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ran to the wrecked British plane, lying there upside down, and dropped on our hands and knees and peeked through a tiny hole in the side. A man lay on his back in the small space of the ¥ upside-down cockpit. His feet disappeared somewhere in the jum ble of dials and rubber pedals above him. His shirt was open and his chest was bare to the waist. He was smoking a cigaret. - He turned his eyes toward me when I peeked in, and sald in a typical British manner of offhand friendliness, “Oh, hello.” “Are you all right” I asked stupidly. He answered, “Yes, quite. Now that you chaps are here.” 1 asked him how long he had been trapped in the wrecked plane. He said he didn't know for sure as he had got mixed up about the passage of time. But he did know the date of the month he was shot down. He told me the date, And I said out loud, “Good God!”. : For, wounded and trapped, he had been lying there for eight days! , : His left leg was broken and punctured by an ack~ ack burst. His back was terribly burned by raw gasoline that had spilled. The foot of his injured leg was pinned rigidly under the rudder bar, His space was so small he couldn’t squirm around to relieve his own weight from his paining back. He couldn't straighten out hisqlegs, which were bent above him. He couldn't see out of his little prison. He had not had a bite to eit or a drop of water. All this for eight days and nights. Yet when we found him his physical condition was strong, and his mind was as calm and rational as though he were sitting in a London club, He was in agony, yet in his correct Oxford accent he even apologized for taking up our time to get him out.

With Open Admiration

THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS of our réicue party cussed as they worked, cussed with open admiration for this British flier’s greatness of heart which had kept him alive and sane through his lonely and gradually hope-dimming ordeal. It took us almost an hour to get him out. We don’t know whether he will live or not, but he has a chance. During the hour we were ripping the plane

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

BENNY PARRONCHI, Indianapolis symphony cellist, demonstrated his acrobatic ability during a rehearsal the other afternoon. Mr. Parronchi was

walking along the front edge of the. stage, carrying his precious cello, The stage slopes, there at the : front, and Mr. Parronchi’s foot slipped, causing him to lose his ‘balance. For a moment, he teetered, about to fall into the orchestra pit, where he might have injured himself seriously. But he to save himself by giving a big jump and leaping clear across the orchestra pit. He landed in one of the boxes, holding his cello safely up in the air. As he was mentally congratulating hime self, someone sang out: “Why, he might have fallen and smashed 0” Not to mention his own bones. . . . Just you: how rumors get started, we'll tell you Vince Burke, manager of English’s, tells. had been leaking, so a roofing man called last week to go up-on the roof and fix the Pretty soon, the theater started geting infrom people wanting to know “Is it true that It all started from

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Pet Peeve Department

THE RADIO QUIZ programs have nothing on Western Union. With évery money order (sent to you) you're automatically entered in a guessing game. And you'd better guess the $64 question correctly, if you want your money without an argument, The phone rang at our home Friday night. A feminine clerk informed us Western Union was calling and that she had a money order for us. ‘We weren't expecting one from anybody, but were mighty willing to receive it. “How much is it?” we asked, expectantly. “Sorry,” the clerk chirped pleasantly, “but I can't give out that information.” Thus rebuffed for our avaricious curiosity, we ventured t& ask who had sent it. Same answer: “Sorry—" We promised to

eall for it. And then, wondering if it were merely a

gag, we called Western Union to check. Nope; they really had a money order for us. We asked where

World of Science

THE ONSET of autumn weather has caused only a slight seasonal increase from the low summer level in’ the incidence of colds, influenza and other come

mon respiratory diseases among soldiers stationed in

the United States, it is announced by Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, surgeon general of the army. Despite this slight increase, the rate during October for these dis« eases was below that of any other year since the start of world war IL } The Incidence of meningitis, measles, mumps and other respira~= _ tory transmitted disease remains al or below the summer level, This will be welcome news to the parents and relatives of sol- ; diers stationed in this country as 14° indicates that the army is maintaining the remarkable health record which it has established in As 1 have previously reported, the death rate from disease in the U. 8. army so far in this war is below that for any of the previous 10 peacetime years:

My Day

“NEW YORK, Monday.—1 plan to go back tonight to Washington, but in the meantime I am doing as many things as possible during this day,

| Hoosier Vagabond = By Ernie Pyle|

: : ; y ol Editor's Note: This Js the 524 of thie Ernie Pyle war dispatches that are being reprinted during Ernie

to make a hole, he talked to us. And here, in

of & brave man who you didn’t want to badger with trivial questions, is what happened— : He was an R. A, F. flight lieutenant, piloting a night fighter. Over a certain area the’ Germans began letting him have it from the ground with ma-chine-gun fire. : The first hit knocked out his motor. He was too low to jump, so—foolishly, he said—he turned on his lights to try a crash landing. Then they really poured it on him. The second hit got him in the leg. And a third bullet cut right across the balls of every one of them

his right-hand forefingers, clippin to the bohe. . He left his wheels up, and the plane's belly hit the ground going uphill on a slight slope, “That's all I remember for a while” he told us. “When I came to, they were shelling all around me,”

‘Never Gave Up Hope’ THUS BEGAN the eight days. He had crashed right between the Germans and Americans in a sort of pastoral no-man's land. For days afterward the fleld in which he lay surged back and forth between German hands and ours. : He lay there, trapped in the midst of this inferno of explosions. The fields around him gradually became littered with dead. At last American strength pushed the Germans back, and silence came. But no help. Because, you see, it was in that vacuum behind the battle, and only a few people ‘were left.

The days passed. He thirsted terribly. He ‘slept p

some; part of the time he was unconscious; part of the time he undoubtedly was delirious. But he never gave up hope. After we had finally got him out, he said as he lay on the stretcher under a wing, “1s it possible that T've been out of this plane since I crashed?” Everybody chuckled. The doctor who had arrived said, “Not the remotest possibility. You were sealed in there gnd it took men with tools half an hour to make an opening. And your leg was broken and your foot was pinned there. No, you haven't been out.” “I didn’t think it was possible,” the pilot said, “and yet it seems in my mind that I was out once and back in again.” That little memory of delirium was the only word said by that remarkable man in the whole hour of his rescue that wasn’t ag dispassionate and matter-of-fact as though he had been sitting comfortably at the end of the day in front of his own fireplace.

it was from, and got the same answer as before. So we went on about our business. But bright and early yesterday, we stopped in W. U. and asked for the money order. The clerk at the counter, who turned

out to be the head quizmaster, looked up the order, ~

then asked, suspiciously: “From whom were you expecting money?” We had to admit we weren't expecting -any. She gave us another suspicious look and asked who we knew in such and such a state. We knew quite a few people there, but we weren't expecting money from any of them. Finally, brandishing identification cards and declining to play guessing games any longer, we hollered for our money, The quizmaster gave up, and grumpily let us have the money, anyway. But even then, we almost had-to say “pretty please” before she'd tell us who had sent it. What a lifel

A Lucky Find

FRANCES SCOTT, employed by the telephone company out at 40th and Central, was driving on Spring. Mill road the other day when she noticed something lying on the road. Stopping, she picked up six good shotgun shells. When she got to work and showed the shells, everyone was bidding for them. As you probably know, shotgun shells are hard to get these days, On her way home that evening, she stopped and, with a flashlight, searched the side of the road. Sure enough, she found 17 more—23 altogether. What did she do with them? She invested them in a hunting expedition—gave them to a hunter —in the expectation of receiving dividends in the form of rabbits, . . . Ernie Pyle had a big day down at Bloomington yesterday, but it didn’t go to his head. After the ceremony during which 4000 admirers saw him receive a degree of doctor of humane letters, he was still the , shy Ernie. He was wearing the same suit (with a pullover sweater for a vest) that he bought on his return from Europe. The reason: It's the only good sult he owns. During the ceremony, he stared embarrassedly at the floor. And whenever his name was mentioned by the speakers, he wiggled his foot, nervously, like any schoolboy. Probably the happiest person at the ceremony was Ernie's Aunt Mary. She cried, and said she was glad she had “lived long enough to see this day.” Ernie's dad’s comment, when it was all ovel, was: “Wasn't that something!” ;

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By David Dietz

IT 18 NOT excellent showing.

of the ntitled to the lion's share, particularly the medical and the preventive medicine service. In this connection it is interesting to note that Brig. Gen. James 8, Simmons, chief of the preventive medicine service, began to make his plans for protective health measures long before Pearl Harbor.

Mosquito Control

ONE OF the earliést ventures was an intensified program of mosquito control and eradication. The preventive medicine service was charged with this responsibility within army camps while the U. 8, public health service undertook a smiliar responsi.

bility for the areas adjacent to the camps.

In a very considerable number of instances such joint ‘action between the army medical department and the U, 8. public health service has been of the

utmost

By Eleanor Roosevelt

it probably spells misunderstanding, disunity ‘and

bitter hatred!

from military imprisonment in a

EASY to distribute the credit for this It belongs to everyone; include mess sergeants who zealously guard the sanitakitchens in their jurisdiction. However, seem to me that the surgeon general's office

“SECOND SECTION

“The Indianapolis Times

V FOR VIGILANCE— Ring Befrays ManWhoFled In Army Plane

NEW’ ORLEANS, Nov. 14 (U. P). —Robert G, Kaslow, who escaped

stolen army airplane, was in the parish jail here today.

an who gave him refuge wore a ring | with a large V—which in this instance stood for vigilance by the F.B.L Agents of the F.B.I, ‘trailing from bar to bar the woman with the V on her ring, found Kaslow sipping cocktails in a hotel lounge af her expense. He is a former Johnson City, N. Y,, postal em-

loyee. U. 8. Attorney Herbert W. Christenberry was to file charges today before the U. S. commissioner accusing Kaslow of possessing in this federal district a stolen army plane. Authorities were holding his compianon, a 25-year-old New Orleans woman, but had not decided what action to take against her. They declined to reveal her name,

» - # Faced 30-Year Term

Kaslow escaped last Friday from a second-story prison cell at Craig field, where he was awaiting transfer to Atlanta penitentiary to serve a 30-year court-martial sentence. He told the FBI agents he crawled into the ventilator shaft in his cell without attracting the attention of the special guard outside his door. He returned to the room he ‘hdd occupied as an aviation instructor. He held the rank of a second lieutenant before his court-martial. He changed from prison clothes to his uniform and stole a parachute, he said. ' . Then he went to the flight line and took off in one of the several planes there, He-spotted the Higgins aircraft plant at Michoud and knew he was near New Orleans. It took two tries before he mustered enough nerve to bail out into a swamp.

. ” . Tears Up Chute

Kaslow tore up his parachute and hid part of it as he had been taught to do in the army if forced to hit the silk over hostile country. The remainder he wrapped around his feet and legs to keep them dry as he waded through the swamps. Kaslow checked in at a New Orleans hotel, had a Turkish bath, then telephoned the girl friend who came around and paid his bill. A hotel employee noticed the unusual ring on the girl's finger and described it to authorities who checked jewelry stores until they found the name of the owner. FBI agents picked up their barroom trail yesterday afternoon and nabbed the couple in a hotel lounge,

. 5» Wounded in Gun Duel

Army records show he got into trouble soon after his graduation from Craig fleld in October of last year. He was confined to quarters for violation of flying regulations and on suspieion of stealing money from other officers. - He fled and was picked up on April 1 at Santa Monica, Cal., after being wounded in a gun battle with police who sought to arrest him for petty larceny. He was returmed to Craig fleld and sentenced to life imprisonment by a court-martial for violation of eight articles of wir. The sentence was reduced to 30 years.

TRUNK MYSTERY— Police Skeptical Of Boy's Story Of 7-Day Prison

LONG BEACH, Cal, Nov. 14 (U, P)~Police said today they were skeptical of the story nine year-old David Bourbonnais told of being locked in a foot-wide trailer trunk for seven days without food or water, i His story will get another test, police said, when they question the “older boy” identified by Davis as his “jailer.” Inspector D. H. Springer of the Long Beach homicide squad, said he'd heard David's story three times. “And I don’t think he was tell-/ ing all he knew about this” Springer said. j » . Md _ ALTHOUGH David had lost nearly half of his 70 pounds and was suffering from hunger and thirst, officers said it did. not seem likely that he had spent all the time in the trunk. .

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1944

G. I. Signalmen on Leyte Use Primitive Transport

Taking a lesson from the Filipino natives, 0. I signalmen following the American advance on Leyle fsland employ a water buffale te transport their equipment.

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So Victory Brings New Power’

To the C.1.O.

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Nov, 14--As not. enough voters thought it was “time for a change,” labor af fairs in the United Sthtés probably will go along very much as during the past J decade, However, there are strong rumors that Mr. Roose= velt plans a re- . organization of federal labor agencies, to meet Governor Dewey's camp aig n criti-

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HUMAN INTEREST Wartime Ratio For Boy Babies Drops Slightly

WASHINGTON, Nov, 14 (U. P.) ~The bureau of census took another healthy swing today at the old idea that more boy babies are born in time of war. : Reporting on final tabulations of 1043 births, the bureau noted

that: As usual, boys slightly outnumbered girls. The ratio for 1943 was 1055 to 1000, com=pared with 1058 to 1000 in 1942. Higher ratios in favor of boys have been reported — 1050 and 1060, respectively in the peace

30,000 Enroll as Student Nurses

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (U. P.)~Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the U. 8. public health service, announced today that approxi mately 30,000 student nurses have enrolled in the U. 8, cadet nurse corps this fall, This number, Parran said, is in addition to the" 65,251 student nurses who entered nursing schools in the year ended June, 1944. The recruitment quota for the year which will end in June, 1045, is 60,000 new students, Parran sald.

years of 1921 and 1925. Between 1916 and 1930, the ratio in favor of boys was higher each year than for 1943, The bureau said—as it has severa] times before—“there is still a better than 50-50 chance that the stork will leave a boy, but the chances are no better than they were during peace-time.” w » . CHURCHILL IN NAZIS ‘BED

PARIS, Nov. 14 (U. P.)~Prime Minister Churchill's recent visit to Paris must have brought him a bit of personal satisfaction over the liberation of France. While here, Churchill slept in the same bed in the royal suite at Quai D'Orsay, which Hermann Goering, Nazi reichsmarshal, used to use during his visits to Paris during the German occupation, The fat marshal also ocoasion= ally used a bed in an adjoining room which was occupied by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who accompanied Churchill here, In a white-tiled bathroom, next to Eden's room, is a settee on which members of thes Quali D'Orsay staff said Goering used to stretch out while his ample stomach was massaged,

. =» = SNORES BRING POLICE

Six husky police officers rushed to the home of Ward C. Rogers after an excited telephone operator reported that “something terrible” was happening there, judging by the groans coming over the telephone. The officers rushed into the home to find Rogers sleeping peacefully. The groans were accounted for when police npted that Rogers had unconsciously knocked the receiver of his bedside telephone off the hook and was snoring into the mouth plece. . »” »

OMINOUS GERMAN SIGN

PARIS, Nov, 14 (U, P)~Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said recently that most of the German people would not fight a minute longer without gestapo or 8. 8. pistols at their backs. German reaction to this pressure method for continuing resistance was reported today by a German prisoner who said signs had been found hanging from Cologne lamp posts reading: ‘ “Capacity: Two 8. 8B. men)” - n . 8 LESS HAIR OVER THERE

STOCKHOLM, Nov, 14 (U, P). ~The newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported today from Berlin that German authorities had ordered German families to cut the tails on #1 horses and cows and Immediately deliver the hair for

WAR ANALYS|S—

CHICAGO, Nov. 14 (U. P)~ |

Patton Breaking Outer Crust of

Reich Defenses

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

THE U. 8. THIRD army's drive in the Metz area is making perceptible progress toward clearing the approaches to Germany's main border defenses from Luxembourg to the Vosges mountains, It has not yet assumed the proportions of a major effort to push through to the Saar and the Rhine beyond, despite German assertions of last week that Gen. George S. Patton had mustered half ‘a million men and 1000 tanks for the attempt, . » . PATTON'S ‘men shd the 7th army to the south are engaged in sweeping aside the temporary outer erust of German defenses which is hinged on the Metz

two principal belts on which relying to bar

THE GERMAN, as usual, are fighting a delaying action and are taking no more losses than are necessary as they fall back slowly before the American advance. That is evidenced by their sure render of L'Aisne and the lesser Verny forts, and by the failure to make a stronger stand at Orny. Patton’s men evidently have not yet come up against the main German forces and it is possible that they may not do so at this stage of the offensive. a. 2 THAT 18 not to say the Germans have yet shown any intention of giving up Mets and fits supporting fortifications without a stiff fight, The experience of Ft. Driant, which the Americans failed to take last month, amply illustrates how defensible these positions are and how they can be held by a comparatively small number of men, with consequent serious de lay to any geenral advance, If the Germans decide to make a strong stand for Metz, it may have to be by-passed and surrounded before it ‘tan be knocked out of the way.

urgently-neded war purposes,

Acme Telephoto HOW Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman use their new power will determine how long it will last. we pursing Aquiust thoty would expected use is unwise HEAR COMRADE DIE— and apparently at the expense of . : general public interest or their Soldiers Helpless | competitors In the labor move- » . . . . . . To Aid Victim in NE cou ign a from now Army Plane Crash | when ths 6. 1. 0. national conPASADENA, Cal, Nov. 14 (U. pea 1a Ohloagn, ;. P). — Helpless because of their Syudwitiilty ty il O1o own injurjes, two survivors of a Py its “edu C-47 army cargo, plane crash ontructes sontintie and > huddled under a bent wing ip for | Yo Fo Saimin nd gu protection against a driving snow- lead will be york, 1 to we storm for more than 24 hours their judgment in the while one of their companions Shelr Judges in, Such samedi sion nt 10 0% | Gen Pollen Aeon” Gn y. The victim's name was not re Wittes, on 2 permanent basis. leased. ‘Ten other servicemen The main poltical drive of the were killed when the plane hit | C. I. O. during the next two years the slope of Strawberry peak in is expected to be against varides Angelus National forest during | restrictions on voting, and 'par< a storm Saturday night. ticularly on poll taxes in the a _ eight southern states where they THE TWO survivors, resting in sn yl BG ay ews, Were: - TF THE method is the same as "P. M. 3-0 Buford Chism, who | In the past—to induce congress Cpl. Kennsth Bedford. . | %sain ‘will run into the same op“Ihe plane split in hal when it | Position from another segment One of the halves bounced back | Southern Democrats, and struck the mountain a sec- The American Federation of ond time, It shattered into Labor will be meeting in New Planes: 1 O. In Ghieage, bul He Eathering w . » 4 k A CHISM said that when he re- | will last longer and not get down gained outasiounets. 1a heard | - to floor business as.quickly, They dragged coats and blank- | and they are expected to taks nd huddled together from the Protection of thelr. or ’ logetitr from ganization in government admin.

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The plane, which last reported from Bakersfield, Cal, was bound from St. Joseph, Mo., to Mines fleld, in the metropolitan Los An-

Blame Robbers ..In Sudden Death

NEW YORK, Police reported today that the robbery of his penthouse perhaps a meeting with the

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By Crockett Johnson

last Sunday. The agonized screams of a male We, the W Joles continued until a late hour , he said, . Inds. it got quiet and we fig- Some Beautiful ured he was dead.” : ous | Words for in $htte of a orig Memory Book ’ wn _the two-mile slope in driving rain - ry 00 gg suby © Gig Chinn sh By RUTH MILLETT on stretchers fo waiting | » : ambulances in national forest. BEAUTINVL, utili wordst Efforts to bring the bodies of y gis, ve bol my dastia. the 11 victims from the scene were , to get h a carton hampered by deep snowdrifts and the day, Matter of fact, the increasing intensity of the you might just as well take this Army officials and forestry crews “No. I'll pick maintained contact with the you up in MY cue parties through walkie-talkie | car.” radio to advanced headquarters at “Yes, we just Barley flats and Pasadena police | ot in a shipheadquarters, ment of sheer “ ¥ rayon stock 4 Rescue Work was halted at a | Ms — and I i late hour last night and officers believe we sald they would not be able tore. | B8V® YOUr | move the bodies today if the | SiZe. weather conditions did not ime . ww prove, ONE reser-

vation on the eight-ten next Tuesday? Let's see, Will a lower be all right? “if you find you have not enough red points for hutter, just let me know, We never use all of ours.” ? “No, these shoes dons require a ration stamp.” . = 8

“HERE'S A V-mail letter for you.” (Spoken, of course, by your friendly, interested postman.) “Yes, we have bananas today." “It you hurry over to such and such a place you can get cigarets. They had four brands just a few

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floor apartment by his wife, minutes ago.” Marcella, ‘who said that jewelry “I have a good cleaning woman valued at $1425 had been taken. that I think you might be able to Bottles of whisky from a cabinet | get a couple of mornings s week.”

® =» » “CAN 1 GIVE you a lift to town?” ; (Spoken to someone standing in the rain, waiting for a bus likely “Ihahk you. It was a pleasure to serve you. Call again.”