Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1944 — Page 13

§ Salvation for Six =~ By Jack Ben

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WITH AMERICAN ARMIES, Dec. 26 (Delayed).—~ prisoner report. The disgusted Jerry had said that his The little old priest sag behind the wheel of a roaring battalion had had a spirited peptalk from their major, old truck, weaving unsteadily down the narrow, wind- telling them that all must fight or die for the fathering street. Somehow, he. had managed to start the land. They had advanced to the top of a hill "where “motor, and when, he found the car would move in low withering American fire met them. The major had gear had started it moving. That was all he knew of ducked behind a tree, dropping his cane and monaocle, motor vehicles. . 4 and cried, “ach, the enemy.” “The last I saw of him,” But he did know that in his little cottage were six the Jerry reported, he. was going swiftly “Hown' the American soldiers whe had sat behind machine guns hill." " all day, holding“up the whole German attack while Sgts. Robert Haynes, Chicago, and Leon Barpn,|their comrades moved back... He knew, too, that Ger- Michigan City, Ind, were busy and alert in the little man troops were in the other end of the village, Belgian town when I drove in. “How'd you get in?” searching house by house. i they asked incredulously. He knew those Germans, too, for his little flock “This road,” we answered, and we had known fear and unhappiness for four years, If the map. in his gentle soul there was room for hatred, he hated “We fought the Jerries there all night,” they cried. the Germans who were returning, and his love for the “We must have got 'em all,” I said. American boys was strong. : Bridges were blown on other roads, so we drove * He had seen them running through alleys as they out over the same route and nothing happened. came in from the hillside, hunted animals with the Swerve Out of War

enemy gunners alertly stalking them, So he had hidden them in his house, found the old truck and ° got it-rolling, ’ . FLIGHT OFFICER W. W., ELDRIDGE, Orlando, Fla., and Capt. Fred Campbell, St. Petersburg, Fla. Goads Yanks to Safety suddenly .ran into the war without changing jobs. . " They are liaison plane pilots flying routing missions. “COME, HURRY,” he cried as one of the Ameri yyhen the Jerries started their big offensive they cans leaped behind the wheel, “The Germans 8ré pegan shooting wholesale at little planes. here, 1 Kin them. I'll show you the trail into the “We flew through a hail of small-arms fire,” they woods. They don’t know it.” sald. “Then we got smart and changed our *" “But theyll kill you if they catch you doing this, slightly” ’ changed our sourse padre,” the Americans protested. And in the midst of all the shooti th n " ng, with men Beatedly. Tap eng until they shoot,” he cried straggling in and telling of terrible frontline experi . us go. ences, Pfc, Richard Stella, Marteng, Cal, came up They left him at the beginning of the trail, an old to observe that “the way a balls things up,

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padre standing in the quiet snowfall, the white flakes it's no wonder we can’t wirid He : re m, a college resting gently on his white hair and black cloak: As graduate, speaking seven languages and : they disappeared they waved. He waved, then on permanent K. P. Howya gonna win turned toward his village, his flock, the German ygayo». | Soldiers. | There’s another kitchen T police story. I've been Let us suppose the padre walked through the snow- ynable to find the hero of it but I know that his fall, then on bended knee offered a’ prayer for the hame’s Abernathy, that he went snafu and wound up « GB, safety of the Americans and asked God that this on K. P.—and that when a Mark tank rolled into satanic madness end soon. For it was Christmas eve. his kitchen he grabbed a bazook: Maj. Frank Cibulka of Berwyn, Ill, with an ° o 8 andl gnocked 1 ot. armored division told me this story of a German Copyright,

1044, by The Indianapolis Times and he Chicago Daily News, Inc.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

HOW ABOUT getting busy and providing some feed for the song birds? It's tough enough for the birds to scratch up a living in the winter under normal eonditions. But when there's snow or ice on the

ground, many birds starve to death. Some dry bread, = grain or, better yet, some suet placed in a protected spot now will help keep the birds alive until next summer. They'll reward you by helping keep the bugs off your victory garden. . . . Incidentally, here’s a good use for that Christmas tree when you take it down: Strip the branches from the tree and use them to make a back yard feeding station. Stack them in the shape of a wigwam, leaving openings, front and back. Then place bird feed inside. The station keeps the snow off ithe food, and the birds seon learn to patronize their “cafeteria.” ... One of our readers suggests that “more people should read the ~ lost dog ads in the papers” She says: “It’s surprising how often you can spot a lost dog if you're on the lookout.” ... Seven girls working at Lukas- . Harold in a calibrating room raised $8 for The Times ‘Mile-O-Dimes in a novel manner. They had a toy « pank labeled “The Swear Box.” Every time one -of them, or anyone in the room, uttered a cuss word, it cost the person doing the swearing a nickel. Looks like a good way to collect money. Hope they don’t

and inquired at Ayres’ but couldn't find the watch. After some more sidewalk searching, she returned to the bank. A man was waiting there for her. “What's the matter; don’t you feel well?” he asked. She explained the reason she was downcast. “Is this the watch you lost?” he asked. Much to her joy, it was. The honest man was Benjamin Beard, 365 S. Emerson ave., a railway mail clerk. Mr. Beard found the watch in the slush outside Ayres’. He took it to Ayres’ watch shop, thinking they might have repaired it and would know who owned.it. No record of it but found it had been repaired by A. S. Rowe, in the State Life building. Mr. Beard took it there, and Mr, Rowe was able to name the owner. How many. people do you suppose would go to all that trouble to return someone’s watch? Lots of you, we hope—but we aren't So sure.

See the Monument!

IF YOU HAVEN'T been downtown at night recently and sean the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument lighted, you've missed something. "It's a strikingly beautiful sight—many times more beautiful than it is in daylight. Personally, we don’t see how anyone viewing the monument lighted could begrudge the $1500 it would take fo light it every night in the year, instead of on a few special occasions. Our suggestion is that the Chamber of Commerce arrange to have the monument lighted some night when the legislature is in session, then drag the legislators over to see it. Presto—there’s your appropriation. . . . We

HT. start anything like that around hére. The letter was Nate hag, 2 ye uo Ake the CacasOoja people signed: Mary Rose, Betty, Vivian, Judy, Mariann, uld do something about that thermometer on their Ruth, Frances sign at North and Delaware. It's disconcerting to | » . notice the thermometer reading 45 when. your ears A tell you it's near zero. How about it, Ernie Niebrand? i / An Honest Man . . . Harry Joseph sends us a clipping from the In- : = 8 ETHEL CLEMENTS, employed at the Union Trust diana Jewish Chronicle. It’s an advertisement of in ————— Co., was heartsick yesterday when she looked at her " ‘White's Beauty shop out in Broad Ripple, as follows:

“Special—our regular $15 cold wave, $10.” Harry comments: “If anyone is interested in cold waves at this time of the year, here's a bargain.” Why pay for them, Harry? We've been having one this week for nothing. .

wrist and discovered her wrist watch was gone, The Joss occurred while she was on a shopping trip. She Jooked at the watch while she was in Wasson's., From there she went to Ayres’, and then to Penney's where she discovered it was gone. She retraced her steps,

‘| Man-Made Quakes By Charles T. Lucey

in trying to fix by tomputation just when and where a trigger charge would be placed. In point of time, an earthquake might be figured due in a certain area within a certain range of years, but some seismologists say that to establish the time with sufficient exactitude would be difficult. The scientists might find a way, by triangulation plus almost infinite checking and rechecking, to reduce to within a fairly small land area the spot where the explosives charge should be placed. If thé earthquake were to be caused in a sea area, to bring with it a tidal wave, locating the exact spot would be even more difficult, some seismologists say. One eminent scientist drew the “straw-that-broke-the-camel's-back” analogy. If you could find the place where stresses had become so great, that some-

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Leading scientists here are inclined to be skeptical of a story that has been making the rounds to the effect that. it might be possible to cause a man-made earthquake, like the one shat hit Japan recently, for military purposes. ' You may think such a notion is fantastic, but it has been ad-<« vanced several times since the war began, sometimes by experienced engineers. Because nobody wants to overlook any bets these days, the National Inventors’ Council has double-checked the proposal But the seitsmologists to whom the inventors’ council has gone have agreed generally that while a man-made earthquake is not beyond possibility, they think it would be extremely difficult to bring about. “The degree of probability is so slight,” an Inventors’ council official said, “as to negative any military value or application.”

~ Computation Very Difficult

! THE IDEA behind the proposal is that when great stresses and strains are set up in the earth, a “trigger” will set off an earthquake. Some have proposed heavy bombing from the air to provide such a trigger or, in water areas, dumping explosives on the bottom of the ocean and leaving them to be exploded by time devices. But the scientists cite the vast difficulties involved

| My Day

’ HYDE PARK, Wednesday For the first time since the early days of the war, the people in this country are being tested by the war news. It is harder to bear today, because in the® early days We could say that we had not been a war-like nation, ' that we had not wanted to make war, that we had not prepared for it and that our allies would therefore have to hold the fort until we were ready. No one could help us in the Pacific, and we took some pretty humiliating defeats. Yet the men we had in that area did a holding job which was magnificent. It is harder to retreat and give way and keep morale high than 'it is to go forward. ee

might have some value. But to this man the computations involved seemed prohibitive. .

Meteor Failed to Disturb Siberia

ANOTHER WORLD-FAMOUS seismologist said that the odds were too much against the possibility of success to make it worth the trouble. Others familiar with scientific studies in this and related fields express a belief that such tremendous force is needed to bring about an earthquake, it is hardly conceivable that a sufficiently powerful manmade blast could be produced. ; _ One pointed out that there is knowledge-of fuge meteor having. fallen in Siberia, but without producing anything like an earthquake despite its vast force.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Then we landed in France, and romped across ‘that country with a liberated people cheering us-on. The enemy fell back, but in pretty good order, shortening their supply lines with every day's retreat as Wwe lengthened ours, When they reached a point where they decided to stand and counter-attack, it was a surprise to us at home. Probably our generals knew that some day this point would have to be reached. Just when it would come they knew possibly no better than anyone else, since we cannot read other people's minds. But I imagine that our men hoped they would advance into Germany as fast as they had crossed France, The loss of the territory which they fought so hard to gain must be a bitter disappointment to

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here who would say—why do Germany? have forgotten what They do not remember boast that it was never beaten people at home let the army not suggest that we run

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One Division. Foils Nazis’

‘Grand Plan’

By B. J. McQUAID Times Foreign Correspondent WITH AN AMERICAN ARMORED DIVISION, in the Arden nes Forest, Belgium. — For six days this division had fought with such heroism that it disrupted Field Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt's scheme to reach Liege and Antwerp and split our armies apart: Armor fought armor savagely. And no less glorious was the role of the infantrymen. We had effectively disrupted Von Rundstedt’'s “grand plan” but withdrawals at certain points were necessary to regroup our forces for new engagements.

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EJ » »n WITH self-sacrificlal heroism equaling that of the armored men, these infantrymen fought the Tiger tanks with hand grenades and M-1 rifles. » They: helped open the routes to the rear hy means of which the armored division could be resupplied and maintained. And along with the -armorsd division the doughboys made slow, methodical withdrawals. These - withdrawals, which ultimately brought the division back across the river Salm, were effected gradually from_day to day. 4 Ground was yielded so slowly that by the time the last of them were made, we had had time to put in place plenty of troops along the Malmedy - StavelotStoumont line to the: north. Thus we were in a position to fend off any immediate northwestward thrust toward Liege. o » n

I ARRIVED |n the area in time to witness the last withdrawal which was made at dusk across the Salm and Lienne rivers. All day the division had been beating off heavy counter-attacks from S. 8S. panzer outfits on both its right and left flanks with its egg-shaped circle. Two tank battalions bore the brunt of these vicious attacks while the diyision wheeled and withdrew. Then small units of the division’s armored infantrymen held while the battalions diséngaged and pulled back across the Salm, blowing key bridges behind them.

FINALLY, in what mili men called one of the most complicated and brilliant maneuvers in the annals of armored warfare—one armored combat command pulled off on the single ,route of retreat. This combat unit wheeled its vehicles around in the direction facing the enemy—waiting in roadside clearings until the last of our retreating columns had passed. . No sooner had the last vehicle cleared the: Lienne than this outfit came roaring out of its roadside positions. It headed toward the enemy over the road along which they had themselves withdrawn earlier. Then it threw a stinging coun-ter-attack. This completely foiled any German effort at pursuit of the main body of the division. s = =» ’

IN THE ensuing confusion the counter-attacking American elements themselves were able to withdraw in good order. Many of the agmored infantrymen were able to straggle back across the river, rejoining their outfits during the night. 1 visited one of their company command posts the following morning and found some of them still dribbling back. Typical of this kind of never-say-die fighting man, were a a group I joined in a greedy G. 1. breakfast at headquarters platoon with Acting Platoon Leader M.

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British Children Back Home, Miss

U.S.Corn, Comics

By CORRINNE HARDESTY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 28. — America now is just a memory of corn on the cob, comic books, snowdrifts, banana splits and plenty of dates to British . youngsters returned after being farmed out among American families for. four years. About 1500 children among thousands evacuated by the United States committee for the care of European children and other groups have returned to their families in Britain.» Most of those interviewed counted their American sojourn a happy one, and some found readjustment to British life, especially to school curricula, difficult, o " »

“CORN ON the cob is the most wonderful thing in the world, and next to that is maple syrup,” according to Simon, 5, who had seven meadows to play in on a Connecticut farm and since then has found the neat yards and hedges of Oxford confining. His sister, Sally, 9, loved “hotel elevators and the hooting of horris” in New York City. Her Yankee accent bewildered her parents and she, complained she would have to teach them “how: to talk.” ’ ~ Now Sally calls a flannel a “wash cloth” and insists two weeks is two weeks and not a fortnight. ” » . FRANCIS, 14, who spent four years on a farm near New London, Conn. said: “I would walk all the way to Scotland just to see snow again.” He is the son of ‘an Oxford professor. His mother took him and his sister and brother to America at the outset of the blitz. Two 19-year-olds parting a sad one. Michael, whose father is a factory worker and who joined the navy on returning from Wes‘borough, Mass., said he would like to return— especially to see one of the daughters in the family where he lived. ” . ” “THERE ARE plenty of dates and dancing parties in America,” he said a little wistfully. “You get to know a lot of people. There are no tight little communities like here.” Lois, who returned from Beverly Hills, N. J, found all her old friends “joined up” and her family moved from their place in the country to a London flat, » ” ” “AMERICAN girls. are more sophisticated and go about more than English girls,” she said. “I guess I miss that, but I know I miss peaches most of all.” Comic books, frowned upon by his Oxford parents, were a delight to Allister, 11. He now is allowed an occasional but he says that now Latin comes first,

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28,1944 °°

Defying a gestapo order to evacuate their homes near Saarlautern, 1700 German civilians hid out in an abandoned coal mine on the nearby estate of Franz von Papen, Nazi diplomat. There they lived, under primitive conditions and in daily threat of entombment until German Forces retreated before the allied adyance. Photo ‘at the top shows some of the “cave dwellers” waiting while cooks prepare a meal, In lower picture, refugees emerge from the mine tunnel under the eyes of a

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Cadet Visits Kin On Yule Furlough

AVIATION CADET PAUL G. THOMAS had a Christmas reunion “when he visited with his brother, William, #nd parents pa Jere Christmas day. . Cadet Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clay C. Stewart, 3400 N. Capitol ave, completed gun=nery school at Harlingen, Tex, before coming home on furlough. He saw his brother, Pfc. Wiliam L. Thomas, just three hours. William, a marine, previously was home on a& 30-day furlough after spending 2% years overseas tand participating in seven major ‘engagements. He returned to Camp Lejeune, N.C., Christmas. Another brother, 8gt. John H. Thomas, is with the marines at Pearl harbor. All the boys are graduates of Carmel high school. Cadet Thomas will return to Texas Sunday and then will be sent to advanced gunnery school.

Cadet Thomas

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NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (U. P.).— The 27 employees of the Wansco Paper Products, Inc, didn’t go to work today. - They filed out of the five-story building at 5 p. m. yesterday, at the end of their regular shift. At 7:45 p. m, ‘the 70-year-old building collapsed, leaving a rec-

tangular heap of debris 40 feet high.

Sgt. Waldo Cook, of Waterloo, Iowa. » . . LT. JOHN MEADES and 1st

Sgt. Michael J. Lynch, both of Baltimore, Md. were making preparations to receive 16 stragglers, The stragglers were the only known survivors of one of their platoons. Sgt. Lynch's analysis of the week of uninterrupted fighting inside the egg-shaped pocket was terse: - “Hell, there wasn't any front. There were six fronts that I have known about between St. vith and Vielsalm. Half of them were our fronts and half of them were Jerry's. We fought back and ‘forth across all of them without ever knowing exactly whose were which.” ”

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BRITISH SEND NOTES HOME BY NAZI BOMBS

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LONDON, Dec. 28 (U. P.) ~Let-| ters from British war prisoners are being’ sent to Britain by enemy flying bombs, it was disclosed today. During a recent attack on north ern England, a leaflet marked “Via pow post” and containing three letters was found in pne town. The letters were both photostated

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Marines Need 150

Dogs for Service

AN URGENT NEED for 150 war dogs by the end of January has been announced by the marine corps. The request, addressed to dog owners east of the Mississippi river, is for male Doberman pinschers or German shepherds between one and four years old. Each dog should be about 27 inches high and weigh about 70 pounds. Inquiries should be addressed to Dogs for Defense, Inc, 22 E. 60th st., New York city.

RAPER NO. 1 TO SEAT OFFICERS ON JAN. 6

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of Masonic relief board, and J. is Bray director of Masonic Temple asosciation. ———————————————

RURAL MAIL DELAYED SEYMOUR, Ind., Dec. 28 (U. P.)

a virtual standstil] in’ the county.

DIRECTS ENTERTAINMENT Karl L. Priedrichs is in

C. Wilbur Foster, eminent commander;

Roberts, captain general; Stanley G. Mey-

—Postal officials today hoped for an early resumption of mail delivery, to rural patrons after it became necessary to cancel service due to ice= locked roads. No déliveries were made yesterday and traffic was at

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Labo Suits Planned For Negro R.R.Workers

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Citi« zens who have been shocked by revelations that some labor unions are ‘far from being the last word in democracy are in for further shocks through a batch of court suits being planned for Negro workers on southern railroads. The color line has brought about ‘Jim Crow” unions in a number of industries, with the colored brother some- i times barred from a job and sometimes merely prohibited frgm taking part in the collective bargaining operated | by his white associates, The subject is discused annually at conventions of the American Federation of Labor, with the plight of the Negro workingman being presented graphically by A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

THE C. 1. O. is more forthright than the A. F. of L. in declaring that when a man, white or black, joins a labor union he is entitled to full privileges. But the C. I. O. also has its troubles on the color question. The problem has been a live one in some of the. Detroit locals of the United Automobile Workers, with the result that the international president, R. J. Thomas, recently appointed an intra-union fair employment practices committee.

brotherhoods have been in this picture for years, mainly through the fact that Negro locomotive firemen on southern railroads have been kept in a subsidiary and non-promotable position. : A year ago the fair employment practices committee decreed that these practices should be ended. The southern railroads, asserting they were bound by the contracts they had entered into with their employees, resisted. # - »

THE RESULT was appointment by President Roosevelt of a committee, headed by Judge Walter Stacy, of the North Carolina supreme court. The Stacy committee found itself barred from enforcing the FEPC directive through court have just been appealed to and acted on by the U. 8, supreme court. The purport of these decisions, as expressed in a majority opinion by Chief Justice Stone, was that congress in enacting the railway labor act, meant “to impose on the bargaining representatives of a craft or class of employees the duty to exercise fairly the power conferred upon it in behalf of all those for whom it acts, without hostile discrimination against them.” Defendant in these cases was the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. ‘ #" " ” CHARLES H. HOUSTON, lawyer for two small organizations of Negro firemen, said today that on the basis of the supreme court's statements, suits will be filed immediately against about 20 southern railroads that are partiés to the ‘southeastern agreement” which he said limits the empioyment and promotion possibilities of Negroes. The suits against the railroads will involve also the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, whose president, D. B. Robertson, said: “We have always represented the entire membership of the crafts and classes under the jurisdiction of our brotherhood, without discrimination and in good faith. We will be fully prepared to answer in detail all of the unfounded charges made against our brotherhood in toese two cases when they are tried on merits in the lower courts as di"rected by the supreme court.”

Statue of Liberty To Signal Victory

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (U. P.) ~ The Statue of Liberty in New York harbor will be illuminated with 112 powerful lamps to signal the surrender of Germany or Japan, Samuel G, Hibben, Westinghouse Electric Co.. engineer, announced yesterday. After the war, new electric flood lights equivalent to 2500 times the light of a full moon will shine upon the world famous statue, Hibben said. He is directing a relighting project on Bedloe’s is-

ors. and Arno G. Siefker, prelates; Leroy Freeman, recorder; Charles N. Fults, land, where the statue is located. treasurer; Hiram: E. Stonecipher, . senior 4 warden, Predevier E otket, A Junior warden; arold . ® rts, standar bearer; George L. Clark, sword bearer; FARMERS WILL ASK

|. TIME *‘SWITCHBACK’

State farm groups will press their demands for a switch back from war .| time to standard time in Indiana. This - probability loomed today, following a meeting of the newly= organized ricultural legislative ttee at-which the

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