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AT “THE FRONT LINE 1 IN TUNISIA, February, 1943. ~The afternoon sun went over the hill and the evening chill began to come down. “We were sitting on a bushy hillside—just a small bunch of American » officers forming what is called a forward ‘command post. Officers who had been in the battle for Ousseltia Pass all day began wandering in through the hh on foot, to report. They & were dirty and tired. But the day +had gone well, and they were cheerful in a quiet and unex-
ted way. A medical corps major came up the hill and said: “Those '‘blankety - blanks! They've knocked out two of my ambulances that were trying to get the woinded back. A hell of a lot a red cross
means to them.”
Nobody said anything. . He went back down the hill, as mad as a hornet. The officers kept talking about three fellow officers who had been killed during the day, and a fourth one who was missing. One of the lead men apparently had Been a special favorite. An officer who had been beside him when it happened came up with blood on his clothes. “We hit the ground together,” he said. “But when 1 got up, he couldn't. It took him right in the head. He felt no pain.” “Raise up that tent and pack his stuff,” and of-
~ ficer told an enlisted man.
Another one said: “The Hell of it is his wife's due to have a baby any time now.”
Hoosier Escapes Captors
JUST THEN a tergeant walked up. He had left the post that morning with the officer who was now missing. “Where's Capt. So-and-So0?" they all asked’ The sergeant said he didn't know. Then he said he himself hgd been captured. . “Captured?” the officers asked. “Yes,” he said. - “The Italians captured me and then turned me loose.” The sergeant was Vernon Gery of South Bend, Ind. He is a married man, and was a lawyer before the war. He is a young and husky fellow, He didn’t ‘appear to be very much shaken by his experience, but he said he never was so scared in his life, Sitting there on the ground he told me his experience. He and the missing captain and a jeep driver had gone forward at 9:30 in the morning to hunt for the body of a popular officer who had been
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
DAN KIDNEY, The Times' Washington corres. pondent, is visiting his old haunts around here, holding reunions with some of his cronies, Dan, Who was eovering the statehouse before going to Washington in 1933, came back home to look into the Hoosier political campaign. . . . A Times staffer has reached his majority. He is Earl Hoff, who was promoted to major on Bougainville, where he is serving as a military press censor -—- censoring news stories sent out by war correspondents. With him in the same set-up are three other Hooslers— Dick Tucker, of the News; Bob - MacBane, formerly with International News Service, and Charles
promoted to major is Arthur Loftin of the Star, now at Norfolk, Va. ... Lt (jg) Tom Blackwell is home on leave. He's en route from his former station at Boston, to a new station, Detroit. . The sharp eves of F. Haltmeyer, 539 N. Pine st. spotted a typographical error in‘ The Times Monday. On Page 1, under a headline reading: “Mdnty Hopes to Quiz Rommel After the War.” there was a “by-line” reading: “By Hugh Baillie, president of the UNTIED Press.” Sounds just the opposite of “United. . , . It's just been called to our attention that we made a mistake in the column several days ago when we commented on the appointment of John Trout to the state conservation commission. Jt wasn’t the commission, but rather the state stream pollution board. ,
Most Embarrassing Moment
TWO GIRLS from Block's advertising department went to a movie one rainy day recently. One of the girls, wearing non-rationed gabardine shoes, removed them at the start, to ease her feet. When they got ready to leave, her friend stood up, but the girl who had removed her shoes remained seated. She explained, between giggles, that she couldn't get her shoes on. They had gotten wet in the rain on the way to the theater, and then had shrunk in
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World of Science
THE FIGHTING units of America and its allies Sow closing in on Germany are the advanced segments a nttwork that extends back to the shops and a of the nation. This great network comprises the channels of supply and along it flow not only guns and tanks and ammunition but personnel replacements as well. Because our interest is so intense in the forward movement along this network, we are likely to lose sight of another network ‘which also covers the globe today. It is a network composed of America’s skilled surgeons, It stretches, from the interior of the U. 8. to the front lines of battle in every theater of war. But whereas men and materiel move forward through the channels of supply, the wounded move backward along the lines of the medical network.
Far-Flung Activities
A SURGICAL procedure started on a Pacific island within range of Japanese snipers may end at a field hospital 100 miles away ready to return to the firing line or it may end in a general hospital in California with the soldier who lost a leg, being fitted with an artificial limb and trained to take a civilian Job in a’ war plant,
My Day
WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—I spent most of yes terday at Mitchell field, visiting the debarkation hospital, having lunch at the hospital mess, and attending and speaking at the show which is given every: Monday sf\ermocn fa the Red Otom Youn. : Men from the European theater are being flown back here as quickly” as possible when it -becomes apparent that they can-
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to duty. A story in the New York Times yesterday showed one of our hospital camps in England where men who have been
To
. colonel came back from his afternoon's tour. He sat
- cutters, shovel, pick, old balloon with several units of
not be restored in a short time -
“I'll be hearing that yell for a long time,” he said.|" In a moment the Italians had Gery. Apparently they were on a definite mission, for seven of them went on, leaving one guard to watch Gery, They had taken his rifle; searched him, and given back his identification cards, but they kept his cigarets, pipe, tobacco, chewing gum and message For an nour the one Italian sat 10 feet from Gery with his rifie pointed at him. °° Suddenly bur artillery began dropping shells close to where they sat. That was too much for the Italian. He just got up and disappeared into the bushes, . And Gery started home. : 3
‘We're in a War’ AS GERY finished his story, the commanding
down on the ground, and the officers gathered around to hear nis reports and get their instructions for the night. There was still gunfire all around. The colonel, a tall, middle-aged man, wore glasses, He had a
school-teacherly look, but he cussed a blue streak
Planes came over again, fnd several officers ran to foxholes, but the colonel acted as though he didn’t see them. The rest of us stayed and continued the conversation. The officers told him about the three members of his staff who had been killed. “Christ!” he said. 4 Then he said: “Well, we're in a war. We've got = expect it. We must try not to feel too bad about
And then he went on: “Here's the way it is. We are being relieved at 11:30 tonight. Jim, you start taking up your phone wire, but nothing else moves a foot before daylight. Joe, you keep on firing up to leaving time, so they won't know we are pulling out. We've got ‘em on the run, and I wish we could stay, but we've got our orders.” Then everybody left to carry out his new duties, and we went back down the hill to our jeep. That is the way war looks from a forward command post, :
drying. After a giggly half hour during Which the girls received many dirty looks from folks seated near them, the shoes were stretched enough to go on their owner's feet, and the girls went their way. +. +» BE. M. Curry, in charge of the surety bond department of the Standard Accident Insurance Co. bought a new suit the other day and carried it home. He proudly showed it to his wife and asked if she liked it. She said she did, and smiled. She let him discover for himself that he already had a suit just like it. . . . A short time after his soldier son ended his furlough and returned to camp, a certain local police captain received a telegram requesting him to: “Send lower denture; find same in piano bench.” ‘The surprised captain looked, and there it was. Seems the boy had been playing the piano and had removed the denture, placing it in the bench for safekeeping.
Campaign Reminder
LARGE FLOODLIGHTED pictures of Governors Dewey and Bricker have been placed in the rotunda of the city hall. They startle Democrats entering the hall. . . . Those minute objects up near the top of the big smokestacks at the light company’s PerryK plant, on Kentucky ave, are not flies—they're painters. They look mighty small, up there on the 276-foot stacks, only a couple of yards or so less than the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument. It's the first time the stacks have been painted since 1941. Incidentally, the iarger of the three stacks is 16 feet in diameter. . . . The September Prisoners of War. bulletin put out by the American Red Cross carries the following note: An airman at Luft III wrote to a friend in Washington: “Articles I could use: Wire
hydrogen, time bomb, pistol, helicopter, smoke bomb, and a few other minor articles.” . . . From the same Red Cross bulletin: On Feb. 19, a staff sergeant in a hospital in Germany wrote his wife in Atlanta as follows: “My back and both pelvis bones were broken and I owe my life to -a German doctor. War is a crazy game. The very people who are supposed to be your enemies do everything possible to save your life. I came down near a farm and the old lady was as good to me and as sympathefic as a mother would have been.”
By David Dietz
I have written about the organization of the army medical department on past occasions and I think the reader is now familiar in a general way with the various units in this network from the battalion aid stations behind the firing lines to the general hospitals at home. Most discussions of army medicine, however, have tended to revolve around blood plasma, sulfa drugs, ete. The role of the individual surgeon in the medical network is too often overlooked. I want to say something about this aspect of the situation. -
Surgeons Deserve Credit
IN THE LAST analysis, the saving of the wounded has been due primarily to two things, the basic plan of organization on which the surgical service of the army medical department functions and the in-
dividual surgeons who do the work whether in al
mobile field hospital, an evacuation hospital, or a general hospital back home. Brig. Gen. Pred W. Rankin, chief consultant in surgery to the surgeon general of the army, pays a high compliment to the devotion, duty, courage, and and skill of the surgeons of the army medical department. “These men were recruited from civilian life with the oncoming of the war and were thrown into the rigorous environment of military life, many times into the dangerous environment of the battlefield,” he said. “They have made the change with amazing Jtheierey and have measured up to their responsibili-
By Eleanor Roosevelt
It is, of course, a satisfaction to them to feel that they can alleviate the suffering which is the result of war. Nevertheless, I often wonder how they bear the constant strain of human tragedies whith. they have Yo-be 1. wueh wilh day in and day out. Just walking along the street the other day, I passed a theater where the. crowd was streaming in, and there stood a group of sailors. Among them was a boy with a cane and his hand on ‘another boy's arm.. His face had that’ sad, blank look 6f a recently blinded person, and it has haunted
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$n, _ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1944
SIX INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS SPEAKERS WILL LECTURE HERE—
Kirshbaum Forum ¢ Season Opens Nov.
The 19th annual season of the Indianapolis Open Forum will begin Nov. 12
in the Kirshbaum center
with six internationally famous speakers. on the program. Opening the series of Sunday
night lectures will be Edgar Ansel
Mowrer, war correspondent, who will speak on “Will There Be a World War III?” The recipient of the Pulitzer prize for distin-
Dann, Community ‘Center association, will preside. ® = PREDERICK SCHUMAN. teacher and writer on contemporary Europe, will return to the forum for the third time on Dec, 3, speaking on “Can We Cure the Germans?” Dr. Schuman has appeared many times on the University of Chicago Round Table, ‘the Town Meeting of the Air, and other nation-wide radio proEduard , noted American i i worker ‘and lecturer at the New York school of social work of Columbia university, will speak on: “The Seven Pillars of American Life” on Jan. 14. Professor Lindeman is a leader in the adult education movement. » ® - “I LIVED with the Russians” will be the subject of Leland Stowe, foreign staff member of The Chicago Daily News, on Feb.
HUMAN INTEREST— Hammond Puts Strict Ban on Lady Wrestlers
HAMMOND, Ind, Oct. 3 (U. P.).—Female wrestling matches were tabooed today by the city
park board. Athletic Commissioner Harry Kennedy censured the park board at a stormy session last night for permitting a female match to be held last Aug.. 9 at the civic center, Board commissioners blamed Promoter Balk Estes, concessionaire, and Kennedy threatened to revoke Estes’ license if female matches were repeated. In parting, the park board decided it might use the civic center for cultural lectures on dates scheduled for wrestling.
- . » MOTHER OF QUADS DIES
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. Oct. 4 (U. P.).~—Mrs. Beulah Lindsey Lashley, 46, of Leitchfield, mother of quadruplets born Feb. 23, 1941, died in a hospital yesterday. In ill health since the birth of the quadruplets, Mrs. Lashley was brought to the hospital last Saturday when her condition became critical. Her death occurred on her 28th wedding anniversary. Neighbors have been caring for othe quads—Beulah, Mildred, John and Martine—since the mothers ‘Besides the quadruplets, Mrs. Lashley is survived by eight other children and her husband, Porter Lashley, » » »
SUPER-CLIPPERS ‘ON ORDER’
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (U. P.. —Giant super-clippers — 700-pas-senger DC-7s to ply the substratosphere between the United States and Latin America at 300 miles an hour—Already are on order for “tomorrow,” Pan-Ameri can World Airways disclosed today. If the civil aeronautics board approves its plans, Pan-American expects to put in operation express schedules that will cut flight time between New York and Buenos Aires from 91 hours 15 minutes to 21 hours 25 minutes and slice the cost from $561.35 to $190.50. ~ ® = = $2.90 THEFT VICTIM DIES NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (U. P).— Mrs. Dorothy Graham, 70, was walking home when a hold-up man snatched her purse. She tried to hang on and beat off the man's grip. In the struggle she was knocked to the sidewalk. She was taken to Knickerbocker hospital, where she died later in the day, The purse contained $2.90.
» - - KISS LEADS TO DIVORCE
Rabbi James G. Heller
18. His book, “They Shall Not Sleep,” is a frank observation based on six months in Russia and his experiences in China. Mordecai Ezekiel, economist, will talk on “What You Earn and What You Pay” on March 18. Dr. Ezekiel, economic adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, acted as assistant to the executive vice chairman of the war production board during October. 1942-43, and has been working as a member of the technical staff of the United Nations Food conference, 3
* Frederick Schuman
Mordecai Ezekiel
THE CLOSING forum session will feature Rabbi James G. Heller, cultural and civic’ leader, who is chairman of the United Palestine Appeal and -one of the chairmen of the United Joint Appeal. He will speak on “The Rising Tide of Hate” on April 8. Rabbi Heller also was pfesident of the Central Conference of American Rabbis during 1941-43 and was one of the founders of the Cincinnati Peace league. The forum, a civic project of the Jewish Community Center association, begins ‘at 8:15 p. mn.
Up Front With Mauldin
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“Straighten those shoulders! -
How long have you been in the army?”
Seven Branches Open Today for Vote Registration
-Branch offices for the registration of voters will be open from 10 a. m. to 8. p. m. at the following places:
TODAY
Pike township school School 56, 24th and Columbia sts. Fire station, 1445 W. Michigan st. John Strange school School 32, 2110 N. Illinois st. School 3, 23 N. Rural st. School 86, 200 W. 49th st.
TOMORROW
School 62, 10th and Wallace st. School 86, 200 W, 49th st. School 60, 33d and Pennsylvania sts. School 2, Delaware and Walnut sts. The main offices in the court house will be kept open 24 hours a day, starting today, and continue around-the-clock registrations until the deadline, Oct. 9.
GETS 2 TO 21 YEARS IN LAWRENCE SLAYING
“Everett Toon, 60. was convicted of manslaughter today and ‘sentenced!
65, during a political quarrel. -
On to Berlin
, By UNITED PRESS
The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today:
WESTERN FRONT-—296 miles (from point near Nijimegen, Gain of mile in week.)
RUSSIA—315 miles (from Warsaw. Unchanged in week.)
ITALY—545 miles (from south of Bologna. Gain of five miles in week.)
Loses ‘Life, Love And Her Fortune’
DENVER. Oct. 4 (U. P.).—WAC Capt. Grace Polk, Corsicana, Tex., saw her life, love and fortune go up in smoke today. Her maid inadvertently dumped her marriage license, promotion order, birth certificate, car title and war bonds in the trash can. Capt. Polk, commanding officer of the Buckley field WAC detachment, rushed to the fields dump when she learned what had ‘happened and arrived just in time to see the precious documents vanish in smoke,
BEDFORD, 4nd., Oct. 4 (U. P).—| ‘GREATEST BATTLE’ DUE?
By UNITED PRESS
Adm. Nobumasa Suetsugu, former commander-in-chief of the Japa-
0 two to 21 years in state prison [OUTIL fleets, has predicted for the slaying of Dennis Coleman. | «the greatest and most decisive bat-
tle ever fought” will be joined in the
A Lawrence county circuit court! near future between Japanese and jury returned a seaeled verdict after| American air and seapower in the
considering the case: Dearly +19 Pacific, a Japanese broadcast said
. hours,
-{ today.
of Vincennes,
Leland Stowe
on Sundays at the auditorium at 23d and N. Meridian sts.
» - s ” MEMBERS of the Open Forum committee, composed of representative leaders of the community, are Russell W. Langsenkamp, chairman of ticket sales; Mrs. Ford Kaufman, co-chairman of ticket sales; Rowland Allen,
Cleo Blackburn, Julian Freeman, |
Dr. M. O. Ross, Mrs. Barbara B.
Rubin, John K. Ruckelshaus, Dr. |
Louis Segar, Leonard A. Strauss, James. A. Stuart, Louis D. Young, Mr, Dann and Allan Bloom, secretary of the association.
BAZOOKA VS. TANK— Hoosier Knocks
Out Mark-T and Kills 3 Snipers
By ROBERT RICHARDS United Press War Correspondent WITH THE THIRD AMERICAN ARMY BEFORE METZ, Oct. 4—Pfc. John Greentree, 22 Ind, calls his buddies “a bunch of knotheads for blabbing too much” about his one-man bazooka duel with the Mark-T panther tank. “Hell,” he said when he came out of the lines today, sweaty and grimy after twelve days almost continuous combat, “it wasn’t so much. What else was a fellow going to do?”
JOHN and three pals were laying down 30 caliber machinegun fire at the Germans m1 a position across the Moselle northeast of Arry. “We were squatting there when I heard a noise in the woods,” John said. “I knew it was an enemy tank. “I hollered to Platoon Sgt. Aurelio Agnolio, 27, Clifton, N. J., to bring up his bazooka. “I didn't know the front end of a bazooka from the back end. But the tank noise was getting louder. “I took the bazooka from Agnolio.
» td = : “THEN a kid whose name I don't know crawled up to me and between us, we put the bazocka in position on a little hill “The tank came crawling out of the woods and I fired the bazooka. ) “The German driver stopped in his tracks. “He couldn’t quite figure where we were, I guess, because his
shell hit the bank just below us.
“That made me mad. I said: “To hell with you Mr. Tank Driver and I let go with one that hit the front of the tank.
“THEN WE both lost our tempers, I guess, and that tank driver and I just blazed away at each other for about four rounds “Just then the kid who was with me said: ‘Hey, we're being out-flanked.” ' “I looked over and there were three German riflemen tryfng to sneak up on us. The kid lent me his rifie and it was just like shooting rabbits back home in Indiana. I didn't fire over six bullets and those three guys were dead.
» » ” “THEN 1 turned back to the tank and it was sitting there with smoke coming out of it, but its gun still aimed toward us.
“I was getting ready to fire
again when 1st Li. James H. McGee, 26, Lawrenceville, Ga., called up and told us to pull back. “So we ducked down behind the hill and left that old tank Just squatting there In its own smoke.”
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Wage Issue May Be Sent
To Congress
By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—~F dent Roosevelt could remove ticklish political question fro the campaign by adopting a sug: gestion that the important decision on breaking wartime controls should be made by congress and not by the executive, If the President should adopt this plan he woul be relieved of possible political ° repercussions, which Mr. Perkins are thought likely no matter which way he moves. will not be back in Washington until a week after the Nov. 1 election, and congressional lead-
then be made without the politi= cal pressure that will exist in the next five weeks. ” ” 8
C. I. 0. UNIONS, in the front of the drive to smash the Little Steel formula of wage control, are pressing the war labor board to get its recommendations on the President’s desk not later than Oct, 18.
Philip Murray, president of the C. L. 0., denied any political implications, but insisted - on the deadline. The C. I. O. unions, through the Political Action Committee headed by Sidney Hillman, are prominent in the drive for the fourth term, » ” »
THE SUGGESTION that congress make the decision was presented to Judge Pred M. Vinson, director of econnomic stabilization, by Rep. A. 8. (Mike) MonToney, (D. Okla.), who has been active in stabilization legislation, He wrote to Mr. Vinson: “Because wages and prices are So closely tied together, I would
approve this important step. . “To break through the ‘Little Steel’ formula now would result in a general upward movement of all prices, of great enough degree to cancel out all, or most all, of the real purchasing power of any increase.” s # »
THE FORMULA is not written into law, but has been given such support by executive orders of the President that the war labor board has stated it cannot make a change. It can only advise Mr. Roosevelt—the only official wit power to decide—who finds him self called on to approve or dis-* approve a pay raise for groups including millions who are fe garded as his political supporters.
We, the Wome Civilians Should Thank Service Men |
By RUTH MILLETT A KANSAS judge, as a memorial to his son who was killed in action in 1942; writes a “home town letter” every so often which he sends to 175 men and women that the war has taken away
‘that you find in all of us the same
Ruth Millett forward, we will walk together
down the pathways of our re maining years, happy in the enjoyment of the - benefits which have been preserved for all of us and which have been purchased for us during these awful days, by all of you.” ; 2 » ” ¥ SOMEHOW it is hard to imag+ ine that service men receiving letters like that from a civilian will be as likely to be bitter to ward the folks back home as the ones ‘who get no such under: standing, grateful letters—but think of civilians as so many profiteers who are mopping up while the service men fight ti war,
There is much concern days over the ever breach between service men