Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1944 — Page 19

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Casey With Yank Troops,

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wooded hills, also thick and blueblack in the waning sunlight. Behind us is a thicket of pine trees and holly bushes, pierced by

treeless meadows where a moment iy ‘of all ‘hell hag broken loose,

of uncanny fires. At least

cold breeze that sweeps the plateau, tpachine gun drums burst like a string of firecrackers and now and then heavier ammuni- ¢ tion lets go with showers of sparks from the turret and orange streaks mingle with rising columns of black.

Pilot Died Inside

This tank is American and in it is the body of the pilot who died in the advance. We came to this spot—the point of deepest penetration into Ger-many--with forward elements of the division, a few minutes after a sudden barrage of German 88's had set this American tank ablaze, The whole action as we came upon it when our jeep burst out “of cover -of -the woods, was encompassed by natural obstacles at the limits of the terrain. We knew that the battle was going to be fought to a .icious =" ¢onclusion on flatland possibly a mile wide and no more than a mile and a half long. The commander of the forward unit, instead of retreating, detached five or six tanks, fanhed them in front of the woods, and proceeded to fight it out. As we came up Maj. Walter McCahan, Harrisburg, W, Va. was shepherding his iron elephants into position.

“Got” Anti-tank Gun

“An anti-tank gun did most of this," he said. “I think we've got it. Over there,” and he pointed across the meadow to the ft.

“Over there is a Panther tank . which, as far as I can see, is disabled if not destroyed. We've also picked off a couple of their tanks. You see them burning in that orchard left of the town.” Lt. Paul Baer of Reading, Pa. and Cpl. William C. Adams, St. Louis, came by. They were two survivors of the first tank to pass through the Siegfried line. Both were unhurt, but Adams, as he lifted himself into the jeep that i was taking them back for duty i in some other place of the armor, took a critical view of the situation, He said: “It might make good reading for people who think this war is over.” There were a few minutes of quiet as the infantry began to 4 filter through a hole in the 3 bushes. Over on the rim of the meadow a white farmhouse, with a garden | before it and flowering hedges ; alongside, began to smoke.

Bursts Into Flames

Over to the right one of our tanks 75's erupted and another house—a rather pretentious-look-ing house of red brick—burst into flame. A squawking radio somewhere Inside the woods began to talk about a concealed German tank that had been sheltering in the shedow, presently, four houses were burning to complete the fiery ring that now rimmed our narrow horizon, For perhaps 15 minutes they burned briskly while guns at the edge of the woods were silent and the air was filled with the rumble of columns coming up from the wreck of ‘the Siegfried line to Join battle. The world ahead of us seemed to be filled with fire; the world behind us was cluttered with armor, . The lull was broken with a terrifying blast of machine gun fire from the disabled Panther tank at the left. Almost simpltaneously a shell ripped through the trees from the direction of the town. Doughboys dropped flat and all but one tank—the one on the left nearest the road — dropped back into the screen of brushwood. Over the radio you could hear orders to the driver and gunner of this lone outpost of Ameria's drive into Germany, . Where were all the bullets and shells coming from, and why weren't they doing something about it? They did do something about it.

Abandoned Jeep Long since, we had abandoned our jeep and gone forward on foot and at this moment we were" in probably the most advantagev ous spot ever given to a civilian to look at a war. ; It occurred to us that it was given to few men to observe a spectacle such as this, and that of the few so favored only a small percentage were likely to live to tell about it. In a matter of "split seconds the tank on the left began a lumbering waltz. One tread stood still while the other tore the ancient turf to bits and, as its elephantine dance , progressed bringing the huge iron . body forward from its-camouflage of a lone apple tree, the turret

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In Coast Guard Play Due Here

“Tars and + . « the infant is Elsie Dillman whose father and grand“Tather are coast guard officers

NOT LONG ago some Holly wood publicity agent hung a set

Victor Mature Spars”

of adjectives, “that beautiful hunk of man,” on an actor. Then he went into service with the coast guard. His crow’s nest and barracks buddies soon changed it to “the beautiful hunk of junk.” «Well, after 14 months of sea duty, “the beautiful hunk of junk man,” Victor Mature, is back in ‘the states and starring in the coast guard show “Tars and Spars” which will play here ‘at the Circle theater Sept. 29, The show is a recruiting review aimed to stimulate enlistments in the SPARS, coast guard women's reserve. It was written by Howard Dietz and Vernon Duke.

it was only that keyed up nerves made it seem so. But, af any rate, what happened was quick enough to suit any critic. The long tube of the “75” came suddenly to a standstill, the gun went off and a spurt of flame rose 50 feet into the still clear air over the sideroad alongside the red brick house, The disabled enemy ‘tank was no longer merely disabled; it was now completely finished.

Continues Dance

That, from where we sat, looked like enough for one tank gunner in one day but mere came in 30 seconds, The tank continued to dance and it seemed that the gun had hardly come back into the battery before it fired again. This time a streak of flame came from alongside a building at the edge of the town and a lad, steadying his field glasses on the edge of a radio car, gasped. “It's a self-propelled gun,” he said, “or else it's a Tiger tank. It’s the biggest thing I ever saw and boy, is it done.” Well, even if one forgets the significance of this battle, which is likely to end the importance of the Siegfried line “in this area, one cannot overlook such shooting as this After the destruction of the Tiger in the village, our tank began to clip the grass tops with tracer bullets into the woods on the right. The radio echoed a call to the artillery. Fire, unnoticed in the general turmoil, was coming out of this area and keeping the infantry off the road.

Artillery Answers

The artillery answered with a blast that literally shook the ground under one's feet. The whole right rim of this amazing picture was suddenly veiled in black smoke and the air was filled with flying green leaves as shells combed the forest. Behind us a doughboy with the accent of western Texas was talking to another doughboy. “And what do vou think about the Dodgers now?” said he. (And I give you my word that this_is a stenographic report of the conversation.) “Where'd you ever get the idea they were so good?” At this juncture somebody blew

a whistle and the sunséen Brooklyn fan had mo charice to reply.

There wasn't much to the battle after that, at least not mn» *n record, save the progress of the creeping artillery barrage whicn covered the field with flame and smoke ahead of five or six advancing columns. The line of shells was never farther away than 75 yards from the tanks it was supporting.

Shells Burst in Town

Before the armor had reached the middle of the plateau high explosives were bursting in the town and in the woods and in the orchards to the rim of the abyss on the right, and the air no longer smelled of burning flesh but of cordite. Over on the German edge of the picture all was silence and smoke and flame.

Midway of the field the tanks turned back into the road and began to roll on toward the second string of hazards in the so-called West Wall. The massed traffic on the road cranked up and went forward. Well, that concludes the story of one of the most colorful fights in which this outfit of armor has been involved since Brittany and theré have been many of one sort or another.

WATSONT

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6 AD PROGRAN

Organization nh Assist Returning Soldiers to Get Work.

(Continued From Page One)

set up Marion. county's official dis-

charge rehabilitation program. The name of the agency which

of P. building, now<the home of most county draft boards, will be the “Marion County Veterans Information and Referral Service.” Suppqrting its efforts will be virtually every civic, professional, pa- | triotic and labor group in Indianapolis. But its final stamp of power and authenticity lies in its backing by selective service, the Veterans administration and the veterans employment service of the War Manpower commission. A new development in the original plan is a recent decision to include displaced war workers among those eligible for Information Center services.. Thus, all nonemployed elements in the county during the stress-and-strain post-war - period will be channelled through a single agency in what is expected to be the biggest job re-shuffie in the city’s history. A director of the Link Belt Co., of which he also was president and general manager before retiring lasts January, Mr. Watson recently has served as chairman of Mayor Tyndall’'s advisory committee on personnel, . He also heads the-manufacturer’s committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and is treasurer of Christamore House, W. Michigan st. settlement project. In still other fields he is the director of the Associated Employers and a member of the Indianapolis Rotary

club, the Columbia club and the|

Woodstock club. Mr, Watson will represent selective service on a three-member Veterans service board which also will include appointees of the WMC and the Veterans administration. This post is in addition to his duties as advisory committee chair. man. His assumption of the advisory ¢ommittee chairmanship was announced by Ewing Sinclair, president of the Indianapolis Personnel association, who had served as chairman pro-tem. Mr. Watson is to meet within the next few days with Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state selective service director, with whom he will draft a detailed outline of advisory committee functions. Organizations volunteering assistance in the gigantic rehabilitation project are: Indianapolis Red Cross, the Indianapolis Community fund, Council of Social agencies, Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Public schools, the Central Labor Union (A. PF. of L), Industrial Union Council (C. I. 0.), Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Indianapolis Personnel association, Indianapolis Bar association, American Legion Disabled American Veterans, Statc Department of Public Instruction,

| tion for each a

_RATIONING DATES.

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MEAT—Red stamps AS through Z8 and A5 through G5 in Book 4 good indefinitely. for 10 points each.

SUGAR—Stamps 30, 3% 32 and 33 in Book 4 are good indefinitely for 5 pounds. Stamp 40 in Book 4 good for 5 pounds of cahning sugar No one is eligible for additional home canning sugar except those who produce for sale.

Applicants applying for canning |-

sugar should send in one spare stamp 37, attached to the applicalicant.

CANNED GOODS—Blue stamps

tA8 through Z8 and A5 through L5

in Book 4 good indefinitely for 10 points each. Blue tokens expire Sept. 30. Between Sept. 17 and Sept. 30 tokens can be used only in multiples of 10.

SHOES—No. 1 and No. 2 “air-

plane” stamps in Book 3 good in-;

definitely,

GASOLINE—Stamp A-12 is good for 3 gallons and expires Sept. 21. B3, B4 and B5 and C3, C4 and C5 good for 5 gallons; T (3d quarter) good for 5 gallons through Sept. 30; E, El and E2 good for.1 gallon; R, R1 and R2 are good for 5 gallons but are not valid at filling stations. Consumer may exchange R for E

National Grange, Indiana Manu- | facturers association and the Farm Bureau.

NAZIS PUT BELGIANS ON STARVATION BASIS

BRUSSELS, Sept. 14 (U, P).— The Germans bled the Belgians white, physically and economically Rehabilitation experts who kept charts of the country's decline under German occupation estimated today that it would take at least 10 years to bring Belgium back up to its prewar standard. Many Belgian women have lost 20 to 40 pounds, and the children have been stunted for lack of sufficient food and vitamins. The Nazis had the country on a starvation basis. The daily ration—if it could be had—was seven and one-half ounces of bread, five ounces of flour, one-third of an ounce of butter, an ounce of sugar, twothirds of an ounce of meat, and 15 ounces of potatoes. Authorities here say that ‘the people of Brussels had not seen pork or fish since the Germans moved in, The bread was so bad dogs. refused to eat it, they said. It was made of ground beans and peas, with grass and a little real flour. The number of Belgians starving would have been great if the people had not resorted to the black market. The number who did starve is not known. And the black market was only for those with money. Tuberculosis ‘and rickets are common. The birth rate is below the death rate for the first time in the country's history.

NEW PAPER FOR ‘A’ BOOKS WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U.P.). —A new safety paper “virtually impossible for counterfeiters to duplicate” will be used in the new “A” gasoline ration books, the office of price administration revealed today,

TALBURT'S WIFE DEAD WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U.P). —Mrs. H. M. Talburt, wife of The Indianapolis Times cartoonist, died ‘lat her home today in suburban

Keénwood, Md.

STATE DEATHS |

bert Bolin, 75. Survivors: Sisters, Mrs. Fred Fulling, Mrs. Russell Pell, and Mrs, Frank Belk.

CHALMERS—Samuel M. Burns, 80, Survivors: Wife, Mattie; daughter, Mrs. Statton; son, William; sister, Mrs. Etta Brown.

Survivors: , Barbara; Otto Shit, i David psey Archer, and Mrs. Luke Beadling; sister, Mrs. John Biggers.

daughiers, Mz. :

sisters, Mrs. Joe ttlefi Mr William K'ng. Getitle nger and Mrs.

HUNTINGTON~ Fred A. Schenkel, 61. Survivors; Sisters, Mrs. Edward Young, Edward and Harry

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{can and

COAL BLUPP-_Joseph L. Gibbs, 80.{Mr

CORYDON — Sherman Englem: 9. Survivors: lia; son, Waldo: brothers, P, P. and ‘Willtam Engleman: |

Sturdivant, 43. Suivivors: ite LW

MORRISTOWN--James L. Duncan, 78. Survivors: Wife; daughters, Florence DunMrs. Ora Shaw; brother, Reverdy Duncan; sister, Mrs. Maude Nickles. NEW ALBANY August B, Jahnel, 70. Survivors: Wife: daughter, Mrs. Wallace Leach: sisters, Mrs. Morton Wallner and s. John Bornhofe:

PERU—Mrs. Theresa Stenzel, 84. Survivors: Bons. Alfred, Carl and Joseph; Bu ther, John. X Samuel x. Kiern, 91. Survivors® Son Edward; brothers, Frank and Jonathan; sister, Mrs. Ella Tannell Luke W. Duffey, hig Bur

ughter, Mae; brother, Mr. ore Mrs.

John Sturdi-! Allen

at his local board to purchase nonhighway gasoline. » Registration for new A books will be held Monday, Tuesday and Wednedday at public school houses.

FUEL OIL—Period 4 and 5 cou-

.| pons valid through Aug, 31, 1945. All| change-making coupons and reserve |:

coupons are now good, Period 1 guod immediately, TIRES—Commercial vehicle tire inspection every six months or every 5000 miles. Inspection certificates on passenger automobiles needed for replacement tires. B card holders are now eligible for grade 1 tires if they can prove extreme necessity, All A holders are eligible for grade 3 tires, including factory seconds, if they find tires which may be purchased.

CORPORAL CUTS IN ON

CHENNAULT AT DANCE

WINTHROP, Mass. (U. P.).—Cpl. Eddie Nowak's parents are wondering what he has been doing since he wrote his last letter. In it he said, “At the dance last night I cut in on someone and discovered too late that it was Maj. Gen, Claire Chennault.”

LIST 006 SHOWS

OVER WEEK-END

Cocker Spaniels Compete Tomorrow; Raceland

: Contests Set. More than 150 cocker spaniels will

have their day tomorrow when thei

cocker specialty show, one of three dog shows scheduled in Indianapolis this week-end, openss at Tomlinson hall. According to William C. Gugerli, superintendent of the shows, this is a world-record number of entries for a cocker show. The contest, which opens at 6 p.m, is sponsored by the Indiana ‘Cocker club. The Anderson Kennel club will sponsor a show ‘with 319 entries {Saturday and the Hoosier Kennel club will sponsor one with 358 entries Sunday. Both shows will be

held at Raceland and will start at

noon. Held under the rules of the American Kennel- club the threeday show will include entries from 24 states and will make it possible

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for a dog ta become a ohamplen in three days, Entries in the Hoosier show will include 37 bull dogs, 33 Doberman Pinchers, 21 Boxers, 18 Wire Haired! terriers and 17 Boston terriers. About 100 Cocker Spaniels will be entered in the Anderson 14nd: Hoosier ‘shows. Obedience trials in connection with the show at Raceland will be

dbnsist of five classes, with. 14 entries in Novice A, eight in Novice B, six in Open A, 13 in Open B, and seven in the utility class. 1

{74 GERMAN ALIENS UNDER INDICTMENT

NEW YORK, Sept. 14 (U. P.) — Sealed indictments charging 174 German aliens, one of whom is a baron, with concealing or conspiring | to conceal their affiliations with the Nazi party were opened today in federal courts at New York and Newark, N. J.

The German nobleman was 35-!

year-old Baron Louis Karl Dethard Kurt Wolf von Matthiesen, known here as Wolf Matthiesen, of Briarcliff Manor, N. Y, and employed as film editor for the March

Major Campaign Issue Seen If FDR Boosts Little Steel Ceiling. ~~ WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U.P. —8igns that President | soon may boost limits of the Little Steel wage formula multiplied fo= day, raising prospects thag. the administration’s stabilization will become asmajor campaign issue.

Any upward revision in the for~ mula, which now limits geenral pay

raises to 15 per cent over the level

of January. 1941, is almost certain—* if it precedes the Nov. T electon—

to be seized by Mr. Roosevelt's op=".

ponents as the basis for charges that .it. is simply an attempt to get the labor vote behind his fourth - term campaign. Organized labor, led ‘by the A. Fo 3

of L. and €. I. O., has been cam-'

paigning for months for a revision

in the wage ceiling on grounds that wages have failed to keep pace with |

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