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ON THE WESTERN FRONT (By Wireless) —The commander of the particular regiment of the 4th

infantry division that we have been with is one of

my favorites. X That's partly because he flatters me by calling me dilly “general,” tly. because just: ;Jooking at him makes me chuckle to myself, and partly because I think he's a>very fine soldier. Security forbids my giving his name. ~ He is a regular army colonel ‘and he was overseas in

I always had the kind of job where you made $50

clipped one of these days. He is rather unusual looking. ie There is something -almost Mongolian: about his face, When cleaned up he could be a Cossick. When tired and dirty he could be a movie .

gangster. But either way, his eyes always twinkle.

He has a facility for direct thought that is unusual. He is impatient of thinking that gets off onto byways; ". 9 He has a little habit of good-naturedly reprimand ing people by cocking his head over to one side, getting his face below yours and saying something sharp, snd then looking up at you with a quizzical smirk like a laughing cat. One day I heard him ask a battalion commander what his position was. The battalion commander started going into details of why his troops hadn't got as far as he had hoped. The ‘colonel cocked his head over, squinted up at the battalion commander, and said: ie “I didn't ask you jhat. I asked you where you were." : The coloned goes constantly from one battalion to another during battle, from early light till darkness. He wears a new-type field jacket that fits.

him. like a sack, and. he carries. a -long-stick that

“eddy Roosevelt gave him. He keeps constantly prodding his commanders to push hard, not to let up, to keep driving and driving.

* The Main Point Is to Kill Germans

HE IS impatient with commanders who lose the Main point of the war by getting involved in detajls—the main point, of course, being to kill Germans. His philosophy of war is expressed in the simple formula of “shoot the sonsabitches.” Once I was at a battalion command post when We got word that 60 Germans were coming down the road In a counter-attack. Everybody got excited. They called the colonel on a field phone, gave him the details and asked him what to do. He had the solution in a nutshell,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

By JOHAN W. HILLMAN . Pinch -Hitting for Nussbaum THE OFFICE BOY is still unreported. The latest word from the city desk is that he is long overdue and presumed to be lost, How long is a week, anyway? When Old Inside gets back next Monday (and if anyone wanis to turn out the band to welcome him, opm well carry the drum), he may find time hanging heavy on his hands. If so, he can improve his idle moments by studying Chinese, thanks to the thoughtfulness of Calvin C. Chang of the MarmonHerrington Co. - Mr. Chang has sent Inside an autographed copy of hiss new English-Chinese manual of Automotive Nomencla~ ture, It’s a list of almost 10,000 common automotive terms, with the 3 ing Chinese jdeo- . . graphs, and Mr. Chang writes Inside, *“T believe you can at least read half” of it. . . . You flatter him, C. C.; we doubt if he knows what a volute spring compressor stud” is, even in English. We aid a little linguistic research ourselves, and foun that the Chinese have a word for it—meaning Nussbaum. Hereafter we'll address all our memos to Old Inside thus:

WAT We — aka BM 4

If you ask your laundryman, he'll probably tell you that a free translation for that would be “gab-column conductor.” . , . But, as =a.conscientious reviewer, we'll have to point out a serious oversight in the manual. There's no place where it tells you how to say, “This darned thing won't run.” . . . Guess we'll

* Just have to stay out of Chinese garages.

Good Old U. S. A.

‘SOME 50 FURLOUGHED soldiers, just in from two years in Africa and Italy, piled into the USO eanteen at the Union station last week. Here's a

“running record of their remarks, as noted by one of

our agents, while they were waiting for their baggage to be checked: “Me for some real beer ... Fella, these two bags don’t hold anything but Jerry souvenirs , . . Buddy, don't worry about train connections. in Louisville;

Unheeded Advice By Wim. Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Aug. }7—With his boasted “fortress” crashing about him and defeat staring him in the face, Adolf Hitler today must be thinking as he walks the floor, what & fool he was not to take his own advice, In “Mein Kampf,” he criticized the kaiser for not going after nearby territory in eastern Europe, instead of wandering all over the map - looking for colonies which he could - not. defend: without an adequate , navy, Territory could be defended by armies, of which Germany had the best. ) “For such a policy, however,” he admitted, “there was only one single ally in Europe: England.” Never again would the reich wage war on two fronts as the kaiser : < had done, to his undoing. But, said the fuehrer, “one's back being covered (by Eng= land), one could begin the new Germanic invasion’ — the “march along the road of the knights of the order.”

Hitler Outslicked Himself ° But Hitler, the man who swore not to let himself in for a two-{ront war outslicked! himself. Believing he could finish Russia off between Juné.and November, 1041, before anything could happen to him

in the West, he let go. As a result, he is now fighting on nine fronts instead of one—in Russia, western

HYDE PARK, Wednesday—I think all of us reJoice that the senate has rescinded a very unfortunately worded provision of the gervicemen’s. voting act. The provision, instead of giving soldiers who may have an opportunity to ‘vote a chance for im-

partial information, resulted in keeping all but certain specified papers and materials from them. The provision was very carefully worded, so I do not think _ Senator Taft's statement that the

war department and the morale

division of the: army can ‘be - blamed for their interpretation is ‘entirely fair, especially considering the penalty attached to any vio-

lation, . , ;

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He just sald, “Shoot the sonsabitches,” and hung

rother of my favorites is a sergeant who runs he solomisls Iesuuenial sucse. He cooks some himg self, but mostly he bosses the cooking. : ~'His-name is Charles J. Murphy, and his home is at Trenton, N, J. Murphy is redheaded, but has his head nearly shaved like practically all the western front soldiers—officers as well as men. Murph is funny, but he seldom smiles. When I asked him what he did in civilian life, he thought a moment and ther said: “Well, I was a shyster, Guess you'd call me a kind of promoter.

a week salary and $1500 on the side.” : ~How’s that for an honest man? ’ ~ Murph and I got to talking about newspapermen one day. Murphy said his grandfather was a newspaperman. He retired in old age and lived in Murph’s | e. “My grandfather went nuts reading newspapers,” Murphy said. “It was a phobia with him. Every day he'd buy $1.50 worth of 3-cent newspapers and then read them all’ night, ’

Look for Something to Criticize

“HE WOULDN'T read the ads. ‘He would . just read the stories, looking for something to criticize. He'd get fuming mad. / | “Lots of times when I was a kid he'd get me out of bed at 2 or 3 in the morning and point to some story in the paper and rave about reporters who didn't have sense ‘enough to put a period at the end of a Murphy and I agreed that it was fortunate his grandfather passed on before he got to reading my stuff, or he would doubtless have run amuck.

Murphy never smoked cigarets until he landed in|"

France on D-day, but now he smokes one after another. He is about the tenth soldier who has told me. that same thing. A guy in war has-to have some outlet for his nerves, and I guess smoking is as good as anything.

SECOND SECTION

SEE DEMOCRAT

FDR Letter May Win Mine Union Votes; A. F. of L.

Peeved at Dewey.

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — Two developments on the lahor front here today were favorable to the

Republicans intend to try to erack the organized worker vite they had better move fast.

President Roosevelt, it was learned, has signed a letter advocating enactment of a new law for stabilization of the bituminous

desired by the United Mine Work-

operators. The Roosevelt letter

All kinds of incongruous things happen during a battle. For instance, during one lull I got my partrait | painted in water color. The artist sat crosslegged | on the grass and it took about an hour. ) The painter was Pfc. Leon Wall, from Wyoming, Pa. He went to the National Academy of Design in New York for six years, did research for the Metropolitan museum and lectured on art at the New York World's Fair, Artist Wall is now, of all things, a cook and K. P. in an infantry regiment mess. He hasn't done any war paintings at all since the invasion, I asked him why not. He said: . “Well, at first I was too scared, and since then I've been too busy.”

might have the political effect of cramping the style of John L. Lewis

{In getting the coal miners to change {their habit of voting pro-Roosevelt.

The American Federation of Labor leadership was reported by a spokesman to have -a pronounced case of peeve with Governor Dewey because the Republican candidate, pleading "pressure of other business, had declined to write a Labor day message for the A. F. of L. weekly news service and the 300 labor papers which it serves.

ON THE COAL MATTER: The

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yotire coming home with me for a real time first. | ... Yea man.. Drinks are scarcer in Italy than here, | but’ we got beaucoup when we'd push the Heines back—we'd stop long enough to shoot a hole in a cognac barrel and fill our helmets. . , , I paid a Sicilian 18 bucks for these beads and bracelet—made. of sea shells, .But what the hell, there wasn't any- | thing else to spend money on. . . . We got our three changes -of clothes mussed up between Italy and here! with no chance to wash 'em. Now they won't let us | on the train unless we clean up. That's why I paid | $17 up the street for these $5 pants and $2 shirt. . . .| You want to look good when you get home, so I paid | the Fort barber $1.25 for a hair cut. . , . Have you! seen any of those German propaganda leaflets? Here | are some filthy ones that were aimed at the British. | + + « The Italians seem to have beaucoup lires and | invasion money like this—pay you $5 for a carton of | 10-cent cigarets. . . . I'm not going to miss this train | homie—I'll claim my bag day after tomorrow.” | Sounds as though some of Bill Mauldin’s boys were getting back at last. And our agent adds, “Those | cracks about prices, if true, are a terrible reflection | on Indianapolis, Somebody ought to do something about it~ !

No Secret .

IT WOULDN'T take Sherlock Holmes long to deduce where Daniel H. Tucker of the Stroup-Tucker | Shoe Co. spends the neon hour on Tuesdays. . . , For Mr. Tucker, when spotted by another of our agents prowling through Vonnegut’s downtown store around 2 o'clock Tueseday afternoon, was a marked man. He was just about the only persan in the store who wasn't aware that he was still sporting one of thosey king-size Rotary club identification badges on his lapel. .., One of his best friends finally told him. A sharp-eyed subscriber sends in a picture of Fabien Sevitzky that appeared in PM when our conductor directed the Philharmonic symphony in New | York City recently. “It appears,” says our reader, “that Mr. Sevitzky had his picture taken in his dressing gown. Apparently our maestro is still doing things differently.” . , . The picture shows only part of the collar, and it does look like a robe. But, it could be one of those outlandish sport shirts. , . . Remind us to ask the maestro about it... . And speaking of sport shirts, some of the men who work in downtown offices are talking about promoting a “Sport Shirt for Business” movement for the duration of the hot spell. , . . Sounds like a good idea— mind if we loosen our collar a bit, boss?

France, southern France, Italy, the Balkans. in the. air and against the French, Polish and German tnder- | grounds—and everyone of them dangerous, Hitler, who had planned to set upon his enemies | ope at a time and destroy them piecemeal, is no longer | safe whether from the North, East, South or West, or from above or within the reich, i Here is another of his wisest “Mein Kampfisms”: “No diplomatic ruse and no force of arms will ever | replace the force that is contained in the inner unity | of the nation.” That unity riddled, Hitler is now just | as obviously losing his war at home as he is abroad, | as thé wholesale hangings of his generals and the sweeping purges 50 vividly reveal,

Perhaps a Tenth Front

TURKEY MAY ACCOMMODATE Hitler with a 10th front soon. It is now or never. If she wishes a seat at the peace table—and she has every reason to want one—it is difficult to see how she can hope to get it by merely breaking with Berlin, Two things would facilitate Turkey's decision and i hasten Hitler's end. One would be a new allied in-| vasion of Italy either reversing the path Italy fook in attatking France, or via Genoa. One is the short cut to the valley of the Po, behind the Nazi's Gothie line at Piza and Florence. The other would be a combined allied Yugoslav operation across the Adriatic from Italy to complete a pincer movement with the Turks, severing the Balkan peninsula.

By Eleanor ‘Roosevelt|

voters should be so. restricted that they do not get all possible information before exercising their franchise, and the information certainly should be impartial. There are two things which are especially interesting in Senator Taft's statement. : “The war department,” one part of it reads, “has been so unreasonable that many persons have suggested to me that the course pursued by the war department. and its morale division is deliberately Intended to discredit congress in order to affect the election.” I had thought that Secretary Stimson's. long service to’ the nation would in everyone's mind’ that the war department, under him, would do nothing which was not strictly ethical © 1am of humor

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Roosevelt letter is said to be in the possession of Rep. John W. Flannagan Jr. (D. Va.), who will make it public when he thinks the time is ripe. Mr. Flannagan is one of eight congressmen who have introduced identical bills on the subject.

Proposes Commission

There is a ninth coal bill in the house, by Rep. Jenkins (R. O.), It differs -from the others in that it would set up a commission to

stabilize and regulate the coal industry, the commission plan being favored by Mr. Lewis. The other bills would leave regulation in a bureau of the interior department, where it was resting last year after a turbulent trial of the commission plan unger the old law, which congress allowed to die. The Roosevelt letter is said to straddle on the point of the Lewis controversy, and to leave that decision up to congress. A Lewis spokesman says, “We will never consent to bureaucratic domination”— meaning by a bureau in the interior department. Lewis foes have charged he prefers the commission plan because a mine worker representative would be included in the membership.

Lewis, Ickes Now Differ

Mr. Ickes was among those consulted in the writing of the presi. dential letter. An odd fact is that while Messrs. Ickes and Lewis were getting along well together last winter, when they whipped the war labor board in the coal wage case, they occupy opposite corners on the question of how the coal industry is to be regulated.

The Lewis union is reported incensed also about the bureau of mines, which is one of Mr. Ickes’ bureaus. Mine worker spokesmen say it is steadily becoming “more bureancratic,” doing less and less of what the Lewis union thinks it ought to do, :

ON THE A’ F. OF L. MATTER: Philip Peat], A. F. of L. columnist, who is regarded as an indicator of the thinking of A. F. of L. President William Green, recounts with apparent pain that his request for a Labor day message from the RePublican candidate, to be published in parallel columns with a statement on the same theme by the Democratic candidate, brought the reply from a Dewey assistant: “Due to the pressure under which Governor Dewey is working at the

present time, it is impossible for him |

to meet the requests for specially written messages, and I am sorry to say it will not be possible for him to write one at this time.” Mr. Pearl wonders, if Mr. Dewey can’t find time to write a Labor day message, how much time he would be able to spare for labor if and when he is elected; and also whether Mr. Dewey's assistant “considers us naive enough to believe that Gov-

sages.”

‘MARYS’ TO CONVENE

The 33d annual convention for “Marys”"—women and girls whose name is Mary—will be held at noon next Thursday in Riverside: Amusement park. * : a A prize will be awarded to the eldest and youngest Mary there. Officers are Mrs. Mary Freeman, president; Mrs, Mary Holzberger, vice president, and. Mrs, Mary E. Bailey, .secretary-treasurer.

PROFIT IN TWO | LABOR MOVES

Democrats, indicating that if- the|

coal. industry—this legislation being}

ers as well as a large group of coal}

ernor Dewey prepares his own mes- |

AT RIVERSIDE PARK.

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: Father She'd Never Seen Home for Her Birthday

a German prison camp.

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LAST JAP DRIVE FROM INDIA SOIL

Campaign” Ends 6 Months After Foe Swept Acrsos

Burmese Border.

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, Aug. 17 (U. P.).—A headquarters spokesman said today that the last Japanese forces were driven out of India yesterday and only a few starving enemy were { still hiding in the hills. The campaign to clear the Jap-

ed six months after the enemy sent armored columns across the Burmese border and struck menacingly at the Manipur state capital of Imphal. At one time the Japanese controled almost the entire Manipur valley from Imphal to Kohima and posed a serious threat to the vital Assam-Bengal railway, supply line to allied forces in India and northern Burma,

Cross Burma Border

The main body of allied troops pursuing the Japanese 14th army units crossed the Burma border on the Tiddim road yesterday, the Spokesman said, and advanced two miles southward. The rapidly retreating enemy forces Were reported abandoning many dead along the road as they fled southward deeper into Burma. In northern Burma, a communique said, allied troops cleared a 21-mile section. of the Mandalay railroad between Mogaung and Thaikwagon. ,

STATE INSTITUTIONS NEED 300 WORKERS

More than 300 job vacancies exist in Indiana institutions, Dudley A. {Smith, director of state personnel, | disclosed today, adding that persons are needed immediately to fill several posts. The personnel division is seeking immediate replacements for two cooks and a dietitian at the Logansport state hospital, eight prac[eal nurses at the state sanatorium {in Rockville, five male secondary [teachers at Indiana Boys’ school in | Plainfield, and several maintenance |positions at the Ft. Wayne state Ischool, Smith said. Prison guards; laundry workers, kitchen helpers, attendants, typists and stenographers also are needed to fill other vacancies, he added. Applicants may secure further in{formation from the Indiana State | Personnel division, 141 S. Meridian Ist, or from the superintendent of the institution at which they wish to be employed.

ROBOT BOMBS STRIKE NEAR BUCKINGHAM

LONDON, Aug. 17 (U. P.).—Ro{bot bombs recently damaged the {grounds of Buckingham palace, {main residence of King George and |Queen Elizabeth, it was revealed today. . The palace itself was hit at least {twice during the German blitz of [1940-41 ”

SUCCEEDS MORRISSEY | CLEVELAND: O, Aug. 17 (U. P). | —Brig. Gen. D. Colburn Draper, | chief constable of Ontario, Canada, {has been elected president of the International Association of Police Chiefs, to succeed Michael F. Morrissey, former chief of police at Indianapolis.

BARNABY

Two-year-old Dana Marden Vaughn her first glimpse of her hero father, Lit. to Washington to meet Lt. Vaughn on his return to t his

|anese entirely from India thus end- |

John Vaughn country from

The strains of “Happy Birthday” rang with meaning at an Indianapolis home this week as a golden{haired, blue-eyed girl, passed her second birthday aniversary Sunday with the soldier father she had never before seen—a father miraculously returned for the occasion lafter wandering more than seven ‘months behind enemy lines in Italy. | An unexpected family reunion {was coupled with the birthday party lat the Guy R. Vaughn home, 4175 Broadway, to make a double feature |billing that might aptly have been titled “All's Well That Ends Well.” For as he celebrated the birth(day anniversary of his daughter, lan Marden, Lt. John R. Vaughn

also was reunited with his wife and parents after two years’ absence and more than seven months of ominous silence,

Brother There, Too

As an added attraction, army officials made possible the presence of the younger Vaughn son, Cpl. George R. Vaughn, Ft. Ord, Cal, by granting him emergency furlough and providing air travel priorities to his home here to see his brother, : The party climaxed an adventure which had its start in 1942, when Lt. Vaughn left for overseas dhty. After winning the silver star for gallantry in action int North Africa in November, 1642, Lit, Vaughn was captured by the Germans after Nazi forces wiped out his battery, Killing all but 22 men, With three other officers, Lt. Vaughn was sent to an Italian prison camp near Pescar on the Adriatic coast. They remained at the camp until the surrender of Italy, when Nazi forces began the movement of prisoners into Ger-

(right) now knows what her daddy looks like!

The Indianapolis Times

joa THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1944

SLAVES OF THE NAZIS, RUSSIAN WOMEN FREED

Told They will Return Home, They Burst Into = Delirium of Joy.

By B. J. McQUAID Times Foreign Correspondent WITH AMERICAN ARMORED

"IFORCES NEAR ALENCON, France,

|Aug. 13 (Delayed)—Two hundred

: |and fifty Russian women, taken cap-

tive by the Germans in their advance three years ago upon Leningrad, have, in a manner of speaking, just been “liberated” by Dick Stokes of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and myself. That is, they have been liberated spiritually. As for their physical liberation

proper authorities, But there is no question that it will come before

The infant got

(left) early this manth when her mother took her

Italy where he had escaped from

Returns fo U.S. After Eight Months Behind Enemy Lines

many. During the evacuation process in September, 1943,

eluded their captors and escaped. Hide by Day

With the aid of friendly Italians, the pair started back toward the allied front, moving at night and hiding during the day. After three weeks, however, they became separated and Lt. Vaughn later learned his companion was recaptured by the Germans, After the separation, Lt. Vaughn continued his trek toward the front | and with the aid of Italian patriots in small villages lived through the] fall, winter and spring under the nose of Nazis who were searching for escaped prisoners. Although censorship makes it impossible for the returned soldier to divulge how he made his escape and where he was sheltered, he revealed that Italians in mountains and agricultural districts provided him with food and shelter and repaired his clothing until his return to American lines in May.

Returns to Yank Lines

Lt. Vaughn also disclosed that he returned to American lines before the territory in which he was sheltered was recovered by the allies, but was unable to. tell how “he reached his destination. He was returned to the United States via North Africa and arrived in Washington July 11, leaving immediately for a rest camp. He now is en route to Ft. Sill, Okla., where he will act as an instructor in the field artillery school. Since his return Lt. Vaughn has been informed that the battalion with which he was serving at the time of his capture was awarded the presidential unit citation for bravery.

40751 Are Helped By Travelers Aid

AN AVERAGE of 224 services & day were performed by the Travelers Aid society here during the first six months of this year, ’ Miss. Dorothy Cressy, executive secretary, ‘said today. During this time, 0,751 needy travelers were aided at the union and terminal stations, 17,681 being members of ‘ the armed forces. : Cases requiring special attention included 64 runaway children, 162 children under 16 who were traveling alone and 112 physically handicapped persons. . An air transportation committee recently was established to plan expansion of the society's work at local airports.

CONFERENCE HERE 70 DISCUSS POLIO

Details of the infantile paralysis survey now being conducted on a nation-wide basis will be discussed at a two-day conference of all chapter officers and members of the National Foundation for Infantile

1 girls’ school to the women's prison.

BIRTH CERTIFICATES FREE FOR MINORS

Attorney General James Emmert, in two cpinions, ruled today that minors may receive bith certificate transcripts without cost and that under-age girls may be transferred from the Indiana girls school to the ‘state women’s prison. In the first opinion, Emmert said that health officers were custodians of such vital statistics as birth certificates and were not entitled to charge for issuing them. The request specifically referred to minors needing birth certificates to apply for a work permit. The attorney general also ruled that the state department of public welfare had the authority to transfer under-age girl inmates in the

He said the general assembly made no exception as to age limitation | of any minor to be transferred.

NIMITZ UNDER FIRE DURING GUAM TOUR

GUAM, Aug. 11 (Delayed) (U. P.).—Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, who claims “the closest I'm able to get to the fighting is when the place is safe,” was under enemy fire during

Paralysis, Inc., and women's division

{chairmen of Indiana Aug. 25 and 26,

officials announced today. i The conference will be held at| Claypool hotel and Indiana university medical center. Supreme Court Judge Nathan Swaim of Indianapolis, county chapter chairman, will preside at the meeting and Elaine : Whitelaw, director of the national women's division, will dis- |

carried on by Dr. John L. Lavan, research director for the national

his six-hour tour of Guam, it was revealed today.

the In-| dianapolis man and one companion |

too long.

This fantastic episode took place late last night in the small village of Le Mans. We hdd been informed of the presence of these women in the area by a young colonel of engineers and at our request he drove us to the location in his command |car. Slaves of the Wehrmacht

A mile or so beyond a crossroads by our infantry we encountered two women on the highway. We invited them to get into our car and they |guided us to their camp, giving us details of their incredible threeyear hegira as slaves of the Wehrmacht on the way. As we neared the camp—a rude, wooden, shedlike structure, con{verted into a huge dormitory —

| we picked up about two-score more

|and they walked alorig beside the

{car, showing us the way. Inside the

[camp the rest of the 250 gathered |arourd. There was a Frenchman [there who had been forced by the Germans to serve as interpreter and with his help, plus Dick's knowledge of German, we managed. These women were of all ages from great-grandmothers to high school-age youngsters. = They had been part of a group of 1500 taken from” farms and villages near Leningrad and Riga, three years ago. They told us they had been doing the heaviest kind of manual labor under the German whip and in this section of France, where they had been for months, had been forced to do pick-and-shovel work, repairing railroads damaged by our bombings.

Treated Like Animals

“They treated us like animals,”

said one middle-aged woman, who spoke better German than the othehrs. “They beat us with clubs when we were too: sick to work.

They let us go hungry’ for days.

Four or five days ago, when the American bombings gat so bad, they were afraid ‘to stay here to

guard us while we worked, and

cleared out,” This woman described how some had been actually clubbed to death by their captors and how others had died from being forced fo do back-breaking work when desperately ill. . : When the terrified Germans finally ran away they asked the women to go with them. Only one of the entire lot—a doctor whose husband was a prisoner inside Germany— consented. A dozen of these women Lad babies less than a year old. The fathers were not German but Russians, they said, explaining that until a short while ago several hundred captured Russian men had also been doing forced labor in the vicinity. . - “A Fit of Rashness”

The climax to this incredible experience of ours was produced by the writer when, in a fit of rasnness brought on by pity for thece women and hatred for the Nazis, he asked the interpreter to tell them that before very long they would be on their way back to their homes in Leningrad. A full moment of silence followed the announcement while they looked at me with abject gratitude. Then they all burst into tears, and pressed forward around us. For the first time in our lives we found ourselves being hugged by 250 v7omen collectively. They kissed our hands and stroked our faces.

And then I realized I had been :

talking wildly without a shred of authority. Shamefacedly I got the interpreter to explain that the best we could do was to call their plight to the attention of the authorities immediately. But by (hat time they were all

Bullets whistled over Nimitz’ con- | © delirious in their joy that it voy during his inspection trip. | cemed to make no difference,

The firing came from dense jun-| gle near a command post of the army’s 77th division.

BACKS ARMY TRAINING

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U. P.).| —Acting ‘Secretary of War John!

pulsory military training after the war. : oo

+ By.Crockett Johnson

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. ——————————————

JAILED FOR HOPPING

RIDE ON FDR’S TRAIN

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that, of course, will be done by the ..

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WILLMAR, Minn., Aug, 17 (U.P).

—Frank Roberts, Chicago, went to

cuss the polio survey. Conferences J. McCloy confirmed today that the | Jail foiay for hopping a oe = : regarding epidemic problems will be| war department is in favor of com- | Brecke. } Spec to Will- L

Roberts rode behind the tender,

from mar.

and before the judge sentenced him 0