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‘and three “pights on airplanes. I've said “no” to at least 500 requests 10 speak, and have managed to

. keep well supplied with cigarets,

Kind people have flooded me with gifts, Mayor Clyde Tingley of Albuquerque opened it With a $500 wrist watch, which so overwhelms me that I left it in a safety de-

posit box back home. Who would -

dare wear a $500 wrist watch? I've. had luscious apples from . Washington state, pecans from Mississippi, haif ‘a dozen homemade hunting knives, two college degrees, a Texas cowboy belt, two foxhole shovels,” one baby jeep, sun glasses for the Pacific, and

one noble friend came through °

with 10 pounds of bacon, we’ ve had so much company

| at our house in Albuquerque that one night I slept { on a canvas cot in the woodshed, and one. night

on the living room floor in my new sleeping bag (I didn't sleep very wel either’) Despite all thé frenzy, I've felt almost pathetic

{ in my happiness at being home. I've had a wonder- { ful time. The older I get the better I like bel alive. I wish it éould go on forever.

Peoplé are always asking what. I think of the “home front,” expecting me of course to raise hell

1 about it.

Most Civilians Can’t Understand

WELL, T DON'T KNOW, In the first place it's so wonderful to be home that I find myself reluctant to criticize or even admit flaws in the “home

{ front.

YOU CAN- SAY what you want to about the icy

pavements with which we have been afflicted this

winter, but they're not half 8s dangerous as ordinary dry pavements: If you don't believe it, take a look at the trafic fatality record.” Thus far this year - : there. have been only two fatal traffic accidents iin Indianapolis. Last year at this time there had been 10; the year before, 7, and the year before that, 12. There have been fewer in the county, too—only three. It's easy to see why dangerously slick streets are safer. Simply a matter of people - —both motorists and pedestrians —being more careful. It just goes to show how many needless deafhs could be avoided if we'd all be Jiist

as careful all year ‘round. « Some- * vig

thing to think about, isn’t it? . . . Here's one for your “Whats’ in a Name?” department: All you sport faris know what a hardwood court is. Well, one of the forwards on the Manual basketball squad is named, appropriately enough,” Ardwood Courtney. He ought to go far in the game, if names have anything to do with {t,

Beating the Brownout THE BROWNOUT regulations prohibiting electric lightits in store windows didn't bother the Fairfleld “Florist folks, at Fairfield-ave—and-Coliege—They-just placed some lighted- candles in’ their windows. One of our agents who saw it reports the result was much. more attractive than.that created by mere electric

lights. , , . Stout field sounds like a smoker’s idea of heaven. We see by the Fielder, newspaper published at the field, that cigaret ration cards have been issued to all authorized personnel. Each of the 775 yellow ration cards issued calls for one carton of cigarets a week, If the card holder fails to get his cigarets during the week, he loses but for that week—can't

America Flies

PANAMA (Delayed) ~Panama~--maritime crossroads of the world—is planning also to be the airlane crossroads of the Western hemisphere, According to reliable sources, a great new commercial. air field is being planned for post-war days by the Panama Republic.” If will have runways of 7250 feet, will provide a radius of three miles for circling, and the field itself will be abbut three miles’ square, a total of nine square miles; if the plans materialize. The prospective cost is $7,000,000 ang the air field will be docated in the Republic of Panama on the Pacific side eastward several miles from Panama City, and the capital city. It will be owned and operated by the Republic of Panama. with certain American-owned airlines standing by with technical advice and assistance in its plan-

“ning and engineering construction,« it is said Panama feels

Without thi huge field, that it would iose a part of the “through” air traffic, because planes flying from Miami or New Orleans to the Pacific coast of South America could just Aas easily go via Colombia or Costa Rica.

Warns of Air Challenge

IN AN INTERVIEW in the Panama Star and Herald on Jan, 28, C. A’ Readinger, civil engineer of the Mi¢hael Baker Co., said that “Panama's privileged position as the crossroads of the world may be challenged In the post-war period unless this country now tackles the problem of providirig adequate facilities to handle the air traffic of the future. ‘Panama, because of its geographical position, is in top position to‘ become the Western hemisphere’s

My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday. —Yesterday as Y walked along Washington Square I saw the children sliding down an almost imperceptible hill, yet they seemed to be having as good a time as any child on a real hill of hile snow In the country. Once we learn the very simple lesson of being ‘content with whatever we have, we may find there seem slways to be compensatiops. Nevertheless when spring comes and the bare trees in Washington Square begin to burgeon forth, I shall be glad whenever T can get to the country, much as I like the feeling of spring even in the stréets of New York. : Someone was talking to me 4 about the beauties of Washington as a capital city.. There is.no question that everyone who comes there now recognizes the fact that it is becoming one of the most beautiful capitals in the world. . As in most capitals, there dre a number of charm-

ing and interesting ‘people who have gone there to make it their home. With the exception of those

_ actually engaged in government, however, they are

usually people whose years of active, creative work are drawing to a close. I think the atmosphere of other cities with more

divergent Interests . is usually more stimulating. Perhaps because I was born in New York City and : dived | there the early years of my lide, I Save always

Jb ds true that, a great many people don't, know

there's a war on, or do realize ‘that I could very easily let myself sit down and take it easy and never think of war again, except |

..in an academic way.

‘I've had no bad incidents during these tow months

at home, But I have learned from experience that

it's almost impossible—sometimes infuriating in a helpless ‘sort of way—to talk to most civilians feelingly about the war, On trains and in public places 1 find myself drift ing automatically to boys in uniform with overseas | ribbons-gr service stripes, for we can talk the same | language.

The Worst Is Still to Conie

AS AN EXAMPLE of what I mean, one man said

to me one day in complete good faith “tell me how, just exgetly what 1s it you don't like about war?” ..I think I must have turned a little white, and all I could do was look at him in shock and say “good God, if you don't know, then I could never tell you.” It’s little things like that which make returning seldiers feel their misery has all been in vain, 1 don’t think America at home is either unwilling or incapable of getting fully into the war. We need only to be told more what to do, and to have scarcities and grimness applied clear across the board. Perfonally I'm glad-for the Pfesident’s ‘proposal for a national service act, I think it will stiffen up the whole American nation, and through touching almost every family, make people buckle-down. That, and the casualties that lie ahead of us. I believe the worst of our war is still to come, and that before it is over everybody in America will really feel it. I. hope so, because then the boys overseas won't feel so lonesome,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

get two cartons the next week: If he losks his card, he does without for three Weeks, then gets a new | card. Nice part about the whole thing is that the field's sales office is authorized to carry only the socalled leading brands. No Home Runs or Sweet Caporals. The only trouble with the system, reports the Fielder, is that some of the personnél—including non-smokers—buy cartons for friends, and thus the supply sometimes runs short before all the Stout fellas get theirs. Oh well, things weren't perfect even in the Garden of Eden.

That Easter Date

OUR REFERENCE to Easter Sunday falling on an inappropriate date—April 1, which is algo April Fool

~dagy—brought us a lot of correspondence, mostly from

folks wipting more information on Easter and the date” ‘on:which it falls. For instance, Mrs. Clara M.

Lee, wil celebrate her 7th birthday this Easter. And she wants to know how old Mary Lee will be before her birthday falls on Easter again. She will be 18, Mrs. Gillespie. The World Almanac shows that Easter fell on April 1 in 1804, 1866, 1877, 1888, 1923,

, 1934; ‘and will occur again this year and in 1956. The |

almanac, explains that, in A.D. 325, the council: of the Christian churcheéy at Niceadn Asia Minor decided that Easter shall be on the first Sunday following the Paschal full moon ‘which happens upon or next after the 21st of March. The principal reason was that the pilgrims needed moonlight to travel on their way to the great yearly Easter festivities, The date of Easter thus may vary between March 22 and April 25, over a period of 35 days. The Paschal full moon is the 14th day of a lunar month reckoned ac‘cording to an ancient ecclesiastical computation and not the real or astronomical full moon, The British parliament in 1928 passed a statute determining that Easter should be the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April—in order to avoid the present wide range of dates. Bui the change was to await international consent and that has not been obtained.

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air center just as it has been the crossroags of the’

world jn the maritime traffic. He added that all this might be lost to Panama unless it is in a position to off aviation companies permanent facilities to handle the big ships of the future in aH businesses related to air traffic, maintenance establishments, hotels, travel agencies, etc.

Traffic Surge Foreseen

A SURGE of commercial air traffic between the U. 8S. and western South America is envisioned beginning within six months after Germany surrenders. Pan-American alone has on order a number of 107passenger planes for delivery within this period. Planes returning froin South America.can carry much cargo out of Chile, Peru and other countries northward. Brazil has an ambitious silk’ industry with its women's silk hosiery already finding widespread maskets Jn this part of the Western hemisphere, Silk and Ecuadorian “Panama” nats are high-cost light-weight cargo which should prove a “natural” for air transport. Another congideration is post-war competition. What the U. 8. government will enforce in the line of U. S. competition for Pan-American and other American lines which may touch Panama remains to be seen. There is more concern here over British’ and Prench air transport competition with governmental subsidies. It is said to be the possibility of foreign subsidized competition rather than U. S. competition which worries American aviation heads’ now looking to operate through Panama. With fine airpori facilities, Panama would prove to be the Western hemisphere's hub on which the

aviation wheel of both North and South America |

would turn.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

had an especially soft spot in my heart for this great city. I know it is crowded and dirty and that misery rubs elbows with ostentation; but it is alive and teeming with ideas, and I like it. Yesterday I lunched at the old Hotel Lafayette with two. gentlemen who had ideas they wished to impart. It was a long while since I had been to this old restaurant, but it always has charm and it is quiet gnoygh for conversation. A small group of friends came to tea, and tea almost collided with dinner. By 10 o'clock we were alone again and I was reading & little book that Lt. Gén. Sir William Dobbie gave me for the President. Gen. Dobbie calls his book “A Very Present Help,” and sub-titles it “A Tribute to the Faithfulness of God.” In it there are some very extraordinary personal experiences, and this grave defender of the island of Malta says: #o “Some things were very evident. Our weakness, the enemy's strength, the impossibility of outside help for ‘the time being, and not least, the vital impor-

.tance to our country's cause of our holding on to

Malta.” He notes the fact that in his mind was the story of Elisha at Dothan: “We: were in the “position of thé servant who saw the enemy's hosts around the city: ‘Alas, my master, how shall we do? Elisha's answer means much to all who turn to God-in their difficulties: ‘Fear not: For they that be with us are more than they hat be with "them, "nn ‘

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By Max B. Cook|

SECOND SECTION

By LEIGH WHITE Tinves Foreign Correspondent “WARSAW (Delayed). .— Warsaw is “worse than a contemporary: Pompeii. It is utterly impossible to give an adequate descrip“tion of the punishment wreaked on the inanimate

city in reprisal for the rebellion of its inhgbitants in August and September of ‘last year.

Warsaw will be published and then it will be possible for those who have not seen it fo appreciate, to some extent, the character of its ruination. nT § MEANWHILE, I can only say that this city of more than 1,000,000 persons has ceased to exist. It is Guernica and Lidice mags nified a thousandfold. It is worse than Coventry, tor Coventry was only bombed. Warsaw was bombed and mined ahd burned and razed—and systematically defiled. Only one building—a former " German cinema office—can be immediately rehabilitated, and this will have to serve for the time being; as the headquarters of that small part of the provisional government that will be able to establish itself in Warsaw. ., » Fs » » AS SOON as the modernistic gestapo headquarters (the former ministry of education) has been demined, it will be possible to use that building, too. Likewise the art museum and the high court building and a few houses in the residential quarter of the city. But not ‘more than 100 buildings in all of Warsaw are in any cendition even to be rebuilt. The rest-are simply heaps of rubble or broken, cracked and burnt-out shells that will sooner or later have to be.pulled down. * » x». AMONG the buildings we vis{ted that can ultimately be repaired are the art museum and the geological institute. Both are simply shattered and neither has been ccmpletely burned. &.. The cellar of the geological institute was piled high with the ashes of Polish books which the Germans had burned beforé they fled. . Another. book-burning orgy took. place at the public library, where only 30,000 volumes were saved, The art museum was littered with pictures and tapestries which the Germans had had no time to ‘take away. Most of them, " however, had been packed in crates .and were awaiting shipment at the time of Warsaw's Jiberation.

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had been used as a German soldiers’ dormitory. Its walls were covered with obscene drawings and jokes. The only phrase reprintable is

By JACK BELL : Times Foreign Correspondent WITH THE U.S. 2D DIVI--SION, Germany, Feb. 6 (Delayed). —8gt. Claude Hensley of Pasadena, Tex., didn’t dive for a hole when the German artillery plece began - dropping shells into advancing troops. It was pretty bad on the hill because the Jerries were on a higher hill just over yonder. Lt. Col. John Hightower, Las Cruces, - N.- M,; 1st batallion, 23d infantry, was walking with his tanks when he saw Hensley run through fire, . crawl onfo a Mz. Bell tank and talk to the commander, then run into a shallow trench. and set up a machine gun. “So I went to .the “sergeants trench and asked him what the situation was,” began the colonel. : FE . “SO THE colonel asks the sergeant what the score is?” I interrupted. . “Hell, 7yes,” he replied. “They're the guys who are down there ‘and know. “The sergeant had seen flashes of the German gun. So, instead of diving for a hole he went to the tanks and told them he'd shoot - tracer. bullets into the Kraut position so they could follow up with heavy fire, “He put ‘em right -there, too, and ‘three tanks drepped five rounds each onto the spot. We heard no more from that gun.” “Then, s0 help me, the fog lowered again and the infantry wasn't observed going in” ‘the colonel added. . - gi ® = . * “TAKE a lot of prisoners?” I asked. the Colonel. “Yes,” he replied. . .. Then. the colonel exploded.

Some day a .picture book of

* PART OF the art museum

buildings of this helpless

WEDNES DAY, FEBRUARY , 1945

A glimpse of .the rubble of Warsaw.

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. How the demolished

houses in the Market square looked when the Red army moved into

the Polish capital.

one that read: “When it comes to love, we are all like bloodhounds.” : All the statuary remaining in the museum had been adorned with paint to give obscene effects. A :statue of Marshal Pilsudski (late Polish dictator) had been smeared with human offal. ” » » % VISITING correspondents devoted all of one day to touring the ruins in a Dodge weaponscarrier loaned to us by the Polish army of liberation. Not more ‘than 20 or 30 thoroughfares have as yet been opened to traffic, Even these are clogged with snow and" ice, Beneath the snow lie thou-sands-of corpses which have yet to be removed.

Fxcept for ‘the demined thor-

oughfares—marked * as . such by blobs of orange and purple dye left behind on the snow by Red army sappers—the city's. streets are blocked by rubble and tens of thousands, -of delayed-action mines,

“These doggone Krauts,” he cried. “They stand ‘at windows

with a rifle in one hand, & white”

flag in “the other, and shoot us until they're ~ cornered. . Then

they throw away the rifles and =

come out waving a flag and yell ing, ‘Me Polack’ . , . ‘Me Russian.’ “When we've taken them, they've no guns but have their persopal stuff packed ready to be captured.” ® = J LT. BILL KINNEY, Chicago, one of Hightower's officers, told why the skipper was so irked at the prisoners. He went into Bronsfeld with

DAY AND NIGHT, the ruins echo as one by one the mines go off. Hundreds of civilians, scavengering among the wreckage, already have lost their lives. The provisional government has ‘done everything it can to discour= age the city’s former inhabitants from returning to what remains

of their homes.

There as yet no soup kitchens or dormitories, or any living ‘facilities whatever. . Yet neither government orders, nor the danger, nor the lack of food can keep the people from coming back. = ¥ ”

WE SAW at least 10,000 of them

swarming over the wreckage like - disoriented ants whose colony has.

been obliterated by an unkind footprint. Most. of these people were the poorest. elements of the population. They searched for cooks ing utensils, kindling wood, bits of furniture and anything possessing value or the quality of reminding them of their homes that no longer exist.

his troops ‘and saw the Jerries firing, then surrendering calmly. The colonel is 6 feet 4, and as

,. he was striding down the street, a little German came out of a

house, hands up and smiling with all the attributes of sweetness and light as he said, “Me Pole. Me glad Americans come.” 2 The colonel grabbed the little Jerry and* almost shook him apart, then flung him aside ” » »

“IT WAS the funniest sight I've seen over here,” Kinney added, “but I don't get many laughs. The skipper's afraid of nothing. - He walks into every-

Up Front With Mauldin

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WORSE THAN A MODERN POMPEI, UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE—

Warsaw... A City That Has Ceased to Exist

But many of them, too, were men and women from the upper classes whose expensive overcoats looked strangely out of place against- the general’ batkground of litter and desolation. » » » + HOW AND WHERE the bulk of these people pass the winter ‘nights I have been unable to de- - termine. A few of them are inhabiting the cellars of houses which have nut been entirely wrecked.

Others are living in thesover~ }

turned streetcars which the people of Warsaw, following Madrid's example, used as barricades at the time of their hopeless rebellion. Bul the rest must surely have

to leave the city every night to

look for shelter in outlying sub-

urbs which are already danger- |

ously overcrowded.

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» i AS YET, howevep, there are no signs of epidemics; although the | hunger problem is becoming seri- |

ous.

with blood—who had fallen upon

a horse which had broken its | leg. and which a Polish soldier |

Had shot to put out of its misery. The hungry people were slash-

ing at its carcass with knives | and tearing its dripping flesh

apart with their hands. When we passed the spot a half hour later the pebple had gone. All that was left of the horse was a clean- picked skeleton. » » = WITHIN a few days, however, the provisional government hopes to have established a number of temporary mess halls for the peo« ple who refuse to stay away. from. Warsaw. Once the hunger problem has been solved, everyone who insists ‘on remaining in the city will be required to take part in the job of clearing the littered streets of rubble. Already 5000 men and women, housed and fed in Praga across the river, have been put to work assisting Red army engineers in spanning the Vistula with semipermanent bridges. i » " nr “THE ICE-will=-be—breaking-up within a month and the pontoon bridges then will be carried away. Three days ago the first freight train crossed the river on a weoden bridge that was built in two weeks’ time. . Within a week a seconll wooden bridge for autoniobiles will be opened to traffic. ‘It is an impressive achievement for which the Red army deserves full credit. H ~ » I NOW understand why it was that I saw so many sawmills and piles of prefabricated structures made of logs as I drove through the pine woods along the highway leading to Praga a few days before the offensive began. It had certainly not occurred to me then that the Red army would be running treins across the Vistula three weeks later.

The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

THE COLONEL GRABBED THE JERRY AND ALMOST SHOOK HIM APART—

‘They Shoot Until Cornered; Then Give Up’ |

thing with the men-—and as one of his staff I've got to go with him.” But Kinney and Sgt. Rudolf Herz, Chicago, laughed about another incident I couldn't figure as amusing. Last night, after taking Bronsfeld, Kinney sent Herz and Pvts. Frank Klinger, New York City, and Max Crockett, Huntington, Tenn, down a hill to a spot several hundred yards from strongly fortified Schleiden’ to establish an outpost, telling them patrols had found the ground. unoccupied. » » » “WE WERE crossing an open space when I heard a man call ‘Halt’,” Herz said. “I saw three Germans and stopped. It was no place to be. : “Then the German said, “Who are you?’ . " “Well, IT was born and lived in Germany until 11 years ago, so I called, ‘Who the hell are you? What are you doing here?’ “The Kraut said, “Whoever you are, come on with your hands up.’ ~ ~ ~

“I FIRED twice with my caf~ bine, figuring they'd duck. They did, and in that second we ran three steps left, hit the snow and ran into the woods. “Two burp guns opened and we felt the breeze off the bullets.

We were going mighty fast, -and-

we pointed our carbines -back over our shoulders and kept shooting, to make ’em think we still were after ‘em. “We saw flve more Jerries run-

ning away. There were a lot of

bullets around for a while.” » » » “THAT'S the way with you guys, ‘and the Krauts, t00,” Kin‘ney scoffed.” “The Krauts ran the other way as fast as you did this way. “You run into half a dozen enemy, shoot a gun or two, then

come back and report the area

is lousy with ‘em.” Herz grinned. “That's right,” he agreed. “And any place that

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World Meet

* {Continued From Page One) day the American’ presentation

will be made by Reid Robinson, “president of the C. I. O. mill and

smelter workers, ; Mr. Carey answered disappointe edly the queries of delegations as to why Philip Murray, C. L O. president, is ‘absent, Mr, Carey said Mr. Murray had been held in “the United States by ime portant poe litical and ine . dustrial mate Mr. Perkins ters. Russians, claiming to represent 27,000,000 among 50,000,000 worke ers sending aelegates, Gccupied a large batch of front seats, with 50 spokesmen and attaches, while the eight C. I O. men were in the background. An incomplete list of the accredited delegates shows about 200 from 40 countries. Voting on the conference of« ficers was by a show of hands, a system which favored the Ruse sians. But under a plan to be adopted, votes on controversial questions will be by national | groups as units, with two-third majority required for passage of a motion. Even then the C. 1. O, and other groups must get ratie fication from their constituents, » = =

FEZZED Turks and men and women of all colors are in the assemblage. Four languages — ‘English, Russian, French and Spanish—are used through inter preters. “Comrades” is the official silutation, not the usual “brothers” » of. American labor union. . Comrade Kuznetsov, describing how Russian workers had produced to help the Red armies get near Berlin, called on “the work ing class” in all countries to “ex terminate the German Fascist infection.” » »n » HE CONCLUDED speech. “Long live victory of the demon cratic forces over the evil forces of fascism. “Long live the international working class and unity in its ranks,” The biggest news was the ane nouncement by Sir Walter Citrine, head of the British trade union congress, that Prime Minister Churchill couldn't welcome the delegates because he was taking part in a Big Three conference “at this very moment.”

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We, the Women— Lonely War Wives Need Companionship By RUTH MILLETT

IT'S EASY to advise a war wife not to date other men, and it's: sound advice. But the alternative for most war wives, living entirely in a' female environment, is pretty hard to take, accustomed as they are to the companjonship of a man and a 'social life thas. includes both men and women. : Yet that is the choice war wives in most communis ties have been forced to make. They must either date or rarely if ever enjoy a man's cone versation and companionship. 5 » » IT’S TOO BAD more towns and cities don't have a place where young war wives and lonely mare ried servicemen, and men otherwise ‘temporarily separated from their families can meet for Soe cial evenings. There’s such a club in Chicago, sponsored by the Y. W. C. A, where men and women of 25 or over can drop in and find come panionship. Such a club might well be sponsored in every town by a woman's organization, a church group, or some civic center, n n » SOCIETY can certainly find na objection to lonely men and women getting together for an evening to dance, play games, or just talk. : And if such innocent recreation were provided for both husbands and wives separated by the neces« sities of ‘war, ‘there would prob ably be fewer husbands and wives elven by loneliness into dating and starting cheap flirtations and

The man or woman who has had no companionship at all with members of the opposite sex over a long period of sime is sure to. be easier game for wolves of either sex than the man and woman who has a chance to enjoy the company of other men and women under the right conditions,

MEAT SPEAKEASIES THRIVE