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| Vacation Days Are Over
His vecalion ed Ernie Pyle is preparing fo go over. seas again. Meantime, he | is writing several - columns about his experiences and impressions while at home. Today, in his first post-vaca: tion piece, he tells how hard it is to get back to writing, and how he feels about going back to the front.
VOLUME 54—NUMBER 209
rnie Is Back In
By ERNIE PYLE THEY SAY that when people lie in hospitals for two or three months they have to learn to: walk all-over again when they finally get out of bed. : That’s the way I feel about column-writing after being -
““away from it for nearly eight weeks.
should take a correspondence course in how to start the first sentence. Even more so, I feel how nice it would be. - never to write a column again at all.
It really is hard to start back to the old grind. hard to regiment yourself to daily, consecutive toil.
It's It’s
hard to force yourself away from hone, with all its close
ties and warm routines. Just sit forever.
But in these times a fellow can’t
© So there’ll be a few “home” columns, and then there may be some days’ lapse while this pale chronicler is again
being wafted across the oceans.
And then, if all goes well,
the old war celumns will start once more. t It is one of our popular heroic myths that anybody
1 feel as though 1
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1943
Tore his furlough is up.
_ dread it and I'm afraid of it. know millions of others who
can’t even get home. So here we go,
The decision, it's true, is
me to go back. Probably that’s the reason 1 feel so glum Going back is all my own fault.
about it. myself.
‘During my stay at home, I've met a good many ‘men back from overseas, men who had really been through the
mill,
1 could sense in them the beginning of restlessness. Some even admitted they would like to go back overseas.
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are reluctant too, and they my own. Nobody is forcing
I could kick
1g party leaders
.uQld, New | Hear Leaders
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, present at the opening of the eonvention to-
a ‘left to right) Claude A. Watson, Los Angeles; Edward E.
‘Blake, Chicago, and for the Dr.
Dr. D. Leigh Colvin, New York. presidential nomination, Mr. Blake is the national Colvin delivered the hymns address,
Mr. Watson is a
OME OF JOHN LEE
8 READY FOR JURY}
Defenise Denies Mansiaugh-
ter Charge Proved.
The manslaughter case of John
W. Lee, salesman whose ear killed ||
. three persons in a downtown traffic accident more than a year ago,
was to be given to a jury in Crim- EK “inal court ‘this afternbon. Na 4
accident, he had. knowledge that he Was subject to fainting seizures and should not have been driving. "Defense attorneys, Edwin Ryan and Robert Carrico, argued that the state failed to prove the manslaughter charge, contending that Lee could not be guilty of any crime
j Summitten while he was un-
second trial of the resulted in a deadlocked jury which failed to reach A verdict Jast February.
Gilman Is Given
- Manpower Post
NORMAN H. GILMAN, prominent engineering authority who pioneered in the design of the Allison airplane -engine, will serve as labor utilization consultant? for the Indianapolis manpower area, Wilfred Brad< shaw, ‘Indianapolis WMO director, announced today. Mr. Gilman's services were made available to the WMC by the Indianapolis emergency ; manpower comCio mittee. In reMr. Gilman cent years Mr. Gilman has been in retirement at his farm near Brownsburg except for several months when he assisted the Indianapolis war production board office. Details of the plan to solve the local manpower problem and get the ‘city out of thes critical labor area class will be explained at a meeting at 7:30 tonight at the Columbia club. Among the speakers will be Dr. Frank H, Sparks, Wabash college president, who “heads .the national WMO labor
utilization branch.
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
INCOMES ONE- FIFTH.
ILL WHISKY,
| | Tomlinson hall today. It is the first
delegates from 38 states were sched-
| #riday- morning at which the party
* |attorney, was believed to be . the
Sin 1936, Savnoted the. .conveniion -| today.
. else, » f members, is to build a party based): | {upon prohibition and related moral
{derworld, a party which will unite - the good citizens of the country, who {really constitute a majority, to over= | iecome the restored liquor power and| | govern our nation in righteousness.| "|. “To these high objectives I sum-
bition * party selected their full
“National Convention ‘Opes Here; Indiana Slate Is .
Completed.
nominating convention to be held by any party for the '44 election. Two hundred and seventy-five uled to. pe present at the balloting
will select its candidates. . Claude A. Watson, Los Angeles
most likely choice of ee convention
, D. Leigh Colvin, New york. the: party's presidential candidate
Orsroume Liaver Power”
in righteousness.” “What at needed above evec¥iing Dr. Colvin told the party
issues, a party not dependent upon the votes of the wets and the un-
mon you. - Our. cause is far greater than ever before. The liquor power is back worse than ever before,
‘Imperils Christianity’
“It is now imperiling our cotmtry, imperiling Christian civilization far Worse than ever before. It is a cause in which to rededicate, reconsecrate our lives.” Dr, Colvin asserted that the 1 Prohibition party is unmatched for its "devotion to principle and pointed out that it is the Jongest-lived political party in, tie country which has yet to be “elected “to power.’ ; He said that repeal was “imperiling the very life of the nation in the time of its greatest | danger,” Highlight of the day's sessions will _bé the national youth dinner rally tonight at the Y. 'M. C. A. ‘Robert - Gemmer, Indianapolis, reportedly is scheduled to be elected national chairman of this group. Mr. Gemmer now is chairman of the state’ Young Prohibition committee. Members of the Indiana Prohi=
ticket of state officers:at their convention yesterday at the Y. M. C. A.
The Rev. George G. Holston, Linn Grove, was nominatéd for sen-
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COLD ARMISTICE DAY IS PREDICTED HERE
No More. Snow Forecast;
Mercury Stays Low, LOCAL TEMPERATURES
$120,000 at 18
The Prohibition party opened its Wi {three-day national convention in
Of Hoosiers in Corps Luncheon Speech.
By HELEN RUEGAMER Brig. Gen. Robert L. Denig of the
* § /marines today sounded an ominous
Patrice Munsel, 18, who'll make her debut as a coloratura so- - prano at the Metropolitan Opera house this. season, has just signed
a contract her.-a minimum of $120,000 for concert |--appearances during. the. next: three years. A native of ‘Spokane, Wash., Patrice. at 14 sang for
-Viadimir Bakrieinikoff, Associate vanduflaf 41 of the Pittsburgh Symin he urged her to take voice 1 She came to New
ig i SEWAGE PLANT
‘Dismissed,’ Says Chemist; ‘He Resigned,’ Says Superintendent.
Another chapter in the-turbulent history of the city sanitation plant was written today with the dismissal or’resignation (or both) of Chief Chemist Clarence Scholl, one-time superintendent of the huge garbage
reduction and disposal system. - Mr. Scholl charged he had been
dismissed by Plant Superintendent |
W. H. Frazier at the behest of the same plant union members w succeeded in having him demoted to
“| chief ~ehemist following “a labor
farsup on Oct. 8.
Fragier reported that Mr. sehail had resigned;
Employees Walked Out
On Oct. 8 sanitation plant employees walked out. leaving the plant unattended for 19 hours, on the complaint that hiring and firing policies were being dictated to Mr. Scholl, then superintendent, by the ill-starred city hall patronage committee. ‘Now, the ‘deposed chief chemist contends, the situation is reversed. In a statement almed at the present sanitation plant supervision, he said that the plant is now being “run by labor leaders, with Superintendent Frazier serving as an intermediary between Mayor Tyndall and the union. “They've fired me,” Mr. Scholl asserted, “and it appears that brawn {has conquered over brain, I. was one of the few technically trained men yemaining & at the plant.” Mr, Scholl, who has been at the plant for five years, will be Ferdinand Ludzack, laboraJory supe Supervisor for the Bevesiaue per Co. :
anes ad 1,975,000.00
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date. ....
| warning to the sons of Nippon,
Speaking at the luncheon in ob-' servance of the 168th anniversary] of the marines; the director of public relations for the fighting Leath-
ernecks told the Japs that in the)
year to come, there. will be no letup by American troops.
Instead of the soft, flabby. weak §
lings which the Japs counted on.to
Jeause. our. downfall, they. will. ba. xen greeted by tough, -hardened men] § '
with “intestinal fortitude, capital G,” he said, Marines, thelr families nt friends, civic and business leaders
wit a
attending the luncheon at the Clay- | § hotel Dene. ste) PL
‘|heroic exploits in the a pug {all motivated by “grim determina- |.
tion spirit.” Four Times Larger
and indomitable Bin
The corps is four times larger
than it was in world war I and six-
and one-half times as strong as on
Dec. 7, 1041, the officer explained, with 400,000 men its goa! by Jan, 1.
“Our land fighters Iii the Pacific! od are prepared for the most rugged Bt
kind of jungle warfare” he stated.
“While allied fighters on other his i
are depending mostly on m anized . . . warfare, our men . . must count on individual action to defeat the Jap. Each one must be a modern counterpart of the Indian fighter, . He must learn to take to the jungle as if he had lived there all his life. He must be .able to fight.a battle all his own, without
"| help’from planes or artillery, or any’
weapons other than those he can
As typical of the heroism of In-
hol diana men, Gen, Denig told the
story of Pfc..John Rabinson of In-
dianapolis, Young Robinson was with |-
A marine raider battalion that spent 30 days ‘behind Jap lines in the jungle, destroying five enemy bases, killing 400 enemy troops, losing 17 meni. When a small patrol of raiders came upon a Jap camp which outnumbered them 10 to 1, the local marine leaped smack into the mid-
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‘100 BILL MACLEAN’ “REVEALS HIS THEORY
OTTAWA, Nov. 10 (U, P.).—~Harry F. MacLean, who handed $100 bills to patients.in a Toronto military hospital, tipped bellboys with $50 bills and wrote a $2000 check for a Halifax cab driver's baby son, said today that “if you want to get something out of life, you must put something in fit.” MacLean left for his Merrickville, Ont., home early today after disappointing some local citizens who recalled past occasions on which he had tossed bills and coins in the rotunda of the Chateau Laurier hotel and gleefully-watéhed the en-
suing scramble,
Drive Seeks $584, 921 More To AHain Goal of War Fund
was extended until tomorrow night, A report meeting will be held at
Gen. Deg Lauds Heroism.
1 slick 1943 model bootlegger deal-
Ertered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued dally except Sunday
arness He'll Soon Go To
who comes back from the combat zone begins to itch after a few weeks, and finally gets so homesick for the front. . he can hardly stand it. In the movies; he starts back be-
Pap. And also tish. I've never hated to-do anything i as badly in my life as 1 hate to go back to the front. I But what can a guy do? I |
Scofflaw
DOOM OF JAPS | ‘Scofflaw’ | ¢ SOUNDED HERE ONMARINE DAY, cies
Thai's*New ‘Prohibition’ Spirit of Whisky's
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov, 10.—A flourishing all - with a new
whisky is the tountry, and ing In"tax-paid bottled goods at premium prices, contributing to a new “scofflaw” spirit akin to that of prohibition days. | There are evidences that the racket is becoming well organized, especially in the East, in reports
Scripps-Howard newspapers which have made surveys in their territories, Criminal elements already have i. Appeared in. | gangs hijacking ~ ducks of Never. which - first be-
came prevalent
re
Armied guards are now traveling " with shipmerits. Big money is being waved under the noses of retail store operators
fast-expanding black - market - in | over |
‘to government agencies and from |
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Gen. Devers Says Allied Objective Is to Get Across Channel; Yank Commander ‘Impatient of Delays.’
BULLETIN LONDON, Nev, 10 Ue Ps )—The Berlin radio said today that the Germans are retreating along the arterial i gr west from Kiev to the "the first Nazi hint at the likelihdod of being thrown back across the Russian frontier. ~~
today that “our one objective is to get across this narrow strip of channel water, land on the continent, and. do 50 a8
| quickly as possible.”
Devers, speaking at an Anglo-American Press associa-
and others who have stocks of liquor. More than a fourth of the. 389 retail dealers in this city, for example, have received offers from mysterious sources. The same is reported elsewhere, :
. ALSO REPORTED, from various points, are offers to sell in quite large amounts to dispensing establishments, which indicates ‘that somebody is getting hold of lots of liquor. Very widespread also, is a business done on a smaller scale by
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NAVY REVEALS LOSS
Hoosier Corimanits Saved in U-Boat Battle.
WASHINGTON, Nov, 10 (U.P). The navy department today announced the loss of three destroyers, two of them in the South Pacific and the third after a dramaladen Atlantic battle in which we jssnk two U-boats. - The following vessels, which nor-
men each, were lost: : The 1500-toh destroyer Henley, sunk in the South Pacific during October “as the result of a torpedo explosion.” : Hoosier in Command The 2100-ton Chevalier, severely damaged by the Japanese on the night of Oct. 6 off Vella Lavella in the Solomons, collided with. another destroyer, broke in two and sank. The 1190-ton Borie, an old world war four -stacker, received mortal wounds as the result of ramming and sinking a German submarine, and finally had to be sunk by American carrier bombing planes. Commanders of all three craft were rescued, » They are Omdr, Carlton R. Adams, Wilmington, N,| C. of the Henley; Lt. Omdr, Sedge R. Wilson, Long Beach, Cal, of the Chevalier, and Lt, Charles H. Hutchins, Terre Haute, Ind. of the Borie. Wilson was wounded.
27 of Crew Saved
_ OF 3 DESTROYERS|
mally earry between 175 and 200 | «
0 ont lliec = mm pron uncements’ on the allied] amt ne or =m tou " intentions regarding a second and properly.” i front in western Furope. | Meanwhile he hinted at's belief ~“Ttie- second front “will be opened hi the Butopesn var siveady 4 . moving tos.ard a crucial phase, dearo Hl ATO Srl of eh that “I doubt very much nel-waler whether anyone is go the moment, Devers made plain; adding har y going to slop that he himself was as impatient; continued Russian ad al of delays as anyone else. |the pace the Russian army has t
“I dislike delays,” he said, “but| maintaining would carry switly 10 it takes time and careful planning
Russ Drive 10 Miles a Day" Toward Rumania; Polnd 5
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was reported closing in at a Zhtomir ahd Vinnitsa, Ukrainian anchor. bases ‘of the undermined German defenses before Poland and Rumania; ; : Sovtheastward 500 miles other Russian forces clamped 8 pincers.
tipping the eastern Crimea, and the ‘collapse of German resistance ap-
pearedetiont. [troops were trapped under crushing
Front dispatche Iso - reported {AMALIE -f } 8a - (The German in. Transocean: news flerce fighting in the Perekop|
isthmus Tejon of the Crimea, where! (Continued on Page $=~Column 1) " . » ” » Ll
Sth Ary Smashes German
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By HARRISON 8 SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov, 10.—-American and Brit. ish troops fighting in seas of mud t have smashed nine German counter attacks, inflicting heavy casualties|at least on enemy ranks, it was announced today as a growing battle raged on the "Nazi line designed to stop the allied march toward Rome, Blasting back every. enemy tank and infantry lunge as rainstorms swept the sodden western Italy battle area. 1 Sen. Mark w.
Yank Marines Land Tanks
LONDON, Nov. 10 (. Py. Lt, Gen. Jacob L. i y 1 eottimander-of AmePican forces in hie European theater, said:
Counter-Attacks in aly |
Sin
| tion luncheon, made one of the war's most forthright official
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MOSCOW, Nov. 10 (U. P.)—Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's Hop 3 army 10-mile-a-day pace today against Korosten,
against Kerch from bridgeheads on either slde of the ancient town a | scores of thousands of German
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6 p. m. at the Claypool hotel. An outstanding employee 'group gift—$12,000 from workers at the Bridgeport Brass ordnance department~was reported through the industrial division of the {drive yest terday.
The navy did not reveal any casualty details’ extept to say that all! but 27 of the Borle's crew were saved. : The Borie wan part of an. AUNLE
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HIGHER, JONE JONES SAYS
A 131 Movies 31 i September. - Total Total Passes ior the: Hoosler ‘capital i} 12 and One-Half Billions. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 . PJ. September _ income payments to individuals—the distributed | , nd, No. 10 (U. P)~|
GEOR RY
Against Japs on Bougainy lle
ALLIED HEADQUARTER Southwest Pacifie, Nov. 10 (U, P.).|: | —U. 8. marines have thrown. on, At into a raging battle against apace : ese. farste landed in 4
least 1
phase after
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