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Editor's Note: This Is the 22d of a series of Emie Pyle war dispatches that are being reprinted while

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THE TUNISIAN FRONT, February, 1943.—Capt. Jed Dailey of Sharon, Mass, got back safely in his

Jeep after the German break-through out of Faid

Pass, But he had a horrible time, . a He was beating it to the rear across the desert, : * - along with the rest of the command post’s personnel, when suddenly he saw a Mark 4 tank staring him in the fact not a hundred yards away. The tank was stopped, the crew had the turret door open, and a German was standing there, looking at Capt. Dailey as cold as

the creeps.

- and there was another Mark 4 staring at him. He kept turning and dodging, but everywhere he could go he would be looking smack at the front end of a Mark 4. They just seemed to appear from nowheredand there they'd be suddenly, until he felt like a mouse trying to get out of a room full of silent cats, Finally Jed did the only thing left to do. He took his heart in his hand and drove right between two German tanks, with their crews sitting there at the guns and looking at him as he passed 50 yards away. They didn't shoot, and he doesn’t know to this day why they didn’t. Then he stepped on that jeep and went soaring across the desert, flying over irrigation ditches you'd normally ¢ross in low gear, German artillery got after him. They dropped an 88 on his right, and then one on his left, and then one.in front of him, They had him pocketed. ; When artillery does that, the next shot always gets you. But they never fired a fourth shell. He has no idea why. It was kind of like a miracle,

He Hates Germans Now THINGS LIKE THAT went on all afternoon.

Finally it got dark, and a sort of safety came. But

it wasn't complete safety, for German patrols were out scouring the desert for stragglers. Jed finally got away by driving the jeep straight up over the top of a mountain and down the other

ice. It was enough to give you ° Jed swung the jeep around--

side. He just missed driving over several sheer cliffs. From now on he hates Germans,

Most ‘of the men who survived the German's surprise break-through on the first day of the Sbeitla battle lost evxerything they had. Major “Satch” Elkins of College Station, Tex., came out with only the clothes on his back. But he resented most losing 300 razor blades to the Germans. Capt. Daily swears he will get the German who is now sleeping in his bedroll. One soldier was sore as a hornet because the day before he had gathered up his inertia and accomplished the nasty job of writing six long overdue leiters home. Now the Germans have them, and he has that writing job_to do all over. = Again, Jed Dailey lost his camera and a doZen rolls of film he had been taking for months. One of them was a foolish picture, such as the soberest of adults sometimes indulges in. He had taken some desert flowers, stuck them behind his ears, and posed for the camera making a silly face. “The Germans will develop those films for what information they can get” he says. “And when they come to the one of an American officer with flowers behind his ears, they'll probably tell Goebbels to put it out on the radio that Americans are sissies.”

It Seemed Awful

ONE SOLDIER told me his most vivid impression of the afternoon was seeing 10 brand new tires burning up on the wheels of a huge American truck. “With rubber so short at home, and tires rationed.” he said, “it seemed awful to see those brand new ones burning.” : Another soldier said, “You ‘damn fools, here’s the sky full of planes, and the country full of tanks, and 88s dropping all around you, and you're worrying about tires!” Lieut. Col. George Sutherlin of Shreveport, La. and Lt. Robert Simons Jr. of Columbus, O., walked 20 niiles across the desert that night. They had a compass, and it saved them. We had been talking about them while they were missing. “George will show up,” one officer said. “I'll bet any amount of money on it. Hell the Germans will turn him loose after two days, to get rid of him before he ‘talks them to death.” And show up he did.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

MRS. FRANK C. ZARD, who keeps her husband's barber shop, 16 S§. Capitol ave, supplied with potted plants, put some plants in the trunk compartment of the family. car Wednesday morning and took them down to the shop. When she opened the trunk, x there was the family cat—Big Boy. The animal, which had jumped into the trunk when she wasn't looking, was in a fine state of nerves as a result of the bouncing around en route to town, and he took off down the alley at full cat speed. He hasn't been seen since. , , . We've received several complaints lately about public places, including a restaurant owner and an elevator operator, ; refusing admission to blind peri in sons because they were accompanied by their seeing-eye dogs. We checked with Herb Kenney in the state legislative reference bureau and find that a state law enacted in 1937 makes it illegal to bar such dogs. The law states: “Any blind person accompanied by a dog described as a ‘seeing eve dog, or any dog educated by a Tecog-

‘nized training agency or school, which is used as

a leader or guide, is entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of all public conveyances, and all places of public accommodation, subject only to the conditions and limitations applicable to all persons not so accom. panied, and prbvided such dog be safely muzzied, and provided also that said dog should not occupy a seat in such public conveyance.” All of which boils down to the idea that a blind person has the right to take a seeing-eye dog anywhere, but can be asked to muzzle it, *

Trouble With Junior

LT. TED NICHOLAS of the state selective service headquarters is having trouble with his pet cat, Junior, Several years ago, Junior chose the top of the Nicholas’ convertible coupe for his bed. The cat's weight—he’s a big cat—made the cloth top sag. Ted complained bitterly on various occasions that the darned cat was going to ruin the top, but Mrs. Nicholas wouldn't Jet him swat Junior with a folded

World of Science

AMONG THE little sung heroes of world war II who deserve to be more widely known, are the mem-

-bers of the mobile surgical units. Skilled surgeons,

ranking among the finest that America has produced, they are today performing operations of the utmost delicacy within range of the enemy's artillery. The amazing record of saving the wounded which the army medical department has achieved in this war is due in no small part to these units. As is well known,

a first-aid station alive, are kept alive and returned to full duty, limited duty, or civilian life. In general, the policy is to perform only the primary phase : of the treatment of the wounded at the battalion aid stations and at the collecting or clearing stations further behind the fighting lines. Definitive surgery is not begun until the wounded man reaches the third echelon, the evacuation hospital, The exceptions to this rule are the mobile surgical units. These units, easily moved about wherever needed, are sent forward to the clearing stations to perform operations upon those soldiers whose wounds will not permit of delay,

Small Movable Hospitals

THE MOBILE surgical units are actually small movable hospitals staffed by teams of surgical specialists. ‘Their equipment is carried on specially designed automobile trucks and when no farmhouse

My Day

HYDE PARK, Sunday.—I left Washington Friday on the night train to attend former Governor Smith's funeral. In the last few years I had seen comparatively little of the former governor, but for many

\ years, while he was governor of New York, and

particularly when he campaigned for the presidency in 1928, I saw much of h He did a great deal for his state, and the people bf New York . should be extremely grateful for the years he gave in their service. The romance that began when he was a young man never died, and after his wife's death I think he probably had very little desire © to live. His children will feel * sadly bereft, because I think he

was always the center of his fam-

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newspaper to break him of the habit. It doesnt always Pe Be. put this is one instance in which hubby's dire prediction came to pass. The top finally has torn loose, and a new one will cost about $60. However, most husbands would consider that a cheap price to pay just to prove they were right once in a while. . . . The selective service headquarters received a letter the other day from a draft board clerk at South Bend announcing that in running for a bus, she had fallen and broken her ankle, She added she was very sorry this had to happen just at this time, “but I guess there never would be a convenient time to break a bone.” She's right. . . . The Indianapolis chapter of the Red Cross has received a request that's going to be difficult to fill. Marshall K. Harris, Seaman 1-c, with the navy in the Atlantic, wrote that he 4s an Indianapolis boy and would appreciate a favor. His ship, he said, needs a piano, and his gun crew is willing to pay a reasonable sum for one, but can’t go around looking for one because they're at sea. The request left Red Cross officials just a little baffled as to how they would get the piano from here to the coast, and then aboard ship.

What Will Folks Think?

A MIXUP IN NAMES caused a bit of embarrassfilent recently for a couple of families which happen to be the only families in town having a certain surname. Let's call them the Blanks. Young Mrs. Blank received a- phone call during the recent Indianapolis Symphony phone campaign asking if she were planning to renew her season ticket to the symphony. “No,” she replied. “I'm afraid I couldn't get much use out of it. You see, I'm expecting an addition to our family, mid-winter.” “You're what?” gasped the caller. A little later, after the conversation had ended, it dawned on Mrs. Blank she never had had a season ticket. And then, aghast, she grabbed the phone and called the elder Mrs. Blank, “Aunt Roxie,” she asked, “did you ever have a season ticket to the symphony?” “Oh, every year, but I haven't gotten around to it yet this year,” she replied. “Well,” said young Mr. Blank, “don't be surprised when people congratulate you,” and she told what had happened. To date, Aunt Roxie has received six phone calls from startled friends.

By David Dietz

or other building is available, the hospital is set up in tents, ! These teams perform: the operations that cannot wait. These are largely cases of wounds to the head, chest, and abdomen. As already stated, the normal policy is to send wounded men back to the evacuation hospitals for the start of definite surgical treatment. However, head, chest and abdomen cases will not survive transportation.

Units Reduce Deaths

THE GREAT reduction in deaths from these three types of wounds in world war II has been due in the grPatest degree to the efficient work of the mobile surgical units, > Most of the wounded men in need of operations, however, do not fall into the three classifications mentioned. According to Brig. Gen. Fred W. Rankin, chief consultant in surgery to the surgeon general of the army, from 65 to 70 per cent of all wounds seen in army hospitals in combat areas are wounds of the extremities. The larger number of the wounded, therefore, move back from the clearing stations to the evacuation hospitals. . At the evacuation hospital, the surgical management of the wound begins. X-ray pictures are taken. Necessary pre-operative treatment is given. It is the hope that the man can be returned to active duty from the evacuation hospital, but if this is nof possible, he goes from there to a general hospital in the base area, far removed from the combat zone. If the man cannot be returned to active duty from this hospital, he is sent to a general hospital in the United States.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

In Washington, on Friday, we held a committee meeting of the national achievement award, sponsored by Chi Omega, to consider the candidates for the coming year's award. Afterward, a small luncheon was given in honor of this year’s recipient, Dr. Florence E. Seibert, a biochemist, who has done remarkable work in research on tuberculosis. : 4 At 2:30 a larger meeting was called in the East room, and some 75 people were present when the speeches were made and the medal presented. : The ceremony was to have taken place last spring, but. had to be postponed on account of Dr. Seibert's illness. ‘I was happy, as-1 always am, to have it here in the White House, since this award, which honors a woman every year, has great significance for me.

Many awards are granted to men for achievement |

in various fields, but there are comparatively few which single out women in different fields of work and

SECOND SECTION bis er

By CURT RIESS Today, when the allies need a German underground, there is hardly

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serves this name, Some -.anti-Nazis within the Reich are waiting to be liberated, ,but they do not intend to fight and die for their liberation. Overwhelmingly the Germans opposed to Hitler are not so much fighters as weary, discontented and, above all, disappointed people. = x » THEY ARE completely apaetic and thus are definitely of no use to the last all-out effort which the Nazis make. But neither will they be of great use to the allies. There is absolutely no reason to believe that this rémnant of an underground—Catholics, workers and others—will aid the allies actively in bringing the war to a sudden end. There are many reasons why there is no unified German resistance against Hitlerism in Germany today,

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idiotic reaction of the largest German workers party at the time of Hitler's rise to power—the Ger man Social Democratic Workers Party, whose leaders believed that they did not have to go underground and could continue mild opposition to Pascism in civilized form. Another reason can be found in the person of Heinrich Himmler, who over many years perfected the police system in Germany which made life for anybody opposed to Hitlerism dangerous, if not impossible. : s r . WE MUST also not forget that, up to the beginning of this war, German anti-Fasists inside Germany and their helpers outside Germany stood alone. Even to the smallest degree they were unable to depend on the aid of other countries. Those who wrote and printed anti-Hitler pamphlets to be smuggled into Germany were in constant danger of arrest for offending the “head of a friendly state.”

HUMAN INTEREST— Tuffy Gets Too Tough, Lands in Kansas City Zoo

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 9 (U. P.).—Pvt. Tuffy, lion mascot of the 33d ferrying command, stationed at Fairfax airport, had a new home today. Tuffy was iocked in a cage at the Swope park zoo. Tuffy's troubles began when he let his temper get the best of him yesterday. Instead of merely

playing with the pilots, Tuffy bit one of them on .both arms.

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Tuffy is a 14-month-old cub, a gift to the pilots by one of their

officers.

- = = GET PLEASANT SURPRISE PETERSBURG, Ind., Oct. 9 (U. P).—Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Davis of Petersburg believed their son, T. Sgt. Donald Davis, was dead or s prisoner after learning last July he was missing in action in France. Today they were getting over the shock of seeing Donald arrive home for a month's furlough. He bailed out when his B-14 bomber was shot down and succeeded in reaching allied lines. e » = = DETROIT, Oct. 8 (U. P.).—An attempt to get $270 from Mr. and Mrs, Clarence King, parents of the kidnaped, 4-mionths-old Robert King, was repotred today by Police Inspector Robert Pendergast, who said the demand “most likely was the work of a crank.” Pendergast said that-a man telephoned Mrs. Ring last night and told’ her to place the money in an open automobile at a Detroit street intersection. Two officers hid in wait at the appointed place, but np onhe appeared, the inspector said. The baby disappeared Oct. 1, apparently by a newly-hired nurséemaid who called herself “Helen Rosman.” Officers have been unable to find any trace of such a person.

DINNER IS PLANNED

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Communists convicted of anti-Hitler activities are permitted to

read but not talk as they while away the hours in one of the dormi-

tories of a German concentration camp.

Nazi guards (background)

keep a watchful eye on them to see that they have no opportunity

to plot an escape.

Curt Riess, distinguished journalist and author, wrote “The Self-Betrayed,” “The Nazis Go Underground” and other widely published books remarkable for their revelations of happenings inside wartime Germany and for their forecasts of events which later transpired in Hitler land. Here, drawing upon information received from secret sources, he is able to answer the question, “where is the German underground?”

APPEASERS. everywhere refused to have anything to do with those Germans who wanted to fight Hitler while Hitler was sending fifth columnists by the thousands into their own coun‘tries. . News of only one decisive action of sabibtage during the last few weeks has yet come out of Germany. This took place on Aug. 18 in the munitions factory Haskell

near Doeberitz, a suburb of Berlin.

~ Up Front With Mauldin

AUTHORITIES had. ordered that the film of the execution of Marshal von Witzleben be shown to all workers of this factory, as well as to all German war factories. Heinrich Himmler apparently considered it worth while to sacrifice millions of working hours, in order to demonstrate to the German workers what the fate of saboteurs would be. = ° ~ o = ¥ IN THE Haskell factory the . presentation of the film was interupted several times when workers used the cover of the

“We oughta tell 'em th’ whole army don’t look like us, Joe.”

End of Contract To Cost 900 Jobs At Allison Plant

ABOUT 900 PERSONS will lose their. jobs at the Allison division of ‘General Motors as a. result of the war department's week-end cancellation of its con tract for the P-T75 fighter plane made at G. M.'s Cleveland-Fisher plant and powered with the 24cylinder Allison engine. The 900 who had been working on the production contract will be shifted to other work, displac.ing because 'of their seniority, other employees, officials said. Work on the 12-cylinder Allison engine is not affected, it was said.

SEEK GERTRUDE MULLEN Mrs. Minnie Buck, 1649 N. Alabama st. is seeking. to locate her sister, Miss Gertrude Mullen. Their brother, Francis, a world war I

On to Berlin

By UNITED PRESS

The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today:

WESTERN FRONT—296 miles (from point near Nijmegen. Gain of one mile in week.)

RUSSIA—315 miles (from WarSAW. Gain of five miles in week.)

ITALY-—540 miles (from point south of Bologna. Gain of 10 miles in week.) y

Professor Solves Rocket Problems

LONDON, Oct. 9 (U. P.).—Two of the major problems—DbBallistics and sighting—which threatened to delay installation of rockets. in allied fighter planes, were solved by Carl David Anderson, professor of physics at California Insti-

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WHY_ GERMAN UNDERGROUND WON'T HELP ALLIES LIBERATE FATHERLAND—

Reich's Anti-Nazis Too Weary To Fight

darkness to make a murmuring noise which made it all but impossible to hear the propagranda spoken by the narrator. Naturally when the lights were turned on, the workers looked thoroughly innocent, and it was impossible to find out who was doing the murmuring. - F ”

THEN, when the show was over, and work was set to begin, 18 of the factory’s machines were discovered to be useless, The leather driving belts, for instance, had been cut into many pieces; and there was other such sabofage which held up production for more than 20 hours. News of other cases of sabotage may or may not leak out during the next Tew weeks. Even so, they will be disconnected cases of individual sabotage, individual demonstrations of anti-Nazi feeling. rd ” w AS SUCH they can hardly be compared with the great feats of the underground movements in Hitler-occupied countrieg _gwhich made it necessary for Hitler to

‘keep large armies in all these

countries and still keep the Germans on their toes in spite of all bloody attempts at annihiliation,

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and wholesale deportation of workers to Germany. There is a possibility, though, that the German underground may become less apathetic during the next few months. r ” EJ IN FACT, some change has already taken place. Just as the German opposition lost most of its members during

the years which brought one Hit-

ler success after another, the German defeats not only will stiffen the morale of those who continued to oppose Hitler, but will increase the ranks of their followers. » » »

THIS contention is borne out by news which has leaked out about mass arrests in Germany during recent weeks, ~ One may write off some of these arrests to the evergrowing nervousness of the Gestapo and

Jite other. German: police forces.

But many ‘ were undoubtedly made to prevent mass desertions, sabotage on a large scale -and other activities inimical to the Nazi regime.

'WE WON'T FORGET'— Nazi Retreat in Finland Leaves

A Trail of Ruins

By NAT A. BARROWS Times Foreign Correspondent AT A SOVIET ARMY OUTPOST IN EAST FINLAND, Oct 7 (Delayed) —“We shall not forget —never.” The Finnish officer's face was hard and vengeful as he walked with me through the pathetic ruins of the little town of Hyrynsalmi, far back on the lonely road that cuts through the vast forest of Finnish Lapland. “This is what they have done fo us... . This Is what collaboration with Germany means.” 288 : MILE after weary mile, all day long, IT had followed, with the pur-

suing Finns, the German retreat

northward. Entire villages have been burned to the ground, grave yards desecrated, simple little log huts far from civilization wiped out in the senseless, mad ‘rush to smash, tear and burn. : In the little town of Hyrynsalmi the Germans had repaid the people’s hospitality by burning every home, bam, store, office and warehouse, not even forgetting the Finnish bathhouses. They burned the hospital while hastily evacuated patients cringed among the spruce trees in the heirt of the wolf-infested wilderness. » ” » THERE were other ruined villages as we moved north through the desolate forest. Only smok-

| ing piles of rubbish remained.

No simple unpainted log farmhouse, 20 miles from the nearest sign of civilization, had been too remote for German torches.

The Finns can understahd why |

the Germans felled thousands of heavy trees across the roadway, why they blew up the bridges and cut railroad tracks, why they planted minefields and booby-

traps, ; But the Finns cannot under- .

stand these ruined villages. » » » TODAY pursuing the Germans in eastern Finland and battling entrenched Nazi divisions close to the Swedish border the Finnish

soldier is fighting for a real cause,

He'is fighting to avenge those villagers left homeless as the terrible north Finland winter begins to stir from the Arctic.

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Tomorrow's Small Firms

Plant Tenants

By ROBERT C. ELLIOTT SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 9~ Western states are hunting for a host of small new civilian ine dustries to become post-war users of their vast war plants. vo: Some of these plants are so large that there is little hope that any one of them could be taken over and operated by a single manufacturer. 3 x Hence efforts to interest & number of small companies in oc« Te cupying them as joint tenants have been one of the chief subs jects discussed here last week at the conference of 11 western states on present and post-war = problems. 5

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a 8.8 3 GOVERNOR VIVIAN of Coloe rado and his state planning direce tor, El Roy Nelson, said they have lined up 15 “prospects,” ine cluding ‘the Henry J. Kaiser ine = terests and Westinghouse Elece for space in the Denver = ordnance plant, which has 100 permanent buldings, miles of raile road trackage and huge numbers of machine tools.

Utah reported a number of firms are congidering use of sections of the Utah ordnance plan§ near this city, where the Reming ton Arms Co. employed 10,000 workers earlier in the war. This plant is now closed. 4

California also hopes that joing tenancy by many small industries will insure continued employment in some of huge aircraft and other government-owned establishments = which otherwise will face the likes lihood of Being closed. iv » » 2

Most of the plants, it wag pointed out, could easily be die vided into a dozen or more separate operating ts, which could be sold or le to small or medium-sized manufacturing enterprises. a

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The Colastdo officials said their studies of market, labor and otheg factors have indicated : for profitable production of a wide variety of civilian goods in the Denver plant, among them moulded plastic articles, hardware specialties, silverware, furnaces, building insulation, household ape pliances, mechanical pencils, pré= fabricated houses, toys, glass cons tainers and breakfast cereals. eh

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‘By RUTH MILLET?

AN IOWA farm wife reported to state OPA headquarters thag her husband was using his autos mobile gas coupons, his tractor coupons, and even the gasoling allotted to her for her washing machine to go calling on his girl friend. The

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» » » OR IF HE weren't doing share of the farm work and happened fo be of draft age might convince his draft she could run the farm wi his help. Hee ways a wife can keep her husbam lowing the advice of beauty mu visors to out-shine and ou lations it ought to be for. . wife to out-smart the otl . woman, ;