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IN NORMANDY, August, 1944.—It is possible to become so enthralled by some of the Spectacles of war that you are momentary captivated away from your own danger, 0, : iy “That's what happened to our little group of soldiers as we stood in a French farmyard, watching the mighty borfibing of the German lines just before our break-through. 4 But that benign state didn't Iast long. As we watched, there crept into our consciousness a realization that windrows of exploding bombs were easing back toward us, flight by flight, instead of gradually forward, as the plan called for, » Then we were horrified by the Fu " - suspicion that those machines, high in the sky and completely detached from us, were aiming their bombs at the smokeline on the ground—and & gentle breeze was drifting the smokeline back over us! An indescribable kind of panic comes over you at such times. We stood tensed in muscle and frozen in intellect, watch éach flight approach and pass over us, feeling trapped and completely helpless. And then all of an instant the universe became filled with a gigantic rattling as of huge, dry seeds fn a mammoth dry gourd. I doubt that any of us had ever heard that sound before, but instinct told us what it was. It was bombs by the hundred, hurtling down through the air above us. Many times I've heard bombs whistle or swish or rustle, but never before had I heard bombs rattle. I still don’t know the explanation of it, But it is an awful sound. We dived. Some yot in a dugout. Others made foxholes and ditches and some got behind a garden wail-although which side would be “behind” was anybody's guess,

Too Late for the Dugout

I WAS too late for the dugout. The nearest place was a wagon-shed which formed one end of the stone house. The rattle was right down upon us. I remember hitting the ground flat, all spread out like the cartoons of people flattened by steam rollers, and thén squirming like an eel to.get under one of the heavy wagons in the shed. - An officer whom I didn't know was wriggling beside me. We stopped at the same time, simultaneously feeling it was hopeless to move farther. The bombs were already crashing around us. We lay with our heads slightly up—like two snakes—staring - at each other. I know it was in both our minds and in our eyes, asking each other

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

MRS. EVA AUBREY, the switchboard operator at Sears Roebuck’s customer service desk, answered a eall the other day, A childish voice introduced herself as “Phyllis Jean,” aged 7 and living on E. 34th. Explaining that she was calling from her grand- » 5 mother's home, the youngster said she’d like to have a baby sister. When Mrs. Aubrey started asking questions, Phyllis Jean said she wanted one with brown eyes, but didn’t want the store to deliver the baby “until I'm 19 years old so I'll know how to care for it.” Mrs. Aubrey promised to keep the order on file. . . , Things were in a fine staté of confusion out in the 1600 block of Prospect ; st. yesterday. Mrs, Carl Mefford, ER who lives at 1622 Prospect, was in the basement doing the laundry when she discovered a mean looking squirrel frisking around the Sasement, She screamed, jumped up the stairs and ran to the home of her mother, Mrs. R. J. Glass, a couple of doors away. Mrs. Glass went over to the Mefford residence, and met the squirrel coming up the basement stairway. Both retreated. Mrs. Glass called Old Inside and asked what to do. (Maybe she thought we'd come out and get the squirrel ‘for our future £00.) “Open the windows and doors and let it get out,” we suggested. She did, and retreated. Later she returned and the squirrel was gone. Just a part of Old Inside’s regular service. P. S. Guess we aren't so smart, after all, Mrs, Glass just reported the squirrels still there after hiding all night. Looks like a case for Frank Buck,

A Darned Good Heel

PASSERSBY, including streetcar passengers, have been amused by a pre-election sign in the window of a shoe repair shop on Illinois just north of 21st. The sign read: “Vote for Cats Paw—a darned good heel.”

World of Science

THE STORY of the lost island of Atlantis represents one of the first attempts at national propaganda, according to Dr. George Clapp Vaillant, director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia.

The legend of Atlantis was first told 2300 yeats ago by Plato and has been- the subject of debates,

and fantastic fiction ever since. In his account Plato said that the ‘story was then already 150 years old, having been told to Solon of Athens by an Egyptian priest. This priest, according to Plato, told Solon of records 9000 years old which described an island in the sea “beyond the Pillars of Hercules,” or as we should say today, beyond the Straits of Gibraltar. According to Plato's version, the people of Atfantis attacked the Greeks who united under the leadership of Athens. Then came the mighty earthquake that caused Atlantis to disappear in a single day beneath the waves of the ocean, “plato was trying to put over certain ideas and to break down the idea that the Egyptians had an older civilization than ‘the Greeks,” -Dr. Vaillant told the General Electric forum in Schnectady.

No Reference to Atlantis

SORUTINIZING Plato's story in the light of our modern archeological knowledge of the ancient world, and the success which modern scholars have had in reading the written records of the Egyptians, Sumerfans, and Babylonians, which go back long befqre the founding of Greek: civilization, we find no reference to Atlantis nor, for that matter, to Athens,” .

My Day

' HYDE PARK, Tuesday~~The President went yestérday on his usual pre-election day round of neighHe and Secretary Morgenthau have made this found on sO ‘many pre-election days that it has be- : come a tradition. ;

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what fo do. Neither of us knew. ‘We said nothing. | We just lay sprawled, gaping at each other in a futile appeal, our faces about a foot apart, until it was over. y ’ There is .no; description of the sound and fury of those bombs except to -say it-was chaos, ahd a waiting for darkness. The feeling of the blast was sensational. The air struck you in hundreds of continuing flutters, Your ears drummed and rang. You could feel .quick little waves of concussions on your chest and in your eyes.

‘As Far as We Could See’

AT LAST the sound died down and we looked | at each other in disbelief. Gradually we left the foxholes ‘and sprawling places, and came out to see what the sky had in store for us. As far as we could seé other waves were approaching from behind. When a wave would pass a little to the side of us we were garrulously grateful, for most of them flew directly overhead. Time and again the rattle came down over us. Bombs struck in the orchard to our left. They struck in orchards ahead of us. They struck as far as half a mile behind us. Everything about us was shaken, but our group came through unhurt. ; : ! I can't record what any of us actually felt or thought during those horrible climaxes. I believe a person's feelings at such times are kaleidoscopic and uncatalogable. You just wait, that's all. You do remember an inhuman tenseness of muscle and nerves, An hour or so later I began to get sore all over, and by mid-afternoon my back and shoulders ached as though I'd been beaten with a club. It was simply the result of muscles tensing themselves too tight for too long against anticipated shock. And I remember worrying about War: Correspondent Ken Crawford, a friend from back in the old Washington days, who I knew was several hundred yards ahead of me. As far as I knew, he and I were the only two correspondents with the Fourth Division, I didn’t know who might be with the divisions on either side— which also were being hit, as we could see. Three days later, back at camp, I learned that A. P. Photographer Bede Irvin had been killed in the bombing and that Ken was safe. We came out of our ignominious sprawling and stood up again to watch. We could sense that by now the error had been caught and checked. The bombs again were falling where they were intended, a mile or so ahead. Even at a mile away a thousand bombs hitting within a few seconds can shake the earth and shatter the air where you are standing. There was still a dread in our hearts, but it gradually eased as the tumult and destruction moved slowly forward.

Sounds like what some of the candidates have been calling each other. ... Funny, isn't it, how bitter we can get over politics during the campaign, and then as soon as the election's over go back to being friends again? Wonder if all the name calling really is necessary. . . , Probably thousands of voters, especially Democrats, were disappointed when they went to the polls yesterday. We don't mean those whose right to vote actually was challenged—but rather those who expected to be chall and weren't. All the soul satisfying “tell-em-off” speeches they had made up to deliver to those “so and sos” went undelivered. Such a let-down! . . . Seen in Block's: Two WACs walking past a display of hats on a table. Irresistibly attracted, they halted. And one of the WACs removed her uniform cap and tried on a neat red hat. Just wishful thinking. . . . Postmaster Adolph

Seidensticker is worrying already where he’s going to

get extra help for the holiday rush.

What—No Cigarets? A WOMAN phoned The Times yesterday to inquire just why “there's been nothing in the paper about this cigaret shortage?” She seemed surprised

when she was informed there have been numerous] .

stories about the situation. And here we had been avoiding mention of the shortage in this column because we didn’t want to “wear out” the subject. That encourages us to report that Indianapolis isn't the only city where the possessor of a full pack of cigarets is envied by fellow smokers. Louise Fletcher, The Times’ woman's page editor, was in Chicago recently and reports that up there you can’t even buy a pack of cigarets in some hotels without proving you are registered in the hotel. And the shortage has developed a new racket In some hotels. They have a social club which you can join upon payment of $1 dues and 20 cents tax. ‘Membership entitles you to two packs of cigarets for 36 cents. That makes the ciggies cost 73 cents a pack. Only a sucker would pay that. .

By David Dietz

“Plato,” Dr, Vaillant continues, “was giving his home town, for the purpose of invention, a greater antiquity than was really the case.” Dr. Vaillant’s opinion: is extremely interesting and particularly so in view of the fact that modern researches have shown that the Greeks borrowed far more of their learning from Egypt and Babylon than was once supposed.

Antiquity Proved

THUS THE WORK in recent years of archeologists has shown that the ancient astronomers of Babylon had advanced their astronomical theories, particularly with regard to eclipses, much farther than had previously been supposed. It is amusing to think that Plato felt the need of proving the Greeks older than the y There have, however, been attempts in the past to connect the myth of Atlantis with some actual event, Thus the German geographer, Paul Borchardt, suggested that the site of the lost Atlantis was not the Atlantic ocean but the Mediterranean sea in the region of the Gulf of Gabes, near Tunis, Many facts indicate that this region was at one time the seat of an extended civilization which was Sesifuyed by sone, convulsion of salute Yee ns sarin. q sy On the other hand, a number of geologists have advanced the idea of a land bridge in ancient times between Scandinavia and North America. These included the British geologist, Prof. Albert Gilligan. In 1937 Dr. W, H. Bradley of the U. 8. Geographical Survey reported that samples of the ocean bottom ooze from regions where Atlantis was supposed to haye been, showed evidence of flows of volcanic rock. This could be interpreted as evidence for the story of Atlantis, I think, however, that most . scientists doubt that Atlantis ever existed. : ad

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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Whatever happens, 1 feel that on the Democratic side the President has made a good fight; and in

political life I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing ‘that “you stood for the things in which you believed, and “had

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vote in the Poughkeepsie town hall

President Roosevelt leaves the voting hooth after casting his

Governor Bricker casts his ballot with the help of Mrs, J. A. Landers, receiving judge in his district.

Georgia high school girls, all 18 years old, appear at the polls their first votes in a presidential election. The Washington seminary seniors shown with (left to right) R. E. Dorough and T. A, Kamp Jr, registrars, are: Dorothy Watkins, Eda Embigh and Mary Shepard.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1944

One Guess on How These Candidates Voted

Dewey just as he prepared to vote.

Governor Dewey, G. O. P. standard bearer, Is shown with Mrs.

Senator Harry §. Truman, the President's running mate, casts his ballot with Mrs. Truman at Independence, Mo.

clad in sweaters and bobby sox to cast Rep. Clare Boothe Luce, a G. O.

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is that absorption of the OC, § I. O. by the American Federation of Labor, which might have resulted eventually if the Mr. Perkins C. L O. had been on the losing end in this campaign, now is ine definitely deferred. The C. I. O,, which has had many friends in government agencies in Washing- - ton, sometimes producing A. F. of L. charges of favoritism, will have more from now on.

Labor Hillman Goes Up and Lewis

Goes Down (Continued From Page One)

the C. I. O. Political Action Come mittee will continue for four years at leadt as a potent element in American politics, as will be made

lear when exuberant leaders of

the organization meet in Chicago Nov, 20 for the C. LL O.'s nation= al convention.

Another result

. 8 =» ‘THIS IS the second major polit-

ical blow suffered by Mr. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, Four years ago he came out 10 days

before the election in favor of the

late Wendell . Willkie, but informed estimates were that not

Pittsburgh, the Roosevelt vote was approximately two to one, and this was credited in some degree to the C. I. O. United Steel Work~

. ers, but it was pointed out that

these communities have been habitually Democratic. Joseph Goney, head of the Allegheny county (Pittsburgh) C. 1. O. Political Action Committee, said he was “delighted” at the heavy votes in labor districts, and he cited lop-sided, local majorities in favor of Mr. Roosevelt.

P. candidate for congress, votes at Greenwich, Conn,

PARADE LEADER— Wallace Makes First Claim of Victory for F.D.R

WASHINGTON, Nov, 8 ({. P), —Vice President Henry, A. Wallace made what was probably the first victory claim for President Roosevelt in a statement issued at 8:40 p.m. (Indianapolis time) last night. po) He jssued the following staté~ ment: “Roosevelt until 1048 means a _country confident, moving with full steam ahead. The vote cone stitutes a mandate to congress to prepare the way for 60,000,000 jobs. Corner apple ‘selling disappeared under Roosevelt, The people have determined to lick the dole. Full employment means prosperity to farm and city alike. Plans will now go ahead for a permanent, enforceable peace.”

|LAST MAN'S CLUB ~ PLANS FOR DINNER

Up Front With Mauldin

‘| A benefit card party and bake

‘lee men’s Christmas fund. Mrs.

U. S. FAIR PLAY— G.I. War Prisoner

Wins Battle for

Voting Franchise

NEW YORK, Nov..8 (U. P)~— Bgt. Michael Troiano, 22-year-old aerial gunner who became a prisoner of war after he applied for an overseas ballot, was permitted to vote yesterday by special order of the state supreme court after his home polling place had refused permission. Sgt. Trolano, at his West New Brighton, Staten Island, home on furlough, said he did not receive : his ballot because the Liberator bomber on which he was a gunner was shot down after a bombing mission on the Ploesti oil fields and he was :a- prisoner of war from Aug. 17 until Sept. 17, He was held prisoner in Yugoslavia, released when the Russians overran Bulgaria, and re-

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Frustration

By RUTH MILLETT THERE HAS been some specu= lation about whether or not wom-= en who have held down factory jobs during the war will return to their homes ready to run them on systematic, time and labor saving schedules. There's frustration in store for them if . they try too hard to run a house according to a strict routine. sm = FOR WHEN you try to put home life on a schedule and

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