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' SATURDAY, NOV. 11, 1944

" Hoosier Vagabond |

By Ernie Pyle

Editor's Note: This is the 50th of the Ernie Pyle war dispatches that are being reprinted during

Ernie’s vacation,

a, ON THE WESTERN FRONT, August, 1044 —The ways of an invasion turned out to be all very new to

". Pfc. Tommy Clayton, 20th division.

It was new to thousands of others also, for they hadn't been trained in hedgerow fighting. So they Xi had “to learn it the way’ a dog : v learns to swim. They learned. This Tommy Clayton, the mildest of men, has killed four of the enemy for sure, and probably dozens of ‘unseen ones.’ He wears “an expert rifleman’s badge and soon will have the proud badge of combat infantryman, worn only by those who have been through the mill, Three of his four victims he got in one long blast of his Brownoo ing automatic rifle. He was stativned in the bushes at a bend in a gravel road, covering a crossroads about 80 yards ahead of him, ' “Suddenly three German soldiers came out a side road and foolishly stopped to talk right in the middle of the crossroads. The B. A. R. has 20 bullets in a * clips Clayton held het’down for the whole clip. The three Germans went down, never to get up. His fourth one he thought was a Jap when he killed him. In the early days of the invasion lots of soldiers thought they were fighting Japs, scattered in with the Gelman troops. They were actually Mongolian Russians, with strong Oriental features, who resembled Japs to the uniraveled Americans. On this fourth killing, Clayton was covering an infantry squad as it worked forward along a hedgerow. There were snipers in the trees in front. Clayton spotted one and sprayed the tree with his automatic rifle, and out tumbled this man he thought was a Jap.

How He Did It

TO SHOW how little anyone who hasn't been through war can know about it—do you want to know how Clayton located his sniper? Here's how— When a pullet passes smack over your head it doesn’t zing; it pops the same as a rifle-when it goes off.’ That's because the bullet's rapid passage creates 8 vacuum behind it, and the air rushes back with such force to fill this vacuum that it collides with itself, and makes a resounding “pop.”

Clayton didn't know what caused this, and 1 tried to explain, “You know what a vacuum is,” I said, “We arid that in high school.” _, And Tommy said, “Ernie, I never went past the third grade.” But Tommy is intelligent and his sensitivities are fine. You don't have to know the reason in war, you only have to know what things indicate when they Bappen,. A - Well, Clayton had learned that the pop of a bullet over his diedd preceded the actual rifle report by a fraction of a second, because the sound of the rifle explosion had to travel some distance before hitting his ear. So the “pop” became his warning signal to listen for the crack of a sniper’s rifle a moment later. Through much practice he had learned to gauge the direction of the sound almost exactly. And so out of this animal-like system of ‘hunting, he had the knowledge to shoot into the right tree—and out tumbled his “Jap” sniper,

Weirdest Experience

CLAYTON'S weirdest experience would be funny if it weren't so flooded with pathos. He was returning with ‘a patrol one moonlit night when the enemy opened up on them. Tommy leaped right through a hedge and, spotting a foxhole, plunged into jt. To his amazement and fright, there was a German in thé toxhole, sitting pretty, holding a machine pistol in his hands. Clayton siiot him three times in the chest before you could say scat. * The German hardly moved. And then Tommy realized the man had been killed earlier. He had been shooting a corpse. All these experiences seem to have left no effect on this mild soldier from Indiana, unless to make him quieter than before. The worst experience of all is just the accumulated blur, and the hurting vagueness of too long in the lines, the everlasting alertness, the noise and fear, the cell-by-cell exhaustion, the thinning of the ranks around ‘you as day follows nameless day. And the constant march into eternity of your own small quota of chances for survival, Those are the things that hurt ,and destroy. And soldiers like Tommy Clayton go back to them, because they are good soldiers and they have a duty they cannot define.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

SOME VERY RED faces were worn by members of a Junior C. of C. reception committee for Brig. Gen. Gerald C. Thomas, who spoke at the marine

anniversary luncheon. Evan Walker, John Tyler and Jack Reich met the general at the train and escorted WA 4 him to the Claypool where, they informed him, they had a suite of rooms for him. They went to the registration desk, obtained the key to the suite they had reserved, and went on up. Being polite about it, they unlocked the door, then ushered the general in ahead of them, He stepped inside, and halted abruptly, “Looks like you've been having a good time,” he said. The Jaycees looked over his shoulder, and were horrified “to note that the room was littered with empty and partially empty beer bottles, mixer bottles, and glasses, and was in a general condition indicating it had been the scene of a big party, What would the general think? They quickly explained they'd ,never seen the room bhefore—that the rooms just hadn't been cleaned up after the last occupants. The general gracioutly accepted the explanation. Then it dawned on the committee that a newspaper photographer was due there any minute to take the general's picture. It wouldn't do to have the bottles showing, so all set to work removing the litter and straightening up the room. Even the general helped.

Time to Get Up

IT'S GETTING so a fellow can't take a , nap any more. A telephone company linesman who lives in Shelbyville but. works here arrived in town a bit early yesterday and. decided to take a nap while waiting until time for work. He parked his car in front of 520 W. Washington, and proceeded to nap. Imagine his embarrassment when he found a squad of police shaking him, A passerby had seen him snoozing in the car and, thinking him dead, had called police. It was time to go to work, anyway,

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World of Science

WHAT SHALL a science editor write on the Armistice day of one world war that falls in the midst of a second? I shall take the opportunity to

preach a sermon on the necessity of maintaining equate scientific research in the military field in

the post-war world, not to prepare.

us for world war III' but to prevent -world war III. There is a very close connection between modern wars and scientific advances. The kaiser could not have started world war I without the Haber process for turning the nitrogen of the atmosphere Into nitrates. For ‘the British navy shut off his access to Chilean nitrates and without nitrates there can be no explosives. Hitler could not have started world war‘ II without the various processes for the making of synthetic gasoline for he has had to depend upon synthetics for half the fuel to run his tanks and planes.

Need for Research Remains BUNGLING of the peace at the close of world war

II might very well set the stage for world war III,

but what would do the most to incite an aggressor nation of the future to overt action would be the possession 6f some secret weapon of amazing power. Every scientist knows that there is the potentiality of that kind of weapon in the release of atomic power. '

My Day

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so he thanked the cops and drove on. The folks at. Burt's shoe store, 35 E. Washington, are sure that honesty is not a lost virtue. A week or so ago, one of the clerks turned up $5 short at the end of the day. A couple of days later, in the mail they found an anonymous letter in which there was a $5 bill. The writer said she had found the $5 in one of the shoes she had purchased. . . . Sgt. Dick Lewis, The Times’ Voice in the Balcony, now is on the staff of the Stars and Stripes, army publication, in Paris. « + « Lt. Col. Bob O'Hara, who was a Times reporter back about 1927 or 1928, dropped in the office Friday. Bob, brother of Joe O'Hara over at Strauss’, is back from two years service overseas where he helped prepare for the European invasion, ... A reader phones to advise us that the Martinsville Democrat yesterday carried a picture of President Roosevelt, and with him the new vice president. But instead of a picture of Senator Trumin, they had used a picture of Governor Bricker of Ohio—the unsuccessful candidate. My, how embarrassing!

Found—One Beanie

SOMEWHERE, SOMEONE probably is wondering what ever happened to her “beanie”—a small skullcap type of hat with four little black bows on it. Well,

we can tell her. All she has to do to fing it is to con-|

tact Mrs, Mildred Flanner Linblad, BR, 0424." Mrs. Linblad's son, Bob Linblad, the sailor (not Sinbad), left Sunday for the naval reserve pre-midshipman’s school at’ Asbury Park, N, J. after graduation from the V-12 program at Purdue. His sweetheart, Miss Betty Lou Fleigh, of Ohio Wesleyan university, spent the week-end with the Linblads, then rode as far as Columbus with Bob on his way east. When they got ready to leave, Sunday, she couldn't find her “beanie.” She thought back, and decided she had lost it at the Illinois st, Service Men's Center the night before. She called there, and sure enough— someone found such a hat. Bob dashed in and got the hat on their way to the train. The next day, Mrs. Linblad discovered a hat just like it on the running board of her car, which hadn't been used since Saturday. Now, she wonders who lost the hat Betty Lou is wearing.

By David Dietz

But even if we assume it will take another century to achieve the reledse of atomic energy on a large scale—an assumption, by the way, which I regard as far too pessimistic—the need for scientific research in the military field remains with us. To my way of thinking it is at the very center of maintaining world peace after this war, '

Weapons Change Constantly

+ EVERY ONE seems agreed that we must malntain our magnificent navy at approximately its present strength after the war. We must likewise have an air force of considerable size. There is more disgussion about the army and I am not certain that we need or can afford a very large peacetime army, Many. army experts want a small hut highly professional and finely equipped peacetime army. But the most important fact to remember is that weapons and ways of war constantly change. Our “Battleship X" shot down the Japanese airplanes that attacked it off Gaudalcanal. But precisely the same sort of attack previously sunk the Repulse and the Prince of Wales. Radars, electrical gun-pointers, bazookas, rocket guns of all sorts, weapons that are still secret—these are the things without which modern wars cannot be fought. None of these devices is the ultimate in its field. Thus our national safety requires that we continue the researches upon them after this war. We must never again make the mistake of starving the research and development activities of our army and navy,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

We stopped for a few minutes on the plaza in front

Once at man in the reception room to receive all the people in the White House itself, and those f

By CURT REISS Written for NEA Service

"HE Germans have decided that they want neither armistice nor peace, according to a report which has. been received by this writer. As far as they're concerned, the war can go

on forever. This decision was reached by Adolf Hitler and his most trusted lieutenants in a series of conferences, in which a number of high army officers took part, Total mobilization, as proclaimed by Dr. Goebbels on July 26, was not, as hitherto believed, an attempt to use every ounce of strength still left in Germany to prolong the war and postpone the unavoidable military defeat, » » ”

TOTAL mobilization was devised to mobilize every ounce ofstrength left in Germany to carry on the fight after military defeat has made miiltary resistance in the established sense impossible, ‘The idea behind this new policy is the conviction of Nazi leaders that, no matter whether the allies decide on a “hard” peace or a “soft” peace, the Nazis will be eliminated from public life and probably executed. Therefore any peace will be worse for them than no peace at all. On the other hand, the Nazis believe that as long as Hitler does not sign an armistice or a peace he will remain the only legal power in Germany, having been legally appointed by President Hindenburg who, in turn, was elected according to the Weimar constitution. " » »

AS LONG as Hitler remains the head of the only rightful German government, everybody appointed by him retains his position within the government, even if he has to go into hiding or into exile. This again would make it impossible for anybody except the Nazis themselves to negotiate with the allies. The Nazis have established a commission- to carry through measures which may be necessary to avoid the conclusion of an armistice or peace treaty by any other German representative, This commission, whose members are a few topnotch Nazis and high-ranking officers, may later. on function as German government, either in hiding or in exile. : ” ” . % IN THE MEANTIME, Dr. Goebels has prepared a host of de-

WAGES OF SIN— Mental Torture Seen in Suicide

Of Girl's Slayer

SALEM, Mass., Nov. 11 (U. P.. ~—Police said today his own restless conscience drove Wilfred J. Marquis, 20, to snuff out his life in a cheap boarding housé to blot out the mental picture of the 14-year-old girl whom he thrilled with a first date, ravished, and left dead in a dark football stadium. A few hours before he took his life his conscience led him to reclaim his victim's gold wrist watch from the brother-in-law to whom he had given it. The glitteri ing timepiece was found beside him as he lay on a bed, a gas tube between his lifeless lips in the newly rented room to which he fled while police, who suspected him as the killer, waited for his nerves to crack, fn = POLICE, PIECING together the stories “told them by Marquis father, Ernest, and friends of Marie Rose Lacombe, reconstructed this modern version of Dostoevski's “crime and punishment.” Marquis, emotional and moody, who lasted only from February until May last year in the army, then got into trouble in Illinois when he was released from a corrective institution a few weeks ago, met the young girl at a movie, They made a date. The girl's brutally bludgeoned body was found the next morning in the lonely stadium, ” » » THE ELDER Marquis sald his son returned to their home about 10 p. m. and confessed what he had done.

\ td » » The father pondered his son's confession and finally went to police. Dist, Atty. Hugh A, Cregg said police had already taken up Marquis’ trail and were waiting for him te do something to give himself away, “This suicide definitely closes our investigation of the girls murder,” Cregg said. =

HURT IN TRAFFIC Donald Dennis, 21, of 2336 8. West st., is in City hospital today after being struck by an automobile near his home last night. The driver, George Stewart, 25, of R. R. 1, Box 823, took him to the hospital.

. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ANY PEACE WORSE THAN NO. PEACE AT “ALL, NAZIS DECIDE~—-

~~ Why Germany Wil Sign No Armistice

Dead Aachen, striking example of the mew Nazi policy to make a shambles of Germany. This scene was typical of the city’s appearance when the fanatical resistance to American occupation was ended.

CURT RIESS, on the eve of his departure to cover overseas assignments, presents another, of his revealing analyses: of Nazi policies. Complete chaos in Germany, Riess reports, is

the specific gm of her military and political leaders. Here he tells you why the Nazis will never sign an armistice.

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crees to clarify the situation for the German public.

It is strictly forbidden for any German to co-operate in any way with the occupation authorities wherever the allies occupy” Germany. No German mayor must run his city; no German judge must preside over a trial; no German gov~ ernment employee down to the least important must do any work . under the allies. The Nazis know well that if their policy of resistance is carried through, sometime in 1945 the allies will occupy a Germany completely in ruins. And this is precisely what they hope for.

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FOR NO matter how efficient the allied authorities of occupation may prove, the Germans will have a tough time in a country coinpletely a shambles

“Ya don’t get combat pay ’cause va don’t fight”

In such circumstances the Germans can remember only that “after all, under Hitler it was better.” The more thoroughly Germany is destroyed before the allies take possession, the more certain such

a reaction on the part of the average German will become. It will follow, therefore, that the average German will want the Nazis to come back. ” » »

THE SAVAGE fight for Aachen

is proof that the new Nazi program has been put into effect. Centrary to what they may have beiieved before, German military leaders are now convinced that the allies will not give them a chance to rebuild the German army. : Therefore, no peace seems bet-

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Up Front With Mauldin

A Technical high school junior died early today at City hospital from injuries received yesterday when he ran into an automobile as he was crossing in the 2000 block of E. Washington st.

coma ave.

Parker.

Lawrence Parker, 16, of 1201 Hoyt

ave. police said, was crossing the street diagonally and ran into the door of an automobile driven by Paul A. Plerce, 42, of 936 N. Ta-

A member of the Tech band, young Parker was returning home from a football game between his school and Washington high school, when the accident occurred. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence

Witnesses sald Pierce was driv ing west about, 20 miles an hour

Lawrence Parker, Tech Pupil, Dies From Traffic Injuries

A member of the Edwin Ray Methodist church, Lawrence was described at Tech as a good student. He was a native of Shelbyville. Survivors besides his parents are a grandmother, Mrs. Grace Snyder, Fairland. His father is an employee of the R. C. A.-Victor division.

been completed,

SAILOR KILLED IN COLLISION

PORTSMOUTH, N. H, Nov. 11 (U, P.) ~—One sailor was killed, an~

Funeral arrangements have not.

able under present circumstances: In 1918 the army demanded an immediate armistice in order to save Germany-from invasion and destruction. Only four years later Gen. Ludendorff declared: “Chaos in Ger-

many would havé been a better 4

solution.” It is precisely -this better solution to which the successors of Ludendorff have pledged themselves, » J ” IT IS IMPROBABLE that German industrialists want to follow the new Nazi party line. They

will now try more than.ever to comie to terms with the allies. They will attempt to find representative personalities to sign an armistice before all their plants, factories, mines, etc. are destroyed. Nazi propagandists today will have no difficulty in pointing out that the coming Nazi underground will be incomparably more efficient-in wipinggout any wouldbe traitors; that is, anybody who may want to sign an armistice or peace with the allies or collaborate with them in any other way.

THE AIR FOR LATIN? Aviation Course Proposed in Lieu

Of Classic Study

INDIANA HIGH school pupils in the post-war period may be given an opportunity to substitute a course in aviation for classical Latin, if the general assembly accepts a proposal made yesterday. It was one of several made by witnesses who appeared before the governor's commission on aviation at a public hearing in Evansville, The commission heard testimony on the establishment of a state aviation commission with authority to promote and regulate aviation in Indiana. o o ”

IT WAS unanimously recomsmended that such a commission be separate from the public service commission, highway commission or other existent regulatory body. The session yesterday was the second in a series of four being held throughout the state by. the commission appointed by Gov~ ernor to take evidence and outline proposed . legislative action. Another hearing will be held at Pt. Wayne Nov. 22 and the final one will be held here Dec, 4-5, Among those who testified were L. L. LeMoine, president of the Evansville board of aviation commissioners; Leslie Lacroix, traffic manager of the Evansville Chamber of Commerce; Capt. Willlam T. Brackett, commandant of the civil air patrol in the Evansville area; Harry Newcomb, assistant to the” president of Servel, Inc.; C. Nelson Smith, vice-president of the Hoosier Cardinal Corp.; Walter W. Noelting, vice-presi-dent of the Faultless Caster Corp., and Walter G. Koch, member of the E aviation comm

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Anti-Strike * Bill Issue Lost In the Shuffle

By ERED W. PERKINS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.~This

is a post-mortem inquiry into a campaign issue that once was allimportant to labor unions, which then became overshadowed by and mixed up with other issues, and which now might be practically forgot ten but for the present dissec tion. In June/1943, congress passed and then enacted over the Presi-

Connally ~ : Smith act, the ~~ Mr. Perkins first piece of union-regulatory registration since Mr. Roosevelt entered the White House. It was strenuously opposed by all

“branches of organized labor.

The vote on the law was made

into a yardstick for the measur-

ing of congressmen by their labor constituents. » » »

THE CHANCE came last Tuesday for union members to take a crack at the congressmen who voted for this bill, and the latest congressional returns show:

Of the 219 house members who voted for the bill, 191 (87%) have béen re-elected. : Of the 130 house members who voted against the bill, 84 (72.3%) have been re-elected. These figures might be taken to indicate that a congressman stood a better chance of reselec-

tion if he had voted for the Con-~ 2

nally-Smith act, but that does not appear to be the case. Although ‘labor publications and spokesman, up to the election, occasionally called attention to their desire for repeal of this legislation, it became involved in

.the general picture of the cam-

paign, and the new house was elected with only incidental attention to whether the candidates had voted for or against-the controversial measure. ; » . » AS A SAMPLE of what happened, Rep. Clare Booth Luce (R. Conn.) voted against this law. But she was re-elected by a comparatively narrow margin over a candidate who had enthusiastic

nsville board of

EMPLOYEE AT HOTEL

A woman employee of the Dearborn hotel, 3208 E. Michigan st., was hurned about the face and an arm when a gas oven exploded this

Mrs. Stella Logan, 57, of 4117 E. : was taken to City U. 8. submarine on routine surface {ospital with first-degree burns. The accident occurred when a grill caught fire and ignited gas in the

Loneliness

By RUTH MILLETT

I'VE WRITTEN several columns on the problem of how service wives should be treated by other wives in their communities and now the non-service wives wotld like to have their side of the picture presented. = Here is how some of them feel: First, they don't” think they have been given much credit in print for what they have done for service wives. And they may be right there. Miss Millett Duration “widows” have certainly not been socially neglected as real widows have always been in the past. ; » » » THERE 18 many a hostess today who has parties where the women - outnumber the (which is certainly not a hostess’ idea >of a perfect dinner table

arrangement or party set-up) just -

because she invites two or three war wives whenever she entertains. Then, too, non-war wives feel that they shouldn't be expected to invite into their homes duration widows who wouldn't even have been entertained by them if * their husbands were around, And they probably have a point there, too. If they just take on the duration “widows” who were

members of their social group be-

fore the war, they are doing as much as can reasonably be ex pected of them.

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