Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1945 — Page 5

FRIDAY, JAN. 25, 1945

-Pyle Gets Navy Gold Anchor

By ROBERT C. ELLIOTT Soripps-Howard Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26.—Ernie Pyle is signed up with the navy, duly cleared to cover the war of the Pacific, For the first time in two and a half years of reporting the war Ernie had the navy’s gold anchor bestowed upon him and was handed the gold braided, anchor-encrested naval war corréspondent’s arm badge. The ceremony of taking Ernie out of the Infantry—away from his be-

"1. loved black-bearded, grimy, worn-

| | out doughfoots—and lining him up to sail on battleships, submarines, destroyers and flying boats, took place at San Francisco naval headquarters. Lt. Cmdr. L. IL, Lovett, public relations officer, “speeded America’s favorite war correspondent through | the formalities. Ernie had. the an- { swers on the tip of his tongue, from ‘| all his army experiences. ¢ The questionnaire reeled off enough kind of inoculations to ‘| make a fellow feel like a pincushion, and Ernie found he had “already taken all the shots required.

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old doughfoot,” Ernie explained. “If you're up in the shootin’ with him, you see him every day going through the hell of war that makes stories. It's not the same with the romantic air force. The fliers return from the spectacular raids and tell you their stories second-hand. So your reports aren't as thrilling, “Now with the navy you sail for days in clean quarters, with good food, living a nearly normal life. It's not until the navy moves in for a battie or to batter open.a beachhead that the sailers go through the action that makes drama, So it's going to be tougher to write interestingly ahout the sailor's war against Japan. And I'm already scared stiff of the bombardments to come.” Just then, Ernie got a reminder of naval stories he had written while he was aboard the warship Biscavne in the invasion of Italy. Lieut. Cmdr. Paul Bissinger happened to drop by. He had been on the staff of Adm. Richard Conelly when Ernie mas" aboard the Biscayne, Ernie joked that the sea often made him so squeamish in his stomach that he would nap in his bunk, rather than eat. He said

Ernie had some misgivings about| after he covers two or three months going from land to sea warfare. | “The war neyer ends for the poor|

of sea war, he wants to go back to reporting the infantry.

EX-LOCAL NURSE NOW IN JAP PRISON CAMP

Miss Anna Carsen, first superin- | tendent of the Methodist hospital obstetrics ward, is interned in Japanese prison camp No. 3, her sister, Mrs. Prances Pence, 1130 N. Emerson ave. learned last week. Mrs. Pence received a card from B. Miss: Carson, who formerly had written from the Jap civilian prison | camp, Camp Holmes, ‘in the Phil- | ippines. Superintendent of the Community hospital in Tuegarao, Philippine islands, about seven years before Pearl Harbor, Miss Carson. was taken prisoner by the Japanese two weeks after Dec, 7, 1041, Before founding the hospital at Tuegarao, | she was a nurse at the Mary Johnston hospital in Manila 25 years, She is a graduate of the Methodist hospital school of nursing.

Cmdr. Braceland To Be Speaker

CMDR. FRANCIS J. BRACELAND, dean of the Loyola university school of medicine, will speak on “Psychiatry in the Navy” at 8 p. m, today at the Indiana university. medical school. Now on leave of absence from Loyola, Cmdr, Braceland is stationed at the 3 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery at the nayy départment in * Washington, D. C. On active navy duty since January, 1942, Cmdr. Braceland will discuss problems and care of mental breakdown.

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Allied Experts Look for Defense to Be Halved

On Eastern Front.

WASHINGTON, Jan, 26 (U, P.).— Military quarters said today it is becoming increasingly clear that the Germans plan to meet Russia's great winter offensive by concentrating all available strength on a shortened defense line beginning southeast of Vienna and extending north to the Batlic sea. Such a battle line would cut in half the length of the present Eastern front, which has its southern flank in the Lake Balaton region and extends more than 1000 miles to Tilsit, Experts here said a concentration of strength in the 500-mile ViennaBaltic line offered the German army its only possible chance of stemming the Red advances. The best defensive terrain “left the enemy is to be found along this line.

Guard Vienna on East

If the Germans are able to take advantage of the geographical feature, the front will run east of Vienna to protect that eity from capture. It then would extend through the rough Beskid and Sudeten mountains to the Silesian and Pomeranian plains where parts of the Oder river and numerous lakes could be incorporated into its defensive features. The northern flank on the Baltic sea probably would be in the region of the city of Kolberg. The front would pass about 80 miles east of Berlin.

Strategy Worked Before

It was noted that the Wehrmacht stopped the last Russian offensive by a similar shortening of its defense line. The same was lrue in the Western front when the Nazis found they could not hold France and the lowlands. When the Germans adopt this line for a probable desperate last ditch stand, it was said, they will be forced to make adjustments to the Eastern front in southern Europe. Although these might not be necessary immediately, some sort of defenses would be called for in the Adriatic sea area to protect the east flank of the enemy divisions fighting in Italy--at least until it {is decided whether to withdraw

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Troops Rushed East

New proof of Germany's critical shortage of troops and its fear of the Russian offensive came with the disclosure that some Nazi divisions are being hurriedly pulled out of the Western front. American airmen within two days reported attacking 165° German trains attempting to travel toward Hamburg and Dusseldorf. These

are enough, if closely packed, to carry three infan®y divisions. The fact that they were traveling

by day, 8 risky tventure, is considered still another indication 6f fhe seriousness with which the Nazi high command views the Red drive.

TOM PENDERGAST - ISILL IN KANSAS CITY

KANSAS CITY, Kas, Jan. 26 (U. P)~T. J. Pendergast, 72, former political boss who was con-

seriously ill in Mendorah hospital and close associates fear he might not live until his federal court probation expires in May, it was reported today. Pendergast, one-time maker of

the Kansas City Democratic machine, was taken to the hospital early this week and his physician reported he was “a very sick man.” It was understood he was being given' glucose feedings and his weight, formerly 250 pounds, had dropped to 150. Pendergast has been ill since 1940 when he began ° his 15-months’ prison sentence, but his condition had not been considered serious.

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