Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1945 — Page 9
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= irdoce Via Airmail) —The Vale of
1glis is oan but a hook ina mountain road; but
bars of Greece dled there. “The thin gray creeps up from Megalopolis, ie city ‘in the main valley, to the ridge, edged all the way with brambles and boulders. . A few Rundred feet below the ridge, where the road crosses en route -to Tripolis;, is Viglis, a place without ever a hut, nothing ‘but graves. Greek civilians diedhere for their freedom, " There are five mass graves, unmarked except hy flowers. You can see them as you clamber out
of the jeep, closing your collar
against the icy wind. There are two - mass - graves that ‘are open. ; And dotted under the spiny bushes bn each" sidé of the creekbed are wooden crosses. Here is what happened in the Vale df Viglis. anuary the allied mission hiding with the E. L. A. S, fortes at Dirakion on Mt. Taygetos received orders from the Middle East to organize the guerrillas in ttacks on German .communications, the purpose being to compel the Nazis to commit more of. their troops in the protection of railroads- and highways. Viglis was selected as the place for the first onslaught, arid two days beforehand 40 guerrillas ‘had been secret ed in’ the mountains above the nook. in the road.
Killed All But One .
AT § IN THE MORNING of Feb. 23 the guerrillas ere lying. in wait behind the rocks above and below he road.. Except for rifles they had only two Sten ight machine guns and two similar Italian weapons. hey drilled the windshield of a German. staff car, tormed it and killed all inside. A second car was close behind. They upset that and killed all but one German. That afternoon E. L. A. 8. spies brought word to Dirakion that 13 German bodies and 11 nded had been brought into Megalopolis. Before darkness fell the German staff in Megal-
opolis ca a conference. Some officers were in favor of taking reprisals only against guerillas. Most
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\nsisted on exerting a number of hostages, chosen at random from the Tripolis jail. Their’ vehemence won.
Word somehow reahed the miscellaneous prison-%-
ers in the Tripolfs “jail of what was to happen. They ‘prepared for death, Five - trucks drove-up to the- jail. The German guards drove the incredible number of 203 out through the prison doors and into the-throbbing trucks. When they finished, the pgison was ouly an empty ovuilding. These people were minor suspects, picked up all over Peloponnesus. “Most came from Kalamata; only 16 were from Megalopolis. They wrote -little
messages on billion drachma notes of the worthless |.
money and dropped them from the trucks. The notes said, “We 'know we are going to die,” “Farewell forever,” “Long live Hellas,” and even Revenge to the Germans.”
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One. Trick 2 at a Time" THE OFFICER in charge held four of the frucks
ofi the ¢urve above Viglis, and whistled one truck|
down at a time. The Greeks. were simply led out in bunches of six or eight, unresisting and numb with cold and the approach of death: He varied the execution places, shooting now six by. the cement culvert, .then ‘eight over among the. thorn bushes. He—had-—carefully foreseen - that very large: graves were not possible in this rocky ground. -* The execution took from 9 until 11:30. * The 203 bodies lay stiffening in the winter cold for two days.
~ In rhost cases the tops of the heads were blown
off; the officer had his men aim high. This: efficiency complicatéd matters on the third day, however, when 100 men were rounded up in_Megalopolis to climb up and bury the bodies. About:'50 women asked to go along as volunteers, hoping to be able to recognize. their own absentees. The Nazis allowed them to go. The reason for the unfilled graves was that the amateur undertakers dug more than enough, thinking. to give each compatriot a separaté sleeping place. But the faces of many fallen could not be identified; the features did not exist,
(Copyright, 1944, by The Indianapolis Times ang The Chicago Dally News, Inc.)
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
IF IT ISN'T one thing, it’s another. Svesy day we hear of something or other that's joined the shartage list. Now it's clothes pins. Mrs. Floyd L. White, 3 93, Hemlock, Ind., writes to ask if any of you can tell her where she can.-buy some clothes pins. “We have ; plenty of washing for a family of eight,” she writes, “and now we can't find clothes pins. Can't some . of your readers help?” Mrs. White, who has six children, is a former ~ resident of Indianapolis. Hemlock . =in case your knowledge of Indiana is limited—is .up in Howard county; of which Kokomo is’ the county seat. If you can help her, drop HER a note. Thanks. . . . If the person who wrote the letter denouncing the plan for lighting the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument all year 'round will identify himself, we'l] use some of it in the column. We're always willing to give both sides of the story, but we like to know who's shooting at us—even though we don't print the name. « .. Mrs. Ida Behrens may be 87 years old, but she isn't, going to let a little thing like the taxi shortage interfere with her getting aroynd. Mrs. Behrens, who hy with her daughter, Mrs, Sidney J. Sternberger, th. and Pefinsylvania, was alone inh the house the other day and wanted to visit a friend who lives at 37th and Meridian. She called for a taxi, but couldn’s get one. Undaunted, she decided she'd get there, regardless. Just then the laundryman came
to: told him. And after a little arguing, she put on her hat and coat, climbed into the laundry truck, and rode down to her friend's home. Resourceful, these Hoosiers!
Another Suggestion
DR. ED- LEONARD has a suggestion for Paul Brown, city parks superintendent, on how to reduce the city’s ‘pigeon population. ‘He writes: “Suggest Paul Brown give 10 cents for each pigeon head received. Many boys with B-B guns would co-operate.” No fair shooting in ‘the city, Dr. Leonard. Homer Abrels6f New Castle and his sister, ‘Mrs. Ross Galimore, postmaster at Freedom, Ind. both cele-
World of Sgience
ASTRONOMERS in 1944 discovered that onl the satellites of Saturn had an atmosphere composed of poison gases, found the faintest star in ‘the universe, a star. 150,000 times dimmer than our
own sun; and demoted the Milky Way from its place”
of distinction as the largest galaxy, in the universe, The reaction of the ian to ali this might be that the world had enough troubles in 1944 without the astronomers bringing—up such items. However, there is no reason to take so gloomy a’ view ‘of the situation. The moon of Saturn in question is Titan, largest of Saturn's nine moons. It is slightly larger than our. own moon, having a diameter of 2600 miles. Dr. G. P, Kuiper uk the Qerkes- Observatory discovered that Titan. had. an atmosphere romposed of methane and ammonia; Astronomers had previously found that-both the ‘ planets Jupiter and Saturn had such atmospheres. so the presence of the poison gases in themselves was rot: too startling. But ft had long been supposed that no moon or satellite had a sufficiently strong ‘gravitational pull to hang onto an atmosphere,
My Day WASHINGTON, Monday.~Our New Year's eve “party was a rather small one, Practically no one here at the White House vas without sorhe people at the front in whom they had a véry deep concern. Sa a: dinner and again at midnight, we drank a toast to all the men in the serv-. ices anywhere in the world, and specifically to those whom we, as friends gathered together on- this
iNew Year's eve, held Sopstantly in oul thoughts. - 8
After dinner we saw the film ~ based on Ted Lawson's book, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.” The picture. follows the book very closely and is, I.think, a very good ‘film,
I am afraid there were very few ‘dry eyes In the audience when it came to an end 1 missed part of it, as T had to go te-two U. 8. O. part “but-I-was gone only a-short- time. Pirst-1 vis. ited the Uline arena. where, urider the auspices of the U. 8 O-N. C. C. 8. clubs, a tremendous party - for _servicemen was being held. The navy furnished ‘the | “music, and T went up on the band stand to say a few - words to the crowd. 01. boys in uniform and the girls gdghered there. v It seemed to ‘me “that most of them were not in 8 very carefree mood, Wid 50 1:hope Shat.uy faslier id" not strike a’ jarring ow, ~Oné be ery fh or. Es cay
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_brate their birthdays on Christmas day. ‘Mrs. Galimore was born Dec. 25, 1906, and Mr. Abrell, Dec. 25, 1908. And it's not really so tough having birthdays and Christmas coincide, he says. His mother always “inanaged to get af least two gifts for them—one for birthday and one for Christmas. . . . Mrs, Richard ‘F. Green.thought some of you might like to know what one soldier thinks about the work the Red Cross is doing. "In a letter to his mother, Mrs. Shirley E. Green Sr, Rithard F. Green Ph.M2-c wrote: “You might call the Cross and tell them for me] that they are doing a wonderful job and their blood plasma is priceless. It saves e lives than anything we have out here in the Pacific. “Tell them we need all they can give.” Being a pharmaeist'’s mate, Mr. Green is in a position to know what Mand Plasma means to the wounded.
How to Win the War >
"HOW DO THE soldiers fee] about war bonds? Well, we don’t know about all of thém, but we can “tell you how Sgt. Wilbur R. Frye, in the Netherland East Indies, feels. His wife (1132 E. Kelley st.) wrote him the old propaganda yarn perennially making the rounds—the one about “the soldier who just got back and said the way to end the war is to quit buying bonds.” The sergeant wrote right back: “All people working back home should buy bonds and all they can. If a person as much as kicked a little about it,
I would call him a slacker and a damned poor democratic American. Bonds help finance the war so we can win it as soon as possible with the least cost ‘ the man. I'm. looking’ for\-.she-0f lives. and materials, - The bend buyer sure as feck
isn't taking the slightest chance of losing a penny.
In fact, he gets a nice interest rate. If I had been
single, all my money would be in bonds, and I wouldn't be broke when I got back” That's the way one soldier feels about it. . . . George M. Binger has a traffic suggestion. George says it seems safer to cross against the red light than with the green light because of cars making right turns. ‘He thinks this would be helped by requiring motorists to make right turns on the red light—not with the green light as at present. That way, he says, pedestrians could cross intersections without having to have eyes in the back of their heads, It might work, but wé have an idea it still would interfere with some pedestrians. Figure it‘out, George.
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By David Dietz
«+ ALL STUDIES of our “own ‘thoon indicate that it has no atmosphere and even the planet Mercury, whose diameter is 3100 miles, is thought not to have an atmosphere.
The faintest star in the universe, or at least the faintest one Known to us, was discovered during | — 1944 by Dr. George Van Biesbroeck; also of the Yerkes. Observatory,
He made his discovery by conducting a careful telescopic search in the neighborhood of each of the previously known dim stars. These are all nearby stars because if they were very distant they would not be visible from the earth at all.
Color 1s Curprising
THE SURPRISING thing about the new discovery is that it is not a red star. All the known dim stars have been dwarf red stars, owing their dimness) in part to their small size ahd in part to their low temperature. They are only red hot. Van Biesbroeck’s star, therefore, raises a number of interesting questions,
Demotion of our galaxy came about asthe coi,
of a number of studies of the Andromeda Nebula, the galaxy that is the closest. neighber “of our own | galaxy. It is now known that each of the so-called | spiral nebulae is really a great collection of stars | like our own Milky, Way.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
I could at least wish wholes heartedly with them | for a happier New Year,
After leaving there I went to the colored U. 8. O. on Georgia ave, and spent a few minutes with them’ I hope very much that the ‘year to come for/all our servicemen will see such advances that next year tliey can truly be home in greater numbers and see the day of peace actually dawning?
So little has the New Year spirit entered into me,
that I have actually forgotten to say Happy New Year to many. of the people T have seen this morning. Nevertheless, I am really hopeful that the coming year will be met by all of us in a spirit of such tetermination to devote ourselves to the winning of the war. that wé will earn from our fighting force great respect for what is achieved on ‘the home front, Yesterday, in the New. York Times magazine sec tion, there were two very excéllent articles. One told of the improved care given our wounded men “in hospitals. The percentage of ‘recovery for those who reach hospitals. is very encouraging. I -think, every mother and wife will get some comfort from this article, and I thought it ought to increase our sense of gratitude and appreciatioh ‘of the courage and skill of our medical services. "The. other one was an article by Drew Middleton ‘on the attitudes of the soldiers themselves and fis, 1 . thinks," very interesting. Taken with the articles) coming out in BM.by Alexander Uhl and Rei Ottley, | it gives one a very good picture of the thinking of the _man who is spending so many years of his young life wy from" his coun under battle conditions,
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SECOND SECTION _
“By BRIG. GEN: ‘CARLOS
P. ROMULO
ATAAN never fell. spread. Like the roots of a tree that refuses to lie even “when its trunk "has been cut down, the Filipino resistance spread underground in thousands and millions of: offshoots. These offshoots now are begin‘ning to break through the surface
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growth, flowering for -all the world to see. And the story of how-it grew can be told. at last.
ila, 18 million Filipinos pinned
the United~States, the most powerful country in the world. 8 » n
“THE UNITED STATES would protect the Philippines and would send them aid. The Filipinos believed .that, Hadn't they been told for years that they were not strong enough to defend themselves?
on — 715,000 Filipinos and 7000 for relief which never came,
defeat at Corregidor on May 6, 1042. =
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the Filipinos how. mistaken they
“protectors.” : Still the Filipinos did not lose
and the peoples’ waf began.
were the only people who sided with the whites against the Japanese,
they were without experienced leaders, without military plan, almost without arms, un » » “GRADUALLY a few leaders be--They.
Typical “was Offered the tion of mayor in Manila, he Feria and escaped {from the city in a sal t. The Japdnese authorities entreated him to come back.“ He replied in a létter, reaffirming his. loyalty to the United States and expressing the conviction that the Americans would return. That- letter, .now. a classic Philippine history, ,was. reprinted
their resistance movement. » » Ld
the universities.
training corps students, too young to be taken into the army ‘as commissioned officers, but intelligent,
their R. O. T. C. courses’ to organize resistance.
these university men who went | into the Hills to fight the Japs. iy 8 8 IT WOULD be impossible to name them all, ; But when Gen, Douglas MacArthur paid tribute to the guerrilla fighters who had taken cen-
Av Told to Peter Edson of N. E. A. Service
after nearly three years of “slow
‘When the: Japs attacked Man-
their hopes on the strength of
So for four months they fought Americans, side by side—waiting
And finally they bit the dust of
THE BOW:LEGGED Japs. laughed at that and” tried to tell
had been about their American faith. They went into the hills
In al] the Pacific islands they
They were unique, too, in that
gan-to .assert themselves. a ere wigan = Tomas Confesor.
COL. KANGLEON
B. in leaflets that were dropped by
airplane all over the islands and did much to unite the people in
OTHER LEADERS came from"
Boys who were reserve officers’
infarmed and toughened by sports, soon showed that they had enough military training in
There were perhaps 1500 of
TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1045
THE STORY OF GEN. ‘MacARTHUR' S- GUERRILLAS w+ No, |
Bataan Never Fell; It Grew, Fought On
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THE JAPS d-oparated with the Filipinos in other ways, Their punishments and atrocities added many recruits, Whole towns—meén, women and children—~moved into the hills te join the resistance.- -.. The Japs tried organizing the people into Kalibapi, or neighborhood , associations, registering all the inhabitants for rationing and
to check on the people. in each
district. The underground os that to good advantage.
the Filipinos would move in two
Returning to Leyte with Gen.
MacArthur, Brig. Gen, Carlos P.
Romulo, shown here enjoying a sip from -his canteen, spoke to the Filipinos in a daily “Voice of Freedom” broadcast.
Col. Ruperio A. Kangteon, guerrilla leader, conters with President Sergio Osmena on Leyte, shortly after MacArthur's return. -
trol away from the Japs on eight islands, he named: Col. Ruperto Kangleon, leader on Leyte. Col. Macario Peralto Jr, on Panay. Lt. Col. Salvador Abcede, guerrilla leadér on Negros. Lt. Col. Alejandro Suarez, commander on the Sulu archipelago. Maj. Ismaél Inginiero, commander ‘of Bohol.
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leader
: was a . Philippine army officer before the
war, and: the next two are grad-
“first guns out of lengths of pipe. Their first, modern weapons and their ammunition they took from Jap soldiers they killed. In Zamboango the guerrillas made guns out of “bamboo. Literally.” Putting petroleum or Saslirie: which they stole—in the hollaw tube of a bamboo gun barrel, they would exhaust most of the air, seal the tube, then explode” it with heat. The bursting bamboo fired no shell but it made a terrific noise and it led the Japs to believe that the guerrillas had artillery,
Throughout the Japanese occupation of the .Philippines, Gen. MacArthur kept in close ‘touch with a fearless underground band of
fighting Filipines.-
Here, Tor the first time, théir heroic saga is re-
vealed by the man who knows- the Philippine underground best— Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, soldier; editor and author of the bestselling book, “I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, ” This is the first
_ of three articles,
uates of the University of the Philippines. Inginiero is a gradiate of Far ‘Eastern university, and, Suarez. is a former constabulary officer, They paved the way for Mac-
- Arthur's landing on Leyte and
Lt. Gen, Walter Kreuger's operation against Mindoro.
Col. Peralta was the first of the _
guerrilla leaders to contact -Gen. MacArthur, 8 ” x a! AT FIRST these guerrillas fought ' with only" their bolo knives. Then they made ge: their
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Cdttespondent _ WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — sadistic boss sald he
20-cent etching. . =
oa worst -day in the life of an Othman. it would be a good idea to drop Or, for that matter, in the history down today to the coast and geodetic survey, make my peace, afid|It was nearly 10 years ago. see if “HAYLE “this "time TIT could get! the facts straight about Whistler's |James McNeil Whistler worked for
of the coast and geodetic" survey.
I'd run onto the story of haw
the survey in 1854 making copper
The coast and geodetic boys didn’t |plate "etchings of American coast even throw any rolled-up maps atllines at'a wage of $1.50 per day.
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BUT THEIR greatest weapons were speed and invisthility and ambush. On July 4, 1943, on the ed of Cebu, the guerrillas announced” ‘they would celebrate Independence day and they let the Japs know they would celebrate, and when and where. To prove it. on July 3'they fired a few rockets to show they meant what they said, The Japs marched fwo companies to stop the celebration and the Filipinos ambushed and killed _ them all,
If three men lived in a i
more from another house, register five and draw rations for" them - all. won oe " ALWAYS THERE were five men : when the Japs came to check, and always the ‘same names answered. But the five .men would many times be different and the Japs were no wiser. Soon the Japs ‘were afraid to go into the country and they stayed in the towns.
When that happened the Fili-~
pinos started” “coming. into - the towns and doing their ambushing there, * . n tJ THE STORY of Cenon Martin, mayor of & little town in the interior, is typical ¢ "Before daylight he raced about his village throwing hand grenades into Japanese billets, then dashed home and back into-bed. , When the Jap officers came to awaken him and file complaint , because the people who professed
‘ to be . collaborating with their’
conquerors were not “living up to their promises, he assumed mock innocence. That was the game of the guerrillas—to play at collaboration in the open. ‘8 8 THERE WAS the Filipino girl, Yay Panlilio, educated at the University of Denver, married to a young mining engineer. She had worked for a time on the staff of the Manila Herald, “my own newspaper, and I knew her ‘well. When the Japanese came into Manila she became a commentator for the Japanese radio,
On Bataan and Corregidor Gen.
MacArthur would hear her broadcasts ahd kid me about my former- reporter who was now collaborating with the invaders. That infuriated me doubly, but I could not help but feel there was something wrong.
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THEN CAME the day when the
«American G+2, the military intel-
ligence . officer . on Gen. MacArthur’s staff, gave orders that Yay
Panlilio’'s broadcasts were to be taken down in shorthand, daily. The reason was that she was giving us. information of Jap troop movements and conditions in_the city. It was of utmost value to
Eventually the Japs caught .on,
however, and Yay .went to the prison camp on Ft. Santiago. That was the Jap torture chamber. Fortunately she escaped and joined the guerrilas. When I went to Leyte with President Osmena and Gen. MacArthur, I héard f Yay. She was writ orders of the
day for one of the guerrilia lead- :
ers in the Aills.
NEXT: Contact with MacArthr. ~
his liking for beer on the job. ‘What | they couldn't ignore was his pers) chant for decorating his maps with | sea serpents, dragons, mermaids and | whales. He climaxed his career one afternoon with a sketch of the Atlantic coast, enlivened by two whale spouting water and one maiden with a tail’ and no chemise. ment chief said phe next time]
animal life, be“was through. “Yes sir” said Whistler and went
‘ito work<®n a profile map of Anacapa | | islafid off the coast ‘of California. . tHe finished. the map and that urge
came over him. He drew in two| flocks of gulls, soaring over the | rocky headland. That was the end| Ho! went on to Paris, fortune and fame >» + Pays Regular Price
Thi§, as you can see, was not guch | a bad story on a- dull day. The, lady clerk said would I care to see!
[the etching that got Whistler fired? |
5s Ha ertet wordseT mes" wus swe. dastites gil
n towns” mer
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the question:
{few citizens missed ''Most of them wanted Whistler etch-
ceived phone calls. - Washingtonians
Would I! Boy. She sold me one for 20 cents, the regular price, and then I did have a story. ‘1 beat it back to my typewriter and wrote the yarn much as you've read it here, but starting off with “Want an original, Whistler etching for 20 cents?” : Newspapers all over the country published “this dispatch (it was a dull: day, . and apparently very reading. it.
ings for 20 cents each. The coast and geodetic survey re-
etchings. - Mailmen grew ' stoopshouldered, hauling in sacks of cents in stamps. Finally there was
bargains Jn etchings. 1'd received a couple of huhdred
letters inclosing twb dimes, or 20[
a room full of letters, piled ffom the . floor to7the ceiling, all ‘demanding
ters with enclosures, too, and was
Whistler's 20-Cent Etching Story still Haunts Its, Author
[me. Only the boss was brutal: and ‘He was a first-class frtist, even etching headquarters, when the Pd-~hoped-~he-<had forgotten the then; and-the-headnfan overlooked const and geodetic survey phoned: The man on the line (I never did
get his name) was apoplectic. “Do something,” he cried.
is this Othman, anyhow?”
He didn’t know he was talking to - I never let on. He went. on to’ say, as my heart sunk, that anybody with.sense would know that The depart-|a copper plate was good for only He said Whistler desecrptéd a map with {the plate wore out 75 years ago and | that the survey was selling pho- |
Othman.
about 50 ‘etchings at most
{tographic reproductions, only
“Stop it. And what kind of a dim brain
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‘Housing Plans Developed for Post-War Era
By EDWARD P. MORGAN LONDON, Jan: 2 -— Chicago
ideas may help Britain build its
post-war homes. On the. invitation of the British government, Jacob Crane, urban SevelipHet: director of the . American ‘Nae tional Housing, Agency in Washington has spent the last two mdnths~-here Surveyin i
‘blitzed. areas >.’ i
and exchange
ing plans and SF
technical formation housing projects with the aus thorities. As a model of ‘the most pro« gressive American projects, Crane has used the plans and, housing developments; .drawn up by the Chicago Planning Commission and the Chicago Housing: Aus
ine
thority in his discussions with the .
British. 8 a : “THESE two bodies are far and away in the lead among local agencies in the United States in the clearance and rebuilding. plane,” Crane (himself a former’ Chicagoan) said. “They - have identified and classified their ‘blighted areas,’ their. proposals for reconstruction are fixed, and they are waiting only for materials and money,” said he. - “The British have been ex= tremely interested in the which the Chicago authorities worked out and they may adopt some of them to their own uses}. he added. . . . = 2 ”
CRANE INDICATED that on
the whole Britain had made mors progress from the national standpoint than the United States in housing plans and called the re cently passed town and country planning act a “landmark” from’ which American housing authcrities could well begin, Crane recommended that Chi. cago and other ‘American cities get hold of the three British housing ‘and settlement plans which; he said, “set the pace for big town planning all over the
on
ideas.
world—with the possible excep-
tion of Russia.”
These three are known as the plans for the city and county of ° London and for greater London,
: Copyright, 1945; by The Indianapoiis Times
bey Bleak Winter Thousands of Norse Battle For Existence
“By NAT A. BARROWS
Times Foreign Correspondent STOCKHOLM, Jan. 2. — The new year hangs heavily over Swes’ den’s western neighbor as weary, Nazi-ridden Norway ‘struggles for mere existence in“this bleak wine ter of 1945.
‘food: scarcer and less®nours ishing. Never were the Gers mans more ace tive in their brutal. rounds ups of patriots, Never wereg Ba “homes . colder Mr. Barrow S. 8. Rendulic,
ere.
taking over command. g
of all German troops in Norway 3 from the politically inept wehr=
macht general, Nikolaus. Falkenhorst, already revising the latter's comparatively milds policies. That means le tensified ‘gestapo ¢ruelties. : . 5 » " y OSLO bégan the new year as a city without gas, The gas works were shut down “last-Monday in
von
_ ofdet fo save every precious ounce
of coal for German war producs tion. , “ Already reduced fo the dismal condition of about 60 per cent of
its normal firewood requirements,
Oslo faces the -coldest winter in Its histosy. Loneliness stalks every - district, Thousands of “patriots aré hiding out in the forests and mountains from Nazi forced labor edicts, or worse, Nazl jails. Some 9000 Nor« wegians are imprisoned in Gere many, 10,000 inside Norway. In all; about 300,000 Norwegians have been uprooted in one way or ans othér from their homes. Can "” a a
“‘Pinmark, North. Norway, where Rendulic’s wild brutalized $S.and Alpine - troops destroyed the ens tire area during their retreat from
ka Finland, 1300 Norwegian patriots
are now hiding from the Germans, “The underground reports that they are living worse than hunted animals, trying to find the little ~ reindeer t left after Rendulie ‘ordered the luftwifle fighter
1 planes to strafe reindedr; herds.
But the indomitable spirit of
ae ever mote feqarnte,
Never was
and.more ause
has begun .
"IN THE desolate strétches of
(elite guard) Gen. Lothar ~~