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ITALIAN ACTION LIMITED

ROME, March 22 (U. P.). — The| allied communique reported today|

Inspect Prisoner-of-War Box

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SHUNNED ROBIN |

GETS ATTENTION

The Last, Not the First, Is.

New Yorker's Hunt.

By JACK ROWLES United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, March 22.-—James

Sanford Norris filled his fountain pen, strapped on a gunpowder pouch filled with fig newtons and set out in Central park today to find the

last robin of spring. First robins never interest Norris,

“no changes in the situation” along the Italian front where action has| been limited for the last nine days| to patrolling and artillery exchanges.

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That Boy of Yesterday Is Wearing Man-Sized Shoes Now

% In millions of American homes many a mother and father look at reminders like these

scuffed hightops and remember that only a few short years ago their boy was playing at

“cops and robbers” with the neighbor boys.

( Today these same boys are playing a se

wearing man-sized Army, Navy, and Marine

dom. They are manning the biggest guns in history. They live in foxholes in New Guinea. They struggle up mountains in Italy. They stand lonely watches on great battleships or

spend endless hours in crowded submarines. They fly huge bombers in hazardous missions

ovr Germany and Japan. They fight for you

American Red Cross is at their side.

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Wherever your fighting sons and daughters are serving their country, in training camps in this country or on the battle fronts overseas, your Red Cross is giving aid. When he needs help most, the Red Cross serves him. It gives him the little things which mean so much to him; advice, consolation, entertainment, moral ang spiritual assistance, and even food and shelter to his family back home. Red Cross representatives are in the fight up front. Your money will keep the Red Cross at his side. Make your ‘contribution to our fighting men and

women through your Red Cross chapter—Today|

Mrs. C. C. Bagley, 3253 Boulevard pl, and two veterans of the European war look over a Red Cross prisoner-of-war box at Billings hospital. T. 5th Gr, Leslie Taylor, Warsaw, Ill, (center was rescued from a German prison camp, and Pvt. Rudy Pienzi (right) is the first man- from the 106th division to return to Billings. Mrs. Bagléy’s son, Pfc. Ray Bagley, is a German prisoner.

Mrs. C. C. Bagley, 3253 Boulevard really means is T. 5th Gr. Leslie C. pl, “couldn't wait” this year to give| Taylor, Warsaw, Ill 10 the Red Cross Technician Taylor, a member of Ci {an airborne unit, dropped into “I know that my son will receive! prance on D-day. Injured on the his only luxuries from the Red jump, he was captured and interned Cross prisoner-of-war boxes de-|in a German hospital. Tot 0 Ta caaklv al {months he was in enemy nds iivered Weekly 1a foreign until Yanks recaptured the town she said. : {and set him free. Her son, Pfc. Ray Bagley, 2 mem-| «This would have been a swell box ber of a heavy weapons outfit in the is receive,” Technician Taylor said 106th division, was taken PrisOner| ,¢ he examined the prisoner-of-war during the battle of the Bulge inj, yes on display at Billings hospital, Belgium Dec. 16, 1944. ~|“If we had been moved into the Pvt. Rudy A. Pienal, Detroit,| German interior, we would sure] Mich., the first man from the 106th |y,;v0 heen glad to get them.” | division to arrive at Billings hos-| a —r————————————— { pital, was hit by shrapnel on the] ENTER JAP STRONGHOLD same day that Pvt. Bagley was| CALCUTTA, March 22 (U. P).—| taken prisoner. He said the battle British imperial troops fought their | was “plenty rough,” and that the way today into the burning JapGermans “gave-us all they had.” - |anese stronghold of Myingyan, 54 Another soldier who knows what miles southwest of Mandalay, a Red Cross prisoner-of-war box'against fierce enemy opposition.

prison

rious game of “cops and robbers” — they are

shoes now. They are in a tough fight for free-

and freedom. No matter where they are, the

a 33-year-old advertising executive, He figures anybody can see the first robin. His diary is filled with entries like this: “In 1937: saw a mousy male robin sitting on top the lion's cage in Central park zoo. He looked tired. Probably wintered in New. Orleans and stuffed himself on French cook» ing. “Seemed to be asleep. One wing feather out of line. Also seemed to have sore feet. Kept shifting from one foot to the other in his sleep. Nerves.” Cynical Nature Norris denies he is cynical about nature. But he claims sentimentalists go overboard on the “rapture divine” theme of spring, especially about first robins, He said he merely likes to note that there always was a last robin. Such a bird whs late because he overslept, overate or was feeling his years, This, Norris said, checks with real life. | Norris began surveying the robin | situation 10 years ago on his regular | Sunday strolls in the park. Friends |

i ———— __ THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1945 || who have accompanied him on such |and fleld glasses to his accessories originally. just to pretend. Bi: atHat jaunts said he'd lean against a tree, to convince the curious that he was|er than scribble the ABC's in the} rest his chin in his Hahd and frown [a bona fide bird lover, which "he{notebook when a policeman vegan! at robins perched nearby, ° isn't, ; eyeing him suspiciously, he jotted Norris soon drew the interest of| Cops no longer look at him over|observations on robins which lagged

park police, their shoulders, he said. behind the advance guard and So he added the pouch, notebook| He didn't intend to make notes,|looked shopworn,

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