Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1945 — Page 10

oo. Henry Bohn ‘Hass, head of the “department of chemistry at Purdue university, will speak at the

spring ‘meeting of the Society of.

Indiana Pioneers at 2 p.m." May 26, at Sweenty chapel, Butler uni-

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versity.”

Dr. Hass will speak on “Modern Pioneering, » presenting a picture of

new fields which are opening daily.

Emsley W. Johnson, president, will

give the welcoming address.

Also featured on the program will be group singing of English and Scotch airs brought to Indiana by

jarly settlers, with Mrs. Maude E.

Titus giving a historical’ review of Duets will be sung by Mrs. Titus and Henry F, Schrickpr and by Mrs. N. J. Demerath and

‘tach number.

Mrs. Titus, with Mrs, Santuel O. Dungan at the organ.

Members of the committee in

sharge of arrangements are Mrs.

Maude B, Schricker, Mrs. Titus and

Othinel Hitch.

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FRATERNITY TO MEET

The Phi Kappa Psi alumni assoelation will hold a dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. Monday :at the Apex Grill. Willis B. Conner, executive manager of the Indiana War Fi-

nance committee, will speak.

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This is the 11th installment of: ‘the diary of a United Press war correspondent who was ,captured by the ‘Germans last fall.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. United. Press War Correspondent LIMBURG, Germany—We finally have reached Limberg after sthe most completely hellishk-bit of travel I have wver experienced. And that travel® experience includes 12 hours of the tail-end of a hurricane off the China coast. It is close to 48 hours since: we were nailed up in railroad cars in the Strasbourg station,” During that period we have been out of the cars twice. We Were supposed to be given a

it ‘wis only a- minute or so. The engineer would decide suddenly to leave. Forts Deserted During all the other train halts— and they have been frequent and long—we just remained inside on out dusty straw, sweltering in the daytime -and freezing at night. At various points we passed other locomotives less fortunate than ours. They had become 100 per cent casualties of the allied air attacks. We saw two ammunition trains scattered over approximately a square mile of countryside; two air-

five-minute fest period, but actually].

fields completely knocked out; great squat pillboxes and other massive works, plus thousands of anti-tank

1ditches, all apparently ready: for

Seuss but unmann nee we saw a ‘half dozen mammoth railway guns, probably of French origin, which seemed to be of 240 centimeter bore, They looked completely deserted. Gudrds Got Grapes In Ludwigshafen we saw dozens of big factories and hundreds of apartment buildings that were shattered wrecks. de Our train stopped in the midst of a vineyard once where old men, girls and children were gathering great bunches of yellow grapes. A little boy passed us a couple bunches—six grapes per man-—be-fore the guards chased him away. Thereafter we watched while the workers gave the guards big bunches’

of grapes. The guards stuffed them in their mouths and grinned at us while the juice dribbled over their chins. Sleep on Boakls I was never so thirsty in my life. We crossed the Rhine at Worms and everyone felt very low. It was a broad, strong river, constantly pa=trolled, and. the prospécts of -escape

than ever, Our prison camp at Limburg is a huge, complex one-story barracks divided into compounds by fences and barbed wire. There-are thousands of permanent prisoners here, Russian, French and Indian, in addition to transients from the western front. : We are packed into a low-ceil-inged barracks room about 100 by {50 feet where 157 British and Amerlican officers are existing in threetiered wooden bunks jammed on

from Germany seemed more remote

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Newsman Suffers 'Hellish Bit of Travel in Nazi Prison Car

both sides of a central aisle in conditions of squalor and confusion impossible to describe,

ma and the occupants are sleeping on wooden boards, : Food Terrible Everyone ciawls over everyone ‘else most of the time and the damp from the little stoves on which we of food. by prison standards. Staple articles

psort of thick mess made from sugar beets and rutabagas, and “purple

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