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withdrawal of our American forces from the vast Sbeitls valley, back through Kasserine pass, was a majestic thing in a way. It started before dawn one

Sent Whatever it was carried out so calmly and methodically. It Seed in no way, except size,

night came again—the tanks started and moved on until the next dawn. Hard to Realize THE WHOLE THING was completely motorized. Nobody was walking. It was hard to realize, when you were part of it, that this was a retreat—that American forces in large numbers were retreating in foreign battle one of the few times in our history. We couldn't help feel a slight sense of humiliation. Yet, while it was happening, that humiliation was somewhat overcome by our pride in the orderliness and accomplishment. It simply could not have been done better. Military police patrolled the road with jeeps and motor cycles to see that there was no passing, no traffic Jams, no loitering. Not many of our American trucks broke down;

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

OUR AGENT down at Camp Atterbury—T. Sgt. William L. Hart—informs us that Pvt. Robert RBarefoot of ‘Cowan, Ind, is being held up from

ONE OF OUR agents wigwags the information that the shortage of help has extended even to that once numerous group—the Sidewalk Superintendents.

~ America Flies

JET PROPULSION is here to stay. And developments seem to prove that this new type power has thoroughly proved itself. Just how still remains a military secret, General Electric has announced it is converting its “second largest war factory” to manufacture of jet: propulsion engines. : Coincident with the announcement, it was revealed that development of . the jet propulsion airplane turbine was kept a secret in this country for two and onehalf years. Few more than 100 persons within a manufacturing organization of 100,000 at the General Electric Co. knew about it at all during that time. | Washington, on July 16, 1041— prior to Pearl Harbor—asked R. CO. Muir, General Electric's vice president, to go to England and investigate a “new and secret weapon'-—jet propulsion. He went, returned with the secret plans and— with armed guards ever handy—the company began exhaustive experiments. They were completed successfully and jet propulsion is something the postwar era thinkers may now dream about.

Insurance Plans

LIGHT PLANE producers and dealers already are talking about insurance plans. Through an “Ercoupe Purchase Plan,” insurance terms have been worked out for this light plane by

| My Day

NEW YORK, Monday.—I merely mentioned the fact yesterday that Ethel Barrymore had come to tea the other day. I want to say that it was a joy to see her again, and that her charm and beauty have grown with the years. I went to Hyde Park Saturday afternbon taking a friend and two small boys with me. It was a busy, but very pleasant week-end. Dr. and Mrs. David Levy came to luncheon on Sunday, and we visited the Wiltwyck school at Esopus, N. Y. Otherwise, our time was spent in walking through the

tunity to be in the country. Today I am back in New York city to keep several engagements and to see a number of people, which is. what usually haphis

oosier, Vagabond

_ Baars Noi: In thin, the 13d of series of Erni Pye war dispatches that are being rprined hil Ernie takes a rest, he continues with his account of the American defeat in Tunisia in the spring of ’43.

. THE TUNISIAN FRONT, March, 1043. — The a

‘Refugees on Road

woods and rejoicing in this oppor-.

: sions &

By Ernie Pyle]

e Indianapolis

One officer, just as he left, tacked on his dugout door a big newspaper map of the latest Russian line, s0 the Germans could see it when they came.

THERE WERE French civilian refugees on our road, but not enough to hinder Most of them walked, carrying brown suitcases and bundles. I noticed they did not carry much, so they apparently had faith in our coming bagk. There were few Arabs among them. The Arabs are permanent. They get along, whoever comes to take charge of their country. French artillery and infantry also were withdrawing. They did hinder traffic, after we were safely back at Kasserine pass and the road grew narrow and poor. Across the soft sand French horses and horsedrawn ammunition carts by thousands lined the roads. . We well knew the French were the best fighters in the world. But this delaying stream of highwheeled carts, toiling along so last-century-like, seemed ‘symbolic of France's whole disaster. ° The big fine French hospital just outside Kasserine was evacuated too, and the French supervisor gave away everything he had to American soldiers. I chatted with one soldier—Sgt. Donald Schiavone. 666 Fourth ave, Brooklyn—who had just been given an alarm clock, a silver letter opener, a basket of eggs, three dozen olives and a bottle of peach brandy. A truckful of soldiers passed as we were talking. Seeing the bottle, they began yelling at Schiavone, who apparently had no hoarder’s blood in his veins. He ran after the truck and gave his bottle to the other soldiers.

> And that's going too far. In the not too distant past, members of the society were on hand in force to cast a critical eye on the progress of every outdoor construction project. But nowadays things are different. ‘The telephone company has a most interesting underground project under way in front of its building, the Aetna building is being remodeled: several buildings (Kahn, Merchants Bank and Hotel Severin) are being washed, the Claypool drug store is being remodeled—to mention just a few projects—all without benefit of inspection by the Sidewalk Superintendents. It's a sad state of affairs. .'. . Four cows ambling along Washington st. in the vicinity of Kenyon ave. yesterfiay afternoon disturbed the calm of Irvington. Police had quite a time chasing the bawling bovines around the neighborhood, up one block and down another, but finally succeeded in rounding them up, and quiet was restored once more.

Most Embarrassing Moment

J. A. GOODMAN, president of the National Hosfery mills and chairman of the War Fund eampaign, sends a mimeographed bulletin to employees of the mills each week. The most recent bulletin read as follows: “My wife lost her hat—which reminds me of a man who went to lunch. He hung his hat and coat on a rack and when he was ready to leave, his hat was gone but the coat still remained. Naturally he was upset, many thoughts went through his mind, you know—about people who take other people's hats, etc.—so he complained to the manager who said: “Well! I have a hat in my office. It was left some time ago’ The man examined the hat and to his amazement found it was his own-—he had left it 10 days ago. The hat he had been wearing was someone else's that he took by mistake. P. 8. Don't tell L. L. because he is the man” “L. L.” who happens to be L. L. Goodman, treasurer of the mills, has only one comment on the situation: “Dont ever have your initials stamped into your hat. It might be embarrassing.”

By Max B. Cook

Oliver L. Parks, of St. Louis, assuring 35 to 50 per cent less expensive insurance to the buyer through a threeway financial working arrangement. Three types of policies are offered. They include “limited huil” coverage; “named peril” policy, limited to stated risks on the plane, and “comprehensive hull” coverage which approximates the standard “all-risk policy in standard aviation.

Rates Are Announced

RATES ARE announced at $4.50 per $100 on the limited hull policy, $6.50 ‘on the named-peril and $9 on cainprehensive overage,

Under a proposed time-purchase deal, the buyer is required to make a down payment of one-third or more on a new plane. A certain period is allowed for remaining payments. The plan right now applies to the Ercoupe, a light safety plane, only, at this time but probably will be applied to others, J » »

Northrop’s famed Black Widow P-61 night fighter, reported in action on th Pacific and European fronts, is given a fine senidoff in a letter from Capt. Al Lucas of the A. A. F. to Johnnie Meyers, Northrop test pilot. Capt. Lucas described arrival of the P-61 group on a Pacific island in a pouring rain. Then they turned in more than 50 missions in less than a week. He described getting the first Jap with a Black Widow, knocking out one engine, then another and, op a third saily, blowing off the Jap’s tail. It went down in flames and “the whole island cheered like a crowd at a football game.”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

WITH AMERICAN 82D AIRBORN E DIVISION, NIJMEGEN, Holland, — One of a party of war correspondents who came from France to study this northern extremity of the western front, I had the honor of crossing the river Rhine and looking back on historic Nijmegen bridge.

The clean, of the single

longest of its kind in all Europe, almost made me forget that we were under fire. And military traffic was incessantly streaming

over. »

OUR GUIDE, Lt. Douglas Gray, North Stonington, Conn., pointed

out for us which our stormed from

to drive the Germans out of their dug-in machine gun nests at point

of bayonet.

Several hundred yards downstream we saw the great Nijme-

gen railroad

SECOND SECTION i

undamaged beauty central span, the

the steep bank up paratroopers had their assault boats

bridge which the

paratroopers also captured intact.

8. 8gt. David Rosencrantz, Los Angeles, Cal,

of the scene

railroad bridge during the first

hours after

crossing in which he was a par-

ticipant.

= ROSENCRANTZ, with a ma-

told us the story presented on that

the assault-boat

chine gun squad, was in position,

at the northern end of the bridge when suddenly ‘8 whole battalion

of German

that the crossing had been made and intent on escaping back toward Germany, in marching formation, three

abreast,

The small band of paratroopers, outnumbered more than 10 to one, waited until the bridge

bridge

infantry, unaware spectacle,

started across fight back.

was clogged with Germans from

end to end and then, revealing their commanding position, called

"PRIVATE" RITES—

2 Marble Angels Guard Crypt of

Aimee

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 10 (U. PJ). ~The body of Aimee Semple McPherson reposed in its final resting place today, watched over by a pair of kneeling marble angels,

The body

whose thousands of weeping followers are certain she will rise again, was taken to her massive

sarcophagus

three-day vigil in the million dollar Angelus Temple, founded with the contributions of her

flock.

2 2 = FOR THREE solid days her choir and band sang and played dirges and hymns the evangelist had loved in her lifetime, and her private radio station devoted its entire time to their broadcast.

Then her

was closed and taken to Forest Lawn cemetery, where 10000 of the faithful defiled the “private”

sign posted

services and swarmed through the

grassy burial

n THE ANGELUS TEMPLE Silchoirs, and organ, played “Fling Wide the Pearly Gates,” a composition ot Mrs, Mc-

ver band,

Pherson’s.

Dr, Harold G. Chalfant, the in~ ternational commander of her

Four Square

the invocation. Her choir sang another Sister Aimee composition, “The Key to

Paradise.”

Fourteen pallbearers carried the 1350-pound casket up the grassy knoll to her marble tomb. It was

400 feet up

bearers halted every 10 yards to rest the casket on special stands. |- ®

THEY PASSED the largest floral cross ever built, 600 feet long and 250 feet wide, constructed by her followers from two carloads of blossoms. Behind the 14 pallbearers ahd 25 honorary pallbearers were her son, Rolf, who will carry on her

work.

Far behind was Mrs. Minnie “Ma” Kehnedy, Aimee McPher-

son's mother

lines in the delirious days of Sis-

fer Aimee’s

raculous reappearance. .

labor papers and to the newspapers of various radical! groups, I think they must be an influence for good. | A new radio series, known as “Eterna] Light,” and. sponsored by the Jewish Theological seminary in co-| operation with the National Broadcasting Co. was’ maugurated on Sunday. It is unique in that it is the first broadcast religious program which is not a religious service.

The premiere revolved around the story of the|

famous Touro synagog founded in pre-Revolutionary days. It was to this synagog that George Washing ton wrote his famous letter, in 1790, promising religious freedom to the Hebrew congregation of Newport, R. I. I can quote only a little of that letter here, but % is one which I think we should all reread. “It is now no more that toleration is spoken of,”

wrote Washington, “as iit was by the indulgence of|

one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent rights. For happily the government

uss ei Sives Tn Diary m0 sane. .

OE A

AS THE benediction’ was read by Dr. Thomas Eade, sisters of the temple dropped rose petals amid a muted chanting. “Sister Aimee is dead” murmured with closed eyes. “Sis-

ter Aimee is

she will rise.” Aimee's body was the first to

occupy the

tomb she built for eight,

Dagon the next few minutes the presented a with the Germans hopelessly trapped by withering fire but noiietheless trying to

They took cover behind steel girders and even managed to wriggle up into the superstructure from which they fell like flies into the river.

AT DAWN the next day dead men hung from girders and blood

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1944

hey NAZIS DIED LIKE FLIES IN BATTLE OF NIJMEGEN BRIDGE—

~ Tougher—and Bloodier Than Salerno

Historie Nijmegen bridge over the Rhine in Holland. Our patatrovpers two it, our military traffic now streams incessantly over it.

on the advancing foe to surrender. Instead, the Germans began throwing hand grenades. . THE paratroopers sent forward a prisoner they had captured, who agreed to convey the surrender request to his countrymen. The Germans shot him dead as he advanced. This was too much. atroopers opened up with maShuneguss, automatic rifles and

dripped from steel beams. Paratroopers, walking out onto the bridge, counted 267 and carried off scores of wounded. “It was typical of what went on during the battle of Nijmegen bridge,” Rosencrantz said. “Nijmegen did not last as long as Sicily, Salerno and Anzio, but it was tougher, and bloodier while it lasted.”

The par- . tJ . EVERYONE in this division has full statistics on the Nijmegen bridge. Every G. I. in the outfit takes time out to inform you that it was the first bridge across the Rhine that any allied troops secured.

They are indignant at news accounts which fail to explain that the river at this point— which the Dutch call the Waal— is actually the lower and major confluence of the Rhine itself.

fantastic

Up Front With Mauldin

M'Pherson

of the evangelist,

yesterday after a

solid bronze coffin

at her committal

ground.

“Tm foun. send this home ax scare my

nll {gd

atu

TO MEN of the 82d it is never the Waal, it is the Rhine, and they are the ones who got across it, let no historian forget that. And Lt. Col. Robert H. Wiencke, Glencoe, Ill, reminds you that it is four lanes wide and can carry any load an army can subject it fo. Judging by the amount of fuss the Germans are putting up to deprive us of this gain, the men’s view must be correct. They bang away with artillery all day and all night. » » - THEY SEND over wave after wave of dive-bombers, low, high and medium-level bombers. The British ‘have magnificent anti-aircraft defenses here now. The fireworks display beats anything we have seen since the night attacks on our shipping off the Normandy invasion beachheads.

NAZI BLUNDER— Loss of Reason

Shown in Toll Of Yank Attack

By ROBERT W. RICHARDS United Press Staff Correspondent WITH U. S. ARMORED DIVISION, Near Jeandelincourt, Oct. 10.—German soldiers in this wood called Bois de la Foresse died sprawled over their machineguns, They died behind their broken

They died flopped in aimless circles as if, ¢vhen the final terrible moment came, they lost all reason. Some died with no marks upon them—victims of a terrific concussion that pressed from above. They died because they violated a warfare rule which is elementary for American doughboys. They dug their foxholes and gun emplacements beneath trees. American tank crews, airmen and artillerymen collaborated yesterday and early today in teaching this bitter lesson to the Germans, » » » HEAVILY scarred trees inside the wood today told the story of what happened. Shells and bullets had bounced

Crusaders, delivered

the slope, and the

and rival for headkidnaping and mi-

last.

they

dead. She will rise,

great grey marble

THERE WAS NO WHITE FLAG— People of Dunkerque Reveal

How British Fought Until Death

By FRANK FISHER United Press Staff Correspondent OUTSIDE DUNKERQUE, Oct. 10.—British soldiers who did not escape Dunkerque in 1940 fought to the last bullet rather than surrender, some standing chest deep in the sea still firing back at the Germans who {tried to come down to the beaches. Only now can their story be told because for four years the Germans had the people of Dunkerque in their grip. = “THERE was no white flag at Dunkerque,” Robert Vanderaede and Marious Indrieu, French railway workers, recalled. today. : “British troops there after the last boat had gone fought to the

“They never gave up and they never abandoned their weapons. “The last resistance was immediately east of Dunkerque where a casino overlooks the beaches. # GERMAN Stukas went on bombing little groups here and there when the evacuation ended. “Now and then men whould still get away froft the shore on

any old boats that were left. “For three days fighting went on near the fishermen’s quay and there was house-to-house fighting. “In the last fight at the Casino area British troops ran trucks and cars down to the beaches and used them as a last barricade as they backed into the sea still firing their rifles. = = » “EVEN the Germans paid fribute to the enemy. They told the people of Dunkerque ‘The English fought like devils.’ “It helped us,” the Frenchmen concluded. “We never gave up hope when France collapsed.

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 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).

off the trees flying downward in perfect airbursts. Artillery, firing the dreaded, huge 240’s, poured in regular bursts which were perfected mechanically to explode in the air several feet above enemy positions with all fragments driving downward. Fight bombers roared over the trees dropping bombs and then returned again and again for strafing. ” ” »” INFANTRY began moving on the woods early yesterday and tanks pulled up within a few hundred yards firing broadsides to cover the foot soldiers. American soldiers, who by now have seen war in its most horrible forms, said they were shocked when they walked among the closely knit trees of Fouresse. #» ” » “IT WAS one of the worst sights I ever saw,” said Capt. . George A. Gorry, 32, of London, O, “There were more dead Germans than most of us had ever seen before.” . When the formal report was made at mid-afternoon that the wood was “cleared,” several hundred Germans lay like so many wax figures and there were barely 200 left to surrender to the G. Ls pushing through the wood. It was believed only a few escaped.

BA RNABY { 0 By Crockett Johnson About ime you goF1o Toh Conference: Barnaby! It's Colonel Wurst! - brought A.A. along to give us the direct, My name's Wurst. This is Ex-Senator = The patriotic publisher who J.J, this endif Ecks . . . Which of you is J. J. O'Malley? his American editions .

Heis...He'smy Fairy Godfather,

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TwoP.A.Cs Coy About

Collections

By FRED W. PERKINS . NEW YORK, Oct. 10-~With less than a month left before the election which will show whether the C. I. O. political action hits or misses, officers of that organie zation won't talk about how much money they have collected to help elect F.D. R. for a fourth term.

John Abt, counsel. for the

C.and its twin, the National Citizens P. A. C, said the returns on contributions will be made public only through fore mal reports to congress. This was despite a statement in Washington, on Aug. 28, bee fore the special house committee to investigate campaign expendie tures. Sidney Hillman, chairman of both P. A. C.’s, said “I know of no other political organizae tion which has so consistently conducted its affairs in the light of day.”

Mr. Perkins

TO BE FAIR about it, frequen$ reports on how the money is or is not rolling in, cannot be obtained from either the regular national committees of the Republicans or the Democrats.

The P. A. C. reticence is be» lieved to be based on reluctance te report an apparently small total of individual contributions becouse it would show that the campaign is not getting the desired support from the rank and file of C. I. 0. members.

There is authority for writing that the total of individual C. I. O.-P. A. C. contributions up to today is less than $200,000, in= stead of the millions the oficers had hoped to raise. More money may come in later but the evidence on the surface shows that the members out in the mills and factories are not giving like they were supposed to give. o EJ ” THE FOREGOING applies to the C. I. O.-P. A. C. The same reticence applies to the N. C= P. A. C, an organization that lawe fully can contribute to campaign funds of candidates, while the right of P. A. C. in this field of political activity is highly ecircume scribed. :

How much money is in the bank account of N. C.-P. A. C. has noé been made public, but its success

pears to have cramped the style of the Democratic national coms= mittee in cultivating the same field.

C.1.O-P. A C. N. C= P, A. C. occupy the same quarters here. Both organizations are served mainly by the same staff, Mr. Hillman heads both outfits, but with one secretary for C.1. O~ P. A. C. and another for N. Ce

We, The Women It's Women's Privilege to

Change Minds

By RUTH MILLETT A NEW survey bythe Northe western National Life Insurance Co. reveals that, as of today, 71.8 per cent of the women in wap industry intend to keep on worke ing when the war is over. That is more than 13,000,000 women, & sizable source of concern fof the post ~ wat emp loymeng planners. But beforf the planners start worrying it ought to be pointed out, as the poll takers

Ruth Millett change these 13,000,000 women's

minds in‘ the meantime, and probably will. In fact, it is most unlikely that they’ll all be ou job hunting when peace returns. ; » . » FOR ONE thing, the equality of pay, seniority and considera tion that many feminists have been pleading for isn't here yet. And if they don't come along, a lot of women will probably chuck the whole idea of a career in business or industry—especially

A lot of young soldiers coming home to their fiancees or youn brides are going to want s .and family more than they