Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1945 — Page 9

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‘Ghost Division -

WITH ‘THE U. 5. 7TH’ ARMORED DIVISION - a THE ARDENNES FOREST, Belgium (Delayed).—

It was the 7th armored division that bore the full

brunt of Field Marshall Karl Gerd von Rundstedt’s

a Borthern spearhead and played a primary part in

preventing the capture of Liege in the first few days of the break-: through, it may now be: revealed: This was the division, it will be remembered that won fame for spearheading Lt. Gen, George. S* Patton's summer drive across France from Chartres to Mosglle and later for its heroic defensive stand on the British 2d army’s Liesel-Meijel front in Holland. Only. now may it be revedled . that the twe tank battalions which ; held the flanks while combat: command “A” stationed itself at St, Vith and met the full “shock of the 88 panzer advance head on, were ¢om= manded by Lt. Col. John Brown, the All-American, footballer from Athens, Ga. and Lt. Col. John P, Wemple, a wild-cat oil promoter from Shreveport, La. Within 24 hours after it. was alerted, on Dec, 16, . the division ‘which the Germans call the “ghost di-. vision” because of its habit of showing up suddenly, had come scores of miles from its area on the Roer river front and hurled itself into the battle south of ‘the Stoumont-Stavelot-Malmedy axis after fighting SOME of its voturmms straight: across-the -main-German-routes of advance and racing others in great encircling sweeps. far out to the West Meuse in order to avoid, not only the German spearhead tips, but the tangled masses of traffic of our area outfits, some of which were fleeing before the German advance in considerable disorganization.

Cut Off for Several Days 7 :

CREDIT FOR the dexterity and swiftness with which this marvelously flexible and mobile division executed the movement and still had most of its munitions ‘and rations with it when it began its slam bang fight is shared by its combat train's commander, an Alabaman, and divisional supply officer, Lt. Col. Hutchins Hodgson, Atlanta, Ga. Like the defenders of Bastogne, thé Tth armored division was for several days believed to. have been cut off and perhaps cut to pieces. It was certainly surrounded for a time in the sense that there were German outfits well to its rear as well as in front of it and on its flanks.

WE'VE BEEN-MEANING to tell-you about a little incident that occurred just before Christmas at the Packard Manufacturing plant, of which U. 8. Sena- * tor Homer Capehart is president. One of the -plant guards, while on duty at the plant, received a Christ- ‘® mas greeting card. On it someone gs at the office had written: “Please have your personal mail delivered “at your home.” Feeling chagrined at being thus rebuked, the guard "tore open the envelope. Inside he found a Christmas greeting from —yep, that’s right—Mf. Capehart, himself. Apparently, Boss Capehart hadn't bothered to observe the “no personal mail at the plant” rule, . .. Lt. Col. Cameron a. Moag, over in India, probably is > «®, wondering why it has taken his father, Dr. James Moag, so long to sgnd him the portable radio he requested. In the first place, it was difficult to find a radio small enough to mail over-

| seas. ‘And in the second place, the radio Dr. Moag

finally acquired, had a clock inset in it. That in itself isn’t so bad, but it was at least an eight-day clock, and a friend of the. family absent-mindedly wound it. Dr, Moag was about to wrap it for shipping when he noticed the clotk ticking. It had a particularly loud tick. It never would have done

to send it that way. The first postal clerk handling,

it would have tossed it‘ out the nearest window—or dumped it in a pail of water, thinking it wes an infernal machine. So- the ticking radio just had to wait eight more days before starting for India.

Gimme the Mayor!

A WOMAN PHONED the mjayor’s office the other day, introduced herself as, “A Taxpayer,” and demanded to talk to the mayor. “He's not in his office right now,” explained Harry Calkins, the mayor's secretary. “Could I give him a message?” Replied the caller In no uncertain tones: “Yes, take this message: It's a shame the condition our streets

America Flies

FOR YEARS airmen have stressed the need. for’ a real flying motor, one designed from the first line on the drafting board for the propulsion of aircraft. That motor is with us today in the form of the jet propulsion job, in which there are no wheels, no gears and no friction surfaces to be lubricated. It appears that man can go just so far in developing his marvelous mechanical units to the point where the increased demands for work involve an impracticable complication of detail. And then, seemingly out of the blue, a new machine appears which does the same work but is marked by utter simplicity. Thus we might briefly describe the history of the aircraft motor we know volar. with its light weight and high horsepower and supercharged capacity. But every advance in power and reliability means additional details and complications of mechanism.-

No Gears or Gadgets

NOW OOMES the simplest kind of aircraft ehgine—no wheels, gears or gadgets. This new flamespouting jet engine will use either high-grade kerosens or low-grade gasoline, But don't assume that it won’t become complicated some day as men de-

They

“mand more from it.

first air-cooled engines were simple.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday. —From my mail I gather that a number of people are afraid that we will lose sight of the main objective for which we and our allies are today fighting—namely, winning the war against

"Germany and Japa, “I" think it is well for us to re-

. mind ourselves in every one of the allied countries that that is our main objective, and that everything else can wait. . - We knew when we joined our allies that we had different back‘grounds and different philosophies on a number of subjects because of -our--different historical] backgrounds and the different ronditions in our various countries. We in this country, however, knew that if we didn’t join with " our present allies there might come in we would be fighting here on our own Mune the Germans and the Japanese, d so, to prevent the destruction of our own we entered the war. We should discourage . anywhere on the part of any of our allies leads to diverting our stren th or thought n our main objectives.

ywhere should be only provisional. Questions

"which have no real importance to any of us at the

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eggshaped holding zone with nine different German divisions or elements thereof. At one roadblock alone near St. Vith, -one of Brown's units knocked out 15 German tiger tanks, “They just kept coming around the corner and my| i boys kept on shooting at them,” said Brown. “I have 'never seen anything like the way those Jerries kept coming.” It was stupid. } * They were just throwing their tanks away, but I'll bet they would have been coming yet except that

the road got so choked with their own knocked-out]

tanks that there wasn't room for them to shove any more through.” The 7th's losses in manpower, though considerable, were lighter than its material losses by a surprising margin, And despite its sacrifices in both categories, it is still a highly effective fighting unit ‘with most. of its hitting power and mobility already restored by reinforcements and replacements.

Turning the Tide AFTER THE FIRST 48 hours of battle’it regained

contact with the outside world through the 82d air-|

borne division, which moved in behind it and protected its routes of withdrawl against the enemy forces which were by-passing its sector o# #écondary dirt roads and would, certainly have got around behind it in quantity if it had not been for the 82d’s magnificent fight to hold key roads open.

“THése were thé troops who; "Brig Gen; -James|-

M. Gavin, Mt. Carmel, Pa, told me were fighting with

a savage fury that he had never seen them display

before, because for the first time it had been faced with a situation over which it had no control yield yardage here and there in face of enemy attacks by vastly superior forces. * The historians of the battle wil] probably recognize that for all the drama in the story of the relief of Bastogne, the fight that ‘went on in the wet, fog-

.shrouded woods around St. Vith, Vielsalm, Recht and

Beho was the one which counted the most in turning the tide. It was this fight which more than anything else prevented the capture of Liege in the first week of the breakthrough and’diverted the whole German push tothe south. Only by. getting Liege and the huge depots and stores in ‘that area and using these

to supply itself for a quick smash on to-Antwerp|,

could the Wehrmacht have landed someting like a real knockout,

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nustaun

are in. Our soldiers are fighting and dying, and their parents must risk their necks on icy streets here at home. It’s time the city did something about it.” Mr, Calkins tried to explain that the street department is working ‘day and night to put sand and calcium chloride on the streets. “Never mind,” interrupted the caller; “just give the mayor my message.” Harry did. We couldn't find out what the mayor said, . ... We promised to report on the success of the back yard ice skating rink being constructed by the neighborhood youngsters. at the

‘Bernard Mulcahy home on Arthington blvd. Well, it

wasn't going so good over the week-end. But with the cold wave Monday, it turned out just dandy. Mr. Mulcahy reported for work yesterday with a lame back. He got it carrying buckets of water to help the youngsters. build the r . One of the favorite neighborhood playgrounds ‘during this icy

“weather is. the grounds of the International Typo-

graphical Union, 2820 N. Meridian. The little hill there is ideal for coasters, and helps to Keep the

youngsters. out. of the streets.

We're in Dutch

‘WE CAUGHT HECK over the week-end bécause of the story we printed Saturday about an unidentified resident of Guilford ave, who “has a regular ‘sitter’ to come in and stay with her pet dog when she's away.” We told how some of the women out in Broad Ripple were annoyed because they couldn't et a “sitter” for their children. The dog's owner lled and said she didn’t like the item. “In the first place,” she said, “the ‘sitter’ doesn’t just ‘sit’ with the dog. She also looks alter the place while we're away. She has been helping us ever since our daughter, now 17, was small. And besides, whose business is it if she prefers to ‘sit’ with my nice, well-man-nered dog rather than with some ornery kids?” (That's what SHE said—not us.) Gosh, lady; we weren't -meaning -to criticize your dog. - We've got one of our own. Fact is, our dog, Scott, probably ‘is the only dog so well Hovghteot that he's listed in the city directory.

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By Maj. Al Williams)

were a great blessing to airmen, because while water radiators were developed to a great dependahility, nevertheless they involved a lot of plumbing, and one “leak” ‘anywhere in that plumbing meant a forced landing.

Radiator Became Necessary

BUT WHEN that air-cooled engine was stepped up. to deliver half again as much horsepower, a radiator was necessary. And lafer, when the same engine was developed to turn out double the original horsepower, then the old engine was a memory and the new job was-loaded with gadgets and could not be run on anything but high test gasoline The next power boost demanded a lot more gadgets and still higher test gasoline. And each new fuel demand for higher octane meant that the petroleum industry had to pull another rabbit out of its hat. The internal combustion engine has done yeoman service as the power plant for aviation. And despite its complications, the modern aircraft engine turns out. one horsepower for less than one pound of weight. But it is, basically, an engine originally designed for running an automobile. But now we have our own air motor—jet propulsion—with another air engine in the offing, the gas turbine, of which you will hear and see much in the future. a] . We may anticipate revolutionary development as our motor manufacturers apply -their genius and skill to new power plants for aviation.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

are beaten once. and for all, emphasis should be entirely on what we fight for together, not on what our future aims may be. Awaking this morning to a clear, bright sunny

"day, after all the recent rain and -fog, made me feel

I must get out for a walk early, even though it was 80 cold I hated to get up. There were not many people walking along the streets when I did get out, about 9:30. : Nevertheless, it was interesting .to~see how quickly everybody was moving along. There was no dawdling. I'found myself taking deep breaths on the Weory that was the best way to keep warm. Even the coid could not. prevent one gentleman, however, from living up to what I am sure is a daily

habit, He stood with ‘bare hands coaxing a squirrel

to take something from his fingers. 1 marvelled at his patience, because over -and over again the squirre] would almost reach up and then retire. But the’ Senter kept right. on until, as I was passing out of sight, I saw the squirrel actually take the nut.

Last night we played a foolish game of cards with |

the children, at which two of us were consistent losers. I cannot say that I have much luck at any kind of games, In fact, if 1 winet. is re

~an. occasion, - Boundaries can walt for the future, Governments

ut my daughter remarked that this was an oc-

, because it was the first time this

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‘By ‘BRIG. GEN. CARLOS . P. ROMULO As Told to Peter Edson of N.E.A. Service

ALL through the first two years of the Philippine occupation by Japan, when | the world was saying that

‘given in to the Japs and were: collaborating -with them, I could not speak. But ‘I knew my peeple and I knew that when thie whole story could. be told; the proof of their I6yalty to fhe United States and to

would be clear. First sign that Philippine resist ance was at work came in‘ the form of a weak radio message from Panay island picked up by war department monitors in the fall of 1942, What that message said’ can still nat be revealed but the contents of that message, relayed -to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, were. to set in motion the first real aid that was to come to a people who had all but been abandoned im their fight for liberty. 7 » » "

MONTH after month before that first clandestine radio message from the guerrilla leader, .Col. Macario Peralta came through to Gen. MacArthur, a little group of leaders on Panay had labored to put together their radio transmitter from stolen and improvised parts.

chain drive geared to bicycle pedals. : Hour after hour volunteers would pedal away, generating enough electricity to charge the batteries for their feeble message.

from Jap patrols but what was more discouraging than that, they got no answer; no sign that their message had been heard. ” tJ -

BUT THE spark of radio was the spark of hope. Recognizing it for just that, Gen. MacArthur carefully picked a small group of U, S. and Filipino officers. to go into the islands. Their names cannot yet be revealed. But landing from a submarine, they did their job. They took int few arms on their first trip, but that was not important,

evidence that the Filipinos had not, been forgotten. One naval commander who had lived in the islands and knew them well was assigned to this liaison work. e » » » I CANNOT disclose his name at this time, but he traveled about the islands extensively, totally unarmed, led from one hideout to another. _ : His passpart Was quinine, aspirin and chewing gum. That was the evidence of remembrance, v In time, 88 the supply stream "ghew; thd ‘Possession of a stick of chewing gum found on a Filipino by the Japanese was considered sufficient cause for a death sentence. For possession of the gum was considered proof that the Filipino who had it was in league with the underground. ‘# » »

OVER THE entire guerrilla movement Gen. MacArthur placed

By THOMAS M. JOHNSON NEA Staff Writer

less important that the Germans have counter-attacked ~~ us with some success, than that they have counter-attacked with new secret weapons and robot-bombs. This first reported use of V-1 on the battlefield instead of on cities, plus ‘Increasing development of long-range rockets, means more than the loss of ground, to our

SECOND SECTION hi

many of the Filipinos had

-their-own-ideals—-of-independerice-—

The generator was operated by :

They had to move and hide

What they really brought was

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—1It is far|

THE STORY OF GEN. MacARTHUR'S GUERRILLAS .... No. 2 er

Aspirin, Gum: Became Their ope

“WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1945

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Jap snipers are rooted out of thatch-roofed buildings on Leyte by Filipino guerrillas iting house tp house

Searcy for the enemy.

Throughout the Japanese

pines.”

Gen. MacArthur kept in close-touch with a fearless underground band of fighting Filipinos. - Here, for the first time, their heroic saga is revealed by the man who knows the Philippine under. ground best—Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, soldier, editor and author of the best-selling book, "I Saw the Fall of the PhilipThis is the second. of three articles.

occupation of the Philippines,

an American colonel with years of experience in the Philippines, Again I must withhold the name. This colonel—call him Col. X— never went into the islands himself, before the invasion.

But so secret were his operations y

and moveme that he was orde to report to and take instructiohrs” trom only Geh. Mac-

Arthu? or his Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland. _- After the first contact party re‘turned from the islands, Col. X “received their reports in Australia, then flew to California ‘where two regiments of Filipinos were In training,

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FROM THESE regiments Col.

* X hand-picked a.group of officers

and non-commissioned officers. .They were selected for a year’s intensive training in weather observation and reporting, in radio, in commando tactics, intelligence work and sabotage, This was to be the nucleus of leadership and liaison for the guerrillas, After their year of training they were landed by submarine, all over - the islands. » » . ; LET NO ONE get the wrong impression that everything went smoothly with these guerrilla bands in the hills. There were factions and intense hatreds all over the islands. Leaders were suspicious of each other and so were their followers. There were often bitter feuds. The job for Gen. MacArthur was to have them united, disciplined and obedient to his orders for military operations. ed Meir when the spe-'

future and to the future of the world. It emphasizes the recent warnings of leading military and navalg authorities, that the: first timid hopes of those contrivancés are developing into soaring flights toward a future when they will be decisive weapons. The long-range missiles have just begun to fight. - Already they fight more effectively than at their first appearance,

Up Front With Mauldin

cially trained guerrilla officers were ready to go into the islands, their strategy was not a hit or ‘miss crusade, but a plan for victory. ” s ” THE ISLANDS were divided into’ a number of districts and one

"leader was placed in command of

each district. . Further, each of these commanders was commissioned in the United States army, to receive’ and give orders with the backing of authority. The chain of supplies was meanwhile being built up. Arms, ammunition, propaganda, medicine, radio in ever-increasing quantities were snuggled in right under the Japs’ noses. Soon Gen. MacArthur was able to order reports ‘of operations every 24 hours and a system of intelligenoce was created which was the secret of all the later operaticns. 8.8 8

OVER AN elaborate radio com=munication system came reports of weather conditions and forecasts, to aid American bombers on their raids against Jap airbases on the islands. Over this same radio chain came aircraft spotting and warning reports. Not a Jap plane could take off the ground without its being reported. Not a Jap ship could move through the channels between the thousands of islands without that intelligence being flashed to American headquarters. They told American submaérines right where to go to -catch Jap shipping.

The enemy is solving the problems of aiming and range, but not completely, but more than is realized. Some buzz- bs have a radio signal that flashes the robot's position when it dives. The launchers then, by enap triangulation, find the spot whence it came, compare that with where they hoped it would fall, adjust for weather and wind and shoot another flock.

Speed Aids Accuracy

" Apparently the faster the robot, the more accurate. Its range is greater than when we believed that to stop it we need only capture the rather miscalléd “rocket coast.” The real rockets, the V-2s, have been striking Britain for over a month. They and the robots came from points so numerous and dispersed that no single counter measure is fully effective. V-2, unlike V-1, can hardly be intercepted, gives little or no warning and can probably be guided by radio waves, Already it probably outranges V-1 and may even carry 600 miles, From. Europe to America. is roughly 3000. miles. To span that

is probably, though not ecertainly,|

impodsible—in this war. And thus far wind prediction difficulties, so far away would seem to limit accuracy. But what of the next wam

—if any? Today's news indicates 4

how the V's are creeping up ‘on us. War Without Warning Our défense leaders and sclenmay enable our next bn to open war upon us without warning. Thus Pearl Marbor could be repeated not

only at New Yark but at Detroit’ or Pittsburgh, which would be more

serious. °

KNOWING these things now you can better understand ‘how Gen. MacArthur and his staff were able to plan for their original assault on Leyte. It explains how the Americans could arrange for the movement of landing craft around Leyte to Ormoce, and for the still greater -movement of invasion forces to effect the landing in Mindoro. These were the places where the guerrillas were in command of the situation, and knew the enemy's strength and weaknesses. 2 8 =» PERHAPS the best example of intelligence work performed by the guerrillas was in the capture of a Japanese admiral after his plane had crashed. "The admiral later died from his injuries but among his salvaged papers were the Japs’ most secret defense plans. These included in structions from the commander=-in-chief of the combined Japanese fleets to counter ¥, S.’offen sivé actions together with come plete information on the strength and disposition of all enemy fleet and naval air units, ‘ 5 tJ . > . FOR ALL this guerrilla work there was, unfortunately, no re=-ward-—not even the compensation of recognition and praise. So for two and a half years

some quarter of a million guer= |

rillas worked unknown. It was a double hardship. On the one hand people in the United States heard about the wondérs of the Italian, French, Yugoslav, Dutch, Belgian, Greek, Polish, Norse and Danish undergrounds. ” » » BUT THEY heard not one word about the Filipirio underground, and they suspected the worst— that the Filipinos were collaborat= ing with their invaders. On the other hand the guerrillas in the Philippines ootild get no just reward for their loyalty and their

. courage.

But their day was coining.

TOMORROW: Un Underground and the news.

Experts View Robot Bomb as Future's Decisive War Weapon

and carrying capacity in bombs or paratroopers. - Army and navy today are pushing research and experiment not only in how to counter the flying death, but how to turn it to our purpose. . Rocket production now has “must”, priority. Soon we will be spending 112,000,000 a month on it alone. The lonely lands of the Mojave desert in California will soon see strange experimenting with genuine likenesses to Men from Mars,

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Labore a —, ‘Byrnes Links Petrillo and Avery Cases

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ence was to the outstanding des

fiers of the war labor board James C. Petrillo, president of the A. F. of L. musicians union; and Sewell L. Avery, head of Monte

gomery Ward’& Co. In the Pes trillo case, President. Roosevelt's action was to re-

quest without

that. 8 ‘unfon : .. Obey WLB .direcin the Avery case, the Montgomery Ward ° properties were seized last week for #the second time in nine

_months,...

By linking the Petrillos and the Averys, Mr, Byrnes inferentjally disagreed with Attorney General Francis Biddle and William H, Davis, chairman ‘of the war labor board, both of whom has cone tended that the musicians cone troversy and the maijl-order come pany row had nothing in common, -

oe » - THE BYRNES attitude confiieta

with those of Messrs. Biddle and Davis in another way.

' Mr. Davis specifically and the attorney general by his course of

said the details of

that he thought “wa: devised fp pcr without the processes

dela;

board.” dq, 8

placed before the President by Senator Ball (R. Minn.), who has advocated equitable penalties for labor leaders as well as employers who defy the directives of

execufive agencies in the field manpower,

The report on this subject, plus the recommendation of more def= inite authority for the war labor board, could in congress © what has been widely urged—an effort toward co-ordination of ths labor and manpower agencies, based on a definite, clear Tabor .. policy.

We, the Wome May This New Year Be Kind fo You

By RUTH MILLETT ~ ANOTHER new year has begun, but the confident, breezy greeting . “Happy New Year” has an empty ring. No matter how much we wish it goalie, New Yoana we know wha pain and hi ery and suffering 1t will bring, not only to our men fighting overseas, but to their loved ones here at home,

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