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“THE: INDIANAPOLIS TIMES THEY HOPE IT'S THE LAST MEETING

- War Mothers

SATURDAY, FEB. 10, 1945

By Ernie Pyle THEY" LL EVER HAVE —

were a slave, and kept my own spirits up by sending me endless cables of appreciation and good cheer,

Hoosier Vagabond

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World Parley : Leaders Map

, Feb. 10.~The pect over the of war plants ed by the gove the defense an RFO sube adowed: by dew

foot at home. The office building manager showed him a suitable office and then asked John if he had a business license, John said no, they ‘didn't have business licenses in his business. The manager asked what. his business was. “I'm sa writer” John said. The manager looked him over, weighed the idea pro and

Now he's taking a respite and going to the wars himself for a little while. He hag left for the Pacific, to cover the whole vast chain of our army supply services. I'm glad he’s going, but I'm laying awake nights wondering what I'm going to do without him back at home base to cheer and baby me along when I'm thotisands of miles away.

The American Prisoners of War

society elected officers for the third time yeésterday-—and prayed as they have each previous time that another election time will see the group disbanded.

More than 100 mothers of Ger-

Pray to Disband Soon

.Role in Peace (Continued From Page One)

of having to ask poltical faves to where nothing can be done } - the government unless we are

man war prisoners bowed their héads in the World War Memorial building as the chaplain, Mrs. Dorothy Berger, prayed that victory over Germany would come in the next six months. o> Prayer Is Repeated When the first election was held after organization in March, 1044, the hopeful mothers set election periods at six-month intervals, hoping even then that within half a year their sons and sons of thousands of ather mothers would again be free. Although that hope and subsequent prayers go yet unanswered, the prayer is repeated at each meeting by mothers to whom each day's war news means only that their prayer is moving one day closer to realization: New officers of the group are Mrs. Lester® Moreland Sr, 42 S. Ritter st, mother of Lt. Lester Moreland Jr, at Stalag-Luft 3 in Germany, president; Mrs, Walter, Stahlhut, 2511 E, Raymond st., vice president, and Mrs, George Reese, 1313 Lexington ave, whose sons, T. Sgt. Robert Stahlhut and 8; Sgt.

Lee and I are both decked out in brand new uniforms, furnished us by the quartermaster corps in Washingtdn. I'm so handsome in my khaki bushjacket I think I should just stay in America and show it off. And Lee looks so impeccably military that when he goes around army bases, officers introduce him conscientiously as “Colonel Miller.”

Speaking of Uniforms—

SPEAKING of uniforms, I've got one odd piece of equipment, There is a man in America. named Capt. Fred Gallagher, from Tucson, Ariz. He was captured by the Japs in the Philippines just 17 days after Pearl Harbor, and spent two and a half years in Japanese] prison camps. He was on that prison ship that we torpedoed off the Philippines last fall, and one of the 85 survivors. Finally he was smuggled out of the Philippines by submarine, was hospitalized and reuniformed in Australia and arrived back in America d few weeks ago Well, he stopped off to see me in Albuquerque be tween planes the other day. He turned=out to be a swell guy, and we didn’t talk much about his war experiences, but just went around visiting people and having a wonderful time, We had such a good time that when plane time arrived that night,. we couldn't find his cap. So he flew off to the east coast bareheaded. He had bought the cap in Sidney, Australia, Later I found it, but

consulted.” Mr, Bevin spoke at a Juncheo by ‘the British trade union cor gress for the 200 delegates to tk 3 world trade ix union . con< _ gress for the 2Q0 x delegates to the - world trade ‘union conference,

While the C, F I. O. in its recént .. political \ action has been using’ balance ~- of « power tactics and its leaders have denied intention of trying to form third political party, they ca: not help but observe how lab politics has worked out in Britai Here the labor party is powe ful in its own: right, is a stro: factor in the present coaliti government headed by Prin Minister. Churchill,

8 to two west con, and then made up his mind. 7 “No,” he said, “we don't want people like you, Writers don't make enough fo pay their bills.” ,And he wouldn't let John Steinbeck rent the office. John thinks it’s wonderful “That's the reason I love Mon- ; terey,” he said. ast industrialist, ; ‘ . 8 » plant, said he § : “Daybreak for Our Carrier” is on the Geneva | Max Millets book about life aboard an aircraft car-ost-war western rier in the Pacific. It is beautifully written, and I as built for the # hope that when my time comes to describe the-life ary of the U8, § aboard a carrier, I can do it half as feelingly. rated by a U. 8, Max Miller is a gentle writer and a gentle person, He has written 17 books in the last 13 years, and it hurts him a little that nobody mentions any except his first one--"I Cover the Waterfront." Max is now a lieutenant commander in the navy, and he and I are going to make ‘the trip across the Pacific together, You couldn't ask for a finer traveling companion, Once on the other side, we will go our separate ways. All the writing Max does now is for the navy. Doubtless another book will come out of this present trip.

Lee Miller Off to the Pacific

= OUT IN CALIFORNIA we've teamed along with my boss and best friend from Washington, Lee Mliler,

Fairless, presie leel, announced | ion -expects to he government Jeneva plant at ant at Fontana, |

oncrete example, nt Jesse Jonese lave jurisdiction ? e array .of .gove id motives shall } and what will be 3

le’ more clearly | cture, thus proe § ansion by this » 8 =» | ITS leaders expect it to win

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Wallace and his

of the Scripps-Howard newspapers.

didn't know where to send it to him.

Jerome D. Reese,

in Stalag 17-B, and Mes. Howard Lloyd, 3162

be called on to form a gover: '

nonopoly. They = ears that I've away Lee has sat in So I just decided to keep it and wear it myself. / ang : : e stiut down and" § hil these years thal : been me NOW i's going back to its own side of the world on|W. Michigan, secretary, whose son Re Nex| goers) oe loy 4abor, Full § Washington and translated my pieces as they came go ant head. What an astonished cap it must be! [is Pvt. Wiliam FP. Lloyd, in war ‘with Germany is won.

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in, written beautiful blurbs about what a great man

-I am, handled all my personal business as though he

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel] Nusshaum

OUR AGENT who flies kites on ‘the Plaza reports that the Thomas restaurant on the circle is or has been featuring “beef con carne.” And here we thought “con carne” meant “with meat!” . Sign on the window of an E. 10th st. ice cream bar: “We have to ‘take out all flavors of “homemade ice cream.” All without any punctuation. . .. In the rush to get on a College ave. car Thurs« day night, at Delaware and Wash= ington, one woman resented another's pushing and elbowing. and an argument ensued. The streetcar operator ‘stood up and shouted: “Move on back, folks, and give these ladies room to fight.” . . . Walter M. Jones read the item about Jack White hiring a man named Jack Black, and tells us that's “nothing.” He calls aur attention to the fact that “over here at the George J. Mayer Co. there is a Walter Orange and Margaret Lemon on the payroll.” , One of our readers wants to know if it’s true that streetcar operators get a bonus for carrying big loads, and it that's why some. operators try to pick up every passenger, even though there are empty streetcars following. The answer, we find, is a big “No.” It is true that some time ago the WLB approved a bonus plan for street railway operators. It's a plan providing something like a quarter of a cent per hour increase in pay for each 1-cent increase in the company’s earnings per vehicle mile. But the increase would go to all operators— not any one individual! And it has to be an over-all increase. So overloading cars and busses makes no difference whatsoever in the pay of the operator.

How Many Days of Snow?

BEING A BIT on -the lazy sidei “we've been avoiding any mention of the frequency of snow this year, so we wouldn't have to look up the, record. And

then along came a Speedway: reader. who put us. right.

onthe spot—-So we-call he--wegbher. .bureau and. found it has snowed 49 days this winter. five days in November, 17 in December, 20 in January

and seven thus far in February. How much’ snow

World of Science

- THE FUTURE SECURITY and prosperity of the United States depends upon the nation developing its

scientific and terh teat research—to-theirfullest ex=--

tent. So declared Charles A. Scarlott of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Mr. Scarlott points out that three factors have combined to give American industry its position of supremacy in the world today. stocks of raw materials, its metheds of ‘mass production. and its technical skill. The' first of these factors, he continues, is not destined to hold good forever. Even before the accelerated demands of world war II made themselves felt, it. was *. becoming plain that our natural Yesolrces are not inexhaustible: “Our lush forests have been depleted,” Mr. Scarlott says. “The end of our rich, easy-to-get surface strips of iron ore is not many years distant. The zinc and lead of Oklahoma have almost run out. “Our petroleum reserves, although not positively

-city a letter with a confusing typographical error.

withdraw their opposition.

. tracked down the missing key.

bling about how rude the clerk was when she asked It snowed

They are’the nation's vast

time at

And what an astonished man Capt. Gallagher will be, if he happens to read this,

altogether? The weather bureau says 17.3 inches. That would be a lot if it all was on the ground at one times .. State selective service headquarters here received from a local board in another Indiana

It read: “We wish to report that Dr. —— listed in the ROASTER as examining physician for our local board is deceased as of January, 1945.” . . . Mrs. Wilbur Frye reports being in Cloverdale, Ind, the other day and finding the town a veritable treasure trove of cleansing tissue. They had plenty in a grocery, hardware store, and the dime store. And no limit on the number. “However,” she adds, “no one had any cigarets.” . R. G. Merryman, down at Camp Wolters, Tex. sends the suggestion. that maybe Park Superintendent Paul Brown can effect a compromise in his pigeon war. He says to tell Paul that if he promises to send the pigeons down to Texas, where there's plenty of space for them, instead of destroying them, maybe the pigeons’ defenders will

Slow to Dry Up

A SPRINKLER head let loose in Ayres’ basement Friday afternoon, soaking some blankets and other merchandise. Firemen. arrived on the double-quick and shut-off the water. Then, in their usual helpful manner, they produced mops and a big bucket with a wringer and began mopping up. minutes of mopping the floor was just as Wet as ever and the firemen began to wonder what was going on. Then they found out. They had forgotten to put the plug in the bottom .of the bucket and the water was running out as fast as they put it in... Shortly after he took office as police chief, Jesse McMurtry found a use for the experience he had gained as éhief of detectives. He showed up. for work one morning and couldn't find. the key to his desk. After a’ couple of days or so of sleuthing he He had left it in the vest pocket of a suit of clothes he had sent to the cleaners. . . . Two women came out of a downtown drug store the other day. One was overheard grum-

for cigarets. She added: “He doesn’t believe Women should smoke, and that's his way of getting even with them.” .

By David Dietz

In connection with the nation’s dwindling resources it is necessary to remember that world war IT brought inte sharp-relief some of our deficiencies in critical materials, particularly Yubber, Hn and tungsten. Regarding our methods of mass produetion, Mr, Scarlott points out that our great advantage here came from the fact that we put them into effect early. But-they are no longer a secret and there is nothing to prevent other nations from sopying, them.

Advantage Is Narrowing

“IT 18 WELL KNOWN: that mass production methods are beirig adopted in many countries where only handcraft production methods have prevailed,” he says. “No doubt our industrialists will, for a long ieast; be able to produce in greater volume and quality than the less experienced peoples. But the great gulf of advantage possessed by a mass production nation over handcraft peoples od due to diminish.” That, in Mr, Scarlott’s opinion, leaves the nation dependent upon the third factor for its future. This factor he describes as “technical skill, mechanical

| Stalag 2-B.

Tunnels Through 20-Ft. Snow Drift

WARSAW, N.Y, Feb. 10 (U. P.). -~Tired of hauling his milk cans over the top of mountainous snowbanks each morning, Farmer John Bauer took time out to dig a 49foot tunnel through the drift connecting his house with his barn. The wind, together with the record-breaking snowfall, piled up the .20-foot bank in the Bauer farm yard.

Standing unde# the world war I victory symbol. these four newly elected officers of the Prisoner of War society. smile hopefully after a prayer for victory over Germany before another election of officers.

All mothers of German prisoners. of war, they are:

(Left to right) Mrs. George Reese, treasurer; Mrs.

Howard Lloyd, secretary; Mrs. Lester Moreland Sr. president, and Mrs. Walter Stahlhut, vice president.

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OUT OF 250,000 JEWS

IN LODZ, ONLY 878 ARE LEFT

How the Nazis Exterminated a Ghetto

By LEIGH WHITE Times Foreign Correspondent

LODZ, Poland (Delayed). — “Good morning, gentlemen, we are from the ghetto here. There are only 878 of us left.” Thus did Dr. Albert Mazur, a nose and throat specialist, intro-

duce himself and two com- * panions as they . came into the “hotel. dining room: They came to tell us ‘x about what had : happened to “i the 250,000 Jews, i who had fori : merly” lived in A = "Lodz. Mr. White Mazur spoke enough. English to. tell us that he had - visited . America: and. had many relatives— there, -including - Mrs. Nathaniel Sum of Brooklyn. Then he spoke in Russian. 2a » 5. THE docter explained that he had been one of 160 Jewish physicians in Lodz. Only a dozen of them survived the occupation. He had done what he could, he said. But without medicines, without adequate food and clothing—and- with the excessive lahor which “the ' Germans demanded

from Jews—it had been a hopeless task. At least 70.000 inmates of ‘the

ghetto had died of tuberculosis,

he said. » ®f 8 ENT to death camps as soon as they became unable to produce their daily quota of the sort of work demanded by the Germans, the rest of the 250.000 Lodz Jewish casualties had died there. Only those Jews qualifying as heavy laborers, tailors, -cobblers, carpenters, technicians or engi‘neers received rations sufficient for subsistence. Engineers and technicians, willing to collaborate, got jobs in German war industry. : 2 sn’ THE others stayed in the ghetto .to produce shoes and uniforms for the German army, or

were taken out to .dig:fortifica-

tions or build temporary houses to replace those destroyed in bombings. ~ Every few weeks, at night, there were “deportations” of dissidents and physically unfit to Majdanek or Oswiecim, where they were gassed. n ” 8 A GHETTO police force. com= posed of -Jewish—eollaborationists was organized under the com-

‘WORST RIDDLED TOWN ON. WESTERN FRONT—

Yanks Count Every Mile

By JACK BELL Times, Foreign Correspondent WITH THE U, 8. 78TH DIVISION, Germany, | Feb. 9.—(Delayed).—'Way up in this section of the Schnee Eifel highlands— which hotises the Roer lake bas-ins—the-¢ity -of Schmidt sits An a tiny valley among the topmost rounded hills,

the past few months. Our armies to the north could not, move eastward, so long as Jerry owned the dam and had the ability to. loose “floodwaters, 15 feet deep. Such floods could last for a fortnight. ¢ This morning the troops moved on, the enemy seemingly bowing to superior power. .

mand of a’ 8. 8S. officer from Bremen. Named Bibow, this S. 8S. man was known to the Jews as “the Vampire” because of his insatiable de= sire for girls, Bibow ran the ghetto under the orders of a mah named Bradtfisch, the gestapo chief of Lodz. Before ‘the Russians came, Mazur said, both Bradtfisch and

Bibow came to the ghetto and

made speeches "calling on the Jews to go to Germany -voluntarily in order to be spdréd the suffering caused by “Russian bombings.”

= = o 3 WHEN all the ‘Jews they could prevail upon-to accompany them had left, the gestapo set fire to the ghetto with incendiary bombs. The 878 survivors are those who refused to go to Germany and who managed to escape from the ghetto in time to avoid being “burned to death or shot: by: the: retreating. Germans; Dr. Gaspari, an eminent cancer specialist and personal friend of

the late Field Marshal Erich von

Ludendorff, died of starvation in

Jewish philanthropist.

= = ” THE Lodz ghetto is one -of the most hideous spectacles I ever have. witnessed. The Germans constructed a 10-

Into Schmidt

wé had to mess around with a lojta prisoners.”

jCoPrriant, 1945, by .The Indianapolis Times

foot brick wall, topped with broken glass, around the Jewish quarter—as they did in Warsaw. . Several highways ran through the Todz ghetto and-the-Germans could not. keep the wall hermetic= ally sealed. So they erected barbed wire fences between. sidewalks and streets in order to prevent Jews from “contaminating” Aryans passing through.

EJ ” ” AND they built overhead wood- . gn bridges, at intervals, to enable Jews to pass from one section of the ghetto to another, without . setting foot on the highways passing underneath. At intervals—around the ghetto wall .and the barbed-wire stockades! which lined the highways passing through the ghetto—the Nazis erected large wooden signs reading: “Achtung! . Jewish - residential area. Entrance ‘forbidden ‘on penalty. of Seat? : ia

© NEARBY y SE red, white and black sentry posts for the German guards, who immediately - executed “anyone attempting to enter or leave the ghetto. Often the despair of the Jews reached such a point, Mazur said, that they would approach the barbed-wire stockades and slowly begin to climb to the top. The bored German sentries would not .even shout a word of warning. When. the Jew had reached the top of the stockade, they would pick him off with their guns. Thousands ‘of Lodz Jews died this way. ' It ‘was the simplest way of committing suicide.

k The Chicago Daily N News, Inc

~For one and one-fourth miles

northward, the - south’ to the Kall river.

“infantry moved |

| |

-And for 30 hours they were held |

right there by furious German Tesistance, F ao u MAJ. JOHN MARTINUS, Chicago, came forward to handle the artillery concentrations,

[5720 Broadway.

'MRS. LILLIAN CRAIG

DIES AT HOME HERE

Rites will be held at 2 p." m.| | Monday at Flanner &

| mortuary for Mrs. Lillian M. Craig, who died this morning at her home

{ Tipton.

and |

Mrs, Graig, wife of ' W. Guy Craig, |

Burial will be in

The labor party has - a mr. jority * in the ‘Landon coun council, in whose huge buildin the labor delegates from almo every country are meeting to s : up a new international “lab body, with the objective of assu ing worganized workers a stror™ voice in the peace settlement ar thereafter of influencing soci: advances in all countries,

» n = : HOW STRONG this influence - likely -to be is shown by thr: factors: ONE: The largest delegation ts the world conference is’ from tf - Soviet Union, where the govern ment is self-described as dictatorship of the working class; TWO: The next largest is fro: the United Kingdom, where th”

- labor party is powerful; -,

THREE: The -third- largest | from United States, where it ha an obvious influence on govere: mental policies,

The Brijish labor leaders, mes. of -education-and--finesse, appar. ently are inclined toward a sys tem of modified socialism, wit nationalization of basic indus. tries, but no change in th: system of private property. - ° Ld = o

MR. BEVIN urged caution in th peace settlement as: affecting “workers or enemy countrie saying: “It would be easy to make the 60,000,000 people in Central Eu: rope a submerged labor force bringing down labor standard: everywhere.” Meanwhile, Sir. Walter Citrine,

. another British labor leader, pre-

sented the world conference with a comprehensive ‘plan of labo} attitude toward the peace settle ment, and Russian .spokesmer followed with recommeridations for more severe treatment ol Nazi industries. ; One of the Citrine ideas was a® “international TVA” to control. the Rhine and Danbue river” valleys.

Buchanan |

— We, the Women—Women Must “Earn Right

To Glamour

By RUTH MILLETT IT'S ENTIRELY possible thal when Clare Boothe Luce said, “Ng woman over 40 has glamour,” -she meant to be corrected the way women do when they say, “IT look simply awful.” For Clare Luce is admittedly ¥ over 40, and she most decidedly haa ‘glamour: But for fear some women will take her at

her depressing word . and get into © their

{manager of Columbia Pictures| | Corp; had resided here 30 years and|

The road from the west pauses

skill, research and imagination.” Mr. Scarlott sees in the nation's” technical ac-

known, at present rates of use are variously estimated to last from 10 to 30 years.

dropped fire 50 yards in front of

reasify procures : ut ry thé’ Americari troops. This was

pluses amounting

jowever. maritime irpluses.. In only s exceeded decla= resent amount to le. disposal agencies 0 per cent. With h of surpluses so slightly over one

e six agencies is ¥.), whose war ng. the record of ency, the defense York liquidation od job."

{ more than one irned over to it—e 0, or one-twelfthy of course, come { the RFC's sure mbat planes, are r cent—$17,943,000

sr, is that selling time are conside han was the case es then amounted hal cost. (Goods 1.5 billion.) The

both disposal in st recovery rate, rement. This ore

They Are Expendable

“WE ARE, to be sure, hot yet impoverished, but whether underground supplies of many indispensable minerals last five, 10 or even 50 years, the fact remains that they are expendable and we are now expending them at furious rates.”

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday—We left New York City this morning to return to Washington.. Almost immediately on arrival I hid a meeting in the East room of the members of the United Service Organization’s women's committee and the personnel directors of the various government bureaus to discuss the whole question of program and services available to government girls. The rest of the afternoon will be filled with appointments through until dinner time, when I have some very pleasant guests coming to talk about their work: For the first time in 12 years I have spent a full week in New s ~ York City, and I have enjoyed it more than I can possibly tell you. I like my. little apartment, with the familar things which came from my mother-in-law's house as- well ,as ours, and the simplicity of keeping house there is a real joy. When T come across certain clippings in. which the writers worry about the effect that may be had an American family who find themselves living the White House for many years, 1 always want suggest to them that some things are a- great tiful; you admire wes

-woman in a letter which came to me the other day

complishments during the war “concrete evidence of the virility of the fundamental strength of American society—leadership in technology.” He points but, however, that this can be continued only by the adequate financing of research and the adequate training of scientists and engineers capable of conducting research.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Never for a moment, however, no matter how long you enjoy them, do they give you the comfort and pleasure of your own home, your own things and your own personal life with which no one has a right to interfere.

A ‘rather wonderful suggestion was made by a

and which she also sent to her newspaper at home. Her idea tunes in very well with Lt. Gen. Sir William Dobbie’s idea .in his little hook, FA Very Present Help.”

This woman wants all of us in this country to pray and build up a “prayer bank” for the President, that he may be kept safe from all harm, that he may have wisdom to deal with the ‘questions before him, that he may be guided in his policies and in his decisions: ! There. is no American family that does not pray for its men at the front many times a day. I am sure those prayers are wafted across the oceans and give’ ‘strength in the hours of trial. - Why should not the same thing be true i ‘a nation prays not only for its President, but for all its men in authority? They are bearing heavy burdesis, subject to temptations of all human beings. . They are asked to rise above those temptations and do a better job for the people Jith She svecady man or woman is of doing alone. is

WE, Nth UE a

just over the town before hastening down and scattering into a few winding streets, ; If ‘you pause i there and look Mr. Bell across to the east you see lakes, mountains cabins and the gigantic Schwammanauel dam. You may see all this before some ornery German observer drops a few mortars onto you. We own Schmidt now, aren't’ cocky about it. Jerry wanted to keep that down. He fought tenaciously for months, + Last November the 28th division got into the fown, but violent counter-attacks drove them out. & ” » ” FOR THE past month the Americans have poured more artillery onto Schmidt than any town on the Western front—but the Jerries stayed. They fought every step back- . ward as the 311th regiment worked behind tremendous artillery and tank gun fire. Ard at dusk yesterday the east send of the town still crackled * under rifle fire. Machine guns muttered savagely. . d : ale YES, he who held Schmidt had the better of it all this time. For 1% miles southeast across the lake is Schwammanauel dam, around which the destinies of the

but

boners of oe opr awe pwag

Lt. Col. Richatd Keyes, Tex., remember Rohrberg. and Paulushoff dam, where many “died under the heaviest mortar barrage they ever knew, They remember Kessternach and Woffeslback, where they left their fallen comrades on the road to Schmidt. ” ” ” LT. COL. ANDY LISCOMB, Birmingham, Ala, sent the 3d battalion across the high ground, the infantry riding tanks. That is they rode until a. destroyer knocked out the tank and left wounded and dead around it. Then the doughboys hopped off and waded through the flelds studded with mines. At dark, I and K coinpanies went into town. - :

" ” . CAME THEN the night that had no ending. German troops glided among the shattered buildings with burp guns and grenades. Americans tripped ' over wires “which set off booby traps. German mortar fire fell on friend and foe alike. Men died beside comrades they had heard crying for help. . a. 8.8 : THE SECOND battalion, which had gone up alongside the 1st,

. went into Schmidt under Maj.

Lyle Kennedy, a hardened North

, [Dakota veteran, who had several tough pillboxes to knock out ‘en

i a

necessary, so fiercely did Jerry counter-attack. All afternoon ‘thundered and

the

small” arms’

eracked while the terrifying crash |

“of mortars never ceased.

artillery

The medics came roaring back |

from the front lines, east of the city, their jeeps wounded. 5 » »

logded with |

DEAD HORSES lay along the | road, still in the harness used for |

drawing German artillery. A jeep

suddenly exploded. up |

the road throwing two Americans |

into ‘a field. A lieutenant said, “My God, I had just walked over that spot and thought about mines.” a #8" SCHMIDT is torn as badly as any town in Europe. Even the walls that are standing are full of shellholes. The very air is forbidding, every house, every loose timber is a possible booby trap.

A long line of soldiers wound |

along the road over the hill and

+ into Schmidt at sunset. They were

quiet and unconcerned as they trudged ‘ forward to be ready to "jump off this morning into those Jerries who know they are Tighting for a lost cause, and ‘therefore séem to fight harder. Below, to the southeast, the lake gleamed golden in the sun< set and echoes wandered care« Jenaly ton the AES tld Aiises’

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| was a mediber of Tipton Lutheran | it

| church. Also surviving is a brother, A W.| | McNary, Tipton.

* HANNAH ¢

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heads that a woman has no chanceat glamour after 40, “the facts.

let's’ look aft

IT'S A CINCH that most wome en of 40 or over have no glamour, By that time many of them have settled into unglamorous ruts and given up. a Mrs. Jones has let herself .. on weight. Mrs. Smith bas logt all interest in ¢lothes, and would

rather have “something"for We ..

house” than a new hat or a of perfume. Mrs. Brown is completely set in her ways and her opinions. She knows without thinking exactly what she thinks about everything

. —and never hesitates to come out

with a flat statement. » ” - ¢ . WEST quit living In het own mpi a long time ago and lives completely in and for her children,

Mrs. Thomas Is nothing more g

* than a ‘shadow of her husband.

ET aati Staci Suilug ht: self “An old maid."