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Ernie Pyle, The Times’ famous columnist, came home today. Here's how he looked to the candid cameraman. -

WARING RAPS NEW DEALERS Urges Return of US,

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Looks F orward to ‘Puttering’ He Says in Chat at The Times

_By LOWELL NUSSBAUM Ernie Pyle, the old Hoosier Vagabond, came home from the wars today—to rest, He looks pretty good, says he feels good, too, except for being tired. And well he might after gallivanting around in jeeps and planes and rubbing elbows with front line troops the last 18 months or so.

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Indianapolis.

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W next door neighbors got together today. was only natural that the person to interview Ernie Pyle, the Hoosier Vagabond, should be “Old Inside’ —or Lowell B. Nussbaum, conductor of Inside Ernie's column, directly over Lowell's column daily in The Indianapolis

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And after that he's going to hop a T. W. A plane and head for "home at Albuquerque to greet his wife and just REST for a month.

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Albuquerque, to head straight for » modest little ranch-type home

he built there a few years ago as a place to call home. There, “he's- going to “just sit and puttéer around for a month.” For months he's been homesick for a sight of it. He carries a tiny picture’ of it in his wallet Also some other pictures, including one of his dog, Cheetah, a Shetland sheep dog. The picture of the house shows

the" picket fence Ernie built =a

couple of years ago. It's on the edge of Albuquerque and has the sagebrush of the desert for a front. yard. “We can sit in the front room (he pointed to it on the picture) (Continued on Page Two)

TANDLEY'S RETURN

IS EXPECTED SOON

Ambassador to Soviet Union to Make Report.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 18 (U. P). —Admiral William H. Standley, U.

i-|8. ambassador to the Soviet Union

and ‘proponent of post-war collabo-

Russia, will return to Washington sobn for consultations, the state

d| department announced today.

The state department said the 70-year-old former chief of naval

operations was coming home for | Frankie consultation in connection cussions among the

“At 230 Local Time. ne STDO; Sek 18 (U. P).~The Fascist

BULLETIN

Raymond st. and Keystone ave. Five persons in the passenger car were hurt, two of them seri_dusly, and an unestimated number of passengers on the bus were reported.

6-POUND DAUGHTER BORN TO SINKWICHS

DETROIT, Sept. 18 (U, P)—~ Frankie Sinkwich, Georgia's. allAmerican now playing with the Detroit Lions, is the father of a 6pound, 14-ounce baby girl, born to

BAN ON RECORDINGS IS ENDED BY UNION

Petrillo Signs a Contract After Long Fight.

CHICAGO, Sept. 18 (U. P)~— The American Federation of Musicilans ended a 13-month ban on

vs-| the. making. of. transcriptions. today.

by signing a contract with the Decca Recording Co. and the World Broadcasting system. “Petrillo ordered the ban on recordings effective Aug. 1, 1942 on the ground that the making of records had caused widespread unemployment ‘among musicians. The A. F. M: executive board said that displacement of musicians by “canned” music “would destroy the incentive for the study of music and eventually would destroy the entire music industry and music culture.” :

ARMY ‘ALOHA’ BRINGS RICHLAND CENTER, Wis., Sept.

18 (U. P.)~Francis Spangler, 18, entered the army with a bang yes-

Truck Carrying

NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 18 (U.P) Eyewitnoss reports said today that an explosion which killed 24 persons and injured 350 others at the naval

Explosives

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in. answer to an alarm, stepped from|

his truck just as the bombs il: Ba. wag kid. Ths. Jan own life by throwing

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PLAN- SERVICE BY HELICOPTER

City Railways Petitions’ CAB for Post-War

Transport Here.

Indianapolis Railways today filed a request with the civil aeronautics board in Washington to furnish Indianapolis and surrounding terri. tory with helicopter service after the war. : Although numerous petitions have been filed with the C. A. B, it Is believed that this is the first time a city streetcar and bus company has sought to extend its service to the air. No definite routes were proposed but it is expected the first line would link Indianapolis Munic+ ipal airport and the city, i The helicopter terminal would be at the present bus terminal at Iliinois and Market sts. Sikorsky “Enthusiastic” - Harry Reid, president of Indian~ apolis - Railways, who visited Igor Sikorsky in Bridgeport, Conn. recently sald the famous helicopter designer was enthusiastic about the proposed. set-up in Indianapolis, be cause the terminus would be in the heart of the city and the maintenance plant at the transit firm's shops at 1150 W. Washington st. would not be too far away. Col. Roscoe Turner, head of the Turner Aeronautical Corp., is serv(Continued on Page Two)

Change Insignia On U. S. Planes

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U. P.) ~The war department has announced that the red border in“closing” the “Insignia for all U.S: militery planes is being replaced by a blue border. It was explained that the red border, caught at a flash in air action, sometimes resembled the Japanese insignia. Several months ago a new type of insignia was adopted for U. 8. planes. It consisted of the white star fh a circular field of blue, with a white rectangle attached horizontally at the right and left of the circle. Now a blue border incloses the entire device.

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‘ABANDONED’ INFANT “CASE NEAR CLIMAX

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| Telegram Received Here

Field Tragedy.

sight others, including four Indi-| anapolis men, were injured after] a twin-engined navigation training | plane crashed against a hangar at

“The dead are: SECOND LT. EDWARD PF. McGEE, 23, .pilot, son of Mrs Dove Smith of Elkhart. SECOND LT. KENNETH R. GARY, 26, navigation Instructor, son of Mrs. Gladys Redmon Al Tima, QO The Indianapolis men are:

MAJ. MAXWELL 8. MacCOL- | LUM, 5307 N. Illinois st., adjutant at the Stout field air base,

LT. ROBERT 8. LANE, 1402 N, Alabama st., staff officer, CALVIN L. TAYLOR, 4047 W, Morris st, civilian engineer equipment _stockkeeper at Stout field. | LUTHER A, GREGORY, 1021 |

8. Delaware st, truck driver. SGT. DOMINIC A. DEMAT-"|

THEIS of Brooklyn, N. Y. sta tioned at Stout field, and three aviation cadets from San Marcos field, crew members of the plane, also were injured. . - The cadets who were seriously burned are Joseph R. Duane, 24, of East Orange, N. J; John R Dorger, = 19, Cincihnatl, - O, * and’ Rodney. W. Derby, 22, of Dallas, Tex. ‘ Seeing the crash of the plane, Maj. MacOollum ran to extricate the dead and injured and was believed to have been inside the plane when it exploded. He is said to be in" a very serious condition: Wing Scraped Auto AS the plane came in from the West, it appeared to be in trouble and its. landing gear was not low. ered, witnesses sald. It skirted across the field toward the hangar on the east edge of the field and then, according to witnesses, the pilot tried to lift the nose of the to gain elevation altitude after missing the runway. Then a wing scraped an automobile parked near the hangar, struck a soft drink company’s truck and hurtled against the hangar in which oil and other inflammable material is. stored... Within a few seconds “the “fuel tanks of the plane exploded and the plane. and hangar were in flames. One crew. member, still strapped to a plane seat, was hurled from the wreckage, his clothing on fire. Several. Stout field soldiers were burned trying to rescue the fliers from the flames, The hangar was destroyed at a

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Two army pilots. were killed and

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Risked His Life

PTURE ISLES NEAR NAPLES;

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) Maj. Maswell Ss. MacCollum .'s _ valor on the home home front,

‘ON WAY BACK

Fleeing Into Allied

Mountain Trap. (Map on Page Three)

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Sept. 18 (U, P). —Allled capture of bomb-wrecked Lae, Guinea base, was announced in a communique today and Gen, Doug:

a stride toward his avowed goal reconquest of the Philippines. “With God's help,” Gen. MacAr~! thur said, “we are making our way Lae fell Thursday to American and Australian troops who set siege lines around it in amphibious and aerial operations starting 12 days before. Its beaten garrison fled for the hills without hope of

escape. . The triumph, rolling the Japanese from nearly 50 miles of the New Guinea coast, came as a burst of aerial activity in the Solomons signified a bitter—and possibly cli-mactie-—~struggle for control of the air lines in that area.

‘Serious Blow’

MacArthur sald the victory at Lae. “in the face of superior forces available to the enemy” was a serious blow to Japanese hopes of retaining their weakening hold on the outer lines of bases north of Australia.

His brief statement, made from New. Cuinew field ~ headquarters, gave no hint whether the next phase of the offensive would continue westward along the coastline {Continued on Page Two)

VAN ZANDT TO RESIGN WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U. P.). —Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R. Pa), serving his third term as a nounced he will resign effective] Sept. 24 to enter the navy as a lieutenant . commander for active

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Force Germans From

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By RICHARD D, M'MILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Sept. 18,—Allied armed forces have seized three more islands—one with in’ mobile artillery range of —| Naples—off the west coast of Italy, while the 5th army has captured the village of Rocca

y rdaspied-in-a-drive-deeper-ins-injured | M ARTHUR SAYS ian with support of airplanes

based inside the expanding

Salerno bridgehead. The Italian island of Procide, two miles long and 12 miles southwest of Naples, was occupied by the ale lles and later the larger island of Ischia, 18 miles southwest of Naples, surrendered its garrison and was occupied. It vontrols the north end” of the Gulf of Naples and the ses

of Naples, also was seized. Retreat 13 Miles The Sth army, which now has pushed about 13 miles inland on the Salerno front and. still -is pushing the retiring enemy, was given the ‘benefit of aerial cover from fields, Mcluding Montecorvino, within the Salerno sector and no longer had to depend on fighter support from aircraft carriers.

the allies had dumped 7000 tons of bombs in support of military operations in the first 11 the Salerno invasion, average of more than sorties a day to provide support for such an opera 56 occasions allied bombers out attacks in direct air su of the invading troops, once ping almost 400 tons of bombs on Nazi headquarters - at Other raids were on communica« tions, air fields, railroads and

bridges.) Bases to Aid Clark

The capture of the islands off Naples was one of the most ‘signifi« cant developments disclosed in toe day's official statements because they will provide

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