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WITH THE 75TH DIVISION IN BELGIUM, Feb.

1.~The Jerries caught them on the crest of the hill, thres tanks and a platoon of infantry. The artillery

| crastwd, * Mortars were zeroed on them. The first

shells killed two doughboys arid wounded three. The rest dived for roadside ditches or crawled ‘under the tanks—but every shell was right on them. Chaplain Joseph Lang, Pittsburgh, Pa., saw the men fall and ran to them, Pvt. Phil Gerlach, Detroit, Mich, a first aid man, and an artillery ‘lieutenant followed. Gerlach started working on one man, who died “in his arms, a shell explosion, killing another, who dropped beside him. ; “I started with another i _ wounded man but didn’t think it worth while,” Gerlach said. out alive, The shelling was terrible. Father Lang came over and said, ‘I guess this is the end, boys. If We all felt as he did about it.” And there, on the Belgian hillside under the thunder of German shells with the dead and wounded beside them, these men dropped to their knees and bowed their heads as the chaplain spoke words that none heard because of the din of war. Then - Pvt. Bill Sloane, Salem, Mass, another medic, came to them. The twod medics, the chaplain, and the “artillery lieutenant, whose name they never learned, but who has their undying respect, loaded two of the wounded on stretchers; three other wounded who could walk leaned on them for support. Then ali eame through the German barrage to safety, heroes every one. :

Not Very Healthy

SLOANE FIGURED in another dramatic episode the next day. Beyond the lines a sergeant lay, and Sloane crawled 100 yards across an exposed space to him. He appeared dead, but Sloane stayed to examine him closely to be sure. A Jerry gunner opened on him with tracers, Sloane tells, “and nothing is so fearsome as seeing the bullets coming straight at you. He kept shooting

. manded where the soldier's comrades were.

“I didn't think we'd get soldier again refused. The officer ordered his sergeant:

as I crawled back. That's the last trip of that kind I want to take. Too damn unhealthy.” * . » - THIS IS _A STORY dealing with a former wellknown entertainer, who must be nameless because he

lies in a hospital with bullet wounds. It's the story \

of his amazing courage and will to live, and the savage anger of a German lieutenant. 3 He had ‘been wounded during a furious counterattack and was dragging himself toward the American lines when he saw a German tank headed his way.

. He rolled into a foxhole, but the Jerries saw him,

stopped and questioned him. A German Jew he answered in their own language. They demanded the location of his regiment and its number. He refused it and the tank went on. Half an” hour later the tank returned with a leutenant and a sergeant. The officer angrily deThe

to shoot the wounded American lying at their feet.

The sergeant refused. The officer seized his rifle and!

fired eight’ shots into the American's body. No bullet hit a vital spot and the soldier dragged himself 300 yards to a house in which the Americans hid. “He was the most popular guy in the outfit,” MaJ. Thomas Gerhard said, “and when I saw what had happened and heard him making wisecracks as he told me about it, I had to take my hat off to him.”

Panthér by the Tail

LT. JIM LOCKER, Portland, Me. is a living example of a guy who grabbed a panther by the tail— and couldn't let go. He was in a light tank of the 2d armored and he heard machine-gun fire in the woods. He drove to investigate=-and almost ran down the thrdat of a Panther tank, Locker’s 37-mm. gun was like a pea-shooter against the Panther, so he hastily backed behind the trees, out of fire. It developed that an American tank destroyer was waiting for the Banther to move from the woods, and in turn the Panther was daring Locker to emerge. : ‘It ended with Locker calling an artillery concentration on the Panther, knocking it out after an allafternoon scramble,

Inside-Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

HARRY MARER, 1029 E. Market, had a bad dream Monday night. He dreamed he went out to his car,

marked at the curb and found two flat tires. The.

very thought of it gave him cold chills, When he awoke the next morning, he remembered the dream, and was happy that that's all it

ow ase—fuste. dream. And. then. he...

went out to his car! Te his dismay, he found his dream was 50 per cent true—he had not two but one very flat tire, His dream was quite a coincidence, too, inasmuch "as it was only the second flat he has had in two years. . , . The Shortridge Echo reports that Miss Reeta Clark's English 8 class got a big laugh the other day “while reviewing the 100 most famous prose “works of the world. The masterpiece that caused the hilarity was entitled, ‘Look Homeward, Angel,” by a man named Wolfe.” Passengers on a Central-Broad Ripple bus Tuesday evening were given an exciting variation from the monotony of the usual route. The driver, apparently new to the route, failed to make the turn off the circle on E. Market, and went north from the circle, instead. Passengers reminded him he was off his route, 80 he swung east on Ohio. Then, instead of turning north on Delaware, he veered out Massachusetts ave. Again, passengers dropped a hint that they didn't think he was going in the right direction. But this , he was sure he was right and kept on in the

time (direction of Brightwood. It wasn't until he had gotten

8 block or two past Sears, Roebuck that he finally realized he was lost, and headed back for Delaware.

Most of the passengers seemed to enjoy the situation. .

Those Little Details

THE MOVIE MAKERS go to all sorts -of trouble to see that everything-is just right when they make 3 film, But Mrs. R. W. Patton, 1445 N.-Delaware, tells

World of Science

OUT OF THE ARCTIC regions of the wérid, long

‘regarded as frozen wastelands, may come new miracle

drugs for the treatment of disease. Researches now in progress by four scientists at Yale university indicate that the lichens which grow abundantly in arctic regions may yield ghne or more rivals to penicillin. . 80 far 60 out of 118 tested species of lichens have been found to contain antibiotic substances, that is, substances capable of killing bacteria. In this connection, however, it is well to remember that the penicillium notatum is not the only mold to furnish substances capable of either inhibiting the growth of bacterig or of killing them outright. / The value of penicillin lies in the fact that it combines its Sffectiveness against many bacteria with an apparent complete harmiessness to the human system. This is not tru® of the bacteriacidal extracts obtained from many molds. Some of them are as poisonous to man as to bacteria.

Much Research Required

THUS A VERY considerable amount of work will have to be done with the lichens before we can be certain that they will prove useful in the treatment

| of disease,

The four scientists who have begun the researches at Yale are Doctors Paul R. Burkholder, Alexander

_W. Bvans, Ids McVeigh and Helen K, Thornton.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday —Y was very much impressed last night, as I went from birthday ball to

birthday ball, by the number of men in uniform who

were taking part in these celebrations. Of course, it is obvious that men who are free to do anything of this kind and who are in Washington are the men t . who are busy all day in various offices. Still, I think it also shows that the appeal of a hame front battle is strong for the man who has to fight our battles overseas. Perhaps if you are fighting for your country in far away places, when you come home you are more conscious that Ju want your country to be the best pdesible place to live in, both for yourself and your I hope, augurs more responsible our returned servicemen.

us they slipped up in at least one detail in the film, “Meet Me in St. Louis.” In the dinner scene, laid in the year 1903, someone prepares a stalk of pascal celery. It just happens, we're told, that pascal celery is a development of the last few years. To a celery expert; it lookec a little grotesque to have the uitra-

Jodern in fhe. game scens with..ell-thesse antiques...

. «» Mrs, Patton is a bird lover and has four redbirds who use her second-story apartment window for a cafeteria. And, despite the continued cold and snow, the birds have started singing their spring song; When it's time to eat, the birds peck on the window, and keep it up until they're fed. Sométimes ‘they even hop “inside when she opens the window. In the cold weather, Mrs. Patton places fruit jars full of ‘hot water on the window sill, and she says her birds cuddle up to it to get warm,

Where Was Moses—?

FOR A-DESERTED-village effect; take a look-at the downtown section tonight. With the government’s “brownout” going into effect at midnight last night, the main drag will have an eerie appearance. Gone will be all the colorful neon signs, and store window lights. About the only lights in sight will be street lamps and those on cars and streetcars. Some of the stores began observing the “brownout” a week ago, but they'll all be dark—on the outside—tonight. Some folks aren't any too clear as to the connection between dousing the lights and saving coal. As several people put it,.“The light company says they have plenty of electricity, so why should we cut do The answer is simple: It takes coal to make the steam that operates the turbines that turn the generators that make electricity. Less electricity consumption means less coal burned by the light company and more for the householders who are down to théir last lump. . ., Incidentally, not much has been said-about-it; but. all you, readers can help out by cutting down on the electricity used in-your homes. Turn out unneeded lamps.

.By David Dietz

They were encouraged to begin the study of arctic lichens after an announcement that Dr. Robertson Pratt of the San Francisco College of Pharmacy had found an anti-bacterial substance in the green alga, chorella. - Algae are simple, one-celled plants of various sorts. They occur in the ocean, in fresh- water ponds and ditches and in the soil.

Why Not Investigate?

NOW THE MOLDS like the penicillium notatum are, of course, fungi. Dr, Pratt's work suggested that algae as well as fungi might produce germ killers. The lichens are combinations of both fungi and algae. So, reasoned the Yale scientists, why not investigate them? While a lichen appears to be an individual plant, it is actually two different organisms’ growing together. One is a green or blue-green alga, the other is one of the higher fungi. Lichens take a great

many shapes and may be leaf-like, shrub-like, crusty |

or gelatinous. They usually adhere to rocks or tree barks, One of the advantages of getting a drug from lichens is the fact that they are so plentiful. This is particularly true of ihe arctic types. One would not necessarily have to go to thé polar regions for them since they, can be gathered in many mountains above the timberline. The Yale experimenters collected theirs on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire and in Canada. As is well known, the great bottleneck in the production of penicillin has been the difficulty of growing the mold. Lichens would present no such difficulty.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

You can well imagine that we covered a great deal of territory, since women enter into every phase of modern life, ! The last group of our visiting grandchildren leaves us this afternoon: The house will indeed seem quiet

with only one small boy of 5 to remind us that the!

world is a world of children. k Do you belong to the Consumers’ league in your state? For many years I have been a member in New York state, and the organization has just published & report in pamphlet "form, called: “The Joads in New York.” It is the story of the migrant workers in New York state farm camps. The same story could probably be | written of every state, from Flonida to northern New | York, from Texas to Minnésota. I hope ‘everybody reads this little pamphlet. John Steinbeck, in “The Grapes of Wrath” told the story of the migratory workers who left farms on which they could no longer make a living and traveled to unspeakable conditions in various other states. People’s consciences were aroused to that particular problem, but here is one we’ have withs us all the time, every year. It is such a big p problem ‘that if we don't know about it, it may do a great deal of harm. To our shame, the imported workers from the : amaica live under’ better conditions,

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- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1945

ALLIED ARMIES CRUMBLE REICH HOMELAND IN TWIN DRIVES—

‘The Twilight of the German Gods’

smash to end the war,

The armies of the allies are crumbling the German homeland in {win drives. On the blazing Eastern front, Red troops are 30 to 40 miles “irom -Berkin-Hself -in-the greatest land. offensive. in history, The Western front is stirring with agtion: in a prelude to, what _may be : an Si “The twilight of the Nazi gods” is at and, Moscow says. :

FORMER “EVANSVILLE NEWSPAPERMAN WRITES SAGA OF 38TH—

Gathering of Convoy Is Impressive Sight

By SGT. CARL RITT

Formerly Managing Editor of The Evansville Press

THE FIRST NIGHT at sea in

convoy is an indelible’ page in-the-

G. 1. notebook. For several days you may have traveled in a lone ship and felt no particular uneasiness. Then comes the rendezvous point, where yours’ and other lone ships have come for company and protection. There sluggish freighters waddle into position, bowing to each other like obese dowagers passing on a roughly cobbled street. Around them in the greyhound destroyers and feisty destroyer escort race, » - . ON BOARD is a marvelous sight: Navy gunners, some youths in their teens, moving with machine precision as they play's grim game, practicing operation of their guns. There are five Jap flags painted on the smokestack of your ship. On deck are parked vehicles, with deadly 50 caliber machine guns mounted upon them. Your freighter looks like a battleship. It is comforting, and yet all this show of protection serves to emphasize the fact that you are heading into danger. The more protection, the more danger ahead—that sounds logical to you. ” » r A CLOUDY NIGHT at sea seems to possess a greater degree of darkness than anything on land. You do not head below into the stuffiness of the hold until late; you have sat upon a hatch, staring into the darkness, the nothingness, until it seemed to have taken on shape and body. It is dangerous. Other ships are about you, yet you are alone, hemmed in by

* the fathomless black of the cloudy

night at sea. n » n YOU HAVEN'T smoked on deck. You've been warned that the dim glow of a cigaret would be visible for quite a distance.

The accompanying article, the second of three was released by the censors yesterday after the first announcement that Indiana’s 38th division had landed on Bataan. The story tells of the experiences

“of the 38th, which fought in New Guinea, on its way to a combat zone.

You do not understand how even a searchlight could penetrate that wall of blacks : Finally you stumble down a stairway, lighted by a dim blue bulb; In the eerie light you try to pick your lurching ‘way through sprawled, naked bodies “and finally, because your balance is uncertain, you crawl on hands and knees. The bodies and the weird light give you an unearthly sensation, like a nightmare of a trip through a morgue. » » » AFTER a few feet an am springs from one of the bodies

and grasps your wrist firmly, “’Sall right, buddy. Just going to bed,” you whispex. The half-asleep G. IL, still suspicious, holds your wrist for another 10 seconds, grunts and lets go. You crawl onward to the spot where you had laid out a blanket in the -absolutely unfounded belief that it would make a softer bed than steel plates. You undress rapidly, lie down and stretch out cautiously, literally frying to .avoid getting your feet into another man's hair. 2 ¥ »

YOU LIE on your back, rocked by the ship’s motion, nose wrinkling at the fetid, sour smell of hot, sweaty, naked men. You think of the darkness, the impenetrable darkness, the nothingness outside. “You lie helplessly as your imagination takes held and the fear that the sight of the convoy and the guns set to nibbling at your mind begins gnawing. The creaking noises of the ship have an ominous note, You couldn't see in the darkness. The man at the wheel couldn’t see. The men at the wheels of the

other ships couldn't see. Nobody can see. » » » oa THERE'S a strange note to the ereaking. It seems to come from outside the hull of your ship. . . . it must be another bearing down upon you out of the nothingness. Against the lids of your shut eyes you can see it, strangely visible in the blackness, its bow sharp as a razor... . from head to outpointed toes your body stiffens in agony of fear, waiting for the impact. .. . “Oh God it's going to happen

--it’s_going to happen now some-

body said there was ammunition below us in the hold and that's why we can't smoke down here I can hear it that noise is from outside hear it it's going to smash right into the side of the ship where I am the bow will come smashing right through and the water I can hear it here it is. ... what a fool don't be a fool God don't let me be a fool don't let me be a mouse. . .."” » » ”

A NEIGHBOR rolls restlessly. Metal scraping. It's a canteen cap. being removed. Somebody's throat is parched. Yours feéls dry too. That blue light. There's a fellow sitting up. You can see him dimly, hunched forward, chin on his knees. » » . “SO OTHERS can't sleep either maybe they're mice too no not mice because mice like

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Pets Protected By Hoosier Bill

DOGS AND other domestic pets have not been forgotten by the ‘legislature. . Two Muncie Democrats in the house, Reps. Claude Becktell and J. Erwin Walsh, yesterday introduced sa bill to impose additional penalties upon~ persons who ate tempt to poison pets. In addittion, their bill provides that persons who keep domestic animals of unknown ownership without attempting to find their owners may be penalized. The recent Carmel poisoning case in whcih approximately 50 dogs were killed is believed to have brought the subject to the attention of legislators. Another measure is expected to

.be introduced today or tomorrow |

regulating the distribution of poisons. It has been reportedly

- drafted by Attorney General

James A. Emmert. The bill would make it unlawful for anyone but a registered pharmacist to dispense poisons and then only to purchasers of record,

Can't Have Your ‘Cake and Eat It

LIVERPOOL, England, Feb. 1. (U. P.).~A slice of wedding cake cost Pvt. Richard Henry Salter both his wives. * When he married Florence Robinson she sent a generous slice of cake to his mother, who acknowl edged the gift by yn n “said her son was a

dark holes like this one I like the bright sun out in the open alr... 2 You grin at God. Probably he grins back at you. ‘What a—fool-what—a fool-no not a mouse because mice like dark holes maybe an aardvark an aardvark whatever that is it's something in a crossword puzzle an eight-letter word meaning an animal that something or other eight letters let's see ele-e-l-e-p-h-a~-n-t that's eight and let's see kangaroo k-a-n-g-a-r-0-0 that's eight....” The metal canteen has scraped back in its grooves. *® nw 9 THE FELLOW who sat up is down now. Maybe he's been talking to God too. “Aardvark tney ought to have

“a verse about it in that swing- |

ing on a star song or would you rather be an aardvark an aardvark is ar animal that da da da da if I knew what it did I could make up the verse myself, , , .” You think about ¢your ine tense fright. You should have been afraid of a torpedo, not

another ship.

YOU DELIBERATELY try to recapture that agony of fear, de-

-liberately try to stiffen your body

until it grows as rigid as it was when every nerve was tensed for a crashing impact and wild swirl. ing water. You cannot. You aren’t afraid any more. You think about God. Probably He was —ashamed of you -andamused at you. You certainly are ashamed, and a little amused, too. : » . » YOU TRINK about the aardvark again, you think about peole at home, you think about how peaceful and soothing is the gentle rolling of the ship. . , . When you open your eyes you see right before them an ankle with a bare foot attached. The toes are gripping a part of your blanket. There's just one foot visible. You follow the naked- leg upward with your eyes and see that it belongs to a neighbor who is Standing one-legged, putting on

Tomorrow's ‘High Stakes In Battle Over Policy

By FRANK FORD g Editor, The Evansville Press HENRY WALLACE outlines his aims: “Victory, full employment, better wages; better living standards, an end to poveny, Insecurity, disease; ote, — We. imagine that Henry Wil-. lace and Jesse Jones are in 100 per cent agreement on these aims. Henry Wallace's aims are everybody’s aims. The whole question in the Wal-lace-Jones controversy is one of methods; so why not consider the matter on that basis? Henry Wallace is, after all, no diabolical character. He is a re- - spectable, mdi-westerner whose predominant characteristic 1s a vast good will toward man. Jesse Jones is a Texas banker, a patriotic American whose prin. cipal concern is a sound financial structure sustaining the business and industry by which we live. i 8a THE QUESTION involved in the Wallace-Jones argument is not good intentions. It is ability and soundness of policy. We are not divided on whether we should struggle for victory, full employment and better living standards, We're all agreed on that. The division is on method. On one side is a school of thought which holds that we can keep on borrowing more billions indefinitely, after the war, to pay for everything we want. . Risks are to be removed by the simple process of using government credit to take up the slack. . » »

ON THE OTHER side is 8 soboot hich halde..£oat os vay,

Slot Machine Kitchen Would

Be a Real Boon

By RUTH MILLETT

AT LAST the planners of the world of tomorrow have eome forth with an invention that looks as though it has real possibilities

for making life easier. Its a hot dog * slot-machine,

a hot dog, cooked electri. cally a moment after the money is deposited, by TTMeRENS of R

contes out of the machine neatly wrapped in a paper napkin. ® = » . NOW, IF they can do that, why can't they go just a step further —for the convenience of “the post-war. world—and invent miachines to turn out other foods cooked and ready to eat?

Then all a housewife would

stallment plan of course),

Yamily eat whenever they feel. like it. It shouldn't take a large variety of machines, either. At least not to please the man of the house who, if he runs true to form,

OF COURSE, it might be hard to give a family the right amount and proportion of vitamins, if . ate all of their mealf out of slot machines. But there are always vitamin tablets

‘ combined with paper plates

would relieve the housewife of her