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si : Ernie 1s January, 1043.—The American nurses over here—and there are lots of them—have turned out just as you ‘Would expect: Wonderfully. Army doctors, .and patients, too, are unanimous .. =» In their praise for them. Doctors com tell me that In that first rush of -casualties they were calmer than the men, LORRY EE One hospital had a nurse they . . Were afraid of. She had seemed i - neurotic and hysterical on the way down. The head doctor detailed another nurse just to watch her all through the hectic first - ‘hours of tending thé wounded. _ But he needn't have. He admits ‘now she was the calmest of the lot. os “+ The head of one hospital, a colonel who was a soldier in the last war, worked in the improvised hospitals set up at Arzow to tend the freshly wounded. He says they worked 36 hours without sleep, with wounded men lying around knee

deep. waiting for attention. He says mot a soul in

the outfit cracked up or got flustered. wi “You're 80 busy you don’t think about it being horrible,” he says. “You aren't yourself. Actually you seem to bécome somebody else, And after it's over, youre ffirilled by it. Gosh, I -hope I'm not

stuck in a bitsh'Bospital. I want to get on to the ” BET W

Take It Like Soldiers

- THE CAROLINA nutses of the evacuation hospital about which I've been’ writing have taken it like soldiers. “For the first 10 days they had to live like animals, even using open ditches for toilets, but

. they never complained.

At this tent. hospital .one nurse is always on

@uty in each tentful of 20 men. She haa medical. ordérlies to help her. In bad weather the nurses ¢ wear overalls, 2 :

But Lt. Col. Rollin Bauchsples, the hospital com= mandant, wants them to put on dresses once in a while, for he says the effect on the men is astounding. The tcuch of femininity, the knowledge that a woman is around, gives a wounded man courage and

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Baltor's Note—This is No. 11 in a series of reprints of past Ernie Pyle columns about American troops.

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Only about 100 of the hospital's 700 patients are wounded men. The others are just sick with ordinary tings; such as 84, ap dicitis, sprains. They've got

a whole tentful of mumps, and a few cases of malaria i At the far end of the hospital, behind an evilooking barricade of barbed wire, is what Col. Bauchspies calls “Casanova Park.” “Back there are 150

soldiers with venereal disease,

“What's the barbed wire for?” I gsked. “They

“It's just to make them feel like heels,” the colonel said. : )

Hasn't Lost a Patient

THE HOSPITAL already has handled more than!

1000 patients and hasn't lost & one, The doctors run to the nearest stake and knock on wood When they say it. The surgeons have performed more than 125 There's no red tape about whether a patient is legally entitled to enter the hospital or not, They comes — soldier, civilian, Arab, The way they ignore formalities when emergency arises is one of the things that have made me feel so warmly toward this battlefront hospital. The other day we ‘were looking at those round-bellied iron stoves half-buried in the ground in each tent. “What do you burn in them?” I asked Lt. Col. Bauchspies. “Wood,” he said. : “Where do you get the wood?” I asked, “Steal it,” he said. When you're saving lives you don’t requisition and wait; you forage and borrow and even steal if necessary. And nobody stands on rank. Recently Maj. Gen. .Fredenall-made-an inspection-tour-through-the-hos= pital. Col. Bauchspies croaked hoarsely like a frog. “How did you lose your voice?” asked the general, “1 lost it driving tent pegs,” sald the colonel, “Your guard looks nice,” said the general, “Where did they get those new rifies?” “I daren't tell you, sir,” said the colonel. The general smiled. And nodded.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaun

ED DOWLING of the Dilling Candy Co. sends word that we ought to do something about explaining to the public that there's no real shortage of sugar in

brokers; 3 . There's plenty of raw sugar in the country; the big problem is getting adequate help in the re- - fineries—and then getting freight cars in which to ship it. We're unfortunate in that we aren't near any of the refineries. There wouldn't be sny shortage of sugar on the grocers’ shelves if it weren't that so many people have gone hog wild in buying canning sugar. « +» « 4. C. Talbert, Morristown, read about Otto Parris’ big sweet potatoes and dropped us a note to say he can top Mr, Parris’ story, *I'raised one that measures 7 inches across and weighs 4 pounds 12 oulces,” he writes. “The rest of my crop is fine and many to the hill. I just wanted to tell you what we raise down around Morristown, Ind.”

"Not bad! , . . Pvt. Alvin Downey, former employee of

The Times circulation department, now over in Italy,

sent Herb Gilligan a big boxful of Fascist emblems

found in a Roman warchouse. Herb distributed them around the plant, and. as a result all the comedians have been going around displaying the medals and giving the silly Fascist salute.

Sounds Like Burlesque

WHILE WALKING at 30th and Emerson the other day, one of our agents says he noticed a man leaning against a utility pole, A moment later, the man turned a little and fell flat on the ground. Our agent yelled for heip, and ran to pick him up. “That's all right,” murmured the fallen one, whose breath, ineidentally, smelled strongly of lquor. “Well, what Bappened?” he was asked. “Oh,” he replied, “I just

World of Science

STUDENTS OF SCIENCE have two reasons for fwaiting the post-war revelations of advances in the radar and other branches of electronics. Like everyone else, they are eager to know the Stage of development to which these have been : brought and their possible influence on post-war industry. Their second reason is one that will interest the general public also in due time. It is the extent to which these new developments may affect our fundamental beliefs about the nature of the physical universe. For, just before the days when. the scientists of the nation were mobilized to devote their complete attention to the defeat of . Germany and Japan, the science reached a very curious tangle con-

of physics Had eerning the basic realities of nature. It might in a sentence be expressed as the dil-

emma of waves vs, particles. It expressed itself first in the question of the nature of light.

More Than Academic

ACCORDING TO one set of experiments, light consisted of ‘waves that were electromagnetic in nature. But according to another set of equally impressive experiments, light consisted of little bullets of energy, the so-called quanta or photons. The layman should understand that this is more than a matter of academic argument on a university eampus. . Take television, for example. It makes use of devices that were designed by the application of the wave theory and: it likewise makes use of devices that were designed by the application of the particle theory. :

Another Puzzler

AN EQUALLY puzzling situation confronts us when we undertake to deal with matter. For many

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who is traveling around the country tells me’ that people come up to him constantly gnd say: “We know that you are a Democrat. You must be so concerned about the President's health. We hear that he is desperately ill.” When the President went : on his recent trip, which took in Hawaii and the .Aleutians, I accompaniéd him as far as San Diego, 1 had just returned, when I received a letter telling me that the writer heard the President ~ had been very ill in San Diego, and had been taken on board a ship to be operated on! For security reasons, at

was leaning over to light a cigaret, and the match broke.” He was helped to his feet and advised to quit smoking. Nothing was said about drinking. . « » From Contact, the OPA news bulletin, we get the latest information on the fur situation. We quote:

" “Sam H. Gabriel, who handles apparel price regula-

tions in the district office, says there are 400 fur dealers 'n Indiana, and that means a lot of trappers. The furs gathered in by ‘the Hoosier trappess are muskrat, mink, fox, possum and skunk. Mink is the most valuable fur but by far the biggest business is in muskrat furs. The total business runs more than a million dollars a year.” always heard that the biggest business was in alley cat fur, . . . Conditions being as they are over in New Guinea, the army boys over there have adopted an appropriate slogan, writes Lt. Bob Pace of Speedway. It is: “Back alive in 45.”

How Do They Get That Way?

BOB OSLER picked up a copy of the Christian Science Monitor and came across an item that offended his sense of civic pride. Says Bob:“What, may I ask, has Boston that should lead the Monitor to sneer at us like this?” And here's what the paper said: “Cruisers, airplanes, tanks become obsolescent almost overnight in wartime, but Indianapolis boasts a street ‘whose wooden paving blocks are only now being replaced with asphalt” Why those low life Easterners! Who do they think théy are? How about those Boston streets? We don’t remember any wooden block streets there, but we do have a distinct impression of very ancient cobblestone streets that wind like cowpaths, in the older section of town. Yes, sir; they've got a lot of nerve. But we like their town, just the same. . . . While perusing the Martinsville Daily Reporter, we came across an appropriately named doctor. He is Dr. Charles Cure, an April graduate of the I. U, School of Medicine. He ought to go far in his profession. His name would be more attractive to future patients than if it were Dr. Carven, or something like that.

By David Dietz

of our devices, such as radio tubes, operate because electrons, the ultimate units of matter, behave like particles. But the electron microscope, whose usefulness everyone understands, was designed by applying results from experiments that indicated that electrons behave like waves. Attempts to reconcile the wave and particle theories have led so for to situations even more puzzling to the layman. Thus, for example, out of them has come the famous Heisenberg principle of uncertainty which denies the possibility of exact measurement in physical experiment. Thus, accordIng ta this theory, we can never measure both the exact position of an electron and its exact velocity, This has brought us philosophically to a denial of the 19th century reliance in mechanism, the rigid chain of cause and effect. If the ultimate behavior of an electron is unpredictable, then we can only make up statistical averages of what is most likely to happen in a given situation. But perhaps Some wartime: distovery, now secret,

_ will throw new light on the matter,

B-29 Without a Sting

A new double-deck, four-engined cargo plane for post-war commercial use is being built along the same general design as the B-29 Superfortress. Built by Boeing Aircraft Co. Seattle, the principal difference between the cargo version of the B-29, and the present bomber itself will be. a larger fuselage. This will make it possible for the new plane to carry greater amounts o rgo and more passengers. General weight and arr hd of the new plane are expected to be, about the same as the Superfortress. ; : The double~deck interior ment will bring to aircraft a feature pp in motor

busses in large cities. Passengers will be carried on two levels, with staircases connecting. Under certain circumstances, cargo may be carried on the lower deck instead of passengers.

"By Eleanor Roosevelt

They are working to create an impression which they think will serve their interests, : course, I realize that it is easier to spread rumors now, when a certain amount of secrecy has to be maintained because of wartime conditions. But I think rumor clinics in every town and village would help to break us of ihe habit of repeating things which we are not really sure are true, It is said that gossip is the vice of women. Yet I have lived nearly 60 years, during which I have spent a good part of my time with men, and I have not found that they are any less quick to repeat things about which they know little and which they have not verified. Eg ; ~ When it comes to gossip

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other details, each fitting neatly into the jigsaw. I learned of the school - in Garmisch-Partenkirch-.en, which specialized in trainin agents for Africa. ; x = » ”

ASIDE FROM these there were the law professors, who hdd their

in Berlin lawyers, called conference with Himmler, requested fo develop cases and business connections for good alibis in travel to still neutral countries. They were promised special plane transportation to Spain and South America. If they could find plausible excuses, they would be sent to Mexico and the United States. : » » n INSURANCE companies, moving firms, travel agencies, and artists’ bureaus, which had already been useful in southeastern Europe, worked out detailed reports on their practical experience. ‘These were submitted in turn to propaganda. experts in the liaison staff of Rudolf Hess, and to the foreign service staff of Heinrich Himmler. Field Marshal von Brauchitsch ordered his- military espionage service to get ready to “branch out beyond the countries assigned to them,” and to “report on political and- economic possibilities.”

» » » IN THE preceding June, the British had incredibly snatched their trapped armies “off the bloody beach of Dunkerque. The unexpected rescue disconcerted the Germans. But not as much as what followed. For weeks the strategy officers of the German high command, the air and navy experts of the general staff, conferred on French soil along the channel, plotting their course; their next invasion should give them England, the giant aircraft carrier from which Germany's planes would complete her conquest of the world.

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NEW MIRACLES— Peat Fertilizer Boosts Harvest To 30 Per Cent

By LEIGH WHITE Times Foreign Correspondent MOSCOW, Sept. 25.—Azotogen, & new bacterial fertilizer developed from peat by Alexandra Sheloumova, a woman chemist of the Soviet Institute of Agricultural Micro-Biology, has ben found to increase the yield of grain and vegetable crops by 20 to 30 per cent, according to an olficial announcement. The substance was devised as a wartime measure to take the place of mineral fertilizers, which are extremely scarce in the Soviet Union at present. One pound of Azotogen powder is said to be sufficient to fertilize 10 acres under grain, or three acres under vegetables. un : 3 » AN X-RAY apparatus using an exposure of 1,000,000th of a second and capable of photographing the strain on an engine bearing in motion has been perfeciced by two young physicists of the Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, L. Aitschuler and V. Zukkerman, “For years scientists have been perfecting methods of investigating the internal structure of metals,” they explained through an ‘official statement. “But usually their samples have been X-rayed in the statis state. We wanted to record the performance of metals ‘at work, so we had to increase the sensitivity of our X-ray apparatus to the maximum.” .

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: » » - BRITISH PHYSICISTS, they said, had constructed a 100kilowatt apparatus for the same purpose, but its tubes were so delicate and expensive that it could be used only in specialized laboratories,

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ONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1944

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Germany to victory after a short armistice.

dared the long flight from London to Berlin to bomb the German capital. In the dense fog of a dark September night, fully manned barges of a triai German invasion fleet set out from France, destination England. Nearly all of them went up in flames. The evacuation from Dunkerque, the bombing of Berlin, the loss of their preliminary invasion force—three blows in succession at the army, the dir force, the navy-—gave pause to the German high command. ” = ”

THE GENERALS suddenly remembered that other day, in 1914, when the Kaiser's troops were turned back from the gates of Paris by the battle of the Marne, At the time, ranking generals had warned the Imperial High Command that Germany could not hope to win. And that war had been lost. Might not this one, too, be lost? Then make ready, far in advance. Prepare for the battles-in-peace before the open war can fail. Prepare for “all eventualities,” s0 that in victory or in seeming defeat Germany will win the obJect of her repeated aggressions. - = =

PUT THE best brains in Germany to devising new undercover strategies. Miss no single detail in plotting the chart of intrigue, speculation, exploitation, velification, fake love and fraternization, revolt, arson, class warfare, race riots, bribery, murder and general Kultur with which to carry on the German battle for domination when the world shall trustingly

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Trainmen Re-Elect

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The Indiana state. legislative

board of the Brotherhood of Rail-

road Trainmen re-elected Day C. Gilbert, Seymour, state representative at their quadrennial meeting last week, 3 . Others re-elected are O. L. Collins, chairman; Frank White, vice chairman, and C. V. Vanderburg, secretary.

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As an American correspondent in Berlin from 1919 to 1941, Sigrid Schultz saw the behind-the-scenes preparation for the coming “war-in-peace” that she warns may culminate din world war IIL This is the story of Germany's plans’ io win the peace, plans that even now are being put into effect.

lay down its arms again, as it did in 1918. We know, and we should never forget, that the German militarists consider us Germany's principal enemy, Our democracy is a symbol of hope to the oppressed. As long as it survives, the nations the Germans are determined to subdue will never resign themselves to German domination. 2 2 = : AND WE must draw the logical conclusions from our knowledge, calmly but quickly. As late as the summer of 1043, German propaganda still triumphed in the belief of ag appalling number of Americans and Britishers that the mistakes of the Versailles Treaty fathered the German aggressive: spirit which = brought about the second world war, Certainly the Treaty of Versailles was far from perfect. Certainly, too, the sufferings of the German people were intense. But only a small fraction of that suffering came from the terms of the treaty. A great part of it came as an aftermath of the war itself and from the German militarists’ determination to bootleg Germany a new army.

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BUT THE Germans blamed us, and our peace treaty. The more sentimental of us echoed plaint. If we had not been so unkind to the poor Germans at Versaille, we said, they would not have felt the need to rearm, they would not have fallen prey to a demagogue like Hitler. On such lopsided, literally Jer-ry-built logic, we based a. whole theory of war. guilt, in which we were both judge-and villain, 8% Cn X THE TRUTH is that German

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: Labor- . Dewey Asks Extension of

Hy FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON. | Sept. 25. —

Hopes. for an early extension of

the social security system were rajsed in Washington through Governor Dewey's indorsement, in his Los Angeles speech, of some important features of legislation which has been stalled in congress since its introduction in June, 1943. The Republican nominee, it was noted ‘here, came out in favor of certain major

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largest number of citizens and which have encountered the least opposition. . ‘In an impor= tant particular, Governor Dewey . differed from the philosophy of

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the. fight when the German army sued for armistice in 1918, It only went under cover to lick its wounds. ’ Our alleged unkindness at Versailles had nothing whatever to do with Germany's dedication to another war and, should that war fail, to still another. F 8.8 THE TRUTH is that in August and September of 1918, when they were privately told by General Ludendorff that defeat was immi-~ nent, Germany's cleverest, most ruthless men, the German General Staff, the top-ranking industrialists, and some of the most astute university professors, came together with a strong common purpose: To form a cabal powerful and fanatic enough to make ready a new army and to sweep Germany to victory after a short armistice.

TOMORROW — Hitler's technique.

HUMAN INTEREST— LaGuardia Quip Answers Hint on Governing. Italy

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (U, P.) —Drew Pearson, news com=mentator and columnist, said last night in his weekly broadcast that Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New would" be commissioned brigadier general in the U. 8. army and would take qver the allied administration of liberated Italy. : The mayor's appointment was definitely decided by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at their recent Quebec conference, Pearson said. (In New York, a spokesman for La Guardia said that the “mayor understands Pearson is to be named a Lithuanian count.” Otherwise, he had no comment.) ” » =

NAZIS CLAIM “BIG VICTORY”

LONDON, Sept. 25 (U. P.).—A.

German radio broadcast, claiming perhaps the only solid victory of the German army since D-day, alleged today that “the army of the state of San Marino” had been captured by “one German shock troop.” The tiny republic in northern Italy, the broadcast said, had declared war on Germany under British pressure. It was estimated here that San Marino's army numbers about 900 officers and men.

8 » 2 STOLEN BUS LOSES RACE NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (U. P.). —Edward Roche, 19, slightly tip= sy, according to police, saw a bus parked at a corner while the driver had a cup of coffee. Roche boarded the bus and took two soldiers on a wild ride before police forced him to the curb 15 blocks away. Roche explained that he always had wanted to drive a bus.

declared Republican policy of maintaining and _ strengthening state functions rather than extending federal power. = # 2 HE WOULD return to the stafes the control of employment services, and would leave unemployment insurance. with the states. But Governor. Dewey expressed full support for the effort to add 20 million Americans to the 40 million pow carrying federal social security cards which promise them old-age pensions after retirement at 65.

Under the present law, enacted in 1935, and for which the Roose. velt administration claimed full credit (although the Republican candidate pointed out it was passed “by a non-partisan vote of overwhelming proportions”) the old-age survivors’ insurance plan covers business and industrial jobs.

Congress excepted a number of other large classes of employment —including agricultural labor, domestic service, public employment, service for non-profit and govern= ment institutions, and self-em= ployment. o » s EERE FOR INSTANCE, a printer who works for a commercial publisher gets the benefit of the present law, but a printer for a religious organization does not. The law ‘covers a janitor who sweeps out a grocery store, and a stenographer for an industrial concern, but not a janitor in an educational institution, nor a stenographer for a charitable group.

These exceptions were made for various reasons, including the one stated by Governor Dewey, “diffi culties of administration.” Governor Dewey said this was “not a good enough answer.” A way around the difficulty has been found in Great Britain and other countries.

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Its Lessons

By RUTH MILLETT A NEW JERSEY woman assisting in a rummage sale for charity laid down her own $980 coat and when she went to get it found it had been sold by another woman for 75 cents. The dis= crepancy be= tween what the coat's owner thought it was worth and what 1% looked like it was worth to another wome an shouldn's surprise anyak body who . knows women. Miss Millett Mrs. Jones wears ‘a new outfit proudly and Mrs. Smith says behind her back, “Wouldn't you think anyone HER size would have better sense than to wear THAT?” - ” s MRS. SMITH is completely sat= isfied with the man she got for & husband but her friends spend considerable time asking other, “What in the world can she see in HIM, do you suppose?” 4 = = » © MRS. BROWN has her living room redecorated with considers able agony and suspense and ‘the neighbors, after telling her how lovely it is, go home and say to

their husbands, “I just wish you

could see what Mrs. Brown has " done to that living room of hers. It's 4'%igh t. If somebody with little taste had spent all of th money it could have been a b tiful room.” : :