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this invasion to “Love Day. ” Possibly it was because | we were landing on Easter Sunday and somebody {felt the spirit of brotherly love.

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At any rate when dawn came on Love Day and the pink, rising sun lifted the shroud of Oriental : darkness around us, we were absolutely appalled. "For all our main convoys had converged and there they lay around us in one gigantic fleet, stretching for miles, There were around 1500 ships and thousands of small landing craft which the ships had carried with them. There weren't as. many small ships as at Normandy, but in

men and fighting strength it was equally as big as the invasion of Europe. We certainly didn’t go at Okinawa in any half-hearted manner. We had ham and eggs for ‘breakfast at 4:30 a. m. We strapped our unwieldy packs on our backs. Our heavier gear was left aboard to be taken ashore several days later, It was only half light when we went on deck. You couldg see flame flashes on the horizon toward { shore. "The men on the deck were dark and indistinguishahle forms.

‘Our Time Had Run Out’

OUR ASSAULT transport carried many landing craft (LCVP’'s) on deck, They were lifted by a derrick and swung over the side. We piled into them as they hung even with the rail. Then the winch lowered them into the water,

I went on the first boat to leave our ship, It. was just breaking dawn when we left. It was still more than two hours before H-hour. Our long ocean trip | : was over. The days we had reluctantly counted off | j were alt gone. Our time had run out. This was it.

AN ELDERLY MAN walked into Raldo's Hairdressing studio out in Broad Ripple Tuesday with a smile on his face. To Mrs. Ray R. Lewis, 1333 Central, and other patrons, he remarked in an Irish brogue:

“Don’t know if you girls smoke, but you can get cigarets at the Standard grocery.” In his hand he displayed a whole package of Camels, Mrs. Lewis, who doesn't smoke, watched him walk down the sidewalk, spreading the glad tidings. He crossed the street and started down that sidewalk, telling everyone he met, - Within two minutes after he visited the hairdressing studio, that portion of Broad Ripple resembled the evacuation of a German city with the Yanks banging at the gates. Only in | this case, everyone was headed for the Standard, some in shirt sleeves, some wearing aprons, and all with that certain look in their eyes ... Orth Graves, 860 N. New Jersey st., tuned in on a shortwave broadcast from Berlin the other night and heard several American soldiers, prisoners of the Nazis, broad- | casting messages back home. Mr. Graves started his phonographic recording device and caught an excellent recording of the conversation of one speaker— } Pvt. Donald Evenson of Beloit, Wis. Mr. Graves phoned the family and found they had missed the broadcast. So he just sent them the record. Now they. can hear Pvt. Evenson’s voice as frequently as they wish. . , . Here's the latest in dog remedies: Mrs. Thornton Talbott, 1134 Réid pl, has a wire‘haired dog_that is simply petrified by thunder and * lightning. She mentioned this to the veterinarian. "He gave Mrs. Talbott some “storm pills" for the dog. * They're supposed to calm the canine nerves, ‘

1 Money of Finance

* AMONG THE new members of the Sales Executives Council is one named most appropriately, He is Robert B. Money, and he happens tq be employed by the Capitol Finance Co.... A man carrying a long

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America Flies

# CONSOLIDATED-VULTEE'S new . 204-passenger, .

820,000-pound, two-deck Model 37 post-war airplane will have a range of 4200 miles and a payload of 50,000 pounds, according to its engineers. Facts about the huge new clipper, 15 of which have been ordered by Pan-American Airways, cause it to dwarf most conceptions of planes-that-can be easily handled by one pilot. Among these: Electrical system equivalent to that used by a town of 5000 persons. A rate of fuel consumption. at takeoff faster than one could bail fuel out of a barrel with a 10quart pail. A tail extending to the height of a five-story apartment building. Propellers on six pusher engines extending higher than a two-story home, Each main, landing gear tire approximately one foot higher than the average ceiling in a home.

Huge Freight Capacity HEATING FACILITIES sufficient to heat a 40room apartment house. Wing tips that can be flexed about six feet during certain maneuvers. One plane could move as much freight in nine days between San Francisco and New York as a freight engine with about 30 boxcars, Blueprints used to build the airplane would cover #8 16-acre fleld.

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My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—I was very much interested yesterday morning talking with Judge Anna M. Kross, who is planning the General Federation of Women’s Clubs’ program for the National Youth Conservation clearing house. It seems to me it would be very valuable to have all the agencies interested in

other features are

together to discuss their programs and to see how best they can do all the work which needs to be done.

their proposals with a great deal of interest. At 12:30 I talked for a few minutes with young Svend-Aage Beyerpedersen, chairman uf the ‘Danish Youth association and a

visiting groups of young people in this country with “the aid of the “youth for a free world.” * In the evening I attended the dinner given by the Southern. Conference for Human Welfare, at , which the.annual Thomas Jefferson award was given : to Justice Hugo L. Black.

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working with young people come’

Meanwhile, I am following member of the World ‘Youth council, “wha is now.

This is given every year to the individual who . outstanding contributions to progress dur- ‘survived. : oo “ ! At noon I go to the fashion group lunch, and then to New City. . ini Le A

i Ernie Pyle

All’around us hundreds of other boats were putting off and churning the water, but there was no organ« ization to it. They weren't yet formed into waves. These early boats carried mainly thie control crews who would manage the colossal traffic of shore-boynd Invasionists in the next. few hours. We chugged shoreward for more than an hour, for we had stopped far off shore. Our destination was a small control ship lying about two miles from the beach, Scores of these little control craft were , forming a

line the entire length of our long beachhead, about |

a quarter of a mile apart. policemen of our invasion. They all looked alike, and we had to find ours by number. In ali the welter of miles of ocean traffic, it was easy to get.lost and we did. We were half an hour finding our control boat after getting Shere.

A Dozen or More Invasions AN ASSAULT on an enemy shore is a highly organized thing, It is so intricately . organized, so abundant in fine detail that it would be impossible to clarify it all in your mind. No single man in our armed forces knows everything about an invasion. But just te simplify one point— Suppose we were invading an enemy beach on a four-mile front. It is not as you would think, one over-all invasion. Instéad it is a dozen or more little invasions, simultanedusly and side by side. Each team runs its own invasion. A combat team is a regiment. Our regimental commander and his staff were on the little control ship. Thus our control ship directed.only the troops of our regiment.

They were the traffic

We had beaches “Yellow One” and “Yellow Two.”|

Troops of our regiment formed waves directly off those beaches, miles at sea, and we went straight in. Other control ships on either side, having nothing to do with us, directed other waves having nothing to do with us. Each was its own private litfle show. As I've written before, war to an individual is hardly ever bigger than a hundred yards on each side of him. And that's the way it was with us at Okinawa.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nussbaun

robe pole for a car stanchion, and took hold of it. “Well, pardon me,” she said, blushing, when she discovered her error, Several persons standing nearby tittered. Her friend, Mrs. Audlane Waterbury, was among those who laughed. Just then the car stopped and more people crowded aboard. As Mrs. Waterbury moved back in the car, she, herself, unthinkingly grasped the pole. The crowd laughed hysterically this time, while the owner of the pole blushed. Several other folks subsequently made the same mistake, as they crowded back through the car. My informant got off at Michigan st., and doesn't know what happened after that. ... Senator Clyde Black (Logansport) was in town yesterday and told the boys about an experience he had down in San Antonio, Tex. He tried to cash a $305 check on the State of Indiana in a San Antonio hotel. Nothing doing, they told him. “Weil cash your personal check,’ but no state checks,” they added. Pressed for an explanation, they told him they had had several checks, written on the State of Texas, bounce back. And so: “No more state checks.”

Take It Easy, Paul!

HEY, PAUL» BROWN! You can stop worrying about those 65 or 70 pigeons released during the Easter sunrise services. Alvin Rottet reports that they all were homing pigeons, lent by members of the Monumental Racing Pigeon club. And every one of them is back in his home roost. . And Keith Parr, who raises pigeons, takes issye ‘with Mr. Brown's statement that pigeons don’t lay eggs in February. If they miss laying, it will be in August or September when they are moulting, he says. He adds: “It would be. a .good thing in many ways if they (the downtown pigeons) “were wiped ott. However, at present, I think, the-sity fathers and the mighty Press would be doing a greatér service %a the city if they would concentrate on ashes, garbage and cleaning the streets.” , ., Members of the League of Women Voters often fear that results of their civic activities sometimes aren't apparent. But here's a case where the

"results are apparent: A 6th grade teacher at School

84 asked her class: “Who can-tell me about Dumbarton Oaks?” "Most of the pupils just inspected their fingernails. But Joe- Reagan, son of the Silas Rea--gans; held up -his—hand.—He announced-his mother {s+ a member of the league, and so HE could tell about Dumbarton Oaks—and he did!

By Max B. Cook

Its payload of 50,000 pounds would comprise 204 passerigers plus 15,320 pounds of. baggage, mail and express. Passenger {facilities on two docks Include two lounges, a number of rest rooms, nine staterooms accommodating two persons each, and 12 berths, Six engines produce. power equivalent to 353 average automobile engines. Wing span, more than twice that of a Liberator B-24, is equal to the height of a 21-story building.

Cruises at 3,2 M. P. H.

CRUISING SPEED will approximate 342 miles per hour, more than 50 miles an hour faster than the fastest Thompson Trophy speed race time at

National Air Races. Cabins conditioned for, operation at 30,000 feet to avoid storm areas. . Flying time, New York to London, slightly over nine hours. : Interiors were created by Henry Dreyfuss, industrial designer, and full-scale model is complete. Ninety per cent of the initial engineering is finished according to Pan-American engineers who are working in co-operation with Consolidated-Vultee in the airplane's development, The enormous wings on the ship, a mid-wing monoplane, are placed at about center, giving the plane much of the appearance of Boeing's smaller two-deck C-97, the post-war B-29 which recently flew from Seattle to Washington, D, C., in little more than six hours. The Model 37 has much the appearance of a rigid airship with a high fin and wings.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

At 9:30 this morning I went on the air with Miss Eleanor Howard, who is devoting her radio time this week to telling the people of our country what the Red Cross really does accomplish with their money. At the same time we were asked to say a word about the paper drive which is now on. Of course, we are not saving paper in this country in the way they have been forced to save it in other countries nearer the war fronts, and it will not be a great hardship for most of us to carry our parcels home without having them wrapped. Way back in 1942, Londoners began saving one piece of paper for use when buying something which absolutely had to be wrapped. They would take the paper along with them when starting out to shop.

There, however, the housewives also trundle lit-|

tle carts to market every morning, and a good deal can go in the bottom of their baskets unwrapped. At 10:30 a group of American servicemen whi ‘have been prisoners of Germany and-in the Phili pirfes; and who have been speaking all over

country for the Red Cross, came to see me. .Thérs|.

‘were 21 young men and they were the most -interesting’ people I have talked with in a long time.

When we read the horrible stories of German

.prison camps today, it must encourage the families of our prisoners to talk to these young men who have

SECOND SECTION

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1945

teams.® Here are examples on Japan proper.

Allied propaganda includes colorful surrender passes dropped behind the Jap lines. vince Nipponese troops that prisGhers of war are given

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TYPICAL Iori] warlare team is this group, dé up of Arhericans and Nisei (American-born Japanese). inscriptions on a captured flag to obtain useful data.

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NEW YEAR greeting from allies works to break down “hate feeling.” Text deliberately avoids propaganda. “We hope that the day will soon come when we can call each other friends,” it says.

Words Are Weapons in Psychological War

JAP CIVILIANS as well as Jap soldiers are targets for propaganda barrages fired by psychological warfare

good treatment. wotkers, urging them to stay

sure to be targets of allied bombings. Japs are urged to resist their leaders, whose folly - has led them into a hapeless is used to lessen the confidence of Jap soldiers in: their} Other documents encourage underground . resistance in lands occupied by the Japs

commanders.

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away from plafits that are

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e of this 8 by 11-inch newspaper,

Its aim is to infiltrate Japan with

encouraging Jap defeatism. Japs

distrust stories printed in their own papers, so news has proved to be strongest form of propaganda. This airborne edition tells of American

progress in Philippine invasion.

By Science Service

- WASHINGTON, April 5.— The is one that responds to penicillin, is going down. The price of the drug itself has dropped, since the March 15 general release for civilian use, from $2.40 per 100,000 Oxford units to as low as $1.54. per 100,000: units. This last figure is a' wholesale price and the price to a physician may be $1.80 to $2 per 100,000 units, - This amount, 100,000 Oxford units, is enough to cure one case of gonorrhea. Most other illnesses require gonsiderably more of the drug, depending on how early treatment is started and how severe the illness is. For syphilis two to four million units may be required. For osteomyelitis; a bone-infection that is

five million units may be needed. From 500,000 to 1,000,000 units are required for most illnesses in which penicillin is the drug of choice. Recovery Is Quicker The price of sulfa ‘drugs, which can be used for some of the same conditions as penicillin, is less than the price of penicillin. The cost of getting well .may be cheaper when penicillin can be used, however, because recovery is quicker. This means less time in the hospital, a

LOCAL" MARINE WINS COMBAT ART EXHIBIT

Marine. Cpl, Donald Allen Peters, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Peters, 227 E. 19th st., recently was named winner. of a marine combat art exhibit at the Marshall Field and Co. art galleries in Chicago, Ill. A veteran of the war in the Pacific, ‘he saw action on Guadalcanal and other islands as a member of the 2d marine air wing. He is a former employee of The Times and a graduate of Shortridge high school. He now is stationed at Cherry Point, N. C.

| smaller, bill for the hospital room

‘cost of being sick, when the illness |

usually long drawn-out, as much asi...

(St. John of Indianapolis, construc-

or bed, and a quicker return to work and earning.

Sulfa drug treatment, however, can _sometimes be given at home. The patient ‘does not ‘have to be stuck with a hypodermic needle every three or four hours day and night, as he does when undesgoing penicillin treatment. The method of “giving penicillin requires” mora visits by the doctor or more nursing attendance, which is likely to

be reflected in the total cost of the illness.

"The reasons for the low and possibly still lower cost of penicillin are compétition and increased production. - Production took a big jump in February, just before the drug was released for civilian use generally. The production increase is expected to continue, so it is reaSODEDIe 10 ¥ipPbse the price wil

continu® to dro The OPA eg of $10 per 100,-

Cost of Curing llls With Penicillin Decreases

000 units has not been revised, partly because of the drop in price and partly because of the time lag involved. Tt would take about fwo months for OPA to collect and analyze figures on which to set a new ceiling, by which time, if production continued to increase, the price would again be lower.

i How cheap penicillin’ will ~ ulti-

mately become will depefid upon the |

cost of manufacture as methods improve. and upon trade conditions.

Indianapolis Colonel's Battalion Builds ‘Burma Road’ Through Luzon Under Fire

~By LEE G. MILLER wre Geripps-Howard | Staff Writer WITH THE 6TH DIVISION, Luzon (By Air Mail). —The Burma road, they call it.

The 6th engineer battalion, com-|

manded by Lt. Col. Lawrence R. ted it, following old carabao traces up from the Marikina valley across the crazyquilt ridges and draws of the watershed where this battle-weary division is labori= ously rooting out Japan's cavedweller troops. We followed the road by jeep as far as the jeep could go, driving at times between two filles of sweating 1st infantry troeps, moving up for an attack. Here and there a dead Jap offended our nostrils. Nearly every hill was liberally punctured; on its far slope; by Jap caves and by our shells and bombs. . We had to walk the last few hun-

Col. St. John

3431 Winthrop ave. Col. St. John, who is 32, had before going to Luzon. He-went September, 1943.

the invasion of Luzon last Jan. 8. had the situation well in hand. Before Pearl Harbor, Col. St. Hawaii. in 1941,

His brother, Lt. Lewis William St.

Lt. col Lawrence R. St. John, Ee battalion consttgeted the “Burma road” on Luzon, is the son of Mrs. Glenna R. St. John,

A 1935 West Point graduate, the colonel ‘larided with troops in

He was at Ft. Knox; Ky. at the time of the Jap attack

He is a ‘Martinsville high school graduate and attended DePauw university a year before receiving his West Point appointment:

Alameda, Cal, with. the naval air transportation division.

been in Hawail and New Guinea overseas for the second time n

He wrote his mother that they

John served about two years in

John, U. 8. N. R,; is stationed at

Burma road almost to the very limits of our lines. When they speak of “combat engineers” out here, they aren't kidding.

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PUFFING like a steam engine, Ij sat on the“edge of a foxhole on top| of hill 61, which company. A of the 1st infantry had taken. two nights) before, and watched the men of the company, poring over the souvenirs they had taken from the Japs who

dred yards, where bulldozers of the

6th engineers were lengthening the

Up Front With Mauldin

|ferson City, Mo., said 96 Jap dead _|had already been counted on the | slopes of the hill, and at least. 35

lay in grotesque heaps nearby. Flags, sabers, a bugle, pistols. One soldier complained that a watch he picked up was only a| cheap “Pocket Ben.” Another fired a Jap flare pistol, and three little flares floated lazily to the ground. Within a stonesthrow, combat engineers were rigging TNT charges | to blow up some caves in which| Japs might still be lurking—and| soon two loud explosions wrote off | that possibility, $ & 8

MARINE dive-bombers passed overhead, and we saw them race in

on a ridge a mile or so off, perhaps half a mile from where a column of

ing up. Far down to our rear, the broad valley of the Marikina smiled in the

faintly visible. The marines wheeled around and came again, this time not with bombs but spitting machine-gun bullets,

the Bronx told about a banzal charge made against this hill in midafternoon the day before. About

man attached to the 6th engineers. First Sgt. Luther C. Ketterman of campany A, whose wife lives in Jef-

more were known to be in the tun-

one by one and lay their lethal eggs EA

our troops could be seen silhouetted | on the crest of another ridge, pov) |

sur, and beyond it, against the hazy | horizon, Manila and its bay were]

PFC. PAUL WINOGRADOFF of |

40 Japs. attacked, some waving sa-! bers, and all were killed without | loss to us. Paul is a medical. aid |

was not much over half strength, what with casualties and battle fatigue and illness. t J » »

8. SGT. PORATH MARVIN, Valentine, Neb., said his 2d platoon, with a normal strength of 42, had only 10 men left. In the four days it had been in the front line this trip, the platoon had lost one killed, two wounded, and six hospitalized | for fatigue or illness, Pfc. Astor Dobson, Milan, Ind, had lost his buddy two nights earlier when this hill was taken, and since then. had fired five bloodstained clips of ammunition that he took from his comrade’s body, Another Hoosier in company A was Pfc. Paul Swanson, Michigan City, Ind.

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PAGE 15 Labor Business-Labor Code Hailed as

Peace Measure

By FRED W, PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, April 5. — Ap-

parently the most popular dee velopment out of Washington in

a long time is not something the government did, but something American business and labor did for themselves. A veritable flood of hurrahs is reacheing the offices of Eric. A, Johnston, William Green and Philip Murray, presidents, respectively, of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce, the A.F.of L.and the C. 1. O., in the wake of the post-war mane agement-labor peace code they made public last week - without any kind of official assistance. This code, if it can be carried threugh, will erush’ all the omie« nous predictions of extreme indus.

trial strife when’ the country starts back to a peacetime basis, sy o. 8

THE POPULAR chord it has struck may affect a New York meeting tomorrow in which the question of joining actively in the declaration of principles is to be discussed by the National Associae tion of Manufacturers’ executive committee, -

Meanwhile, local business and labor leaders are indorsing the national action. This despite the fact that formally the peace must be ratified by the three big organizations most concerned, a

process that will not be completed

until mid-May, : In Memphis, Tenn., representae tives of labor organizations ané large industries authorized Ed.

mund Orgill, Chamber. of Come

merce president, to name a steer« ing committee to carry out the objectives of the Johnston-Greene Murray pact. ® = » "THE. GREATER Muskegon, Mich. Chamber of Commerce sent a telegram to Mr. Johnston: “Now that we have arrived at a basis of understanding and ob tained a willingness to subscribe to fundamental principles, we can work out many of the practical difficulties that have created: friction. heretofore. It is the first step that is vital™

But Portland, Ore, had a strong _

claim to being first, Within %hree Hours. after news: i the story of the , leaders of management a labor got together and issued a joint state ment favoring the move. °

It ‘was signed by Frank E. Mc-

Caslin, president of the Portland Chamber of Commerce; James Th . Marr, executive secretary of the

Oregon state Federation ef (A.-PF, of L); ‘executive secretary of the Or State C. I. O. Council,

We, the Women

The High Cost}

Of Licenses Is Good Idea.

By RUTH MILLETT THE PITTSBURGH OPA head. equarters recently had a telephone call’frém an outraged bridegroom.

Said he: “They charged me $5.50 for a marriage license this mome ing. She’s a nice girl and all that, but there has

to be a limit to Tg these things.” The OPA as~ sured the disgruntled young man that they had nothing to do-with the =. NX price of mare | riage licenses. > 1t might not EE { I be a bad idea x if the price : would go up on marriage licenses —as it-has on most other things, Because if 'a man kicked about the initial cost of getting married a girl could figure out for herself that he would kick every time she bought a new hat, a piece of fure niture for the living room, or got the works at a beauty salon. ~ 8 ”» # ' AND THINK what such § hus. band would say of the initial cost of a baby, and the subsefuent upkeep. On the other hand it might be a good idea for a man to ‘know at the start that marriage is an expensive proposition, and that no matter how much a marriage license costs, that is only the beginning.

-It a marriage license cost even

as much as a car license a lot of - stingy men might never get fo the altar—which would be * fine break for women. » » .

AND THOSE who didn't bat an

"eye at the cost of a license to wed

Susie would probably not protest too much at her upkeep.

and Stanley Bail, J

The only mistake the OPA In

Carried