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WITH THE 9TH U. 8. ARMY, Dec. 14.—Less than 10 feet from an enemy machine-gun nest and a mere ard from a hedge through which the German defenders of ‘Julich kept thrusting: their hands in an effort to reach his fallen bayonet and seize it as a J) souvenir, Cpl. Walted Barker, Eo Nashville, Tenn., saved his life by feigning death for 10 hours. Meanwhile, his comrades, from the shelter of nearby positions, kept up an angry rain of rifle fire: on the larcenous arms and souvenir-hunting foe behind the hedge. As a result, when darkness fell and Barker quit playing possum and crawled back to rejoin his companions, he was able to take his bayonet with him’ s “It's a miracle we didn't kill Barker,” Pyt. Willlam R. Schmidt of Chicago said, “because we were as convinced as the Germans that he was dead and so we were not particular about not hitting him while we. were shootirig at sthose Krauts trying to steal his bayonet. A couple of times we even tossed rifle grenades at them. Nobody will ever know why you're alive, corporal,” he added.

. Fired From Second Story

“I DON'T KNOW myself,” answered Barker, whose drawn, bearded face showed the strain of the experience, but who insisted he was engaged in scouring the barrel of his rifle to which caked mud still adhered. He was ready for another go at the Jerries anytime. “You see,” he said, “we attacked through-the woods leading up to the river, the night before, and as dawn came they held their fire and Jet us crawl right up in front of their positions on’ the river bank before they opened up on us. I was 10 feet from that machine-gun nest when I first saw:it and by the time they saw me I was playing dead soldier.” The men of Barker's own squad, headed by 22-year-old S-Sgt. Leo Baumhardt, St. Louis, had mean-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE ANNUAL battle of the calendars is on. Most anywhere you look, you can see a gent bearing down the street with an armload of calendars and a glint in his eye. The No. 1 objective of every calendar passer-outer is to get his firm's product hanging on office walls—preferably on top of his competitors’ calendars. In the van of the calendar parade are the local representatives of the

dies this year. Eastern Airlines’ calendar has an even dozen pictures of scenic spots in cities on the airline. Included is a beautiful picture of the base of our Soldiers and Sailors’ monument. Our personal observation on some of the calendars is that they're long on beauty, but a bit short on readability—hard to read. the date across a room. . .. Seen in front of Marott’s: A rather hefty woman stepped on the free scales. Two G. 1's who were passing stopped. One looked at the poundage registered on the scales, and then let out an incredulous whistle. The hefty lady just ignored his impudence. ,.. . The appeal for donations of crutches to Billings hospital

for convalescent soldiers brought 10 pairs yesterday, .

but 40 more pairs are needed. Hospital officials say that some of the battle-wounded G. I's may .get to go home for Christmas if crutches are available. If you have a pair that you can spare, phone Mrs. Strickland at the Red Cross, LI-1441. The motor corps will call for them. Incidentally, one contributor said she had discovered a sure way to get a seat on a streetcar was to deliver the crutches in person. Everyone on

Unexpected Visitor

SYLVIA PRUITT who works in the state selective service headquarters lives in a N. Illinois st. apartnent with her mother. The ent was very warm the other night, so shé;Opened the door an

‘World of Science

ALL OF THE KCCINES for the prevention of the common coli are given a black eye in a report

Just issued by tyvo investigating bodies of the American

tion, the Council on Pharmacy and Council on Industrial Health. None of these vaccines have proved of value and none can be recommended, say the two councils in an extremely outspoken statement. Since the British Medical Research council recently went on record that patulin, a first cousin of penicillin, was of no value in the treatment of the common cold, this puts the human race with respect to the common cold back where it was at the dawn of history, namely, nowhere. The common cold thus remains the most widespread of all diseases and the one about which we know the least. The humorous remark of the wise old doctor still holds good. He said that by vigorous * treatment he could cure a cold in 12 days but that if left alone it usually went away in 10.

Symptoms Can Be Treated

HOWEVER, THIS REMARK should not be interpreted to, mean that the sufferer from a common cold should neglect and ignore it. The symptoms can be treated to make the victim more comfortable and by staying home he can not only protect others from catching it but insure himself against progressing into pneumonia, Commenting some weeks ago on patulin, I quoted

WASHINGTON, Wednesday—Bishop Baddeley, the’ bishop of Melanesia, came to tea with us on

Medical Chénmistry and the

must have given valuable in- the afternoon to see the White House. This made it tion to many mothers, wives a very pleasant party for me, as everyone could sit sweethearts. down in the state dining room and we could talk a second together, and men In the late afternoon three young people with ties and Naval to our Hyde Park neighborhood came in.to see me-— Lt. Cmdr, Russell Lent, whose parents lived at Hyde of talking Park when he was a youngster, and Lt. and Mrs. P. Lenroot and Dr. Wright Jr. They are Lt Wright's mother came to Hyde Park with the plans for late Miss Harriet May Mills many years ago. I wish -- Mrs. Wright could have been here with her charming Jirvics Diu on a5 GHuSHUIlan Yeerday Wer mou wo Jew people u;

(Ernie Pyle is on vacation)

.a’ second-story window of this house that they de-

* sition of Barker's rifle,” said Pvt. George R. Smith,

airlines: They've got some dan.

th ByB. J. McQuaid

while driven the Germans from a stoutly built brick house nearby—they claim the honor of having thus

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captured the first house in Julich—-and it was from

livered most of the rifle fire against the hedgerow souvenir ‘hunters. » “Onee in awhile a Kraut would pop his head up over the top of that hedge in order to spot the po-

Henderson, Tex. “and all of us would shoot at him. It seemed always to be the same man and he kept bobbling his head up ‘again and again and we just couldn't figure out why we kept missing him we all were ‘good shots and it was only a 100-yard range. But it wasn’t the same Jerry at all. It was a different one every time and we must have hit them all because the next day we counted at least 25 dead ones. laying along behind the hedgerow.”

The Toughest Scrap .

THE ACCOUNTS given by Sgt. Baumhardt and his men of the fighting through Julich which eventually resulted in the capture of the Sportsplatz, the key strongpoint, are replete with. instances of fierce hand-to-hand fighting against fanatical young defenders who obeyed orders to hold out to the last man, . “It was the toughest scrap we've had in months,” said Pvt. Charles K. Schmidt of Oak Park, Ill. I talked with these men who were in a platoon command by Lt."Clydé Hamer, Winond, Miss., as they were coming out of the line after séven days of unrelieved fighting under the most rigorous physical hardships and one of the heaviest concentrations of defensive artillery and small arms‘fire the Germans have staged on this front. The men had to do all their advancing through the woods at night and spend daylight* hours in foxholes filled with water so cold.that many of them became paralyzed and had to be carried back to the rear by first-aid men. Nearly every man had a story to tell of how he and his companion in a foxhole kept

each other as they sat in ice water up to their chins. |

inch or two, leaving it fastened with a chain guard. Sometime during the night, she was awakened and frightened out a year's growth by something that jumped on the bed and kept moving around. She was paralyzed with fear for a few moments, but finally managed to get the bed lamp lighted. Then she saw the cause of her alarm: One small kitten. Since the apartment in which she lives does not permit tenants to have cats or dogs, she had no idea where. it belonged. She kept it until morning, then put it out in the hall. It promptly disappeared. On second thought, we hope this doesn’t start Illinois st. department janitors to searching for secret pets. No telling how many they'd find. . . . Indianapolis Railways has issued a challenge to other veteran firms of the city to equal its record of veteran employees. The company’s 1300 employees include about 325 with at least 20 years service, and 35 who have worked for the utility 40 years or longer. Beat that, if you can. . . . The railway is having its annual Christmas party for employees and their families Tuesday night at Keith's theater. There will be movies and vaudeville, and Santa will pass out gifts for the children.

Take It or Leave It!

DAVE SHULER, manager of the Ritz, answered the phone Saturday morning. “What's showing?” asked a woman. Very politely, Mr. Shuler told her: “Wing and a Prayer, starring Don Ameche; Take It or Leave It——" Bang went the receiver. The woman, who evidently thought he was being flip, didn’t give him a chance to add: “. . . starring Phil Baker.” . . . Remember Charles E. Cox Jr., former municipal airport superintendent and world war I ace? We had lost track of him, but learned Sunday he’s now a full colonel and serving as assistant chief of staff of the. western flying training command, in charge of supply and maintenance. He is stationed at Santa Ana, Cal. The W. PF. T. C. is responsible for onerthird ot the entire force training operations. Our informant is Capt. Jimmy Carvin, who was home on leave’ over the week-end. Jimmy is assistant public relations officer for the W. F, T. C. :

By David Dietz

what the British had to say about the difficulty of studying the common cold. Much the same thing is said by the A. M. A. councils in the following words: “The evaluation of the evidence for any prophylactic measure against the common cold is. complicated by, many factors which do not lend themselves readily to controlled investigation.

Vary From Year to Year

“ALL COLDS may not and probably do not have the same virus or bacterial causation. The frequéncy and symptomology of colds in the community vary widely from year to. year. “The common cold is so mild that its victims rarely come under the direct observation of a physician during the period of invalidity. There are great differences in how people describe the severity and duration of their own colds, and, consequently, most reports on colds are based on unreliable subjective accounts.” Vaccines offered for the treatment or prevention of the common cold have been of several sorts. Some have been administered by hyperdemic needles. Others, so-called oral vaccines, come in capsules to be swallowed. More recently vaccines have been effered in the form of nasal or throat sprays. The content of these vaccines has likewise varied widely although most of them have been made: of heat or chemically killed organisms obtained originally from cultures from the upper respiratory tract. The A. M. A. emphasizes that there has been no general agreement’ on either the content of such vaccines or the' method of administration. These facts in themselves, they contend, point to the lack of positive information about the subject.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

This would pay us dividends when the young people reach their working years. Some of our hardheaded businessmen are discovering that it pays to give their employees medical care while they are em-

ployed, as it cuts down absenteeism and increases pro- |

duction, I think it will be easy to prove some day that a comprehensive medical service plan will pay us dividends as a nation. The day. was such a stormy one yesterday that only very small group came from the Naval hospital in

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They inched up to the plant.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1944

Initial scuffle around garrison.

THE SKETCHES above illustrate one of the most their blood circulating by massaging: and pounding] remarkable stories of Yank quick wit and cold, iron nerve,

to come out.of the war.

The 104th division, under fire for the first-time only a few weeks before, fought through Echsweiler, Germany,

One dark night, Capt. Charles Glotzbach, of Paxico," Kas., inched his company up to Echsweiler’s big power plant, planning to get inside,” emerge at dawn in an attack on the Germans holding the

town. Capt. Glotzbach, picked a room for a command post, but found half a dozen Germans in it. They quickly surrendered, but the short fight wroused the garrison, consisting of two companies, who ran to posts in the building and assembled in the courtyard.

the Yanks was to scram out of there. But Glotzbach had a better—if desperate—idea. He told his artillery observer, Lt. Warren Conrad of Ashland, Ore. to order a concentration of artillery fire on the building. -

By ALBERT FANCHER Scripps-Howard Special Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 14. — When law enforcement authorities urge people to put their money into War Bonds, and to hang on to the bonds already bought, they aren't kidding. : They know that today’s swindlers are. the most accomplished fraud artists in history. “Unless you understand the tricks used by confidence men and are constantly on your guard, you simply haven't a chance when one starts working on you,” warns District Attorney Frank S. Hogan of New York county. » » »

psychology.: They use research as effectively as does any business concern—and the facts they dig up are likely to be your undoing. “Some of them even employ sound effects when phoning you. In the background you hear the ringing of hospital bells or the clicking of typewriters—whatever the swindler thinks will most impress you with his authenticity.”

turned their attention to Weisweiler, a nearby strong point.

The niilitary “thing to do” for’

“THESE FELLOWS know their

The amazed battery officer, back in. Echsweiler, exclaimed, “But that's your present position!” : “Right. But fire anyway, and hurry,” answered Conrad. “In the gantime, Glotzbach got . his company down into the cellar. Shells séreamed over and blasted the building. The Germans—those who could —ran for cover. The firing slackened ofl. . There were tense minutes of waiting and then the German commander, never believing that the Americans would call for fire on their own position, decided the bombardment was an accident, and started to reassemble his

men, . Glotzbach called fi another concentration — this time of

shrapnel . that burst in the air over unlucky troops caught in it.

YANK BIG GUNS BLAST AMERICAN POST . . . ON PURPOSE

Shrapnel did the job.

That was enough for the Krauts. They beat it—far away. Glotzbach’s men had a nice

After Your Money, Swindlers Cash In on War Prosperity

Swindlers; confidence men, petty racketeers and big-time “J. Rufus Wallingfords"—all these are cashing in on war prosperity. They have post-war plans that may mulct veterans, “war workers and War Bond buyers of millions upon millions of dollars, unless the public is forewarned. >

Drawing on his material from official sources in New York, Albert Fancher has written for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers five articles about how swindlers operate and about the future apportunities they are likely to try to grasp. Mr. Fancher's stories are interesting—may save you money. :

New York has no monopoly on these gentry. They cover the country, operating in almost every large city and many small ones. » » . THE D. A’s OFFICE here can cite chapter and verse on a large number of these individuals, but it's difficult to summarize a pattern of their activities. The one thing they all have in common is the larceny in their hearts, Few people, however, could resist the technique of one man whose appearance, manner and

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thorough knowledge of his victims enabled him to defraud them of a known_$200,000. This swindler is described as “scholarly and distinguished but a complete phony.” He made a detailed study of his prospect's background. ) x x = BEFORE he established contact, he knew the intimate history of the person he intended to fleece— his home town, his relatives and friends, the schools he attended and his activities there and since. Invariably the confidence man had a “cousin” who had gone to school with the prospect, or who came from his home town. Through this fictitious relationship the victim's confidence was won, The swindler then sold him —at a large price—a patent he had stolen and altered. A distinguished office address, handsome stationery, a board of directors or sponsors including well-known names—these are only a few of the devices used by confidence ‘men to impress their prospects. o . » ANOTHER “typical confidence man,” as the district attorney's office describes him, took a hofel room, armed himself with accurate information on ofl stock and royal ty holdings of various persons, and went to work. He approached one elderly woman who owned some valuable ofl stock in a California company. He showed her what appeared to be genuine credentials from one of the leading oil companies, and told her his company had bought all the land on which her come pany's wells were located. | . He convinced her that her stock was worthless, But, as a favor, he permitted her to buy his firm's stock at half its listed value. She gave him $23,000 on his promise that he would personally deliver the stock in two weeks. Another victim paid him $6000 for the same privilege, sw a

Morning—and 80 dead Germans.

quiet rest, strolled out in the morning and counted 80 dead Germans in the courtyard.

nature, from the sale "of gold bricks, supposed to be smuggled down from Canada, to the sale of stock in a non-existent motor ship or the solicitation of contributions to, fake charities and © gauses. : Confidence men will ‘take a vic tim’s cash or savings and promise anything that offers hope of quick gain,

The swindler has a keen eye for the news. The shortage of gasoline and oil brought a boom in phony oll and gas leases. The juke-box rage produced a lively racket in the leasing of imaginary vending machines and juke boxes. » ». ” / TODAY'S news headlines of shorfages and business developments are followed by swindlers with tie-in rackets. The fraud artists prefer cash. They don't like to accept War Bonds, since converting them into cash involves great risks. The authorities speak with full knowledge of all this when they say: “Put your money in war bonds, and keep the bonds you buy.”

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By Laurene Rose Dieh

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"whole world, and the undoing of

‘Tomorrow's Jobs Change in. Airline Setup

Seems Unwise

By MAJ. AL WILLIAMS NEW. YORK, Dec. 14.—President Roosevelt recently advised congress against the dangers of permitting one type of carrier to control another type thus bringing a head-on collision between the propas~ “iy ganda of the

interests and the dsterminsd resistance of the airlines against such invasion. The Presi-" dent is dead" right, and it is hoped that his advice will serve as the basic principle of a new administration policy to inspire the release of venture capital, and serve also as a stop sign against monopoly. » - . * EVER SINCE our domestic airlines became international oversteamship and railroad

to get into the airlines business in a big way. . And “in a big way” to Wall Street means control. . This the airlines are determined to prevent.

In my opinion the President is right; the airlines’ case is strong, and the rail-steamship scheme is wrong. » » » WHERE WAS all this railsteamship money 10 or 15 years ago when the courageous few risked their own money and scoured the country for venture capital to implement their dreams for scheduled airline transportation of passengers, mail and freight? Neither the railroad nor the steamship people would touch an airline project with a 10-foot pole. And now they want to get into the airline business. The victory of the few who ‘invested money in airline transportation brought us what we have today, the world’s finest airline transportation system, the American merchant marine of the air, the peacetime envy of the

those who made wartime enemies, All phases of aviation must be kept free from outside hands and be permitted: to work out their destinies under control of those who are qualified by experience to serve as leaders. ¥

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In This Case?

By RUTH MILLETT AN AMERICAN SOLDIER sta~ tioned. in Newfoundland wrote his wife the story. He had had an affair with a local girl. The girl had given birth to a baby which she didn’t want, not loving either the father or the child. The husband was getting a furlough to bring the-baby to this country and wanted his wife to _. take the child bi -{f she would. 4 At first the wife said she idn't know, and then she decided 0 take the child. » » » SUCH a story, when printed in papers all over the country, always makes women wonder and talk about what they would do under such circumstances. In this case many women probably are saying the wife made a foolish decision or showed a lack of pride. But actually couldn't there be sound reasoning behind her decision?

” » » THE HUSBAND admitted that he wasn't in love with the baby's mother. The affair was just the outcome of boredom and lone= liness — the boredom and lonesomieness of a man sitting out the war in a far-away place, And the man had this in his favor. He felt obligated to keep the child. He needn’t have, and if he hadn't, his wife would probably never have known of the affair, But he was honest and he as sumed responsibility for the child. And he showed his faith in his wife's bigness by turning to her and asking her to take the child into their home. # » . LOOKING at it that way, perhaps any other wife would have made the same decision. dh But it is easy to see why wives might not admit such a possibilIf women are too ready to

to be. x "It's self-preservation to say, “I don't see how your pride would let you do anything but get & divorce in a case like that," :

HARBINGER OF PEACE?