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.wagon. There we threw our bedding rolls.

It was the coziest place I'd glept in for a week. It had two magnificent features—the ground was dry, and the wind was cut off, 1 was &) pleased at finding such a wonderful place that I could feel my general spirits go up. like an elevator. A res hie “detachment. got orders -10- move the

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A NEW RESIDENT of the city writes that he greatly admires our Soldiers and Sailors’ monument, but is a bit puszied by the “octagonal bore” of ‘the cannon on the southwest and northeast corners, up

high, Is it true, he asks, that some of the guns of civii war days fired octagonal-

just a bit of artistic license on the part of the sculptor who carved He's never heard of

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Around the Town

PORMER JUDGE Clarence E. Weir ate lunch at About an hour

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World of Science

IN CIVILIAN life the patient is brought to the surgeon. In war, the surgeon must be brought to the patient. This is the chief difference between miliuy and. civilian surgery. The fundamental rules of good surgery are the same for civilian and military life, Brig. Gen. Fred W. Rankin, chief consultant in surgery to the sur- ‘ geon general of the army, points out. But environment of war makes a tremendous difference in how these rules are applied, At home the victim of an acute appendicitis or an accident is rushed to a hospital where the surgeon is waiting in the operating ‘room. The complex organization of the army medical department grows out'of the fact that in war ft Must be done the other way around. It Is essentially an “organization in depth” with as many surgeons brought as close to the fighting line as is practical. Closest to the line of battle are the battalion aid stations established by the battalion surgeons. As is well known, wounded men, picked up on the field of battle while the fighting is raging, are brought by the litter bearers of the medical corps to these stations,

Time Is Vital

is to reduce to a minimum the time that elapses between the occurence of the wound and the occur. Dr. Rankin says. “Ideally, 8 stplstely equipped hospital with a full complement of Specialists ought to be at the bat-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday-—Most of my time yes

. terday was spent at the conference on rural educa-

tion at the White. House. The morning session ended with a speech by John v, yStudebaker, Sommissioner, 3 U. 8.

education, and the

education, particularly on the ministrative side, seemed to emerge very clearly, The various states, as they contemplate ‘should be able to call upon the

: and assistance which can only be ~ given where there is centered a jgreat body of seséarsh.

haven. And to think after all it was

‘who were caught without such preparedness have

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the nature of the battle warrants it; clearing stations “IT 18 a well-known fact that the essential need

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You Become Practical

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EE io. sincutly practical in. whrtime. who recently went through the pockets” of 10 Americans killed in battle said the dominant thing he found was toilet paper. Careless soldiers

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to use 20-franc notes. is so scarce you always take anything that’s offered you whether you need it or not. I've taken a proffered cigaret while already smoking one. I've drunk wine, which I detest, just because somebody was: sharing his bottle. I no longer have any shame about accepting candy, cigarets, cloth-

We have all been living for months on the policy which ‘the famous Col. Edson Raft put in these words: “I never refuse anything.” If somebody offered me a bottle of castor oil rd accept it and hide it away.

it in his pocket, and departed. ... A rather shy, nervous girl recently called on Miss Anna Hasselman, curator of the John Herron Art institute. Said the girl: . “I cant draw very good, and I don't know nothin’ about paintin’, though I went to the art school for half a term.. They didn’t give me no credits, but 1 just Joye art and want to do somethin’ with it. So 1 guess I better teach it. Can you teach me to teach, with credits?” Miss Hasselman passed the buck by sending the girl on to Donald Mattison, She didn’t have the heart to tell the girl that it just isn't done that way. . . Three youthful G. Ls stood beside the “popeorn "machine at the Illinois st. Service Men's Center. Two were drinking cokes, while the third was trying to eat a candy bar but was having diffi“Say,” ejaculated one of the others; “what're you doing, eating wrapper and all?” “No.” “Well you are, too: that’s cardboard on the bottom.” “Gosh, no wonder this was so tough.” “From now on,” laughed the third G. I., “your name is Goat Allen.” Never a dull moment at the 8, M. C.

Mystery Is Solved

WHILE WALKING down the street the other day, Chief Yoeman Tom Brooks of the local navy recruiting station was more than a little surprised to observe various soldiers and sailors saluting him as he passed. The rank of chief yeoman doesn’t call for a salute, but he assumed the men had mistaken his chief's uniform for that of & commissioned officer.’ And so he returned the salutes. The mystery was solved when he turned a corner and saw a full colonel walking right behind him. ... Bob MacGill, staté editor of the Star, got on a North Meridian bus to come downtown one day this week and noticed a woman who was about to get off the bus because the operator couldn't change a $5 bill—all the money she had. “I think I can change it for you,” said Bob, anxious to be helpful. He found five $1 bills and exchanged them for the $5 bill. And then he started to pay his own fare and found that all he had was the $5 bill and two cents. Much embarrassed, he confessed his plight. The woman, who probably thought it was just a racket, wound up by paying Bob's fare for him.

By David Dietz

talion aid stations. But this is obviously impossible.” The battalion aid station is almost always under artilfery fire, Brig. Gen. Rankin points out. Sometimes it is within range of rifle fire. When troops are advancing rapidly during the active phase of a battle, it may be difficult for the battalion surgeon to keep up with his unit. “Consequently,” Brig. Gen, ‘Rankin continues, “the organization of medical service has had to be an organisation in depth with® the treatment of the wounded in the combat zone divided into two stages, namely the primary phase of treatment and the more definitive or emergency surgical treatment.”

The First Echelon

BATTALION aid stations constitute what is known technically as the first echelon. From them the wounded are moved to collecting and clearing stations further behind the lines which constitute the second echelon, The first and second echelons are charged with the primary phase of treatment which consists of the arrest of hemorrhage, prevention of impending shook, administration of sulfa drugs, and applications of dressing and splints. The lightly wounded often need no further treatment but those whose wounds are serious are sent on to the third echelon, the evacuation hospitals, It is here that the first stage of definitive surgery begins. There is, however, one exception to this rule. When

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are re-enforced by the addition of mobile surgical units. These are small movable hospitals staffed by teams of surgical specialists and can be sent wherever they are needed. Operations that must be performed at once in order to save life are done by these teams. . &

By Eleanor Roosevelt

The panel discussion, led by Dr. Carl C. Taylor, head of the division of farm population and rural welfare, U. S. department of agriculture, also brought out many important and interesting sidelights. After the President addressed the conference, everybody wandered through the rooms and came into the state dining room for a cup of tea. ; My anxiety to miss nothing this morning brought me downstairs at 9 o'clock, only to find we had an hour’s grace and were not to assemble until 9:30, This morning the flve committees set up to consider 10 specific phases of rural education made their reports. I found it a most interesting session; but as

sion period. This was made one minute shofter by a request that I produce Fala. I also had to produce a piece of cake so-Fala would do his tricks! : iy rn ea 3 productos ; Ethel Barrymore in

usual, I think the most interesting time is the discus-|

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TALLIN N, Estonia.— Most of the inhabitants of this pleasant little capital have disappeared and almost “half of: its buildings lie in ruins.

| Wi German stivcities Sf She wan atrocities included the Shoting 4nd srting of 80 me, on one day ae ep a hiian village of Clooga, 25 miles south of here,

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YET THE people, with that surprising resilience of spirit of which the human race is capable, seem to have been relatively unaffected by the horrors they. have witnessed. Pon 40.10 45 per cent of Tallinn’s buildings had been destroyed. All but a fraction of the ruins of this little Baltic seaport are three years old—the consequence of air attacks preceding the Ger-

~man-Finnish occupation of Es-

tonia in August 1941. _ But some of the ruins are still smouldering today—a consequence of Soviet efforts to impede the. Germans’ evacuation. Ed . ” THE LAST ship left Tallinn in the morning of Sept. 22 and the Russian army entered the city the same day. According to Col. Grigore Romanovitch Ketlerov, of the Leningrad general staff, the German forces had to jettison much of their equipment, and half of their ships, he says, were sunk. Approximately half the Germans in Estonia either have been killed or captured, according to Some have escaped to Dago, Ezel and other islands off the Estonian coast. Others have reached Koenigsberg and Danzig, and still others are hiding out in the Estonian woods,

2» » SOME ARE still being rounded up in Tallinn itself. Every now and then a bedraggled group-of Germans is led across the square

HUMAN INTEREST— Chewin' Tobacco

And Snuff Make

‘Comeback in U.S.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U. P), —“No smoking” signs in most war plants have brought a chaw of tobacco and a pinch of snuff back in high style, an agriculture department survey revealed to-

' day.

Use of smoking tobacco has declined consistently since the oute break of war and now is at an all-time low, the bureua of agricultural economics said. “Behind the drastic reduction + « « is the prohibition of smoke ing in war plants,” the bureau continued. “Consequently, pipe smoking has given way to the use of chewing tobacco and snuff.” = ” - EUNICE HAS GOOD NIGHT PITTSBURGH, Oct. 8 (U. P). —Heartened by a bedside visit of handsome Movie Star Victor Mature, whom she dubbed her “great big hunk of junk” 11-year-old Eunice Kinzer was reported today to have had a “good night” at the Allegheny General hospie tal where she is recovering from a delicate operation for removal of a brain tumor. Mature traveled 360 miles from

spend 10 minutes yesterday at the bedside of the chubby-faced bespectacled child whom he met in Atlantic City last August. = = ‘®. CHINA IN JAP SHOES? WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (U. P.). —China may be able to step into Japan's shoes after the war as a

crafts and silk to the U. S., and in turn may sqme day buy huge quantities of manufactured goods —items like 20,000,000 farm tractors—a commerce department survey said today. ; The survey, written for the foreign commerce weekly by Dorothy V. Knibb of the bureau of foreigm and domestic commerce, said that if China could standardize its production, its chances of replacing Japan in western markets would be excellent, ” ” » 3 KNOWS WHAT HE'S AFTER

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Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, as it appeared before the war. Half of its buildings now lie in ruins,

in front of our hotel by Russian tommy-gunners. . Every few minutes a booby trap somewhere in the city. But the Germans planted fewer mines and did far less damage: before ‘their departure than anyone had expected. They were in too much of a hurry to get away. 2 ” » “THE CITY,»in spite of extensive devastation, is neat and clean and its parks and gardens are in excellent condition. Of the normal population of 150,000, however, probably not more than 50,000 persons remain. Some of them have been killed, some have been impressed for slave labor in Germany. Others have dispersed throughout the countryside — some to carry on guerrilla warfare, others merely to hide. Others-are in the Soviet Union either as soldiers in the Russian army's Estonian corps or as civilian evacuees, and still others have simply fled—some to Sweden in open boats, some to Germany by land.

"Up Front With Mauldin

MOST OF those who fled fo Germany, of course, were followers of the former wine merchant, Hjalmar Mjaa, the Estonian quis-

ling. "Those who fled—or attempted to flee—to Sweden, however, appear to have been chiefly members of the Estonian “bourgeoise, = who when the time came, were unable to make a choice between naziism and bolshevism —or what they thought was bolshevism. For its part the Russian army in Tallinn appears to have been behaving with exemplary restraint, » »” s STRICT order is being maintained and all German institutions have been abolished. But to date, T am told, there have been no arrests of Estonian civilians, and there seems to be no disposition on the part of the authorities to treat anyone with a heavy hand except persons accused of collaboration with the enemy. :

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Five 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 : School 60, 33d and Pennsylvania sts. " School, 46th st. and Central ave. School 3, Delaware and Walnut sta. School 92, 51st and Evanston sts. School 1, 3614 E. 36th st. TOMORROW School 91, 51st and Evanston sts. School 1, 3614 E. 36th st. Warren Central high, 10th and

On to Berlin

The Te distances to Ber. lin from advanced allied lines today: : WESTERN FRONT-—296 miles (from point near Nijmegen. Gain of one mile in week.) RUSSIA—315 miles (from Warsaw. Unchanged in week.) ITALY—544 miles (from Loiano. Gain of six miles in week.)

FOUR ‘VERY SEVERE’ QUAKES RECORDED

NEW YORK, Oct. 68 (U, P).— Fordham university's seismograph recorded four “very severe” earthquakes yesterday afternoon and late {ast night. The first tremor, recorded at 12:29 p. m., Indianapolis time, was estimated to have been 9600 miles in

" re-establish the regime which ex-

Copyright, 1944, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

The local Soviet is preparing fo

isted prior to the German invasion of 1941, » » ” SO LONG as local elements are prepared to re-adapt themselves to that regime they would seem to have little reason to be apprehensive about the future. It may as well be stated frankly, however, that there will be no place in that regime for persons who desire to re-establish unrestricted capitalism in Estonia or restore the type of independent capitalist’ republic which existed prior to 1940. » » » FROM the Soviet point of view, the liberation of Estonia is the liberation of part of the Soviet | Union.

Tallinn wil] once again become a base for the Russian Baltic fleet as it was from 1721 until 1920. In 1920, the infant Soviet government was forced to recognize Estonia's indépendence.

NO LONG FACES— Cobb's Dogwood Will Be Planted

PADUCAH, Ky., Oct. 6—A dogwood tree, fertilized by the ashes of Irvin S. Cobb, will be planted here tomorrow in services for the late Kentucky humorist as the single, simple monument to his memory. In a cemetery plot shaded by a towering centures-old oak, the ashes of Cobb—who admonished in a letter written before his death that there be no “long faces, no mourning”—will be laid to rest in a hole dug for the tree. . = 2 COBB, who was born here June 23, 1876, and died in New York city on March 10 this year, asked

—the psalm beginning: “The Lord is my shepherd .. ." Only brief services will be held. His ashes, which Cobb wrote when “properly rendered down shouldn’t much more than fill a Mason fruit jar” were brought here from New York in a polished marble urn. ” 8 ” AT THE head of procession of friends and relatives. who were told “to keep the thing cheerful, boys and girls” will be George Goodman, state OPA director and intimate Cobb friend, carrying the urn. He will be accompanied by three other of the humorist’s cronies, Attorney Tom Waller, Publisher Edwin J. Paxton of the Paducah Sun-Democrat and Col. Guy Thompson, noted horseman. They will {be followed by his widow, Mrs. Laura Cobb; his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Cobb Rogers, and his granddaughter, Mrs, Gregson Bautzer., = » = A NEGRO choir, assembled by Mattie Coleman, long a servant in the Cobb household, will sing “Deep River” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” Tom Waller, selected by the journalist and short story writer because Pe would be neither “verbose nor lachrymose” will deliver a brief eulogy and the Rev. Joseph R. Walker, pastor of the. First Presbyterian church, will read the 23d Psalm. 8 s » NO BLACK will be worn at the services since Cobb wrote that

Over His Ashes

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lc. I. O. Local Protests P. A. C. Stand

By HENRY J. TAYLOR Seripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 6—A C. IL. O. local in Salt Lake City, Utah, revolted this week against the dic~ tation of the C. L. O. Political Ac tion Committee, - The local, No. 149 of the United

. ficers also prode tested that “we Mr. Taylor = are told that the press and public must be kept in ignorance of our honest disagreement. . . . We resent being told by such leaders, or anyone else, that they must do our thinking for us.” The loeal took its stand in a resolution signed by Ronald K. Erickson, president, W. V. Call, vice president, and Richard Westmoreland, secretary-treasurer, » » F J THE RESOLUTION said the C. IL. O. as a body is committed fo support the Democratic party and the fourth term and “such committment indicates to the public that the C. I. O. supports the fourth term” but the Salt Lake City-local is “evenly divided on the matter.”

It stated that such must be the case in many other locals and hence the “resources of the union should not be used for partisan purposes, for the funds which maintain the national association are contributed by all members, Demoerats and Beyublicans alike” ; . “Therefore,” the resolution con» cluded, “the Salt Lake Local No. 149 condemns the action of our national association in using the funds of the association and the name of the C. I. O. as a whole for the support of either party.” ” » »

ATTACHED to the resolution was a statement by Mr. Call, made after he had attempted to release the protest to the local press. His statement said:

“Because our local does not swallow hook, line and sinker all - the alien philosophy of government and economics fostered and promoted from New York, we are told that we must maintain our - silence and allow 3 mother organization to speak for us.”

Lewis R. Merrill, national presYams of the Office Workers and Communist, was es known in New York as Louis Cohen. He was long active in the original Office Workers Union of the Trade Unity league, official Communist party affiliate. Merrill attained prominence as a member of the American Peace Mobilization organization which carried on a militant campaign against lend-lease and conscription and which picketed the White House in anti-war demon=.

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P).—A thief broke into the |Post rd dies. A second followed a few min-| “folds of black crepe never min. Dewayne Potter residence last | School 47, 1240 W. Ray. . | utes later. At 9:46 p. m. Indian-| istered to the memory of the denight, passed up cash lying on | one main offices in the court|2polis time, the seismograph parted; they only make the wearer the dining room table, several will be. kept 24 hours a cOfded an earthquake 5000 miles unhappy and self-conscious,” new articles of clothing, and a |DOUSe opt. open disant in an undetermined direction,| And his friends, mindful of ‘set up new silverware, ‘He stole |day for around-the-clock regisira-|ang this was shortly followed by a | Cobb's wishes, will i2y “to wake a carton of cigarets. tions until the deadline, Oct. 9. | second tremor. it snappy.” — : By Crockett Johnson

Working Wife Learns fo Be

Home Partner

By RUTH MILLETT A NEW YORK banker says that the housewives who are working for the first time in their lives are learning how to handle money, and that after a few weeks of splurging on luxuries : women plant workers are banking a good’ part of their earnings, The banker predicts that out of their job experience women will become their hushand’s

Ruth Millett I've heard husbands make 18» marks that bear out the bank er’s statements,