Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1944 — Page 9

was electric. As old “Tl get a decision on this. I promise that by Don’t get up too much hope. You might be sent your outfits instead of going home. But at That was all the boys wanted. They had got to in ~ got home or not. ‘All they wanted was for spmebody ez i 3. Jak ne to recognize that they existed. those famous army dead-end Frantic to Get Unlost - |Guerrillas been “frozen.” details are i g z : J It was just one of those things. But to rush out he said to me, “come jump in my car : . officially lost. and I'll take you back to your hotel” But as we German Lines men out at the camp. As I say, I had Giers all over the lobby were getting up and sTiNg| 1oNpoN, May 8 (U. P)—An of them in Italy—Master Sgt. James to move tentatively toward us. colonel | gtimated 12,000,000 guerrilla paOklahoma, and Pvt. Gerald Stillwell of Td stay at the club awhile. triots stand poised to spring into veteran There were more than 100 of them, mostly from this |, coo. ¢t; the Balkans when the : ~ : ’ * gang of lost men out at the transient camp. I didn’t| 01" yo flashed that the allies] ork, he is “Colonel Was Furious Koow tteta but dey kiiow sme, {rots Tunisia and Sielly have landed on the western shores| Hotk lui . NOW IT HAPPENED that in Casablanca I had They surged around and talked and tried to tell|GL BOP HHA sovrees SS Bo mittee. some old-time friends who were pretty high-ranking me how desperate they had become. They |" These civilians have been mobilthey were frantic to get unlost and get to doing |; ¢h. hands of patriot leaders .M.C. A, the story. He was a full colonel, and when he something in the war again, even if it meant going mbly, and the story he was furious. He asked me if T pack to the front at once. fully In 47. It Was repored FO gould bring my soldier friends and meet him at the Finally we were through and I said goodby and The guerrilla forces will harass

ECUTIVE 1

. (By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance) | WASHINGTON, May 8~War department officials, (shown the above Ernie Pyle dispatch, sald today that ghey believed most of the men “stuck” at Casablanca spvere caught by the army erder of March 17 “freez-

at the : trainees overseas who had left 1 ridian and Vere FE yet - 4 Two weeks later the department ordered the n will lead the _#frogen” men reassigned in the theaters from which Tosa | ‘Shey had been scheduled to depart for air training. nging with Gen. H. H. Arnold, chiet of the army air forces, By os #n announcing that the air forces training program Mirman will pred

PAUL B. STURM, agricultural counsel for the Indiana Chain Store Council, happens to be a cousin of Ernie Pyle and lives across the road from the Pyle farm near Dana. The other day, shortly after it was announced that Ernie had won the Pulitzer award -

distinguished correspondence in 1943, Paul stopped at the Pyle residence and chatted a while with

The Lady Members

NOW THAT the armed forces have begun releasing

. They're eligible, all right, and . some of them are exercising their prerogative by Joining. A discharged WAVE became a member of Bruce-Robison post just the other day. But the presence of the ladies tends to put a damper on the meetings—makes the boys a bit self-conscious about their language and even interferes with their reminiscing. And how will they manage to have stag parties? And then, of course, there is the problem of the jealous wife. Conceivably, a post with a sizable

Uncle Fix-It

WASHINGTON, May 8.—A Catholic group eriti¢izes Secretary Hull for giving a passport to a PolishAmerican priest invited to Russia. A Jewish congressman demands that the Polish government-in-exile remove Polish army officers who court-martialed be Jewish soldiers. A Polish-Ameri-can demands that the United States guarantee the pre-war Polish eastern border. A proRussian American group insists that the United States support Stalin's policy in Poland as the British government is doing. Yugoslav-American citizens are divided. One group supports King Peter, and blames Washington for sending supplies to the Com-

Nationalities Split

ITALIAN-AMERICANS are split several ways, each

prevent Nazi espionage. But some Irish-Americans __ think. our government should break relations with Eire unless De Valera is more co-operative. Jewish-

| o'clock, Capt. Giles G. Stedman called for me and

‘Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

NEW YORK, Sunday-—Saturday morning at 10

we went to visit the United States Merchant Marine

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forces were ini of his “full knowledge supplies have been pouring for of the disappointments” this would bring to personnel many weeks into underground of the ground and service forces volunteering for caverns. air training, and expressed his “heartfelt apprecia-| “Quantities of arms have been tion for their profferred services.” sent in by parachute and even Sgt. Knight and Pvt. Stillwell, mentioned by Mr.|planes have landed, bringing in have now been restored to their original units, officers and agents and taking out department said. .It added that Stillwell others,” one underground -spokesship {man reported. “I've seen a plane men {land by moonlight with half a vilder ordersilage, including the mayor, on hand. Next morning, a German

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operetta is the fighter pictured above, but one of the leaders of Gen. Mikhailovitch’s guerrillas, who are battling German invaders of their country. He is Capt. Danilo Solotitch, staff chief in Bosnia“¥nd Herzegovina.

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No character in a Graustarkian

Yugoslav

patrol came on a tip—but got no satisfaction.” Allied sources emphasized that the units which make up the heterogenous guerrilla force necessarily are female contingent might have a falling off in male | scattered throughout every district attendance at meetings. We can just imagine the of Europe. Nowhere, they stressed, scene in some Legionnaire's home when his wife will underground detachments be catches him sprucing up to go to Legion meeting. | large enough or equipped with No more Legion meetings for him! Just for the heavy enough arms to take the field sake of the record, some nurses from world war I beside the invading armies. have been members of the Legion Joe, years, but they Demoralizing Force are relatively small in numbers and, for the most| mp. task of guerrillas part, haven't bothered to attend meetings. to strike the Met in 5 wil be

] b from directi 2 Insulting Us Hoosters! areas every on at once

tying up as many as possible of the BILL CRABB, who used to work here on The

divisions desperately needed by HitTimes, but recently went with the Southwestern Bell ler. The effect of this revolt of

the resurrected is expected to be devastating, if not decisive, upon the morale of the Germans, according to authoritative allied sources. Spearheading the revolt will be an estimated 500,000 organized been confined thus far to writing Patios eT nd igs aia slogans as: “Beat your grandmother, but don’t| yy yo tris nucleus that has been five minutes on long distance.” . , . Our supplied guns, grenades and amidea of wasted publicity matter is exemplified by 8). nition by the allies. Vichy rephotograph and news story received here from an|..ntjv proadcast that Russian parainsurance company in New York. The picture shows troops had landed in French mouna man and woman, employees of the company, “en|tajnous areas to organize guerrilla route to make their 10th and ninth blood donations, | resistance. respectively.” And they expect us to print that! Why,| In these mountainous areas the we have more than 700 Gallon club members here, | resistance movement in France is with lots of donors having given nine, 10, 11 and!centered. Here thousands of young even 12 pints. Looks like the old home town must|prenchmen—estimated at 150,000— be ahead of New York, if they consider that news| have taken the name of the Corsithere. . . . Cpl. Robert F. Krueger, Ft. Bragg, N. C. |can bush fighters, Maquis, and made a home towner, writes fo ask why “everyone gets{the name a terror for the Germans a write up in the papers about donating their blood and Joseph Darnand’s Vichy to the Red Cross and we G. I. Joes never get any|security police. credit when we do?” Such an oversight, Cpl. Krueger,! For more than four months this is purely coincidental and unintentional. And besides, | underground army has engaged in there really have been some stories in the papers here | virtual warfare with the German about the boys at Stout field and Ft, Harrison donat- | conquerors; pinning down Nazi diing to the blood bank. Anyway, we'll try to do better | visions badly needed in Russia and in the future. Italy. Now organization for D-day has been perfected and the men are ready for their assignments. “They are,” one spokesman has said, “the finest army France has ever known.”

SCHOLARSHIP FUND SKATING PARTY SET

The fourth annual skating party of the Associated Roines alumni of ‘Manual high school will be held Wednesday night at the Riverside Roller Rink. Members of the skating party committee are Norman Wilson

By Ludwell Denny

to under British pressure. And so on and on, including the American cleavages over French policy, over British empire policy, over Russian policy, in which national origin, racial, religious and ideological pressures operate. Certainly every American citizen has a right to express his opirion—that is the glory of the democracy we are fighting to preserve. Every privilege, however, carries an equal responsibility; and every act carries a consequence. . Some of this pressure has reached irresponsible proportions, and the consequences for minority groups can be costly. If America is to preserve .the value of free discussion there must be some balance.

Sympathetic to Poland

TAKING THE Polish case as an example, it is clear that the American public is generally sympathetic to Poland and that the state department is trying to persuade Russia and Britain to stand by the Atlantic charter. But it is also clear that the American majority does not favor breaking the wartime alliance with Russia and Britain on this issue, or war on Russia for this purpose after Hitler is licked. So it is naive nonsense, or worse, to talk of Washington “forcing” the Russian government or the Polish government, It should be obvious that the disciplining of proRussian priests is mot the propér business of Secretary Hull. It should be obvious that we cannot its

active Roines club are handling the advance ticket sale, .

RITES ARRANGED FOR. P. SAVAGE

Former National Chief of

Howard P. Savage, organizer and former national and Illinois state commander of the American Legion, will be conducted here Wednesday.

ness manager of the Chicago board of education 12 years, died yesterday in Edward _ : - Hines Jr. hospital after a short ill- : ness. He was 60.

the 55th engin- ; eers corps in

Legion Dies at 60 in Chicago.

Times Special CHICAGO, May 8.—Services for

Mr. Savage, who served as busi-

A lieutenant in

world war I, he _ organized a Chicago legion post | after the war and spent much time raising money for endowment of the

Mr. Savage

commander. Organized Paris Parley He also organized

Injury.

policy of the legion.”

term as national commander.

of obstinate refusal to move its seat

legion. Before heading the national group in 1927 he served as Illinois

the legion’s Paris convention, supervising the transportation of 22,000 legionnaires to that city. A native of Boone, Ia. he studied at the University of Wisconsin and played one season as a pitcher with the Chicago Cubs. He gave up baseball because of a knee

Donald G. Glascoff, national adjutant at American Legion national headquarters in Indianapolis, paid high tribute to Savage, describing him as “one of the outstanding leaders and cne of the statesmen important in shaping the early

Mr. Savage, a resident at the Elks club in Indianapolis from October, 1926, to September, 1927, returned to Chicago at the expiration of his

Petain Reported Yielding to Nazi Pressure as Crisis Nears.

By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent

BERN, Switzerland, May 8— Vichy has finally succumbed to Nazi opportunings after four years

of government to Paris and plans reportedly are now under way to transfer the entire administration to the former French capital A few weeks—during which much may transpire—will probably be required to effect the transfer but, according to all information available here today preparations are already well advanced. That Chief of State Petain left Vichy yesterday morning for “ locality ‘near Paris where he will stay temporarily,” as disclosed by the German-controlled Vichy radio yesterday, is viewed here as the first step in the new French compliance. 3 The aged marshal’s stubborn refusal to take shelter under the Nazi wings has always been a thorn in the path of collaboration.

Security Issue Stressed

It seems that the Germans have been insisting lately that Petain’s security could be better insured in Paris than in Vichy during the coming eventful weeks. Another reason apparently is that the Nazis did not want to retain German units around Vichy to “protect” the French provisional capital while they have at least 10 divisions concentrated in the Paris area. What prompted the marshal, who is ne physical coward, to yield to the wishes of the Nazis is quite another matter, After his enthusiastic welcome to Paris on April 26, whenece he went to attend the memorial service at the Notre Dame cathedral, Petain was told that his presence would help sooth the Parisians’ hardships. Only his presence, some optimists also insisted, might prevent the allies from bombing the capital. The most practical side of the

Parisians possesses France.

French on French soil. formation received here, Count de Fels.

since 1870—when in Paris and his offices will be installed thére, I am informed. The tri-color, up to now banned in the “occupied zone,” will be flown at both Voisins and Elysee.

GopyHght, 1944, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Inc.

38 EIRE BUSINESSES NOW ON BLACK LIST

WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P).— The first American move to apply economic pressure to Eire for refusing to expel axis agents came over the week-end with the placing of 38 Irish individuals and firms on the American “black list.” It was the first time that any firms or individuals in Eire have been placed on the list, which now contains 15,000 names—10,000 of them being individuals and firms in Latin America.

W. R. C. MEETING SET

Mrs. Nettie Harmon will entertain the officers of Maj. Robert Anderson W. R. C. with a breakfast at 11:20 a, m. tomorrow in her home, 2423 N. Penngylvania st. A party for members and friends will be held in the afternoon.

question seems to be the firm French conviction, going back to the days of the revolution, that whoever possesses the hearts of the

The marshal’s popularity in: Paris may help him survive the crisis which is bound to follow the landing of Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s fighting

The 88-year-old marshal’s Paris residence, according to private inis the Chateau de Voisins, near Rambouillet, the property of the wealthy

Petain will live at the Elysee palace—the seat of French presidents

to-store check of. OPA price regulations. :

PROBE. OF OPA PRICES PLANNED

Civilians Urged to Donate Time to Make Store By Store Check.

Volunteers to make systematic OPA price surveys were called for today by Mayor Tyndall who designated this week as “Volunteer Procurement week” in behalf of the home front war against inflation. Approximately 300 persons are needed to make store-to-store checks on OPA price ceilings, the mayor

said. “Men who are so bravely grappling with the enemy every day on the fighting fronts constitute only half of our forces,” declared Mayor Tyndall. “Our other fighters are on the civilian front. If we fail on this front we lose the war. . . . Failure would mean that we would be disloyal to ourselves as well as disloyal to our men in uniform.

One Day a Month Urged

“I ask every person who possibly can do so to register as a willing volunteer and enlist in this important war work.” Men or women willing to contribute the equivalent of one day a month or more to this important task have been requested to telephone Li. 4381 or to register in person at the war price board, 1003 Lemcke building. OPA Price Administrator Alex Taggart has announced appointment of Mrs. Ross Barriger as volunteer procurement chairman. She will be assisted by an advisory committee including Mrs. Chauncey Eno, Mrs, Brandt C. Downey, Mrs. C. J. Hart, Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, Mrs. Florence Webster Long, Miss Kathryn Pickett and Miss Louise Fletcher. “As the invasion hour nears. all of us on the home front must put more punch into our home-front battle” Mr. Taggart said. “Although rationing has been eased, price control must be stiffened to prevent disastrous inflation.”

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"Vision of Christ’ During Air Alert

Termed Genuine

IPSWICH, England, May 8 (U. P)—More than 500 witnesses who professed to have seen a vision of Christ on the cross in the skies over Ipswich during a recent

of St. Nicholas last night to hear their vicar, Rev. Harold Green, express complete confidence in the authenticity of the vision. “I have satisfied myself beyond every doubt of the authenticity

the cross which was seen in the sky by hundreds of people,” Green told the congregation. “I regard the sign as a definite good omen, and if only a dozen people had seen it instead of hundreds I should still say it was God's call to this our nation.” ” EJ 2

The vision was said to have lasted for 15 minutes during an alert on April 27 and Green, who acknowledged he had not seen it himself, said he had examined the testimony of a great number of witnesses before accepting the vision. “Some witnesses saw only the cross,” he said. “But many more who stayed to gaze at it have described it to me in such

been mistaken, that the figure of

bowed head and crossed feet and remained hanging there for some little time after the cross appeared.” Green said the vision did not

GOVERNORS P

air raid alert crowded the Church

of the vision of Jesus Christ-on

a way that they could not have |< Christ appeared on the cross with -

European Aces in U. S. Forces. FIGHTH AIR FORCE FIGHTER

BASE, England, May 8 (U. P).— Capt. Robert Johnson, Lawton, Okla, Thunderbolt pilot, tied the American fighter ace record today by shooting down his 26th and 27th German planes.

Johnson, the European theater's

leading fighter pilot, who has made all his kills in the air, equalled the mark set last month by Maj. Riche = ard I. Bong, Poplar, Wis, in the - Southwest Pacific.

Bong, who was proclaimed Amer-

ica’s ace of aces by Gen. Douglas MacArthur when he broke the rece ord of 26 set by Capt. Eddie Rick= enbacker in world war I, also shot down all his enemy planes in combat.

Pilot's Wife Goes To Work as Usual

LAWTON, Okla, May 8 (U. P.).

—It was work as usual today for Mrs. Robert S. Johnson, pretty wife of America’s newest ace of aces and No..1 European fighter pilot, Capt. Robert S. Johnson.

Mrs. Johnson, 21, reported for

work at the Gilbert drug store at 7 a. m. today (Indianapolis Time), . as if nothing had happened, al though half an hour before the local editor had called to tell her that Bob had downed his 26th and

27th German planes a few hours before. - To her Lawton friends the comely brunet had only this to say: “Well, I'm as proud as I can be but what it means most is that at this minute he is safe and well” She received her last letter from her husband Friday, and the letter had been posted in England on Sunday, April 30. X “He doesn’t say anything about his combat work, of course,” she explained. “He's pretty cautious about discussing military secrets.” Mrs. Johnson, who lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Morgan, only a féw blocks from the home of Robert's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Johnson, telephoned the Johnson's to give them the news. She keeps them posted on each communicaticn she gets from or about Bob, she said.

Complete Confidence

She's glad her husband is in the news—but mainly because it brings swifter word on his safety and wellbeing. The Johnsons had been wed 11 months when Bob went overseas mst January. They were college sweethearts at Cameron Agriculture college, near Lawton. The ace’s cheerful wife has com= plete confidence he will return, and maybe soon. “you see,” she explained, “Bob and I had a definite understanding between us that he is coming back.” Johnson wants to be an aeronau= tical engineer some day, and she wants to rear a “nice sized” family. At Cameron he studied engineering and took civilian pilot training. But he had learned to fly before that. He won his private license in 1939 while still in high school, after begging Lawton’s most prominent airman, Postmaster Joe Reed, to teach him. Mrs. Johnson’s belief that Johne son’s homecoming may be soon is a mathematical conclusiion, the prod« uct of her bookkeeping mind. “He finished his first 200 hours of combat flyimg- about March 17th,” she said. “He decided then to continue for 25 more hours, and than took him until April 18th. “After that he wrote that he was going to put in another 25 and then maybe—that was nearly a month ago.”

BROAD RIPPLE CLASS WILL PRESENT ‘TISH

Betty J. Barnhill will play the lead in “Tish,” presented by the senior class of Broad Ripple high school at 8:15 p. m. Friday in the school auditorium. Other members of the cast are Elinor Allsworth, Imogene Kleinschmidt, Rhea J. McGoldrick, David Pfieiderer, Fred Verderosa, William

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