Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1944 — Page 11

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Haitor’s Note

THE TUNISIAN RON March, 1943~Lale ‘one * afternoon I drove my. jeep b o the cactus patch which ‘contained headquarters. I had often siayed there, and felt like a member of the f . Withoyl reporung in oF ANY A out a little open among the

deep half long enough, When : a shout® ; “Here they come.” Immediately all over the cactus patch guns started firing. Dive ‘Bombers had come out of the sun, and were on us almost before we kne® it. My hole in the sand was still not large enough to harbor a inn oven as: slight as myself. But, I assure you, its inadequacy did not deter mie from diving into it Yorthwith. As always in an alr raid, I was torn between getting under cover and staying out to see what was going on. My policy seems to be the reverse of the ostrich—1 stick my rear in the sand and leave my head out, thinking I'm safe. So I lay there in the shallow depression, but propped on one elbow to get a good view, v

Came From. Everywhere

RIGHT NOW I want to say that anybody who can tell, after a dive bombing attack, just exactly what happened is a genius. It is all so fast and conYour senses seem to play hookey on you. After that raid I could not tell you how many bombs dropped, how many planes took part, what kind they were, whether any started smoking, or what direction they went when they left, They came down one at a time, seemingly from everywhere. As soon as one finishes-its dive, you start looking for the next one. You lose sight of the one which just passed, and don't know what happens to him. You see others in the sky in addition to the one now making its dive. They seem to be going in all directions. The air is full of tracer bullets and black ack ack puffs. You get these spots confused with planes. I remember feeling a wonderful elation when I saw one tracer tear right smack into its target—only to realize a moment later it had entered a puff of

_ smoke instead of an enemy plane, You hear the

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

YOU CAN TELL the election Is getting pretty close, if you watch the type of arguments folks refer to newspapers for umpiring. For instance, some of the boys out at P. R, Mallory got 10 Wowdering Jus: how féw votes would have to be cast—theo! you understand—to elect a president of the United States. Well, sir, we were surprised when we got to figuring. The way we figure, just an even dozen voters— one in each of the same number of states—could elect enough pres- - jdential electors to elect a president. Each state has as many electoral votes as it has congressmen and senators combined. These electors are nominated by districts, but voted on on a state- : wide basis. Thus, if only one man voted in the state, he could elect his state's quota of electors. And the electors of the 12 largest states ~—New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, California, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Mis souri, North Carolina and Indiana-—constitute a majority sufficient to elect a president. Silly, isn't it? But that's what politics will do to you, if you aren't careful. . . . Another reader phoned in to ask which state east of the Mississippi river has the largest area. The world Almanac says it's Georgia, with 58.876 square miles,

There's ¢ Reason

C. B. CISSELL writes to chide us for not printing an item he mailed us a couple of weeks ago and to ask us either to use it or print an ¢ planation. We'll do better than that, Mr, Cissell; well do both. We'll give the item and explain why we didn't use it before. Mr. Cissell's item: “On the Alabama side of City hall are three parking signs reading. “This space for OFFICAL cars only’.” The point, of course, is the misspelling of the word official. Well, we didn’t print it because every time we do use some misspelling, we're flooded with others, and most of them aren't

World of Science

THREE FACTORS determine the surgical techniques of the arnly medical department. The first is the ‘fact that the treatment of the wounded man must be carried on at the same time that he is being moved to the rear along the medical network that extends from the battalion aid stations directly behind the front lines to the general hospital] at home. The second is that while the usual war wound has an innocent surface appearance, it is usually marked by a large amount of internal damage and a high risk of infection. The third is that many wounds encountered in war, particularly those caused by bombs, mines, booby traps and phosphorous projectiles, and by air and water blast, have no counterpart in civilian life. At home, a wounded man is taken to the hospital, where the surgeon completes his work as rapidly as possible and then sews up the wound. The patient is then kept under observation until the wound is healed,

First Definitive Surgery

IN A theater of war, the wounded man, having received preliminary treatment at the battalion aid station and the clearing station, is brdught to the third echelon, the evacuation hospital, for his first definitive surgery. (The exception, as I previously pointed out, are those head, chest and abdomen wounds dealt with by the mobile surgical units.)

My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday.—I came down-on the train yesterday morning, and, as usual, practically every seat soon filled up. At Beacon, a charming-looking woman sat down beside me, I smiled at her and went on reading my paper, When I finished, she spoke to me, and in the course of conversation I discovered that she and her husband were going down to New York City to celebrate the first year of their marriage. They had not married young, but in spite of her gray hair she looked young and very happy, and I feel sure that it : was a real celebration, The en- - counter started my day off very nicely, for a glimpse of real hapDigest in this troubled world is ately. a pleasant thing I went first to the lunch : women's division Le the ¢ independent, citizens’ political action

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which obviously would be too late if it were really close.

got my sand pit finished, men were killed within 200 _yards of me. Yet a bomb that farjaway isn’t even considered in your neighborhood. 50 feet before you escape.

you, is one of the most nerve-shattering episodes of

"SECOND SECTION

~ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1944

They dive-bombed us twice that evening. Before I

It must be within u start telling big stories about your

irds Fly Frantically

hysand again I duck flying bomb fragments—only to realize S- er birds, darting frantically : cactus bushes. 1 went through another diving bombing attack during the Sidi bou Zid bs desert is flat as a polished t or ditch anywhere. behind an old dead I remember only utes they were over in little short jerks—almost flat erting myself in any way

Our air corps contends that dive Sombing is relatively harmless and that, as soon as our troops get seasoned, we will be knocking them off so fast they will stop it. True, dive bombing does not kill as many people as you would think. But the great damage is psychological. The sound and sight of a dive bomber peeling off from formation, and heading right down at

War. It takes guts, and plenty, not to run or not to turn your head at the last moment, Maybe our troops eventually will get hardened to it. As for me, I'm too old to change my ways, and my way is just to lie there scared stiff.

very interesting to the casual reader. That's the reason. . . . A neighbor of the Oscar Kimberlin family, 4340 Washington blvd. called to tell us that the Kimperlins have an ivy vine that's pretty long — long enough, in fact, to go clear around the block! Some vine! . . . We hear that a shortage of cookies has developed at the Wabash st. Service Men's Center—

the one at the bus terminal. Because so many service}

men are passing through and between busses, and find it difficult to pass the time or get a bite to eat, the * bot of coffee an the fire afieraons The service men really go for it, and ea So, if you fancy yourself as a ie Torr cOSkie baker, here's your chance to do a good turn. If you need any more information, phone LIL 4414... . L. L. Goodman is chairman of the United War and Community Pund campaign—not J. A. Goodman, as we said yes-

terday. The U. 8S. S. Indiana

RICHARD KALK, New Castle, as settle an argument over “whether there is a battleEE uty?” He adds: “At one time was it the largest battleship we had? And what } to the one before di Well, sir; there very IS a battleship named in honor of Indiana. It was launched late in November, 1941, in the of a lot of Hoosiers. A 35,000-ton ship it and its sister ships were our largest at the time of launching, but since have been eclipsed by new super battleships. Incidentally, this is the third U. 8S. 8. Indiana. The first was in 1895, made its last appearance Dec, 26, 1918, and a year later was used as a target for experiments to determine the effectiveness of aerial bombs and underwater explosives. The second Indiana was scrapped (towed to sea and sunk) under the terms of the Washington treaty for limitation of naval armament. It was only 34 per cent complete. Well, that ought to bring all of you up to date on the U. S. S. Indiana, the third. It's still sailing the seas and giving the enemy hell

to help

By David Dietz

Because of its proximity to the battle area, the evacuation hospital cannot keep patients under prolonged observation since its beds would soon fill up and it could no longer take care of the incoming stream of new patients. Consequently, cases with severe wounds must be sent back from the evacuation hospital to a general hospital in the base area at the earliest moment that the patient can stand transportation.

‘Nonclosure Method

FOR THIS reason, severe wounds are dealt with at the evacuation hospital by the method of “nonclosure.” That is, the wound it not sewed shut but is treated and left open. Brig. Gen. Fred W. Rankin, chief consultant in surgery to the surgeon general of the army, explains that the wound is treated by cleansing, “debridement,” and the removal of foreign bodies such as bits of clothing, shell fragments and the like, (By debridement is meant the cutting away of damaged and dead tissues, Care is taken, however, not to sacrifice the skin unnecessarily.) Sterile dressings of vaseline gauze are then placed loosely in the wound, care being taken not to pack it too tightly or to plug up the wound. When necessary, the injured part is splinted, preferably with plaster. When the patient is able to be moved, he is transferred to a general hospital, where the treatment of the case is completed and the wound eventually sewed shut. Gen. Rankin points out that this technique of “nonclosure” is always followed at the evacuation hospitals in dealing with wounds of the extremities which constitute from 65 to 70 per cent of all wounds in combat areas.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

charming ladies as presiding- officers, Mrs. Edward Warburg and Dorothy Parker. Frank Sinatra then spoke briefly, and was followed by Orson Welles, who spoke -with his usual force and vigor. Finally, Helen Keller spoke. To look at her and have her thoughts interpreted is always an inspiration, and T recalled a doctor who told me of her visit to some of our blind soldiers. “Just to know of her presence,” he said, “seemed to encourage the boys.” ~T told Miss Keller of this, and she informed

‘me that she was planning to make a tour of various : very hospitals.

I saw a number of my friends at lunch, among them Mrs. Rufus Choate, Mrs. William Dick Sporborg and Mrs. Edgerton Parsons. I wish I*had had the time to speak with more people, but engagements awaited me at home. | Eo Sah: T wait to Carnegie hall for an independent voters meeting, to speak again on registration and voting. This is the opening day for registration in New York City, where, as

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By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN | Times Foreign Correspondent

TROIS-PONTS, Belgium. —For four long years German units stationed in southeastern Belgium were tricked: and terrorized by an ever-growing secret Dy of Spsanl patriot

"these patriots were united only by their courage and their grim determination to rid their coun-

These people come in a dozen different political colors. Often they were only vaguely aware of

” - » REACTIONARY capitalists, fervent Communists, common laborers and ordinary adventurers joined in the deadly game. Armed bands, holed up in the mountain forests of the Ardennes, sallied forth at night to trap an patrols, wreck trains and blow up bridges. The wealthy wined and dined German army and gestapo, and staged shooting parties in surrounding forests. Stealthily and consistently, they bribed German generals to save the lives of Maquis keymen. » EJ = HIGH IN THE hills a group of expert agents operated secret shortwave radios. They come in all shapes and sizes, these brave Belgians, but those of them I have met provide a good cross-section. First, there is the «27-year-old major, who rose to be chieftain of the “Walloon commandos” and the undisputed hero of the Ardennes. The tall, steel-muscled native of Luxembourg has been fighting the Germans, night and day, since 1941 when he escaped from forced labor in Germany, » . » HE BEGAN his patriotic career by spying on the Germans. When that work seemed dull, he took to blowing up bridges and ambushing German patrols, and then, with a price of 1,000,000 francs on his head, he took to the forests. - Time and again, his camp was raided by the Germans and he escaped only after sharp fighting

Mrs, R. Reaches 60, 'Adored’ Age; Justice Stone 72

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. P). —Two of Washington's leading public figures—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone of the supreme court —observed birthday anniversaries today without fanfare or special celebrations. The First Lady, who once said she would “adore” the idea of being 60, achieved that ambition today. For Stone, a veteran of 19 years on the supreme court, it was the 724 anniversary and he observed it by “doing business a} the same old stand.” # . ®

BOTH FOLLOWED daily schedules. Mrs. Roosevelt arranged to meet reporters at the White House for her weekly press conference. Stone, tanned and rested from a fourth month vacation in Maine, spent the day directing hearings from the bench and in conference with his eight court colleagues. President Roosevelt was expected to follow his custom of presenting the First Lady with a piece of jewelry as an anniversary gift.

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MONTHS AGO Mrs, Roosevelt set the stage for becoming 60 when she told capital newspaper women: “I shall adore being 60.” “At 60 one doesn't have to take on responsibilities,” she added. She is still vigorous and has kept her normal healthy appearance. It is rare that she is in« disposed—even with a cold. She is now at her normal weight of around 150 pounds. * = STONE, now in his fourth term as chief justice, is two full years past the age at which he might retire at a full salary of $20,500 a year, but he has indicated to friends that he will stay at his as long as his present ‘good health permits. Adhering to a rule of longstanding he permitted no public statements or interviews on the occasion of his birthday anni-

In horse-drawn carts and pushing their bicycles, the Germans evacuated Belgium in a far different manner than that in which they entered several years ago.

civilian before the allies arrived.

in which many of his men were killed. Yet he made a common practice of going as far afield as Brussels to get bombs and TNT, often dressed as a German officer.

HE NOW belongs to a group known as the Armee Belge de Liberation, which, through the so-called Armee Secrete; is under the authority of the Belgian government. The second gentleman is a quiet, hardworking little man in his 50's. He is an avowed Communist of deep convictions. During the last war he was given a sergeantcy on the battlefield by King Albert. His only complaint now is that Americans stationed in Belgium are not allowed to fraternize with the people. ” ¥ ”

ONE PARTICULAR incident that hurt him deeply occurred several days ago when his 20-year-old daughter invited three American privates home for dinner with the family. This . cap-

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‘Ghost of Guam's' Ex-Wife Seeking

Part of Income

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 11 (U. P.) —Mrs. George Ray Tweed, divorced wife of the “Ghost of Guam” who eluded capture for the 31 months of Jap occupation, today moved to share any income he might receive for relating his experiences.

court to set aside a decree granted the 42-year-old chief radioman and said she should have a part of “the fabulous sums” he might earn. Hearing was postponed too Oct.

19. : : * She said she had agreed to the divorce without the advice of an attorney. Tweed divorced her three weeks after returning to the mainland

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from Guam.

Mrs. Tweed, 27, asked superior

THEY WINED AND DINED — AND BRIBED — THE GERMAN OFFICERS —

How Belgian Patriots Tricked Nazis

tain, under higher orders, forced them to decline the invitation. “I think I deserve a little more consideration,” he said. I am not allowed to mention the name of the third gentleman, either. During the German occupation he would wine, dine and bribe high German officials.

» ” ” VENAL to the marrow, they demanded large sums for betraying their fuehrer, but were ready to do so when cash was laid on the line. : A typical case was that of a local man, father of 11 children, who had been caught red-handed on a bridge-blowing expedition. The price for his life was

Belgian butter. The name of the gestapo man who took that bribe cannot be mentioned because he is going to have to be taken alive. ay» THESE THREE Belgians have little in common, politically.

Up Front With Mauldin .

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“We calls 'em garritrogpers. They're foo far forward ¢' wear ties an’ too far back ¢’ git shot.”

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 wagsaw; unchanged in week). ITALY—540 miles (from point south of Bologna; gain of 10 miles in week).

Report Goering Is Under Arrest

LONDON, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—Ths London Evening News said today that Reichsmarshal Herman Goering has been arrested. The News quoted neutral correspondents in Berlin as saying that persons trying to get in touch with Goering had been told by his wife that it was impossible. “Frau added mysteriously, ‘It is better not to press

the matter,” the News said.

This phote was taken secreily by a Belgian

. military traffic, scraped aside a

{ into her grave for 200 years,

] nomenon—not to mention

They don't even agree regarding the king. The capitalist is a fervent royalist and believes that Leopold acted correctly. The fighting man is loyal to the royal house but believes that Leopold should have followed the example of King Haakon and Queen Wilhelmina by going into exile in London. The Communist says he cannot possibly see why Belgium needs a royal house. Leopold, he believes, behaved strangely after the death of Queen Astrid. » o »

SOMEHOW or other, the opinions of all these people will have to be -taken into consideration on this and other subjects. It is going to be a hard job to reconcile their interests and their ideas but every one of them and others like them have earned a stake in the future of their country. By their behavior they have also earned consideration for their country. Copyrignt, N 1944, by The Indianapolis Times Chicago Daily News, Inc.

200-YEAR 'TOMB'— Yank Bulldozer Reledses 'Witch' Of Scrapfaggot

By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent

GREAT LEIGHS, Essex, England, Oct. 11—An expert on physical phenomena arrived from London today to try to undo the mischief caused when a Yankee bulldozer, widening a road for

stone which had pressed the “Witch of Scrapfaggot Green”

And none too soon either, for cottagers discovered 30 dead sheep scattered throughout the village with the coming of daylight and no amount of counsel from cooler heads would convince most folks it wasn’t more eerie enterprise of the rampant witch. s # 8

SPURRED by this new phethe witch's previous record of perching rabbits over hens’ eggs, kidnaping livestock, a chilling, fleeting visit to the bedroom of a man whose wife was visiting in Scotland—Harry Price, head of the London Council of Psychical Research, set out with Warden W. J. Sykes to get the spirit back into the ground. Leaving the bar of Ye Olde Queen Anne's Castle Inn to Mrs. Sykes, the warden took Price by the arm to go to Scrapfaggot Green where the displaced stone lay. = ” 2 © “WE ARE crazy with this thing, sir,* Sykes said, “have you any idea what we can do?” “It would appear from the evidence at hand,” Price replied, “that our principal task will be to induce this poltargeist or spirit to’ resume her position in the ve, “We next must replace the stone with due care that its orientation to points north and south is similar to the position in which it was placed when the witch's bones were taken down from the stake where they burned her 20 decades ago.” = EJ ” “WELL, MAN, let's be going then,” said the warden. They hastened toward Scrapfaggot Green, picking up an entourage of the curious as they went. Odds were two to one on the witch to show—to show everytime something’ goes awry in Great

Leighs for months to come.

By Crockett Johnson

Yes, old A.A. is eager fo get back exercise. He's put on weight since

in the saddle, O'Malley. Just for the

he gave up business cycling. Bul—

Tomorrow's Mr. Truman Changes His Tune

By EDWARD A. EVANS WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Sens ator Harry Truman, the Demos cratic candidate for vice presis dent, comes right out and says it in an article written for “The C. 1.0. News”: “To achieve full

jobs for all, we must have planning —na« tional plane ning. With the best will in the world, ine dividual ine dustries or ine dividual men and women

Mr. Evans

this goal outs side the framework of a national plan, We have found this to be true during our period of all-out i war production. It will be just as true during the post-war period now coming so close to us.” 3 The senator goes on to contend that President Roosevelt, to" whom he gives all credit for die recting the making and execution of a plan for war, must remain in office to direct the making and execution of a national plan for post-war, ; ® = = SENATOR TRUMAN has changed his tune since lasg March 5. On that date he submitted to the senate the third annual report of the committee investigating the national defense program, of which he was then chairman. The report advocated government planning for poste war—but planning limited to the prompt removal of “obstacles” to industrial reconversion. It said “The job is essentially one of simplification, so that industry and labor can make their own plans, for the success or failure of which they and they alone will be responsible. Some people favor attempting to formulate blueprints so as to regulate every step by which we attempt fo reconvert from war te peacetime operations , . . “Wartime creates a necessity for controls which are otherwise undesirable in a democracy. . . Experience has taught us that our country will flourish best when least hampered by governs ment gid

“THE COMMITTEE does nok

restrictions for the purpose of attempting to substitute the judge ment of bureaucrats for eco= nomic trends, “There is too great danger that such controls would become self perpetuating. «+» H that should happen, we would indeed have won the war and lost the peace That was a little more than seven months ago. Now Senator Truman embraces the danger = against which he and his coms mittee warned then. Now he bes © lieves—at least, he says to the § C.I.0.—that in peacetime as in wartime government must formus late “a national plan” and ree quire individual industries, and individual men and women, to operate within its framework. “If that should happen, we would indeed have won the war and lost the peace.”

We, ‘the Women ‘Poor Little - Rich Girl’ Is Outworn Alibi

that she stole $37,000 worth of

said in an interview: “I'm just a product of a finishes

TIME WAS when the “poor Ii tle rich girl” story found a sy pathetic audience. But it is little out of date in these tim