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NARSARSSUAK, Greenland, Nov. 27.—Corp. Daniel A. O'Neil, 23, of Portsmouth, O., is going home on leave, If that doesn't sound like very hot news, wait/till you hear about O'Neil. His story isn't exactly exceptional, but it is typical of some of the unknown heroes who sit it out in Arctic weather’ stations for six months or more at a time, sending in regular reports on weather observations so that the forecasters can tell the bombers and transport planes what kind of weather they'll have to fly through. oo There are more than 50 of these lonely stations scattered through the Arcticc, They are amazing institutions. Most of the stations are manned by several _ men, Seidom is there a commis-

~ sloned officer assigned, except to the more important

stations. . Usually they're all non-coms or specialists, weather observers, radio men, a cook, a medical technician. They all double in lack of brass and rank doesn’t count. They get no extra pay. They work six hours on and 12 off, seven days a week. ] Corp. O'Neil was a junior at Ohio State when he beat the draft into the army. He is of average build, . About 5 foot 10. Weighs around 140, dark hair, wears glasses. He has been in the army two and a half years; 15 months in Greenland, from Dec. 1, 1943, to June 15, 1044, at a station far up the east Greenland coast.

Supplies by Parachute

THE WORST thing about it was the two months when they didn't get any mail, in February and March. They couldn't send out any mail, but they wrote letters, interminable ones, all winter long, which ‘they mailed whenever anybody went out after a tour of duty. O'Neil wrote 20 letters of about seven pages each, for air mailing. . The usual procedure is to bring in relief detachments and supplies “for several months, by boat, Emergency supplies and mail are dropped by parachute on frequent and more or less regular flights. O'Neil's detachment ran out of supplies only once—

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WHY DOESN'T someone do. something about keeping the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument Jighted at night? It's probably our No. 1 point of interest for visitors. They gravitate to it naturally, have

their pictures taken in front of it, and go to the top oes Ww

to look out over the city. It's beautiful at night when lighted, but it's usually dark, even though new lighting equipment has been installed around it. The reason: Inadequate funds to pay the light bill. We'll bet that if some civic group interested in the city's civic assets would ask the legislature, there'd be no trouble in getting the $3000 or $4000 or so needed to keep the monument lighted all 2 night every night. Let's do it! .., watts. ase. . And while we're on the subject of elvie improvements, why doesn’t the city do something about traffic lanes on heavily traveled streets such as N. Meridian. At present, there are six lanes ~two for parking and two in each direction for moving cars. The trouble is that the lanes aren't wide enough. They are so narrow that it’s hardly safe for two cars to drive side by side if there are any cars parked at the curb. And it's almost impossible to pass a bus. The width of the lanes was set in the days when cars were a lot narrower than they are today. We're not sure what the answer is. One suggestion is to limit parking permanently to one side of the street, then widen the four driving lanes with the space gained from the other present parking lane. In other words, reduce it from six to five lanes—one for parking. Any better ideas?

Takes His Chair IT'S AN OLD Hoosier tradition that the retiring, governor take his chair with him, and Governor

Schricker is not one to break tradition. He plans to take his office chair with him when he retires to his

America Flies

A FAIR PICTURE of aviation's post-war plans is eontained in copies of resolutions adopted at the national aviation clinic at Oklahoma City and now being mailed to congress, high administration officials,

. state legislatures and educators throughout the

country. . Topping the list is a resolution calling for compulsory military® training to provide America with an ever-ready powerful air force aimed to make impossible another global war. Aviation education for veterans and high school aviation classes are urged along with a program of aviation education to “develop a citizenry capable of coping intelligently with the problems of the

‘flying world.” .

Rapid development of additional airports, airparks, flight stops and harbors by governmental and private agencies is urged, and it is recommended that land donated for public use as alpprts not be taxed.

‘Airport Program Outlined

IF THE CLINIC'S recommendation is followed, the extensive airport facilities developed by the government for war purposes will be made available for use by municipalities or “political subdivisions” which, in turn, will hold them immediately available to the

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My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—We got back from Hyde Park this morning and were immediately plunged into ~

a riot of dogs. al vi Miss Laura Delano, who came back with us, brought one of her Red Setters; Fala, of course, Was . with us; Anna and Johnny with Ensign, their Labrador retriever, met us at the door; and a new ‘Mastiff puppy, two months old, was disporting herself around us in a typical puppy fashion! Every day, while I was in Hyde

onely Stations!

Army Air Transport command, is substituting today for Ernie Pyle who Is on vacation, but expects to return to an assignment on the war front in the near future.)

. family. But he’s also taking back $400 in accumulated

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hd cigarets. They sent out a radio SOS and the supply plane brought them 50 cartons. t ‘ y They had fresh meat, dropped by plane. Steak was a favorite midnight lunch. Christmas they had turkey and trimmin’s, brought in by the last boat. That was some Christmas. - There weren't any trees growing that far north, but they had a tree anyway. They made it out of a broomstick, with wires and old light bulbs. They had some water colors and painted up paper for decorations. Oh yes, they had both pumpkin and mince pie.’ For fun they.played ping pong, read books, listened to the radio, . The fishing was always wonderful. Cod mostly. They bit on hooks even when there wasn’t any bait on them. Fishing through the ice, the men pull up a catch, let it struggle for a few minutes till it froze to death and it stayed that way till they were ready to eat it.

Not Too Tough

IT WASN'T so cold -4t that, They lived in ice barracks heated by oil stoves. Ten below was the lowest at O'Neil’s station, But the wind blew something awful and there was a lot of snow. They bathed in an old-fashioned GI tub, melting snow for water, There were a couple of near-fights, but they started over nothing at all and they ended up as arguments. Before sending men on these assignments, the army usually looks them over pretty carefully to make sure they're all pretty adaptable and good mixers. Psychological cases have no business on these jobs. They played considerable poker, There was about $250 in money in O'Neil’s camp, and it changed hands time and time again. In the end, their little post exchange came out the winner by about $250. O'Neil himself says he saved most of his pay beeause there wasn't any place to spend it for anything they wanted. They .traded beer they bought from their PX for a few native trinkets, mostly tusk ivory carvings. O'Neil is taking some back home to the

pay. When the war's over, O'Neil says he'll never come back to Greenland. But if the army wants to send him back after he’s had his leave, he’d go. It isn't too tough.

home at Knox, and: he already has ordered a new chair for his successor-elect, Ralph. BE. Gates. . ,. The governor's chair always is one of the interesting features to visitors to the governor's office. Hundreds of people have visited the office during the governor's absence, and they always get a kick out of sitting in the governor's chair. , .,. Ray Smith, the governor's secretary, is busy job hunting. ‘Says he has no idea what he'll do after next January. Before becoming secretary, -he was editor of the Hoosier Sentinel . . . Apparently, not all alphabet soup originates in Washington, comments Bob Osler. The ‘LIAA has requested use of the designation, LAA, to avoid’ confusion with LIAA’s LIAA. Bob explains: The Life Insurance Advertisers’ Association has requested that news writers when abbreviating the name of the organization use the initials, LAA, to avoid confusion with LIAA, the natural abbreviation for Life Insurance Association of America.

Too Many Special Weeks

WE DROPPED IN at the school board offices and found Bill Evans and Al Kettler busily compiling a list of all the special weeks observed throughout the country, most of which the city schools are asked to note. You'd never guess how many they found! By the time we left, they had found 269 special weeks and 43 special days. Many were listed in a special bulletin issued by the U. 8. C. of C. There are special weeks devoted to eating more of practically every food there is—even National Doughnut week and National Blackeyed Peas week. To give you an idea of some of the others, here are a few: Foot ‘Comfort, Good Roads, - Lubricate for Safety, Letter Writing, Walk and Be Healthy, Used Oar Exchange, Better Parenthood, Rat Extermination, Clean Up, Fire Prevention, Music, Constitution, etc. We figured that to observe all of them, the schools would have to celebrate one and a half weeks each day of the school year, there being only 180 days of school. And that's not counting all the special days observed.

By Max B. Cook

government in case of emergency. It is pointed out that millions of dollars spent in developing these facilities thus will not be wasted. Speedy negotiated settlement of terminated contracts ahd disposal ‘of surplus military aircraft “so as not to destroy the aircraft market” also are urged.

Plans for “Feeder Lines”

THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD is urged to accelerate its hearings on applications designed to extend benefits of scheduled air transportation of passengers, property and mail to the smaller cities and towns of America. Congress is urged to adopt legislation creating a national system of air parcel post. Definite plans for extensive “feeder lines” were outlined before the clinic. 1 Both government and private enterprise are urged to continue and expand intensive research in all aspects of aviation, ~ : Creation of a standing committee on aviation education for the purpose of co-operating with existing agencies and institutions in the encouragement, extension and implementation of aviation education, and to ald the aviation industry in maximizing its own contributions to aviation education, is also recommended. Government representatives, expressing pleasure at the variety of aviation interests attending the clinic, announced that the recommendations would be given serious-consideration as new aviation laws and regulations are developed during the ensuing year,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

though I thought of the many times in the. past that I had climbed them, I wasn’t quite sure that either dogs or I would find them as easily to scale in these days. On the 23d of this month the SPARS, the women's reserye of the coast guard, completed two years of service, There are more than 10,000 women enrolled, and they are enrolled for the duration and Their 1 has been highly praised by the officers and mer of the coast guard, and they have shown reul patriotism, for many of them gave up good civilian jobs and left comfortable homes, tion from family and friends Is ‘always hard; and for a woman, taking the trainingaccept~ : and, above all, living in

By Peter Edson

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'PRETTY HOT'—

20t0 1 Odds Fail to Halt Yank Drive

By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE FOURTH U, 8. INFANTRY, Southwest of Duren, Nov. 26 (Delayed).—The only message Company A could send .out by wireless without revealing its position to the Nazis said: “Front door is closed and our back door is pretty hot.” That was too cryptic for the regimental staff, commanded by Col. Charles T. Lanham, Washington, D, C., to figure out, so for two days and three nights Company A fought on in Hurt. gen forest in a modern re-enact-ment of the Battle of the Alamo, For its feat Company A will probably get a presidential citation. » = » IT HAPPENED at Jaeger house, An elaborate 13th century German hunting lodge. ; The company had been ordered to attack and although the company commander and his executive officer were killed, Lt. George W. Thoms, Appleton,’ Wis., led his men forward. First .the company charged across an open field alive with Germans, Outnumbered 20 to 1, they fought ahead although German artillery fire was mowing down one American in 10. a's =» : *“AFTER nversonallv reconnoitering’ the situation,” Thoms said, “I backtracked a long distance and found my men had lost their way and in blind fighting had captured 22 Germans. I sent one of our wounded back to the base with thé prisoners and organized to attack the hunting lodge. “The Germans were ready for us. They'd seen me before with my scouting party. and. had demanded my surrender. But orders were orders and we were going to advance regardless.” Under heavy German small arms and artillery fire the company raced across the open ground to the hunting lodge where they found a beehive of Germans from the roof to dark underground tunnels. r ® x = THE INITIAL assault party was only a handful of men from ‘Company A, including Thoms and S. Sgt. Lyman Hickman, Fillmore, Mo., who alone accounted for at least 20 Germans killed and as many wounded with his Browning automatic rifle. They piled into the cellar and the Germans started lobbing grenades into them. Finally, they managed to block up one door with stones and signaled ‘to the rest of the company to join them. This was no easy task. The lodge had been a German command post and the Nazis were milling around, attacking furiously, Twice: they came at the little band in strength but were thrown back with heavy losses. » #" » GRADUALLY the remainder of Company A infiltrated the lodge and in no time there were more wounded Americans in the dank, watery basement than there were able bodied riflemen. But Company A fought on—for two days and nights. Their only food was raw sugar beets and their only water came from a forest stream where it could be obtained only by braving murderous German fire. ' The message to headquarters: “Pront door is closed and our back door is pretty hot,” was the only thing they could figure out which would not tip off to the Nazis how precarious their position was, » » » THERE WERE dozens of hand-to-hand encounters. One man had two fingers of his right rand blown off and shot it out at close range with the Germans, firing a Luger automatic. with his left hand in Tom Mix style. Lt. Robert Harkins, Brooklyn, N. Y., was exploring an underground passage with his cigaret lighter and found it teeming with Germans who had to be ferreted out one by one at the pistol point, There were 32 wounded Americans in the cellar and only one medical corps man, Pvt, Arthur Forias, Bristol, R. I, to care for them. Two of the men died of loss -of blood. Efforts to evacuate the men failed because of German sniping. Finally, the Germans began to be outflanked by other advancing American units and the seige of Jaeger house was lifted. .

NLRB OFFICE REOPENING

The 11th regional office of the national labor relations board will reopen here Priday under the direction’ of C, Edward Knapp. The office,. which serves most of Indiana and Kentucky, has been closed

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1944

for- the freshman-sophomore fight

rhinie pots, is the first event on the

BUTLER TO RENEW FRESHMAN - SOPHOMORE FIGHT —

1st Home-Coming Since "42

“Just feel that muscle!” boasts Robert Mundell (right) sophomore fight captain, to James Popcheff, freshman captain, as they get ready

on the Butler university campus

Friday. The fight, which determines whether or not freshmen wear

home-coming calendar,

bration on the Butler university campus since October, 1942, will get under way Friday with the ButlerFranklin basketball game climaxing “the event Saturday night,

not issued to alumni, all graduates and former students are invited,

p. m, Friday when the first and second-year

south side of the campus.

have rhinie pots during the remainder of

Robert Shultz, will play.

awards will be made by Scarlet Quill

Franklin college at 8 p. m. Saturday

THE FIRST home-coming cele-

Although special invitations were

The observance will begin at 2:30

men meet «for the freshman-sophomore fight on the If the freshmen capture their class flag from the sophomores, they will not to wear their traditional

the year.

A PEP SESSION and bonfire will be held at 9 p. m. in back of Jordan hall, New yells will be introduced and the Butler band, directed by

The fraternity and sorority houses will be decorated Saturday. The best displays in both groups will be judged at 2:30 p. m. and

and Blue Key, senior class honorary organizations. Opening the Bulldogs’ basketball season will be the game with

in the fieldhouse with an amateur game at=T p. m. Tickets will be sold at the door.

» » o DON PEDLOW and his band will play for the informal dance following the game in the fieldhouse, A home-coming queen, elected by the Butler men, will reign at the dance, which will begin after the game and end at midnight. Gerald DeWitt is chairman of the committee planning the home-com-ing and is assisted by James Mitchell, Miss Betty Lee Snyder and members of Scarlet Quill and Blue Key.

By B. J. McQUAID Times Foreign Correspondent

WITH THE , BRITISH 2D ARMY, Nov. 27.—Whatever conditions may be eisewhere in Germany, the Geilenkirchen area seems a land of plenty. British and American troops who have visited many abandoned

GERMAN PANTRIES -WELL-STOCKED WITH FOOD

Geilenkirchen—Land of Plenty

homes in this sector have been impressed by the extensive stocks of tinned meats, fruits and vegetables which they found in very housewife’s pantry.

. » n EVEN THE Americans, used to a high standard of living, were amazed at the high average qual-

By CLINTON B. CONGER United Press Staff Correspondent STRASBOURG, Nov. 26 (Delayed) —By daylight Strasbourg was in allied hands, but tonight under a frigid full moon it did not seem to belong to anybody. German snipers in civilian clothes prowled the city in such numbers that doughboys were ordered to “shoot first” at anything that moved suspiciously. Americans with carbines at ready patroled the city in pairs. Clusters of French soldiers stood ‘at street intersections, stopping cars and occasionally shooting. a 8 =

THE CAPITAL of Alsace was dark and silent except for sporadic German shelling and the echo of small arms fire through the streets. The allies already have taken 10,000 prisoners here—5000 soldiers, 2000 prominent Nazis and 3000 German civilians. But patroling doughboys, their eyes searching in all directions and overhead, said: “Snipers? This squad can get you a dozen within two blocks of here if we start smashing in houses, They are in civvies now but they've got their uniforms hanging in closets. This town is lousy with blond Aryan civilians.”

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MANY MORE prisoners could "be taken, a veteran sergeant said. “But we would not know what | to do with them,” he added. “Nobody will take the prisoners off our hands, They. just can't evacuate them.” Earlier today I met one convoy of 38 trucks each carrying 50 prisoners. Military police with machineguns rode in jeeps after every 10th truck. But the number of trucks available was limited and prison- | ers were piling up in the forward | zones. As a result German soldiers in civilian clothes and civilfan snipers still prowled Stras- - bourg after dark. ¢ , . . .

I JUST heard orders issued to the 7th army soldiets:

since March, 1943.

“If you see- any lights show-

SNIPERS PROWL STRASBOURG—

‘Shoot First —Or Die

ing, take a little target practice.” Civilians have a 5:30 p. m. curfew and a 7 p. m. blackout and after those times a presumption of guilt was against any found on the streets or burning lights inside, Large numbers of Russian la~ bor troops were found here wear-

ity of furnishings, especially pianos, radios and plumbing fixtures. «Also impressive is the fact that every German home seems to have ample supplies of coal for heating and cooking purposes well in advance of the most severe winter months. This is a sharp contrast with The rest of Europe. Even in Paris, the best hotels were without heat when I last was there a fortnight ago, and only at two or three was it possible to get warm water for bathing, and then only one day out of seven. ” o o NEAR GEILENKIRCHEN an American artillery colonel, snugly billeted in the stout concrete cellar of a ruined home, called by attention to the excellent heating qualities of a small coal stove. He said, he had requisitioned it from a large supply found in a Geilenkirchen hardware store, “It's the best little stove I ever saw,” he said, “and there were

ing: German uniforms dyed a bright green.

whirlwind army wanted them.

Strasbourg by day flashing broad grins at startled allied soldiers. Where they went by night nobody ‘knew,

A few managed to pile into pris- | oner trucks but nobody in this |

Many still roamed freely around |

HARRAH]

scores of them in stock. There was hardware of every description, including more aluminum kitchenware than you would find | in any store in the U. 8.” | » " » IN MOST parts of France, Bel-

gium and Holland, large herds of cattle grazing in the flelds are an unknown sight, for the Germans long since butchered or shipped them to Germany. But the Germans evidently did not deplete their own herds, at least from the evidence hereabouts. Badly battered as it is, Geilen- | kirchen is not nearly as beaten up | as many towns in Normandy aad Holland. Though I doubt that a single home is withoyt damage, many could be made livable again with the expenditure of far less effort than that whereby many Dutch villages have managed to take up life again in war-ravaged homes,

” » BUT THERE is ~ vast and fundamental difference between driving into one of these conquered German towns and one of the liberated villages of France, Holland or Belgium. People go about wtih quickened steps and averted gaze here, They do not greet you, nor do you greet them. Once in awhile, you catch a curious stare from a householder peering from a window or a hy-

passer hurrying along “the street, but eyes are invariably shifted | immediately. | Copyright, 1944, by The Indianapolis Times ! and The Chicago Dally News, Ine, BARKLEY ILL IN HOSPITAL WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (U. PJ). W. Barkley of Kentucky was under treatment at the naval hospital at nearby Bethesda, Md. today for what friends described us an infec-

ation of the left eye.

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BARNABY - : . ~ “By Crockett Johnson - 1 . = ; 1 re fo give each. ={|. | First on my list, of course, {| | A git for the home, but Or a neon yule log? . . . I've is your mother . . . | daresay in keeping with the spirit several other suggestions— she'd prefer something of a of the holiday. Perhaps a : modern pewter wild boar’s| “| | | | better ask Mom | | head pressure roaster? .. . | what she wants.

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Tomorrow's Job Young Veteran Pose Problem

For'Schools ,

By EDWARD A, EVANS WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—Jim= my Clark, who looked older than his years, joined the army a year ago, made six training jumps as a paratrooper, and was waiting shipment overseas when hig officers learned the other day that he is only 14 and sent him back home to McKeesport, Pa. The law says that Jimmy must go to school until he is 16, and his pre - military education had prepared him only for the fifth grade. But he was unhappy in the West Side public school, which he attended for a few days.’ His classmates seemed like mere babies, and Jimmy had learned to think of himself as a man. So School Superintendent Lawson took the case up with the local

A. Mr. Evans

" American Legion post, which has

helped Jimmy to enter a private vocational school where he will learn to be an automobile mechanie, ” 8 ” 3 FEW veterans of this war will be as young as Jimmy Clark, but many boys only. a few years older should resume their interrupted schooling, and‘ the Government has wisely made it possible for them to do that.

As a matter of fact, we've been talking with two youngsters—both under 20, both honorably discharged from the army because of physical disabilities~who are trying to make up for a missed year of high school. And they're findify the going pretty tough.

make the most of this oppor. tunity,” they tell us. “But most of the kids in our classes are only 16 or 17, and they won't take things seriously.” We can understand that. - We weren't very seri fous ourselves a couple of years ago. We wasted a lot of time, fooling around, and if our grades were poor, we didn’t worry. #8 = SO WE don’t so much blame these boys for wasting their time now, but the trouble is that they're wasting our time, too. And we haven't got 50 much time. When they cut up in classes it’s hard for us to study. When they make trouble for the teachers we can't get as much help as we need. “Maybe it would be better if there could be schools or classes just for veterans, with no younger kids to distract them.” Maybe it would, and maybe as the number of school-going veters

= ans increases something like that

will be possible. Meanwhile, boys and girls who are attending school with young veterans could help them a lot by trying to understand their problems and giving them the best possible chance to learn.

—Senate Democratic Leader Alben)

We. the Women Bobby Brigade Could Find

Real Heroes By RUTH MILLETIT

the appeal of Frank Sinatra for the bobby sox generation of American girls a writer says: “1f 1 read the bobby-soxers

a hunger still un fulfilled; a hunger for heroes, for ideal , things that do not appear, or at least not in adequate quantities, in a rcivilization that is so busy making things and selling things.” If the bobbysoxers have a

: " oo Miss Millett hunger for heroes—it needn't be unfulfilled today.

The country has gever produced as many real heroes as during this war, And many of then are men so young they are scarcely dlder than the bobby-sox brigade. But the 16-year-old girls who swoon at Sinatra probably don't even know the names of more than one or two of the young men who have been decorated for their bravery and daring and devotion to duty. . n ” WHAT is worse, they don't see anything of the hero in plain G. 1. Joe who is keeping them from knowing any of the bitter reali ties of war, If they .wanted a real hero tof100k up to, most of them could find one from a home in their own neighborhoods. T - s & = BUT WHILE our: school boys are being forced into maturity at an ‘early age—our girls appare ently aren't even, ‘appreciation of what is going on in the world: : And so when their country offering them real” heroes fo a mire they build a hero out of microphone, a crooning voice, al their own gyllibility, A

“We want to work hard and :

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