Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1943 — Page 7
ROKE OREL LINE
if Basson Were Aware of German Plan to Attack: Kursk Salient and Let That Battle Start, Then Attacked and Pierced Their Defense.
By DAVID
I Copyneht, 1043; by The Indianapolis Times afd The Chicago Daily News, Ing.
WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE BRYANSK FRONT, -Aug, 12 (Delayed). ~—The mightiest artillery barrage in his-
Je
bf fire, lifted the curtain on the Orel offensive and operted the way for the advance of the Red army which is how nearing Karachey, threatening to close the narrow corridor
‘By a Thread
: Vietim of Rare Rare Disease i Appealing ng : to FDR . For Penicillin. ‘OMIOAGO, Aug. 17 (U. P)—
Twenty- yedr-old Marie Barker, |
her life hanging by a thread, ,J8y In & hospital bed today and Ate to hear from President
Roosevelt, ‘She has appealed to him to re-
lease enough penicillin, a new. Le, } more powerful than sulfa
" drugs, to treat hee for a dread The army controls the entire SpDIy of the drut. which Dr. N. _ # Pisher, her physician, believes MAY save her life, ‘Miss Barker has lain in | the pital for the last month, ill & rare disease talled staphyivcoccus hemolytious septicemia, brought on by endocarditis. The disease causes inflammation of the heart valves. Masses of this bacteria have broken loose . from the lining of Miss Barker's heart and invaded the blood-
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M. NICHOL
through which two German armies are Streaming west-
shell-scared
WRITER LAUDS |
MEDICAL CORPS
Man’s Humanity to Man Found in Midst of
Sicilian Conflict,
. (The skill and care given the wounded by medical orderlies at . field dressing stations is described by United Press War Correspondent Richard McMillan, who has been wounded in Sicily.)
By RICHARD McMILLAN Unitéd Press Stal? Correspon@iént
ABOARD A HOSPITAL PLANE, En route from Sicily to Africa, Aug. 15 (Delayed) U. P.) —Stretgher
bearers were tramping ‘into the Italian = schoolhouse with silent huddled shapes when I
ward.
e heard an account of this shattering blow over breakfast in the headquarters mess tent of one of the armies. operating in this sector. The story was told by Maj. Gen. Peter Petrovich Sabennikov, high com and ‘representative with i the forces that advanced from the East and captured Orel a week ago, in the severest reverse the ‘German arms have suffered during. any summer campaigh in this war, ! While we talked T fighter patrols Mr. Nichol qvone0q overhead, their noise interspérsed with frequent, heavier sounds as “Stormovik” squadrons roared on their deadly missions to the front, moving steadily to the west. From the camp, at night, could be seen the dim glow against the sky as the Germans set the torch to village after village as they re-
from the operating the school desks foom where three doctors an hour or two before had skinned me by opening my blistered face and hands and removing the loose skin.
awoke during niy first hight ih the field dressing station of the royal
Canadian army medical corps.
All night medical orderlies
watched over their charges who a few hours before had been husky hoys surging gaily to battle. woman could have wounded more gently.
No handled the
Fresh wounded came and went theater among n an adjoining
Injured in Accident I became a casualty on the
Sicilian front by accident. I had been lighting a fire in an abandoned gun site for a cup of tea. A bag of gunpowder lay in the embers. I’ felt rather than saw an arc of searing light ripple under my face and hands as the powder ignited. It was all over in a split second.
Then I joined the flow of broken
humanity passing from the battle zones to dressing stations, thence to base hospitals.
Soon I was seeing heroes of two
treated.
this base.
‘What is happening on this front can easily be imagined from the trail of destruction ‘and wreckage
through which wé passed to reach
textures—the men who fight and fall in battle and the men who with patience and gentleness succor them in their pain. I awoke after two hours from anesthetic in the battered school-
Mrs. Daisy E. Hunter of Beech . Grove will preside at the initial session of the 48th annual cohvention of the Daughters of America, Indiana state countil, to be held Aug. 25, 26 and 21, at the Lincoln hotel. Mrs. Hunter is state chairman.
TEACHERS COLLEGE TO OPEN SEPT. 13
Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 1 Indiana State Teachers college will
open its fall term Sept. 13. This will’
hark the last September opening for the duration. On Nov. 1 the college will change over to three terms a year. The new terms will commence Nov. 1, March 1 and July 1, to accommodate the navy V:12 program. The fall term this year will be shortened to fit the new schedule. It will extend through Oct. 23. The naval term will run concurrently with it. Under the new program students entering this fall may obtain full degrees in less than three years. The year-round schedule with classes six days a week makes this possible.
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ST BILLION aX1e seats FROTH| More hn 1 lion of asets of | under ooRIol o the Allen enemy and enemy-occupied nations|
WAACs fo o Stick : ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ‘North Afriea, Aug. 17. (U. P)— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower took time out from the Battle for Mes- | Sina yestérday to appeal to WAACE to “stick to their jobs” Dy suns in the women’s
: She rst o commander spoke to _members of the women’s auxiliary ‘here after stepping from a plane ‘which had brought him from a conference with senior commanders in the forward afea. Speaking of the choice offered the WAACs of enlisting in the WAC or returning home, the gen‘eral ‘sald: “1f a single one of you goes home it’s too many.” The WAAC will become the women’s army corps—a part of ‘the regular army—on Sept. 1.
WELFARE UNITS.
Teokemeyer Is Ghairthan of Legislative Committee Conducting Hearings. -
GARY, Ind, Aug. 17 (U. Pi=h Chairman-Earl B. Teckemeyer (R. Indianapolis) was expected ‘to arrive here today for the second. day of hearings By a legislative committee investigating county public welfare departments in Indiana. Two men. testified yesterday as four members of the seven-man committee opened héarings on the administrative phase of the Laké| county department, Both witnesses criticized the department, - M. W. Madden, - secretary-man-ager of the Gary and Lake county taxpayers’ associations, told the in-
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vestigators that administrative costs will fise $48,000 for the next year despite the fact that the case load has deelined and that $170,000 has been budget. He said that the admihistrative unit cost next year will be $46.78 compared to $22.59 in 1940.
Minister Testifies
Rev. William B. Clark of Gary testified that DPW workers are paid more than church workers doing the same kind of job, and also said that rehabilitation of welfare cases entirely neglects the spiritual phase ‘of the work. Senator Samuel Johnson (A. Anderson) presided yesterday in absence of Teckemeyer who was on vacation:
committee, appointed by the 1043 legislature to investigate and then report its findings to the 1945 general assembly, is probing only the administrative activities of the various county welfare departments and the state department. “We are not probing inte individual cases, ” he sald.
lopped from the over alll.
Johnson pointed out that the|terned By the military.
HAWAII COMMANDER BALKS MARSHALS
HONOLULU, Aug. 17 (U. P.).— U. 8. marshals weré under orders from Federal Judge Delbert E. Metzger today to make every effort to serve writs of habeas corpus on Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson Jr., military governor and Hawaiian commander, despite two rebuffs at the general's office. Deputy , Marshal George Bruns reported to the court that he was forcibly removed from the veranda in front of Richardson’s office yesterday when he triéd to serve him with the writs calling for the ap pearance of two Americans of German extraction who have been in-
CLAIM U. 8. SHIPS SUNK LONDON, Aug. 17 (U. P)—A Japanese communique broadcast by Tokyo radio said today that two allied cruisers, two destroyers and four transports were sunk and 28 planes shot down during attacks on
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house amid the powdery ruins. of Regalbutto. Near me was a fairhaired ,boy in a critical condition. They had just extracted a bullet from his abdomen, They fed him through a tube in the nose while
Savage Fighting
Fighting has been savage this summer — a viéious clash between two powerfully armed opponents who are giving nothing and asking
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FAMOUS DANSEUSE % TO WED BANDSMAN
7 ‘sAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 (U.P). Mayra’ Chaney, professional danoer. and friend of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, said today & she will marry
“tph1A drchestra leade , this week. Miss Chaney was appointed a eivilian defense recreation director more than a year ago but resigned llowing severe criticism of the ointment. Surkin said he and’ Miss Chaney Sf live in Hollyood, where his band
filling an engagement. * REPORT RAID DEATH OF ARGENTINE AID
BERN, Aug. 17 (U. P.) —The Ar--gentine legation at Bern yesterday announced that the chancellor of .the Argentine consulate general at Hamburg, Ugo Lenoir, and his wife, were’ killed during the last allied air raid on Hamburg, It was believed that Lenoir and his wife burned to death with 500 other persons when a heavy bomb hit an air raid shelter during the peak of the attack, the legation
{the Desna river, which: loops around
nothing. Lossés have been heavy oh both sides, but are telling particularly on the Germans. The Red ar is under no iliusions either about the cost of future operations. As the battle for Karachev develops™ in a great pincers move fiom north and’ south; it is expected there will be the most stubborn fighting until the last possible German forces can be ex-
Farther along —and the géneral talked with a quiet confidence—still another Nazi stand is expected at
Bryansk. If the Red army, still advances along the Dniepér river line, this stand .is expected to bé the toughest of them all.
‘Waited For Each Other
Rapidly sketching the background of the Orel battle, Sabennikov said that each side was waiting for the other to make the initial move this spring. German plans to atéack the Kursk salient were well known, he said. ‘The Red army had been prepared to meet this thrust since May. The heaviest German concentrations were in the vicinity of Kromy and east of this key point, The German attack on the north side of Kursk was launched .along the railroad in the direction of Malo-Archangelsk. By July 10 or 11, the main- German forces were fully engaged and it was this moement that the Red army chose for its own attack.
Barrage 20 Miles Long At 3 a. m., July 12, the barrage
it between my lips. the stomach wound moaned. Outside troops moved up for the final assault on Randazzo.
he hovered between life and death on’ a stretcher bed under a mosquito net. .
Other Casualties Beside him were two malaria
cases and a mortar victim. Another still was in a coma. Another was a German, wounded in the stomach.
Outsitle were the ruins, dirt, blood
and voice of war, but inside we felt tracted from this shrinking pocket. |infinite pedce and a tenderness born of oné of the few noble things which war brings out from its welter: of . chaos and death—man's humanity. te mem. 5,
As two orderlies képt vigil by the
youth with the tube if his nose and .the mea in a coms; a third whispered to me to while away the time because it was. evident that even with a morphia tablet I was unable to sleep. As he talked he tended to my wounds,
“We had some American cases
from a plane that crashed a few days ago,” she said. thing we could for them, but five of thein died. their suffering.”
“We did everyIt hurt us to watch ! War Gees On
He lit a cigaret for me and put The boy with
At my next stop, a British casu-
alty clearing station at Paterno, the wounded were flowing in from the line which was pushing around the north of Mt. Etna. A Scots lieuten-ant-colotiel dressed my wounds.
The operating teams worked un-
DOWN THE DRAIN...LET EVERY
SPOONFUL DRIP ON A NIP
A soldier is willing to fight for you as long as his ammunition holds out—as long as there's a bullet left in that gun! He's willing to die
for you, if that’s the job given him! to
) how does it make you
feel to know that he might ‘have had that “other Jap or Nazi if he'd had five more bullets to fight with . . . if YoU hadn’t poured that used fat or grease down your drain!
It takes so very little effort to de this small thing for the boys over there, to speed victory for your country! Just one lowly tablespoon of fat—waste fat, the kind
you used to throw away—will make five machine gun bullets for our men at the
front! It doesn't matter whether. it's pan drippings, the skimmings of seup, old
shortening or any other kind of used fat. Of course, before you turn them in to your butcher, your government wants you to use them—as long as you cen get any good out of them. But when that is dene, every spoonful, every single drop
«and not a single housewife has too littlemcis desperately needed.
It doesn't
fell. For about 20 miles along the Nagi front which had been under construction for almosi twp years,
der pressure, for they try to hold down the elapsed time from the moment a soldier is hit until he
matter what sort of can you save it in. They'll go to tin salvage anyway, when you take them to your butcher full of fat.
5 along the Oka and Zusha rivers
.| been used in the Nazis’ own Kursk
: launched twin blows aimed at Kara. {6hev, still further upsetting thé
) [sumably merge into a single “drive
lorel itself began on Aug. 1, along | east northeast about
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guns covered every poitit Yo the full depth of the main positions. Recalling Verdun, the general said thas there were then about 300 guns per mile of front. Sabennikov carefully distinguished between guns sid barrels because of the role played by multiple-bar-reled mortars in this fighting, but said. that in the most concéntrated sections “the niimber of barrels was 10 times greater than at Verdun. By Jilly 15, when the German lines
were broken in the vicinity of ‘Mtsensk, the Red army command detected sighs of uneasiness in Nazi troop dispositions, Sabennikov continued. Soviet fighters began to meet divisions which earlier had
offensive. i Twin Blows Launched. About July 20, Sghennikov said, they encountered an infantry divisip whieh previously was reported in France. At this point the Red army
Nagi plan and scatlering reserves ‘whieh Sabennikov said, had been
clumsily’ disposed. ] It 18 these-attacks which are now rearing their goal and will. pre-
on Bryansk. opetations for the capture of
thé Oputkha river line which angles 10 nitles dietant. ; NOTED LEGIONNAIRE DIES
: be held for Col. i i or | former
reachés the dressing station operated by these unsung heroes of the battlefield, who at the inferno’s edge save every life they can. .
MYSTERIOUS WOMAN SPY WORRIES NAZIS
LONDON; Aug. 17. (U. P)—A
mystery woman spy who operates a small radio transmitter in Denmark was reported today to be worrying German occupation authotities along with some 308 secret agents believed recently landed by parachute.
Reports from Deninark said the
Germans caught only two agents after police had found 400 parachutes scattered through the coun-.
try during the last several weeks. The woman was saif t6-have had
several narrow escapes. Once she slipped out of a worker's homeé with
het equipment, minutes before thé gestapo walked ih.
COVINGTON OFFICIAL
AND SON MURDERED]
BURLINGTON, Ky. Aug. 17 (U.
P.)i—Carl C. Kiger, 49, city com- |}
missioner and vice mayor of Cov=
ington, Ky., and his son, Jerry, 6 |}
were shot to death early ‘today as
they slept in their summer homé
near Florence and his wife, Mrs.
Jenny Kiger, 38, was wounded by
the unidentified assailant. Sheriff Jake Williams of Booné county reported that Kiger’s daughter, Joan, 16, aroused by the shots;
seised a pistol and fired at thé:
slayef, but apparently did not hit
That is every housewife's answer fo the enemies of het country — her responsibility not to pour it down the drain. This little verse might serve to remind you...
This little drop goes to Berlin, This little drop goes to Rome, ‘This little drop is for Tokyo, 80 our boys can come marching home,
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WITH OUR WASTE FATS
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