Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1944 — Page 19

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Ph, ad foe stro iy spied sao 0 1 ) ditchdiggers of the day. Ep We were all afraid of being strafed if the Germans cdme over and. saw men working around the . planes, and we. wanted a nice “ditch handy. for- diving into. The er Yo mars a ples dich 10-10 die ne. We wasted no time, , Would that all slit trenches could be dug in soil jike that. The sand was soft and moist; just the kind -children like to play in. The four of us dug winding ditch 40 feet long

‘ment won’t permit me to set to paper. “it said. ‘The greatest Christmas present’ that can be

a Oni. thode of you who know] ‘about that can ever know all about ditches. While we were digging, one of thé boys brought up for the thousandth time the question of that letter in e Magazine. What letter, you ask? - Why, it's ter you probably don’t remember, but it has beon famous around these parts. It was in the Nov. 23 issue, which. eventually found its way over here. Somebody read it, spoke to a few friends, and pretty soon thousands of men were commenting on this letter in terms which the fire depart-

To get to the point, it was written by a soldier, and

given to us this year is not smoking jackets, ties, pipes or games. If people will only take the money and buy war bonds . . they will be helping themselves and helping us to be home next Christmas. Being home next Christmas is sométhing which would be appreciated by all of us boys in service!”

Like Waving a ‘Red Flag THE LETTER was all right with the soldiers over

thing concerning the ‘war is like waving a red flag at the troops over here, They say they can do whatever

dime

_ SECOND SECTION _ :

THE BUTCHERS FROM NIPPON: THEY SLAUGHTERED WITHOUT REASON—

“I Lived on Guam Under the Savage Japs

By HENRY C. ANDERSON Written for NEA Service : "WE KNEW what the occupation of Guam was to be like the moment the Japs landed. Their landing parties caught Chamorro families on the roads in trucks and water buffalo carts, families that were fleeing to the comparative safety of the hills. They were butchered, indiscriminately and without apparent

THE FIRST news of war came

of FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 104d

“corps combat correspondent:

Note by T. Sgt. Theadors C. Link, marine

| met Henry Anderson when he became a guide for marine patrols tracking down the enemy in the Guam hills. He had lived under the Japs during the worst period in the island's history, managing, often by near-miracles, to escape death or imprisonment.

armed forces.

it tome ...

Mr. Anderson is one of three sons of a Shetland island's sailor who retired to Guam. His two brothers are now in the American

Mr. Anderson has worked and lived on the west coast of the United States, but considers Guam his home. This is his story, as he told

Unions Seek To Hasten Wage Decision By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. —

Union leaders, fighting for a - pay-raise order before election,

. have started work to get the ex-

plosive campaign issue into the White House by the end of next week. "The labor members of the war labor

roundly cons demning the

an here until they got down to the address of the writer | reason. Men, women, children. 3 ditches. I don’t even and discovered he was still in camp in the states. te was on ition move, a ther foi Jove, png 1. sure do For a soldier back home to open his trap about any- . 2» :

my home : Tietessa at breakfast time on the morning public mem- - ditch, ih = a aint dogfaces back home,” said one of th#| Of Dec. 8 (It was Dec. 7 across jets i tng) | dE : ditchdiggers with fine soldier sarcasm, “they've really| the international date line in Bee Yor im 4 rt sand was got it rugged. Nothing to eat but them old, greasy| Fearl Harbor). bs dropped tinier J liction of duty,” Mr. Perkins 3 the" clay-like digg “ bac i Kw port. : ! a en ree-inoh 5 KS al the oe: bombs 3 oil tanks, the marine “timidity, contradictions and a : to if i would oye 1 worlds’; be a week.” B they dows have 10 eat barracks, and the Pacific cable double talk,” “a. clear surrender ! Te an “And they're so lonely,” said another, “No enter-| Station at Sumay. of the pr Somme o x 4 : : : : reise its ent, - : up some more right here,” one of the boys tainment except to rassle them old dames around the ast % 5 guessed what was vy pu public members: ; ; ther side. dance floor. The USO closes at 10 o'clock and the | 1 . : the acy E cont to . wt think : ho” stayed at my job as a ma- a ey are net compe 5 Pa don't Era deep,” go one said Hight 2 ahs . hh ind: tough. on thes. No. 1 ynnee a8 the vital Guam power pertom, ihety dues” a ; : 4 : i is upheaval came after the "A bullet won't go through more than three inches “And when they put a nickel in the box nothing plan; os of the Americas bd ried i ie ape he of sand. Sand is the best thing there is for stopping tomes out but Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw and such :

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on earth. Por all bombs, no matter where ‘land eventually, do all their falling right’

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, pastime of _ grousing.

trash as that. My heart just bleeds for them poor guys.” ’ ! “And did you see where he was?” asked another. “At the Albuquerque air base. And he wants to be |

It helps take your mind off | things. |

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

RYLAND D, PRATT of the Pratt Printing Co. has received a letter from his son, 1st Lt. Ryland D, Pratt Jr, telling of his most embarrassing moment, While in France, the lieutenant managed to buy a couple of bottles of rare French perfume. Later, he boarded : a plane for England. In some manner, one bottle was broken in his pocket and the perfume drenched his clothing. The terrific odor immediately filled the cabin of the plane, and caused much strong language, A full colonel aboard the plane was hardest hit. He was made ill by the odor, and between spells of illness, kept muttering: “That blankety blank perfume, Oh, that blankety blank perfume.”.To make

had gone out of business. Maybe none of the mem- | bership is watching the phone company repair job, | or some of the other major jobs. But they were very| much in evidence yesterday in front of the school board offices at Ohio and Meridian. The schools] were getting a new check writing and computing! machine—8 or 10 feet long, 5 or 6 feet wide and about 5 feet high. It took almost a dozen men to wrestle the machinery from a truck into the building, and the workmen had trouble getting it across the | sidewalk because of the throng of Sidewalk Superin-| tendents who crowded up close to supervise every | move. . . . Here's one of those “man bites dog” stories: For years, writing speeches for other persons to de- | liver has been one of the major duties of Maurice] Gronendyke, of the State C. of C. staff. In all that! time, though, he's never made a speech, himself. But several days ago, he was asked to go on the radio

| business and store closed up after the bombings.

bush” at once, as almost every

flag on the Plaza de Espana and put up their own, American officials were taken prisoner, Those who had taken to the bush "were safe, for awhile.

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JAP TREATMENT of their “allies” amused us. A German resident immediately hung out

| his national flag when the Japs

came. The Japs just gathered him up with the rest and stuck him in a concentration camp. An Italian-American thought

| he could beat the game by hang-

ing out an Italian flag. He landed in the concentration camp, too. = = = THERE WERE 26 Japs and their families in Guam. Some of the poor Jap leather tanners blossomed out as big operators right after the Japs landed. They strutted around like

personal effects and °took what

Guam children crowd the street of this camp of crude shelters made from sheets of corrugated tin roofing. With the did of the U. 8, marine civil affairs commission, these refugees of the war-torn sity of Agana are being cared for and being returned to their own homes.

That seemed to satisfy them. = = ”

THEY HATED the word “English,” but couldn't seem to place “Scotch.” Of course I never spoke English to them, and, since I spoke no Japanese, I just played dumb and stayed out of the way as much as possible. : Japs are supposed to be clean, but, they didn’t show it much around Agana. The soldiers ate and slept under the most filthy conditions in the houses they took over. bottles of Saki and beer piled up around the stoops.

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THE TEMPER of the Japanese seemed to get worse as time wore on. They killed a Chamorro who had retired from the American navy, because, they claimed, he had firearms. They made suspected natives dig their own graves. Possession of an American flag was ga death offense. They brought in 200 prostitutes from Japan and installed them in houses in 8 Sumay and Agana. i . THE began to get: on edge ‘when American planes bombed the island and when Sai-

was hit by a fragment of American shell. My wife and I treated him. That little bit of aid really paid | off. A Jap patrol later caught | me and the Saipan boy. The Saipan boy had worked for the Japs, thank God! A Jap officer put his pistol to my head and asked just who I was. The boy spoke up and did some fast talking. If he hadn't vouched for me I would have been killed right there. » » .

WE MOVED to an island in the

members had turned down an American Federation of Labor proposal for a recommendation to the President that he revise

identially-ordered pay raise, containing an inflationary threat, or to turn them down, risking a defection of votes in that section of the electorate.

Nothing like this has ever faced

a President running for re-elec- ° ‘tion. The climax could have been

averted if the war labor board's labor members had been agreeable to going along with the board's policy of exhaustive inquiry and referral to other government agencies, probably mean=ing a delay of several weeks in proceedings now a year old. . 2 = » BUT THEY WERE not agreeable, and thus some of the President's strongest supporters plan to put up to him two weeks before Nov. 7.a decision of such importance that it might swing the election. If he turns down or defers the labor plea, he may lose support

4 * A GROWTH of sagebrush hung over the ditch on home by next Christmas. Hell, if I could just see! THEN, on Dec. 12, about 10.000 the Lite Steel Jormula upwand, : Sue side. “Let's leave it right there,” one of the boys the Albuquerque air base again I'd think I was to] Japs landed on Guam, Patrols a bers 4 2 said, "It's good for the imagination. Makes you Heaven.” massacred every group of Cha- JHE LAKOR meni i ome 3 Shink you're €overed up even when you ain't.” That's the way it goes. The boys feel a soldier morros they met. Sislely Wohi ify 2 huudie =m . _ That's the new outlook, the new type of conversa- isn't qualified to comment unless he's on. the wrong: .They moved into Agana despite Issued heir 5 8 ® 4 tion, among thousands of American boys today. It's side of the ocean. They're gay and full of their own bitter resistance from the tiny Thus “the heat" is increased on 3 hard for you to realize, but there are certain moments wit when they get started that way, but just the same marine garrison. Mr. Roosevelt—either to please . When 3 plain old ditch can ‘be dearer to you than any they mean it. It's a new form of the age-old soldier They took down the American his labor supporters with a pres-

i ave been re- 4 R and speak in behalf of the OPA. He agreed—and was, kings, making the natives bow or a pan was invaded. Agana swamp and foraged for | i alarms an have De . he matters even more embarTassing, handed a speech, aiready prepared by another| and pay them due respect. My situation became worse and food while the bombardment | without insistin : LL Pratt was the lowest ranking officer aboard the ‘ghost He read it over the air yesterday. | Japs searched all houses and WHEN THEY took baths, they | grants the plea, nw £ plane. He thought he'd just never reach England. il i; y y followed "a certain ritual we I moved from ranches to caves— went on. | upon the routine processes, the

» + « The item the other day about the Soldiers and

Bailors’ monument’s sculptured cannon with hexa-.

gonal bore brought a couple of letters indicating that the monument artist wasn’t taking so much artistic license, after all. Jay 8. Miller writes that “among the various types of rifled artillery pieces which were

* coming into use during the Civil war period, one had

& hexagon bore, spiraled from chamber to muzzle to impart a rotary motion to the projectile, the outer band of which was shaped to fit the gun exactly.” Mr. Miller saw a field piece of this type among the cannon displayed at the Gettysburg battlefield a few years ago. . . . And Clarence Mclntire, 31 N. Greeley st. writes that he has an old rifle with octagonal bore. It has been in his family many years. At the bottom of his letter he wrote: “P, 8 I have a 12 gauge shotgun, too. Got any shells?” Unfortunately, we haven't, Mr. McIntire,

Still on the Job

WE WERE ALL WRONG the other day when we Walled that the Sidewalk Superintendents’ society

NEW SURGICAL techniques, developed within recent months, are revolutionizing the treatment of the wounded in France and Italy, according to a feport prepared by Col. Edward D. Churchill, surgical sonsuitant: in the Mediterranean theatér of operations.

The Answer Is ‘Yes’

A. H. POTTER, manager of the W. T. Grant Co. | store here, received a letter Tuesday from England! It read: “Dear Sirs: One of your lads left an Indianapolis Times at the Canteen and going over jt I. notice your advert. and just wonder if you will post! one of your comics to a little girl evacuee (from the! flying bombs) staying at my house. It would entertain her and please her during the dark evenings. Hope you will not presume my letter very impudent.” It was signed by a resident of Swaffham, Norfolk England, but we can't make out his signature. At; the bottom is a postscript: “Your lads are a good lot| of boys.” The letter was addressed to the store at! Indianapolis, U, 8. A, with no mention of the state | The comic mentioned was a give-away booklet the! store was giving out to children at the opening .of school. “Needless to say,” remarks Mr. Potter, “we! have complied with the request, and in addition have! packed as many coloring and paper doll books, along! with crayons as we could get into the standard over- | seas shipping container.”

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: | Ww orld of Science | a By David Dietz.

The latter policy has guided the surgery of the Mediterranean theater, Col. Churchill says, adding, “To reiterate the axiom that penicillin is not a substitute for surgery is not enough. Every surgeon must

i mohey and jewelry they wanted.

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A JAPANESE employee of the Agana theater took over when his boss fled. He operated at full capacity all the time, with lots of American films. They must have liked Deanna Durbin. They played one of her pictures over and over again for Six weeks. All this time, I was living on ranches in the outlying districts. = = » JAP MOTOR patrols -showed up every day or two. They shot hogs and chickens and took what they wanted. If they happened to see a girl that took their fancy, they would rape her at bayonet point. I kept hiding from the patrols. Now and then they would find me and ask questions. I would say I was Scotch and Chamorro.

‘CANDY FOR JOE— Gen. Stilwell's

thought was very funny. Water would be obtained for the top ranking officer and he would take his bath. Then the other officers would bathe, in order of rank. Finally, the soldier who put the water in the tub would get his turn, after which the water was finally thrown away. = ~ » THE OFFICERS and soldiers did a lot of drinking. They put up a Jap church on the hill overlooking the city and whooped and hollered and drank Saki, while they placed sacks of rice before the ashes of their dead. They didn’t seem to have any idea of permanency. They wrecked buildings to use the material for pill boxes and military installations. Our churches they used for _Playhouses Jor the he_troops.

kept changing my residence — every few days. One day the Japs caught me with some others and brought me to Agana where they were prace ticing with bayonets on the Plaza. They had straw dummies in wooden frames and. continually practiced with their bayonets. We never heard or saw them practice shooting. = = ” A BUNCH of the soldiers singled me out and made me stand while they lunged at me. Several pricked me and laughed. They kept saying, “You are tall like an American.” (I am 5 feet 11 which is taller than the average native). : I just kept my mouth shut and pretty soon they let me go, I stayed in the bush with my wife and one-year-old son. Some relatives joined us.

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Up Eront With Mauldin

Then word came that the ma-!| rines had landed. A few of the Chamorros immediately made their way to the American lines, wearing anything | white they could get. The marines let them through right under the Japs’ noses,

» » » I TOOK my wife, baby, and my mother and slipped through the Jap lines just at the time when the marines made a sudden push and shoved the Japs back for considerable distance. It was a nerve-wracking journey, and I had to strain my knowledge of the terrain to the

Republicans will charge him with buying the election—and may influence a lot of conservative middle-of -the-roaders. The WLB labor members’ statement contained the following: “The only conclusion we can draw on the action of the board is that it deems no change in the Little Steel formula should be recommended. It is apparent to us that the board simply adopted this subterfuge in order to postpone and delay what it considers an unpalatable decision.”

utmost. mishap. I'm doing what I can right now, bh: acting as guide for marines who {

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NIGHTMARE ENDS— Bordeaux Freed

But we made it without |.

We, the Women—r

Mr. Husband: Don't Say 'My'; ‘Our’ Is Better

By RUTH MILLETT

MANY MEN whose wives have 7

been holding down jobs while they are in service are going to want them to put in their full time at the job of homemaking when the war is over.

learn that chemotherapy opens new and ie » 1f these ] . The new methods, according to possibilities in wound management.” Wi fe Al SO Sends | F Ter ror ism women: are to : : rom varmly interlined, Col. Churchill, set up a new goal, : give up their Eo tlh ‘namely full restoration of health Speed Up Freatment

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Grouped under the name, “re- THE NEW techniques, also call for a Reding) CARMEL, Cal. Oct. 13 (U. P)) : s the husbands mn Shop jarative surgery,” the new tech- UP IN the iresoment of wounts. “is. the! The clerk at the Carmel postoffice | sang, had better do niques are aimed at preventing in- Four to 10 days,” Col. Churchill says, “is the! 1ooked down the line of box-ladeds | ; these things: : fection before it is established or S0lden period during which wounds must be closed, oy eomers ang relaxed for the | BORDEAUX, Oct. 13—The city Make clear TT cutting it short at the period of fracture reduced, retained missiles removed and other! first ti : of Bordeaux, France's second sea- thelr” wiv - roced to t time in weeks. rt liberated by Maquis 1p the es a its inception. Pp ures 5 prevent or end infection must be | “Mrs. Stillwell” he exclaimed. port, was Cre that the = Pe At the heart of the new meth. Carried out. | “I've been watching for this. I and French furces of the Interior oe The first great speeding up in military surgery | E:

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rather than mere saving of life.

ods is a changed view of the relationship between surgery and the

ik use of such chemical agents as the sulfa drugs and penicillin. “In this war there have been two quite different approaches to the application of chemotherapeutic agents to military surgery,” Col. Churchill states.

Two Different Approaches

“THE FIRST would utilize these agents to permit delay in wound surgery and minimize the incision "tissue destroyed by the missile. The second employs. chemotherapy to extend the scope of surgery

and achieve a perfection in results previously con--

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My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—So many people have been so kind in remembering my birthday that I feel quite overwhelmed. Not only my room, but all

came in this war with the adoption of the policy of | picking up the wounded while the battle was still in | progress instead of waiting for mightfall. ‘This had much to do with the marvelous record of the army | medical department in this war. A second great step forward was made with the | organization of the mobile surgical units which I| have described. These move far forward and perform, | sometimes under enemy fire, those operations on head, | chest and abdomen wounds that cannot wait, Col. Churchill's report emphasizes the need for losing no time in the treatment of wounds of the! extremities where the patient is moving back from the fighting front along the network of medical stations and hospitals,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

The editor of this leaflet tells me that he gets about 500 letters a day, with requests from the men

Coke to Husband

‘was afraid you wouldn't make it.” Gen. Joseph Stillwell's wife deposited a regulation Burma-ad-dressed Christmas package on the counter and sighed apologetically.

“I KNOW,” she said, “but it's taken me all this time to decide what to put in it. What are you

| going to do with a man who nev-

er asks for a single solitary thing?” The Christmas box for “Uncle Joe” contained his favorite hard candies, some carefully packed chocolates, ‘marshmallows and fruit cake baked specially for him.

BANQUET SCHEDULED

Prospect Chapter No. 452, O. E. S,, will hold a banquet and inspection at 6 p. m. tomorrow, at the

Of Nazi Control |

with port installations virtually intact. Throughout the occupation, repression of the population was carried out by three separate authorities—the gestapo, German army tribunals and the German navy’s own court-martial. Probably the worst horrors were perpetrated by the gestapo. Its headquarters were in a beautiful building on the Avenue du Marechal Petain. -In_ its cellars were cells and torture chambers. ~ . » DURING questioning by the gestapo, victims were beaten with iron bars and the cat-o'-nine tails. ~ Women prisoners often were bound and forced to kneel naked

| for hours on narrow wooden rails.

‘The gestapo also car out

earning power without regret,

money the husbands Ruth Millett earns is “our money”’—rather than “my money.” There is no better way of doing that than for the husband and wife to have a joint checking

account. »

= = IT WOULD be a good thing if the husband could get rid of that word “my” entirely—so far as family possessions-are concerned. The husband shouldn't forget, either, that his wife for some time has been used to deciding whether or not to spend money for a certain item—and that she won't feel kindly toward going back to the old method of having to sell her husband every time she needs a new dress or a piece of household equipment.

in the service coming in surprising numbers. Evi-|hall, Prospect st. mass executions of ‘hostages in She won't mind talking over big = our rooms upstairs are filled with flowers, and many dently. the men in the services listen. to 500d music Mrs. Cletus O. Bennett, worthy wu: a nearby camp at Souges, where purchases—but she won't want to eople-4ens. me notes and cards which I deeply ap- as well as to jazz, and what is more. they want to/tron; ‘and officers will conduct! Soh E victims weré mowed down by have to account for every cent sha : preciate. There must be some know about the director Who is going to interpret to initiation work." “Fast her to Yeach me to yodel. She taught me to yodel.” machineguns and tommy guns. 3 i —— Speen) virtue in being 60 years them the music of the composer, . aND HE ought bo ber. ol Sy . Then they want to know about the composer— 5 istel Shades $: I have just received a little leaf- somethifig about. his life, the circumstances ander] SARNABY ¥ By Crockett Johnson | (nat she has been working in a 1009, - Wool To let called “Symphony Notes,” and which his various compositions were written, and what

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I read it with a great deal of interest. Many of you are going to ‘enjoy the nine weeks .cyéle of Beethoven's works which Tosca~nini is going to conduct over the

phony hour, and this léafiet describes the programs. : The series starts on Oct. 22, &, 30 Rocketener Notes, 32d floor, In-

air on the General Motors sym-'

thoughts the composer had and tried to embody in the music.

Yesterday afternoon I spoke over the air for |

one minute, introducing ‘the secretary of war, Henry L. Stimson, who emphasizes the circumstances under | which the paintings now being exhibited throughout,

the country; in preparation: for the sixth war loan

.drive, were done. . . They will be shown in 38 cities by the treasury’ department, and if vou happen to live in one of these «cites, be sure not to miss them. They portray our ~ boys in service

ice all over the world, ‘and the men who : are in the army just as truly as thelr), Often the painter fights battle

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Noon? But his watch runs backwards. It's getting dark. I's my suppertime—