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“ON THE WESTERN FRONT, August, 1044.—The soldier had a white bandage around the calf of his

left leg. - He id loosely laced his legging back over

the bandage. , He said the wound “didn’t amount to a damn” and I ta . he wished they hadn't sent him "Rens B&O EYL pack from the lines. He said he if! had gone through Africa and Sicily without getting wounded, and now he'd got nicked. He was disgusted. You could sense that this guy was a fine soldier. He looked old, but probably wasn't. I took him tobe a farmer. He talked like ' & hillbilly, and beneath his whiskers you could tell he had a big, droll face, " He had found some long, ' rerooked, raggedy French cigars, and he kept lighting these funny-looking things and

who just got from his other wound. ‘ The soldier said they were right up where the bullets were flying, but that if the

with him,

‘That's the Truth’ ~—*

THE DOCTOR also told an unwounded German to go along and help carry. But.one of the aidmen said: “We better not have him with us. Our men are liable to start shooting at us.” “That's right,” the doctor said, “leave him here. And he named off one other American to go. After they had left the doctor said, “That's the truth and 1 never even thought of it.” The doctor and ‘I sat a while on the stairway inside the farmhouse, for shells had started hitting Just outside again. But in a little bit the doctor got up and said he was going to see how the stretcher party was getting along. I said I'd like to go with him. He said o. k. We struck out across a sloping wheatfleld. It was

: full of huge craters left by our bombings.

There was a lull in the shelling as we crossed the

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fleld, but the trouble with lulls is that you never know when they will suddenly come to an end. As we picked our way among the craters I thought I heard, very faintly, somebody call “Help!” It's odd how things strike you in wartime. 'I remember thinking to myself, “Oh, pooh, that would be too dramatic—just like a book. You're just imagining it.”

But the’ doctor, had stopped, and he said, “Did

you hear somebody yelling?” .. We Could Hear-1t Plainly

. So WE LISTENED again, and this time we could hear it plainly. It seemed to come from a far’ corner of the field, so we picked our way over in that direction. ” Finally we saw him, a soldier lying on his back near a hedge row, still yelling “Help!” as we approached. The aidmen who had started ahead of us had got down in a bomb crater when the shelling started, so the doctor now waved them to come on, The wounded soldier was making an awful fuss, He was twisting and squirming, and moaning “Oh, my God! Oh, my God!” He had a bandage on his right hand and there was blood on his left leg. The doctor took his scissors and cut the legging off, then cut the laces on the shoe, and then peeled off a bloody sock and cut the pants leg up so he could see the wound. The soldier kept his eyes shut and kept squirming and moaning, When the doctor would try to talk to him he would just groan and say, “Oh, my God!” Finally the doctor got out of him that he had had a small wound in his hand, and his sergeant had bandaged it and told him’ to start to the rear. Then, coming across the field, a shell fragment had got him in the The doctor looked him over thoroughly. There were two small holes just above the ankle. The doctor said they hadn't touched the bone. I think the doctor was disgusted. He said, “He's making a hell of a fuss over nothing.” give him a shot of morphine to quiet him.” Whereupon the soldier squirmed and moaned, “Oh, no, no, no! Oh, my God!” But the doctor said go ahead, and the aidman cut his sleeve up to the shoulder, stuck the needle in and squeezed the vial. The aidman, trying to be sympathetic, said to the soldier, “It's the same old needle, ain't it?” But the soldier just groaned again and said, “Oh, my God!” Our hillbilly soldier lit another skinny cigar, as though he were at a national convention instead of a battlefield, Then one set of the litterbearers started back with our new man, and the rest of us went on

with the soldier to hunt for other wounded.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

JUDGE EMSLEY JOHNSON JR. probably has devided by now that he’s better at predicting invasions than election results. Still glowing with pride over his successful prediction of the date and place of the European invasion, Judge Johnson turned his hand six weeks ago fo political predictions. He put down on paper his forecast of the winner of the

his "idea of the way the various states would vote. Then he sealed

of 312 to

Better luck next time,

"Judge. « » i And then there’s the prediction of James On

Nov. 2, Jim sent his preIndiana, county by county, to it out yesterday. We won't

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votes, Governor Schricker by 19679, and Senator ackson by 13910. Off a little, wasn’t he? "He also predicted Roosevgjt would carry 38 counties—a little more than twice as many as he actually did carry. Well, better luck next time for you, too, Jim,

Buttons for Sale

A SIGN ON the window of a barber shop at 3010 N. Illinois yesterday read: “Unused Dewey buttons for sale.” , . . While serving as judge in Precinct 11, Ward 11, Mrs, Robert O’Brien, 628 E, Vermont st.

World of Science

IF SEA SERPENTS exist in the briny deep, ‘Dr. Maurice Ewing and his associates of Columbia university will get a picture of them one of these for have carried underwater photography of perfection, I to add that Dr. Ewing does not particularly expect to get any close-ups of sea perpents he does expect his new

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presidential campaign, including:

first one she opened chanced to be from her son, Cpl. John E. O'Brien, who is in England. . . . One of our readers calls in and wants to know if maybe there wasn't some “dirty work at the polls” in Maryland. When we asked why, she referred us to the state-by-state vote for president, as printed on page 2 of yesterday's Times, For Maryland, the table showed: Total precincts, 1313. Precincts reporting, 1325. Tsk-tsk.

A Lively Trade-Mark

A HALF GROWN kitten fast is becoming a “trademark” for Pearson's, 128 N, Pennsylvania. The kitten has the run of the store, and at night, when the store is dark except for the display windows, the kitten frolics around the window, or plays on the beds and overstuffed chairs. It was found on the street,

* playing with a feather, and was taken to the store

as a mascot by two eniployees, Mrs. Fran Betts and Mrs, Mildred Walker. They named it “Petunia,” but, after a diet. of goat-milk—donated by another store employee—the feline became so frisky they renamed it, “Dash.” Now is the pet of all the store workers, has its own bed and dishes, and toys. It doesn’t know it yet, but one of these days it's going to get a bath. . . . A young coast guardsman, Gunner's Mate 2-¢ Charles Baker, was in the office talking to a young reporter the other day and mentioned that he had played under Lt. Cmdr. Eddie Peabody, the former banjo king. “How did Eddie get to be a lieutenant commander so soon?” asked the young reporter. “Oh,” replied the coast guardsman, “maybe by pulling strings.” Ow-ow! Excuse it please, Eddie. .. , A reader suggests that we ought to award an orchid or something to “Al” the butcher in the Standard supermarket at 38th and Illinois. Writes the booster: “He has a smile and a good morning for all customers and is very helpful to everyone. Always ready to help instead of reminding you that there's a war on.”

By David Dietz

camera which came to the surface by reason of its buoyancy. Unfortunately, this camera was lost on the third attempt to use it, . The second camera designed by Dr. Ewing and his colleagues followed a different plan. It was encased in a pyrex glass tube five feet long and six inches in diameter. The camera was designed to take two pictures, one on striking bottom and another 30 seconds later. :

100 Pictures Taken

THIS CAMERA was only designed for use at depths of 1100 fathoms, about one mile. Its ballast system resembled that of the first cameras. However, in making pictures in depths of less than 100 fathoms, a fishline, was attached to the camera to facilitate its recovery. By 1040 more than 100 successful pictures showing the ocean bottom and various forms of marine life had been taken with this camera to depths of about 500 fathoms, In addition, much information had been obtained about the force and direction of ocean currents by

+ lowering” various measuring devices with the camera

80 that the camera took a picture of the indicators on these devices, In some cases samples of the ocean bottom were

' sediments.

” ‘Unfortunately this second camera was lost when sent to 1500 fathoms. Dr. Ewing believes that the

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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SECOND SECTION

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 194 - . +

FIGHTING YANK LEADERS ON THE SPOT TO REPLACE GEN. STILWELL— .

By THOMAS M. JOHNSON NEA Staff Writer

THE recent upset .in China proves again

that this war has developed *

plenty of good American generals. For when" the able and distinotive Stilwell had to vacate, straightway arose the like-wise able and distinctive Wedemeyer and Sultan, less-known but no less qualified, and both already on the ground. » » »

ALBERT C. WEDEMEYER, one of our youngest major generals, is also on the spot—two spots. He must be not only chief of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek but commander of all American troops in China. On the first spot he is supposed to be a sort of military adviser and general manager to a commander who by permitting cor ruption, incompetence and politics has weakened an enterprise already severely handicapped until it is near collapse. ' Wedemeyer's second spot is that only a near-miracle can provide the means to run the Chinese war effort at all before the impending collapse, » » » WEDEMEYER'S problem is two-fold: First there must be a shake-up like an earthquake in Chiang’s regime and army. Second, there must be a major American landing at a Chinese port whence not only troops and planes but supplies can pour into what the Japs have left of China. " And though Chiang may be at the dock to do the official greeting, the reception committee’s real wheelhorse will be Wedemeyer, He must not only get along with the sorely beset Chinese dictator, but prepare the receiving end of D-day in Asia, which greater distance certainly, and greater enemy sea power probably will make more difficult than D-day in

It will be a test as rugged as any American statesman-general has faced. . » » WEBDEMEYER’S profile suggests Washington's, His high gray pom_padour tops a lean body over six feet. He is quiet, yet friendly, frank yet modest, and un-self-seeking. : Like Gen. Marshall, whom he

. greatly admires, he co-operates

with his allies. His former chief in India, Lord

‘Generals Face Rugged

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Maj. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer. , . soldier, statesman in China.

Mountbatten, likes him. So does Winston Churchill, with whom, Weédemeyer lately conferred im London. : At -the important international conferences he has attended, Wedemeyer, a Nebraska - West Point American, has been hong, but shrewd and tenacious of his country's interests. ‘ His son is a cadet at West Point, his father-in-law, Lt, Gen. Stanley D. Embick, is an “elder statesman” of the joint chiefs of staff in Washington. ” ” s UNTIL HE went to India, he headed a secret géneral staff group in Washington that helped map global strategy, including some of D-day in Europe. Strongly favoring triphiblous training, he helped start the new joint army and navy staff college, drawing on two years’ study at the German kriegsakademie (war academy). Thence he returned in 1938 a major, at 41. His rapid rise is due also to his little-known earlier experience in China, where he learned Mandarin, and the Philippines, as well as his command and general staff school training. He is an infantryman, -but air

reserves.

manders are West Point alumni,

Yanks in this global war are led by 1331 general officers of all ranks, according to figures released Sept. 15, 1944. Of these, 1209 are regular lifetime professional soldiers, 76 came from the national guard, and 27 are reserve officers from the organized

Nineteen have been commissioned from civil life, having been recruited from civilian ranks, Of the 1209 regulars, only 550 are graduates of West Point—which is a surprising fact, unusual fact is that 15 of our generals are graduates of Annapolis. "Of 700,000 army officers of all ranks, only 7955 are West Point graduates. However, almost all of the top-ranking field com-

Another

CIGARET BATTLE— Smokes for All Or We Move In, Says Detroit OPA

DETROIT; Nov. 10 (U. P.).~Detroit cigaret dealers today were warned that OPA investigators

“will move right into” their of-:-

fices unless cigarets are reverted to the normal channels of trade and the cigaret famine in the. city is relieved. W. E. Fitzgerald, district OPA director, in a hard-hitting statement, told the dealers to “clean up the situation or else” and predicted that there would he many ‘more -cigarets in the city in the immediate future,

AT A MEETING . yesterday, Fitzgerald said cigaret wholesalers and jobbers had agreed to make future deliveries to retailers on the basis of §0 per cent of each customer's purchases “in Jupe, 1943. “There is no reason why any person should have to stand in line for two blocks to get a pack of cigarets,” he said. “I can put my finger on at least five dealers who are selling cigarets for $2 or $2.25 a carton. We can't tolerate such things any longer.” WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. P.). -Cigaret smokers, now feeling the impact of reduced crops over the past few years, may be up against a continued shortage for two, and possibly three years, it was learned today. : Cigarets now on thé market, according to the department of

Lt. Gen, Dan I. Sultan ... engineer in India and Burma.

minded; would probably be, hap-. plest - commanding one of the airborne divisions he considers the nits of the future. His air-mindedness is lucky, since his job involves command of all American troops in China and they are now largely air, » » ”

.DAN 1. SULTAN, too, is wellfitted for his job and unusual as his name--for the same reason: He is a technician who has performed the unusual feat of making himself a field general, Since graduating from West

“The restaurants are closed, but you Americans.

Up Front With Mauldin

can buy something from the

Test in” Asia

Point he has been until lately mostly an engineer, and a good one, : He has built fortifications and roads in the Philippines, surveyed the proposed Nicaragua canal; now he has in his province one of the ‘world's worst highway jobs—

' hewing through Burmese jungle

and crag the Ledo road that already has helped save India and will, when completed, help save China, ” " » ALSO HE will command all American troops in India, ground and air, He showed he could do it, when he turned down an engineer's staff job in Washington to command a division in the field. Many lifelong engineers could not accomplish this feat and would not risk trying. Sultan made good, got a corps, and a lieutenant general's third star, then the CBI job as deputy commander to Mountbatten. There he uses some engineering traits: Analysis, planning, method, initiative, determination, He does not bluff, but hits hard, like the stocky football player he was at West Point, His dark,

‘clean-shaven face is serious, but

he is popular, He will make his men go through jungle, mountain, air, hell or high water—and like it.

agriculture, were made for the most part from tobacco grown in 1041, and the improved crop for 1944 will not be available in the form of cigarets until 1947. Tobacco reserves have been cut to 48 per cent of the 1939 total as a result of heavy withdrawals from stocks to ease the present shortage.

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OTTO W. COX TO SPEAK

Otto W. Cox, Indianapolis attorney, - will speak on “The True Armistice” at the meeting of the McGuffy club”at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow at Central public library. Mrs, Benjamin Raley will present a reading and Mrs. Florence Free McDonald will sing.

Dressed funny? Say! Can it hove) been Third Cousin Malachy? We resemblance. Jome,

Did he offer to let you bet which shell the peg | was under? Did he

you an oil well? Ore

NAZIS SHOW MERCY—

Wounded Yanks

Evacuated After 3 Days in Storm

By JACK FRANKISH United Press Staff Correspondent

U. 8. ARMY MEDICAL STATION IN HURTGEN FOREST, Germany, Nov. 9 (Delayed). — While Germans held their fire, 54 wounded American soldiers were evacuated through a snowstorm today from an isolated ravine in enemy territory, No word had been heard from forward medical aid stations for three days and nights after the Germans had tured a ravine between Vossenack and Kommerscheidt. Pirst Lt. Lloyd C. Johnson of Lidi, Wis, had tried to’ get weasels—caterpillar carriers about the size of Jeeps—for a dash inte the ravine to rescue wounded left there but he was unsuccessful. Other wounded had been left inside Schmidt and Kommerscheidt when the Americans were driven back by a panzer attack, . » .

THIS MORNING Maj. Albert L. Berndt of Portsmouth, O, regimental surgeon, and interpreter Sgt. Wheeler W. Wolters of Chicago set out from Vossenack with a white flag fashioned from a pillow case to seek a truce for evacuation of the wounded. ; Berndt found two battalion aid stations combined in the ravine with 54 wounded men, four medical officers, two chaplains, six medical enlisted men and 30 other men who had put aside their arms to volunteer as aidmen. Berndt and Wolters continued to a stream at the bottom of the ravine and called for a German officer. A German infantry lieutenant appeared, ‘ # . »

HE TOLD Berndt that. all American wounded in “Kommerscheidt and Schmidt had been evacuated through German mredical channels and agreed to hold fire until the ravine medical aid station was evacuated. Berndt introduced me to tired, unshaven 2d Lt, Henry W, Morrison of Kalamazoo, Mich, who had spent three days inside the German lines, ; “At 4 a. m, two days ago there was a knock at the little cabin where two battalion aid stations had been combined,” said. “It was a German’ patrol. When the Germans say’ we were

needed, but we were well supplied.” ¥ . »

BERNDT, continuing the story, sald that when he and Wolters returned to the top of the ravine they found two knocked out American tanks blocking the road, preventing use of two trucks and a weasel at the aid station, They trudged ' back to Vossenack for help. Meanwhile Morrison found another weasel whose gasoline tank was punctured, He loaded the five worst cases on it and drove out while T-3 John Shedio “of Lyndore, Pa., poured gasoline into the tank a little at: a time from a five-gallon can, 4 . ” . BERNDT assembled 60 litter bearers and sent Johnson out

with them to evacuate the rest |

through a snowstorm which had developed.

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Labor= Rail Workers Claim Share In Victory

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.— “Governor Dewey made an impressive showing, but he was rightfully handicapped ' by his

. party's record on economic issues,”

This analysis of the election re« sults will be published this week by Labor, official] organ of the railway workers’ brotherhood, in an article indicating that most railroad men voted for the President, The Labor statement, and Mr. Perkins another by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, indicate that the C. L Os claim the largest credit for producing the Roosevelt victory will be contested by the other union organizations.

ns #" » THE COMPLAINT of Labor against Mr. Dewey's party is di rected at Republicans in the house and senate, who, the paper will say, “formed an alliance with the - ‘sweatshop’* Democrats from

the South to put over such legislation as the Smith-Connally bill to defeat such measures ag the Kilgore bill.”

Despite the presidential victory, it was apparent that the C. L O.

‘going to buy

We, the W. . 'Keeping Up With Joneses’ Is Back Again

By RUTH MILLETT 1-SHOULD have known that

go on forever. : But not until I read the prediction “You will probably be permitted to build ’

realize just what we women are in for. We've got to start. keeping up Joneses again, There’s not much time left

Miss Millett for dismissing the old sofa with, “I'm going to make it do until there's a better selection of furniture in the stores.” FI BE

THE DAY will even come when we can't make ourselves feel happy in a three-year-old suit by thinking we're being patriotic in wearing it qut and making it do.

And even though the old car runs all right and has stood by us like = faithful friend we'll think we have to have a new one when Mrs. Jones starts buzzing by In a gleaming new model.

So the “old vicious eircle of

- keeping up with the Joneses will

start again—and we'll have no convicing alibi for not getting in the silly race. PE BUT it's been easy and comfortable while it lasted—hasn't it

—being able to do without things? |

If it just weren't for Mrs. Jones we could go along comfortably for years, wearing things out and making them do and talking all the while about the things we are in the distant fures le a But you know Mrs. Jones, She will have the first of everything

released—and you and I won't

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