that he expected to appeal to congress to’ lift the ban. Dr. Donald H. Wallace, former Harvard and Williams college professor ‘who has been wiih the government since 1940, has been replaced as OPA deputy administrator in’ charge of prices by James F, Brownlee, former official of General Foods. Dr. Clair Wilcox, former Swarth-

moved out of his post as director

price division, and Dr.'R. B.-Hefle-bower; former dean of the college of commerce at ‘Washington State university, was relieved as director of the food prite division. -Mr. Bowles said the shift was made mandatory by. congress, and (added: “The formation and administration of wartime price regulation requires diverse skills. Congress has directedd that those in pélicymaking positions’ shall be skilled in business. We shall “scrupulously adhere to this’ requirement and to the expressed : wishes ‘of . congress. But the OPA canrot afford to lose the services of ‘these three able and practical . men. "We are ‘thérefare retaining them as economists to sid ‘Mr. » Brownlee and his businesstrained price division heads. “The authority ' to - direct price policy, however, will remain, in -accordance - with... the congressional

order, solely in: the hands of men|

experienced in business, industry and commerce.” Dr. Wallace succeeded in the top price post after Dr, J. Kenneth

Galbraith, ' former Harvard and}

Princeton * economies’ professor, resigned under fire. Testimony before congressional committees brought out that Dr, Galbraith: was co-author of a. book, “Competition and Business. Policy,” ‘which contended that brand names made for

brought * abotit the : ban on Dprofessors- came from businessmen who said that they would be invited to Washington to discuss price and | rationing problems and upon their| arrival ‘ here -the professor in charge would just give them his

answer to their problem and ‘that |

was that. Dr. Galbraith ‘is now with the and}

lend- lease ‘administration ‘shortly will go abroad for it. te terete. Se KENDALLVILLE, Aug. 17 (U. B).

~Lloyd B. Samford, 38, Waxahachie, Tex., was killed at. yesterday

work’ and|wiien 4 actor boom tell on Him}

A Vould" ve Gotten nO Anyway. Says lion oe a ved Pilot s Litel oT

Who.

replaced’ them with men of “business background.”

TOWN CONDUCTS GROP HARVEST

Fairmont, Minn., Minn. Turns Out En Masse to Gather

~~ Foods. 'PAIRMONT, Mion, Aug. 17 (U.

of the industrial manufacturing |P.).—This placid farm community

rose ‘hours earlier than usual today, each of its 7000 residents resolved to prove that Americans are made of the kind of stuff that won't let food

rot in the flelds for lack of labor.

The townspeople were mobilized in a community crop drive which war manpower officials hope can be used as a blueprint for similarly labordepleted areas. throughout the nation, It was “Sgt. Bill Anderson Day” and Mrs, Lottie Anderson, mother of the 21-year-old soldier ‘who died a hero in ‘the south Pacific, threw an electric switch that started : giant

conveyors. carrying sweet corn into

Fairmont's quick freezing .plant. Work With Precision

The suddenly ripened corn moved from soggy fields with traditional precision. There was no evidence of a labor shortage on the farm or in the plant which cans about 8,000,000 pounds of vegetables a year. - But the town’s normal activities were at a near standstill,

The “victory .crop drive” was the work of a citizens’ committee which, working with the WMC, signed nearly every physically’ able Fairmount resident © as a volunteer harvest hand or corn packer, When the cannery ‘opened this morning, . 1300 ‘persons—approxi-

.{ mately one from each Fairmont

family-~was assisting with the corn pack. Nearly 500 from neighboring towns were helping.

Bombs Fall on Nebraska Town

TARNOV, Neb., Aug. 11. (0. P). —Bombs ‘from’ an unidentified _atrplane fell on this village . of / 100 persons ‘early yesterday, but none exploded © Officials said: four bombs were dropped . and that one’ of them plowed through a house, landing

mediately

| plane trom which the horas ti. | y

| Luftwaffe - Like Assaults

Clearing Skies of Nazi Fighters. By HARRISON SALISBURY

attacks against Germany rapidly are taking on the character of the luftwaffe’s assaults in the battle of Britain in that the allies are attempting to clear the air of enemy fighters in order to open the way for unopposed day and night bombardments, ! ed . attacks are taking four 1 et assaults on centers of aircraft production, such as the July Flying Fortress raids on the Focke-Wulf plants and the Liber ator attack on the Weiner Neustadt

Messerschmitt assembly works in Austria.

Dispersal of German fighter strength by creation of aerial new fronts such as in south central Germany, :

Exhaustion of available Ger- . man fighter squadron personnel by repeated day @nd night operations similiar to ‘the attacks now going on against France.

Outright destruction of the luftwaffe fighter squadrons by Flying Fortresses and bombing and strafing attacks on airdromes. Not all strategists agree complete~ ly with Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham’s assertion that “the luftwaffe is knocked out, “but there is complete agreement by all air strategists that we now are witnessing the radical wearing down of the luftwaffe which is an essential preliminary to the bombing of Germany at will. Disperse Enemy Strength The major task which allied air forces now are engaged is to ¢ompel the Nazis to create a fighter front to defend Southwest Germany, Northern Italy, A Austria and the Baikans. Calculations of best informed air specialists indicate that Germany now is expending fighters at a rate which equals or exceeds production. There is not the slightest doubt in the minds of strategists that when and if ‘Germany is compelled to defend southern air frontiers on sopething . approaching. the scale now required’ ‘in © Northwest Germany, France and the low countries the strain will be stich that the weakened fighter squadrons will be systematically, blasted from the air. The pattern of what can be expected is seen in Coningham's statement that the Germans had between 250 and 300 fighter lanes in Sicily at the start . of cam~ paign, and lost all but 30. The major allied weapon for wearing down the Luftwaffe in the west is the Flying Fortress,

Other, Attacks Light

It is pointed out that fighter sorties from Britain and medium bomber attacks against France and the low countries seldom succeed

{in shooting down more than 2

handful of fighters due to Luftwaffe orders: not to engage such forces. - However, in Fortress raids, the Germans are faced with the alternative of devastating pin-point at-. tacks on valuable targets or sending up fighter squadrons in an effort to beat off the bombers. The unknown factor in the situation is the extent of German fighter losses on the Russian front. Soviet. communiques. suggest the Germans are losing aircraft at the rate of several hundred per week there, but do not break down. the losses between bombers and fighters. : However, it is generally believed the Russians now achieve local air superiority over fronts where an offensive is in progress. This is

{taken as evidence of the growing

weakness in the Luftwaffe.

‘PLAY DAY’ SET FOR GRADE YOUNGSTERS

grade school children J

White of the recreation department. ‘Teams from 10: playgrounds will play games on- the school 43 play-

grvmd, and other youngsters hin ; woodcraft, papercraft