Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1943 — Page 20
After Reaching U. §
On ; When the custodian of the city | Gripsholm. . coliseum asked Reichert foday to | With the nightmares of life In find » place to keep six tigers Japanese detention camps behind stranded when their trainer can- them, a representative of Ei Hi} 1 celed his bookings for the next l& Co. 4 missionary from Franklin| Jew the yor replied: land a college professor of Marion| §
“Use your own judgment. You |= 8 : h Sin them. here but in |foday were close to “realizing their] "= ae _y [aréams of a return to Indiana,
"ie tgers are still in the coli On his way to Indianapolis from seam. 3 [New York, where the Swedish expp ’ change liner,” Gripsholm, docked | | | Wetinesday - with 1223 repatriated
Attack—with WAR BONDS! ] Americans, was T. H. Eckerson,
118 manager of the Lilly branch office
N SATURDAY 3 1:30 P. M. | J Olea, is college inl &
11010, Miss Symatinn. Alien, mis. | aw" cscs; sine ad |slonary teac to renew Maj, Gen: L. 5. Hobbs (right), commanding general of the 30th | acquaintances in Prankiin, and Prof.| yneonery’ division at Camp Atterbury, congratulates Col, Richard W. Charles E. DeVol will return to Mar- Stephens on his recent promotion. jon where his wife is dean of women at Marion college. Col. Richard W. Stephens, chief Gen. L. 8S. Hobbs, division coms
Loses 30 Pounds of staff of the 30th infantry ¢i- mander, in
Permitted to roam Shanghai i» [vision “at Camp Atterbury, has ‘spent three years as second lieuthe start of the war, Mr. Eckerson| been promoted from the rank of tenant with the 7th infantry at as interned with 1000 other men| lieutenant colonel: Vancouver barracks and the: folin an abandoned cigaret factory in| = Joining the 30th division in lowing three years in Schofield February, Although he lost’ 30| June, : 1942, Col. Stephens was barpacks, Hawali, with the 19th poufids, he insists vitamin pills pre! assigned as division operations infantry. vented his losing his health. | and training officer and later He attended the Stanisy chou After spending 13 years in the| was made regimental commander at Ft. Benning, Ga, and the 4g | Enilippimes and four years in China| of the 119th infantry, He was command and general staff 4 ss an American business Tepiesy appointed chief of staff by Ma). school at Pt. Leavenworth, Kas, g |sentative, Mr. -Eckerson hates the gE ee bem {Japs but explains that the scanty! aes 12 a 10. tos spr 2 What Army Won't Do to Get
Japanese-held territory and because
‘the Japs are accustomed to a diet , ithat is far below the normal Ameri-| 42 Years of Service to Men and Young dah Mes: 45 nowcwpent and viel Soldie er New Pail r of Socks!
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Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity! |" Concerning the war Mr. Eckerson| NAPLES, Dec. 3 (U. P).—What quartermaster called on the en-|
't do to get a gineers who provided power for an|
{stated that the Japs believe they! the U, 8. army won a p y y | jalan saddle factory. Canvas was|
will win the war—they never learn 1 fof a defeat, y [Ee 8 new pair of socks! ound in an abandoned German
| “Their principal diet is the propa-| The boys up in, the mouniains, aim, Native woods formed) ganda fed to them,” he said. “The above Naples are wearing them out{the frame and the Italian army
war party controls the people’s|so fast fhe replacements are flown furnished webbing. Within a week (thoughts, the politics, the military here from North Africa and lugged|the factory was turning out back {and the press.” forward, where vehicles won't go, by boards identical with those . ple-| ! , “7 Tmules and ‘manpower. Lt. Gen. I in the manual sad the move-| Wins Japs Respect |Mark Clark's sloggers go through a ment of supplies up the narrow) " Miss Allen, who has spent 28! pair of-heavy duty socks in a week,| mountain trails to the front was ac-| {years in Japan as a Baptist mis-| compared with a mileage of a celerated. |sionary, was the only American in | month or better back in Tunisia. Then the supply of pack animals a town of 9000 where she conducted That's just an example of how the | became a headache. Some animals "a kindergarten for Japanese chfl- quartermaster corps fights winter had been hidden from the Germans, . | dren. She speaks ‘the language nd terrain to keep the troops.sup-/but by the time the Americans got {fluently and evidently endeared her- plied in Italy. around many of them "had been @ sere to the Japanese as shown by| Quartermaster manuals showed a eaten, Fifty American and Italian the respectful treatment she re- standard army pack board which|soldiers in teams of two and three & ceived. | was supposed to enable an average|to a jeep toured the countryside @| After war ‘was declared the husky G. I. to lug 150 poundsibuying the survivors for $150 each. \town's chief of police informed her Strapped to his back but when te] More pack animals were needed, {she was to be’ interned, but ex-| quartermaster started looking for 50 a call was sent to Sardinia, Sicily, plained she retained .the respect of Some there wasn't one to be had in! Egypt, Iran and Irak. One day a | the entire town. She believes she Italy. {Higgins landing boat, rushed over ‘was taken into custody because the Sturdy peasant women carried! from Capri, surged on to the beach rdaps-wishéd to protect hier. - Means+ tremendous loads up to the front onland dropped its ramp... Onlookers | "while “three of her missionary | their “heads in ‘traditional fashion [expected ail po of “assault friends are still living practically but that was only a stop gap. The’ troops. | Rormal Hves in their Tokyo homes. | | Miss Allen recounted an experi- | ence on a streetcar when she was] § ; A | permhitted to visit the dentist. The "= Open Every Night 'Til 8 o’Clock—Sat 'Til n {Japanese showed no hostility and | ’ . one gave her his seat on the I ley, she explained.
Her Mother Dies k Women's
| "Miss Allen will stay at the Hotel! Rayon Grepe | Prince George in New York for a PAJAMAS : { while and then return to Franklin. Lace trim. Tearose o—6 Av | Her mother, Mrs. H. G. McCaslin, and vlc. $2.95 Dept. Stor and 19 N. ¢ apitel _— |died while the Gripsholm was en | | | route home and she was met by her | | sister, Mrs. W. W. Bartlett of Wes- | LEATHER =p terville, O, and formerly of Frank-! lin. SUEDE | Prof. DeVol was in a prison camp! 7 COATS within sight of the Shanghai hara rp bor.“ He told how the créw of an i Italian luxury liner flooded the ship sges {inthe harbor to keep it from Jap hands after the Italians surrendered {to the allies. He repeated the remark a | Chinese made to him concerning the | Jap treatment of Chinese civilians: |
.|8! “The Japs treat you Americans like enemies, but treat Chinese like ani-
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